Data Sources in R

Open Government Sites

• United Nations http://data.un.org/
• U.S. http://www.data.gov/
  • List of cities/states with open data
• United Kingdom http://data.gov.uk/
• France http://www.data.gouv.fr/
• Ghana http://data.gov.gh/
• Australia http://data.gov.au/
• Germany https://www.govdata.de/
• Hong Kong http://www.gov.hk/en/theme/psi/datasets/
• Japan http://www.data.go.jp/
• Many more http://www.data.gov/opendatasites

 

Gapminder

http://www.gapminder.org/

 

Survey data from the United States

http://www.asdfree.com/

 

Infochimps Marketplace

http://www.infochimps.com/marketplace

 

Kaggle

http://www.kaggle.com/

 

Collections by data scientists

• Hilary Mason http://bitly.com/bundles/hmason/1
• Peter Skomoroch https://delicious.com/pskomoroch/dataset
• Jeff Hammerbacher http://www.quora.com/Jeff-Hammerbacher/Introduction-to-Data-Science-Data-Sets
• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro http://www.kdnuggets.com/gps.html
• http://blog.mortardata.com/post/67652898761/6-dataset-lists-curated-by-data-scientists

 

More specialized collections

• Stanford Large Newtork Data
• UCI Machine Learning
• KDD Nugets Datasets
• CMU Statlib
• Gene expression omnibus
• ArXiv Data
• Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services

 

Some API's with R interfaces

• twitter and twitteR package
• figshare and rfigshare
• PLoS and rplos
• rOpenSci
• Facebook and RFacebook
• Google maps and RGoogleMaps