Project information

• Datasets on Amazon's AWS cloud
• Yelp Dataset Challenge
• NYC Open Data
• Data.gov
• UN Data
• Kaggle
• Quandl financial, economic, social datasets
• Face recognition, collaborative filtering, web ranking (see bottom, under "Projects")
• See here for more collaborative filtering data
  
• 20 Newsgroups
• Blogs (with spam labels)
  
• Enron e-mail data set (see also here)
• Congress voting records
• Quota's meta list of datasets
• NYTimes news articles
  

Useful links:

• Python for data scientists
• scikit.learn: Python machine learning modules (very good!)
  
• SVMlight software (also very good)
  
• Matlab/Octave resources (see bottom of page)
• Examples of how to write up your project