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Azure Open Datasets (Microsoft). Access: Azure Blob. Formats: various. Resolution: various. Coverage: Global. Pricing/licence: free.

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: Transportation: TartanAir AirSim simulation, NYC TLC yellow/green taxi and FHV trip records · Labor and economics: US Labor Force Statistics, US CES national and state employment hours and earnings, US Local Area Unemployment Statistics, US CPI, US PPI (industry and commodities) · Population and safety: US population by county and ZIP code (Census), Boston/Chicago/NYC/SF/Seattle city safety and 311/911 service data · Supplemental: Diabetes, OJ Sales simulated, MNIST, Microsoft MIND news recommendation, public holidays (38 countries), Russian Open STT speech
Coverage llm-inferred: Mixed: mostly United States (federal statistics and US city datasets), plus worldwide public holidays for 38 countries or regions · Varies by dataset: 1970-2099 (public holidays); 2010-present (NYC and Seattle safety data); 2015-present (San Francisco); Census 2000 and 2010
Resolution registry: various
Update frequency docs-verified: Daily for Boston, Chicago, NYC and Seattle safety datasets; not stated for other datasets
Formats docs-verified: Parquet
Access llm-inferred: Free (catalogue metadata); accessed via Azure Blob (catalogue metadata); no API key required per repository README, not verified against DOCS

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Census county population by gender and race as context for social-vulnerability screening in a flood risk assessment (US areas only) · Public holiday calendar for working-day adjustments in civils construction programme scheduling (check whether UK is included) · NYC or Seattle 311 service-request trends as a proxy for drainage or flooding complaint patterns in US cities
Audience llm-inferred: GIS analysts · data scientists · planners

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred: Listed datasets are predominantly US; no UK datasets appear in DOCS, which conflicts with the catalogue metadata 'Coverage: Global' · Resolution, licence terms and update frequency are not stated for most datasets in DOCS · Formats are stated only for the city safety datasets (Parquet); other formats are not given · Catalogue is mainly ML benchmark, labour and urban-safety data, with little direct relevance to hydrology, drainage or environmental datasets

Licence: free
Authentication: No API key required (repository README, auto-extracted; check upstream requirements)
GitHub stars: Unknown
Last commit: Unknown
Last successful page check: 16/10/2026
Page health: healthy
Package: Not recorded
Verification: Not independently verified

Provenance & evidence

Verified 2026-10-16 (curl HTTP 200).

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (named: Global)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/open-datasets/dataset-catalog