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Datasets

The datasets listed below are all preloaded into the HackReduce hadoop clusters and ready for immediate use at the event. The [datasets/*] notice next to each title indicates the path where its located depending on where you want to access it:

  • Hadoop HDFS: Can be found at /datasets/*
  • Namenode local filesystem: Can be found at /mnt/datasets/*
  • HackReduce Github project: Samples found in the datasets/* folder of the project. Note: not all the datasets listed on this page will have samples in the Github project.

There's also the possibility of loading new data at the event, but this process could take a few hours. Please see Greg about loading new data into your clusters.

If you're looking for data sets, below are a few good places to start:

If you're looking for Toronto data sets here are a couple of places to start:

  • Buzzdata has many city-related data sets rounded up here.
  • Global news's data set of Toronto parking tickets is here, again courtesy of Buzzdata.

Million Song Dataset [datasets/msd]

Special thanks to Echo Nest for converting the whole 200+ GB HDF5 format of the dataset to TSV for us

Freebase [datasets/freebase]

NASDAQ daily prices and dividends [datasets/nasdaq]

NYSE daily prices and dividends [datasets/nyse]

Wikipedia XML dump [datasets/wikipedia]

Google Ngram [datasets/ngrams]

International Cancer Genome Consortium [datasets/icgc]

Geonames [datasets/geonames]

GigaFrEn corpus [datasets/fre-eng]

Mate1 various data [datasets/mate1]

  • Provided by the Mate1 team
  • Includes (with all personally identifiable data excluded, of course):
    • Profiles: datasets/mate1/profile
    • Iinternal messages: datasets/mate1/internal_message
    • Subscriptions: datasets/mate1/subscription
    • Who's seen who: datasets/mate1/whos_seen_who
    • Hot block list: datasets/mate1/hot_block_list
  • Take a look at the datasets/mate1/*-cols.txt files for a description of the CSV fields for each dataset.

Reddit voting data [datasets/reddit]

Bixi Bikesharing Data 2012 [datasets/bixidata]

  • Includes Bixi (branded differently in other cities) data for Toronto, Ottawa and Boston (Hubway).
  • Updated by Julia Evans and Kamal Marhubi for HackReduce Montreal 2012
  • Dataset location on the namenode local filesystem is: /mnt/bixidata
  • Additional Boston Hubway data sets available from: http://hubwaydatachallenge.org including shapefiles, an aggregated rebalancing data sample, Apr - Sep 2012, and station status data, with available bikes and empty docks per station by minute back to August 2011 (30 million records)

Bixi Montreal [datasets/bixi]

  • XML dump of all the bike station information queried every minute over a couple of months.
  • Provided by Fabrice (http://twitter.com/f8full)

DNS dataset [datasets/dns]

  • Contains the root file with all the domain names and their associated nameservers for the "com" TLD.

LDEO Surface Ocean CO2 Climatology data [datasets/ldeo]

Twitter dataset [datasets/twitter]

Flight dataset [datasets/flights]

  • Limited set of flight data containing origin, destination, departure time, return time, price and date.
  • Only has flights originating from SEA
  • Provided by Hopper

Amazon dataset [datasets/amazon]

IMDB dataset [datasets/imdb]

Taylor Tweets [datasets/taylor_tweets]

  • Taken around of the time of Elizabeth Taylor's death in late March 2011, this dataset was a search of all tweets containing the word "taylor" in them.
  • JSON format

Citation networks [datasets/citation-networks]

Shopify data [datasets/shopify]

  • All the data for the U.S. specifying origin/destination of orders from our system, including price and date.

Common Crawl web crawl

  1. Current Crawl - s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/parse-output/ - crawl data from 2012
  2. Archived Crawl #1 - s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-001/ - crawl data from 2008/2010
  3. Archived Crawl #2 - s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-002/ - crawl data from 2009/2010