Where can I download a free, data-rich dataset?

Question

I want to make testing and desktop marking a little easier for full-text search a little, so the data set should have the following qualities:

• 10,000 - 100,000 records.
• good variance of English words.
• In CSV or Excel format - i.e. I do not want to access it through the API.

Something like books or films with titles and description fields would be ideal. I looked at the UCI Machine Learning Repo, but it was too number oriented.

Answer 1

You can try - CKAN
- or search for "Open Data"

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Answer 2

, LOREM IPSUM

T-SQL = rand()

StackOverflow

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/

Answer 3

Use the Gutenberg Project . You have access to thousands of English books in plain text. This is what I used once and was pleased with it.