In the past we’ve found that a good chunk of time in the beginning of hackathons was spent scrounging the web for datasets and information that could be used. So we’ve done you the favour of preparing some below. Example datasets as well as datasets that have been kindly provided by sponsors are outlined below.

• Data.world Free access to search and use 100,000+ open datasets

• Dataset Search (google.com) Useful tool for looking up datasets

• Earthdata by NASA Collection of Satellite Image for Earth Science

• Explore — OpenData Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium related datasets

• Global Health Observatory (who.int) Health specific datasets and statistics.

• Index of Open Data Sources An online article with a good overview of sources

• Kaggle Data set about Fake News

• Open Data on AWS AWS Datasets

• Reddit r/datasets Open source online forum with plenty of data made available

• Statista The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies

• UK Government Data Gender Pay Gap

• US Labour Statistics Company Employee Strikes

• US Health Data Chronic Disease Indicators

• World Bank Open Data | Data Global development data

• World Bank Data Country ESG Factors