The U.S. Census Bureau released a names dataset for first names and surnames.…
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Names from Census data
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National park visitation and outdoor recreation data
The National Park Service and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes data…
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Tracking gas prices worldwide
GlobalPetrolPrices tracks prices around the world for 150 countries, in case you’re wondering…
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Database to explore conflicts of interest through financial disclosures
ProPublica has been collecting thousands of disclosure documents, and they made a searchable…
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Gridded snowfall data
The National Weather Service has current and historical snowfall data in various file…
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DOGE hiring and non-hiring data
In efforts to understand the hiring and firing at the beginning of the…
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Database of mound charging in baseball
Jon Bois of Secret Base is working on a documentary that covers the…
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Non-profit takes over a canceled NOAA database
In May, NOAA’s disaster database was canceled because it is related to climate.…
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Evaluating the fairness and gerrymandering of district boundaries
PlanScore uses four measures to define partisan gerrymandering, and they’ve made the data…
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Tracking changes to Census data
Hannah Recht is tracking data through the U.S. Census Bureau APIs:
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Survey microdata for free
Downloading survey microdata from public resources can be tricky. Sometimes the documentation is…
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Farmers sued the USDA over deleted data — and it worked
In February, farmers sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing data related…
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NOAA database for extreme weather disasters cancelled
The NOAA database, dubbed Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters, tracked events that exceeded…
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Deportation Data Project
The Deportation Data Project, launched by a group of researchers and lawyers, is…
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Complete 2024 election data, for congressional districts
Election data should be publicly available and easy to access at high granularity,…
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List of NOAA datasets to be discontinued
If you use NOAA data, now seems like a good time to download…
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New York Times fills poll tracking gap left by FiveThirtyEight shutdown
FiveThirtyEight is gone, and along with its visualization-centric projects, so is their poll…
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Access FiveThirtyEight resources while they’re still around
Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease…
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Frozen government money pipe
Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data…
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Extremely detailed 2024 election data, precinct level
As is tradition, The New York Times published a detailed map of presidential…
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