Data Sources

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…
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

Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a…