Another Way to Get Data
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Michigan Research Data Center (MRDC)This is for advanced research. Researchers may submit proposals to use confidential U.S. Census microdata for research (also some data from other federal agencies). Approved researchers can then access data at a center in Ann Arbor.
Project must be approved. There is a fee to use the center.
Nielsen Marketing data - faculty only
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Nielsen Datasets via University of ChicagoIncludes Consumer Panel Data and Retail Scanner Data. Available only to tenure-track faculty for research projects by application.
Network Analysis Software & Datasets
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SNAP: Stanford Network Analysis ProjectFree. Open source software for network analysis and graph mining and numerous large network datasets, which include "social networks, web graphs, road networks, internet networks, citation networks, collaboration networks, and communication networks."
Other large datasets for faculty research
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Amazon Web Services Open Data"Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications."
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UCI Machine Learning RepositoryThe University of California Irvine offers 250+ large datasets for researchers--many of them on science topics, but some business and social science topics included.