Data-finding guides

Guides to finding open datasets

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Platforms & getting started

Can open datasets be used commercially
Comparing open dataset platforms
Where to find machine learning training datasets
What panel data is, and where to find it
How to look up National Bureau of Statistics data
Where to find thesis data

Machine learning & AI datasets

Where to find LLM fine-tuning datasets
Open image segmentation datasets: semantic, instance, panoptic
Time-series anomaly detection benchmark datasets
Multilingual speech recognition (ASR) datasets
Object detection datasets beyond COCO

Research data

Panel data sources for economics research
Public health datasets for research
Climate and weather datasets for research
Free financial market datasets: what's actually available
Where to download survey microdata

Methods & good practice

How to evaluate dataset quality before you use it
Dataset licenses explained: CC-BY, CC0, ODbL and more
How to cite datasets in academic papers
A practical guide to open government data portals
Legal and ethical basics of collecting web data

Industry datasets

Free satellite imagery sources: Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS
E-commerce and retail datasets for analysis
Open traffic and mobility datasets: GPS, transit, rides
Open energy consumption and smart meter datasets
Medical imaging datasets and how access works

Agent solutions

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