datasources.md

Sources of data to inspire or to be used in the final project

REST APIs

• 14K REST APIs for all sorts of stuff: http://www.programmableweb.com/

• Twitter, Facebook, etc, see Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Edition

• Weather: http://openweathermap.org/api

A compilation of sources (a lot of overlap):

• http://blog.visual.ly/data-sources/

• https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public

• http://readwrite.com/2008/04/09/where_to_find_open_data_on_the

• http://www.smartdatacollective.com/bernardmarr/235366/big-data-20-free-big-data-sources-everyone-should-know

• http://blog.bigml.com/2013/02/28/data-data-data-thousands-of-public-data-sources/

• https://datafloq.com/public-data/

Types of data that may be worth collecting for cybersecurity topics

• http://www.secureworks.com/resources/blog/5-valuable-contextual-data-sources-for-small-businesses/

• Honeypot: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10168/setting-up-a-honeypot

More traditional data sources: spreadsheets

• Government: http://www.data.gov/

• Finance: http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/141/what-data-sources-are-available-online

• Data mining-related: http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html

• Health care: http://www.ahrq.gov/research/data/dataresources/index.html

• Arts: http://arts.gov/grants-organizations/research-art-works/publicly-available-data-sources