Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight has obtained nearly 3 million tweets from accounts…
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Download 3 million Russian troll tweets
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Rush Hour puzzle solver and generator
The Rush Hour puzzle game was invented by Nob Yoshigahara in the 1970s…
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All the building footprints in the United States
Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset for computer-generated building footprints in the United States.…
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Check if your school district or college was investigated for civil rights violations
The U.S. Department of Education constantly investigates school districts and colleges for civil…
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Datasets for teaching data science
Rafael Irizarry introduces the dslabs package for real-life datasets to teach data science:…
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FiveThirtyEight datasets available for download
If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…
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World population estimator and gridded data from NASA
Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
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Data to identify Wikipedia rabbit holes
New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is… -
Download comprehensive police shootings data
Data for police shootings is usually the subset that only includes fatalities. Vice…
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Serial-Killer detector
Alec Wilkinson, reporting for The New Yorker, profiled Thomas Hargrove, who is deep…
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Searchable budget proposal and the 10-year change
The administration released a budget proposal yesterday, which as you’d expect contains some…
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Scrabble data and analysis
Looking for some data to play with? James P. Curley compiled Scrabble data…
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Easily download large-ish survey datasets
Many government organizations release microdata for surveys every year. It comes as anonymized…
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Newspaper endorsements since 1980
Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…
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Traffic fatalities data for 2015 released
Each year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration releases data for traffic accidents…
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Diversity percentages for US schools
Based on 2014 estimates from the U.S. Department of Education, the Chronicle of…
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Police surveillance in a digital world
Glenn Smith and Andrew Knapp for the Post and Courier investigate the current…
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Election DataBot provides a feed of the interesting data stories
There is a ton of election-related data pushed out every day, so much…
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Searchable campaign finance data from the FEC
Every four years, campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission peeks its…
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Track what your government representatives are doing for you
Taking over an old New York Times project, ProPublica re-launches Represent, which offers…
