Looking for facts about consumer product goods in the US? Open source data platform Factual has just launched its Factual Global Products with information on more than 517,000 consumer products. Records for each product include product name, brand, category , size, and UPC. Direct links to images for many products are also included as well as a Factual ID number that helps connect Global Product entries with other Factual services. Here's an example of listings in the Household Supplies category: Companies represented in the database include: L'Oreal (5635 Products) Kraft [...]

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Looking to do research based on data gathered from across the web? That's one of the purposes of Common Crawl, and the group has just released new data, as well as a contest to encourage use of that data The 2012 data, which contains 3.8 billion web documents, shows stats such as 63% of top level domains being .com or there being 61 million domains overall. Common Crawl is also currently running its first-ever Common Crawl Code Contest challenging developers to do something innovative using the data relating to job trends or social impact analysis. Three winners will each get $1,00 [...]

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