Places to find raw data

• http://www.wineinstitute.org/communications/statistics/worldstats.htm

• http://www.landmark-project.com/page.php?stamp=&pn=4&psn=&cat=22

• Social Security's list of popular baby names http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

• Political-economic data http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php

• CIA's world factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

• http://www.thedigitalmapstore.com/Free_Stuff/ZIP_Code_Database/zip_code_database.html

• Popular first and last names http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/

• Historical weather data http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/northeast_hist.shtml

• UC-Irvine Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) archive at http://kdd.ics.uci.edu for both data structures and database systems projects. There are links to a wide variety of data, including images, multivariate data, relational data, spatio-temporal data, text, and web data.

• USDA nutritional labels database http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/