Data Sources

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Scraping public data ruled legal

Data Sources / public, scraping

For TechCrunch, Zack Whittaker reporting:
In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth…
1950 Census released by U.S. National Archives

Data Sources / archive, census, history

For privacy reasons, there’s a 72-year restriction on individual Census records, which include…
World Bank’s Gender Data Portal

Data Sources / gender, World Bank

In an effort to make gender inequalities more obvious, World Bank updated their…
More detailed data release from Census 2020

Data Sources / Census Bureau, demographics

After a lot of angst over the past few years around undercount, representation,…
Money-in-politics nonprofits merge their datasets

Data Sources / government, money, OpenSecrets, politics

Center for Responsive Politics and National Institute on Money in Politics are merging…
Mining Parler data

Data Sources / Capitol, metadata, Motherboard, Parler, scraping

Just before the social network Parler went down, a researcher who goes by…
Data for all of the referee calls in NBA games

Data Sources / basketball, Owen Phillips, referee

Owen Phillips compiled per game and cumulative foul calls for all NBA referees…
Google search trends dataset for Covid-19 symptoms

Data Sources / Adam Pearce, coronavirus, Google, symptoms

Google released a search trends dataset earlier this month. Using this dataset, Adam…
Friends sitcom transcript dataset

Data Sources / Friends, R

For your analytical perusal, Emil Hvitfeldt provides ten seasons’ worth of scripts from…
Data on loans issued through the Paycheck Protection Program

Data Sources / business, coronavirus, loans, money

The Paycheck Protection Program was established to provide aid to small businesses. It’s…
What the federal government has been buying and where from

Data Sources / coronavirus, procurement, ProPublica

The Federal Procurement Data System tracks federal contracts of $10,000 or more. For…
Coronavirus data at the state and county level, from The New York Times

Data Sources / coronavirus, New York Times

Comprehensive national data on Covid-19 has been hard to come by through government…
Restaurant struggles

Data Sources / coronavirus, OpenTable, restaurant

The restaurant industry is taking a big hit right now, as most people…
Nationwide database of credibly accused Catholic clergy

Data Sources / accused, Catholic, clergy, ProPublica

For ProPublica, Ellis Simani and Ken Schwencke compiled an interactive database that you…
Dataset for rejected license plate applications

Data Sources / license plate, Noah Veltman

Noah Veltman just posted a dataset of 23,463 personalized license plate applications that…
Google Dataset Search moves out of beta

Data Sources / datasets, Google, search

Over a year ago, Google released Dataset Search in public beta. The goal…
Scripts from The Office, the dataset

Data Sources / R, scripts, The Office

The decade is almost done. You’re sitting there and you’re thinking: “I wish…
Deaths from child abuse, a starting dataset

Data Sources / Boston Globe, children, deaths, ProPublica

By way of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, ProPublica and The…
Sephora dataset is a collection of makeup reviews that mention crying

Data Sources / crying, makeup, Sephora

Interested in reviews on the Sephora website for waterproof makeup, Connie Ye figured…
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…

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