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Google Cloud Public Datasets
Google Cloud Public Datasets (Google). Access: BigQuery / GCS. Formats: various. Resolution: various. Coverage: Global. Pricing/licence: free.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- Google Trends top queries (5 years of history, US DMAs and 50+ countries) · Google Analytics 360 sample e-commerce data (Aug 2016 to Aug 2017) · Google Patents research data (machine translations, embeddings, similar documents) · Severe storm events (United States, 1950 to present) · US Census TIGER/Line boundaries · American Community Survey demographics (US) · Earth Engine satellite imagery and scientific data archive (40+ years) · Kaggle datasets · Synthetic trading data (Cymbal Investments) · Commercial datasets via Google Cloud Marketplace (e.g. EDI, FactSet, HouseCanary, RS Metrics, Ursa Space Systems)
- Coverage llm-inferred
- Global (per entry metadata; most named public datasets are US-focused)
- Resolution registry
- various
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Varies by dataset; Earth Engine archive updated daily
- Access docs-verified
- Via BigQuery, Cloud Storage or Earth Engine; commercial datasets via Google Cloud Marketplace; entry licence listed as free; per-dataset licence terms vary
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Pre-development land-cover and surface change review using Earth Engine historical imagery · Long-term land surface temperature trend context for climate adaptation statements (Earth Engine) · Sourcing candidate environmental datasets via Dataset Search before onboarding into BigQuery
- Audience llm-inferred
- GIS analysts · environmental scientists · data engineers
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Directory page only; no per-dataset resolution, formats or time span stated · Most named public datasets are US-focused (Storm Events, Census, ACS), with limited UK relevance · Commercial datasets come from third-party vendors with their own licence terms · Requires Google Cloud access (BigQuery, Cloud Storage or Earth Engine) to use the data
- 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)