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Downloading the Panama Papers

I wonder where the Panama Papers can be downloaded. I have looked around, I couldn't find them. Where can I find them? What is the legality, and sensibility of requesting and downloading leaked data? Is now that it's leaked it's in the public…
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Speech audio files dataset with language labels

I am working on building a language classifier in speech/audio samples. I have been trying to find a dataset which may have considerable number of speech samples in various languages. The audio files maybe of any standard format like wav, mp3 etc.…
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Obtaining personal mail corpus

Are there any publicly available personal mailboxes except for the Enron corpus? Doesn't have to be a large corpus, even a single mailbox of a single person will help me (step by step...) Technically it would be best to have it in mbox format, but I…
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Any open public data sets for the English Premier League (EPL)?

The new 2014/15 season kicks off on Aug/16. Wondering what's the state of open data for the English Premier League. Any open data sets available (incl. teams, players, squads, stadiums, old seasons, goals and match stats, and so on)? Ideally the…
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Examples of useful applications that are being developed using open data

I am looking for news articles, tweets, or firms that everyone is talking about who are using open data. But, I have failed to find any useful application being developed that are using this open data thing. Please name a few if you think open data…
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World city database (with longitude, latitude) and population per year

I'm building a visualisation with cities' population around the globe for a website. I found the MaxMind free database that includes most cities around the globe with coordinates and population, which is awesome. What I'd like to do is have…
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What new open data do you need from the U.S. government?

Data.gov provides ~400,000 datasets from 180 federal agencies. However, I know you are interested in more data and more specific data than what is already included. What additional topics, formats, or types of data are you interested in having…
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Collect a list of open data systems

for a research project we are trying to collect a list of relevant open data systems. I am aware that systems is very broad so I tried to categorize them a bit. Please help us extending this list with other relevant systems. Here is what we have…
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Trying to locate US Census Shapefiles for all MSA's (Metropolitan & Micropolitan Statistical Areas)

I've been rooting around at the US Census Dept's Tigerline Shapefile download area through the web portal here: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2013/main And have been pretty successful at getting shapefiles for nearly all census-studied…
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What are your responses when people tell you they can't open data?

I'm part of Sunlight Foundation's local team working on opening up local governments and city data, specifically. We're working on a blog post rounding up the most common reasons cited by governments to not release data** and then refuting each…
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Why should I care how a (structured) dataset is licenced?

When thinking about "Open Data" (possibly due to nothing more than my own ignorance) I am utterly confused as to what difference an open licence legally makes for structured data. "Open Data" for me is a bit like saying "Free Air". From discussions…
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Database of English words pronunciation

Is there any downloadable open database of English words pronunciation in audio format?
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Extensive Weather or Sea State API?

Please bear with me since this is my first time asking something Weather related. What would be the best source for getting Sea and Weather related data like Wind Wave Height (m) Wind Wave Period (s) Wind Wave Direction Significant Wave Height…
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Open database APIs for journal article metadata

Are there any openly-accessible databases for searching journal article metadata? I’m particularly looking for abstracts, citation data, and subjects/tags/fields-of-study information. I’m looking for something like Sciverse Scopus (but not just for…
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Dataset of weather as it was *forecast* at the time

I have been able to find very detailed weather datasets from noaa (ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/). But I realized that for my purposes I can not simply use weather prediction probabilities to get probable weather forecasts of the time. I…
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