Re:Giant, free index to world's research papers released online
by mindcrime on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @10:27AM
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I was looking for a big and novel dataset to work on as a personal project
As an aside, one interesting data-set that is out there, legally and freely available, which is decent sized (not as big as this, of course) is the United States Fire Administration's NFIRS[1] data.
Roughly speaking, NFIRS is a record of all fire calls run in the USA, including details like date, time, location, responding department, incident type, dollar value of damages, number of deaths, number of injuries, etc.
I say "roughly speaking" because strictly speaking participation in NFIRS is voluntary and not every department in the USA participates. If memory serves correctly, for example, I think FDNY does not. But as far as I know, a significant majority of the fire departments in the US do send their data to NFIRS and so it becomes a pretty interesting snapshot of fire activity across the entire country.
Edit: from the NFIRS page:
The NFIRS database comprises about 75% of all reported fires that occur annually.
As an aside, one interesting data-set that is out there, legally and freely available, which is decent sized (not as big as this, of course) is the United States Fire Administration's NFIRS[1] data.
Roughly speaking, NFIRS is a record of all fire calls run in the USA, including details like date, time, location, responding department, incident type, dollar value of damages, number of deaths, number of injuries, etc.
I say "roughly speaking" because strictly speaking participation in NFIRS is voluntary and not every department in the USA participates. If memory serves correctly, for example, I think FDNY does not. But as far as I know, a significant majority of the fire departments in the US do send their data to NFIRS and so it becomes a pretty interesting snapshot of fire activity across the entire country.
Edit: from the NFIRS page:
The NFIRS database comprises about 75% of all reported fires that occur annually.
[1]: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfirs/