Data sets tagged with "awesome"
A list of all 22,802 words in the Scribblenauts dictionary.
List of summonable objects from the Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts, from AARDVARK, ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN and ABSCONDER to ZOMBIE, ZUNICERATOPS and ZYGOTE. via the Scribblenauts Wikipedia entry: Scribblenauts is an emergent puzzle action video game with the tagline “Write Anything, Solve Everything”. Its objective is to complete puzzles by summonning any object (from a ...
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Marvel Universe Social Graph
A fun Marvel Comics character collaboration graph constructed by Cesc Rosselló, Ricardo Alberich, and Joe Miro from the University of the Balearic Islands. The Marvel Universe, that is, the artificial world that takes place in the universe of the Marvel comic books, is an example of a social collaboration network. They compare the characteristics of this universe to ...
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Transformers Character Infoboxes
This dataset consists of a collection of Infoboxes from Wikipedia on the topic of Transformers Character. The fields in the dataset include, name, subgroup, alernatemodes, series, function, affiliation, motto, and much more. Sample: Afterburner_(Transformers): name: Afterburner subgroup: “[[Technobots]]” motto: \“Following leaders leads nowhere.\” ...
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A Million Syllabi
A data set of over a million syllabi gathered by Dan Cohen’s Syllabus Finder tool from 2002 to 2009. It could be the largest collection of syllabi ever gathered by several orders of magnitude.
See a more detailed description on Dan Cohen’s blog
Format
Data are formatted as json records separated by newlines.
Caution: this data is messy and comes with no warranty.
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60,000+ Documented UFO Sightings With Text Descriptions And Metadata
Search UFO data across more than 60,000 accounts of UFO sightings, including detailed eye-witness descriptions, location, date reported and sighted, duration and shape. The data comes from the National UFO Reporting Center. Check out the “App Gallery” tab to see how fellow API enthusiasts have put the UFO Sightings API to work! Download the dataset for free, or ...
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UFO Sightings Database
The National UFO Reporting Center Online Database
A comprehensive listing of UFO sightings in the United States. Contains city, state, time of sighting, description, duration, etc.
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USPTO (US Patent Office) patents: Bulk Downloads of Full Text, Scans or OCR
The following USPTO patent products are available for free download from Google. Patent Grants Patent Grant Multi-Page Images (1790 – present) Patent Grant Full Text with Embedded Images (2001 – present) Patent Grant Full Text (1976 – present) Patent Grant Bibliographic Data (1976 – present) Patent Grant OCR Text (1920 – 1979) Patent Grant Single-Page ...
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Google Labs - Books Ngram Viewer
Here are the datasets backing the Google Books Ngram Viewer. These datasets were generated in July 2009; we will update these datasets as our book scanning continues, and the updated versions will have distinct and persistent version identifiers (20090715 for the current set). Each of the links below will directly download a fragment of the given corpus. For instance, ...
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Marvel Universe Chronology Project
The MCP is an effort to catalog every actual appearance by every significant character in the Marvel Universe, and place them in their proper chronological order. If there’s a particular character that’s struck your fancy, that you just can’t live without owning their every appearance, this is the place to start. Simply click on the first character of their name ...
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Charlie Sheen Quotes by Subject
This was gathered from an ABC News post. I am not sure if I am going to update it as he continually says crazier things. eg. Being Charlie Sheen “I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.” Cocaine " I probably took more than ...
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Yahoo Stock Search
A stock quote API for historical stock quotes from the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ from 1962 – 2011, including daily open, close, low, high, exchange and trading volume figures. Each query to the API returns stock quotes across those fields in chronological order. Sample Results: open 16.1 adj_close 8.41 close 16.82 high 16.85 symbol AAPL date ...
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