Whether you're doing demos, trying different aspects of applications or just looking for something new, you may want to have a broad and free selection of data to choose from. This post is here to help you out on that. I've collected a number of free data source for you to use: From the PowerPivot blog: Data on the District of Columbia http://ogdisdk.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog.aspx From Andrew Fryer 's blog: Data from the UK Government: http://data.gov.uk/data/ Datasets for neighborhoods...
I read a while ago in Chris Webb's blog about project Dallas which really got me interested. Quoting from the site itself: " Microsoft® Codename " Dallas " is a new service allowing developers and information workers to easily discover, purchase and manage premium data subscriptions in the Windows Azure platform. " So what does it mean? Basically that you have a public data source in the cloud that you can connect to and use for your own applications. And why am I so psyched...