Data Sources

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.…

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…

Download play-by-play and standings data scraped from the NFL site, dating as far back as 1920.

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,…