Data Sources

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.

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.

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

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]

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.

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

R comes with a lot of datasets, some with the core distribution and…