If I learn about a public data set that others might find interesting, how should I let others know? Should I ask a question, such as, "Is anyone looking for outbreak data"?
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Go ahead and post a "question", and then answer it yourself. For example, "Where can I find outbreak data... related to ... ?"
Here is a recent question that was self-answered: Graph of Landsat Downloads
The meta-stackexchange site has an interesting discussion.
If it is a portal site, you can post the site to our crowd-sourced catalog of open data portals. There are about 1450 sites cataloged currently.
answered Feb 25, 2015 at 21:57
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Both answers are helpful. It's too bad only 1 of them can be "accepted".– BrennanFeb 25, 2015 at 22:43
this is where having a wiki to go along with the forum would be killer. something along the lines of r/datasets on reddit. considering there isn't one here yet, i would post the new datasets there:
https://reddit.com/r/datasets
If it's research data, I'd also suggest submitting a listing for the archive/repository at re3data, the Registry of Research Repositories.
