{"id":34722,"date":"2025-07-18T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-uncommon-niche-time-series-datasets-updated-daily-free\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:27:30","slug":"looking-for-uncommon-niche-time-series-datasets-updated-daily-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-uncommon-niche-time-series-datasets-updated-daily-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Uncommon \/ Niche Time Series Datasets (Updated Daily &amp; Free)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting a side project where I compile and transform time series data from different sources. I&#8217;m looking for interesting datasets or APIs with the following characteristics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must be downloadable (e.g., via cronjob or script-friendly API)<\/li>\n<li>Updated at least daily<\/li>\n<li>Includes historical data<\/li>\n<li>Free to use<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not<\/strong> crypto or stock trading-related<\/li>\n<li>Related to human activity (directly or indirectly)<\/li>\n<li>The more niche or unusual, the better!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s an example of something I really liked:<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/queue-times.com\/pages\/api\">Queue Times API<\/a> \u2014 it provides live and historical queue times for theme parks. <\/p>\n<p>Some ideas I had (but haven\u2019t found sources for yet):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of Amazon orders per day<\/li>\n<li>Electricity consumption by city or country<\/li>\n<li>Cars in a specific parking lot<\/li>\n<li>Foot traffic in a shopping mall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, I&#8217;m after uncommon but fun time series datasets\u2014things you wouldn&#8217;t usually see in mainstream data science projects.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions, links, or ideas to explore would be hugely appreciated. Thanks!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/JdeHK45\"> \/u\/JdeHK45 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1m36ori\/looking_for_uncommon_niche_time_series_datasets\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1m36ori\/looking_for_uncommon_niche_time_series_datasets\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-34722 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='34722' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-34722 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-34722 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I&#8217;m starting a side project where I compile and transform time series data from different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}