John Snow Cholera Data(johnsnow.rtwilson.com)
5 points by surprisetalk | 2 comments
A dataset by Robin Wilson digitising John Snow's 1854 Broad Street cholera map, with death points, pump locations, and georeferenced maps for GIS software.
#open-data on Hacker News
29 stories tagged open-data, newest first.
Color Names(names.color.pizza)
95 points by akkartik | 26 comments
Color Names is an open, MIT-licensed collection of 31,970 community-authored color names, browsable in a 3D RGB/OKLab viewer and available via npm and API.
Show HN: Stream live open data in two commands(docs.hypermass.io)
6 points by gardensalad | 1 comments
Documentation page for the Hypermass CLI, an Apache 2.0 tool for subscribing to and publishing live open data streams as files delivered to a local folder.
CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recreation(worldfacts.app)
34 points by yegortk | 36 comments
A web app recreating the CIA World Factbook with country data from World Bank, WHO, IMF and others, offering search, metrics, scatter plots, and CSV export.
God's Eye UAP – documented UFO cases on a 3D globe, with the evidence(domw99.github.io)
5 points by godseyeuap | 0 comments
An interactive 3D globe web app mapping documented UFO/UAP sighting cases with a year histogram filter and linked evidence files.
Show HN: A website that tracks US food prices every day(kadoa.com)
22 points by hubraumhugo | 6 comments
An open-source dashboard tracking daily USDA food commodity prices at shipping points, wholesale markets, and supermarket ads, with historical charts.
Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources(19thnews.org)
445 points by benwerd | 175 comments
Blog post by Ben Werdmuller linking to The 19th's story about former NOAA staff rebuilding the defunct Climate.gov resource as Climate.us using open data.
Has_not_been_viewed_much(iamwillwang.com)
428 points by wxw | 118 comments
A blog note about the Art Institute of Chicago API's has_not_been_viewed_much field, marking artworks viewed under 200 times since 2010, with a browser for them.
OpenTrafficMap(opentrafficmap.org)
352 points by moooo99 | 93 comments
OpenTrafficMap is a live web map of traffic in Graz showing vehicles, trams, buses, pedestrians and traffic light states from V2X broadcasts over WebSocket.
Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
465 points by vidluther | 253 comments
Show HN post for Pardonned.com, an open-source searchable database of US presidential pardons scraped from the DOJ website and built with SQLite and Astro.
Spanish legislation as a Git repo(github.com)
770 points by enriquelop | 225 comments
GitHub repository publishing over 8,600 Spanish laws as Markdown files, with each legislative reform recorded as a Git commit.
The American Healthcare Conundrum(github.com)
493 points by rexroad | 559 comments
GitHub repository for an investigative data journalism project analyzing CMS, OECD, and federal datasets to quantify fixable waste in US healthcare.
Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable(cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
441 points by MilkMp | 87 comments
Show HN project: a searchable, exportable archive of CIA World Factbook data from 1990–2025; the page returned an HTTP 503 error when captured.
We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers(blog.metabrainz.org)
372 points by LorenDB | 197 comments
MetaBrainz Foundation blog post explaining how AI scrapers are forcing it to restrict or change services it offers to the community.
Find SF parking cops(walzr.com)
826 points by alazsengul | 457 comments
An interactive map of San Francisco listing parking enforcement officers by recent ticket locations, with an officer leaderboard.
PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods(plasticlist.org)
418 points by homebrewer | 167 comments
PlasticList is a searchable database of lab-tested plastic chemical levels (nanograms per serving) in common foods, with downloadable TSV data.
The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide(apnews.com)
569 points by geox | 336 comments
AP News article reporting that the US has stopped sharing air quality monitoring data from its embassies worldwide, prompting concern from scientists.
Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets(404media.co)
722 points by johnneville | 212 comments
A 404 Media article on archivists working to identify and preserve thousands of datasets disappearing from the US government's data.gov portal.
MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia(musicbrainz.org)
406 points by mmh0000 | 88 comments
Homepage of MusicBrainz, an open, community-maintained music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and releases it under open licenses.
Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector(jacobfilipp.com)
345 points by surprisetalk | 226 comments
Jacob Filipp's Project Hammer page, offering a dataset of Canadian grocery prices aimed at reducing collusion in the grocery sector.
We need to liberate the Postcode Address File(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)
324 points by edward | 275 comments
James O'Malley's Substack post on a confidential UK government pilot report about an open address register, arguing the Royal Mail Postcode Address File should be freed as open data.
OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20(stevecoast.substack.com)
373 points by gemanor | 103 comments
A Substack essay by OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast reflecting on the project's 20th anniversary and its early growth.
U.S. National Park Service API(nps.gov)
350 points by jeffennell | 166 comments
National Park Service page introducing the NPS Data API, an open API giving developers access to park data for their projects.
Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites(mastodon.gamedev.place)
596 points by boffbowsh | 131 comments
Mastodon thread by Mario Zechner explaining his project scraping Austrian grocery chain websites to track food prices amid high inflation.
OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge(openfarm.cc)
442 points by lasermatts | 42 comments
Homepage of OpenFarm, a free and open crowdsourced database and web app for sharing farming and gardening growing guides.
Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap(blog.openstreetmap.org)
326 points by molly_radstowe | 50 comments
OpenStreetMap Blog post marking OSM's 19th birthday and announcing an online fundraising campaign to support the project's future.
Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset(overturemaps.org)
384 points by chippy | 87 comments
Overture Maps Foundation blog post announcing its first worldwide open map dataset, covering layers such as places, buildings, transportation, and administrative boundaries.
Open source hospital price database(dolthub.com)
457 points by alecst | 221 comments
DoltHub repository page for the transparency-in-pricing database, a 62.9 GB open dataset of US hospital prices with a SQL query view of the rate table.
June 2023 Data Dump is missing(meta.stackexchange.com)
463 points by JasonPunyon | 232 comments
A Meta Stack Exchange answer about the missing June 2023 Stack Exchange data dump; the page did not render when captured.