Easy access to Big Data?

[Speakpigeon]

I'm looking for an easy access to some big chunk of publicly available data that I could download to work on. The idea is to have enough data to analyse with the aim of producing useful results, possibly in medicine for example. I need high quality data, with as few errors as possible so I'm thinking of data produced perhaps by serious international institutions for example. The emphasis is on usefulness. So the data need to be detailed, accurate and rich enough to possibly contain something seriously interesting. Ideally, it should also concern some reasonably limited area, say, statistics on epileptic patients or some such. It should also preferably be easy to understand for the non-specialist. I'm open to suggestions but I'm really looking for an effective access to actual data.
Comments are also welcome.
Thanks to all.
EB

 

[J842P]

You can try to check out https://www.kaggle.com/datasets for various real-world open datasets (along with corresponding challenges associated with those data-sets).

 

[Speakpigeon]

You can try to check out https://www.kaggle.com/datasets for various real-world open datasets (along with corresponding challenges associated with those data-sets).

Thanks. It seems very promising. Most of it is beyond my capabilities but a few should fit my requirements. Thanks again!
EB

 

[rjh01]

You want data? Try this http://www.abs.gov.au/

 

[Speakpigeon]

You want data? Try this http://www.abs.gov.au/

Thanks, the data there is probably less potentially useful to me but more user-friendly (datapack), especially for people we limited capabilities like me. That's very helpful to get started. Thanks.
EB

 

[bilby]

You want data? Try this http://www.abs.gov.au/

Have you opted out of my health record yet? Or are you planning to be the only person in the system?

 

[Jokodo]

How about the World Bank: https://data.worldbank.org/
Depending on the kind of data you're looking for, Wikidata (a spin-off of Wikipedia) might also be a good place to start looking. They have an endpoint for queries where you can define combinations of attributes: https://query.wikidata.org/ (have a look at the examples)

 

[Speakpigeon]

How about the World Bank: https://data.worldbank.org/
Depending on the kind of data you're looking for, Wikidata (a spin-off of Wikipedia) might also be a good place to start looking. They have an endpoint for queries where you can define combinations of attributes: https://query.wikidata.org/ (have a look at the examples)

Thanks. The World Bank data seems restricted to economic development but maybe there's a way to use that.

Wiki is something else altogether. Seems like a search engine centred on Wiki articles and perhaps you can find a way to uncover original relations between things. But I'm more sceptical.

Thanks all the same, and I guess I can Google "open data" if I need even more data...
EB

 

[rjh01]

If you want data about comparing the economies of different countries then have a look at this https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

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You want data? Try this http://www.abs.gov.au/

Have you opted out of my health record yet? Or are you planning to be the only person in the system?

Done that. Doubt that my doctor would give it any data anyway. But what has that got to do with the topic?

 

[Speakpigeon]

If you want data about comparing the economies of different countries then have a look at this https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Hmm, thanks but no, I don't connect to that kind of people. I want to stay safe, especially now that it seems we'll be soon at war, even if it remains only a war of words.

OK, maybe I will, thanks.
EB