As part of the Knowing Machines research project, A Critical Field Guide for…
Data Sources
Have fun and play with some numbers.
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Guide for working with machine learning datasets
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Database of feathers
There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase, because of course there is:
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Scraping public data ruled legal
For TechCrunch, Zack Whittaker reporting:
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1950 Census released by U.S. National Archives
For privacy reasons, there’s a 72-year restriction on individual Census records, which include…
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World Bank’s Gender Data Portal
In an effort to make gender inequalities more obvious, World Bank updated their…
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More detailed data release from Census 2020
After a lot of angst over the past few years around undercount, representation,…
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Money-in-politics nonprofits merge their datasets
Center for Responsive Politics and National Institute on Money in Politics are merging…
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Mining Parler data
Just before the social network Parler went down, a researcher who goes by…
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Data for all of the referee calls in NBA games
Owen Phillips compiled per game and cumulative foul calls for all NBA referees…
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Google search trends dataset for Covid-19 symptoms
Google released a search trends dataset earlier this month. Using this dataset, Adam…
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Friends sitcom transcript dataset
For your analytical perusal, Emil Hvitfeldt provides ten seasons’ worth of scripts from…
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Data on loans issued through the Paycheck Protection Program
The Paycheck Protection Program was established to provide aid to small businesses. It’s…
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What the federal government has been buying and where from
The Federal Procurement Data System tracks federal contracts of $10,000 or more. For…
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Coronavirus data at the state and county level, from The New York Times
Comprehensive national data on Covid-19 has been hard to come by through government…
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Restaurant struggles
The restaurant industry is taking a big hit right now, as most people…
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Nationwide database of credibly accused Catholic clergy
For ProPublica, Ellis Simani and Ken Schwencke compiled an interactive database that you…
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Dataset for rejected license plate applications
Noah Veltman just posted a dataset of 23,463 personalized license plate applications that…
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Google Dataset Search moves out of beta
Over a year ago, Google released Dataset Search in public beta. The goal…
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Scripts from The Office, the dataset
The decade is almost done. You’re sitting there and you’re thinking: “I wish…
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Deaths from child abuse, a starting dataset
By way of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, ProPublica and The…
