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Questions tagged [curated-data]

Since version 7, Mathematica includes gigabytes of curated data relevant to many different fields, including physics, chemistry, graph theory, finance, geography and many more.

Since version 7, Mathematica has included functionality to load curated data from a multitude of sources, relevant to a range of fields. The data are updated regularly and can be re-cached from Wolfram’s servers whenever your Mathematica installation can connect to the internet.

Among the packages of data available are (note that some of these have already existed before version 7 as built-in packages):

Useful links:

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Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data?

I am not sure how to find out what all is included as curated data. For example, are the individual images of each of the 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards included? If not, is there a way to systematically access these from web images?
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Form of citation for data via Wolfram Mathematica

What citation or reference should I adhere to if I'm using curated data obtained via Mathematica? I'm talking about data, or eg. plots thereof, obtained using functions such as SatelliteData, PlanetData, etc. I am aware that for: Wolfram|Alpha,…
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Why will Wolfram CountryData not give population data after 2014 (e.g. for the US)?

CountryData[ "UnitedStates", {"Population", 2014} ] 322 422 965 people CountryData[ "UnitedStates", {"Population", 2015} ] Missing[ "NotAvailable" ] How can I update it? I am new to Mathematica.
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Computing Many Slow I/O Operations

In working on a custom stock screener, I often need to run mathematica code like this: {#, FinancialData[#, "DividendYield"]} & /@ Take[FinancialData["NYSE:*"], 30] In this example, I've limited the result set to 30, but ideally I'd like to get the…
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Where can I see a full list of ExampleData?

Using ExampleData, we can extract data for Machine Learning, Sound and others. From the reference of the Wolfram Language, I can see a full list of types of data, like machine learning, dataset, audio, etc. But where can I see what data can I…
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Anything we can do about outdated AirportData and WeatherData entries?

We just realized that there are quite a lot of ICAO codes which have changed in recent years and seem to not have been updated in AirportData (and also WeatherData which uses these codes as codes for the airport-located weather stations). One…
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Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Little Polka Dot Island in CountryData

I'm probably misunderstanding something, but: temp = CountryData["World", "FullPolygon"][[1,1,15737]] (* note: FullForm shows these numbers aren't exactly identical, just very close *) {{2.08158, 109.645}, {2.08158, 109.645}, {2.08158,…
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Structure of curated data?

Is there a way to programmatically access the structure of curated data present in Mathematica (for each type of information, for example for CountryData or ChemicalData) that would allow access to any kind of available information ? This would also…
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WeatherData locations

I am curious whether there is some place where one can look up the mapping between actual location and weather station (I assume) acronyms. E.g., what the heck is "KNDZ"?
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best source query for Wolfram Knowledgebase

I am trying to decide whether the Wolfram Knowledgebase can be useful to me in the classroom. For this to be the case, I need to easily determine the source of the data and its units. I'll give two examples. As a very simple example,…
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Find the list of weather stations for specified cities

I wrote some code which retrieves temperature data from three cities every hour for five days. My problem is that the default station from which WeatherData[] gets its data is sometimes unavailable. Therefore, I want to know how I can find the list…
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Downloading curated data

This website shows how to download curated data for offline usage. I thought I could do this on a computer connected to internet as well as a means of caching the data so that I do not have to download it all the time. So I did: MinorPlanetData[All,…
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Is it possible to get CityData for different years?

Is it possible to get CityData for different years? Or get a year of origin of data in CityData?
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What is the definition of "ConceptWeight" in WordData?

The documentation states that the "ConceptWeight" property is a rough estimate of semantic importance, I'd like to know how this is computed exactly, is there any way to find out?
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How to find list of curated datasets

How does one find a list of all curated datasets in Mathematica? For instance, I was seeking representative reflection spectra of various types of fruit, and searched through the entity foods, but could not find any spectra. I tried natural…
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