Steam Data Dump!

[MeMeNTo vIvErE]

I am a Computer Science student currently taking Data warehousing course and am in need of a large Data dump file with great depth(A hell lot of rows) for my project. I know Steam has a lot of data with many business model but where can i find any particular data dump file for extraction& staging?

[Mattio]

I don't believe there's a simple compiled database of data in the way you'll want it.

However, there are various ways to obtain data from Steam to build one yourself in the way you want it. One is the StorefrontAPI, you can access various data of Steam very easily for example;
http://store.steampowered.com/api/featuredcategories/ (Open with external browser if nothing shows in the client, for me nothing showed)
The data is returned in JSON, and is publicly available data, you can see more uses here;
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/User:RJackson/StorefrontAPI

There's the web API which is sort of the same as above but it does require you to obtain a key from Valve to start fully using, but it'll be capable of returning more data, some which is more sensitive than publicly available, hense the submission to obtain a key. http://steamcommunity.com/dev
https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/webapi

There is also a project called SteamKit which is developed by a community of Steam users, it offers the ability to connect with Steam and perform various tasks, as far as I am aware.
The project is here: https://github.com/SteamRE/SteamKit
They are all legitimate ways of obtaining various data, the data is all public anyway except for key requiring webAPI calls.
As an example so you see what such software and APIs can do, this website uses the methods above: https://steamdb.info/

[cinedine]

Just make your own DB and use one the many tools to generate random data (e.g. http://www.generatedata.com )