Online database dumps for the public.

Question

You may want to dig into that kind of data for fun, to impress your friends, to gather statistical data, to test algorithms, or whatever.

My two favorite database dumps:

• Stack Overflow data dump.
• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

You can post links for any kind of data that you find interesting.

Answer 1

The US Census Bureau Gateway

http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

A rundown of all of the different types of information available is here:

http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/

Answer 2

Some I've found useful:

• The CIA World Factbook.
• The Wikipedia database download.
• The IETF RFC database of Internet standards.
• GeoNames.

Answer 3

Hi

I may be off topic here but this link http://rdf.dmoz.org/ has the RDF dump of the Open Directory database.

Also, the Wikipedia database http://wapedia.mobi/en/Wikipedia:Database_download

cheers