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2017.02.08
1
Metro/subway ridership.
Two weeks ago, Bloomberg News reporters requested entrance and exit data from Washington, DC’s Metrorail system for three days: Jan. 20, 2009 (Obama's first inauguration), Jan. 20, 2017 (Trump's inauguration), and Jan. 21, 2017 (the Women's March). A week later, they received the data — but as PDFs, which they turned i...
https://github.com/bizweekgraphics/wmata-ridership-data http://web.mta.info/developers/turnstile.html https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/CTA-Ridership-L-Station-Entries-Daily-Totals/5neh-572f http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/nyregion/second-avenue-subway-relieves-crowding-on-neighboring-lines.html
null
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Urban Transit Data
false
301
2017.02.08
2
International house prices since 1975.
The International House Price Database combines and standardizes house price indices from 23 countries — mostly in Europe and North America, but also including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Israel. The dataset, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, is deeply documented and upd...
https://www.dallasfed.org/institute/houseprice/ https://www.dallasfed.org/institute/houseprice#tab3 https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-25-edition https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition
null
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Housing Price Data Analysis
false
302
2017.02.08
3
Nobel Prizes.
The prestigious Scandinavian awards have an API. The official documentation explains it succinctly: “The data is free to use and contains information about who has been awarded the Nobel Prize, when, in what prize category and the motivation, as well as basic information about the Nobel Laureates such as birth data and...
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelmedia/nobelprize_org/developer/ https://nobelprize.readme.io/v1.0 https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/immigration-and-science http://www.peteraldhous.com/ https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2017-01-immigration-and-science/
null
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Research Data and Datasets
false
303
2017.02.08
4
Recipe ingredients.
For their 2011 paper, “Flavor network and the principles of food pairing,” four scientists analyzed 56,498 recipes downloaded from three websites — allrecipes.com, epicurious.com, and menupan.com. To support their findings, the authors published two datasets. One names the cuisine and ingredients for each recipe. The o...
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00196 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00196#supplementary-information https://jaan.io/food2vec-augmented-cooking-machine-intelligence/
http://rob-barry.com/
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Sports Data Collections
false
304
2017.02.08
5
Life expectancies.
The World Health Organization publishes life expectancy estimates for 194 countries, for each year between 2000 and 2015. Related: “One Dataset, Visualized 25 Ways.” Previously: American life expectancies by city (April 13, 2016).
http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/situation_trends/en/ http://flowingdata.com/2017/01/24/one-dataset-visualized-25-ways/ https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-04-13-edition
null
-0.187787
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Mortality Data and Analysis
false
305
2017.02.15
1
Volunteer weather reports.
The National Weather Service’s Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) is a 127-year-old network of volunteer weather observers. “More than 8,700 volunteers take observations on farms, in urban and suburban areas, National Parks, seashores, and mountaintops,” according to the NWS. Want to become a volunteer? Because the pr...
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/ http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/what-is-coop.html http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/become.htm https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/COOP/
https://twitter.com/billfrisch
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Geospatial and Environmental Data
false
306
2017.02.15
2
Museum-worthy images.
Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art made 375,000 images free to use, remix, and share under a Creative Commons Zero license. The museum also publishes bulk metadata on more than 420,000 pieces of art; that file indicates whether a given artwork is in the public domain, and hence whether the images fall under the ...
http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/digital-underground/2017/open-access-at-the-met https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection#!?perPage=20&showOnly=withImage%7Copenaccess&sortBy=Relevance&sortOrder=asc&offset=0&pageSize=0 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html http://search....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/design/met-museum-makes-375000-images-available-for-free.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/02/08/the-met-museum-just-made-375000-images-open-access-but-here-are-a-few-more-museums-that-are-oa/
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Open Data Art Projects
false
307
2017.02.15
3
Clinical trials.
The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative — a public-private partnership of more than 80 organizations — upgraded its clinical trials database late last month. The relational database, called the Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), contains “all information (protocol and result data elements) about eve...
https://www.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/ https://www.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/news/upgraded-aact-database-offers-improved-functionality-analyzing-clinicaltrialsgov-data http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/learn_more http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/download http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/connect https://clinicaltria...
null
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Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
308
2017.02.15
4
Mood swings.
From the Journal of Open Psychology Data: “We present a dataset of a single (N=1) participant diagnosed with major depressive disorder, who completed 1,478 measurements over the course of 239 consecutive days in 2012 and 2013.” The “participant” happens to be one of the study’s authors — Peter C. Groot, a researcher at...
http://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jopd.29/ https://osf.io/j4fg8/
https://twitter.com/SachaEpskamp/status/830762054399168512
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Digital Historical Data
false
309
2017.02.15
5
Student athletes.
The NCAA publishes data on its student athletes’ academic progress and graduation rates. The numbers are aggregated by school and sport — from baseball, to women’s bowling, to mixed rifle. [h/t Albert Bowden]
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/NCAA/data.html
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10527
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Education Data and Analysis
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310
2017.02.22
1
Subsidized housing.
Earlier this month, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released its “Picture of Subsidized Households” report for 2016. The dataset describes the living conditions, demographics, and finances of families receiving subsidies via the agency’s various programs — including public housing, Section 8 vouchers, a...
https://twitter.com/HUDUSERnews/status/830145945987858436 https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/assthsg.html https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/pictures/dictionary_2016.pdf
https://twitter.com/cityresearch
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Economic and Demographic Studies
false
311
2017.02.22
2
Nearby stars and potential exoplanets.
Last week, a team of researchers released a dataset containing “60,949 Doppler velocity measurements covering 1,624 stars taken over 20 years” from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The authors have already used the dataset to identify more than 100 exoplanets — i.e., planets outside our solar system. Now, they’re hoping...
http://home.dtm.ciw.edu/ebps/data/ http://news.mit.edu/2017/dataset-nearby-stars-available-public-exoplanets-0213 https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-11-edition
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-bashlykov-8a3b2b102
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Space Exploration Datasets
false
312
2017.02.22
3
Local UV exposure.
The National Cancer Institute has estimated ultraviolet radiation exposure estimates for every county in the continental United States. The estimates, based on a peer-reviewed methodology and 30 years of data from the National Solar Radiation Data Base, can also be explored using the institute’s mapping tool. Luna Coun...
https://gis.cancer.gov/tools/uv-exposure/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zaria_Tatalovich/publication/228942287_A_comparison_of_thiessen-polygon_kriging_and_spline_models_of_UV_exposure/links/56605c3b08aebae678aa0abf.pdf http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/ https://gis.cancer.gov/geoviewer/app/
https://data.world/albert/us-county-level-uv-exposure
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Energy Data Resources
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313
2017.02.22
4
NBA refereeing.
Since March 2015, the National Basketball Association has issued post-game reports reviewing referees’ calls during the final two minutes of neck-and-neck games. The NBA publishes those reports as PDFs; journalist Russell Goldenberg has been converting them to spreadsheet-friendly CSVs. Goldenberg is also analyzing and...
http://official.nba.com/nba-last-two-minute-reports-archive/ https://github.com/polygraph-cool/last-two-minute-report/tree/master/output https://pudding.cool/2017/02/two-minute-report/
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Sports Data Collections
false
314
2017.02.22
5
Pick a card, any card.
When researchers asked 1,354 people to name or visualize a playing card, 1 in 6 of them first chose the Ace of Spades. Here’s the data, which includes each participant’s three card choices, age, and gender.
http://www.psychologyofmagic.org/research/cards/paper.html https://osf.io/534g2/
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Diverse Data Collections
false
315
2017.03.01
1
Words kids learn.
Wordbank is an “open database of children's vocabulary development.” So far, the Stanford-hosted project has gathered data from more than 71,000 standardized and anonymized vocabulary questionnaires across 23 languages. You could spend hours exploring the data online, charting how quickly children learn individual word...
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/ http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=item_trajectories http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=uni_lemmas http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=networks http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=item_data http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=instrument_data http://lang...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726395
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Language Data and Research
false
316
2017.03.01
2
Police officers as immigration enforcers.
In an early executive order, Donald Trump instructed the Department of Homeland Security to expand its use of Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the federal government to deputize local law enforcement agencies in its search for undocumented immigrants. In response to FOIA requests, DHS...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-9505.html https://github.com/themarshallproject/ICE287g-removals https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/02/20/the-opposite-...
http://www.tommeagher.com/about.html
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Migration and Detention Data
false
317
2017.03.01
3
Vehicle specs.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides an impressively rich API detailing every manufacturer, make, and model in its database. The API can translate cars’ Vehicle Identification Numbers into the nitty-gritty details that those VINs encode, including the plant where the vehicle was manufactured, num...
https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/
http://www.justinmyers.net/
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Aviation Safety Data
false
318
2017.03.01
4
A decade-plus of Seattle library checkouts.
Last month, the Seattle Public Library released a dataset tracking the total number of checkouts for each title by year and month from April 2005 to December 2016 (so far). The dataset isn’t limited to physical books; it also includes e-books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, and more. Last year, the three most popular physical b...
https://shelftalkblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/for-the-love-of-data-an-open-data-release/ https://data.seattle.gov/Community/Checkouts-by-Title/tmmm-ytt6/data
null
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Data Collections and Analyses
false
319
2017.03.01
5
Gator hunting.
Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission publishes data from its statewide recreational alligator hunt. For each alligator harvested between 2000 and 2015, the dataset includes the date, the hunting area, and the length of the carcass. (Legal hunting tools include crossbows, harpoons, spearguns, fishing pole...
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/alligator/harvest/data-export/ http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/alligator/harvest/ http://myfwc.com/media/3791759/alligator-hunting-guide.pdf
https://github.com/onyxfish/nicar-2017-agate https://twitter.com/esagara
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Fish and Wildlife Data
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320
2017.03.08
1
The federal checkbook.
From Treasury.io: “Every day at 4pm, the United States Treasury publishes data tables summarizing the cash spending, deposits, and borrowing of the federal government.” Those data tables “catalog all the money taken in that day from taxes, the programs, and how much debt the government took out.” On Monday, for instanc...
http://treasury.io/ https://www.fms.treas.gov/fmsweb/viewDTSFiles?dir=w&fname=17030600.txt https://github.com/csvsoundsystem/federal-treasury-api https://github.com/csvsoundsystem/federal-treasury-api/wiki/Treasury.io-Data-Dictionary https://twitter.com/treasuryio
null
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Government Financial Data
false
321
2017.03.08
2
Historical Bitcoin prices.
The Bitcoin exchange rate hit an all time high last week, at more than $1,290 to the dollar. That’s according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index, an average rate derived from several major exchanges. You can download daily and hourly data for the index and its components. [h/t Jan Doggen]
http://www.coindesk.com/price/ http://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin-price-index/
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/6891
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International Economic Databases
false
322
2017.03.08
3
Drug patents and exclusivity.
The FDA’s “Orange Book” lists approved drugs, their associated patents, and government-granted exclusivity rights. The Orange Book is available as a 1,400-page PDF, but you can also download the key data as structured text files. The files are updated monthly. Related: “Drugs For Rare Diseases Have Become Uncommonly Ri...
https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm129662.htm https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/UCM071436.pdf https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm129689.htm http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/17/509506836/drugs-for-rare-diseases-have-become-uncommonly-rich-monopolies
https://twitter.com/slupkin
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Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
323
2017.03.08
4
Speaking roles in 2016’s blockbusters.
Researcher Amber Thomas has parsed the transcripts of last year’s 10 highest grossing films. The resulting data files indicate each character’s number of turns speaking, number of words spoken, and gender. Previously: Dialogue from 2,000 movies, by gender (April 13, 2016).
https://proquestionasker.github.io/ https://proquestionasker.github.io/projects/MovieDialogue/ https://github.com/ProQuestionAsker/2016MovieDialogue https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-04-13-edition
null
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Film Data and Analysis
false
324
2017.03.08
5
Pictures of food.
A trio of European researchers has published a dataset containing 101,000 photos of food — 1,000 images each from 101 food categories, all downloaded from foodspotting.com. The categories include apple pie, escargots, onion rings, paella, bibimbap, prime rib, and more. [h/t Reddit user cavedave]
https://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/datasets_extra/food-101/ https://www.foodspotting.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5v436t/food_101_pictures_of_food_dataset/
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Diverse Research Datasets
false
325
2017.03.15
1
Who’s visited the U.S. on visas, and how.
Donald Trump’s new travel ban is scheduled to take effect at 12:01am Eastern tonight. The State Department doesn’t publish realtime visa data, but it does publish historical data, including the number of non-immigrant visas issued each fiscal year between 1997 and 2016, by nationality and visa type. (For example, the g...
https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/statistics/non-immigrant-visas.html http://web.archive.org/web/20171201161048/https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/statistics/non-immigrant-visas.html
https://github.com/axibase/atsd-use-cases/blob/master/USVisaRefusal/README.md
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Migration and Detention Data
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2017.03.15
2
Sounds of YouTube.
Last week, a research team at Google published AudioSet, a dataset of “2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos.” The clips have been classified into hundreds of categories, including “plucked string instrument,” “computer keyboard,” “chuckle, chortle,” “snoring,” and “fowl.” [h/t Suman D...
https://research.google.com/audioset/ https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/plucked_string_instrument.html https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/computer_keyboard.html https://research.google.com/audioset//dataset/chuckle_chortle.html https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/snoring.html https://resea...
https://twitter.com/_RoySD/status/840227343142670336
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Music and Performance Databases
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2017.03.15
3
Many millions of mortgages.
Freddie Mac — the government-sponsored, publicly traded company also known as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation — publishes data on 23 million single-family home mortgages it has originated or guaranteed since 1999. The dataset includes the loan amount and interest rate, the borrower’s credit score, the proper...
http://www.freddiemac.com/news/finance/sf_loanlevel_dataset.html https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5x0tws/freddie_mac_fixedrate_mortgage_dataset_from/ https://freddiemac.embs.com/FLoan/HistoricalDataTerms.html https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition
null
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International Economic Databases
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2017.03.15
4
Chicago traffic camera violations.
The Windy City publishes two datasets on traffic violations. One tallies the daily number of speeding violations in each Children’s Safety Zone; the other, red-light violations at each camera-surveilled intersection. Both go back to July 2014. The city also publishes a spreadsheet of city-towed vehicles. Related: The C...
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Speed-Camera-Violations/hhkd-xvj4/ https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Red-Light-Camera-Violations/spqx-js37 https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Towed-Vehicles/ygr5-vcbg http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/
https://www.datazar.com/file/f0c0d92c9-1ae3-468d-ac50-dfc82c32b30c
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Urban Transit Data
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329
2017.03.15
5
Nearly every proposed amendment to the Constitution.
To prepare for an exhibition last year, the National Archives and Records Administration created a dataset of more than 11,000 constitutional amendment proposals introduced in Congress between 1787 and 2014. [h/t Justin Lewis]
https://www.archives.gov/open/dataset-amendments.html
https://www.datazar.com/file/f5d4b5cb5-8a4e-4ff0-905e-fe2f1acbd5e0
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Political Data Datasets
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2017.03.22
1
Real-time air quality.
The team at Berkeley Earth has released the data files behind their real-time global air quality map. The map and data track measurements of pollution particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter. “Under typical conditions,” the Berkeley Earth team writes, this particulate matter “is the most damaging form of air pol...
http://berkeleyearth.org/about/ http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-maps-data-download/ http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-map/ https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-15-edition
null
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Climate Data and Emissions
false
331
2017.03.22
2
Previous federal budget proposals.
To accompany its 2016 and 2017 budget proposals, the Obama administration published machine-readable copies on GitHub. Each proposal’s data are divided into three CSV files: for budget authority, outlays, and receipts. The accompanying user guide explains the data sources and structure. Sample tidbit: The White House e...
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/tree/2017 https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/blob/2017/USER_GUIDE.md https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/blob/2017/data/receipts.csv https://www.uscg.mil/npfc/About_NPFC/osltf.asp
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5zzpli/previous_2_years_of_white_house_budgets_available/
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Government Financial Datasets
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332
2017.03.22
3
Indian state elections.
Five states in India, representing nearly 250 million residents — Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur — have already held legislative assembly elections this year. India’s Election Commission publishes these results, but only as webpages. A couple of Hyderabad-based developers have scraped the website,...
http://eciresults.nic.in/ https://github.com/Vizbi/state-elections https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-28-edition
null
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Political Data Datasets
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333
2017.03.22
4
Construction spending.
The Census’ Value of Construction Put in Place Survey “provides monthly estimates of the total dollar value of construction work done in the U.S.” For instance, construction spending in 2016 totaled approximately $1.1 trillion, $89 billion of which went to education-related construction. The survey has been collected m...
https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/historical_data.html
https://www.datazar.com/file/f18c892eb-b940-4177-88b8-cbd92e9ae5f5
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Economic Statistics Reports
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334
2017.03.22
5
Gone fishing.
NOAA Fisheries’ Greater Atlantic Region publishes spreadsheets of the federal permits it awards to fishing vessels, operators, and dealers. For each vessel, the data includes the boat’s name, owner, principal port city, length, horsepower, and categories of fish permitted. The agency’s Southeast Regional Office also pu...
https://www.greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/aps/permits/data/index.html http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/index.html http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch...
https://data.world/albert/permits-vessels-ifq-foias
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Fish and Wildlife Data
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335
2017.03.29
1
Military spending.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Military Expenditure Database is based on official reports, International Monetary Fund yearbooks, newspaper articles, and other sources. It covers most major countries since the 1950s and more than 100 countries since 1988. The dataset also quantifies military spe...
https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex/sources-and-methods https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/index.jsp https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/dwp_reports.jsp https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/is-americas-military-big-enough.html
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Conflict Data and Analysis
false
336
2017.03.29
2
Food surveillance.
Late last year, the FDA began publishing a dataset of ”adverse events” that have been reported to its Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. The database currently covers January 2004 through December 2016, and includes reports of (suspected) bad reactions to foods, dietary supplements, and cosmetics. For instan...
https://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2016/12/why-fda-is-making-data-extracted-from-reports-of-adverse-events-for-foods-and-cosmetics-available-to-the-public/ https://www.fda.gov/Food/ComplianceEnforcement/ucm494015.htm https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-18-edition
https://twitter.com/ubsheilahagar https://twitter.com/drewivan
-0.553698
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5,148
35
-1
Consumer Safety Reports
false
337
2017.03.29
3
Failed banks.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation publishes a spreadsheet of failed banks for which the agency has been appointed as a receiver — some 550 banks since October 2000. It also provides short descriptions of each bank failure. The most recent: Proficio Bank of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, which closed on March 3. More...
https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/ https://www.fdic.gov/about/strategic/strategic/receivership.html
null
0.159145
-0.069197
1,893
7,626
60
60
International Economic Databases
false
338
2017.03.29
4
Real-time air quality, part II.
After last week’s item on Berkeley Earth’s real-time air quality data, reader Olaf Veerman pointed me to OpenAQ. The open-source project currently gathers pollution data from nearly 5,500 locations in 47 countries, aggregated “from real-time government and research grade sources.” You can download the data via OpenAQ’s...
http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-22-edition http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-maps-data-download/ https://twitter.com/oBirdman https://openaq.org https://github.com/openaq https://openaq.org/#/countries https://docs.openaq.org/
https://twitter.com/oBirdman
-0.698071
0.37335
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11,155
21
21
Climate Data and Emissions
false
339
2017.03.29
5
100 million domain names.
The anonymously-published DNS Census 2013 “is an attempt to provide a public dataset of registered domains and DNS records” — essentially the Internet’s phone book. The dataset, which has also been uploaded to the Internet Archive, includes 2.7 billion Domain Name System records and 106,928,034 distinct domains, organi...
https://dnscensus2013.neocities.org/ https://archive.org/details/DNSCensus2013 https://archive.org/download/DNSCensus2013/2nd-level-domains/
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/2122
0.471548
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8,926
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-1
Open Data Initiatives
false
340
2017.04.05
1
3D NYC.
In 2014, the NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications conducted a massive aerial survey of the city. Then, they converted the images and data they collected into a three-dimensional model of every building in all five boroughs. Related: In December, The New York Times used the data to map the c...
http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doitt/initiatives/3d-building.page https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/upshot/Mapping-the-Shadows-of-New-York-City.html http://www.businesslocationcenter.de/en/downloadportal https://data.overheid.nl/data/dataset/3d-model-den-haag/resource/2191118b-5ccc-436b-a5f8-eca12f8f8281 https:/...
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/62mcpy/3d_geospatial_data_for_new_york_city_buildings/
-0.441295
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10,531
51
-1
Surveillance and Mapping Data
false
341
2017.04.05
2
Cherry blossoms.
Yasuyuki Aono, an associate professor at Osaka Prefecture University, has collected the historical flowering dates of Kyoto’s Prunus jamasakura cherry trees going all the way back to the 9th century. The dataset is based on “many diaries and chronicles written by Emperors, aristocrats, [governors] and monks,” Aono writ...
http://atmenv.envi.osakafu-u.ac.jp/aono/kyophenotemp4/ https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/848939887839526912 https://twitter.com/bbgblossoms https://www.bbg.org/collections/cherries
https://twitter.com/ericsteig/status/848656113201315840
-0.193822
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-1
Agricultural Data and Analysis
false
342
2017.04.05
3
Government bond ownership.
Bruegel, “a European think tank that specialises in economics,” publishes a quarterly-updated dataset quantifying sovereign bond holdings for 12 countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the U.K., and the United States. For each country, the dataset tells you wh...
http://bruegel.org/ http://bruegel.org/publications/datasets/sovereign-bond-holdings/
https://twitter.com/CoolDatasets/status/839851026949812224
0.072683
0.100552
2,274
9,028
60
-1
International Economic Databases
false
343
2017.04.05
4
Science grants.
The National Science Foundation publishes data on all of the grants the agency has awarded since the 1970s (and some earlier ones, too). Each grant is represented as an XML file, which contains information about the project, the awardee, and the NSF division that awarded the grant. [h/t France A. Córdova]
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/download.jsp
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10945
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56
Data Platforms on Corporations
false
344
2017.04.05
5
Avian invasions.
In peer-reviewed paper published last week, a trio of University College London researchers describe their Global Avian Invasions Atlas. The dataset includes information on “971 species, introduced to 230 countries and administrative areas across all eight biogeographical realms, spanning the period 6000 BCE – AD 2014....
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201741 https://figshare.com/articles/Data_from_The_Global_Avian_Invasions_Atlas_-_A_database_of_alien_bird_distributions_worldwide/4234850
null
-0.194832
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15,795
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3
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
false
345
2017.04.12
1
Plum presidential appointments.
Every four years, Congress publishes United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, better known as the Plum Book. The 2016 version, which is available as both PDF and Excel files, identifies more than 8,000 executive and legislative branch jobs subject to “noncompetitive appointment.” Those positions includ...
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2016/content-detail.html https://www.senate.gov/legislative/nominations.htm
null
0.651499
-0.26438
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6,121
30
-1
Political Dataset Collections
false
346
2017.04.12
2
Miles per gallon.
The Environmental Protection Agency publishes fuel efficiency data on all the car models it has tested, going back to the 1980s… minus all the Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche diesels caught cheating. The data typically includes three estimates: for city driving, highway driving, and a city-highway combination.
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml
null
-0.880249
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10,631
21
-1
Climate Data and Emissions
false
347
2017.04.12
3
Pirated papers.
Sci-Hub, which describes itself as “the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers,” recently released a list of the 62,835,101 academic papers it has collected. That dataset identifies each paper only by its DOI — a short, unique ID. Helpfully, graduate s...
https://sci-hub.cc/ https://figshare.com/articles/List_of_DOIs_of_papers_collected_by_SciHub/4765477 http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/what-is-doi.aspx http://ruleofthirds.de/ https://zenodo.org/record/472493 http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.q447c https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-pl...
null
0.598736
0.256245
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10,342
75
-1
Open Research Datasets
false
348
2017.04.12
4
International aid for maternal and child health.
Researchers at the World Health Organization have assembled a dataset of international aid — both from official government assistance and private grants — devoted to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health from 2003 to 2013. The dataset, which the researchers described in a recent academic article, draws on 2...
http://datacompass.lshtm.ac.uk/320/ http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201738 http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?datasetcode=CRS1 https://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/the-us-wont-give-any-more-money-to-the-un-population-fund
null
0.136448
-0.448917
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4,552
18
18
Data on Aid and Rights
false
349
2017.04.12
5
One million comic book panels.
Comic books make use of white space — or gutters — to propel the story forward, relying on readers’ intuitive ability to fill in the gaps between panels. To see whether computers could learn to make the same inferences, a group of computer scientists built a giant corpus of public-domain comics and tried training a ser...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05118 https://obj.umiacs.umd.edu/comics/index.html https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
https://www.robinsloan.com/
0.640137
0.510422
3,124
12,392
72
-1
Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis
false
350
2017.04.19
1
UK, US, Rx.
The UK’s National Health Service publishes monthly data on drugs prescribed in England through the country’s single-payer health care system. (Drugs prescribed in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland aren’t included.) For each prescriber-and-drug combination, the dataset includes the quantity and cost of prescriptions ...
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/prescribing-by-gp-practice-presentation-level https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Part-D-Prescriber.html https://projects.propublica.org/checkup/ https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016...
https://twitter.com/acrahen/status/853487201837101056
-0.517139
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975
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45
45
Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
351
2017.04.19
2
Vaccination rates by state.
The CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases collects and publishes state-by-state vaccination rates for infants, kindergartners, teens, and adults — plus, flu vaccination rates for several age groups. Each dataset includes several years’ worth of data, with many going back to 2008 or 2009. Relat...
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/childvaxview/data-reports/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/schoolvaxview/data-reports/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/teenvaxview/data-reports/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/adult...
null
-0.306061
-0.683034
662
2,604
16
16
Public Health Datasets
false
352
2017.04.19
3
Tropical cyclones.
Through its International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship project, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes what it calls “the most complete global set of historical tropical cyclones available.” For each tropical cyclone — a category that includes typhoons, hurricanes, tropical depressi...
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/ https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php?name=ibtracs-data
https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10994
-0.714408
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3,849
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28
28
Climate and Weather Datasets
false
353
2017.04.19
4
Where plants grow best.
The USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map “is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location.” The USDA and Oregon State, which have jointly developed the map, previously sold access to the underlying data through a vendor. But after the vendor shut down earlier...
http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Default.aspx http://web.archive.org/web/20151001025259/http://climatesource.com/cgi-bin/csshop/scan/st=db/co=yes/sf=category/se=phz_us_phz/op=eq/va=banner_text=US%20%28grids%20%26%20shapefiles%29.html http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/projects/plant_hardiness_zones.php
https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/851995078067453952 https://twitter.com/arnicas/status/852198803310616576
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0.597049
3,284
13,097
20
20
Forest and Land Data
false
354
2017.04.19
5
Spelling self-corrections.
For a 2012 academic paper, researchers captured the keystrokes of paid volunteers as they typed descriptions of images. Whenever a participant used the backspace key to correct a word, the researchers added it to a dataset of self-corrections. Each of the 44,000 lines in the English-language version of the dataset cont...
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2390665.2390749 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52418
http://sethsd.com/everybodylies/
0.752291
0.381392
2,872
11,376
71
71
Datasets and Corpora
false
355
2017.04.26
1
National park visitors.
The U.S. National Park Service publishes a ton of data about visitors to its parks, historic sites, memorials, preserves, and more. Among them: Visitors per park (annually since 1904, and monthly since 1979), overnight stays by type of lodging (tents, RVs, backcountry, etc.), and traffic. Related: “The National Parks H...
https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/Reports/National https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-national-parks-have-never-been-more-popular/
https://data.world/inform8n/us-national-parks-visitation-1904-2016-with-boundaries
-0.447908
0.522587
3,089
12,451
20
20
Forest and Land Data
false
356
2017.04.26
2
Word frequencies.
You’re probably familiar with the Google Books Ngram Viewer, which lets you chart word and phrase frequencies over time. Google publishes the underlying data but those files can (depending on your tools and goals) be cumbersomely large. Here’s an alternative: DIP reader (and former colleague) Chris Wilson has condensed...
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=data+is%2Cdata+are&year_start=1800&year_end=2012&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdata%20is%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdata%20are%3B%2Cc0 http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2.html http://mechanicalscribe.com/notes/google-ngrams-for-cmu-pronunci...
null
0.811096
0.45726
3,001
12,019
49
49
Language Data and Research
false
357
2017.04.26
3
Women’s empowerment in India.
For each of India’s 36 states and Union Territories, the country’s latest National Family Health Survey includes 114 metrics, such as the percentages of “households using iodized salt” and “men who have comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS.” Unfortunately, the government publishes the reports only as PDFs. But the Hindu...
http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-4.shtml https://github.com/HindustanTimesLabs/women-empowerment-index https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/179onU4jvFPqhLlM-7ZJu5xv0LQLOsQq-TrMJNFQkSjI/edit#gid=1937549234 http://www.hindustantimes.com/interactives/women-empowerment-index/
http://www.gurmanbhatia.com/
-0.116434
-0.349166
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5,304
65
-1
Labor and Employment Surveys
false
358
2017.04.26
4
Marriage and divorce, pregnancy and infertility in the U.S.
The CDC has been running its National Survey of Family Growth since 1973. For the first three decades, it surveyed only women ages 15-44. Starting in 2002, it began also surveying men. The latest survey was conducted in 2013-15, when it collected data from 10,205 residents about sexual activity and contraception, pregn...
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/nsfg_2013_2015_puf.htm
http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/thinkstats002.html#htoc5
-0.208423
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5,426
66
66
Occupational and Workforce Data
false
359
2017.04.26
5
This must be the r/place.
For April Fools, Reddit launched a million-pixel canvas called “r/place.” Users could place a single-pixel tile, in one of 16 colors, anywhere on the canvas — but only every five minutes. By the end of r/place’s 72-hour lifetime, Redditors had placed 16.5 million tiles on the canvas, likely making it “the largest colla...
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/ https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdata/comments/6640ru/place_datasets_april_fools_2017/
https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/854395005028454401
0.390437
0.567336
3,244
12,888
79
79
Open Data Art Projects
false
360
2017.05.10
1
The border fence.
There’s about 700 miles of official fencing between the U.S. and Mexico, covering about one-third of the full border. The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t provide structured spatial data about the fence’s path. But, thanks to a Texas law professor’s FOIA and some serious elbow grease, reporters at Reveal have cr...
https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/borderwall/maps/background-maps.html http://cironline.org/blog/post/surprising-tools-cir-used-map-us-mexico-border-fence-6255 https://www.revealnews.org/article/the-wall-building-a-continuous-u-s-mexico-barrier-would-be-a-tall-order/ https://github.com/cirlabs/border_fence_map
null
-0.369733
0.232777
2,516
10,024
51
51
Surveillance and Mapping Data
false
361
2017.05.10
2
Insurance premiums and payouts.
Last month, ProPublica and Consumer Reports published an analysis of car insurance costs in four states, finding that “some major insurers charge minority neighborhoods as much as 30 percent more than other areas with similar accident costs.” The reporters also published a detailed methodology and dataset supporting th...
https://www.propublica.org/article/minority-neighborhoods-higher-car-insurance-premiums-white-areas-same-risk https://www.propublica.org/article/minority-neighborhoods-higher-car-insurance-premiums-methodology https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/carinsurance#src-line http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2...
null
-0.401688
-0.556457
915
3,622
45
45
Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
362
2017.05.10
3
Three million grocery orders.
Groceries-on-demand startup Instacart has released a dataset containing 3 million orders from 200,000 (anonymized) users. “For each user, we provide between 4 and 100 of their orders, with the sequence of products purchased in each order,” the company’s head of data science writes. “We also provide the week and hour of...
https://www.instacart.com/datasets/grocery-shopping-2017 https://tech.instacart.com/3-million-instacart-orders-open-sourced-d40d29ead6f2 https://gist.github.com/jeremystan/c3b39d947d9b88b3ccff3147dbcf6c6b
null
0.07034
0.487877
3,042
12,228
44
44
Diverse Research Databases
false
363
2017.05.10
4
What do you do with a PhD in science?
The National Science Foundation’s Survey of Doctorate Recipients “is a longitudinal biennial survey conducted since 1973 that provides demographic and career history information about individuals with a research doctoral degree in a science, engineering, or health (SEH) field from a U.S. academic institution.” You can ...
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctoratework/ https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctoratework/#tabs-2 https://sestat.nsf.gov/datadownload/ https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/next-releases.cfm#survey5 https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/infographic2/
http://www.peteraldhous.com/
-0.061315
-0.251603
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6,076
64
-1
Diverse Research Datasets
false
364
2017.05.10
5
*Such* an important dataset.
Grad students in Princeton’s computer science department have published a dataset they call Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus, or “SARC” for short. “The corpus has 1.3 million sarcastic statements — 10 times more than any previous dataset,” the authors write, and takes advantage of Reddit users’ habit of tagging sarcastic c...
http://nlp.cs.princeton.edu/SARC/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05579 https://github.com/ef2020/SarcasmAmazonReviewsCorpus/wiki
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/datamachina/issues/data-machina-issue-114-55313 https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/68s1c9/a_collection_of_sarcastic_and_regular_amazon/
0.749485
0.39499
2,871
11,503
71
71
Datasets and Corpora
false
365
2017.05.17
1
North Korean missile tests.
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies publishes what it calls “the first database to record flight tests of all missiles launched by North Korea capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kilograms a distance of at least 300 kilometers.” The database currently contains 107 missile tests — starting w...
http://www.nonproliferation.org/ http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/cns-north-korea-missile-test-database/ https://www.buzzfeed.com/gracewyler/north-korea-reportedly-launches-ballistic-missile
https://data.world/ian/the-cns-north-korea-missile-test-database
0.418042
-0.542571
941
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12
12
Conflict Data and Analysis
false
366
2017.05.17
2
Global food prices.
The UN World Food Programme’s vulnerability analysis group collects and publishes food price data for more than 1,000 towns and cities in more than 70 countries. The dataset, which goes back more than a decade, covers basic staples, such as wheat, rice, milk, oil, and more. It’s updated monthly and feeds into (among ot...
http://vam.wfp.org/ https://data.humdata.org/dataset/wfp-food-prices http://foodprices.vam.wfp.org/ALPS-at-a-glance.aspx https://data.humdata.org/ http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
null
-0.18302
0.430485
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11,700
36
36
Agricultural Data and Analysis
false
367
2017.05.17
3
Rising seas.
How might rising sea levels affect coastal flooding? A new-ish NOAA Technical Report, published in January, combines historical data on global sea levels with “regional factors contributing to sea level change for the entire U.S. coastline.” The result: Localized projections under six sea-level rise scenarios, ranging ...
http://www.noaa.gov/media-release/new-regional-sea-level-scenarios-help-communities-prepare-for-risks https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/key-indicators/global-mean-sea-level https://scenarios.globalchange.gov/sea-level-rise https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/ http://www.climatecentral.org/news/extreme-sea-level-...
https://about.me/susiecambria
-0.729769
0.810984
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29
29
Disaster and Flood Data
false
368
2017.05.17
4
“The watch list Chicago police fought to keep secret.”
The Chicago Sun-Times has obtained and published an August 2016 copy of the Chicago Police Department’s “Strategic Subject List,” a database that scores nearly 400,000 (unnamed) people on a scale from 10 to 500, based on an algorithm that attempts to estimate their risk of being involved in gun violence (either as a sh...
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/what-gets-people-on-watch-list-chicago-police-fought-to-keep-secret-watchdogs/
null
0.174946
-0.791234
421
1,739
8
8
Police Accountability Data
false
369
2017.05.17
5
Story arcs.
“The WikiPlots corpus is a collection of 112,936 story plots extracted from English language Wikipedia.” The plots describe movies, books, plays, TV series, TV episodes, video games, and other stories — essentially, any *thing that has a Wikipedia article with the word “plot” in one of its subheadings. Related: “Examin...
https://github.com/markriedl/WikiPlots http://varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-plots/ http://varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-gender-plots/ http://varianceexplained.org/about/
null
0.699229
0.522452
3,126
12,524
72
-1
Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis
false
370
2017.05.24
1
America’s card catalog.
Last week, the Library of Congress released its largest dataset ever: nearly 25 million records for books, maps, manuscripts and other items in its online catalog. For each item, the data includes standardized bibliographic information, such as the title, author, publication date, and genre. (The dataset represents the...
https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-068/ http://www.loc.gov/cds/PDFdownloads/mds2016.pdf https://opensource.com/article/17/4/bit-about-marc-handlers
null
0.485137
0.511148
3,119
12,383
77
77
Diverse Data Collections
false
371
2017.05.24
2
Domestic radicalization.
The Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) database “contains deidentified individual-level information on the backgrounds, attributes, and radicalization processes of nearly 1,500 violent and non-violent extremists who adhere to far right, far left, Islamist, or single issue ideologies in t...
http://www.start.umd.edu/data-tools/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-pirus http://www.start.umd.edu/news/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-pirus-data-now-available
https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/864186557242249216
0.390147
-0.739025
556
2,136
10
-1
Violence and Crime Databases
false
372
2017.05.24
3
Ransomware payments.
When the malware program known as “WannaCry” hit hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this month, it demanded that the computers’ owners pay $300 in Bitcoin — or lose all of their data. Keith Collins at Quartz has been using Blockchain’s API to track Bitcoin payments to the three digital wallets that the hackers ...
http://keithcollins.github.io/ https://blockchain.info/api https://github.com/keithcollins/actual_ransom https://twitter.com/actual_ransom https://qz.com/986094/wannacry-ransomware-attacks-victims-have-stopped-paying-the-ransom/ https://qz.com/985093/inside-the-digital-heist-that-terrorized-the-world-and-made-less-than...
null
0.555646
-0.010453
2,033
8,163
41
-1
Datasets on Social Issues
false
373
2017.05.24
4
Fifty million doodles.
Google is clever: It created a drawing game, got 15 million people to play it, and then turned those doodles into into a public dataset of people drawing. You can download the raw data, or just browse the doodles online.
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data
null
0.437173
0.544905
3,181
12,635
77
77
Diverse Data Collections
false
374
2017.05.24
5
🎶 Two thousand cans of craft beer on the wall 🎶.
The website CraftCans.com publishes a database of 2,000+ canned beers. For each beer, the database lists its name, style, brewery, size, alcohol level, and bitterness. The website doesn’t provide a direct download, but — as Jean-Nicholas Hould points out — you can basically just copy-paste the website’s data into your ...
http://www.craftcans.com/ http://craftcans.com/db.php?search=all&sort=beerid&ord=desc&view=text http://www.jeannicholashould.com/python-web-scraping-tutorial-for-craft-beers.html https://gist.github.com/jsvine/c537ac9509e7d0ed713cced4992faf39 http://www.jeannicholashould.com/profiling-a-dataset-of-craft-beers.html http...
http://danjbrady.com/
0.001128
0.488306
3,040
12,224
44
-1
Diverse Research Databases
false
375
2017.05.31
1
Government payrolls.
Last week at BuzzFeed News, we shared a vast trove federal payroll data. Those records — provided by Office of Personnel Management through the Freedom of Information Act — cover more than 40 years and millions of employees. The dataset includes salaries, titles, job types, and demographic variables. In many-but-not-al...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/sharing-hundreds-of-millions-of-federal-payroll-records http://php.app.com/agent/federalemployees/search https://www.fedsdatacenter.com/federal-pay-rates/ https://data.ny.gov/browse?tags=salaries%2Fpayroll&utf8=%E2%9C%93 http://publicpay.ca.gov/ http://salaries.myflorida.com/ http://www....
null
-0.137666
-0.295282
1,435
5,815
65
65
Labor and Employment Surveys
false
376
2017.05.31
2
Government lobbying.
U.S. lobbyists must notify Congress within 45 days of being retained by new clients. Every quarter after that, they’re required to file activity reports that detail the agencies they lobbied, the topics they covered, and the income they earned. Bulk downloads of both types of reports are available as XML files from the...
http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldsearch.aspx https://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/LDA_reports.htm http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-320
null
0.725316
-0.161948
1,719
6,894
23
23
Legislative Data and Transparency
false
377
2017.05.31
3
State gun laws.
A team of researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health has collected data on the presence/absence of 133 different types of firearm laws in each U.S. state, for each year between 1991 and 2016. The legal provisions are grouped into 14 categories, such as background checks, “Stand Your Ground” laws, and ...
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/about.html https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/ https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/categories.html https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/table.html https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/state-by-state.html https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-06-edition
null
0.086904
-0.713114
610
2,373
8
8
Police Accountability Data
false
378
2017.05.31
4
Industrial sector data.
Aswath Damodaran — a professor of finance at the NYU’s business school — maintains a trove of data on per-sector financials, including effective tax rates, return on equity, and working capital ratios by industry. For most datasets, Damodaran publishes both current and historical versions. [h/t Tim McGovern]
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/ http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/data.html http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/taxrate.htm http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/roe.html http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/wcdata...
https://twitter.com/herdingbats
0.077346
-0.150631
1,762
6,980
68
-1
Education Data and Statistics
false
379
2017.05.31
5
NYC doggies.
You might have seen New York City’s bubble map of dog names. It turns out that the underlying dataset — which includes the name, gender, age as of 2015, breed, and borough of more than 110,000 dogs — is available on GitHub. You can also download slightly older, but more detailed data from WNYC’s Dogs of NYC project. Th...
http://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/dognames/ https://github.com/Kaz-A/dog_names/ https://fusiontables.google.com/data?docid=1pKcxc8kzJbBVzLu_kgzoAMzqYhZyUhtScXjB0BQ#rows:id=1 https://project.wnyc.org/dogs-of-nyc/ https://data.cityoftacoma.org/Neighborhoods/Current-Pet-License-City-of-Tacoma-Fircrest/qnnn-t9wt ...
https://twitter.com/alexpmil/status/861703366203801600 http://danwin.com/
-0.096908
0.785597
3,676
14,649
2
2
Animal Data Collections
false
380
2017.06.07
1
Millions of scientists, and their migrations.
ORCID is a nonprofit organization that provides unique identifiers for researchers — mostly scientists so far — to make it easier to distinguish between them. It has issued more than 3 million IDs so far, and provides annual bulk downloads of all researchers’ public profiles. In many cases, the researchers have supplie...
https://orcid.org/ https://orcid.org/content/orcid-public-data-file-use-policy http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/vast-set-public-cvs-reveals-world-s-most-migratory-scientists http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.48s16
https://twitter.com/ShaunCoffey/status/865880767015956480
0.478794
0.274583
2,607
10,462
75
-1
Open Research Datasets
false
381
2017.06.07
2
Trump’s pre-presidency flights.
Before Donald Trump began flying on Air Force One, he rode a fleet of private aircraft. Reporters at Bloomberg used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain flight records for three major components of that fleet — a ”Boeing 757 with gold-plated seatbelt buckles, known as Trump Force One during the campaign; a Cessna 7...
https://github.com/BloombergGraphics/2017-trump-flight-data https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-01/this-is-where-trump-traveled-before-becoming-president https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/06/trumps-campaign-planes-alone-had-the-carbon-footprint-of-500-americans-for-a-year/
null
-0.635509
-0.101626
1,803
7,319
39
-1
Aviation Data and Regulations
false
382
2017.06.07
3
Severe workplace injuries.
Beginning in January 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration began requiring U.S. employers to report “all severe work-related injuries, defined as an amputation, in-patient hospitalization, or loss of an eye.” You can download a spreadsheet of these injuries — some 20,000 in 2015 and 2016 combined. It ...
https://www.osha.gov/severeinjury/index.html https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-13-edition
null
-0.473137
-0.329833
1,360
5,409
35
35
Consumer Safety Reports
false
383
2017.06.07
4
Annotated Reddit conversations.
Researchers at Google took a semi-random sample of 9,473 Reddit threads, containing 116,347 comments in total. Then, they paid people to categorize each comment by its “discourse act” — e.g., whether it was a question, answer, announcement, agreement, humor, et cetera. The result is Coarse Discourse, “a dataset for und...
https://github.com/google-research-datasets/coarse-discourse
https://twitter.com/roberto_bayardo/status/864591636097110017
0.806099
0.316103
2,745
10,867
57
-1
Historical News Datasets
false
384
2017.06.07
5
E. coli at Ocean Beach.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Beach Water Quality Monitoring Program measures bacteria levels at fifteen locations on the city’s shoreline. You can download the measurements by clicking the “raw data” link below this map. The data powers the (unsurprisingly) unofficial @BeachPooBot account on Twitter....
http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=87 http://sfwater.org/cfapps/lims/beachmain1.cfm https://github.com/John-Brandon/Beach_Poo_Bot https://twitter.com/BeachPooBot
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5vk72n/san_francisco_shit_in_the_water_data/
-0.635711
0.573595
3,211
12,823
26
-1
Environmental Data Collection
false
385
2017.06.14
1
Supreme Court transcripts.
Oyez.org bills itself as, among other things, “a complete and authoritative source for all of the [Supreme] Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.” The site has an API and releases all its material — including timestamped transcripts of oral arguments — under a Creative Commons lice...
https://www.oyez.org/ https://www.oyez.org/about https://api.oyez.org https://www.oyez.org/license https://github.com/walkerdb/supreme_court_transcripts/ https://github.com/free-law-coalition/oyez-scotus https://www.youtube.com/c/PuppyJusticeAutomated https://github.com/ALSchwalm/PuppyJusticeAutomated https://tinylette...
https://github.com/walkerdb https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6epse3/all_existing_supreme_court_oral_argument/
0.766466
-0.620499
824
3,185
1
1
Legal Data Collections
false
386
2017.06.14
2
Federal corporate prosecutions.
Last week, the University of Virginia School of Law launched an expanded version of its Corporate Prosecution Registry. The revamped database includes “detailed information about every federal organizational prosecution since 2001, as well as deferred and non-prosecution agreements with organizations since 1990” — more...
http://content.law.virginia.edu/news/201706/go-resource-researching-corporate-prosecution-just-got-more-powerful http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/corporate-prosecution-registry/index.html http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/corporate-prosecution-registry/about.html https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/06/05/new-database-of-rarely-tracked-corporate-crime-prosecutions-launches-today/
0.239833
-0.734865
551
2,127
10
-1
Violence and Crime Databases
false
387
2017.06.14
3
Business owners.
The Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons “provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.” The most recent data comes from 201...
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sbo/about.html https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sbo/data.html https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/in-5-years-new-york-lost-30-of-its-black-owned-businesses https://twitter.com/cora
null
-0.172997
-0.157819
1,690
6,836
59
59
Economic Statistics Reports
false
388
2017.06.14
4
Antibiotic resistance
. ResistoMap is an interactive visualization of antibiotic drug resistance, based on more than 1,500 bacteria genome samples from people’s intestinal tracts. The data behind the visualization is available to download. It’s partly based on two prior datasets: McMaster University’s Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Dat...
http://resistomap.rcpcm.org/ https://figshare.com/s/081a528b7ad55725a2ae https://card.mcmaster.ca/ http://bacmet.biomedicine.gu.se/index.html
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/datamachina/issues/data-machina-issue-119-61138
0.037822
0.816424
3,745
14,914
0
0
Biological Databases and Analysis
false
389
2017.06.14
5
L.A. pot dispensaries.
The Los Angeles City Controller has released a map of the city’s openly-operating medical marijuana businesses. You can access a spreadsheet of the 191 dispensaries that comply with Proposition D, which the city passed in 2013. Additionally, you can find hundreds of (active and inactive) dispensaries by filtering the c...
http://www.lacontroller.org/mjrelease http://lacontroller.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8737a0a6f867495d93b6ba484eaf8cbc https://controllerdata.lacity.org/Revenue/191-Prop-D-Compliant-Medical-Marijuana-Businesses/vva2-przx/ https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Los_Angeles_Medical_Marijuana_Dispensaries,_Meas...
http://www.govtech.com/civic/Whats-New-in-Civic-Tech-App-Foster-Support-for-Kentucky-Fiber-Initiative.html
-0.450037
-0.340291
1,361
5,411
35
-1
Consumer Safety Reports
false
390
2017.06.21
1
130 million traffic stops.
“Police pull over more than 50,000 drivers on a typical day, more than 20 million motorists every year. Yet the most common police interaction — the traffic stop — has not been tracked, at least not in any systematic way,” according to the Stanford Open Policing Project. To that end, the group has been collecting and s...
https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/ https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/data/ https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/ https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-10-28-edition
null
0.121466
-0.736227
547
2,119
8
8
Police Accountability Data
false
391
2017.06.21
2
Famine warnings.
“Created by USAID in 1985 to help decision-makers plan for humanitarian crises,” the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) “provides evidence-based analysis on some 34 countries.” As part of its work, FEWS NET publishes geospatial shapefiles that score each country’s “most likely food security outcome” on sta...
https://www.fews.net/ https://www.fews.net/shapefiles http://www.fews.net/IPC https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-17-edition
https://twitter.com/melissadsegura
-0.210732
0.40837
2,905
11,570
36
36
Agricultural Data and Analysis
false
392
2017.06.21
3
Two million open-source projects, and their dependencies.
Libraries.io monitors “over 2.4m unique open source projects, 25m repositories and 85m interdependencies between them.” Last week, the site released its first bulk dataset, which describes each project’s metadata, published versions, and dependencies on other software libraries. [h/t Nadia Eghbal]
ERROR: type should be string, got "https://libraries.io\nhttps://medium.com/@BenJam/libraries-io-releases-data-on-over-25m-software-repositories-ab1db665826e\nhttps://libraries.io/data"
https://twitter.com/nayafia/status/876795645847248896
0.521716
0.204801
2,480
9,953
75
75
Open Research Datasets
false
393
2017.06.21
4
Political party manifestoes.
The Manifesto Project has collected and coded more than 4,000 electoral manifestoes from more than 1,000 political parties in more than 50 countries between 1945 and 2015. For each manifesto, the project’s dataset indicates whether the document expresses support for/against dozens of policies and attitudes, including “...
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/ https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/datasets https://visuals.manifesto-project.wzb.eu/mpdb-shiny/cmp_dashboard_corpus/ https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/terms_of_use
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hU7Snj4KZ-ppyy388l-sV4I26n4yGVb8xYnygPOS-5k/edit#gid=1436509184
0.668683
-0.403812
1,269
4,970
31
31
Political Data Datasets
false
394
2017.06.21
5
Prisoners’ tattoos.
The Florida Department of Corrections’ public database contains a table describing current and released inmates’ tattoos. That data includes each tattoo’s location (e.g., “right arm,” “stomach,” “face”) and description (“cross,” “tribal,” and “skull” being the most common). Helpful: Dan Nguyen’s guide to converting the...
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/obis_request.html https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/c6bcc9884c25cf68f3550560ccae5ca8 http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21712032-what-can-be-learned-prisoners-tattoos-statistical-analysis-art http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/body-art-000-florida-prison-inmates-runs-from-fr...
null
0.159216
-0.962612
101
330
6
6
Criminal Justice Databases
false
395
2017.06.28
1
Infectious diseases in Europe.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases lets you browse, map, and download data on the historical incidence of several dozen diseases — from anthrax to Zika — in each of the European Economic Area’s countries. Related: Keila Guimarães’s recent investigation int...
http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx?Instance=GeneralAtlas https://qz.com/984705/syphilis-is-on-the-rise-because-penicillin-isnt-profitable/
null
-0.329259
-0.767855
469
1,834
16
16
Public Health Datasets
false
396
2017.06.28
2
People’s genes.
OpenSNP is a website that lets people publish the results of their genetic tests (such as those sold by 23andMe, deCODEme, FamilyTreeDNA), “find others with similar genetic variations, [get] the latest primary literature on their variations, and help scientists find new associations.” Since 2012, users have uploaded mo...
https://opensnp.org/ https://opensnp.org/statistics https://opensnp.org/genotypes https://github.com/openSNP/snpr/wiki/JSON-API https://opensnp.org/phenotypes https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/genomicresearch/snp
null
0.058313
0.753686
3,617
14,403
0
0
Biological Databases and Analysis
false
397
2017.06.28
3
Real estate inventories.
The National Association of Realtors publishes monthly real estate inventory data “at the national level, the 500 largest metropolitan areas, the 1,000 largest counties, and over 15,000 zip codes.” The data, based on the realtors’ multiple listing services, goes back five years and “tracks key market metrics including ...
http://research.realtor.com/data/inventory-trends/ http://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-is-the-mls-multiple-listing-service/ https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-02-08-edition https://tinyletter.com/data-is-pl...
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6flgrf/request_im_using_the_full_historical_inventory/
-0.21838
0.056985
2,137
8,626
53
53
Housing Market Data
false
398
2017.06.28
4
Every federally tax-exempt nonprofit.
The Internal Revenue Service publishes a file listing all “organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions” — currently more than 1 million charities, private foundations, and other groups. (Not all nonprofits apply for, or receive, tax-exempt status from the IRS; but all tax-exempt organizati...
https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/forwardToDeductStatusSearchHelp.do https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition
https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/16/is-there-a-complete-list-of-all-us-tax-exempt-nonprofits-in-machine-readable-for
0.234488
-0.249492
1,575
6,223
62
-1
Government Financial Data
false
399
2017.06.28
5
140-character politics.
The recently-launched Tweets Of Congress is collecting and publishing daily archives of tweets by congressional representatives, caucuses, and committees. Meanwhile, the Trump Twitter Archive has collected more than 30,000 of @realDonaldTrump’s tweets, which you can search and download.
https://alexlitel.github.io/congresstweets/ http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/about http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive https://github.com/bpb27/trump_tweet_data_archive
null
0.789402
-0.00799
2,041
8,178
58
58
Political Data and Analysis
false