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Non-University datasets

Links to freely available data sets provided by national and international organisations.

If you do not have any University data sets to “play” with, there are many national and international organisations which openly and freely share their data. You can use use the data provided at the links below to get familiar and train yourself in the use of our BI Tools. Here a few examples of open data that is available:

Scotland's Open Data Catalogues

http://okfnscot.github.io/open-data-scotland/

Open Data at the Scottish Parliament

https://data.parliament.scot/#/home

Open research data

https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/freedom-information/published-information/open-data/open-research-data

World health organisation

https://www.who.int/data/gho

Registry of Open Data on AWS

https://registry.opendata.aws/