Annotated-directory-interfaces

This is an annotated directory of public, freely available, query interfaces. For now they are in no particular order.

Google Books

• URL - http://books.google.com/
• Description - Started in 2002, and based on work that Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page did as CS graduate students at Stanford, this ambitious project aims to digitize and make available the full contents of the world's books. There is a detailed history of the long-running project and it's offshoots at http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/history.html There is a full text search interface to the books, including the ability to partition the search by document language and other attributes.
• Curator - CharlieP

Google ngrams

• URL - http://books.google.com/ngrams
• Description - Queries Google's digital book corpus for the frequency of occurrence for a given word or phrase (ngram technically, see their documentation) and then visualizes the results. Queries are directed against documents in a specified source language. The ngram data sets on which this is built are available separately, see http://books.google.com/ngrams/datasets
• Curator - CharlieP

MusicBrainz

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

Google Public Data Explorer

• URL - http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
• Description - ?The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
• Curator - ibabic09

Expedia

• URL - http://www.expedia.com/
• Description - Flight finder. Searchs for available flights on the entered day and departure/arrival information
• Curator - eosergi10

IMDB

• URL - http://www.imdb.com
• Description - Online database of movies and associated data
• Curator - gaschue08

Koordinates

• URL - http://koordinates.com
• Description - Web interface for large, map-based data sets. Includes census data among various other data sets.
• Curator - gaespin07

MovieLens Data Sets

• URL: http://www.grouplens.org/taxonomy/term/14
• Description: GroupLens Research has collected and made available rating data sets from the MovieLens web site (http://movielens.umn.edu). The data sets were collected over various periods of time, depending on the size of the set.

You can click the links in the following list or the links in the list of file attachments. The MovieLens 10M data set is not displayed in the file attachments list.

   MovieLens 100k - Consists of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies.
   MovieLens 1M - Consists of 1 million ratings from 6000 users on 4000 movies.
   MovieLens 10M - Consists of 10 million ratings and 100,000 tag applications applied to 10,000 movies by 72,000 users.

Curator: mmludin08

US & Canadian National Public Transportation

• Cant find the right historical Data yet. (Help Needed finding the data).