Data Sources

Datasets are scattered across the web, tucked into cobwebbed corners where nobody can…

Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight has obtained nearly 3 million tweets from accounts…

The Rush Hour puzzle game was invented by Nob Yoshigahara in the 1970s…

Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset for computer-generated building footprints in the United States.…

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

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

If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…

Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…

New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is…

Data for police shootings is usually the subset that only includes fatalities. Vice…

Alec Wilkinson, reporting for The New Yorker, profiled Thomas Hargrove, who is deep…

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

Looking for some data to play with? James P. Curley compiled Scrabble data…

Many government organizations release microdata for surveys every year. It comes as anonymized…

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

Each year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration releases data for traffic accidents…

Based on 2014 estimates from the U.S. Department of Education, the Chronicle of…

Glenn Smith and Andrew Knapp for the Post and Courier investigate the current…

There is a ton of election-related data pushed out every day, so much…

Every four years, campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission peeks its…