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===Interesting Data Sets===
===Interesting Data Sets===
I know of Internet resources that present interesting data sets. But I don't undestand copyright laws enough to know if these sets can be incorporated into the OLPC project, so I'll just give examples of what I mean:
I know of Internet resources that present interesting data sets. But I don't undestand copyright laws enough to know if these sets can be incorporated into the OLPC project, so I'll just give examples of what I mean:

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For other ideas, see Educational content ideas

Interesting Data Sets

I know of Internet resources that present interesting data sets. But I don't undestand copyright laws enough to know if these sets can be incorporated into the OLPC project, so I'll just give examples of what I mean:

The value of PI to 10000 places
http://mondragon.angeltowns.net/paradiso/ValorDePi.html
The first 10000 prime numbers
http://www.aprendelibre.net/wiki/index.php/10000_Primeros_N%C3%BAmeros_Primos
Table of Prime factors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_prime_factors
Common Names of People
http://www.aprendelibre.net/wiki/index.php/Nombres_Propios_de_Personas
Solar System Planet statistics
http://www.aprendelibre.net/wiki/index.php/Datos_sobre_los_Planetas
Geopolitical Statistics
http://www.xist.org/default1.aspx
UNICEF Maps concerning children (spanish)
http://www.unicef.org/spanish/sowc05/maps.html
Dinosaurs Data files
http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/about-teachers.dsml (not open)
Nutritional Content of Different types of food
Roller Coaster Stats (to study energy conversion)
Species Evolution Trees
Species Statistics
estimated numbers of individuals, geographic location
The Powers of 10 tutorial
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
Natural Disasters Statistics
Type, How many people affected, Affected regions, Dates (is "disaster" the right word?)
Properties of Elements and Natural Substances
uses
Most often used words in a language
Words that rhyme
Collections of words with ortographic or phonetic properties
Timelines
technology advances, evolution, life forms, creation of continents, planetary formation, human evolution, philosophycal movements.
Heights of Skyscrapers
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/ (might be insulting to poor countries)
Miscfiles
http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/miscfiles.html

(Or localized alternatives)

  • connectives (prepositions, pronouns, and the like)
  • web2- Webster's Second International English wordlist
  • web2a- Webster's Second Internations appendix english wordlist
  • propernames- some common proper names
  • airport- list of three letter codes for some major airports
  • birthtoken- traditional stone and flower for each month
  • inter.phone- international country telephone codes
  • cities.dat- geographic coordinates of many major cities
  • postal.codes- postal codes for US and Mexican states and
  • languages- two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639
  • currency- currency abbreviations and names
  • countries- country abbreviations and names and capital cities
  • jargon.html- The Jargon file (same as the _Hacker's_Dictionary_)
  • us-constitution- The Constitution of the United States of America
  • us-declaration- The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
Project Gutenberg Data
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/8