When you're learning a new data tool it often helps to have a dataset nearby that serves as an example. Many of these datasets are also fun to explore on their own which is why we list them here so you can download them. Feel free to download these datasets to see if you can do something interesting with them.
Name | Description | Type | Rows | Size | |
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bigmac.csv | An economic indicator? | csv | 1331 | 71KB | Download |
birthdays.csv | When are people born? | csv | 372865 | 16MB | Download |
chickweight.csv | The effect of different feed. | csv | 578 | 6.2KB | Download |
clinc.csv | Intent and Out-of-Scope prediction. | csv | 23700 | 1.2M | Download |
dependencies.csv | Python Package Dependencies | csv | 14903 | 423KB | Download |
drawndata1.csv | Custom drawn data. | csv | 253 | 9.6KB | Download |
drawndata2.csv | Again, custom drawn data. | csv | 218 | 8.2KB | Download |
english_1grams.csv | English Unigrams | csv | 26 | 309B | Download |
english_2grams.csv | English Bigrams | csv | 676 | 6.9KB | Download |
english_3grams.csv | English Trigrams | csv | 17556 | 158K | Download |
english_words.csv | English Words | csv | 706375 | 8.1MB | Download |
ergonomics.csv | Body measurements in the US Army. | csv | 6069 | 2.8MB | Download |
fish.csv | Can we classify fish species? | csv | 160 | 6.3KB | Download |
got.json | Game of Thrones characters. | json | 30 | 19KB | Download |
headlines.zip | Newspaper titles, all in lower case. | zip | 100000 | 6.2KB | Download |
monopoly.csv | The popular board game. | csv | 22 | 1.3KB | Download |
pokemon.json | Popular fictional animals. | json | 800 | 59KB | Download |
pokemon.jsonl | Again, popular fictional animals. | jsonl | 800 | 59KB | Download |
sleep.csv | Sleep affects your coding. | csv | 37 | 857B | Download |
smoking.csv | Can we lie with statistics? | csv | 1315 | 16KB | Download |
stigler.csv | Calculate an optimal diet. | csv | 231 | 4.4KB | Download |
stocks.csv | Optimise a portfolio of stocks. | csv | 4277 | 138KB | Download |
titanic.csv | Who survived? | csv | 715 | 39KB | Download |
wow-full.parquet | World of Warcraft Avatar Dataset | parquet | 36513647 | 304M | Download |
wow-lite.parquet | Lightweight WoW Dataset | parquet | 36513647 | 165M | Download |
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You can also play with most of these datasets directly in the browser. We've hosted all csv files online via datasette so you can also explore it without downloading anything. Want to learn more about datasette? Check out the datasette course.