Datasets for Running Statistical Analysis on [closed]

Answer 1

A bundle of 268 small text files (the worked examples of "The R Book") can be found in The R Book's companion website.

Answer 2

Similar to data.gov, but european centered is eurostat

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/statistics/search_database

and there is a chinese statistics departement, too, as mentioned by Wildebeests

http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/statisticaldata/monthlydata/index.htm

Then there are some "social data services" which offer the download of datasets, such as swivel, manyeyes, timetric, ckan, infochimps..

Answer 3

See the data competition set up by Hadley Wickham for the Data Expo of the ASA Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics section. The competition is over, the data is still there.

Answer 4

Here's an R package with several agricultural datasets from books and papers. Example analyses included: agridat

Answer 5

UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository has currently 190 data sets.

The UCI Machine Learning Repository is a collection of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community for the empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms.

Answer 6

Another good site is UN Data.

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/). Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.