Keith Collins for Quartz ran some quick numbers for people who visited the…
Data Sources
Have fun and play with some numbers.
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Data on people who went to ER for wall-punching
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NYPL public domain data
The New York Public Library just made over 180,000 digital items in the…
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Police violence incident data
There isn’t a complete government record for people killed by police, which is…
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NFL play-by-play data →
Download play-by-play and standings data scraped from the NFL site, dating as far back as 1920.
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Detailed data release for U.S. college debt, graduation rate, and test scores
With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.
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Download data for 1.7 billion Reddit comments
There’s been all sorts of weird stuff going on at Reddit lately, but…
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Reddit button ends, and here’s the click data
On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…
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Aggregate the Los Angeles realtime bus feed
There is a realtime feed for the location of Los Angeles buses. It’s…
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Iowa liquor sales data, 3m rows
Iowa released liquor sales data for weekly purchases at the store level.
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Counting people killed by police
The US government doesn’t keep a complete record of fatal shootings by police,…
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How to ask for datasets
There’s a lot of data readily available online. We know this. However, there’s…
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Awesome Public Datasets →
“This list of public data sources are collected and tidyed from blogs, answers, and user responses.”
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Asteroid database
Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…
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A collection of small datasets
Sometimes you need data, any data, to test or mess around with. Sometimes…
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Unclaimed remains
People die, and for various reasons many bodies go unclaimed. In Los Angeles…
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Jeopardy! clues data
Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…
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Crisis Text Line releases trends and data
Crisis Text Line is a service that troubled teens can use to find…
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A more visual world data portal →
One of the most annoying parts of downloading data from large portals is…
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Large-ish data packages in R
If you’ve played around with R enough, there comes a time when you…
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Most underrated films
Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
“Overrated” and “underrated” are…