Data Sources

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…

The Los Angeles Times released nearly 5,000 records of allegations from the Boy…

Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program…

Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, on the Appropriations Bill:
The…

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

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

I thought this riveting post on the New York Times Bits blog about…

Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you…

Mostly because of the popularity of smartphones, location data is all the rage…

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

Jonathan Stark, a mobile application consultant, is running an interesting social experiment with…

The Pew Research churns out a lot of interesting results from a number…

Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden have found that the iPhone records cell…

Last week, there were rumblings over the end of the Statistical Abstract, and…

Not many people understand the importance of data privacy. They don’t get out…

The government has been making a big push for more open health-related data,…

Need music data? Get all the data you want and more from the…

Sunlight Labs continues its work for a more open government with its recent…