On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…
Data Sources
Have fun and play with some numbers.
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Reddit button ends, and here’s the click data
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Aggregate the Los Angeles realtime bus feed
There is a realtime feed for the location of Los Angeles buses. It’s…
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Iowa liquor sales data, 3m rows
Iowa released liquor sales data for weekly purchases at the store level.
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Counting people killed by police
The US government doesn’t keep a complete record of fatal shootings by police,…
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How to ask for datasets
There’s a lot of data readily available online. We know this. However, there’s…
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Asteroid database
Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…
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A collection of small datasets
Sometimes you need data, any data, to test or mess around with. Sometimes…
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Unclaimed remains
People die, and for various reasons many bodies go unclaimed. In Los Angeles…
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Jeopardy! clues data
Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…
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Crisis Text Line releases trends and data
Crisis Text Line is a service that troubled teens can use to find…
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A more visual world data portal →
One of the most annoying parts of downloading data from large portals is…
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Large-ish data packages in R
If you’ve played around with R enough, there comes a time when you…
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Most underrated films
Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
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Bike share data in New York, animated
Citi Bike, also known as NYC Bike Share, is releasing monthly data dumps…
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ProPublica opened a data store
One of the main challenges of any data project is getting the data.…
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Texting data to save lives
Remember that TED talk from a couple of years ago on texting patterns…
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Cancer data for the U.S. released
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their most recent cancer data…
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Government data shutdown
When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run…
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Data.gov revamp
After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…
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Medicare provider charge data released
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released billing data for more than…