🐶 Dogfood data

A problem I've encountered is that when it comes to anything to do with software, learning is doing. But there isn't really much play data easily available. Some tutorials go to the trouble of providing files for download, and I'm sure anyone reading this already has a favorite API or JSON repo where they go to get stuff. But the situation is not ideal, and I've never encountered a body of data in any learning materials I've encountered that compelled me to come back to it time and again. So I made it

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These .csv files have proven useful to me as sample datasets to use while learning the Unix filters grep, sed, and awk. I hope whoever finds them finds them just as valuable.

🧠 Greek philosophers

Very small dataset featuring all your favorite Ancients:

Name	City	Date of birth
Socrates	Athens	470 BC
Plato	Athens	428 BC
Aristotle	Stagira	384 BC
Euclid	Alexandria	325 BC
Pythagoras	Samos	570 BC

🚢 Ships of the line

A somewhat larger, more complicated dataset featuring some of history's battliest battleships:

Name	Country	Displacement	Length	Beam	Commissioned date
Yamato	Japan	65027	256	38.9	16 December 1941
USS Enterprise	United States of America	19800	251.4	33.4	12 May 1938
Bismarck	Germany	41700	251	36	24 August 1940
HMS Dreadnought	United Kingdom	18120	160.6	25	2 December 1906
USS Iowa	United States of America	46000	270.43	32.97	22 February 1943
HMS Vanguard	United Kingdom	45200	248.2	32.9	12 May 1946

🚀 Starships

Ships famous, to varying degrees, for plying the inky black. If these interest you, check out my Starships repo too.

StarshipsOfficers

Name	Class	Registry	Crew
USS Enterprise	Constitution	NCC-1701	203
USS Constitution	Constitution	NCC-1700	204
USS Defiant	Defiant	NX-74205	50
USS Voyager	Intrepid	NCC-74656	141
USS Enterprise	Galaxy	NCC-1701-D	6000
USS Reliant	Miranda	NCC-1864	35

Name	Date of birth
Kirk, James	2233-03-22
Picard, Jean-Luc	2305-07-13

🧔 Mathematicians

An expanded assortment of smartypants from a different era. The third and largest dataset, with two date fields and one full of semicolon-delimited subfields ripe for parsing:

Name	Surname	Date of birth	Date of death	Concepts
Carl	Gauss	30 April 1777	23 February 1855	Gaussian elimination; Gauss–Jordan elimination; Gauss–Seidel method; Gauss's cyclotomic formula; Gauss's lemma; Gaussian binomial coefficient; Gauss transformation; Gauss–Bodenmiller theorem; Gauss–Bolyai–Lobachevsky space; Gauss–Bonnet theorem; Generalized Gauss–Bonnet theorem; Braid theory; Gauss–Codazzi equations; Gauss–Manin connection; Newton line; Gauss's area formula; Gauss's lemma; Gauss map; Gaussian curvature; Gauss circle problem; Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing constant; Gauss's constant; Gauss's digamma theorem; Gauss's generalization of Wilson's theorem; Gauss's lemma; Gauss map; Gaussian moat; Gauss class number problem; Gauss's multiplication formula
George	Berkeley	12 March 1685	14 January 1753
Gottfried	Leibniz	1 July 1646	14 November 1716	Calculus; Monads; Best of all possible worlds; Pre-established harmony; Identity of indiscernibles; Matrix (mathematics); Leibniz integral rule; Principle of sufficient reason; Notation for differentiation; Product rule; Vis viva; Boolean algebra; Salva veritate; Stepped reckoner; Symbolic logic; Semiotics; Analysis situs; Law of Continuity; Transcendental law of homogeneity; Ars combinatoria; Calculus ratiocinator; Leibniz's notation; Characteristica universalis; Problem of why there is anything at all; Pluralistic idealism; Metaphysical dynamism; Relationism; Apperception; A priori/a posteriori distinction
Immanuel	Kant	22 April 1724	12 February 1804	Kantianism; Kantian ethics; Neo-Kantianism
Isaac	Newton	25 December 1642	20 March 1726	"Gauss–Newton algorithm; Newton–Cotes formulas; Newton–Okounkov body; Newton–Pepys problem; Newton fractal; Newton's identities; Newton's inequalities; Newton's method; Newton's method in optimization; Newton's notation; Newton polygon; Newton polynomial; Newton series; Newton's theorem about ovals; Truncated Newton method; bucket argument; Newton's cannonball; Universal gravitational constant; Newton's cradle; Newton disc; Newton–Cartan theory; Newton–Euler equations; Newton's law of cooling; Newton's laws of motion; Newton's law of universal gravitation; Newton's metal; Newton's reflector; Newton's rings; Rotating spheres; Newton scale; Newton's sphere theorem
John	Locke	29 August 1632	28 October 1704	Labor theory of property; Social contract; State of nature
Joseph	Fourier	21 March 1768	16 May 1830	Fourier series; Fourier transform; Fourier's law of conduction; Fourier-Motzkin elimination
Joseph-Louis	Lagrange	25 January 1736	10 April 1813	Lagrangian analysis; Lagrangian coordinates; Lagrangian derivative; Lagrangian drifter; Lagrangian foliation; Lagrangian Grassmannian; Lagrangian intersection Floer homology; Lagrangian mechanics; Lagrangian (field theory); Lagrangian system; Lagrangian mixing; Lagrangian point; Lagrangian relaxation; Lagrangian submanifold; Lagrangian subspace; Nonlocal Lagrangian; Proca lagrangian; Special Lagrangian submanifold; Euler–Lagrange equation; Green–Lagrange strain; Lagrange bracket; Lagrange–d'Alembert principle; Lagrange error bound; Lagrange form; Lagrange interpolation; Lagrange invariant; Lagrange inversion theorem; Lagrange multiplier; Lagrange number; Lagrange point colonization; Lagrange polynomial; Lagrange property; Lagrange reversion theorem; Lagrange resolvent; Lagrange spectrum; Lagrange stream function; Lagrange's approximation theorem; Lagrange's formula (disambiguation); Lagrange's identity (disambiguation); Lagrange's theorem (group theory); Lagrange's theorem (number theory); Lagrange's four-square theorem; Lagrange's trigonometric identities
Pierre-Simon	Laplace	23 March 1749	5 March 1827	Bayesian inference; Bayesian probability; Laplace's equation; Laplacian; Laplace transform; Inverse Laplace transform; Laplace distribution; Laplace's demon; Laplace expansion; Young–Laplace equation; Laplace number; Laplace limit; Laplace invariant; Laplace principle; Laplace's principle of insufficient reason; Laplace's method; Laplace expansion; Laplace force; Laplace filter; Laplace functional; Laplacian matrix; Laplace motion; Laplace plane; Laplace pressure; Laplace resonance; Laplace's spherical harmonics; Laplace smoothing; Laplace expansion; Laplace expansion; Laplace-Bayes estimator; Laplace–Stieltjes transform; Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector; Nebular hypothesis
René	Descartes	31 March 1596	11 February 1650	Cartesian circle; Cartesian coordinate system; Cartesian diagram; Cartesian diver; Cartesian morphism; Cartesian plane; Cartesian product; Cartesian product of graphs; Cartesian theater; Cartesian tree; Descartes' rule of signs; Descartes' theorem (4 tangent circles); Descartes' theorem (on total angular defect); Folium of Descartes