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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by gennarro on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:44PM (#33677600)
US auto data is a lot of fun. Useful for all sorts of projects.

Data: https://www.transportation.gov/developer Example: https://transportation.report/

Well under 1gb if you focus on models and specs, not safety!

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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by giraffe_lady on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:37PM (#33677943)
Destiny 2 has an api that a lot of great third-party organizational tools are built around. But you can also download a sqlite file with all the set game info in it: weapons, abilities, perks, items, upgrades etc. I haven't messed with it in a while but I remember it being pretty small, one or two hundred mb.

It's highly normalized, to the point where it goes backwards and starts to actually interfere with human usability. Not sure if that helps your goal or hinders it. I used to use it for teaching both sql and the pros/cons/usefulness of the normal forms.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by vital_beach on Saturday November 19, 2022 @11:05PM (#33678122)
Wahpedia has a pretty unusual Warhammer 40k dataset

general overview: https://wahapedia.ru/wh40k9ed/the-rules/data-export/

spreadsheet with dataset links: https://wahapedia.ru/wh40k9ed/Export%20Data%20Specs.xlsx

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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by neerd on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:30AM (#33681142)
Damn, I wish I’d known this existed. I ended up building a parser for the raw battle-scribe xml files
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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by vital_beach on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:36PM (#33688031)
that's honestly a better route. battlescribe has more data, but the schema is a nightmare and gives me headaches.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by mhh__ on Saturday November 19, 2022 @11:16PM (#33678179)
Not super exciting but tire data# is both hard to model and very expensive.

# Data from spinning a tire while crushing it into a "road" at an angle

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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by connordoner on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:25AM (#33679578)
I took a list of UK Parliamentary constituencies and took a while to match each with their International Territorial Levels (the post-Brexit version of NUTS).

It’s here as a CSV if you’d like it: https://gist.github.com/connordoner/9cda1857b8fff5b8e042013d.... There’s no license attached so do as you wish.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by chunkyks on Sunday November 20, 2022 @12:00PM (#33682726)
Early in covid, I played with a famous 65-year-venerated dataset from where I work. Found some interesting minutiae and ended up on the front page of the wsj over it.

https://github.com/RANDCorporation/milliondigits

It's probably not what you're looking for, but it's my own favorite dataset.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by trynewideas on Sunday November 20, 2022 @01:43PM (#33683858)
I learned GIS from John Mechalas's effort to georeference and create a base world map for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: https://dungeonetics.com/golarion-geography/index.html
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Re:Ask HN: What are the funnest data sets you’ve played with? by hnthrowaway1099 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:51PM (#33688927)
Kaggle has a fair amount of datasets

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets?fileType=csv

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