Data Sources

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…

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,…

A big ol’ dataset on interaction with the list of news items on the homepage.

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