Data Sources

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

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

Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…

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

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

Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…

Crisis Text Line is a service that troubled teens can use to find…

One of the most annoying parts of downloading data from large portals is…

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

Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
“Overrated” and “underrated” are…

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

One of the main challenges of any data project is getting the data.…

Remember that TED talk from a couple of years ago on texting patterns…

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

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

After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…

Andy Kirk put together a big collection of sites and services for accessing data. It’s essentially a big ol’ data dump.

Easily scrape tweets and download them as a spreadsheet with ScraperWiki.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released billing data for more than…

Yelp is putting up over 200,000 reviews and offering ten $5,000 awards for students who want to make use of their data.