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\textbf{\huge Freely available Data}\\
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\small Ben R. Fitzpatrick\\
\tiny PhD Candidate, Statistical Science, Mathematical Sciences School, Queensland University of Technology
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\frametitle{Sources of Freely Available Data Online:}
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\begin{block}{Data Sources Collated by Revolution Analytics}
Many ready to read directly into R without any reformatting:
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\begin{block}{Spreadsheet listing data repositories that are recommended by the open access data journal from Nature Publishing Group}
\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1434640}
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