Help with finding open data?

[aribajahan]

Hey, I'm unfamiliar with where I can find open data. Besides just googling for "open data" , are there any other methods to finding some ? Then I can sift through which ones I may want to play with. Thank you

[datadave]

Here's a few, we'll leave this issue open for a few days and see what anyone else comes up with: Python APIs: http://www.pythonapi.com/ KD Nuggets Curated Datasets List

[jrcarli]

NYC makes a lot of data available: https://nycopendata.socrata.com/

[podopie]

Amazon also has some available

https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/

[jrcarli]

Kaggle is another option for people looking for inspiration and sample data.

http://www.kaggle.com/competitions