Yeah, excellent raw material with real world applications. E.g.: http://wiki.gleducar.org.ar/wiki/Nombres_Propios_de_Personas When working on a data transformation between MS Access and Postgres, we had this need to not use real client data, which was of a sensitive nature. The need to manufacture huge numbers of fake individuals, simply to test a database design with bogus content, during development, is very real. The value added by a student of Python would be to take such raw text files and repackage them in a suitable Python data structure that could just be imported as a part of a module. I'm not saying this isn't going on as we speak. Depends on the classroom and whether the school keeps a server (usually you have faculty experts supervising different areas, helping the data stay sane). Kirby On 8/25/07, Daniel Ajoy <da.ajoy@gmail.com> wrote:

For the OLPC I had suggested the following datasets

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_content_ideas/data_sets

Daniel

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