Added GIS datasets.

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@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ This list of public data sources are collected and tidyed from blogs, answers,
and user reponses. Most of the data sets listed below are free, however, some
are not. This list comes from https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets.
Climate
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* NOAA climate datasets: http://ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/quick-links
* WU Historical Weather Worldwide: http://www.wunderground.com/history/index.html
Economics
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* Internet Product Code Database: http://www.upcdatabase.com/
* World bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator
Energy
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* St Louis Federal: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
* Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/
Biology
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* Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/data/
* Medicare Data File: http://go.cms.gov/19xxPN4
GeoSpace
GeoSpace/GIS
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* EOSDIS: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/sets/browse
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* GeoNames (over eight million placenames): http://www.geonames.org/
* BODC (marine data of nearly 22,000 oceanographic vars): http://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/where_to_find_data/
* GADM (Global Administrative Areas database): http://www.gadm.org/
* twofishes (Foursquare's reverse geocoder): https://github.com/foursquare/twofishes
* Natural Earth (vectors and rasters of the world): http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
* tz_world (timezone polygons): http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/
* TIGER/Line (official United States boundaries and roads): http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html
Transportation
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* The World Bank: http://wdronline.worldbank.org/
* U.K. Government Data: http://data.gov.uk/data
* U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/data.html
* U.S. American Community Survey: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/data_release_info/
* U.S. Federal Government Agencies: http://www.data.gov/metric
* U.S. Federal Government Data Catalog: http://catalog.data.gov/dataset
* U.S. Open Government: http://www.data.gov/open-gov/