Exploring Public Datasets

This writing is quoted directly from Google Data Analytics on Coursera.

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Open data helps us in creating a lot of public datasets that we can access to make data-driven decisions. Following are some resources we can use to start searching for public datasets on our own:

• The Google Cloud Public Datasets allow data analysts access to high-demand public datasets, and make it easy to uncover insights in the cloud.
• The Dataset Search can help you find available datasets online with keyword searches.
• Kaggle has an Open Data search function that can help you find datasets to practice with.
• Finally, BigQuery hosts 150+ public datasets you can access and use.

Public health datasets

1. Global Health Observatory data: You can search for datasets from this page or explore featured data collections from the World Health Organization.
2. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) dataset: Just like the earlier dataset, this data is hosted by the Google Cloud Public Datasets and can be uploaded to BigQuery.
3. 1000 Genomes: This is another dataset from the Google Cloud Public resources that can be uploaded to BigQuery.

Public climate datasets