social sciences

Complete dataset of public comments posted to Reddit (http://www.reddit.com) comments from October 2007 to May 2015.

Repository of televised news, including (for many) captions and rough statistics for content

Unstructured dataset of open-source media articles

Dataset of 8 million annotated YouTube videos, including a variety of audio and visual features.

Blog post from Stanford’s Computational Journalism Lab that includes a list of freely available data sources

Repository of datasets from Yahoo (e.g., search, image, news)

Curated repository of UK-related digital data

List of datasets from various government agencies and initiatives

Repository of data released by San Francisco city and county

Lightly curated repository of self-stored UK-related digital data