Listing 29 datasets tagged with "us"

Measuring Worth: Interest Rates - US & UK 1790-2007 *****

Twelve interest rate series for the United Kingdom and the United States | Added by mrflip 5 months ago

What Was the Interest Rate?
U.K. U.S.
Short-Term: Ordinary Funds, Contemporary Series
Short-Term: Ordinary Funds, Consistent Series
Short-Term: Surplus Funds, Contemporary Series
Short-Term: Surplus Funds, Consistent Series
Long-Term: Contemporary Series
Long-Term: Consisten …

Economics | Economics » Finance

Area Code and Exchange to Location, North America (NPA/NXX) *****

Geolocate any phone number by the Area Code and first three digits | Added by Infochimps 12 months ago

These usage notes adapted from original poster’s description

North American Numbering Plan, NPA/NXX’s

As of April 1999, there were 105291 NPA/NXX’s (area code plus exchanges) registered for use in the USA and Canada. These prefixes …

Geography

US Census Bureau TIGER data **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

The US government’s ‘Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing’ system, usually referred to as TIGER, is based on an extensive database of US geographic information. It is county-level data that documents physical features like roads and rivers, as well as some administrative fe …


U.S. Government Photos and Graphics **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About

Collection of links to different US image collections in the public domain.

  1. Openness

> Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain, and they may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some images may be protected by license. We st …


District of Columbia (DC) Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) - Data Catalog **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About

> For years the District of Columbia has provided public access to city operational data through the Internet. Now the District provides real-time data from multiple agencies to citizens, a catalyst ensuring agencies operate as more responsive, better performing organizations. Use the da …


Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

###About

“This is the main distribution web site for spatial data generated for, and collected by, the Mineral Resources Program (MRP) of the U.S. Geological Survey. This site is operated by the Spatial Information Delivery Project of the MRP. The site distributes detailed Mineral Resource, Geoch …


Congresspedia **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About

From website:

> Congresspedia is a collaboratively written “citizens’ encyclopedia on Congress,” designed to shine more light on the workings of the U.S. Congress. Congresspedia is part of SourceWatch, a similarly collaborative, wiki-based website documenting the people, organizations …


Federal Reserve Economic Data **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. Description

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), over 15,000 FREE US series. Download data. View charts. Get email updates. Create data lists.

Can browse data or download in bulk from .

  1. Openness: OPEN (?)
  • License: none specified …

The CIA World Factbook **

Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. Description

US government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, etc.

  1. Openness: OPEN
  • License: Public Domain: "The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied f …

Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) Public Database Network **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About

> Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) Database Network is a project of EPA’s National Center for Computational Toxicology, helping to build a public data foundation for improved structure-activity and predictive toxicology capabilities. The DSSTox website provides a public …


FSI Language Courses **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About

From website:

> Welcome to fsi-language-courses.com, the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.

> This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely ava …


GenBank - NIH genetic sequence database **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. Description

From the main page:

> GenBankĀ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (Nucleic Acids Research, 2008 Jan;36(Database issue):D25-30). There are approximately 85,759,586,764 bases in 82,853,685 sequence records in the t …


District of Colombia Data Catalog **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

List of datasets made available online in convenient way by Washington DC’s Office of Chief Technology Officer. From the main page:

> For years the District of Columbia has provided public access to city operational data through the Internet. Now the District provides real-time data from multiple …


NBER US Patent Citation Database **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. Description

[Taken verbatim from the above url]

These data comprise detail information on almost 3 million U.S. patents granted between January 1963 and December 1999, all citations made to these patents between 1975 and 1999 (over 16 million), and a reasonably broad match of patents to Comp …


Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About data

Temperature mean, max and min for 5×5 grid over all of the earth:

> The Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-Monthly) data base contains historical temperature, precipitation, and pressure data for thousands of land stations worldwide. The period of record varies from stati …


U.S. National Park Service (NPS) - Yosemite National Park **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About

> Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States, is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more.

> Yosemite Nature Notes …


United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About

From [About page](http://www.ars.usda.gov/AboutUs/AboutUs.htm):

> The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief scientific research agency. Our job is finding solutions to agricultural problems that affect Americans every day, from field to table. …


The 2000 US Census: 1 Billion RDF Triples **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

2000 U.S. Census converted into over a billion RDF triples.


The Open Library **

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) Collection | Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. About

> One web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty, but achievable, goal.

> To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a brand new database infrastructure for handling huge amounts of dynamic information, a wiki interface, multi-language support, and people w …


Fred 2.0 **

Added by Infochimps 10 months ago

  1. Description

Library of Congress Authority data harvested in December 2006. From the [readme](http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/authorities/readme.pdf):

> Using a custom agent, we were able to harvest 6.95 million authority records using the publicly accessible interface to the Library of Congre …