Contents

1. Introduction
2. What is Open Data?
3. Open vs. Free vs. Online Data
4. Where to find Open Data?

• International organizations
• United States
• Europe
• Latin America
• Asia
• Other Open Data sources (Google Public Data Explorer, Kaggle, FiveThirtyEight, UCI Machine Learning Repository etc.)

5. Conclusions

Introduction

Data Science has the power to bring great contributions to building the world we want to live in. And there are already numerous use cases which demonstrate how it can be leveraged for solving real-world problems.

However, for doing so, we need data that is freely available for reusing and structured in a useful format. In this article, I am going through some of the most well-known and important portals that can be used in this regard.

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