Research methods and proposal writing

Links to existing datasets

Online datasets (some link can become broken over time)

Dublin Dashboard http://www.dublindashboard.ie/pages/index
Quandl.com http://www.quandl.com
KDNuggests: Datasets for Data Mining http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/
Google: Dataset Directory http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
opendata.ie http://opendata.ie/
StatLib---Datasets Archive http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/
U.S. Census Bureau http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet
Datasets: 2010 UK Election Results http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/07/uk-election-results-data-candidates-seats
Computer Vision Papers Datasets http://www.cvpapers.com/datasets.html
Dataset Analytics Vocabulary http://vocab.sindice.net/analytics
Datasets - DNA Analytics CGH http://www.genomics.agilent.com/GenericA.aspx?pagetype=Custom&subpagetype=Custom&pageid=2079
Datasets collected by bitly https://bitly.com/bundles/hmason/1
MCFC Analytics http://www.mcfc.co.uk/The-Club/MCFC-Analytics
Truthy: Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/truthy/
KD-Nuggets http://www.kdnuggets.com/competitions/index.html
Berlin Brain-Computer Interface http://www.bbci.de/competition/
Netflix Prize http://www.netflixprize.com/
ACM KDD Cup http://www.sigkdd.org/kddcup/index.php
Santa Fe Time Series Competition Data Set B http://www.physionet.org/physiobank/database/santa-fe/
Time Series Forecasting Grand Competition for Computational Intelligence http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/downloads/NN5/datasets/download.htm
PAN 2012 - Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misuse http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/research/events/pan-12/pan12-web/authorship.html
UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
Central Statistics Office Ireland http://cso.ie, also check out the 2011 census data
InfoChimps: Find data for apps & analytics http://www.infochimps.com/
Data in Gapminder World http://www.gapminder.org/data/
Welcome to the London Datastore http://data.london.gov.uk/
Kaggle http://www.kaggle.com/
U.S. data.gov http://www.data.gov/
Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Spam Detection http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/FBS/sentiment-analysis.html
A Big List From Mahout https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/collections.html
What Is Data in Literary Studies? http://arcade.stanford.edu/content/what-data-literary-studies-1
IMDB - Alternative Interfaces http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
Export.ly: Export your data from social media as Excel or CSV http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/exportly-export-your-data/
LOGD Dataset Catalog http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/datasets
DBpedia http://dbpedia.org/About
DataSift http://datasift.com/
30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web http://blog.visual.ly/data-sources/
Finding Data on the Internet http://www.inside-r.org/howto/finding-data-internet
WikiVis http://www.wikiviz.org/wiki/Data_sources
Forbes: Special Report - Data Driven http://www.forbes.com/special-report/data-driven.html