Datamob: science

Daily Global Weather Measurements, 1929-2009

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:34:22 -0500

A collection of daily weather measurements (temperature, wind speed, humidity, pressure, &c.) from 9000+ weather stations around the world.

Data originally collected as part of the Global Surface Summary of Day (GSOD) by the National Climactic Data Center (NCDC). Collected and transformed by Infochimps.org.

url: http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2759/185-0886336-5629151

Failure Trace Archive

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:52:45 -0500

The Failure Trace Archive (FTA) is centralized public repository of availability traces of parallel and distributed systems, and tools for their analysis. The purpose of this archive is to facilitate the design, validation and comparison of fault-tolerant models and algorithms.

Submitted by Jeremy Cowles

url: http://fta.inria.fr/apache2-default/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.DataSets

Weather Underground API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:41:19 -0400

RESTful API providing programmatic access to real-time weather information for cities around the world.

url: http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML

Ensembl Genome Data

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:26:34 -0500

The Ensembl project produces genome databases for vertebrates and other eukaryotic species, and makes this information freely available online. Data can be downloaded in a variety of formats, from flat files to MySQL dumps.

Freely available for use under an Apache-style license.

url: http://www.ensembl.org/info/data/intro.html

Earthquake Heat Map

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:34:30 -0500

A heat map showing recent earthquakes, based on the USGS earthquake dataset.

Submitted by Sunil

url: http://sunild.com/proto/Earthquakes2/Earthquakes.html