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ABI/INFORM Complete
Contains country and industry focused reports and resources on companies, business trends, product information, SWOT analysis, etc. Coverage is international.
Business Insights: Essentials
In-depth information on U.S. and international companies, industries and products. Includes SWOT reports, financial analysis tools, business associations, investment reports and market research reports.
Gale eBooks
Great for background information - A collection of reference books (i.e. encyclopedias) available online. Titles in Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Medicine, Religion, Science and Social Science.
Hoover's D&B Hoovers delivers insightful information on more than 130 million businesses, both public and private, around the world; including the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and emerging markets. Search by Company Name, Executives, Industry or by using Conceptual Search and Business Signals. Business data includes Annual Revenues, Employee Counts, Corporate Family Tree, Key Contacts, Analyst Reports, SWOT reports, stock data, financials and other vital information.
Nexis Uni
Includes country information, company profiles, SEC filings, international, domestic, and local news, European Union law, federal and state statues as well as federal, state, court of appeals and supreme court cases.
RKMA Market Research and Forecast Handbooks
Market research reports compiled from widely available data. Topics include business-to-business marketing, consumer behavior, consumer marketing, entertainment, media and advertising, health care, leisure, restaurants, retail, sports marketing, and travel and tourism. Each market research handbook includes market assessments and forecasts, sector trends, profiles of market leaders, and statistics. In addition to in-depth analyses, the handbooks include links to hundreds of websites for additional information.

AidData
Data for international development.
Airbnb dataset
Offers different data sets related to Airbnb listings in dozens of cities around the world.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Has national and regional economic data, including gross domestic product and exchange rates.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Many important economic indicators for the United States (like unemployment and inflation) can be found. Most of the data can be segmented both by time and by geography.
CDC Data and Statistics
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a database on cause of death. The data can be segmented in almost every way imaginable: age, race, year, and so on.
College ScoreCard Data
Data on student completion, debt and repayment, earnings, and more. The files include data from 1996 through 2017 for all undergraduate degree-granting institutions of higher education.
Data.gov
U.S. government data, this site acts as a portal to all sorts of amazing information on everything from climate to crime.
Data.World
One key differentiator of data.world is the tools they have built to make working with data easier - you can write SQL queries within their interface to explore data and join multiple data sets. They also have SDK's for R an python to make it easier to acquire and work with data in your tool of choice.
Data Hub
Dryad
Dryad is an international repository of data focusing on the fields of scientific and medical publications.
FBI Crime Data
National crime statistics, with free data available at national, state and county level.
GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus
Grouplens Datasets
Harvard Dataverse Network
HealthData.gov
125 years of US healthcare data including claim-level Medicare data, epidemiology and population statistics.
How to Cite a Data Set in APA Style
Informatics Research Data Repository
International Monetary Fund Data
Publishes data on international finances, debt rates, foreign exchange reserves, commodity prices, and investments.
J-PAL (Poverty Action Lab)
J-PAL uses randomized evaluations to answer poverty-related policy questions.
Kaggle
A data science community that hosts machine learning competitions. There are a variety of externally-contributed interesting data sets on the site. Kaggle has both live and historical competitions. You can download data for either, but you have to sign up for Kaggle and accept the terms of service for the competition.
Lending Club Statistics
Provides data about loan applications it has rejected as well as the performance of loans that it issued. The data set lends itself both to categorization techniques (will a given loan default) as well as regressions (how much will be paid back on a given loan).
LIS Cross-National Data Center
Medicare Hospital Compare Datasets
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services maintains a database on quality of care at more than 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals across the U.S., providing for interesting comparisons.
Migration Policy Institute - Data Hub
NASA Prognostics Data Repository
Public datasets covering planets and stars gathered by NASA’s space exploration missions.
National Cancer Institute
Data about cancer incidence, segmented by age, race, gender, year, and other factors.
National Climatic Data Center
Huge collection of environmental, meteorological and climate data sets from the US National Climatic Data Center. The world’s largest archive of weather data.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES
OpenPayments datasets
Learn about the financial relationships that drug and medical device companies have with doctors and other healthcare providers. Every year CMS publishes complete datasets that consolidate the information submitted by reporting entities for active years of Open Payments data. You can download full datasets or use the Open Payments Search tool to refine and filter views of the data.
Pew Research Center Datasets
Raw data from Pew's research into American life.
re3data.org
Registry of Research Data Repositories, the largest and most comprehensive registry of data repositories.
Registry of Open Data on Amazon Web Services
Huge resource of public data, including the 1000 Genome Project, an attempt to build the most comprehensive database of human genetic information and NASA ’s database of satellite imagery of Earth.
Socrata
Explore government-related data, with some visualisation tools built-in.
SSDC Social Science Data Collection
Unicef data
Statistics on the situation of women and children worldwide.
United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
Statistics compiled and published by the United Nations on international trade. Includes Comtrade Lab which is a showcase of how cutting-edge analytics and tools are used to extract value from the data.
United Nations Data (UNdata)
United States Census
The U.S. Census Bureau publishes reams of demographic data at the state, city, and even zip code level. The data set is fantastic for creating geographic data visualizations and can be accessed.
Walmart historical sales data
Historical sales data for 45 stores located in different regions across the United States.
World Bank Databank
Datasets covering population demographics and a huge number of economic and development indicators from across the world.
World Health Organization - Data and Statistics
Offers world hunger, health, and disease statistics.
World Trade Organization - International Trade Statistics
World Wealth & Income Database
Yelp dataset
Yelp maintains a dataset for use in personal, educational, and academic purposes. It includes 6 million reviews spanning 189,000 businesses in 10 metropolitan areas. Students are welcome to participate in Yelp’s dataset challenge.