Annotated-directory-big-data

This is an annotated directory of public, freely available, "large" data sets. For now they are in no particular order.

Google ngrams

• URL - http://books.google.com/ngrams/datasets
• Description - The ngram databases on which Google's ngram viewer is built. A variety of corpora are available, e.g. by language, the "Google Million", English fiction, etc. Each set contains a list of ngrams, frequency, and date information.
• Curator - CharlieP

MusicBrainz

• URL - http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database
• Description - In a nutshell, the musical equivalent of IMDb.
• Curator - Jahelton07

World Cubing Association Database

• Browse - http://worldcubeassociation.org/results/
• Download Database - http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/misc/export.html
• Description - All times, competitions, competitors of WCA competitions from 1984 until now.
• Curator - Twright09

Large Data Sets on AWS

• URL - http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#1
• Description - A list of large data sets on Amazon's AWS, more data sets within the four links in the list.
• Curator - Twright09

Another Data Set

• URL - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=116789
• Description - Analysis of the combat performance of the different units in Starcraft 2
• Curator - rdbean08

Twitter Users by Location

• URL - http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/twitter-census-twitter-users-by-location/downloads/70077
• Description - Twitter Census: Twitter Users by Location
• Curator - ibabic09

The AOL Search Data

• URL - http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/aol-search-data/downloads/70079
• Description - The AOL Search Data is a collection of real query log data that is based on real users. The data set consists of 20M web queries collected from 650k users over three months.
• Curator - ibabic09