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US Government Open Data
https://www.data.gov/

Big Machine Learning (BigML) blog post
http://blog.bigml.com/list-of-public-data-sources-fit-for-machine-learning/

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data Catalog
https://data.cdc.gov/browse

UN Global Health Observatory Data 
www.who.int/gho/database/en/

NASA's Data Portal
https://data.nasa.gov/

US Department of Agriculture Data and Statistics
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=DATA_STATISTICS

GSS Data Explorer (General Social Survey)
https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/ 

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

United States Drought Monitor
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/MapsAndData.aspx

Gapminder World Data
https://www.gapminder.org/data/

Sports Reference
http://www.sports-reference.com/

Sean Lahman's Baseball Database
http://seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics

US Department of Education College Scorecard Data
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/

Data Science Central: A Plethora of Data Set Repositories
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/a-plethora-of-data-set-repositories?utm_content=buffera6f21&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Data Science Central: 20 Big Data Repositories
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/20-big-data-repositories-you-should-check-out-1?utm_content=bufferdc873&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Air Quality Measures on the National Environmental Health Tracking
https://data.cdc.gov/dataset/Air-Quality-Measures-on-the-National-Environmental/cjae-szjv

NCHS - Drug Poisoning Mortality, U.S. and State Trends: United States, 1999-2015
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/NCHS-Drug-Poisoning-Mortality-U-S-and-State-Trends/jx6g-fdh6

Age-Adjusted Death Rate for the 10 Leading Causes of Death in the U.S.
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/NCHS-Age-adjusted-Death-Rates-for-the-Top-10-Leadi/bi63-dtpu

Tableau Public Sample Data Sets (Magnitude 6+ Earthquakes)
https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/resources

Video Game Sales as of 10/26/2016
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/

Tableau Public Sample Data Sets (The 2014 Inc. 5000)
https://public.tableau.com/s/resources?qt-overview_resources=1#qt-overview_resources

NBA Season Data
http://basketballvalue.com/downloads.php

Worldwide Grosses of All Time Movie Boxoffices
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

Olympic Medal Winners, 1896-2008
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdHlfd0F1QlAxYjgtOW53ZXNOZ0JzNVE

Avg. Payments and Coverage for Similar Services in U.S.
https://data.cms.gov/Medicare-Inpatient/Inpatient-Prospective-Payment-System-IPPS-Provider/97k6-zzx3