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umpirsky/country-list

:globe_with_meridians: List of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes in all languages and data formats.

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2026-04-17
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1 list mention
First commit
2012-03-02
License
MIT
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12 open
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1,524
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109 commits
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catalyst-cooperative/pudl

The Public Utility Data Liberation Project provides analysis-ready energy system data to climate advocates, researchers, policymakers, and journalists.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-31
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1 list mention
First commit
2016-09-20
License
MIT
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494 open
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144
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11,143 commits
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dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets

⚽️ Extract, prepare and publish Transfermarkt datasets.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-11
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2 list mentions
First commit
2019-08-04
License
CC0-1.0
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49 open
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91
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1,077 commits
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McGill-NLP/medal

Large medical text dataset curated for abbreviation disambiguation, designed for natural language understanding pre-training in the medical domain

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Updated
2023-10-18
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1 list mention
First commit
2020-11-19
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Unknown
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8 open
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43
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45 commits
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BetaNYC/Bike-Share-Data-Best-Practices

This repo is designed to gather bike share data best practices AND socialize a list of open and free tools to hack on bike share data. This grows from Council Member Brad Lander introducing Int. No 1117-2013 on 24 July 2013. This is a local law to amend the administrative code of the City of New York, in relation to requiring the complication of Citi Bike usage data.

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2014-01-19
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1 list mention
First commit
2013-07-25
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Unknown
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1 open
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41
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20 commits
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alan-turing-institute/TCPD

The Turing Change Point Dataset - A collection of time series for the evaluation and development of change point detection algorithms

Updated
2025-07-25
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1 list mention
First commit
2020-03-10
License
MIT
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0 open
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29
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93 commits
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globalbioticinteractions/globalbioticinteractions

Global Biotic Interactions provides access to existing species interaction datasets

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2026-07-21
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First commit
2011-09-28
License
GPL-3.0
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431 open
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18
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4,929 commits
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ricardovvargas/3w_dataset

The first realistic and public dataset with rare undesirable real events in oil wells.

Updated
2022-06-03
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1 list mention
First commit
2019-01-19
License
MIT
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0 open
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63
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41 commits
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andrab/ecuacovid

Datos sin procesar extraído, limpiado, y normalizado de los informes de la situación nacional frente a la Emergencia Sanitaria SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) de SNGRE, MSP, Registro Civil, e INEC.

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2022-09-28
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2020-03-26
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Unknown
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3 open
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56
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2,912 commits
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inparallel/SaudiNewsNet

This repo contains a set of Arabic newspaper articles alongwith metadata, extracted from various Saudi newspapers.

Updated
2018-03-25
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1 list mention
First commit
2015-07-21
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Unknown
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0 open
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17
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21 commits
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Visillect/CubePlusPlus

Cube++ is a novel dataset collected for illumination estimation problem. It has 4890 raw 18-megapixel images, each containing a SpyderCube color target in their scenes, manually labelled categories, and ground truth illumination chromaticities.

Updated
2021-03-12
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1 list mention
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2020-07-21
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Unknown
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5 open
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8
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55 commits
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kno10/reversegeocode

Simple but fast reverse geocoding up to city granularitiy level

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2015-12-10
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1 list mention
First commit
2015-02-02
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AGPL-3.0
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0 open
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7
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msramalho/election-watch

🗳️+👀 A platform to protect elections in a disinformation world.

Updated
2021-02-11
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1 list mention
First commit
2020-10-25
License
MIT
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1 open
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7
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google/mcafp

No description.

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Updated
2016-12-19
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1 list mention
First commit
2016-12-12
License
Apache-2.0
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Disabled
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10
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4 commits
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LSB-dev/Publicly-Available-Datasets-For-Electric-Load-Forecasting

Here, the most popular Electric Load Forecasting datasets are collected centrally. Feel free to support this work. 🔥

Updated
2026-04-27
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1 list mention
First commit
2024-04-16
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Unknown
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0 open
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0
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80 commits
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