In trying to do my capstone for the coding bootcamp I’m doing, I found a number of cool data sets which I thought I should share.

Everyone should be signed up for the data is plural newsletter by Jeremy Singer-Vine. He sends out 5 cool data sets every Wednesday. There is a spreadsheet on this main page with all of the past data sets, they’re so cool.

There is a github called awesome public data sets which has lots of resources under different topics.

Since kaggle hosts lots of competitions using public data, they have tons of data sets on everything under the sun

If you’re working with big data and need some help getting started just for practice, Amazon Web Services has several that you can download.

KDNuggets has a comprehensive list of data sets and portals where you can acquire more data.

If you’re looking for state data sets, most states have an open data portal, some of which are much better than others, but they’re all easy to google. Here is a list of some of the ones I’ve found: