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2024.02.14
| 1 |
State trust lands.
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“State trust lands just might be one of the best-kept public secrets in America,” according to Grist, which published a data-driven investigation on the topic last week. These lands — expropriated from Indigenous nations and managed by state governments for profit — “exist in 21 Western and Midwestern states, totaling more than 500 million surface and subsurface acres.” Grist’s inquiry focuses on those benefiting land-grant universities, the subject of a related High Country News investigation (DIP 2020.06.24). Using state property records and Forest Service data digitized from historical cession maps, Grist identified “more than 8.2 million acres of state trust parcels taken from 123 tribes, bands, and communities” that fund 14 such institutions. Their public data describe these 41,000+ pieces of land: each parcel’s size and location, rights type, land use, benefiting university, associated tribes, and cession details. [h/t Rachel Glickhouse]
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https://grist.org/updates/grist-publishes-new-land-grant-investigation-with-public-data/
https://grist.org/project/indigenous/land-grant-universities-indigenous-lands-fossil-fuels/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university
https://www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-06-24-edition/
https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php
https://www.loc.gov/collections/century-of-lawmaking/articles-and-essays/century-presentations/indian-land-cessions/
https://grist.org/technology/how-we-investigated-land-grant-university-system/
https://grist.org/indigenous/how-to-conduct-your-own-reporting-research-state-trust-lands/
|
https://twitter.com/Riogringa
| -0.299809 | 0.335554 | 2,710 | 10,924 | 37 | 37 |
Geospatial Datasets and Analysis
| false |
1,801 |
2024.02.14
| 2 |
Household composition.
|
Juan Galeano et al.’s CORESIDENCE database provides 146 indicators of household arrangements in 156 countries and ~4,000 regions, spanning the years 1964 to 2021. The indicators range in specificity, from average household size to, e.g., the average number of non-relatives in 3-person households. They also include gender breakdowns, such as the proportion of 5-person households among female-headed households. The metrics are calculated using “global-scale individual microdata from four main repositories and national household surveys, encompassing over 150 million individual records representing more than 98% of the world’s population.”
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-02964-3
https://zenodo.org/records/8142652
| null | -0.05889 | 0.020832 | 2,078 | 8,380 | 54 | -1 |
Housing Price Data Analysis
| false |
1,802 |
2024.02.14
| 3 |
Comics, deconstructed.
|
The Tilburg University–based Visual Language Lab, led by comics scholar Neil Cohn, studies “all aspects of visual language, from the structure of individual drawings, emoji, or cartoons, to how we make meaning out of sequences of images like in comics.” The lab’s Visual Language Research Corpus provides detailed annotations of tens of thousands of panels in 300+ comic books and graphic novels (plus every Calvin & Hobbes strip). The dataset’s sources include material from multiple continents, time periods, and genres. The annotations examine “attentional framing structure and filmic shot scale, the situational changes across panels, page layouts, multimodality, visual morphology, and path structure,” among other characteristics. [h/t Cameron Yick]
|
https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/
https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/neilcohn
https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/vlrc
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-023-09673-0
https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34894/LWMZ7G
|
https://twitter.com/hydrosquall
| 0.661989 | 0.542185 | 3,189 | 12,650 | 72 | -1 |
Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis
| false |
1,803 |
2024.02.14
| 4 |
Nursing home prices.
|
Between December 2020 and March 2022, SeniorLiving.org researchers “attempted to contact 7,221 US senior facilities by telephone to obtain availability and service pricing.” The team got at least some pricing data for 3,000+ of the facilities. The results, available from SeniorLiving’s data portal, provide information about each provider, the team’s call attempts, and the average monthly price for five types of housing and care: skilled nursing with a private room, skilled nursing with a shared room, assisted living, independent living, and care tailored for people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Related: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Skilled Nursing Facility Cost Report datasets, which contain annual metrics on finances, staffing, and care provided. [h/t Corie Wagner]
|
https://www.seniorliving.org/research/open-data-project/
https://data.cms.gov/provider-compliance/cost-report/skilled-nursing-facility-cost-report
|
https://www.linkedin.com/in/corie-colliton-wagner/
| -0.420332 | -0.487104 | 1,042 | 4,133 | 45 | 45 |
Healthcare Data and Transparency
| false |
1,804 |
2024.02.14
| 5 |
Twisty roads.
|
Curvature uses OpenStreetMap data to map the world’s curviest roads. Built by motorcyclist and software developer Adam Franco, the open-source project “works by looking at the geometry of every road segment and adding up how much length of the road is sharp corners, broad sweeping curves, and straight areas.” Franco also provides a more detailed explanation, as well as data files scoring each road and curve segment. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
|
https://roadcurvature.com/
https://www.openstreetmap.org
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data
https://roadcurvature.com/map/
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a34610356/adam-franco-curvature-fun-roads/
https://www.adamfranco.com/
https://github.com/adamfranco/curvature
https://roadcurvature.com/how-it-works/
https://kml.roadcurvature.com/
|
https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/551-quantum-of-sollazzo/
| -0.356856 | 0.31938 | 2,708 | 10,793 | 37 | 37 |
Geospatial Datasets and Analysis
| false |
1,805 |
2024.02.21
| 1 |
Self-driving stats.
|
Companies wanting to test or deploy self-driving cars on California’s public roads must receive a permit from the state DMV’s Autonomous Vehicles Program. As part of the requirements, these companies must “submit annual reports to share how often their vehicles disengaged from autonomous mode during tests (whether because of technology failure or situations requiring the test driver/operator to take manual control of the vehicle to operate safely).” These disengagement reports indicate each vehicle’s company, permit number, VIN, monthly miles driven, and annual disengagements — including vehicles with none. And for each disengagement, the reports list the vehicle, date, disengagement initiator (vehicle, test driver, remote operator, or passenger), type of location, and a brief summary. [h/t Chartr]
|
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/autonomous-vehicles/
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/autonomous-vehicles/disengagement-reports/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number
|
https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/2023-11-12
| -0.517698 | -0.185099 | 1,679 | 6,686 | 35 | -1 |
Consumer Safety Reports
| false |
1,806 |
2024.02.21
| 2 |
US wetlands.
|
The National Wetlands Inventory, maintained by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, provides interactive maps and bulk data containing “geospatially referenced information on the status, extent, characteristics and functions of wetland, riparian, deepwater, and related aquatic habitats.” With contributions from 160+ organizations, coordinated through a dedicated national standard, the inventory represents “more than 35 million wetland and deepwater features,” and continues to receive updates. As seen in: DIP reader Simon Greenhill and coauthors’ paper, dataset, explainer video, and map using machine learning to predict wetland and river protections under the Clean Water Act.
|
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/wetlands-mapper
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/wetlands-data
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/wetlands-mapping
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/data-standards
https://simondgreenhill.github.io/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi3794
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.z34tmpgm7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkhz5gVUo2w
https://simondgreenhill.github.io/wotus-map/
| null | -0.602192 | 0.68842 | 3,468 | 13,849 | 25 | 25 |
Water Resources Data
| false |
1,807 |
2024.02.21
| 3 |
SF overdose deaths.
|
Last year, 813 people died from accidental drug overdoses in San Francisco, according to the latest figures from the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. That’s the highest annual total on record, per the San Francisco Chronicle’s overdose data tracker, which combines data from the medical examiner’s reports with information from other city agencies, such as overdose reversals by EMS responders administering naloxone and calls handled by the Street Overdose Response Team. As seen in: The Chronicle data team’s latest newsletter.
|
https://www.sf.gov/resource/2020/ocme-accidental-overdose-reports
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/san-francisco-drug-overdose-deaths/
https://github.com/sfchronicle/sf-od-tracker-data
https://www.sf.gov/data/reducing-fatal-and-non-fatal-overdoses-tenderloin
https://www.sf.gov/street-overdose-response-team
https://link.sfchronicle.com/view/6418a59d2d2faafd080b5ee9kf7kn.2e/907eff80
| null | -0.049698 | -0.829556 | 350 | 1,340 | 15 | -1 |
Mortality Data and Analysis
| false |
1,808 |
2024.02.21
| 4 |
Spain’s political primaries.
|
Oscar Barberà et al. have compiled a dataset of the outcomes of 361 primary contests in Spain since 1991, “based on information provided by political parties at the time of the event through their websites, press releases, and journalistic reports.” It includes primaries to determine candidates for regional, national, and EU elections, as well as for party leadership. For each contest, it lists the party, territory, year, type of post, number of competitors, turnout, incumbent’s outcome, winner’s percentage, and more.
|
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924000842
https://zenodo.org/records/10066112
| null | 0.938807 | -0.343022 | 1,406 | 5,500 | 31 | 31 |
Political Data Datasets
| false |
1,809 |
2024.02.21
| 5 |
Scott’s SMS spam.
|
In late September 2022, Scott Lee Chua began preserving every SMS he received, motivated by the recent passage of the Philippine SIM Registration Act. By early February 2024, he’d amassed 3,324 messages, which he has grouped into five categories and charted: spam (13% of all messages), one-time passwords (12%), marketing (10%), government notices (1%), and “messages I both expect and welcome” (63%). He’s also published a partially-redacted dataset of each message’s time received, time read, sender, text, and category.
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https://scottleechua.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Registration_Act
https://spamofthetimes.com/
https://github.com/scottleechua/data/tree/main/spam-and-marketing-sms
| null | 0.758083 | -0.0255 | 2,040 | 8,048 | 58 | -1 |
Political Data and Analysis
| false |
1,810 |
2024.02.28
| 1 |
Climate funding.
|
To develop its “Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2023” report, the Climate Policy Initiative gathered data on grants, loans, equity and other types of “primary financing in real economy sectors that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience.” The report, published in November, identified ~$1.3 trillion in such financing globally in 2021–2022. A spreadsheet provided alongside it indicates the estimated amount by year, region, sector, focus on mitigation vs. adaptation, type of financial instrument, funder sector (public vs. private), and funder type (development bank, corporation, institutional investors, etc.). Reports from earlier years include downloadable data for 2019–2020 and 2017–2018. Previously: National climate funds (DIP 2022.02.09) and climate finance projects (DIP 2023.06.14).
|
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/global-landscape-of-climate-finance-2023/
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/resources/publications/
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/global-landscape-of-climate-finance-a-decade-of-data/
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/updated-view-on-the-global-landscape-of-climate-finance-2019/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2027223
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-02-09-edition/
https://purl.stanford.edu/dx902xg3463
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-06-14-edition/
| null | -0.765911 | 0.293121 | 2,631 | 10,510 | 21 | 21 |
Climate Data and Emissions
| false |
1,811 |
2024.02.28
| 2 |
Federal laws since 1789.
|
Political scientist and “recovering lawyer” Brian Libgober has compiled a “comprehensive dataset of U.S. federal laws,” covering 49,000+ legislative enactments from 1789 to 2022. Such a dataset has been elusive, Libgober notes, in part “because such laws have been enacted over hundreds of years, resulting in a complicated patchwork of documents published in numerous and inconsistent formats.” His solution combines three key sources: “the oldest meta data for the U.S. Statutes at Large disseminated via HeinOnline, similar and more recent meta data through the Governmental Printing Office, and finally the last six years of law-making as described by the National Archives’ website.” The dataset lists each law’s title, legislative session, date of passage, source/citation identifiers, and more.
|
https://brianlibgober.com/
https://osf.io/qa289
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02758-z
| null | 0.733866 | -0.442368 | 1,143 | 4,590 | 31 | 31 |
Political Data Datasets
| false |
1,812 |
2024.02.28
| 3 |
TSA complaint counts.
|
The Transportation Security Administration publishes semi-regular reports on the complaints it receives, aggregated by month, airport, category, and subcategory. Unfortunately, the agency only publishes those reports as PDFs, rather than structured data files. So volunteers and I at the Data Liberation Project have built a data pipeline to convert those PDFs into tidy CSV files, currently covering complaints to TSA at 440+ airports (and additional complaints not specifying any airport) from January 2015 to January 2024. Read more: The Data Liberation Project’s latest newsletter dispatch.
|
https://www.tsa.gov/foia/readingroom
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/tsa-complaint-counts
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/tsa-complaint-counts/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#data-guidance
https://buttondown.email/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-13/
| null | -0.657904 | -0.125946 | 1,738 | 7,061 | 38 | 38 |
Aviation Safety Data
| false |
1,813 |
2024.02.28
| 4 |
High-school financial education.
|
In a recent paper, economists Allison Oldham Luedtke and Carly Urban introduce a dataset of 19,000+ high-school classes that teach financial literacy, manually collected from thousands of online course catalogs. Each row provides details about the school (e.g., name, location, enrollment) and course, including its title, description, duration, requirement status, and whether financial literacy was the main focus or smaller component. An auxiliary dataset indicates, annually for 1970–2024, which states required such coursework for high school graduation.
|
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-financial-literacy-and-wellbeing/article/high-school-financial-education-courses-in-the-united-states-what-is-the-importance-of-setting-state-policies/ABD577136362C0289884C41676341271
https://sites.google.com/stolaf.edu/aoluedtke/home/
https://www.carlyurban.com/
https://osf.io/ksah9/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-financial-literacy-and-wellbeing/article/high-school-financial-education-courses-in-the-united-states-what-is-the-importance-of-setting-state-policies/ABD577136362C0289884C41676341271#s2-3
| null | 0.079355 | -0.289216 | 1,442 | 5,829 | 69 | 69 |
Education Data and Analysis
| false |
1,814 |
2024.02.28
| 5 |
Trash interceptors.
|
Mr. Trash Wheel is one of four “semi-autonomous trash interceptors” pulling garbage out of the Baltimore Harbor. The partnership behind the effort publishes spreadsheets of each contraption’s collection history. For each dumpster filled since May 2014, they list the date, weight and volume of trash, and estimated number of plastic bottles, cigarette butts, and other types of items extracted. [h/t Cody Winchester]
|
https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/
https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/meet-the-trash-wheels/
https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/technology/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b8Lbe-z3PNb3H8nSsSjrwK2B0ReAblL2/edit#gid=1143432795
|
https://codywinchester.com/
| -0.550392 | 0.172687 | 2,382 | 9,628 | 52 | -1 |
Urban Infrastructure Datasets
| false |
1,815 |
2024.03.06
| 1 |
Global military spending.
|
How much money has each country spent, each year, on its military? Different datasets have different answers, cover different timeframes, and use different methodologies. Miriam Barnum et al.’s Global Military Spending Dataset attempts to bring them together. By uniting “76 variables from 9 dataset collection projects,” the authors write, “we provide the most comprehensive and complete set of published datasets on military spending ever assembled.” Each of the variables represents one source/methodology, and each observation is a country-year. “Disagreement on the actual expenditure value for a given country-year is common, even between datasets produced by the same project,” they find. Previously: The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Military Expenditure Database (DIP 2017.03.29), one of the sources.
|
https://osf.io/pkxt8
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DHMZOW
https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-03-29-edition/
| null | 0.366871 | -0.49241 | 1,067 | 4,183 | 12 | -1 |
Conflict Data and Analysis
| false |
1,816 |
2024.03.06
| 2 |
Fatal police pursuits.
|
Reporters at the San Francisco Chronicle have compiled a national dataset of 3,300+ deaths in police car chases in 2017–2022. To build it, they used information from the federal government’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (DIP 2016.08.31), research organizations, news reports, lawsuits, and public records requests. For each death, the dataset indicates the person’s name, age, gender, race, and connection to the pursuit (driver, passenger, bystander, officer). It also includes the incident’s date, location, reason given for the pursuit, and main law enforcement agency involved. Read more: “Fast and Fatal,” the Chronicle’s investigation based on the dataset. [h/t Susie Neilson]
|
https://github.com/sfchronicle/police_pursuits
https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/police-chases-methodology-18685158.php
https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-08-31-edition/
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-chases-database/?hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3Byb2plY3RzLzIwMjQvcG9saWNlLWNoYXNlcy1kYXRhYmFzZS8%3D&time=MTcwOTEzNDk3Mzc4OA%3D%3D
|
https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/susie-neilson/
| 0.130378 | -0.822702 | 356 | 1,480 | 8 | 8 |
Police Accountability Data
| false |
1,817 |
2024.03.06
| 3 |
Price-fixing cartels.
|
Industrial economist John M. Connor has constructed the Private International Cartels dataset, “which the author believes to be the largest collection of legal-economic information on contemporary price-fixing cartels.” It spans three decades (1990–2019) and covers 1,500+ suspected or convicted cartels, including 1,100+ that “have been deemed guilty of price fixing by one or more antitrust authority.” It also links those cartels to tens of thousands of companies and to 2,000+ individuals indicted or punished for their involvement. The dataset’s variables include information about cartel geography, industry, market share, overcharges, penalties, and much more.
|
https://www.concurrences.com/en/auteur/John-M-Connor
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3682189
https://purr.purdue.edu/publications/2732/2
| null | 0.395186 | -0.141842 | 1,772 | 7,001 | 61 | -1 |
Government Financial Datasets
| false |
1,818 |
2024.03.06
| 4 |
Real-time airport disruptions.
|
The Federal Aviation Administration’s National Airspace System Status dashboard provides real-time listings of delays and closures at US airports. For each disruption, it indicates the type of problem, reason, current average delay times, and more. A minimal API linked from the site provides the information as an XML-formatted file. Read more: Ruihai Youngblood describes his experience helping to redesign the dashboard. [h/t Jason Scott]
|
https://nasstatus.faa.gov/
https://nasstatus.faa.gov/api/airport-status-information
https://www.ruihaiyoungblood.com/faa.html
|
https://bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com/post/3k2l2eesr2h2w
| -0.691527 | -0.127623 | 1,737 | 7,059 | 38 | -1 |
Aviation Safety Data
| false |
1,819 |
2024.03.06
| 5 |
Pinball machines.
|
The Open Pinball Database provides a searchable inventory and API of ~2,000 pinball machines and 120+ manufacturers. Details include each machine’s name, manufacture date, mechanism type, display type, player count, and more. Related: Pinball Map’s crowdsourced global map and API of the locations of installed pinball machines. [h/t Jeremy Herrman + technophiliac]
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https://opdb.org/
https://opdb.org/api
https://opdb.org/machines
https://opdb.org/manufacturers
https://pinballmap.com/
https://pinballmap.com/map
https://pinballmap.com/api/v1/docs
|
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39233602
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230244
| 0.081443 | 0.483531 | 3,042 | 12,101 | 44 | 44 |
Diverse Research Databases
| false |
1,820 |
2024.03.13
| 1 |
Humanitarian emergency mapping.
|
The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) provides a range of services to UN agencies and the general public, including downloadable maps, data, and analyses produced “in response to humanitarian emergencies related to disasters, complex emergencies and conflict situations.” Those currently available include assessments of flood impacts in Libya, landslides in the Republic of the Congo, and building damage in the Gaza Strip. The latter identifies structures that satellite imagery suggests have been damaged; the data indicate each building’s location and damage level, plus an assessment confidence and notes. Assessments for prior humanitarian emergencies can be found by adjusting the listing page’s filters, and also via UNOSAT’s contributions to the Humanitarian Data Exchange. [h/t Allison Martell]
|
https://unosat.org/
https://unosat.org/services/
https://unosat.org/products/
https://unosat.org/products/3800
https://unosat.org/products/3798
https://unosat.org/products/3793
https://unosat.org/products/
https://data.humdata.org/organization/unosat
|
https://schedules.ire.org/nicar-2024/index.html#1138
| -0.751885 | 0.817126 | 3,719 | 14,863 | 29 | 29 |
Disaster and Flood Data
| false |
1,821 |
2024.03.13
| 2 |
Materials and their properties.
|
The Materials Project, led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, “is a multi-institution, multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials” with the “ultimate goal” being “to drastically reduce the time needed to invent new materials.” Its online explorer and API currently provide information about 150,000+ materials. You can search by component elements, formula, thermodynamics, structural properties, magnetism, elasticity, and many other characteristics.
|
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/about/people
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/about
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/materials
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/api
| null | -0.587834 | 0.429746 | 2,893 | 11,674 | 26 | -1 |
Environmental Data Collection
| false |
1,822 |
2024.03.13
| 3 |
EU infringements.
|
The European Commission publishes a searchable and downloadable database of all its decisions regarding national infringements of EU regulations, decisions, and directives. It currently contains 58,000+ decisions in 24,000+ cases, going back to the late 1980s. (To download the full database, conduct a blank search and then click the “Export to Excel” link.) Each entry lists a decision type and date, case identifier, country, policy area, and more. Recent examples include the Commission’s decisions to refer Ireland to court for failing to protect its peat bogs and Italy for noncompliance with a wastewater treatment directive. [h/t Maximilian Haag et al.]
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https://ec.europa.eu/atwork/applying-eu-law/infringements-proceedings/infringement_decisions/
https://commission.europa.eu/law/application-eu-law/implementing-eu-law_en
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1232
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1234
|
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rego.12580
| 0.670351 | -0.548276 | 949 | 3,690 | 1 | 1 |
Legal Data Collections
| false |
1,823 |
2024.03.13
| 4 |
NYC council members.
|
Maximum New York has published a biographical dataset of people elected to the New York City Council. For each member since 1998 (plus some before that), it lists their name, district, borough, political party, date of birth, undergraduate/graduate universities and fields of study, whether they ever served on a community board, prior employer, and more. Related: DataMade’s Chicago Councilmatic lists all members, bills, votes, and meetings, and is also available as structured data. [h/t Vikram Oberoi + Forest Gregg]
|
https://www.maximumnewyork.com/about
https://www.maximumnewyork.com/p/city-council-data-project
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11kMfI0iY4CSYrrwoUSM1oERm_bOYtbZI379N1wX3QO4/edit
https://datamade.us/
https://chicago.councilmatic.org/
https://puddle.datamade.us/
https://puddle.bunkum.us/chicago_council
|
https://www.vikramoberoi.com/
https://mastodon.social/@fgregg
| 0.952286 | -0.220726 | 1,598 | 6,396 | 31 | 31 |
Political Data Datasets
| false |
1,824 |
2024.03.13
| 5 |
Counting fish.
|
The University of Washington’s Columbia Basin Research provides (among other data) daily, species-level counts of adult salmon and trout passing through more than a dozen sites in the Pacific Northwest. CalFish publishes fish counts and population estimates for the Upper Sacramento River Basin, which “contains much of California’s salmon and steelhead populations.” Similar resources include those available from Alaska, Oregon, and the Yakama Nation. [h/t Dan Brady]
|
https://www.cbr.washington.edu/
https://www.cbr.washington.edu/dart
https://www.cbr.washington.edu/dart/query/adult_daily
https://www.cbr.washington.edu/dart/metadata/adult
https://www.calfish.org/AboutCalFish/AboutCalFish.aspx
https://www.calfish.org/ProgramsData/ConservationandManagement/CentralValleyMonitoring/CDFWUpperSacRiverBasinSalmonidMonitoring.aspx
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/FishCounts/
https://myodfw.com/fish-counts-major-dams-and-fish-traps
https://yakamafish-nsn.gov/fish-data
| null | -0.315784 | 0.818432 | 3,733 | 14,891 | 4 | 4 |
Fish and Wildlife Data
| false |
1,825 |
2024.03.20
| 1 |
Human trafficking.
|
The Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative’s Global Synthetic Dataset uses differential privacy techniques to represent “over 206,000 victims and survivors of trafficking identified across 190 countries and territories from 2002 to 2022.” The approach, developed in partnership with Microsoft Research, converts anonymized case records into “a new dataset in which records do not correspond to actual individuals, but which preserves the structure and statistics (i.e., utility) of the original data.” Each row indicates a (synthetic) individual’s gender, age group, citizenship, country of exploitation, duration of reported trafficking, traffickers’ means of control, types of exploitation, and the year the collaborative’s partners registered the case. Related: The collaborative’s Global Victim-Perpetrator Synthetic Dataset, which takes a similar approach to relationships between victims and perpetrators. [h/t Mariana Moreira + Lorraine Wong]
|
https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/page/about
https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/page/global-synthetic-dataset
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/data-contributors
https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/global-victim-perpetrator-synthetic-dataset
|
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-t-moreira/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorrainewongmw/
| 0.291915 | -0.665148 | 681 | 2,770 | 11 | -1 |
Protest and Violence Data
| false |
1,826 |
2024.03.20
| 2 |
Real-world vehicle emissions.
|
On Monday, the European Commission published its first report analyzing the real-world CO2 emissions of cars and vans, based on fuel consumption monitoring devices that the EU now requires. The report uses data received from 600,000+ vehicles. That sample is available to download, along with metrics aggregated by manufacturer and fuel type: average fuel consumption, emissions, and comparisons to standardized test results. Related: Data on millions of EU car registrations (and van registrations), including each vehicle’s fuel economy and emissions ratings. Previously: FuelEconomy.gov (DIP 2017.04.12), with data on decades of car models. [h/t Jan Willem Tulp + Xan Gregg]
|
https://climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-voice/news/first-commission-report-real-world-co2-emissions-cars-and-vans-using-data-board-fuel-consumption-2024-03-18_en
https://climate-energy.eea.europa.eu/topics/transport/real-world-emissions/intro
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/datahub/datahubitem-view/1c1ffad2-34c3-471b-bd69-dd013cdd7b80
https://climate-energy.eea.europa.eu/topics/transport/real-world-emissions/data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Harmonised_Light_Vehicles_Test_Procedure
https://co2cars.apps.eea.europa.eu/
https://co2vans.apps.eea.europa.eu/
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-04-12-edition/
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml
|
https://tulpinteractive.com/
https://rawdatastudies.com/
| -0.847908 | 0.311498 | 2,628 | 10,633 | 21 | 21 |
Climate Data and Emissions
| false |
1,827 |
2024.03.20
| 3 |
State legislators.
|
Nicholas Carnes and Eric Hansen’s 2023-4 State Legislators Dataset features “biographical information about state lawmakers who held office in 2023 and 2024 compiled from legislative and campaign websites and other online sources.” The dataset spans all 50 states and includes 7,300+ lawmakers. “The project’s principal aim was to record the current or most recent main occupation (outside of elected office) held by each member,” the authors write, “but the dataset also includes information about a wide range of characteristics including race, gender, and education.” A version for 2021–22 is also available. Previously: State legislator financial disclosures (DIP 2017.12.13) and ideology scores (DIP 2020.01.01). [h/t Derek Willis]
|
https://people.duke.edu/~nwc8/index.html
https://ehansen4.sites.luc.edu/
https://people.duke.edu/~nwc8/stateleg.html
https://people.duke.edu/~nwc8/stateleg.html
https://github.com/PublicI/state-lawmakers-disclosures
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-12-13-edition/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/bshor
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-01-01-edition/
|
https://thescoop.org/
| 0.853703 | -0.263272 | 1,531 | 6,134 | 31 | 31 |
Political Data Datasets
| false |
1,828 |
2024.03.20
| 4 |
Meta Oversight Board decisions.
|
Meta’s independent Oversight Board reviews a selection of the company’s content-moderation decisions and has the power to overturn them. The board publishes its rulings online, as does Meta itself; neither, however, provides a download link. But Information Is Beautiful has compiled a spreadsheet of the board’s 80+ decisions through early February, supporting a visualization of the cases’ topics and outcomes over time. [h/t Data Science Community Newsletter]
|
https://oversightboard.com/
https://oversightboard.com/decision/
https://transparency.fb.com/oversight/oversight-board-cases/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kz7nYnfTM3al6dIJgqYwR4DMPal5d37vKPOBAqD3mRY/edit#gid=655704690
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/facebook-meta-oversight-board-decisions-major-rulings/
|
https://mailchi.mp/academicdatascience/dscn-289?e=10da2781dd
| 0.694824 | -0.005197 | 2,038 | 8,172 | 58 | -1 |
Political Data and Analysis
| false |
1,829 |
2024.03.20
| 5 |
Aviation waypoints.
|
For his recent exploration of the FAA’s aviation maps, Beautiful Public Data’s Jon Keegan has turned the agency’s list of 67,000+ navigation waypoints into a downloadable dataset. “Often these waypoint names will reflect the culture, food or sports teams of the city they are near,” Keegan writes. “Off the coast of New England, there is LBSTA and WHALE. Boston’s sports legacy gave us BOSOX, BRUWN, CELTS, PATSS, FENWY, ORRRR and BORQE. Salem has WITCH, and Plymouth has PLGRM.”
|
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/faa-aviation-maps/
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/
https://www.threads.net/@jonkeeganstories
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/loc_id_search/fixes_waypoints/
https://github.com/jonkeegan/faa-navigation-waypoints
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=ME&keyword=LBSTA
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=WHALE
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=BOSOX
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=BRUWN
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=CELTS
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=PATSS
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=FENWY
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=ORRRR
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=BORQE
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=WITCH
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=PLGRM
| null | -0.522369 | 0.109455 | 2,255 | 9,118 | 50 | 50 |
Urban Transit Data
| false |
1,830 |
2024.03.20
| 1 |
Institutional investments.
|
If you’re an institutional investor with US operations and managing at least $100 million in publicly traded securities, the Securities and Exchange Commission requires you to file Form 13F each quarter. (The biggest filers — such as Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street — have trillions of dollars invested.) These filings, available to download going back to mid-2013, detail each investor’s long positions for each security: their number of shares, market value, security type, issuer name, CUSIP code, and more. As seen in: Michigan teenager Anonyo Noor’s wallstreetlocal.com, which aggregates the data, matches it to additional information, and provides a search interface.
|
https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/form-13f-reports-filed-institutional-investment
https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/form-13f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUSIP
https://github.com/leftmove
https://www.wallstreetlocal.com/
https://github.com/leftmove/wallstreetlocal
| null | 0.251722 | -0.139744 | 1,768 | 7,120 | 62 | 62 |
Government Financial Data
| false |
1,831 |
2024.03.20
| 2 |
Human development, indexed.
|
Perhaps the best-known metric of its kind, the United Nations’ Human Development Index combines statistics on life expectancy, income per capita, and years of schooling into a single number for each country-year. The UN provides downloads and an API for all annual HDI ratings and sub-components for 1990 to 2022. Those resources also feature data from related indices, such as the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, Gender Development Index, and Gender Inequality Index. [h/t Michael A. Rice]
|
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/documentation-and-downloads
https://api.hdrdata.org/swagger/index.html
https://hdr.undp.org/inequality-adjusted-human-development-index#/indicies/IHDI
https://hdr.undp.org/gender-development-index#/indicies/GDI
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/thematic-composite-indices/gender-inequality-index#/indicies/GII
| null | -0.004711 | -0.036236 | 1,951 | 7,871 | 60 | 60 |
International Economic Databases
| false |
1,832 |
2024.03.20
| 3 |
Extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh.
|
Between 2009 and 2022, “Bangladesh’s security forces killed at least 2,597 people in apparent extrajudicial executions, custodial torture, and by firing bullets at protesters,” according to Nazmul Ahasan’s analysis for Netra News, building on data “compiled by Bangladeshi human rights defenders and collated by the Australia-based Capital Punishment Justice Project.” Ahasan and colleagues “independently verified more than 98% of the cases in the dataset using press reports and subsequently updated any incomplete data.” The records are available as a table in the article and as a JSON file. Each entry includes the victim’s name (if known), incident date, description, location, agencies involved, purported justification, and news source. As seen in: The 2024 Sigma Awards.
|
https://nazmulahasan.com/
https://interactive.netra.news/extrajudicial-killings-bangladesh/
https://www.cpjp.org.au/resources/bangladesh
https://interactive.netra.news/extrajudicial-killings-bangladesh/data.json
https://www.sigmaawards.org/meet-the-winners-of-the-sigmas-2024-for-data-journalism/
| null | 0.261067 | -0.891528 | 232 | 848 | 10 | -1 |
Violence and Crime Databases
| false |
1,833 |
2024.03.20
| 4 |
Agri-environmental policies.
|
David Wuepper et al. have constructed a dataset of 6,000+ policies between 1960 and 2022 “at the intersection of agriculture and the environment, implemented not only by national entities but also by subnational and supranational entities, covering different instruments (for example, regulations, frameworks, payment programmes) and topics,” such as the US Safe Drinking Water Act, the Bavarian Forestry Law, and Tanzania’s 2009 Wildlife Conservation Act. Each entry lists the policy’s country, title, type, keywords, year implemented, description, and other details.
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-00945-8
https://zenodo.org/records/10842614
https://www.epa.gov/sdwa
https://www.fao.org/faolex/results/details/en/c/LEX-FAOC072608/
https://www.fao.org/faolex/results/details/en/c/LEX-FAOC097858/
| null | 0.388061 | -0.345011 | 1,324 | 5,336 | 27 | -1 |
Government Transparency Datasets
| false |
1,834 |
2024.03.20
| 5 |
Rolling Stone’s album rankings.
|
A new visual essay from The Pudding compares Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” lists from 2003, 2012, and 2020. A methodology note says the project began with a spreadsheet by Chris Eckert and eventually led the authors to develop a dataset of their own. Theirs lists every album in the rankings — its name, genre, release year, 2003/2012/2020 rank, the artist’s name, birth year, gender, and more — plus each year’s voters. [h/t Jason Kottke]
|
https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QguM-JM3LAJuZlnmY8aN0MutBJrZAzDs3aWZWTtF1WU/edit#gid=0
https://twitter.com/kennybloggins/status/1308568487888064518
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_Tdnm7S1oo8R9UNtdCVIY7bYASmf_cvMynOJTpKuHA/edit
|
https://kottke.org/24/03/0044194-from-the-pudding-a-visual
| 0.442609 | 0.727216 | 3,566 | 14,172 | 78 | -1 |
Music and Performance Databases
| false |
1,835 |
2024.04.03
| 1 |
Power outages.
|
Christa Brelsford et al. have compiled a county-level estimates of the number of US customers experiencing power outages at 15-minute intervals from 2014 to 2023. The records come from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s restricted-access Environment for Analysis of Geo-Located Energy Information, a “platform created to monitor electric utility customer outages from data gathered from public sources.” The data’s coverage has increased over time; by 2022, it represented 92% of customers in the 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. “The remaining 8% of customers belong to utilities which do not report outage information publicly in near-real time in a format that is currently accessible to EAGLE-I parsers,” the authors write. “These are most typically small, rural, municipal utilities which lack robust information technology infrastructure.”
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03095-5
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_Environment_for_Analysis_of_Geo-Located_Energy_Information_s_Recorded_Electricity_Outages_2014-2022/24237376
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory
https://www.energy.gov/oe/articles/doe-announces-transition-eagle-i-oak-ridge-national-laboratory-ornl-taking-advantage
| null | -0.993714 | 0.453939 | 2,944 | 11,904 | 22 | 22 |
Energy Data Resources
| false |
1,836 |
2024.04.03
| 2 |
European Parliament activity.
|
Parltrack keeps tabs on 4,000+ active and prior members of the European Parliament, 23,000+ policy dossiers, 39,000+ votes, and much more. The project, launched in 2011, scrapes data from various official websites and links it together — so that you can see, for example, any given member’s dossiers, committee roles, and activities such as plenary speeches and proposed legislative amendments. Its bulk datasets are updated daily and include details beyond what the online interfaces offer. [h/t Stefan Marsiske]
|
https://parltrack.org/
https://parltrack.org/mep/118859/Roberta%20METSOLA#/dossiers
https://parltrack.org/mep/125106/Johan%20VAN%20OVERTVELDT#/committees
https://parltrack.org/mep/96864/David%20Maria%20SASSOLI#/activities
https://parltrack.eu/dumps
|
https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/1102#issuecomment-1974961493
| 0.785051 | -0.358667 | 1,337 | 5,362 | 31 | 31 |
Political Data Datasets
| false |
1,837 |
2024.04.03
| 3 |
Candid animals.
|
The Labeled Information Library of Alexandria data repository is “intended as a resource for both machine learning (ML) researchers and those that want to harness ML for biology and conservation.” Its datasets include millions of images, mostly captured by motion-triggered cameras. Its North American Camera Trap Images dataset, for instance, “contains 3.7M camera trap images from five locations across the United States, with labels for 28 animal categories, primarily at the species level.” Read more: “Machine learning to classify animal species in camera trap images: Applications in ecology.” [h/t Corin Faife]
|
https://lila.science/
https://lila.science/datasets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_trap
https://lila.science/datasets/nacti
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13120
|
https://corinfaife.co/
| -0.160953 | 0.935153 | 3,930 | 15,797 | 3 | 3 |
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
| false |
1,838 |
2024.04.03
| 4 |
LLM data provenance.
|
The Data Provenance Initiative “is a multi-disciplinary volunteer effort to improve transparency, documentation, and responsible use of training datasets for AI.” Its first release, the Data Provenance Collection, catalogs dozens of corpora used for fine-tuning large language models, as well as their component datasets’ names, task categories, known sources, licensing, various text metrics, and more. Related: Yang Liu et al.’s “Datasets for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey,” accompanied by semi-structured descriptions of hundreds of training and evaluation datasets. [h/t u/cavedave]
|
https://www.dataprovenance.org/
https://github.com/Data-Provenance-Initiative/Data-Provenance-Collection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16787
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuning_(deep_learning)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18041
https://github.com/lmmlzn/Awesome-LLMs-Datasets
|
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/1b34189/datasets_for_large_language_models_a/
| 0.696982 | 0.383895 | 2,870 | 11,372 | 71 | 71 |
Datasets and Corpora
| false |
1,839 |
2024.04.03
| 5 |
Deaths in plague-era London.
|
Death by Numbers, also known as the Bills of Mortality Project, aims to transcribe ~8,000 official weekly tallies of deaths in London published in the 1600s and 1700s. Initially focused on plague deaths, the reports expanded to “dozens of other causes of death, such as childbirth, measles, syphilis, and suicide, ensuring their continued publication for decades after the final outbreak of plague in England.” The project’s data are available to browse online, to download, and via API. [h/t Derek M. Jones + Cody Winchester]
|
https://deathbynumbers.org/
https://deathbynumbers.org/about/
https://datascribe.tech/casestudies/DataScribe_BillsOfMortality_CaseStudy.pdf
https://deathbynumbers.org/database/
https://deathbynumbers.org/data/
https://deathbynumbers.org/api/
|
http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
https://codywinchester.com/
| -0.134956 | -0.772246 | 475 | 1,847 | 15 | 15 |
Mortality Data and Analysis
| false |
1,840 |
2024.04.10
| 1 |
Opioid settlement payouts.
|
KFF Health News has been following the slew of legal settlements by companies accused of exacerbating the opioid crisis. Last week, they published an interactive and downloadable database of payouts to state and local governments so far (and expected in the future) from the largest national settlement, “a $26 billion deal with four companies that will be paid out over nearly two decades.” The data, gathered from the court-appointed firm administering the settlement, include overall numbers for 48 states and DC, plus locality-level data for 35 states. (Los Angeles County, for instance, received $47 million in 2022 and 2023, with another $210 million expected in years to come.) Learn more: A webinar scheduled for tomorrow, in which reporter Aneri Pattani “will discuss the data and how it can help you launch into coverage of the historic opioid settlement story.”
|
https://kffhealthnews.org/opioid-settlements/
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlement-payouts-state-county-city-tracker/
https://kffhealthnews.org/download-the-data-opioid-settlement-payouts/
https://www.nationalopioidofficialsettlement.com/Home/StateAllocationAmounts
https://kff-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErduqrqjosHNRXNTNnY6jfmiPTUamwtkRo%20/#/registration
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7183116733463855104/
| null | -0.460918 | -0.558882 | 913 | 3,618 | 45 | 45 |
Healthcare Data and Transparency
| false |
1,841 |
2024.04.10
| 2 |
Groundwater wells.
|
Despite the infrastructural importance of groundwater wells, “a unified database collecting and standardizing information on the characteristics and locations of these wells across the United States has been lacking,” Chung-Yi Lin et al. write. “To bridge this gap, we have created a comprehensive database of groundwater well records collected from state and federal agencies.” Their United States Groundwater Well Database contains ~14 million records, each indicating a well equipped for monitoring or extracting water. Where available, each row lists the well’s coordinates, county, aquifer, watershed, depth, capacity, water use category, water potability, and more. [h/t Derek M. Jones]
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03186-3
https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/8b02895f02c14dd1a749bcc5584a5c55/
|
http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
| -0.713992 | 0.619525 | 3,273 | 13,202 | 25 | 25 |
Water Resources Data
| false |
1,842 |
2024.04.10
| 3 |
Work-injury laws.
|
Nate Breznau and Felix Lanver’s Global Work-Injury Policy Database tracks the history of work-injury laws (also known as workers’ compensation laws) in 186 “independent nation states.” For each, the database lists the year of its first such law, the year a law first provided insurance for work-related injuries, the type of program it established, and more. It also incorporates data on current laws’ coverage and payment rates from Kenneth Nelson et al.’s Social Insurance Entitlements dataset.
|
https://sites.google.com/site/nbreznau/
https://www.socium.uni-bremen.de/about-the-socium/members/felix-lanver/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IVKYIE
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijsw.12418
https://www.su.se/social-policy-indicators-database/data?open-collapse-boxes=ccbd-socialinsuranceentitlementsdatasetsied
| null | -0.135226 | -0.412496 | 1,179 | 4,791 | 66 | -1 |
Occupational and Workforce Data
| false |
1,843 |
2024.04.10
| 4 |
Colonial empire timelines.
|
The Colonial Dates Dataset, compiled by political scientist Bastian Becker, “aggregates information on the reach and duration of European colonial empires from renowned secondary sources.” Producing the dataset from its four main sources “is largely automated, relying on predefined coding rules.” The dataset indicates the first and last years each contemporary country was colonized, disaggregated by eight colonizing countries (Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain). [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]
|
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/T9SDEW
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/apvqm
https://www.beckerbastian.net/
|
https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/db18d4f1be51741c169e6452a9bca38520dde682
| 0.00432 | 0.226275 | 2,528 | 10,048 | 47 | -1 |
Historical Data Datasets
| false |
1,844 |
2024.04.10
| 5 |
Things flung spaceward.
|
The UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs maintains an Online Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, based on a similarly-named register, itself mandated by a similarly-named convention, which went into force in 1976. Presented as an HTML table, the index lists 17,000+ satellites, spacecraft, probes, and other objects’ names, launching countries, statuses, launch dates, and more. As seen in: Our World In Data’s chart of the annual number of objects launched. [h/t Chartr]
|
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/index.html
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/osoindex/search-ng.jspx
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/spaceobjectregister/index.html
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/registration-convention.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Convention
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space
|
https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/2024-03-22
| -0.515172 | 0.973656 | 4,047 | 16,159 | 33 | 33 |
Space Exploration Datasets
| false |
1,845 |
2024.04.17
| 1 |
Unregulated water contaminants.
|
Through the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, the Environmental Protection Agency “collect[s] data for contaminants that are suspected to be present in drinking water and do not have health-based standards set under the Safe Drinking Water Act.” The current version of the rule requires public water systems to test for lithium and 29 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS. (Prior iterations, which go back to the early 2000s, have tested for other contaminants.) The EPA publishes the data collected, with the most detailed files listing each sample, its public water system, facility, sampling point, sample date, contaminant tested, concentration detected, and more. Related: Last week, the EPA finalized its first-ever limits for PFAS in drinking water. [h/t Lisa Sorg]
|
https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/learn-about-unregulated-contaminant-monitoring-rule
https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/fifth-unregulated-contaminant-monitoring-rule
https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained
https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/occurrence-data-unregulated-contaminant-monitoring-rule
https://apnews.com/article/forever-chemicals-pfas-pollution-epa-drinking-water-1c8804288413a73bb7b99fc866c8fa51
|
https://ncnewsline.com/author/lisa-sorg/
| -0.672866 | 0.452349 | 2,954 | 11,796 | 21 | -1 |
Climate Data and Emissions
| false |
1,846 |
2024.04.17
| 2 |
Border crossings.
|
Michael R. Kenwick et al.’s Border Crossings of the World dataset “explores state authority spatially by collecting information about infrastructure built where highways cross internationally recognized borders.” Using satellite imagery, the team’s researchers identified the locations of gates, official buildings, and split-lane inspection facilities annually from the 1990s onward. An accompanying dataset calculates a “border orientation” score that summarizes the “extent to which the State is committed to the spatial display of capacities to control the terms of penetration of its national borders.” [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]
|
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00223433221145582
https://mkenwick.com/datameasurement/#borders
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/RRV0JZ
|
https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/c46f0ae069a2ccdd28d47ec17c254c80c3babcbe
| -0.362957 | 0.207151 | 2,452 | 9,896 | 51 | -1 |
Surveillance and Mapping Data
| false |
1,847 |
2024.04.17
| 3 |
Earthquakes felt.
|
The US Geological Survey’s Did You Feel It? initiative allows members of the public to report their ground-shaking experiences. The agency’s web pages for individual earthquakes — such as this page for the April 5 tremor that rattled NYC — feature downloadable geographic and longitudinal data that USGS has aggregated from the reports. The agency also publishes a map of annual intensities. Tip: This search lists earthquakes in 2024 that received at least 1,000 reports. [h/t Philip Bump]
|
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/tellus
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkww7puZ_I
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/dyfi/intensity
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/background.php
https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9310990e7ce84e3b8567109616b0944d
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-88.15623,-155.39063&extent=88.14489,515.39063&range=search&timeZone=utc&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22starttime%22:%222024-01-01%2000:00:00%22,%22endtime%22:%222024-12-31%2023:59:59%22,%22minfelt%22:1000,%22orderby%22:%22time%22%7D%7D
|
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?s=661155ac1761ef08c051a621
| -0.732389 | 0.794717 | 3,656 | 14,609 | 29 | 29 |
Disaster and Flood Data
| false |
1,848 |
2024.04.17
| 4 |
Automated decision-making in government.
|
The UK nonprofit Public Law Project last year launched the Tracking Automated Government Register, which describes automated systems that government agencies there use “to make or inform decisions on a range of sensitive policy areas, including how people are policed, what benefits they receive, and their immigration status.” It currently lists 55 systems, their names, purposes, agencies in charge, policy areas, transparency level, potential unequal impacts, and more. Last week, Western University’s Joanna Redden and colleagues launched a version for Canada, listing 303 systems.
|
https://publiclawproject.org.uk/what-we-do/
https://publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/the-tracking-automated-government-register/
https://trackautomatedgovernment.shinyapps.io/register/
https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/joanna_redden.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-used-ai-1.7170307
https://tagcanada.shinyapps.io/register/
| null | 0.38025 | -0.296922 | 1,452 | 5,720 | 27 | -1 |
Government Transparency Datasets
| false |
1,849 |
2024.04.17
| 5 |
Aerial obstacles.
|
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Obstacles Team “investigates and evaluates existing obstacles that may be hazardous to safe flight navigation,” such as tall buildings, windmills, water tanks, utility poles, amusement parks, monuments, blimps, and other structures. Its Daily Digital Obstacle File contains 580,000+ entries, which it says provides full coverage of the US and partial coverage of Canada, Mexico, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. It lists each obstacle’s type, country, state, city, coordinates, height, type of lighting, and more. [h/t Michael Allen]
|
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/obst_data/
https://clui.org/projects/lighter-air-exploring-landscape-helium/tethered-aerostats-usa/cudjoe-key-tars
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/DailyDOF/
|
https://carts.lsu.edu/about/staff/1
| -0.653055 | -0.041356 | 1,931 | 7,830 | 39 | -1 |
Aviation Data and Regulations
| false |
1,850 |
2024.04.24
| 1 |
Public procurement.
|
The Global Public Procurement Dataset provides standardized data on 72 million government contracts in 42 countries. The dataset, constructed from official sources by the Budapest-based Government Transparency Institute, represents $17 trillion in total procurement. It begins in the 2000s for most of the countries and concludes in 2021. For each contract, it provides information about the tender (title, procedure type, product code, publication date, award date, final price, currency, etc.), government buyer, bidders’ names and locations, and more. The downloadable files are split into two repositories. The US, Italy, Brazil, Poland, and Colombia have the most contracts represented. Previously: The Open Contracting Partnership’s data registry (DIP 2023.03.08) and data standard (DIP 2020.02.26).
|
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924003810
https://www.govtransparency.eu/
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/fwzpywbhgw/3
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/w9mzf4vswh/3
https://www.open-contracting.org/
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-03-08-edition/
https://www.open-contracting.org/data-standard/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-02-26-edition/
| null | 0.354451 | -0.130194 | 1,771 | 7,126 | 61 | 61 |
Government Financial Datasets
| false |
1,851 |
2024.04.24
| 2 |
Chain locations and more.
|
All The Places is “a growing set of web scrapers designed to output consistent geodata about as many places of business in the world as possible.” During its latest weekly run, the project’s 2,400+ open-source scrapers collected data on nearly 5 million locations. They include postal collection boxes, ATMs, various fast food chains and chain stores, gas stations, and more. The results are available on an interactive map, to download in bulk, and by location type. Related: Journalist Matt Stiles maintains a collection of US-focused scrapers gathering the locations of dozens of chain stores and restaurants, with Python notebooks for each scraper. [h/t Forest Gregg + Sharon Machlis]
|
https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/
https://github.com/alltheplaces/alltheplaces
https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/map/
https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/builds
https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/spiders
https://mattstiles.me/
https://github.com/stiles/locations/
|
https://mastodon.social/@fgregg
https://masto.machlis.com/@smach
| -0.120335 | 0.38482 | 2,844 | 11,320 | 43 | 43 |
Geolocation and Dataset Projects
| false |
1,852 |
2024.04.24
| 3 |
Wholesale electricity markets.
|
The US Energy Information Administration recently launched a Wholesale Electricity Market Portal, providing visualizations and downloads of market data from regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs) — the country’s electric-grid coordinating entities. The data include “day-ahead” electricity prices, real-time prices, actual/forecasted load and demand, fuel mix by time, and local temperatures. Learn more: A 30-minute introductory video from the EIA.
|
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61804
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesalemarkets/index.php
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesalemarkets/data.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_transmission_organization_(North_America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8YH-338fXU
| null | -0.966415 | 0.413911 | 2,881 | 11,522 | 22 | 22 |
Energy Data Resources
| false |
1,853 |
2024.04.24
| 4 |
Food-system indicators.
|
The Food Systems Countdown Initiative produces “annual publications to measure, assess, and track the performance of global food systems toward 2030 and the conclusion of the Sustainable Development Goals.” As part of that work, its Food Systems Dashboard incorporates 275 metrics from dozens of sources about countries’ food availability, affordability, supply chains, safety, and related topics. Examples include protein supply per capita, number of supermarkets per capita, trans fat regulations, and food safety poll results. [h/t Jan Willem Tulp]
|
https://www.foodcountdown.org/
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/information/data-sources-and-methodology
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/indicators/food-environments/food-availability/average-protein-supply-3-year-average/map
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/indicators/food-environments/vendor-properties/supermarkets-per-100000-population/map
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/indicators/food-supply-chains/processing-and-packaging/mandatory-removal-of-trans-fats-in-food-products/map
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/indicators/food-environments/food-safety/percent-who-believe-the-government-does-a-good-job-ensuring-food-safety/map
|
https://tulpinteractive.com/
| -0.220032 | 0.436697 | 2,904 | 11,697 | 36 | 36 |
Agricultural Data and Analysis
| false |
1,854 |
2024.04.24
| 5 |
Three-dimensional natural history.
|
At MorphoSource, you can “find, view, and download 3D data representing the world’s natural history, cultural heritage, and scientific collections.” The service hosts 82,000+ 3D models you can view online; roughly half can be downloaded without prior approval. As described in a recent BioScience article, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s openVertebrate project used MorphoSource to share 3D models and volumetric CT scans of 10,000+ amphibian, reptile, fish, bird, and mammal specimens. [h/t Duncan Geere]
|
https://www.morphosource.org/
https://www.morphosource.org/catalog/media?f%5Bhuman_readable_media_type_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Mesh&locale=en
https://www.morphosource.org/catalog/media?f%5Bhuman_readable_media_type_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Mesh&f.publication_status=Open+Download&locale=en
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/74/3/169/7615104
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Museum_of_Natural_History
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/overt/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-ct-scanned-thousands-of-natural-history-specimens-which-you-can-access-for-free/
https://www.morphosource.org/projects/000368762
|
https://www.duncangeere.com/
| -0.141398 | 0.893545 | 3,867 | 15,542 | 3 | 3 |
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
| false |
1,855 |
2024.05.01
| 1 |
Prison commissary prices.
|
Through a series of public records requests, reporters at The Appeal have constructed the “first national database of prison commissary lists,” based on documents provided by 46 states. The database contains three tables. The first links to, and provides metadata about, each list. The second summarizes each state’s prices for two dozen types of products — such as ramen, toothpaste, and rosary beads — across three categories: food, personal care/hygiene, and religious items. The third table provides 2,200+ commissary-specific prices for those products. Read more: “Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated,” by reporters Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey. [h/t JQ Whitcomb]
|
https://theappeal.org/
https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-commissary-database-methodology/
https://theappeal.org/commissary-database/
https://github.com/the-appeal/commissary-data/
https://github.com/the-appeal/commissary-data/blob/main/data/commissary-lists-20240417.csv
https://github.com/the-appeal/commissary-data/blob/main/data/commissary-summaries-20240417.csv
https://github.com/the-appeal/commissary-data/blob/main/data/commissary-prices-20240417.csv
https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/
https://theappeal.org/authors/elizabeth-weill-greenberg/
https://theappeal.org/authors/ethan-corey/
|
https://jqwhitcomb.com/
| 0.046233 | -0.918311 | 161 | 706 | 7 | -1 |
Incarceration Data and Research
| false |
1,856 |
2024.05.01
| 2 |
Historical markers.
|
Launched in 2006, the Historical Marker Database “is an illustrated searchable online catalog of historical information viewed through the filter of […] permanent outdoor markers, monuments, and plaques.” The crowdsourced project has documented 195,000+ markers in the US, plus thousands more in Canada, Mexico, the UK, and elsewhere. You can browse them by location and by topic, and download data corresponding to each collection. You can also search by person, keyword, historical date, and other attributes. As seen in: “Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong,” by NPR’s Laura Sullivan and Nick McMillan, with associated data analysis. [h/t Walt Hickey]
|
https://www.hmdb.org/about.asp
https://www.hmdb.org/
https://www.hmdb.org/faq.asp
https://www.hmdb.org/geolists.asp
https://www.hmdb.org/categories.asp
https://www.hmdb.org/search.asp
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/21/1244899635/civil-war-confederate-statue-markers-sign-history
https://www.npr.org/people/4624985/laura-sullivan
https://www.npr.org/people/1083208720/nick-mcmillan
https://github.com/NPR-investigations/off-the-mark
|
https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-april-22-2024-ghosts
| 0.085912 | 0.430177 | 2,914 | 11,717 | 44 | -1 |
Diverse Research Databases
| false |
1,857 |
2024.05.01
| 3 |
Biological numbers.
|
BioNumbers wants “you to find in one minute any useful molecular biology number that can be important for your research.” As its creators Ron Milo et al. described in 2010, those numbers “range from cell sizes to metabolite concentrations, from reaction rates to generation times, from genome sizes to the number of mitochondria in a cell.” You can search, browse, and download more than 14,000 entries. Each includes a number and/or range, units and method of measurement, relevant organism, and source. For instance: The diameter of an e. coli cell is 1-1.1 micrometers, the lifespan of a human red blood cell is 70-140 days, and a chicken’s genome has 1.05 billion base pairs.
|
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/search.aspx
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2808940/
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/browse.aspx
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/resources.aspx
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=100002&ver=12&trm=100002&org=
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=112478&ver=0&trm=red+blood+cell&org=a
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=100282&ver=6&trm=genome&org=
| null | -0.000343 | 0.878806 | 3,871 | 15,423 | 0 | 0 |
Biological Databases and Analysis
| false |
1,858 |
2024.05.01
| 4 |
Openly-licensed video transcripts.
|
The YouTube-Commons dataset, built by a French startup, contains 15 million original and auto-translated audio transcripts from 2 million Creative Commons–licensed YouTube videos, sourced from 400,000+ channels. The dataset indicates each video’s YouTube ID, title, channel, and date, as well as each transcript’s original language, translated language, word count, and character count. Translations are available primarily in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. [h/t Data Machina]
|
https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/YouTube-Commons
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/
|
https://datamachina.substack.com/p/data-machina-250
| 0.749365 | 0.580548 | 3,255 | 13,039 | 49 | -1 |
Language Data and Research
| false |
1,859 |
2024.05.01
| 5 |
Agatha Christie’s bibliography.
|
Nicole Mark has compiled a dataset of Agatha Christie’s published stories, covering 75 novels, 154 short stories, and 22 short story collections. The spreadsheets provide each work’s title and the character-based series to which it belongs (e.g., Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, etc.). The novel and collection entries also indicate their year of initial publication, while the short-story entries list the collections that included them.
|
https://www.nicoledesignsdata.net/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A8ZRe5KLLAllhT31pCzke4j5qAPqeMKf0jYgyJXcoPs/edit#gid=0
| null | 0.586501 | 0.640438 | 3,378 | 13,413 | 76 | -1 |
Data Collections and Analyses
| false |
1,860 |
2024.05.08
| 1 |
US greenhouse gas accounting.
|
The Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, published annually by the EPA, “provides a comprehensive accounting of total greenhouse gas emissions for all man-made sources in the United States,” as well as the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere attributable to “land use, land-use change, and forestry.” The reports contain a slew of data tables. Those in the latest edition, which covers 1990 through 2022, include total emissions by year and economic sector; transportation-related emissions by vehicle type and gas emitted; removals by land-use category; and more. Previously: EPA’s facility-level emissions data (DIP 2023.09.20). [h/t Ben Young et al.]
|
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/us-greenhouse-gas-inventory-report-archive
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks-1990-2022
https://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do#/facility/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-09-20-edition/
|
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924001446
| -0.814537 | 0.330521 | 2,693 | 10,891 | 21 | 21 |
Climate Data and Emissions
| false |
1,861 |
2024.05.08
| 2 |
Emergency room visits.
|
The CDC’s National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, conducted annually since 1992, is based on patient records from a strategic sample of emergency department visits in “noninstitutional general and short-stay hospitals”. Its public, anonymized data indicate the patient’s time of arrival, length of wait, and length of visit; the their demographic information, vital signs, and reasons for visiting; the hospital’s diagnoses, medications given, tests and procedures conducted; and much more. The most recent release includes 16,000+ visits that occurred in 2021. As seen in: “Grabbing the NHAMCS emergency room data in python,” a blog post by Andrew P. Wheeler.
|
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/about_ahcd.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/datasets_documentation_related.htm
https://andrewpwheeler.com/2024/03/30/grabbing-the-nhamcs-emergency-room-data-in-python/
https://andrewpwheeler.com/about/
| null | -0.358372 | -0.525577 | 980 | 3,881 | 45 | -1 |
Healthcare Data and Transparency
| false |
1,862 |
2024.05.08
| 3 |
Global entrepreneurship.
|
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, active since 1999, considers itself “the world’s foremost study of entrepreneurship.” A collaboration between Babson College and the London Business School, the project publishes national and response-level data from two main surveys. The Adult Population Survey, answered over the years by millions of respondents around the world, examines “the characteristics, motivations and ambitions of individuals starting businesses, as well as social attitudes towards entrepreneurship.” The National Expert Survey, meanwhile, assesses factors such as access to financing, physical infrastructure, and government support.
|
https://www.gemconsortium.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babson_College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Business_School
https://www.gemconsortium.org/data
https://www.gemconsortium.org/data/sets?id=aps
https://www.gemconsortium.org/data/sets?id=nes
https://www.gemconsortium.org/wiki/1154
| null | 0.18456 | -0.051695 | 1,957 | 7,755 | 60 | 60 |
International Economic Databases
| false |
1,863 |
2024.05.08
| 4 |
Video gaming layoffs.
|
Game Industry Layoffs, run by @dekaf, lists known staffing cuts at video game studios, publishers, and related companies. Each entry provides the company’s name, type, parent company (for subsidiaries), layoff date, estimated number of employees laid off, and source link. In 2023, the site tallied 10,000+ employees affected by 170+ layoffs; in 2024 so far, the employee count is already nearly that high, spread across ~100 layoffs. As seen in: “Visualizing Games Industry Layoffs,” by Ben Oldenburg. [h/t Vivien Serve]
|
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/
https://twitter.com/dekaf
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Misc/About+%26+Contact
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2023
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2024
https://observablehq.com/@benoldenburg/visualizing-games-industry-layoffs
https://oldenburg.design
|
https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-march-26-2024/
| 0.086787 | -0.343823 | 1,314 | 5,317 | 69 | 69 |
Education Data and Analysis
| false |
1,864 |
2024.05.08
| 5 |
Poisonous book bindings.
|
As recently as the 1800s, green pigments containing arsenic were in fairly wide use. The Arsenical Books Database — part of the Winterthur Museum and the University of Delaware’s Poison Book Project — has identified hundreds of examples of 19th-century books that used these colorants in their covers and other binding components. The database lists each book’s title, author, imprint, publication year, arsenical material, testing method, and owner. [h/t Tom Merritt Smith]
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_Green
https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/arsenical-books-database/
https://www.winterthur.org/
https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/
|
https://tmerrittsmith.github.io/
| 0.269368 | 0.543559 | 3,176 | 12,625 | 42 | -1 |
Sports Data Collections
| false |
1,865 |
2024.05.15
| 1 |
Unaccompanied migrant children.
|
The New York Times’ Hannah Dreier was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last week for a “series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States—and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it.” That reporting, Dreier has noted, was partly driven by data she obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services via a FOIA request and lawsuit. The dataset, published in December along with visualizations, describes the placement of 550,000+ unaccompanied migrant children with local sponsors between January 2015 and May 2023: each child’s country of origin, gender, date of entry, and date of release to a sponsor, plus the sponsor’s ZIP code and relationship to the child. Read more: “The data pointed to spots I never would have thought of: Flandreau, South Dakota; Parksley, Virginia; Bozeman, Montana,” Dreier says.
|
https://www.hannahdreier.com/
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/hannah-dreier-new-york-times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/insider/searching-for-the-faces-of-child-migrant-labor.html
https://github.com/nytimes/hhs-child-migrant-data
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/28/us/migrants-children-data.html
https://journalistsresource.org/media/migrant-children-labor-abuse-goldmith/
| null | -0.02667 | -0.51372 | 991 | 4,030 | 19 | 19 |
Migration and Policy Data
| false |
1,866 |
2024.05.15
| 2 |
Greenhouse gas giants.
|
Carbon Majors, run by the UK-based InfluenceMap, “is a database of historical production data from 122 of the world’s largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers.” It attributes to these producers 1,421 metric gigatons of CO2-equivalent emissions from 1854 through 2022. Launched last month, the database provides downloads at several levels of granularity. The least granular version indicates the emissions calculated for each entity-year combination. The most granular version breaks those emissions down by commodity produced, quantity of commodity produced, emitting activity, and reporting entity.
|
https://carbonmajors.org/
https://influencemap.org/
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary:Carbon_dioxide_equivalent
https://carbonmajors.org/briefing/The-Carbon-Majors-Database-26913
https://carbonmajors.org/Downloads
| null | -0.797831 | 0.317699 | 2,694 | 10,764 | 21 | 21 |
Climate Data and Emissions
| false |
1,867 |
2024.05.15
| 3 |
1 million ChatGPT conversations.
|
The WildChat Dataset, constructed by Wenting Zhao et al., “is a corpus of 1 million real-world user-ChatGPT interactions, characterized by a wide range of languages and a diversity of user prompts.” The researchers, primarily affiliated with Cornell and the Allen Institute for AI, built it “by offering free access to ChatGPT and GPT-4 in exchange for consensual chat history collection.” Each of the 1 million rows in the dataset represents a conversation and provides its text, main language, timestamp of its conclusion, underlying model used, moderation results, inferred country, and more. [h/t Data Machina]
|
https://wildchat.allen.ai/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01470
https://allenai.org/
https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/WildChat-1M
|
https://datamachina.substack.com/p/data-machina-251-aed
| 0.745184 | 0.520479 | 3,127 | 12,527 | 49 | -1 |
Language Data and Research
| false |
1,868 |
2024.05.15
| 4 |
England sewage discharge.
|
The UK’s Environment Agency collects data from utility companies regarding sewage-discharging storm overflows in England. The records, available for 2020–2023, list every reported overflow event, its timing and location, number of detected discharges, discharge points, and much more. Related: Wales overflow data are available from other sources. As seen in: Maps from The Rivers Trust, Surfers Against Sewage, and The Guardian. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo + James Cheshire + Hugh Graham]
|
https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/21e15f12-0df8-4bfc-b763-45226c16a8ac
https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/about-us/ofwat-and-the-environment/pollution-and-water-quality/storm-overflows-explainer/
https://corporate.dwrcymru.com/en/community/environment/event-duration-monitoring
https://www.hdcymru.co.uk/regulatory-library/regulatory-library/
https://theriverstrust.org/sewage-map
https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/sewage-pollution-alerts/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/mar/27/englands-sewage-crisis-how-polluted-is-your-local-river-and-which-regions-are-worst-hit
|
https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/558-quantum-of-sollazzo/
https://nightingaledvs.com/sewage-alerts-the-long-history-of-using-maps-to-hold-water-companies-to-account/
https://twitter.com/hughagraham/status/1454025196940181504
| -0.696985 | 0.741022 | 3,529 | 14,227 | 29 | -1 |
Disaster and Flood Data
| false |
1,869 |
2024.05.15
| 5 |
Los Angeles street trees.
|
Journalist Matt Stiles has been using public records requests and official portals to compile data on 1.6 million street trees in 40+ Los Angeles County municipalities. The information varies by city but generally includes the tree’s coordinates and species, often also with measurements such as height and trunk diameter. Previously: Street trees in DIP 2022.09.07, DIP 2020.11.18, DIP 2018.08.08, and DIP 2016.11.16.
|
https://mattstiles.me/
https://github.com/stiles/la-trees
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-09-07-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-11-18-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-08-08-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-11-16-edition/
| null | -0.490338 | 0.272253 | 2,576 | 10,400 | 52 | -1 |
Urban Infrastructure Datasets
| false |
1,870 |
2024.05.22
| 1 |
Federal court dockets.
|
Journalist Matt Clark has compiled a database of more than 350 million docket entries across more than 13 million cases in 180+ federal courts — including the majority of district, appellate, and bankruptcy courts. The records, which Clark collected through the RSS feeds that many federal courts provide, span 2013 to the near-present. Clark’s downloadable database provides information about each docket entry (time filed, entry number, description, and URL), case (number, name, type, and URL), and court. Although the database does not include the docketed documents themselves, they can be retrieved via PACER and the free RECAP archive, among other sources.
|
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-clark-3324896/
https://archive.org/details/federal-court-dockets
https://pacer.uscourts.gov/help/faqs/how-can-i-receive-case-alerts-using-rss-feed
https://archive.org/download/federal-court-dockets
https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/how-to-read-a-docket-latest/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACER_(law)
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/
https://law.gwu.libguides.com/dockets
| null | 0.740628 | -0.673931 | 695 | 2,671 | 1 | 1 |
Legal Data Collections
| false |
1,871 |
2024.05.22
| 2 |
Amazon purchases.
|
The MIT Media Lab’s Alex Berke et al. have compiled “a first-of-its-kind dataset containing detailed purchase histories from 5027 U.S. Amazon.com consumers, spanning 2018 through 2022, with more than 1.8 million purchases […] crowdsourced through an online survey and shared with participants’ informed consent.” The published data include “order date, product code, title, price, quantity, and shipping address state,” and are “linked to survey data with information about participants’ demographics, lifestyle, and health.” The researchers found that a stratified subsample of the data demonstrated “expected seasonal trends and strong relationships to other public datasets.” [h/t Data Science Community Newsletter]
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03329-6
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13172
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/YGLYDY
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03329-6#Sec13
|
https://mailchi.mp/academicdatascience/dscn-17378990
| 0.468235 | 0.355864 | 2,798 | 11,101 | 70 | -1 |
Research Data and Datasets
| false |
1,872 |
2024.05.22
| 3 |
Security Council resolutions.
|
Seán Fobbe et al.’s Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council “collects and presents for the first time in human and machine-readable form all resolutions, drafts, and meeting records of the UN Security Council, including detailed metadata, as published by the UN Digital Library and revised by the authors.” It covers all 2,700+ resolutions from the council’s founding in 1946 through early 2024. In addition to providing the texts all six official UN languages, the dataset includes each resolution’s title, date, council votes, related meeting number, meeting transcript, keywords, countries of focus, and more. An auxiliary dataset represents the corpus’s internal citations as a directed graph. [h/t Sharon Machlis]
|
https://www.seanfobbe.com/posts/2024-05-06_new-dataset-corpus-of-resolutions-un-security-council/
https://zenodo.org/records/11212056
https://digitallibrary.un.org/
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/resolutions-0
https://www.seanfobbe.com/posts/2024-05-14_complete-citation-network-un-security-council-published/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_graph
|
https://masto.machlis.com/@smach
| 0.730676 | -0.365491 | 1,335 | 5,230 | 31 | 31 |
Political Data Datasets
| false |
1,873 |
2024.05.22
| 4 |
Satellite-aided rescues.
|
NOAA’s Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) program is part of an international collaboration to locate distress beacons activated (manually or automatically) by mariners, aviators, and wilderness explorers. The agency publishes annual maps of SARSAT-enabled rescues, along with data for the most recent year-plus. NOAA has also provided Data Is Plural with data for 2016–2022. The maps and data files contain each rescue’s date, category, description, beacon type, coordinates, and number of people saved. [h/t Dan Brady]
|
https://www.noaa.gov/
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/cospas-sarsat-system-overview/
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/emergency-406-beacons/
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/sarsat-us-rescues/
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9383e21a28f24135912aeecb0d2524bd
https://github.com/data-is-plural/sarsat-historical-rescues
| null | -0.651652 | 0.889785 | 3,851 | 15,382 | 28 | 28 |
Climate and Weather Datasets
| false |
1,874 |
2024.05.22
| 5 |
France and Italy’s protected wines.
|
Sebastian Candiago et al. have assembled a dataset of 5,400+ Italian and French wines granted Protected Designation of Origin status, restricting their production to specific geographies and methods. For each wine, the dataset lists its name, country, designated area, color, category, grape varieties used, maximum allowed yields, registration date, and more. Previously: Protected European ham and the EU’s register of protected indications (DIP 2023.05.24).
|
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924003779
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Quality_wines_in_Italy_and_France_a_dataset_of_protected_designation_of_origin_specifications/25393261
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_designation_of_origin
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2023.2187365
https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/eambrosia/geographical-indications-register/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-05-24-edition/
| null | -0.190972 | 0.434539 | 2,905 | 11,699 | 36 | 36 |
Agricultural Data and Analysis
| false |
1,875 |
2024.06.12
| 1 |
Interest group positions.
|
Galen Hall et al. have compiled a dataset of “over 13 million policy positions stated by tens of thousands of interest groups and individuals on bills in 17 state legislatures over the past 25 years.” The authors collected and standardized the data, which span 1997 to 2022, from lobbying and testimony disclosures. For each of those positions, the dataset indicates the relevant bill, client or individual represented, representative name, position phrase (for, against, monitoring, undecided, etc.), the date the position was reported, and more. It also provides details about each bill from Legiscan and the National Conference of State Legislatures, as well as client-industry categorizations from FollowTheMoney.org.
|
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/state-politics-and-policy-quarterly/article/chorus-a-new-dataset-of-state-interest-group-policy-positions-in-the-united-states/6827DC9EC72301016894F265777C0078
https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/RPU1QP
https://github.com/galenphall/chorus_data/blob/main/CODEBOOK.md
https://legiscan.com/datasets
https://www.ncsl.org/
https://www.followthemoney.org/
| null | 0.752806 | -0.271738 | 1,528 | 6,000 | 23 | -1 |
Legislative Data and Transparency
| false |
1,876 |
2024.06.12
| 2 |
State tax revenues.
|
How much money do US states collect through different types of taxes? The Census Bureau’s Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue provides these figures every three months, going back decades. The categories include taxes on property, income, general sales, sales of specific products (such as tobacco, alcohol, gas, and gambling), licenses, and more. For several years now, the agency has also published monthly data for a subset of those taxes. As seen in: “Which states make the most from sports betting? What about lotteries?” by the Washington Post’s Andrew Van Dam. Previously: The Census’s Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances (DIP 2020.11.18).
|
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/qtax.html
https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products/selected-monthly-state-sales-tax-collections.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/07/sports-betting-lottery-state-budgets/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/andrew-van-dam/
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/gov-finances.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-11-18-edition/
| null | -0.253447 | -0.164836 | 1,687 | 6,831 | 59 | -1 |
Economic Statistics Reports
| false |
1,877 |
2024.06.12
| 3 |
NYC shelter exits.
|
A 2022 law requires New York City to report the monthly number of individuals and families exiting the city’s shelter system. Unfortunately, the city publishes those reports only as PDFs and without a historical archive. Patrick Spauster has built a pipeline to download and preserve the reports, and to turn them into structured data. For each month since May 2023, each row indicates the number of exits for a particular city agency, family/person category, and destination type. The latter includes various kinds of permanent housing, transitional housing, medical facilities, as well as “unknown.” Read more: Spauster’s analysis of the data for City Limits. Previously: NYC shelter counts (DIP 2023.12.13).
|
https://patrickspauster.com/
https://github.com/pspauster/shelter-exits
https://github.com/pspauster/shelter-exits/tree/master/temporary_housing_reports
https://github.com/pspauster/shelter-exits/tree/master/data
https://citylimits.org/2024/05/14/exit-unknown-where-do-people-go-after-leaving-nyc-homeless-shelters/
https://github.com/anesta95/nyc_shelter_count
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-12-13-edition/
| null | -0.37935 | 0.023184 | 2,067 | 8,359 | 48 | 48 |
New York City Housing Data
| false |
1,878 |
2024.06.12
| 4 |
English women’s football.
|
The English Women’s Football Database “covers all matches played since the 2011 season for the highest division (the Women’s Super League) and since the 2014 season for the second-highest division (the Women’s Championship).” The project, built by Rob Clapp, lists the date, teams, score, attendance, division, tier, and season of each match, as well as each season’s final standings. Previously: Josh Fjelstul’s English Football Database (DIP 2023.02.01), which Clapp cites as inspiration.
|
https://github.com/probjects/ewf-database
https://x.com/rob_clapp
http://www.joshuafjelstul.com/
https://github.com/jfjelstul/englishfootball
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-02-01-edition/
| null | 0.212131 | 0.518634 | 3,110 | 12,493 | 42 | 42 |
Sports Data Collections
| false |
1,879 |
2024.06.12
| 5 |
Sudoku solves.
|
In the spirit of introspection, Sudoku enthusiast Vivek Rao has conducted a detailed analysis of his cell-by-cell performance on 100 puzzles from the New York Times’ daily offerings. The underlying data, collected via a custom browser extension that Rao built, indicates the order and timing of every cell he filled.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
https://vivrao9.github.io/
https://vivrao9.github.io/nyt-sudoku/
https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/sudoku
https://github.com/vivrao9/nyt-sudoku/blob/master/data-collection/doks_performance.csv
| null | 0.607698 | 0.475696 | 3,059 | 12,134 | 72 | 72 |
Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis
| false |
1,880 |
2024.06.26
| 1 |
Supreme gifts.
|
Fix the Court is a nonprofit that “advocates for non-ideological ‘fixes’ that would make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more open and more accountable to the American people.” Earlier this month, they published a series of spreadsheets tallying 500+ gifts accepted by the Supreme Court’s justices since 2000, with an estimated total value of $4.76 million. The findings “are largely based on last year’s groundbreaking work by ProPublica and includes data from stories in the New York Times, L.A. Times, the congressional record, annual disclosures,” and Fix the Court’s own work. The data indicate each gift’s year, recipient, description, giver, value, and the source of information. Previously: The Free Law Project’s database of federal judges’ financial disclosures (DIP 2021.10.20). Related: ProPublica’s interactive database of the current justices’ disclosures.
|
https://fixthecourt.com/about-us/
https://fixthecourt.com/2024/06/a-staggering-tally-supreme-court-justices-accepted-hundreds-of-gifts-worth-millions-of-dollars/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14l25NLvBOd9sk4mArK4k7dtV0MUwxr5GBuLHL5Sp8lo/edit
https://free.law/
https://free.law/2021/10/15/financial-disclosures-now-available-to-all-on-courtlistener
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-10-20-edition/
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/
| null | 0.735411 | -0.64462 | 759 | 2,927 | 1 | 1 |
Legal Data Collections
| false |
1,881 |
2024.06.26
| 2 |
Internet politics.
|
The Digital Society Project, founded in 2018 as a collaboration with the Varieties of Democracy initiative (DIP 2019.04.24), “aims to answer some of the most important questions surrounding interactions between the internet and politics.” To do so, they conduct surveys of experts and ask them questions such as: “How often does the government shut down domestic access to the Internet?” and “How often do domestic elites use social media to organize offline political action of any kind?” The survey’s downloadable datasets cover 170+ countries and provide aggregate metrics for each question. [h/t Donata Columbro]
|
https://digitalsocietyproject.org/
https://www.v-dem.net/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-04-24-edition/
https://digitalsocietyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSP-Codebook-v6.pdf
https://digitalsocietyproject.org/data/
|
https://www.tispiegoildato.it/p/le-raccomandazioni-algoritmiche-delle
| 0.629425 | -0.216158 | 1,652 | 6,504 | 23 | -1 |
Legislative Data and Transparency
| false |
1,882 |
2024.06.26
| 3 |
Federal rural investment.
|
The Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development agency runs dozens of financial assistance programs to support housing, business, community facilities, telecommunications, and other developments in less populated areas of the United States. The agency’s data gateway, launched last year, provides dashboards and downloads tracking these loans, loan guarantees, and grants going back to fiscal year 2012. At their most granular, the data describe each investment’s type, amount, program, sector, ZIP code, city, state, and more. [h/t James Barham]
|
https://www.rd.usda.gov/
https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services
https://www.rd.usda.gov/rural-data-gateway
https://www.rd.usda.gov/newsroom/news-release/usda-launches-rural-data-gateway-strengthen-partnerships-and-expand-access-resources-people-rural-1
https://www.rd.usda.gov/rural-data-gateway/rural-investments
https://www.rd.usda.gov/rural-data-gateway/rural-investments/data
https://www.rd.usda.gov/media/file/download/opendatadashboard-dictionarypdf
| null | 0.197692 | -0.178033 | 1,702 | 6,732 | 62 | 62 |
Government Financial Data
| false |
1,883 |
2024.06.26
| 4 |
Fish-spawning areas.
|
Kimberly L. Oremus et al. have constructed a geospatial dataset that indicates the spawning locations and timing for 1,000+ saltwater fish in 2,900+ marine regions around the world. The authors primarily sourced — and then geocoded — the records from FishBase (an initiative providing data on the habitats, body shapes, and other characteristics of 35,000+ fish species) and the database of Science and Conservation of Fish Aggregations (a nonprofit that focuses on massive reproductive gatherings of fish).
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03348-3
https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/home.php
https://www.scrfa.org/database/
https://www.scrfa.org/about/what-is-scfra/
| null | -0.320114 | 0.859443 | 3,797 | 15,275 | 4 | 4 |
Fish and Wildlife Data
| false |
1,884 |
2024.06.26
| 5 |
Broadway attendance.
|
The Broadway League’s Internet Broadway Database lets you search the famed industry’s theaters, shows, casts and staff, awards, and more. It also publishes charts and structured tables of weekly attendance and ticket revenue, additionally available for individual shows. The League itself also publishes show-level statistics. [h/t Millie Giles]
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broadway_League
https://www.ibdb.com/
https://www.ibdb.com/theatres/
https://www.ibdb.com/shows/
https://www.ibdb.com/cast-staff/
https://www.ibdb.com/awards/
https://www.ibdb.com/statistics/
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/stereophonic-538690#Statistics
https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/grosses-broadway-nyc/
|
https://sherwood.news/culture/broadway-attendance-nears-pre-pandemic-levels/
| 0.354117 | 0.705597 | 3,499 | 14,038 | 79 | 79 |
Open Data Art Projects
| false |
1,885 |
2024.07.03
| 1 |
Historical newswire articles.
|
Emily Silcock et al. have created Newswire, a dataset of 2.7 million newswire articles published in the US between 1878 and 1977. To build it, they extracted 138 million articles from scans of newspapers’ front pages and then used machine learning to group those coming “from the same underlying newswire source article, in the presence of significant abridgement and noise.” For each detected newswire item, the dataset lists the newspapers that carried it, dates published, the text of a representative version, its extracted byline, dispatch location, people mentioned in the text, general topic, and more. Previously: American Stories (DIP 2023.09.13), a dataset of historical newspaper articles — also from Melissa Dell’s research group. [h/t Robin Sloan]
|
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09490
https://huggingface.co/datasets/dell-research-harvard/newswire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-09-13-edition/
https://huggingface.co/datasets/dell-research-harvard/AmericanStories
https://dell-research-harvard.github.io/
|
https://www.robinsloan.com/
| 0.703922 | 0.23937 | 2,550 | 10,221 | 57 | 57 |
Historical News Datasets
| false |
1,886 |
2024.07.03
| 2 |
Death penalty status by country.
|
The Comparative Death Penalty Database, compiled by Carsten Anckar and Thomas Denk, tracks the status of capital punishment in 206 independent countries annually from 1800 to 2022. It places each observation into one of five categories, indicating whether the death penalty is: (a) fully abolished, (b) abolished “for ordinary crimes only,” (c) abolished for “for ordinary crimes only but where at least one execution has occurred in the last 10 years,” (d) de facto abolished, or (e) still in use. Previously: The Death Penalty Information Center’s database of US executions (DIP 2019.05.15); data on death sentences from The Intercept (DIP 2019.12.11) and from Brandon L. Garrett (DIP 2018.08.01).
|
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LI3WYK
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41304-024-00491-8
https://research.abo.fi/en/persons/carsten-anckar
https://www.oru.se/english/employee/thomas_denk
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/database/executions
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-05-15-edition/
https://github.com/theintercept/the-condemned-data
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-12-11-edition/
https://endofitsrope.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-08-01-edition/
| null | 0.161516 | -0.980791 | 37 | 202 | 6 | 6 |
Criminal Justice Databases
| false |
1,887 |
2024.07.03
| 3 |
Beach replenishment.
|
The Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University maintains a database of 2,500+ beach-replenishing efforts since the 1920s. The project is “a 25-year research and data collection effort that, to the best of our knowledge, represents the most comprehensive compilation of beach nourishment history in the United States.” For each sand-adding “episode,” the dataset indicates its location, year completed, sand volume, length of shoreline treated, total cost, primary type of funding source (private, federal, state, etc.), and justification (shore protection, navigation, emergency dune construction, etc.). As seen in: “Sand Dollars,” by CBS News Investigations.
|
https://psds.wcu.edu/
https://beachnourishment.wcu.edu/
https://beachnourishment.wcu.edu/about
https://beachnourishment.wcu.edu/glossary
https://www.cbsnews.com/beach-nourishment/
| null | -0.607898 | 0.604003 | 3,276 | 13,081 | 26 | 26 |
Environmental Data Collection
| false |
1,888 |
2024.07.03
| 4 |
Hurricane forecast accuracy.
|
The National Hurricane Center says it “receives frequent inquiries on the accuracy and skill of its forecasts and of the computer models available to it.” To help answer those questions, the agency publishes a series of regularly-updated verification reports, as well as a database quantifying its forecast errors. For each official projection since 1970, the database compares each storm’s predicted location and wind speed to those attributes’ ultimate values. As seen in: “The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts,” a study by Renato Molina and Ivan Rudik.
|
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/index.shtml
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/verify7.shtml
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/verify2.shtml
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/sqtjr
https://renatomolinah.com/
https://ivanrudik.com/
| null | -0.758326 | 0.903547 | 3,847 | 15,503 | 28 | -1 |
Climate and Weather Datasets
| false |
1,889 |
2024.07.03
| 5 |
UK film stats.
|
The British Film Institute publishes a variety of statistical reports, including spreadsheets of weekend box office figures. Those spreadsheets cover each weekend’s 15 highest-grossing films, all UK-originated films, and other newly-released films; they list each film’s title, country of origin, distributor, cinema count, weekend gross, total gross to date, and more. [h/t Gina Acosta Gutiérrez]
|
https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights
https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights/weekend-box-office-figures
|
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ginacostag_data-python-datascience-activity-7207721010815483904-XIc6/
| 0.634782 | 0.733272 | 3,572 | 14,184 | 67 | 67 |
Film Data and Analysis
| false |
1,890 |
2024.07.10
| 1 |
Federal inmate complaints.
|
The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Administrative Remedy Program “allow[s] an inmate to seek formal review of an issue relating to any aspect of his/her own confinement.” In October 2022, the Data Liberation Project (which, disclosure, I run) filed a FOIA request seeking records from the agency database that tracks those complaints. In response, BOP last month provided data on 1.78 million complaint and appeal submissions filed from January 2000 through late May 2024, spanning nearly 1 million distinct cases. The records, published yesterday with the help of volunteers, indicate when each filing was received, its relevant case number, complaint subject, facility where the issue occurred, case status, status update date, reasons for rejection/closure, and other details.
|
https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/1330_018.pdf
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints/
https://buttondown.email/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-16/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTuyUFNqS9tex4_s4PgmhF8RTvTb-uFMN5ElDjjVHTM/edit
| null | 0.053343 | -0.814968 | 353 | 1,475 | 8 | -1 |
Police Accountability Data
| false |
1,891 |
2024.07.10
| 2 |
Corporate AI activity.
|
The Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset, from Georgetown University’s Emerging Technology Observatory, provides “a diverse range of indicators of AI-related activity for hundreds of companies worldwide, from startups to multinationals.” For each of the 670+ companies included, the dataset counts the number of AI-related research articles published by its employees (disaggregated by topic), AI-related patents filed (by application area and use-case), and workforce (overall and those estimated to be AI-involved). It also lists each company’s main location, sector, growth stage, and description, as well as aliases, stock listings, and identifiers in several external data sources. See also: An interactive version of the database. [h/t Zach Arnold]
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https://eto.tech/dataset-docs/private-sector-ai-indicators/
https://eto.tech/
https://zenodo.org/records/12520760
https://parat.eto.tech/
|
https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/zachary-arnold/
| 0.336406 | 0.031114 | 2,090 | 8,405 | 56 | 56 |
Data Platforms on Corporations
| false |
1,892 |
2024.07.10
| 3 |
East Asia building outlines.
|
Recent years have seen the development of ambitious datasets that provide the outlines of buildings by the millions. For instance, from the archives: buildings in the US (DIP 2018.07.18), Africa (DIP 2021.08.25), and Canada and New Zealand (DIP 2019.09.25). In the Journal of Remote Sensing, however, Qian Shi et al. note a relative lack of such data for buildings in East Asia, which the authors attribute “to the more complex distribution of buildings and the scarcity of auxiliary data”. As an antidote, they’ve generated a dataset that outlines more than 280 million buildings in 2,800+ cities across China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Mongolia.
|
https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-07-18-edition/
https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-08-25-edition/
https://github.com/Microsoft/CanadianBuildingFootprints
https://medium.com/on-location/an-open-building-outlines-dataset-for-new-zealand-eef8b558ef7a
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-09-25-edition/
https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/remotesensing.0138
https://zenodo.org/records/8174931
| null | -0.321112 | 0.344513 | 2,773 | 11,051 | 37 | 37 |
Geospatial Datasets and Analysis
| false |
1,893 |
2024.07.10
| 4 |
US coral reefs.
|
The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program collects scientific and socioeconomic/attitude survey data related to the coral reefs offshore of the continental United States, Hawaii, and US territories. It provides the data through public visualizations as well as download tools and raw files. The scientific data include species-level coral cover, colony density, bleaching prevalence, and disease rates; fish populations; water alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon levels; and more. [h/t Gary Price]
|
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
https://ncrmp-visualization-tool-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/
https://ncrmp.coralreef.noaa.gov/pages/Data%20Download
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/data_atlantic.html
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/data_pacific.html
https://ncrmp.coralreef.noaa.gov/pages/ncrmp-data
|
https://www.infodocket.com/2023/11/26/science-noaa-unveils-new-data-visualization-tool-for-exploring-coral-reef-data/
| -0.587736 | 0.630785 | 3,341 | 13,338 | 26 | 26 |
Environmental Data Collection
| false |
1,894 |
2024.07.10
| 5 |
Ancient shipwrecks.
|
The Summary Geodatabase of Shipwrecks 1500BCE-1500CE merges two catalogs of ancient wrecks: one from the Oxford Roman Economy Project and one from Harvard’s Mapping Past Societies project. Building on scholarly research by Toby Parker, Julia Strauss, and others, the combined effort includes 1,900+ known wrecks, listing (where known) their coordinates, depth, estimated time period when wrecked, year discovered, cargo, and more.
|
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11fk5YeQ4eFOnYSBNpUdHp4TP42gJ7wY5/edit?gid=970169931#gid=970169931
https://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/shipwrecks_database/
https://darmc.harvard.edu/data-availability
https://doi.org/10.2307/300882
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1349806/
| null | -0.040384 | 0.515046 | 3,102 | 12,349 | 13 | -1 |
Diverse Research Datasets
| false |
1,895 |
2024.07.24
| 1 |
News homepages, archived.
|
Since launching in March 2022, homepages.news has archived millions of screenshots, performance audits, robots.txt files, accessibility trees, and hyperlink lists from the homepages of 1,100+ news sites. The open-source project, run by journalist Ben Welsh, provides bulk data for each of those assets. The screenshots themselves are stored on the Internet Archive; you can also view the latest screenshots from all the sites on one page. To date, the publications span 32 countries and 17 languages. Related: Welsh and volunteer Alex Garcia are using the robots.txt data to track which sites block OpenAI, Google AI, and Common Crawl — findings that have been cited widely.
|
https://homepages.news/
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/status-report.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/sources.html
https://github.com/palewire/news-homepages/
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/extracts.html
https://archive.org/details/news-homepages
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/latest.html
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/countries.html
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/languages.html
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/111046697091347911
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/extracts.html#robotstxt-sample-csv
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/openai-gptbot-robotstxt.html
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/can-journalism-survive-ai/
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-many-news-websites-block-ai-crawlers
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/111663536216388030
| null | 0.687028 | 0.176423 | 2,421 | 9,707 | 57 | -1 |
Historical News Datasets
| false |
1,896 |
2024.07.24
| 2 |
Human rights scores.
|
The CIRIGHTS project aims “to create numerical measures for every internationally recognized human right for all countries of the world.” The team has developed a detailed guide to scoring each government’s record on dozens of such rights, such as freedom of religion, women’s political rights, freedom from extrajudicial killings, the right to a fair trial, and “reasonable limits” on working hours. For each year from 1981 to 2021, the project’s scorers have rated each country on each right, generally on a three-point scale, based on information in the US State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Amnesty International’s annual reports, and similar sources. The resulting dataset includes those scores, as well as several summary metrics.
|
https://cirights.com/
https://cirights.com/learn-about-the-cirights-project/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4625036
https://cirights.com/rights-we-score/
https://www.state.gov/reports-bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/annual-report-archive/
| null | 0.263443 | -0.426599 | 1,192 | 4,688 | 18 | 18 |
Data on Aid and Rights
| false |
1,897 |
2024.07.24
| 3 |
Commercial zones.
|
Byeonghwa Jeong et al. have constructed a dataset estimating the geographic boundaries of 23,000+ commercial zones in 69 metro areas in the US and Canada. To build it, they used data on retail and office locations from OpenStreetMap, and on job density from the US Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program (DIP 2021.05.26) and Statistics Canada. For each detected commercial zone, the dataset provides its outline, total area, a score of its relative concentration (on which the zone comprising most of Manhattan scored the highest), its MSA, and the street at its centroid.
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03275-3
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Commercial_Boundary/24654309/4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03275-3/tables/1
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-05-26-edition/
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dt-td/Index-eng.cfm?APATH=3&FL=A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
| null | -0.343709 | 0.209919 | 2,453 | 9,898 | 51 | 51 |
Surveillance and Mapping Data
| false |
1,898 |
2024.07.24
| 4 |
National park species.
|
The National Park Service’s NPSpecies portal “documents our knowledge about the occurrence and status of species” on the agency’s lands. For each NPS-managed area, you can download a list of the species, their scientific and common names, occurrence status (present, probably present, unconfirmed), nativeness, conservation status, and more. Related: Noting that “many of the observations in NPSpecies remain unverified and the lists are often outdated,” Benjamin J. LaFrance et al. have created an updated dataset for amphibian species, which they checked against other sources and verified with regional experts.
|
https://irma.nps.gov/NPSpecies/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02836-2
https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2301647
| null | -0.259716 | 0.91497 | 3,927 | 15,663 | 3 | 3 |
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
| false |
1,899 |
2024.07.24
| 5 |
Australia shipwrecks.
|
The Western Australia Museum hosts a range of datasets, including details concerning 1,600+ local shipwrecks and 30,000+ artifacts recovered from them. The shipwreck dataset lists each ship’s builder, construction materials, owner, cargo, wreck location, date wrecked, known deaths, date found, and more. Previously: Ancient shipwrecks (DIP 2024.07.10). [h/t Kristin Milton]
|
https://data.museum.wa.gov.au/
https://data.museum.wa.gov.au/search/type/dataset
https://data.museum.wa.gov.au/dataset/maritime-archaeology
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11fk5YeQ4eFOnYSBNpUdHp4TP42gJ7wY5/edit?gid=970169931#gid=970169931
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2024-07-10-edition/
|
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-milton-8480389
| -0.030669 | 0.58058 | 3,231 | 12,990 | 13 | 13 |
Diverse Research Datasets
| false |
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