Data Sources

Taking over an old New York Times project, ProPublica re-launches Represent, which offers…

For my graphic on emergency room visits over time and the other on…

Back in 2008, the New York Times rolled out a campaign finance API…

There’s a lot of data on criminal justice — prison populations, crime rates,…

Kaggle just opened up a Datasets section to download and analyze public data.…

Keith Collins for Quartz ran some quick numbers for people who visited the…

The New York Public Library just made over 180,000 digital items in the…

There isn’t a complete government record for people killed by police, which is…

With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.

There’s been all sorts of weird stuff going on at Reddit lately, but…

On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…

There is a realtime feed for the location of Los Angeles buses. It’s…

Iowa released liquor sales data for weekly purchases at the store level.
This…

The US government doesn’t keep a complete record of fatal shootings by police,…

There’s a lot of data readily available online. We know this. However, there’s…

Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…

Sometimes you need data, any data, to test or mess around with. Sometimes…

People die, and for various reasons many bodies go unclaimed. In Los Angeles…

Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…

Crisis Text Line is a service that troubled teens can use to find…