Open Access Resources: Statistics and Datasets

A brief description of what Open Data is with links to the World Banks Open Data Toolkit, covering topics such as open data essentials, examples of open data and uses of open data.

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Real-time world data

Market insights, trends and research on digital marketing from Google.

The London Datastore is a free and open data-sharing portal where anyone can access data relating to the capital.

Find data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies.

NHS data dashboards provides a way to explore some of the NHS' datasets.

High quality data for social science research, teaching and learning

Guide designed to help new researchers utilise some of the extensive survey data available through the UK Data Service. In particular, the guide is designed to support those starting small research projects, especially students doing dissertations.

The Bank of England publish data and statistics that they use to help develop the banking system and understand econimic trends, the section also includes a selection of research datasets.

Focused on the major UK cities, it holds a range of urban-related data, covering topics such as commercial data, governmental data, transportation data, social media and other unstructured data. It allows users from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, with varying degrees of computing knowledge, to interface with the data we hold.

You can get environmental science data, including some physical specimens and sample materials, through five data centres under the umbrella of NERC’s (Natural Environment Research Council) Environmental Data Service.

The CEDA Archive forms part of NERC's Environmental Data Service (EDS) and is responsible for looking after data from atmospheric and earth observation research. Including data from climate models, satellites, aircraft, met observations, and other sources

Open data published by EU institutions and bodies. All the data you can find via this catalogue are free to use and reuse for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

A leading global non-profit organisation that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data. Their goal is to help the research community locate, identify, and cite research data with confidence.

The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes.

Free and open access to global development data

Wellcome's website for Open Research. To find research data, select Filters, then go to Article Type and pick "Data Note" from the menu.

266K public datasets. From avocado prices to video game sales.