Datamob: datasets

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Data

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:51:30 -0500

Downloadable datasets from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Policy Development and Research office, including data on fair market rents, the American Housing Survey, USPS vacancies and Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE). Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.huduser.org/datasets/pdrdatas.html

U.S. Copyright Renewal Records

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:25:17 -0500

U.S. copyright renewal records, downloadable as a single XML file. By Google software engineer Jarkko Hietaniemi. Public domain.

url: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyright-renewal-records-available.html

National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:10:47 -0500

Downloadable data on U.S. health topics including vital statistics, aging, immunization, health care and nutrition.

url: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/ftpserv/ftpdata/ftpdata.htm

U.S. Lobbying Databases

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:38 -0500

Lobbyist information, made available by the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records in accordance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA). XML format.

url: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm

IRS Income Tax Data

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:55:13 -0500

ZIP Code Area tables for tax years 2002, 2004 and 2005 from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's Statistics of Income (SOI) program, which uses the Federal tax system as a comprehensive source of economic and financial information. Microsoft Excel format. Public domain.

url: http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/soi_zipcode_data/

BookMooch API

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:08:18 -0500

Query or download the database for BookMooch, a book exchange community. ASCII text and XML formats. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

url: http://bookmooch.com/api/

The Federal Reserve Board Statistics

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:29:53 -0500

Releases and historical data from the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Most tables available in tab-delimited text and/or CSV formats.

url: http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/

Star Wars Kid Data Dump

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:01:05 -0500

Data from Waxy.org's server logs concerning the initial spread of the Star Wars Kid viral video in 2003. Public domain.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/05/star_wars_kid_the_data_dump/

Open Library API

Sat, 24 May 2008 21:33:54 -0500

Query the Open Library database, the goal of which is to provide one web page for every book ever published.

url: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api

Baseball Databank

Sat, 24 May 2008 21:23:23 -0500

Free historical baseball data, downloadable in comma-delimited text and SQL.

url: http://www.baseball-databank.org/