Data Sources

Have fun and play with some numbers.

NYPL public domain data

Data Sources / NYPL, public domain

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

Data Sources / police, shootings

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

NFL play-by-play data →

Data Sources / link, sports

Download play-by-play and standings data scraped from the NFL site, dating as far back as 1920.
Detailed data release for U.S. college debt, graduation rate, and test scores

Data Sources / education

With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.
Download data for 1.7 billion Reddit comments

Data Sources / comments, Reddit

There’s been all sorts of weird stuff going on at Reddit lately, but…
Reddit button ends, and here’s the click data

Data Sources / button, Reddit

On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…
Aggregate the Los Angeles realtime bus feed

Data Sources / bus, Los Angeles, transportation

There is a realtime feed for the location of Los Angeles buses. It’s…
Iowa liquor sales data, 3m rows

Data Sources / Iowa, liquor

Iowa released liquor sales data for weekly purchases at the store level.
This…
Counting people killed by police

Data Sources / deaths, Guardian, police

The US government doesn’t keep a complete record of fatal shootings by police,…
How to ask for datasets

Data Sources

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

Awesome Public Datasets →

Data Sources / link

“This list of public data sources are collected and tidyed from blogs, answers, and user responses.”
Asteroid database

Data Sources / asteroids, space

Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…
A collection of small datasets

Data Sources

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

Data Sources / death, Los Angeles Times, mortuary

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

Data Sources / Jeopardy

Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…
Crisis Text Line releases trends and data

Data Sources / Crisis Text Line

Crisis Text Line is a service that troubled teens can use to find…
A more visual world data portal →

Data Sources / browser, OECD, Portal

One of the most annoying parts of downloading data from large portals is…
Large-ish data packages in R

Data Sources / package, R

If you’ve played around with R enough, there comes a time when you…
Most underrated films

Data Sources / ggplot, RottenTomatoes

Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
“Overrated” and “underrated” are…
Bike share data in New York, animated

Data Sources / animation, biking, New York

Citi Bike, also known as NYC Bike Share, is releasing monthly data dumps…

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