Data Sources

Have fun and play with some numbers.

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…
Link

A big collection of sites and services for accessing data

Data Sources / Andy Kirk, link

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

Data Sources / link, ScraperWiki, Twitter

Easily scrape tweets and download them as a spreadsheet with ScraperWiki.
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…
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Yelp Dataset Challenge

Data Sources / link, Yelp

Yelp is putting up over 200,000 reviews and offering ten $5,000 awards for students who want to make use of their data.
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John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats

Data Sources / cholera, John Snow, link

John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats. Includes death locations, pump locations, the original map, and Ordinance Survey maps. This could be useful for a class or if you want to kick the tires on some mapping software.
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Quandl

Data Sources / link, search, time series

Quandl is a search engine for time series data. Similar to DataMarket, but probably with more straightforward download.
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General Social Survey

Data Sources / link, surveys

The General Social Survey has been running since 1972, and many questions have remain unchanged to make comparisons possible. The data from then to 2012 can now be downloaded in a variety of formats. [via]
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Three Decades of Decennial Data

Data Sources / census, link

The United States Census Bureau just made more data available via their API. You can now access decennial data for 1990, 2000, and 2010. The API isn’t especially advanced, but it’s a heck of a lot better than PDF tables.
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Cat Dataset →

Data Sources / link

2 gigs of cat data with images and eye, mouth, and ear positions. Yeah.
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…

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