Open-Source Data Sets
Government Data:
• https://www.data.gov/
• https://www.census.gov/data.html
• https://data.gov.uk/
• https://www.opendatanetwork.com/
• https://data.un.org/
Financial Data Sources:
• https://data.worldbank.org/
• https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/
• https://comtrade.un.org/
• https://www.nber.org/
• https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
Crime Data:
• https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr
• https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/NACJD/index.html
• https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics
• https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/
Health Data:
• https://www.who.int/gho/database/en/
• https://www.fda.gov/Food/default.htm
• https://seer.cancer.gov/faststats/selections.php?series=cancer
• https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/
• https://pds.nasa.gov/
• https://earthdata.nasa.gov/
• https://www.sgim.org/communities/research/dataset-compendium/public-datasets-topic-
grid
Academic and Business Data:
• https://scholar.google.com/
• https://nces.ed.gov/
• https://www.glassdoor.com/research/
• https://www.yelp.com/dataset
Other General Data:
• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets
• https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/
Types of licenses:
1. PUBLIC DOMAIN MARK - PUBLIC DOMAIN
When a dataset has a Public Domain license, all the rights to use, access, modify and share
the dataset are open to everyone. Here there is technically no license.
2. OPEN DATA COMMONS PUBLIC DOMAIN DEDICATION AND LICENSE – PDDL
Open Data Commons license has the same features as the Public Domain license, but the
difference is the PDDL license uses a licensing mechanism to give the rights to the dataset.
3. CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL CC-BY
This license allows users to share and modify a dataset, but only if they give credit to the
creator(s) of the dataset.
4. COMMUNITY DATA LICENSE AGREEMENT – CDLA PERMISSIVE-2.0
Like most open-source licenses, this license allows users to use, modify, adapt, and share
the dataset, but only if a disclaimer of warranties and liability is also included.
5. OPEN DATA COMMONS ATTRIBUTION LICENSE - ODC-BY
This license allows users to share and adapt a dataset, but only if they give credit to the
creator(s) of the dataset.
6. CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION-SHAREALIKE 4.0 INTERNATIONAL - CC-BY-SA
This license allows users to use, share, and adapt a dataset, but only if they give credit to
the dataset and show any changes or transformations, they made to the dataset. Users
might not want to use this license because they have to share the work they did on the
dataset.
7. COMMUNITY DATA LICENSE AGREEMENT – CDLA-SHARING-1.0
This license uses the principle of ‘copyleft’: users can use, modify, and adapt a dataset,
but only if they don’t add license restrictions on the new work(s) they create with the
dataset.
8. OPEN DATA COMMONS OPEN DATABASE LICENSE - ODC-ODBL
This license allows users to use, share, and adapt a dataset but only if they give credit to the
dataset and show any changes or transformations they make to the dataset. Users might
not want to use this license because they have to share the work they did on the dataset.
9. CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL 4.0 INTERNATIONAL - CC BY-
NC
This license is a restrictive license. Users can share and adapt a dataset, provided they give
credit to its creator(s) and ensure that the dataset is not used for any commercial purpose.
10. CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION-NO DERIVATIVES 4.0 INTERNATIONAL - CC BY-ND
This license is also a restrictive license. Users can share a dataset if they give credit to its
creator(s). This license does not allow additions, transformations, or changes to the
dataset.
11. CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-SHAREALIKE 4.0
INTERNATIONAL - CC BY-NC-SA
This license allows users to share a dataset only if they give credit to its creator(s). Users
can share additions, transformations, or changes to the dataset, but they cannot use the
dataset for commercial purposes.
12. CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-NODERIVATIVES 4.0
INTERNATIONAL - CC BY-NC-ND
This license allows users to share a dataset only if they give credit to its creator(s). Users are
not allowed to modify the dataset and are not allowed to use it for commercial purposes.
