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    <div class=\"card-number\">01<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-globe gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>World bank<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/gho\/database\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">02<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-heartbeat gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>World health organization<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/directory\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">03<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fab fa-google gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>Google data set<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/registry.opendata.aws\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">04<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fab fa-aws gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>registry open data AWS<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/data.europa.eu\/euodp\/en\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">05<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-landmark gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>Europe open data<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.dbpedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">06<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-wikipedia-w gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>wiki dbpedia<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/dataset\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">07<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fab fa-yelp gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>yelp<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/data.unicef.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">08<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-child gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>UNICEF<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">09<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-brain gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>kaggle<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ics.uci.edu\/ml\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">10<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-robot gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>machine learning repository<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website 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           <div class=\"card-number\">13<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-file-medical gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>health data<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/data.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">14<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-crown gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>data gov<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/data.gov.sa\/ar\/home\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">15<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-chart-pie gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>open data<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/datasource.kapsarc.org\/pages\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">16<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-bolt gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>kapsac<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/data.imf.org\/?sk=388DFA60-1D26-4ADE-B505-A05A558D9A42\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">17<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-hand-holding-usd gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>International monetary fund<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualdata.io\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">18<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-chart-bar gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>Visual data<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/insideairbnb.com\/get-the-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">19<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-hotel gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>Inside airbnb<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"data-card\">\n                <div class=\"card-number\">20<\/div>\n                <div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"fas fa-microchip gold-text\"><\/i><\/div>\n                <h3>IEEE<\/h3>\n                <span class=\"btn-link\">Visit Website <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/span>\n            <\/a>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <footer>\n        <p>Open Data Sources Portal for Scientific Research \u00a9 2026<\/p>\n    <\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 20 Official Websites for Obtaining Data \ud83d\udccc Top 20 Official Websites for Obtaining Real Data Reliable platforms and sources that can be used in scientific research and theses 01 World bank Visit Website 02 World health organization Visit Website 03 Google data set Visit Website 04 registry open data AWS Visit Website 05 Europe &hellip; <a 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