Data Sources

Have fun and play with some numbers.

PG&E providing shapefiles, instead of a working map for shutoffs

Data Sources / PG&E, shapefile

Here in northern California, PG&E is shutting off power to thousands of households…
Search through 3m nonprofit tax records

Data Sources / non-profit, ProPublica, search

ProPublica just released a search tool for nonprofit tax records:
The possibilities are…
Census data downloader to reformat for humans

Data Sources / census, formatting, Los Angeles Times

There is a lot of Census data. You can grab most of the…
Data for 200M traffic stop records

Data Sources / police, tickets, traffic

The Stanford Open Policing Project just released a dataset for police traffic stops…
Looking for common misspellings

Data Sources / Reddit, spelling

Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes…
Google Dataset Search now in public beta

Data Sources / Google, search

Datasets are scattered across the web, tucked into cobwebbed corners where nobody can…
Download 3 million Russian troll tweets

Data Sources / election, trolls, Twitter

Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight has obtained nearly 3 million tweets from accounts…
Rush Hour puzzle solver and generator

Data Sources / game, Rush Hour

The Rush Hour puzzle game was invented by Nob Yoshigahara in the 1970s…
All the building footprints in the United States

Data Sources / buildings, Microsoft

Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset for computer-generated building footprints in the United States.…
Check if your school district or college was investigated for civil rights violations

Data Sources / civil rights, education, ProPublica

The U.S. Department of Education constantly investigates school districts and colleges for civil…
Datasets for teaching data science

Data Sources / R, teaching

Rafael Irizarry introduces the dslabs package for real-life datasets to teach data science:…
FiveThirtyEight datasets available for download

Data Sources / FiveThirtyEight

If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…
World population estimator and gridded data from NASA

Data Sources / NASA, population

Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
Data to identify Wikipedia rabbit holes

Data Sources / Wikipedia

New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is…
Download comprehensive police shootings data

Data Sources / police, shootings, Vice

Data for police shootings is usually the subset that only includes fatalities. Vice…
Serial-Killer detector

Data Sources / algorithm, murder, New Yorker

Alec Wilkinson, reporting for The New Yorker, profiled Thomas Hargrove, who is deep…
Searchable budget proposal and the 10-year change

Data Sources / budget, government, New York Times

The administration released a budget proposal yesterday, which as you’d expect contains some…
Scrabble data and analysis

Data Sources / R, Scrabble

Looking for some data to play with? James P. Curley compiled Scrabble data…
Easily download large-ish survey datasets

Data Sources / government, R, surveys

Many government organizations release microdata for surveys every year. It comes as anonymized…
Newspaper endorsements since 1980

Data Sources / election, endorsement, newspaper

Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…

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