Data Sources

Have fun and play with some numbers.

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…
ProPublica opened a data store

Data Sources / ProPublica

One of the main challenges of any data project is getting the data.…
Texting data to save lives

Data Sources / texting

Remember that TED talk from a couple of years ago on texting patterns…
Cancer data for the U.S. released

Data Sources / cancer, health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their most recent cancer data…
Government data shutdown

Data Sources / government

When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run…
Data.gov revamp

Data Sources / government

After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…
Medicare provider charge data released

Data Sources / health, medicare, New York Times, Washington Post

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released billing data for more than…
Archive of datasets bundled with R

Data Sources / R

R comes with a lot of datasets, some with the core distribution and…
Data on decades of Boy Scout expulsions released

Data Sources / Boy Scouts, Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times released nearly 5,000 records of allegations from the Boy…
Losing American Community Survey would be ‘disastrous’

Data Sources / census

Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program…
A Future Without Key Social and Economic Statistics for the Country

Data Sources

Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, on the Appropriations Bill:
The…
CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012

Data Sources / archive, CNN, transcripts

Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a…
1940 Census Individual Records Released

Data Sources / census

The 72-year mark has arrived, and the United States Census released individual records…
Texting on the toilet

Data Sources / texting, toilet

I thought this riveting post on the New York Times Bits blog about…
What Facebook knows about you

Data Sources / facebook, privacy

Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you…
Geo API from Infochimps brings you closer to mapping fun

Data Sources / API, infochimps, location

Mostly because of the popularity of smartphones, location data is all the rage…
Reporters make it easier to access Census data

Data Sources / API, census, IRE

Census data can provide valuable information, but the datasets are not always the…

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