Educational content ideas/data sets

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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