Surf Roots, Software Thoughts

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Awesome Datasets

October 17th, 2008 | Category: Technology | Comment Feed

I’ve been referred to some really, really awesome datasets.  I wish I had known about these while taking data-analysis classes in college.

My personal favorite is the Enron emails of 150 employees, mostly executives.  Included are their names, their sent items, inboxes, notes, etc.  WOW would I have a blast hacking away at this for hours.

8 Comments so far

  1. blog.mattgoyer.com » links for 2008-10-18 October 18th, 2008 2:54 pm

    [...] Awesome Datasets (tags: data) [...]

  2. Kevin October 20th, 2008 2:41 pm

    Holy crap… Why haven’t I heard of these before? These are really awesome.

  3. Alex Loddengaard October 20th, 2008 2:43 pm

    Dude, I thought the same thing when I learned of these!

  4. Surf Roots, Software Thoughts » Exodus Enron Emails: Part 1 October 22nd, 2008 6:00 pm

    [...] spoke previously about a few really awesome datasets.  I claimed my favorite was Enron emails from 150 employees.  Now that I’ve started playing [...]

  5. Panda December 9th, 2008 9:00 pm

    I know this is an older entry, but I wanted to say that it’s great to know someone else has a data fetish. Thanks for the links.

  6. Alex Loddengaard December 9th, 2008 10:14 pm

    Haha, no problem, Panda.

  7. Kevin December 29th, 2008 12:06 am

    I just tried to download the Education data set, but it FAILS. =(

    http://infochimps.org/dl/infobox_infobox_education_in_the_united_states

  8. Alex Loddengaard January 21st, 2009 11:57 pm

    Bummer, man! That would have been a fun one.

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