“The datasets were really clean, easy to access and easy to use. It was a joy to be able to use the data”
If you are part of the Open Data Community, you will be delighted to know that the number of freely available core datasets on DataHub has doubled to 122, thanks to a partnership between John Snow Labs and Open Knowledge International – “a global non-profit organization focused on realizing open data’s value to society by helping civil society groups access and use data to take action on social problems”. This vision is strongly in line with John Snow Labs’ mission to provide access to fresh and clean data – now not only to data scientists, but to everyone who has a need and meaningful use for it.
It’s a big day for the open data community because all these 122 core datasets have gone through three levels of quality reviews (2 manual ones by domain experts, 1 automated set of 50+ checks on the data and metadata), and there is now a team of experts, who is committed to keeping them up to date for free.
Data content covers economy, geography, climate, Internet, health and pharma with 58 core datasets, 21 community datasets and 43 newly donated ones. These are the core components of every domain that covers life, health, environment, politics and business, which will help shape every area that matters to human life.
“Updating the Master Provider Index is a ten-minute process with John Snow Labs. We’ve dramatically accelerated a process that used to be two days of work.” – Claudiu Branzan, Principal Software Engineer Atigeo.
“Many people told me the datasets were great and very easy to use. We would love to continue partnering with you for future events!” – Jason Yim, HopHacks Organizer
“The datasets were really clean, easy to access and easy to use. It was a joy to be able to use the data provided.” – Eric Rothman, Co-Founder Threat Sync
Eight Data Researchers were involved in achieving the curation, movement and quality review of 122 Core datasets.
John Snow Labs took the datasets from the official core datasets as well as additional community datasets from http://data.okfn.org/data.
In addition to current core and community datasets, John Snow Labs has donated Health (28 datasets) and Pharma (4 datasets) data accelerators. Donated datasets came from previously paid data accelerators from John Snow Labs’ data catalogue.
Datasets Highlights
Climate
The Climate Category has 16 new datasets that cover CO2 Emission Estimates and Euro Car Emissions, Absolute Sea Level Changes, Cumulative Mass Balance of Reference Glaciers, Atmospheric CO2 Trends, Annual and Monthly CO2 Marine Surface, European Union Emissions Trading System and the NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis. All these datasets have a huge potential to help Non-Government Organizations, students and the government agencies that focus on saving and preserving planet earth.
Economy
The Economy category has 40 new datasets that explores Incoterms Functions and Codes, UK Spending, Public Expenditures, Properties and Consumer Prices and Inflation Indexes, GDPs, Gold Prices, GINI Indexes, GHEITI Data, UK Bond Yields, Euribor Rates, IMF Database and Granularity, and even Corruption Perceptions Index. There are also data values on Belgium COFOG Nomenclature, UK COFOG Nomenclature, NASDAQ Exchange, The New York Stock Exchange, and other Exchange Listed Securities Companies that play a big role in the stocks market. There are also data on Standard and Poors 500 Index Earnings and PE Ratio and the list of Companies with important financial information for each company.
Geography
This is another topic that will be good to use in collaboration with organizations that have advocacies on earth preservation, climate change, good governance and other meaningful projects that will benefit countries around the globe. This category has 29 new datasets with information on Geonames and IDs, IMO IMDG Classification Codes, Airport Codes, ISO 4217 Currency Codes, SO 639-1 and 639-2 Language Codes List, ISO 6346 Container Codes, ISO 3166-1-Alpha-2 English Country Names and Code Elements, ISO 3166 Country Codes ITU Dialling Codes ISO 4217 Currency Codes, IETF Language Tags, UN-CEFACT Package Codes, Country and Continent Codes List. There are also statistics on Population Figures, Population Annual Time Series, Major Cities of the World, Spatial Relations Between Countries and Geographical Standards, Countries Geographical Territory Containment, Classification of the Functions of Government and Climate Negotiations Data.
Internet
Lastly, John Snow Labs has curated 4 new datasets to the Internet Category where information on the List of Internet Media Types and Subtypes, Membership to International Copyright Treaties, Internet Top Level Domain Names and IPv4 Geolocations can be explored.
This is just the beginning of a long-term partnership for a cause-for-health from John Snow Labs and Open Knowledge International, so expect more datasets to come, cleaned and normalized for you as the partnership grows.
All John Snow Labs Datasets are now available in a simple and business friendly licensing.
The donated core datasets are free for any use, including commercial applications, and will remain free. Other datasets are licensed as an annual subscription that comes with unlimited updates and expert support. Here are some of popular features of the business-friendly license:
1. Full Download: Load the full datasets into your database or analytics platform for maximum performance & privacy
2. Keep It Forever: Ending a subscription? Keep the data and rights you already have
3. Royalty Free: Deploy the data as part of your commercial product
Whether you just need a particular dataset or a whole category for your project – contact us to tell us about your needs and we will give you turnkey data for analysis –already tested, optimized and customized in a ready to use format for your big data, data science or visualization platform.
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