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300 | 2017.02.08 | 1 | Metro/subway ridership. | Two weeks ago, Bloomberg News reporters requested entrance and exit data from Washington, DC’s Metrorail system for three days: Jan. 20, 2009 (Obama's first inauguration), Jan. 20, 2017 (Trump's inauguration), and Jan. 21, 2017 (the Women's March). A week later, they received the data — but as PDFs, which they turned into structured data and published this week. Related: NYC’s MTA publishes detailed turnstile-by-turnstile data, and Chicago publishes daily “L” ridership data for each station going back to 2001. Plus: “Second Avenue Subway Relieves Crowding on Neighboring Lines,” which uses the NYC data. | https://github.com/bizweekgraphics/wmata-ridership-data
http://web.mta.info/developers/turnstile.html
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/CTA-Ridership-L-Station-Entries-Daily-Totals/5neh-572f
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/nyregion/second-avenue-subway-relieves-crowding-on-neighboring-lines.html | null | -0.507297 | -0.000615 | 1,999 | 8,095 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
301 | 2017.02.08 | 2 | International house prices since 1975. | The International House Price Database combines and standardizes house price indices from 23 countries — mostly in Europe and North America, but also including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Israel. The dataset, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, is deeply documented and updated quarterly. Previously: Historical San Francisco rents (May 25, 2016) and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Characteristics of New Housing (June 22, 2016). | https://www.dallasfed.org/institute/houseprice/
https://www.dallasfed.org/institute/houseprice#tab3
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-25-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition | null | -0.123976 | 0.102688 | 2,268 | 9,016 | 54 | 54 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
302 | 2017.02.08 | 3 | Nobel Prizes. | The prestigious Scandinavian awards have an API. The official documentation explains it succinctly: “The data is free to use and contains information about who has been awarded the Nobel Prize, when, in what prize category and the motivation, as well as basic information about the Nobel Laureates such as birth data and the affiliation at the time of the award. The data is regularly updated as the information on Nobelprize.org is updated, including at the time of announcements of new Laureates.” Related: “These Nobel Prize Winners Show Why Immigration Is So Important For American Science,” by my colleague Peter Aldhous. Plus: The R code supporting Peter's analysis. | https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelmedia/nobelprize_org/developer/
https://nobelprize.readme.io/v1.0
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/immigration-and-science
http://www.peteraldhous.com/
https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2017-01-immigration-and-science/ | null | 0.507911 | 0.385511 | 2,864 | 11,360 | 70 | 70 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
303 | 2017.02.08 | 4 | Recipe ingredients. | For their 2011 paper, “Flavor network and the principles of food pairing,” four scientists analyzed 56,498 recipes downloaded from three websites — allrecipes.com, epicurious.com, and menupan.com. To support their findings, the authors published two datasets. One names the cuisine and ingredients for each recipe. The other dataset counts how often any two ingredients appeared in the same recipe. (Parmesan cheese and beef appeared together 93 times; starfruit and Algerian geranium oil just once.) Related: “food2vec – Augmented cooking with machine intelligence,” published last month. [h/t Rob Barry] | http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00196
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00196#supplementary-information
https://jaan.io/food2vec-augmented-cooking-machine-intelligence/ | http://rob-barry.com/ | 0.158197 | 0.548604 | 3,173 | 12,746 | 42 | -1 | Sports Data Collections | false |
304 | 2017.02.08 | 5 | Life expectancies. | The World Health Organization publishes life expectancy estimates for 194 countries, for each year between 2000 and 2015. Related: “One Dataset, Visualized 25 Ways.” Previously: American life expectancies by city (April 13, 2016). | http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/situation_trends/en/
http://flowingdata.com/2017/01/24/one-dataset-visualized-25-ways/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-04-13-edition | null | -0.187787 | -0.65937 | 665 | 2,739 | 15 | -1 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
305 | 2017.02.15 | 1 | Volunteer weather reports. | The National Weather Service’s Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) is a 127-year-old network of volunteer weather observers. “More than 8,700 volunteers take observations on farms, in urban and suburban areas, National Parks, seashores, and mountaintops,” according to the NWS. Want to become a volunteer? Because the program is so old, “many areas already have the necessary stations operating,” but “about 200 observers resign each year, about 4 per state.” While you’re waiting, you can download the COOP data from Iowa State University. [h/t Bill Frischling] | http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/what-is-coop.html
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/become.htm
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/COOP/ | https://twitter.com/billfrisch | -0.605039 | 0.864569 | 3,788 | 15,257 | 34 | -1 | Geospatial and Environmental Data | false |
306 | 2017.02.15 | 2 | Museum-worthy images. | Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art made 375,000 images free to use, remix, and share under a Creative Commons Zero license. The museum also publishes bulk metadata on more than 420,000 pieces of art; that file indicates whether a given artwork is in the public domain, and hence whether the images fall under the new license. You can also search the images here. Other museums providing open-access imagery include the National Gallery of Art, the Getty, and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Previously: Mo’ museum metadata (Nov. 4, 2015). [h/t Joshua Barone + Sarah Bond] | http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/digital-underground/2017/open-access-at-the-met
https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection#!?perPage=20&showOnly=withImage%7Copenaccess&sortBy=Relevance&sortOrder=asc&offset=0&pageSize=0
https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html
http://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&cat=highlight&f=%22Open+Content+Images%22&rows=10&srt=a&dir=s&pg=1
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-04-edition | https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/design/met-museum-makes-375000-images-available-for-free.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/02/08/the-met-museum-just-made-375000-images-open-access-but-here-are-a-few-more-museums-that-are-oa/ | 0.302118 | 0.688259 | 3,497 | 13,907 | 79 | -1 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
307 | 2017.02.15 | 3 | Clinical trials. | The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative — a public-private partnership of more than 80 organizations — upgraded its clinical trials database late last month. The relational database, called the Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), contains “all information (protocol and result data elements) about every study registered” through that titular government website. The AACT data is well-documented and accessible both via download and remote database connection. ClinicalTrials.gov also publishes the underlying data itself, but as one big XML file. | https://www.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/
https://www.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/news/upgraded-aact-database-offers-improved-functionality-analyzing-clinicaltrialsgov-data
http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/learn_more
http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/download
http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/connect
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/resources/download | null | -0.417701 | -0.481516 | 1,042 | 4,261 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
308 | 2017.02.15 | 4 | Mood swings. | From the Journal of Open Psychology Data: “We present a dataset of a single (N=1) participant diagnosed with major depressive disorder, who completed 1,478 measurements over the course of 239 consecutive days in 2012 and 2013.” The “participant” happens to be one of the study’s authors — Peter C. Groot, a researcher at Maastricht University Medical Centre. Each day, he recorded the degree to which “I feel relaxed,” “I feel lonely,” “I worry,” and responses to dozens of other prompts. [h/t Sacha Epskamp] | http://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jopd.29/
https://osf.io/j4fg8/ | https://twitter.com/SachaEpskamp/status/830762054399168512 | 0.362183 | 0.303535 | 2,667 | 10,711 | 46 | -1 | Digital Historical Data | false |
309 | 2017.02.15 | 5 | Student athletes. | The NCAA publishes data on its student athletes’ academic progress and graduation rates. The numbers are aggregated by school and sport — from baseball, to women’s bowling, to mixed rifle. [h/t Albert Bowden] | https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/NCAA/data.html | http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10527 | 0.125772 | -0.282784 | 1,444 | 5,832 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
310 | 2017.02.22 | 1 | Subsidized housing. | Earlier this month, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released its “Picture of Subsidized Households” report for 2016. The dataset describes the living conditions, demographics, and finances of families receiving subsidies via the agency’s various programs — including public housing, Section 8 vouchers, and several others. The figures are provided for the entire U.S., by state, metro area, housing agency, city, county, Census tract, and even by housing development. HUD provides a data dictionary explaining each field, as well as a tool to query the data without downloading the entire dataset. [h/t Pat Smith] | https://twitter.com/HUDUSERnews/status/830145945987858436
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/assthsg.html
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/pictures/dictionary_2016.pdf | https://twitter.com/cityresearch | -0.105564 | -0.13279 | 1,756 | 7,097 | 63 | 63 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
311 | 2017.02.22 | 2 | Nearby stars and potential exoplanets. | Last week, a team of researchers released a dataset containing “60,949 Doppler velocity measurements covering 1,624 stars taken over 20 years” from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The authors have already used the dataset to identify more than 100 exoplanets — i.e., planets outside our solar system. Now, they’re hoping that the public and other researchers will use their data to help discover even more. Previously: The NASA Exoplanet Archive (May 11, 2016). [h/t Arthur Bashlykov] | http://home.dtm.ciw.edu/ebps/data/
http://news.mit.edu/2017/dataset-nearby-stars-available-public-exoplanets-0213
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-11-edition | https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-bashlykov-8a3b2b102 | -0.509713 | 0.966131 | 3,983 | 16,031 | 33 | 33 | Space Exploration Datasets | false |
312 | 2017.02.22 | 3 | Local UV exposure. | The National Cancer Institute has estimated ultraviolet radiation exposure estimates for every county in the continental United States. The estimates, based on a peer-reviewed methodology and 30 years of data from the National Solar Radiation Data Base, can also be explored using the institute’s mapping tool. Luna County, New Mexico had the highest estimated UV exposure at 5,723 Watt-hours per square meter; Clallam County, Washington, was exposed to the least estimated UV radiation, at 3,012 Wh/m². [h/t J. Albert Bowden II] | https://gis.cancer.gov/tools/uv-exposure/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zaria_Tatalovich/publication/228942287_A_comparison_of_thiessen-polygon_kriging_and_spline_models_of_UV_exposure/links/56605c3b08aebae678aa0abf.pdf
http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/
https://gis.cancer.gov/geoviewer/app/ | https://data.world/albert/us-county-level-uv-exposure | -0.847925 | 0.570023 | 3,204 | 12,809 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
313 | 2017.02.22 | 4 | NBA refereeing. | Since March 2015, the National Basketball Association has issued post-game reports reviewing referees’ calls during the final two minutes of neck-and-neck games. The NBA publishes those reports as PDFs; journalist Russell Goldenberg has been converting them to spreadsheet-friendly CSVs. Goldenberg is also analyzing and visualizing the data — updated daily — to show, for example, which players are benefitting most from incorrect and missed calls. (Answer so far: the Wizards’ Marcin Gortat and the Nets’ Brook Lopez.) | http://official.nba.com/nba-last-two-minute-reports-archive/
https://github.com/polygraph-cool/last-two-minute-report/tree/master/output
https://pudding.cool/2017/02/two-minute-report/ | null | 0.277358 | 0.456443 | 2,984 | 11,985 | 42 | 42 | Sports Data Collections | false |
314 | 2017.02.22 | 5 | Pick a card, any card. | When researchers asked 1,354 people to name or visualize a playing card, 1 in 6 of them first chose the Ace of Spades. Here’s the data, which includes each participant’s three card choices, age, and gender. | http://www.psychologyofmagic.org/research/cards/paper.html
https://osf.io/534g2/ | null | 0.428795 | 0.531845 | 3,181 | 12,635 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
315 | 2017.03.01 | 1 | Words kids learn. | Wordbank is an “open database of children's vocabulary development.” So far, the Stanford-hosted project has gathered data from more than 71,000 standardized and anonymized vocabulary questionnaires across 23 languages. You could spend hours exploring the data online, charting how quickly children learn individual words, how quickly the same word (e.g., “grandma,” “abuela,” “ба́бушка”) is learned in different languages, and connections between words. You can download the data for each word or for each child’s vocabulary. Bonus: Wordbank has an R package and a GitHub repository. [h/t Hacker News user "Jasamba"] | http://wordbank.stanford.edu/
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=item_trajectories
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=uni_lemmas
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=networks
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=item_data
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=instrument_data
http://langcog.github.io/wordbankr/
https://github.com/langcog/wordbank | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726395 | 0.854712 | 0.511636 | 3,131 | 12,406 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
316 | 2017.03.01 | 2 | Police officers as immigration enforcers. | In an early executive order, Donald Trump instructed the Department of Homeland Security to expand its use of Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the federal government to deputize local law enforcement agencies in its search for undocumented immigrants. In response to FOIA requests, DHS has previously released data on the local agencies that participate in the 287(g) program. The Marshall Project has collated the DHS data, which includes the number of immigrants deported, for 2006 to 2013 (the most recent year available). During that timespan, “more than 175,000 people nationwide were deported under the program,” Anna Flagg writes. “More than 30,000 of them came from Maricopa County, Ariz., the most from any single jurisdiction.” [h/t Tom Meagher] | https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united
https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-9505.html
https://github.com/themarshallproject/ICE287g-removals
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/02/20/the-opposite-of-sanctuary | http://www.tommeagher.com/about.html | -0.000529 | -0.628936 | 735 | 3,007 | 5 | 5 | Migration and Detention Data | false |
317 | 2017.03.01 | 3 | Vehicle specs. | The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides an impressively rich API detailing every manufacturer, make, and model in its database. The API can translate cars’ Vehicle Identification Numbers into the nitty-gritty details that those VINs encode, including the plant where the vehicle was manufactured, number of doors, engine measurements, fuel type, and more. [h/t Justin Myers] | https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/ | http://www.justinmyers.net/ | -0.56511 | -0.184425 | 1,677 | 6,683 | 38 | -1 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
318 | 2017.03.01 | 4 | A decade-plus of Seattle library checkouts. | Last month, the Seattle Public Library released a dataset tracking the total number of checkouts for each title by year and month from April 2005 to December 2016 (so far). The dataset isn’t limited to physical books; it also includes e-books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, and more. Last year, the three most popular physical books were Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train (2,355 checkouts), Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies (2,151 checkouts), and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2,134 checkouts). | https://shelftalkblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/for-the-love-of-data-an-open-data-release/
https://data.seattle.gov/Community/Checkouts-by-Title/tmmm-ytt6/data | null | 0.484883 | 0.591585 | 3,247 | 13,023 | 76 | -1 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
319 | 2017.03.01 | 5 | Gator hunting. | Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission publishes data from its statewide recreational alligator hunt. For each alligator harvested between 2000 and 2015, the dataset includes the date, the hunting area, and the length of the carcass. (Legal hunting tools include crossbows, harpoons, spearguns, fishing poles, snatch hooks, and bang sticks — but not rifles, pistols, or other guns.) [h/t Christopher Groskopf + Neil Bedi + Eric Sagara] | http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/alligator/harvest/data-export/
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/alligator/harvest/
http://myfwc.com/media/3791759/alligator-hunting-guide.pdf | https://github.com/onyxfish/nicar-2017-agate
https://twitter.com/esagara | -0.335401 | 0.832244 | 3,733 | 15,018 | 4 | 4 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
320 | 2017.03.08 | 1 | The federal checkbook. | From Treasury.io: “Every day at 4pm, the United States Treasury publishes data tables summarizing the cash spending, deposits, and borrowing of the federal government.” Those data tables “catalog all the money taken in that day from taxes, the programs, and how much debt the government took out.” On Monday, for instance, the government spent $481 million on the Postal Service. One hitch: The Treasury’s data tables are (subjectively) ugly and (objectively) spreadsheet-unfriendly. So Treasury.io — an open-source civic project — continuously converts the files into good ol’ tabular data. You can download individual tables as CSVs, get the whole dataset as a big SQLite database, or query the API. There’s also a data dictionary and a Twitter bot. | http://treasury.io/
https://www.fms.treas.gov/fmsweb/viewDTSFiles?dir=w&fname=17030600.txt
https://github.com/csvsoundsystem/federal-treasury-api
https://github.com/csvsoundsystem/federal-treasury-api/wiki/Treasury.io-Data-Dictionary
https://twitter.com/treasuryio | null | 0.234075 | -0.164665 | 1,703 | 6,862 | 62 | 62 | Government Financial Data | false |
321 | 2017.03.08 | 2 | Historical Bitcoin prices. | The Bitcoin exchange rate hit an all time high last week, at more than $1,290 to the dollar. That’s according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index, an average rate derived from several major exchanges. You can download daily and hourly data for the index and its components. [h/t Jan Doggen] | http://www.coindesk.com/price/
http://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin-price-index/ | http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/6891 | -0.020753 | 0.090552 | 2,207 | 8,894 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
322 | 2017.03.08 | 3 | Drug patents and exclusivity. | The FDA’s “Orange Book” lists approved drugs, their associated patents, and government-granted exclusivity rights. The Orange Book is available as a 1,400-page PDF, but you can also download the key data as structured text files. The files are updated monthly. Related: “Drugs For Rare Diseases Have Become Uncommonly Rich Monopolies,” published by Kaiser Health News and NPR in January. Question for readers: The Orange Book data comes as tilde-delimited files, the first I’ve ever seen. Do you have ~any other examples~? [h/t Sydney Lupkin] | https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm129662.htm
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/UCM071436.pdf
https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm129689.htm
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/17/509506836/drugs-for-rare-diseases-have-become-uncommonly-rich-monopolies | https://twitter.com/slupkin | -0.56358 | -0.459109 | 1,101 | 4,379 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
323 | 2017.03.08 | 4 | Speaking roles in 2016’s blockbusters. | Researcher Amber Thomas has parsed the transcripts of last year’s 10 highest grossing films. The resulting data files indicate each character’s number of turns speaking, number of words spoken, and gender. Previously: Dialogue from 2,000 movies, by gender (April 13, 2016). | https://proquestionasker.github.io/
https://proquestionasker.github.io/projects/MovieDialogue/
https://github.com/ProQuestionAsker/2016MovieDialogue
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-04-13-edition | null | 0.677165 | 0.693371 | 3,509 | 13,931 | 67 | 67 | Film Data and Analysis | false |
324 | 2017.03.08 | 5 | Pictures of food. | A trio of European researchers has published a dataset containing 101,000 photos of food — 1,000 images each from 101 food categories, all downloaded from foodspotting.com. The categories include apple pie, escargots, onion rings, paella, bibimbap, prime rib, and more. [h/t Reddit user cavedave] | https://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/datasets_extra/food-101/
https://www.foodspotting.com | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5v436t/food_101_pictures_of_food_dataset/ | -0.040726 | 0.585274 | 3,230 | 12,989 | 13 | 13 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
325 | 2017.03.15 | 1 | Who’s visited the U.S. on visas, and how. | Donald Trump’s new travel ban is scheduled to take effect at 12:01am Eastern tonight. The State Department doesn’t publish realtime visa data, but it does publish historical data, including the number of non-immigrant visas issued each fiscal year between 1997 and 2016, by nationality and visa type. (For example, the government issued 226 “fiancé(e)” K-1 visas to Syrian nationals in fiscal year 2016.) The agency also reports how many visas of each type it refused each year, as well as refusal rates by nationality. [h/t Thomas Kasang] [Update, 2017-12-12: The State Department link appears no longer to be working; here's a copy from the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20171201161048/https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/statistics/non-immigrant-visas.html ] | https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/statistics/non-immigrant-visas.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20171201161048/https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/statistics/non-immigrant-visas.html | https://github.com/axibase/atsd-use-cases/blob/master/USVisaRefusal/README.md | -0.033385 | -0.607733 | 798 | 3,261 | 5 | 5 | Migration and Detention Data | false |
326 | 2017.03.15 | 2 | Sounds of YouTube. | Last week, a research team at Google published AudioSet, a dataset of “2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos.” The clips have been classified into hundreds of categories, including “plucked string instrument,” “computer keyboard,” “chuckle, chortle,” “snoring,” and “fowl.” [h/t Suman Deb Roy] | https://research.google.com/audioset/
https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/plucked_string_instrument.html
https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/computer_keyboard.html
https://research.google.com/audioset//dataset/chuckle_chortle.html
https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/snoring.html
https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/fowl.html | https://twitter.com/_RoySD/status/840227343142670336 | 0.451837 | 0.800865 | 3,694 | 14,812 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
327 | 2017.03.15 | 3 | Many millions of mortgages. | Freddie Mac — the government-sponsored, publicly traded company also known as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation — publishes data on 23 million single-family home mortgages it has originated or guaranteed since 1999. The dataset includes the loan amount and interest rate, the borrower’s credit score, the property type (e.g., condo, co-op, manufactured housing), metro area, first payment month, whether the borrower is a first-time homebuyer, and lots more. Freddie Mac requests that you register before downloading the data, but you can also access the files directly. Don’t miss the terms and conditions, which prohibit republishing the files. Previously: Data on millions more loans from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (Dec. 30, 2015). | http://www.freddiemac.com/news/finance/sf_loanlevel_dataset.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5x0tws/freddie_mac_fixedrate_mortgage_dataset_from/
https://freddiemac.embs.com/FLoan/HistoricalDataTerms.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition | null | 0.172395 | -0.124214 | 1,829 | 7,243 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
328 | 2017.03.15 | 4 | Chicago traffic camera violations. | The Windy City publishes two datasets on traffic violations. One tallies the daily number of speeding violations in each Children’s Safety Zone; the other, red-light violations at each camera-surveilled intersection. Both go back to July 2014. The city also publishes a spreadsheet of city-towed vehicles. Related: The Chicago Tribune’s long-running investigation into the city’s traffic camera troubles. [h/t Jacob Sheff] | https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Speed-Camera-Violations/hhkd-xvj4/
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Red-Light-Camera-Violations/spqx-js37
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Towed-Vehicles/ygr5-vcbg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/ | https://www.datazar.com/file/f0c0d92c9-1ae3-468d-ac50-dfc82c32b30c | -0.51267 | 0.001294 | 2,063 | 8,223 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
329 | 2017.03.15 | 5 | Nearly every proposed amendment to the Constitution. | To prepare for an exhibition last year, the National Archives and Records Administration created a dataset of more than 11,000 constitutional amendment proposals introduced in Congress between 1787 and 2014. [h/t Justin Lewis] | https://www.archives.gov/open/dataset-amendments.html | https://www.datazar.com/file/f5d4b5cb5-8a4e-4ff0-905e-fe2f1acbd5e0 | 0.687462 | -0.441903 | 1,141 | 4,587 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
330 | 2017.03.22 | 1 | Real-time air quality. | The team at Berkeley Earth has released the data files behind their real-time global air quality map. The map and data track measurements of pollution particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter. “Under typical conditions,” the Berkeley Earth team writes, this particulate matter “is the most damaging form of air pollution likely to be present, contributing to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, respiratory infections, and other diseases.” Previously: The World Health Organization’s Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database (June 15, 2016). | http://berkeleyearth.org/about/
http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-maps-data-download/
http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-map/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-15-edition | null | -0.708263 | 0.393066 | 2,825 | 11,410 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
331 | 2017.03.22 | 2 | Previous federal budget proposals. | To accompany its 2016 and 2017 budget proposals, the Obama administration published machine-readable copies on GitHub. Each proposal’s data are divided into three CSV files: for budget authority, outlays, and receipts. The accompanying user guide explains the data sources and structure. Sample tidbit: The White House expected the Department of Homeland Security to pull in $712 million in excise taxes from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund in 2017. [h/t Dan Nguyen] | https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/tree/2017
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/blob/2017/USER_GUIDE.md
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/blob/2017/data/receipts.csv
https://www.uscg.mil/npfc/About_NPFC/osltf.asp | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5zzpli/previous_2_years_of_white_house_budgets_available/ | 0.288018 | -0.186437 | 1,705 | 6,738 | 61 | -1 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
332 | 2017.03.22 | 3 | Indian state elections. | Five states in India, representing nearly 250 million residents — Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur — have already held legislative assembly elections this year. India’s Election Commission publishes these results, but only as webpages. A couple of Hyderabad-based developers have scraped the website, and published CSVs of the data on GitHub. Previously: Data Is Plural’s election edition (Sept. 28, 2016). | http://eciresults.nic.in/
https://github.com/Vizbi/state-elections
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-28-edition | null | 0.949578 | -0.286991 | 1,470 | 5,884 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
333 | 2017.03.22 | 4 | Construction spending. | The Census’ Value of Construction Put in Place Survey “provides monthly estimates of the total dollar value of construction work done in the U.S.” For instance, construction spending in 2016 totaled approximately $1.1 trillion, $89 billion of which went to education-related construction. The survey has been collected monthly since 1964; historical data files are available going back to 1993. [h/t Kevin Gilmore] | https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html
https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/historical_data.html | https://www.datazar.com/file/f18c892eb-b940-4177-88b8-cbd92e9ae5f5 | -0.192748 | -0.062465 | 1,945 | 7,731 | 59 | 59 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
334 | 2017.03.22 | 5 | Gone fishing. | NOAA Fisheries’ Greater Atlantic Region publishes spreadsheets of the federal permits it awards to fishing vessels, operators, and dealers. For each vessel, the data includes the boat’s name, owner, principal port city, length, horsepower, and categories of fish permitted. The agency’s Southeast Regional Office also publishes lists of its permits — for shark dealers, domestic swordfish dealers, spiny lobster tailing, and more — but as HTML tables with no CSV-export option. [h/t J. Albert Bowden II] | https://www.greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/aps/permits/data/index.html
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/index.html
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/SK.htm
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/SD.htm
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/LT.htm | https://data.world/albert/permits-vessels-ifq-foias | -0.351985 | 0.791682 | 3,668 | 14,633 | 4 | 4 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
335 | 2017.03.29 | 1 | Military spending. | The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Military Expenditure Database is based on official reports, International Monetary Fund yearbooks, newspaper articles, and other sources. It covers most major countries since the 1950s and more than 100 countries since 1988. The dataset also quantifies military spending on a per-capita basis, as share of the country’s GDP, and as a proportion of total government spending. Also: The Defense Manpower Data Center publishes spreadsheets detailing the number of active and reserve U.S. personnel stationed in each state, territory, and foreign country. Previously: SIPRI’s database of international arms transfers (Nov. 18, 2015). [h/t K.K. Rebecca Lai, Troy Griggs, Max Fisher and Audrey Carlsen] | https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex
https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex/sources-and-methods
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/index.jsp
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/dwp_reports.jsp
https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/is-americas-military-big-enough.html | 0.391566 | -0.530974 | 1,004 | 3,929 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
336 | 2017.03.29 | 2 | Food surveillance. | Late last year, the FDA began publishing a dataset of ”adverse events” that have been reported to its Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. The database currently covers January 2004 through December 2016, and includes reports of (suspected) bad reactions to foods, dietary supplements, and cosmetics. For instance, the first row names a particular brand of chocolate chips as the potential culprit in the hospitalization of a two-year-old girl, whose symptoms included a rash, swelling face, cough, and difficulty breathing. Previously: FDA adverse event data for pharmaceutical drugs (May 18, 2016). [h/t Sheila Hagar + Drew Ivan] | https://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2016/12/why-fda-is-making-data-extracted-from-reports-of-adverse-events-for-foods-and-cosmetics-available-to-the-public/
https://www.fda.gov/Food/ComplianceEnforcement/ucm494015.htm
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-18-edition | https://twitter.com/ubsheilahagar
https://twitter.com/drewivan | -0.553698 | -0.371836 | 1,294 | 5,148 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
337 | 2017.03.29 | 3 | Failed banks. | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation publishes a spreadsheet of failed banks for which the agency has been appointed as a receiver — some 550 banks since October 2000. It also provides short descriptions of each bank failure. The most recent: Proficio Bank of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, which closed on March 3. More on the FDIC’s receivership program here. | https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/
https://www.fdic.gov/about/strategic/strategic/receivership.html | null | 0.159145 | -0.069197 | 1,893 | 7,626 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
338 | 2017.03.29 | 4 | Real-time air quality, part II. | After last week’s item on Berkeley Earth’s real-time air quality data, reader Olaf Veerman pointed me to OpenAQ. The open-source project currently gathers pollution data from nearly 5,500 locations in 47 countries, aggregated “from real-time government and research grade sources.” You can download the data via OpenAQ’s API. [h/t Olaf Veerman] | http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-22-edition
http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-maps-data-download/
https://twitter.com/oBirdman
https://openaq.org
https://github.com/openaq
https://openaq.org/#/countries
https://docs.openaq.org/ | https://twitter.com/oBirdman | -0.698071 | 0.37335 | 2,761 | 11,155 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
339 | 2017.03.29 | 5 | 100 million domain names. | The anonymously-published DNS Census 2013 “is an attempt to provide a public dataset of registered domains and DNS records” — essentially the Internet’s phone book. The dataset, which has also been uploaded to the Internet Archive, includes 2.7 billion Domain Name System records and 106,928,034 distinct domains, organized by extension (e.g., .com, .info, .edu). RIP, certificationcommissionforhealthcareinformationtechnology.biz. [h/t Andrew Ferlitsch] | https://dnscensus2013.neocities.org/
https://archive.org/details/DNSCensus2013
https://archive.org/download/DNSCensus2013/2nd-level-domains/ | http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/2122 | 0.471548 | 0.086112 | 2,223 | 8,926 | 55 | -1 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
340 | 2017.04.05 | 1 | 3D NYC. | In 2014, the NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications conducted a massive aerial survey of the city. Then, they converted the images and data they collected into a three-dimensional model of every building in all five boroughs. Related: In December, The New York Times used the data to map the city’s shadows. Also related: Berlin, the Hague, and Lyon offer digital 3D models of their cities, too. Previously: LiDAR-powered elevation data from around the world (May 25, 2016). [h/t Dan Nguyen] | http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doitt/initiatives/3d-building.page
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/upshot/Mapping-the-Shadows-of-New-York-City.html
http://www.businesslocationcenter.de/en/downloadportal
https://data.overheid.nl/data/dataset/3d-model-den-haag/resource/2191118b-5ccc-436b-a5f8-eca12f8f8281
https://data.grandlyon.com/search/?Q=maquettes+textur%25C3%25A9es
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-25-edition | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/62mcpy/3d_geospatial_data_for_new_york_city_buildings/ | -0.441295 | 0.286255 | 2,641 | 10,531 | 51 | -1 | Surveillance and Mapping Data | false |
341 | 2017.04.05 | 2 | Cherry blossoms. | Yasuyuki Aono, an associate professor at Osaka Prefecture University, has collected the historical flowering dates of Kyoto’s Prunus jamasakura cherry trees going all the way back to the 9th century. The dataset is based on “many diaries and chronicles written by Emperors, aristocrats, [governors] and monks,” Aono writes. The dates are those “on which cherry blossom viewing parties had been held or full flowerings had been observed.” Over the past century, Kyoto’s cherry trees have been blooming earlier and earlier. Related: @bbgblossoms, a Twitter bot that tracks the status of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 152 cherry trees. [h/t Eric Steig] | http://atmenv.envi.osakafu-u.ac.jp/aono/kyophenotemp4/
https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/848939887839526912
https://twitter.com/bbgblossoms
https://www.bbg.org/collections/cherries | https://twitter.com/ericsteig/status/848656113201315840 | -0.193822 | 0.62197 | 3,289 | 13,235 | 36 | -1 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
342 | 2017.04.05 | 3 | Government bond ownership. | Bruegel, “a European think tank that specialises in economics,” publishes a quarterly-updated dataset quantifying sovereign bond holdings for 12 countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the U.K., and the United States. For each country, the dataset tells you what proportion of the federal government’s bonds are held by each of five types of owners: the country’s central bank, other public institutions, domestic banks, other domestic investors, and foreign investors. [h/t @CoolDatasets] | http://bruegel.org/
http://bruegel.org/publications/datasets/sovereign-bond-holdings/ | https://twitter.com/CoolDatasets/status/839851026949812224 | 0.072683 | 0.100552 | 2,274 | 9,028 | 60 | -1 | International Economic Databases | false |
343 | 2017.04.05 | 4 | Science grants. | The National Science Foundation publishes data on all of the grants the agency has awarded since the 1970s (and some earlier ones, too). Each grant is represented as an XML file, which contains information about the project, the awardee, and the NSF division that awarded the grant. [h/t France A. Córdova] | https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/download.jsp | http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10945 | 0.306747 | 0.033687 | 2,153 | 8,531 | 56 | 56 | Data Platforms on Corporations | false |
344 | 2017.04.05 | 5 | Avian invasions. | In peer-reviewed paper published last week, a trio of University College London researchers describe their Global Avian Invasions Atlas. The dataset includes information on “971 species, introduced to 230 countries and administrative areas across all eight biogeographical realms, spanning the period 6000 BCE – AD 2014.” | http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201741
https://figshare.com/articles/Data_from_The_Global_Avian_Invasions_Atlas_-_A_database_of_alien_bird_distributions_worldwide/4234850 | null | -0.194832 | 0.934983 | 3,929 | 15,795 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
345 | 2017.04.12 | 1 | Plum presidential appointments. | Every four years, Congress publishes United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, better known as the Plum Book. The 2016 version, which is available as both PDF and Excel files, identifies more than 8,000 executive and legislative branch jobs subject to “noncompetitive appointment.” Those positions include 1,710 presidential appointments, which are as wide-ranging as the ambassadorship to Afghanistan and the directorship of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Whistleblower Protection Program. Related: For positions requiring its confirmation, the Senate publishes XML files of pending, confirmed, and withdrawn nominees. | https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2016/content-detail.html
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/nominations.htm | null | 0.651499 | -0.26438 | 1,524 | 6,121 | 30 | -1 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
346 | 2017.04.12 | 2 | Miles per gallon. | The Environmental Protection Agency publishes fuel efficiency data on all the car models it has tested, going back to the 1980s… minus all the Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche diesels caught cheating. The data typically includes three estimates: for city driving, highway driving, and a city-highway combination. | https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml | null | -0.880249 | 0.299373 | 2,627 | 10,631 | 21 | -1 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
347 | 2017.04.12 | 3 | Pirated papers. | Sci-Hub, which describes itself as “the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers,” recently released a list of the 62,835,101 academic papers it has collected. That dataset identifies each paper only by its DOI — a short, unique ID. Helpfully, graduate student Bastian Greshake has extracted the journal name, publisher, and publication ear from those DOIs. Greshake has also combined that data with six months of Sci-Hub download data (previously featured in DIP 2016.05.04), and analyzed the datasets together. Among his findings: Both are “largely made up of recently published articles, with users disproportionately favoring newer articles and 35% of downloaded articles being published after 2013.” | https://sci-hub.cc/
https://figshare.com/articles/List_of_DOIs_of_papers_collected_by_SciHub/4765477
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/what-is-doi.aspx
http://ruleofthirds.de/
https://zenodo.org/record/472493
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.q447c
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-04-edition
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/10/124495 | null | 0.598736 | 0.256245 | 2,611 | 10,342 | 75 | -1 | Open Research Datasets | false |
348 | 2017.04.12 | 4 | International aid for maternal and child health. | Researchers at the World Health Organization have assembled a dataset of international aid — both from official government assistance and private grants — devoted to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health from 2003 to 2013. The dataset, which the researchers described in a recent academic article, draws on 2.1 million records, and is based largely on the OECD’s Creditor Reporting System. Related: Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department cut all its funding for the UN's family planning agency; it was the agency’s third-largest donor. | http://datacompass.lshtm.ac.uk/320/
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201738
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?datasetcode=CRS1
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/the-us-wont-give-any-more-money-to-the-un-population-fund | null | 0.136448 | -0.448917 | 1,124 | 4,552 | 18 | 18 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
349 | 2017.04.12 | 5 | One million comic book panels. | Comic books make use of white space — or gutters — to propel the story forward, relying on readers’ intuitive ability to fill in the gaps between panels. To see whether computers could learn to make the same inferences, a group of computer scientists built a giant corpus of public-domain comics and tried training a series of neural networks on it. (Spoiler: Humans are much better at this.) The underlying dataset contains 1.2 million panels from nearly 200,000 scanned pages of nearly 4,000 books in the Digital Comic Museum, all published during the 1938–1954 “Golden Age” of American comics. It also contains 2.5 million chunks of text extracted from the comics’ speech balloons, thought bubbles, and narration boxes. [h/t Robin Sloan] | https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05118
https://obj.umiacs.umd.edu/comics/index.html
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/ | https://www.robinsloan.com/ | 0.640137 | 0.510422 | 3,124 | 12,392 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
350 | 2017.04.19 | 1 | UK, US, Rx. | The UK’s National Health Service publishes monthly data on drugs prescribed in England through the country’s single-payer health care system. (Drugs prescribed in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland aren’t included.) For each prescriber-and-drug combination, the dataset includes the quantity and cost of prescriptions for each month since August 2010. The US publishes similar data about prescriptions issued through Medicare, but only on an annual basis and currently only covering 2013 and 2014. Related: ProPublica’s Prescriber Checkup, which uses the Medicare data to examine doctors’ prescribing patterns. Previously: A decade-plus of Australian prescription data (DIP 2016.08.24). [h/t Adam Crahen] | https://data.gov.uk/dataset/prescribing-by-gp-practice-presentation-level
https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Part-D-Prescriber.html
https://projects.propublica.org/checkup/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-08-24-edition | https://twitter.com/acrahen/status/853487201837101056 | -0.517139 | -0.518317 | 975 | 3,870 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
351 | 2017.04.19 | 2 | Vaccination rates by state. | The CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases collects and publishes state-by-state vaccination rates for infants, kindergartners, teens, and adults — plus, flu vaccination rates for several age groups. Each dataset includes several years’ worth of data, with many going back to 2008 or 2009. Related: “California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates,” by my colleague Peter Aldhous, with additional county-level data from the Golden State. Previously: International vaccination rates and policies (DIP 2016.08.03). | https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/childvaxview/data-reports/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/schoolvaxview/data-reports/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/teenvaxview/data-reports/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/adultvaxview/data-reports/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/interactive.htm
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/record-vaccination-in-california
http://www.peteraldhous.com/
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Pages/ImmunizationLevels.aspx
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-08-03-edition | null | -0.306061 | -0.683034 | 662 | 2,604 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
352 | 2017.04.19 | 3 | Tropical cyclones. | Through its International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship project, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes what it calls “the most complete global set of historical tropical cyclones available.” For each tropical cyclone — a category that includes typhoons, hurricanes, tropical depressions, and more — the dataset includes its position, wind speed, central pressure, and classification at six-hour intervals. The dataset is updated annually and includes some historical cyclones from as early as 1842. [h/t Daniel Miller] | https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php?name=ibtracs-data | https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10994 | -0.714408 | 0.899048 | 3,849 | 15,506 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
353 | 2017.04.19 | 4 | Where plants grow best. | The USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map “is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location.” The USDA and Oregon State, which have jointly developed the map, previously sold access to the underlying data through a vendor. But after the vendor shut down earlier this year, OSU began publishing the data free of charge (though with some licensing restrictions). The dataset is available as detailed shapefiles and as ZIP code–based spreadsheets. [h/t Waldo Jaquith + Lynn Cherny] | http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Default.aspx
http://web.archive.org/web/20151001025259/http://climatesource.com/cgi-bin/csshop/scan/st=db/co=yes/sf=category/se=phz_us_phz/op=eq/va=banner_text=US%20%28grids%20%26%20shapefiles%29.html
http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/projects/plant_hardiness_zones.php | https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/851995078067453952
https://twitter.com/arnicas/status/852198803310616576 | -0.359359 | 0.597049 | 3,284 | 13,097 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
354 | 2017.04.19 | 5 | Spelling self-corrections. | For a 2012 academic paper, researchers captured the keystrokes of paid volunteers as they typed descriptions of images. Whenever a participant used the backspace key to correct a word, the researchers added it to a dataset of self-corrections. Each of the 44,000 lines in the English-language version of the dataset contains the original mistake and the correction. The most common change was in → on. Other common fixes included waling → walking and pople → people. [h/t Seth Stephens-Davidowitz] | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2390665.2390749
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52418 | http://sethsd.com/everybodylies/ | 0.752291 | 0.381392 | 2,872 | 11,376 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
355 | 2017.04.26 | 1 | National park visitors. | The U.S. National Park Service publishes a ton of data about visitors to its parks, historic sites, memorials, preserves, and more. Among them: Visitors per park (annually since 1904, and monthly since 1979), overnight stays by type of lodging (tents, RVs, backcountry, etc.), and traffic. Related: “The National Parks Have Never Been More Popular” (FiveThirtyEight, 2016). [h/t Jack King] | https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/Reports/National
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-national-parks-have-never-been-more-popular/ | https://data.world/inform8n/us-national-parks-visitation-1904-2016-with-boundaries | -0.447908 | 0.522587 | 3,089 | 12,451 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
356 | 2017.04.26 | 2 | Word frequencies. | You’re probably familiar with the Google Books Ngram Viewer, which lets you chart word and phrase frequencies over time. Google publishes the underlying data but those files can (depending on your tools and goals) be cumbersomely large. Here’s an alternative: DIP reader (and former colleague) Chris Wilson has condensed the overall frequencies for 87,000 words — those found in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — into a svelte, four-megabyte file. Related: BYU’s advanced interface to the Google Books data. Also related: “The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language” (Wired, 2015). And also: “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them” (The Atlantic, 2017). | https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=data+is%2Cdata+are&year_start=1800&year_end=2012&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdata%20is%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdata%20are%3B%2Cc0
http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2.html
http://mechanicalscribe.com/notes/google-ngrams-for-cmu-pronunciation-dictionary/
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
https://github.com/mechanicalscribe/cmu_tf_idf
http://googlebooks.byu.edu/x.asp
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/pitfalls-of-studying-language-with-google-ngram/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ | null | 0.811096 | 0.45726 | 3,001 | 12,019 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
357 | 2017.04.26 | 3 | Women’s empowerment in India. | For each of India’s 36 states and Union Territories, the country’s latest National Family Health Survey includes 114 metrics, such as the percentages of “households using iodized salt” and “men who have comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS.” Unfortunately, the government publishes the reports only as PDFs. But the Hindustan Times has extracted the data for the survey’s eight “women’s empowerment and gender based violence” metrics, including the percentages of “ever-married women who have ever experienced spousal violence” and “women having a bank or savings account that they themselves use.” They’ve published that data as a spreadsheet and used it to construct an interactive Women Empowerment Index. [h/t Gurman Bhatia] | http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-4.shtml
https://github.com/HindustanTimesLabs/women-empowerment-index
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/179onU4jvFPqhLlM-7ZJu5xv0LQLOsQq-TrMJNFQkSjI/edit#gid=1937549234
http://www.hindustantimes.com/interactives/women-empowerment-index/ | http://www.gurmanbhatia.com/ | -0.116434 | -0.349166 | 1,308 | 5,304 | 65 | -1 | Labor and Employment Surveys | false |
358 | 2017.04.26 | 4 | Marriage and divorce, pregnancy and infertility in the U.S. | The CDC has been running its National Survey of Family Growth since 1973. For the first three decades, it surveyed only women ages 15-44. Starting in 2002, it began also surveying men. The latest survey was conducted in 2013-15, when it collected data from 10,205 residents about sexual activity and contraception, pregnancy and infertility, marriage and divorce, adoption, parenting, and more. [h/t Allen B. Downey] | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/index.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/nsfg_2013_2015_puf.htm | http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/thinkstats002.html#htoc5 | -0.208423 | -0.336117 | 1,369 | 5,426 | 66 | 66 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
359 | 2017.04.26 | 5 | This must be the r/place. | For April Fools, Reddit launched a million-pixel canvas called “r/place.” Users could place a single-pixel tile, in one of 16 colors, anywhere on the canvas — but only every five minutes. By the end of r/place’s 72-hour lifetime, Redditors had placed 16.5 million tiles on the canvas, likely making it “the largest collaborative art project in history.” Last week, Reddit published the entire history of the canvas as structured data. [h/t Felipe Hoffa] | https://www.reddit.com/r/place/
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdata/comments/6640ru/place_datasets_april_fools_2017/ | https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/854395005028454401 | 0.390437 | 0.567336 | 3,244 | 12,888 | 79 | 79 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
360 | 2017.05.10 | 1 | The border fence. | There’s about 700 miles of official fencing between the U.S. and Mexico, covering about one-third of the full border. The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t provide structured spatial data about the fence’s path. But, thanks to a Texas law professor’s FOIA and some serious elbow grease, reporters at Reveal have created “the most detailed border fence map publicly available.” For each segment of fence, Reveal’s dataset includes the fence type (i.e., pedestrian, vehicle, or unknown), the government’s name for the segment, and the project through which the segment was built. | https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/borderwall/maps/background-maps.html
http://cironline.org/blog/post/surprising-tools-cir-used-map-us-mexico-border-fence-6255
https://www.revealnews.org/article/the-wall-building-a-continuous-u-s-mexico-barrier-would-be-a-tall-order/
https://github.com/cirlabs/border_fence_map | null | -0.369733 | 0.232777 | 2,516 | 10,024 | 51 | 51 | Surveillance and Mapping Data | false |
361 | 2017.05.10 | 2 | Insurance premiums and payouts. | Last month, ProPublica and Consumer Reports published an analysis of car insurance costs in four states, finding that “some major insurers charge minority neighborhoods as much as 30 percent more than other areas with similar accident costs.” The reporters also published a detailed methodology and dataset supporting their findings. The dataset contains company-by-company insurance premiums for a (hypothetical) college-educated, excellent-credit, accident-free 30-year-old woman in each of 6,261 ZIP codes in the four states — California, Texas, Missouri, and Illinois. The dataset also includes several years of average (per-car) insurance payouts for each ZIP code, which the reporters obtained from state insurance commissioners. Related: The insurance industry's rebuttal and ProPublica's counter-rebuttal. | https://www.propublica.org/article/minority-neighborhoods-higher-car-insurance-premiums-white-areas-same-risk
https://www.propublica.org/article/minority-neighborhoods-higher-car-insurance-premiums-methodology
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/carinsurance#src-line
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/04/05/447012.htm
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-car-insurance-industry-attacks-our-story-our-response | null | -0.401688 | -0.556457 | 915 | 3,622 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
362 | 2017.05.10 | 3 | Three million grocery orders. | Groceries-on-demand startup Instacart has released a dataset containing 3 million orders from 200,000 (anonymized) users. “For each user, we provide between 4 and 100 of their orders, with the sequence of products purchased in each order,” the company’s head of data science writes. “We also provide the week and hour of day the order was placed, and a relative measure of time between orders.” Here’s the data dictionary. | https://www.instacart.com/datasets/grocery-shopping-2017
https://tech.instacart.com/3-million-instacart-orders-open-sourced-d40d29ead6f2
https://gist.github.com/jeremystan/c3b39d947d9b88b3ccff3147dbcf6c6b | null | 0.07034 | 0.487877 | 3,042 | 12,228 | 44 | 44 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
363 | 2017.05.10 | 4 | What do you do with a PhD in science? | The National Science Foundation’s Survey of Doctorate Recipients “is a longitudinal biennial survey conducted since 1973 that provides demographic and career history information about individuals with a research doctoral degree in a science, engineering, or health (SEH) field from a U.S. academic institution.” You can download aggregated data and detailed survey responses going back to 1993. The next release is scheduled for this month. Related: The NSF has published an interactive graphic of the data. [h/t Peter Aldhous] | https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctoratework/
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctoratework/#tabs-2
https://sestat.nsf.gov/datadownload/
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/next-releases.cfm#survey5
https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/infographic2/ | http://www.peteraldhous.com/ | -0.061315 | -0.251603 | 1,502 | 6,076 | 64 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
364 | 2017.05.10 | 5 | *Such* an important dataset. | Grad students in Princeton’s computer science department have published a dataset they call Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus, or “SARC” for short. “The corpus has 1.3 million sarcastic statements — 10 times more than any previous dataset,” the authors write, and takes advantage of Reddit users’ habit of tagging sarcastic comments with an “/s”. Related: A dataset of sarcastic Amazon reviews. [h/t Carlos Somohano + Reddit user cavedave] | http://nlp.cs.princeton.edu/SARC/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05579
https://github.com/ef2020/SarcasmAmazonReviewsCorpus/wiki | https://www.getrevue.co/profile/datamachina/issues/data-machina-issue-114-55313
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/68s1c9/a_collection_of_sarcastic_and_regular_amazon/ | 0.749485 | 0.39499 | 2,871 | 11,503 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
365 | 2017.05.17 | 1 | North Korean missile tests. | The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies publishes what it calls “the first database to record flight tests of all missiles launched by North Korea capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kilograms a distance of at least 300 kilometers.” The database currently contains 107 missile tests — starting with North Korea’s first, launched in April 1984, to its latest, launched Sunday morning. For each test, the data includes the missile’s launch site, highest altitude, distance travelled, landing location, success/failure, and other details. [h/t Ian Greenleigh] | http://www.nonproliferation.org/
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/cns-north-korea-missile-test-database/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gracewyler/north-korea-reportedly-launches-ballistic-missile | https://data.world/ian/the-cns-north-korea-missile-test-database | 0.418042 | -0.542571 | 941 | 3,802 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
366 | 2017.05.17 | 2 | Global food prices. | The UN World Food Programme’s vulnerability analysis group collects and publishes food price data for more than 1,000 towns and cities in more than 70 countries. The dataset, which goes back more than a decade, covers basic staples, such as wheat, rice, milk, oil, and more. It’s updated monthly and feeds into (among other things) the UNWFP’s price-spike indicators. Related: The Humanitarian Data Exchange, which hosts the dataset for the UN. Also: The Economist’s Big Mac Index. [h/t Andrew McCartney] | http://vam.wfp.org/
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/wfp-food-prices
http://foodprices.vam.wfp.org/ALPS-at-a-glance.aspx
https://data.humdata.org/
http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index | null | -0.18302 | 0.430485 | 2,906 | 11,700 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
367 | 2017.05.17 | 3 | Rising seas. | How might rising sea levels affect coastal flooding? A new-ish NOAA Technical Report, published in January, combines historical data on global sea levels with “regional factors contributing to sea level change for the entire U.S. coastline.” The result: Localized projections under six sea-level rise scenarios, ranging from “low” to “extreme.” You can download the data (at the bottom of this page) or explore it on a map. Related: Climate Central describes what NOAA’s “extreme” scenario could mean for America (including more maps and calculations). Previously: Tide gauge data (DIP 2016.03.23) and sea ice measurements (DIP 2016.09.14). [h/t Susie Cambria] | http://www.noaa.gov/media-release/new-regional-sea-level-scenarios-help-communities-prepare-for-risks
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/key-indicators/global-mean-sea-level
https://scenarios.globalchange.gov/sea-level-rise
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/extreme-sea-level-rise-stakes-for-america-21387
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-03-23-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-14-edition | https://about.me/susiecambria | -0.729769 | 0.810984 | 3,656 | 14,737 | 29 | 29 | Disaster and Flood Data | false |
368 | 2017.05.17 | 4 | “The watch list Chicago police fought to keep secret.” | The Chicago Sun-Times has obtained and published an August 2016 copy of the Chicago Police Department’s “Strategic Subject List,” a database that scores nearly 400,000 (unnamed) people on a scale from 10 to 500, based on an algorithm that attempts to estimate their risk of being involved in gun violence (either as a shooter or a victim). The database includes demographic, geographic, criminal history, and other information about the people it ranks. “But the database doesn’t indicate — and the police won’t say — how much weight is given to each factor in computing the scores, which are produced using an algorithm developed at the Illinois Institute of Technology,” according to the Sun-Times. | http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/what-gets-people-on-watch-list-chicago-police-fought-to-keep-secret-watchdogs/ | null | 0.174946 | -0.791234 | 421 | 1,739 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
369 | 2017.05.17 | 5 | Story arcs. | “The WikiPlots corpus is a collection of 112,936 story plots extracted from English language Wikipedia.” The plots describe movies, books, plays, TV series, TV episodes, video games, and other stories — essentially, any *thing that has a Wikipedia article with the word “plot” in one of its subheadings. Related: “Examining the arc of 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis” and “Gender and verbs across 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis,” two blog posts by David Robinson that use the data. | https://github.com/markriedl/WikiPlots
http://varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-plots/
http://varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-gender-plots/
http://varianceexplained.org/about/ | null | 0.699229 | 0.522452 | 3,126 | 12,524 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
370 | 2017.05.24 | 1 | America’s card catalog. | Last week, the Library of Congress released its largest dataset ever: nearly 25 million records for books, maps, manuscripts and other items in its online catalog. For each item, the data includes standardized bibliographic information, such as the title, author, publication date, and genre. (The dataset represents the online catalog as it was in 2013; more recent data will cost you.) Related: A bit of background about the library’s MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging Records) data format. | https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-068/
http://www.loc.gov/cds/PDFdownloads/mds2016.pdf
https://opensource.com/article/17/4/bit-about-marc-handlers | null | 0.485137 | 0.511148 | 3,119 | 12,383 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
371 | 2017.05.24 | 2 | Domestic radicalization. | The Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) database “contains deidentified individual-level information on the backgrounds, attributes, and radicalization processes of nearly 1,500 violent and non-violent extremists who adhere to far right, far left, Islamist, or single issue ideologies in the United States” — including the Klu Klux Klan, the Taliban, and the Animal Liberation Front, among others. The dataset covers 1948 through 2013 and was released earlier this year by a team at the University of Maryland. [h/t Lorand Bodo] | http://www.start.umd.edu/data-tools/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-pirus
http://www.start.umd.edu/news/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-pirus-data-now-available | https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/864186557242249216 | 0.390147 | -0.739025 | 556 | 2,136 | 10 | -1 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
372 | 2017.05.24 | 3 | Ransomware payments. | When the malware program known as “WannaCry” hit hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this month, it demanded that the computers’ owners pay $300 in Bitcoin — or lose all of their data. Keith Collins at Quartz has been using Blockchain’s API to track Bitcoin payments to the three digital wallets that the hackers designated to receive the ransoms. He’s published the data and is also using it to power a Twitter bot. Related: “Victims of the WannaCry ransomware attacks have stopped paying up” and “Inside the digital heist that terrorized the world—and only made $100k,” both by Collins. Previously: Historical Bitcoin prices (DIP 2017.03.08). | http://keithcollins.github.io/
https://blockchain.info/api
https://github.com/keithcollins/actual_ransom
https://twitter.com/actual_ransom
https://qz.com/986094/wannacry-ransomware-attacks-victims-have-stopped-paying-the-ransom/
https://qz.com/985093/inside-the-digital-heist-that-terrorized-the-world-and-made-less-than-100k/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-08-edition | null | 0.555646 | -0.010453 | 2,033 | 8,163 | 41 | -1 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
373 | 2017.05.24 | 4 | Fifty million doodles. | Google is clever: It created a drawing game, got 15 million people to play it, and then turned those doodles into into a public dataset of people drawing. You can download the raw data, or just browse the doodles online. | https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data
https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data | null | 0.437173 | 0.544905 | 3,181 | 12,635 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
374 | 2017.05.24 | 5 | 🎶 Two thousand cans of craft beer on the wall 🎶. | The website CraftCans.com publishes a database of 2,000+ canned beers. For each beer, the database lists its name, style, brewery, size, alcohol level, and bitterness. The website doesn’t provide a direct download, but — as Jean-Nicholas Hould points out — you can basically just copy-paste the website’s data into your favorite spreadsheet program. Or, if you want something slightly cleaner, you can use this script. Related: This data-profiling tutorial by Hould, which uses the data. Also related: RateBeer.com’s API, but you’ll need to request a developer key to use it. Plus: This interactive graphic, which uses the RateBeer data to explore America’s microbrew epicenters. And also: Official brewery production stats from the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. [h/t Daniel Brady] | http://www.craftcans.com/
http://craftcans.com/db.php?search=all&sort=beerid&ord=desc&view=text
http://www.jeannicholashould.com/python-web-scraping-tutorial-for-craft-beers.html
https://gist.github.com/jsvine/c537ac9509e7d0ed713cced4992faf39
http://www.jeannicholashould.com/profiling-a-dataset-of-craft-beers.html
https://www.ratebeer.com/json/ratebeerapi.asp
https://pudding.cool/2017/04/beer/
https://www.ttb.gov/beer/beer-stats.shtml | http://danjbrady.com/ | 0.001128 | 0.488306 | 3,040 | 12,224 | 44 | -1 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
375 | 2017.05.31 | 1 | Government payrolls. | Last week at BuzzFeed News, we shared a vast trove federal payroll data. Those records — provided by Office of Personnel Management through the Freedom of Information Act — cover more than 40 years and millions of employees. The dataset includes salaries, titles, job types, and demographic variables. In many-but-not-all cases (per OPM’s data release policies), it also includes names. Previously, federal payroll data had been searchable online, but very little was available in downloadable, analysis-friendly formats. Also: Many states – including New York, California, Florida, New Jersey, Minnesota, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Washington – proactively make payroll data available for download. (Some cities, such as Chicago, do, too.) | https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/sharing-hundreds-of-millions-of-federal-payroll-records
http://php.app.com/agent/federalemployees/search
https://www.fedsdatacenter.com/federal-pay-rates/
https://data.ny.gov/browse?tags=salaries%2Fpayroll&utf8=%E2%9C%93
http://publicpay.ca.gov/
http://salaries.myflorida.com/
http://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/transparency/payroll/
https://mn.gov/mmb/transparency-mn/payrolldata.jsp
https://www.ark.org/dfa/transparency/employee_compensation.php
http://www.admin.sc.gov/accountability-portal/state-salaries
http://fiscal.wa.gov/salaries.aspx
http://fiscal.wa.gov/salaries.aspx
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Administration-Finance/Current-Employee-Names-Salaries-and-Position-Title/xzkq-xp2w | null | -0.137666 | -0.295282 | 1,435 | 5,815 | 65 | 65 | Labor and Employment Surveys | false |
376 | 2017.05.31 | 2 | Government lobbying. | U.S. lobbyists must notify Congress within 45 days of being retained by new clients. Every quarter after that, they’re required to file activity reports that detail the agencies they lobbied, the topics they covered, and the income they earned. Bulk downloads of both types of reports are available as XML files from the House (going back to 2004) and from the Senate (since 1999). Although they receive the same filings, each chamber “follows different data-cleaning, processing, and editing procedures before storing the data,” according to this recent GAO report. | http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldsearch.aspx
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/LDA_reports.htm
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-320 | null | 0.725316 | -0.161948 | 1,719 | 6,894 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
377 | 2017.05.31 | 3 | State gun laws. | A team of researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health has collected data on the presence/absence of 133 different types of firearm laws in each U.S. state, for each year between 1991 and 2016. The legal provisions are grouped into 14 categories, such as background checks, “Stand Your Ground” laws, and child access prevention. You can download a spreadsheet of the data, and also browse state-by-state summaries. Previously: The Correlates of State Policy Project (DIP 2016.07.06). | https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/about.html
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/categories.html
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/table.html
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/state-by-state.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-06-edition | null | 0.086904 | -0.713114 | 610 | 2,373 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
378 | 2017.05.31 | 4 | Industrial sector data. | Aswath Damodaran — a professor of finance at the NYU’s business school — maintains a trove of data on per-sector financials, including effective tax rates, return on equity, and working capital ratios by industry. For most datasets, Damodaran publishes both current and historical versions. [h/t Tim McGovern] | http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/data.html
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/taxrate.htm
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/roe.html
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/wcdata.html
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datacurrent.html
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/dataarchived.html | https://twitter.com/herdingbats | 0.077346 | -0.150631 | 1,762 | 6,980 | 68 | -1 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
379 | 2017.05.31 | 5 | NYC doggies. | You might have seen New York City’s bubble map of dog names. It turns out that the underlying dataset — which includes the name, gender, age as of 2015, breed, and borough of more than 110,000 dogs — is available on GitHub. You can also download slightly older, but more detailed data from WNYC’s Dogs of NYC project. That data includes each dog’s coat colors, whether it had been spayed/neutered, and its ZIP code. Related: Similar pet license data from Tacoma, Wash., and Edmonton, Canada. [h/t Alex P. Miller + Dan Nguyen] | http://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/dognames/
https://github.com/Kaz-A/dog_names/
https://fusiontables.google.com/data?docid=1pKcxc8kzJbBVzLu_kgzoAMzqYhZyUhtScXjB0BQ#rows:id=1
https://project.wnyc.org/dogs-of-nyc/
https://data.cityoftacoma.org/Neighborhoods/Current-Pet-License-City-of-Tacoma-Fircrest/qnnn-t9wt
https://data.edmonton.ca/Community-Services/Pet-Licenses-by-Neighbourhood/5squ-mg4w | https://twitter.com/alexpmil/status/861703366203801600
http://danwin.com/ | -0.096908 | 0.785597 | 3,676 | 14,649 | 2 | 2 | Animal Data Collections | false |
380 | 2017.06.07 | 1 | Millions of scientists, and their migrations. | ORCID is a nonprofit organization that provides unique identifiers for researchers — mostly scientists so far — to make it easier to distinguish between them. It has issued more than 3 million IDs so far, and provides annual bulk downloads of all researchers’ public profiles. In many cases, the researchers have supplied their education and employment histories. That enabled Science magazine to analyze the migrations of more than 110,000 researchers who’ve listed multiple countries in these public CVs. (The data and code underlying the analysis are also available to download.) [h/t Shaun Coffey] | https://orcid.org/
https://orcid.org/content/orcid-public-data-file-use-policy
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/vast-set-public-cvs-reveals-world-s-most-migratory-scientists
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.48s16 | https://twitter.com/ShaunCoffey/status/865880767015956480 | 0.478794 | 0.274583 | 2,607 | 10,462 | 75 | -1 | Open Research Datasets | false |
381 | 2017.06.07 | 2 | Trump’s pre-presidency flights. | Before Donald Trump began flying on Air Force One, he rode a fleet of private aircraft. Reporters at Bloomberg used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain flight records for three major components of that fleet — a ”Boeing 757 with gold-plated seatbelt buckles, known as Trump Force One during the campaign; a Cessna 750 Citation X jet; and a Sikorsky helicopter”. For each of the more than 1,500 flights taken between August 2010 and November 2016, the dataset contains the date, time, and airport of both the departure and arrival. Trump wasn’t necessarily aboard each of those flights; the dataset does not contain passengers information. Related: Bloomberg’s analysis/maps of the data. Also related: The Washington Post used the data to estimate the flights’ CO2 emissions. | https://github.com/BloombergGraphics/2017-trump-flight-data
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-01/this-is-where-trump-traveled-before-becoming-president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/06/trumps-campaign-planes-alone-had-the-carbon-footprint-of-500-americans-for-a-year/ | null | -0.635509 | -0.101626 | 1,803 | 7,319 | 39 | -1 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
382 | 2017.06.07 | 3 | Severe workplace injuries. | Beginning in January 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration began requiring U.S. employers to report “all severe work-related injuries, defined as an amputation, in-patient hospitalization, or loss of an eye.” You can download a spreadsheet of these injuries — some 20,000 in 2015 and 2016 combined. It contains the injury dates, descriptions, and outcomes, as well as the employers’ names and locations. Previously: OSHA’s more detailed (but slightly more cumbersome) inspection data and API (DIP 2016.07.13). [Clarification, 2017-06-07/2017-06-14: The dataset dataset reflects "federal OSHA states only.” It excludes “injuries in state plans," which cover private sector employees in 21 states.] | https://www.osha.gov/severeinjury/index.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-13-edition | null | -0.473137 | -0.329833 | 1,360 | 5,409 | 35 | 35 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
383 | 2017.06.07 | 4 | Annotated Reddit conversations. | Researchers at Google took a semi-random sample of 9,473 Reddit threads, containing 116,347 comments in total. Then, they paid people to categorize each comment by its “discourse act” — e.g., whether it was a question, answer, announcement, agreement, humor, et cetera. The result is Coarse Discourse, “a dataset for understanding online discussions.” [h/t Roberto Bayardo] | https://github.com/google-research-datasets/coarse-discourse | https://twitter.com/roberto_bayardo/status/864591636097110017 | 0.806099 | 0.316103 | 2,745 | 10,867 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
384 | 2017.06.07 | 5 | E. coli at Ocean Beach. | The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Beach Water Quality Monitoring Program measures bacteria levels at fifteen locations on the city’s shoreline. You can download the measurements by clicking the “raw data” link below this map. The data powers the (unsurprisingly) unofficial @BeachPooBot account on Twitter. [h/t Reddit user cavedave] | http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=87
http://sfwater.org/cfapps/lims/beachmain1.cfm
https://github.com/John-Brandon/Beach_Poo_Bot
https://twitter.com/BeachPooBot | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5vk72n/san_francisco_shit_in_the_water_data/ | -0.635711 | 0.573595 | 3,211 | 12,823 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
385 | 2017.06.14 | 1 | Supreme Court transcripts. | Oyez.org bills itself as, among other things, “a complete and authoritative source for all of the [Supreme] Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.” The site has an API and releases all its material — including timestamped transcripts of oral arguments — under a Creative Commons license. A least two GitHub repositories have aggregated the transcripts and make them easy to bulk-download. For each segment of audio, the transcripts list the start/end time, the speaker, and the text. Related: PuppyJusticeAutomated, a YouTube channel that (a) must be seen to be understood and (b) uses the Oyez API. Previously: CourtListener (DIP 2016.04.13) and The Supreme Court Database (DIP 2016.02.24). [h/t Walker Boyle + Reddit user 21cannons] | https://www.oyez.org/
https://www.oyez.org/about
https://api.oyez.org
https://www.oyez.org/license
https://github.com/walkerdb/supreme_court_transcripts/
https://github.com/free-law-coalition/oyez-scotus
https://www.youtube.com/c/PuppyJusticeAutomated
https://github.com/ALSchwalm/PuppyJusticeAutomated
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-04-13-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-23-edition | https://github.com/walkerdb
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6epse3/all_existing_supreme_court_oral_argument/ | 0.766466 | -0.620499 | 824 | 3,185 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
386 | 2017.06.14 | 2 | Federal corporate prosecutions. | Last week, the University of Virginia School of Law launched an expanded version of its Corporate Prosecution Registry. The revamped database includes “detailed information about every federal organizational prosecution since 2001, as well as deferred and non-prosecution agreements with organizations since 1990” — more than 3,000 cases so far. Previously: Good Jobs First’s Violation Tracker (DIP 2015.11.11). [h/t Tom Jackman] | http://content.law.virginia.edu/news/201706/go-resource-researching-corporate-prosecution-just-got-more-powerful
http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/corporate-prosecution-registry/index.html
http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/corporate-prosecution-registry/about.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-11-edition | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/06/05/new-database-of-rarely-tracked-corporate-crime-prosecutions-launches-today/ | 0.239833 | -0.734865 | 551 | 2,127 | 10 | -1 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
387 | 2017.06.14 | 3 | Business owners. | The Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons “provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.” The most recent data comes from 2012. The survey has been conducted every five years since 1972, but data from before 1992 is “available only in printed form.” Related: “30% Of The Black-Owned Businesses In New York Disappeared In 5 Years,” by my colleague Cora Lewis. | https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sbo/about.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sbo/data.html
https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/in-5-years-new-york-lost-30-of-its-black-owned-businesses
https://twitter.com/cora | null | -0.172997 | -0.157819 | 1,690 | 6,836 | 59 | 59 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
388 | 2017.06.14 | 4 | Antibiotic resistance | . ResistoMap is an interactive visualization of antibiotic drug resistance, based on more than 1,500 bacteria genome samples from people’s intestinal tracts. The data behind the visualization is available to download. It’s partly based on two prior datasets: McMaster University’s Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (“a bioinformatic database of resistance genes, their products and associated phenotypes”) and the University of Gothenburg’s BacMet (“an easy-to-use bioinformatics resource of antibacterial biocide- and metal-resistance genes”). [h/t Carlos Somohano] | http://resistomap.rcpcm.org/
https://figshare.com/s/081a528b7ad55725a2ae
https://card.mcmaster.ca/
http://bacmet.biomedicine.gu.se/index.html | https://www.getrevue.co/profile/datamachina/issues/data-machina-issue-119-61138 | 0.037822 | 0.816424 | 3,745 | 14,914 | 0 | 0 | Biological Databases and Analysis | false |
389 | 2017.06.14 | 5 | L.A. pot dispensaries. | The Los Angeles City Controller has released a map of the city’s openly-operating medical marijuana businesses. You can access a spreadsheet of the 191 dispensaries that comply with Proposition D, which the city passed in 2013. Additionally, you can find hundreds of (active and inactive) dispensaries by filtering the city’s business registrations to those whose primary NAICS category is listed as “medical marijuana collective.” [h/t Zack Quaintance] | http://www.lacontroller.org/mjrelease
http://lacontroller.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8737a0a6f867495d93b6ba484eaf8cbc
https://controllerdata.lacity.org/Revenue/191-Prop-D-Compliant-Medical-Marijuana-Businesses/vva2-przx/
https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Los_Angeles_Medical_Marijuana_Dispensaries,_Measures_D,_E_and_F_(May_2013) | http://www.govtech.com/civic/Whats-New-in-Civic-Tech-App-Foster-Support-for-Kentucky-Fiber-Initiative.html | -0.450037 | -0.340291 | 1,361 | 5,411 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
390 | 2017.06.21 | 1 | 130 million traffic stops. | “Police pull over more than 50,000 drivers on a typical day, more than 20 million motorists every year. Yet the most common police interaction — the traffic stop — has not been tracked, at least not in any systematic way,” according to the Stanford Open Policing Project. To that end, the group has been collecting and standardizing traffic-stop data from state police agencies across America. Its first data release, published Monday, contains 130 million records from 31 states. The records vary by agency, but the most-complete states include the date, time, location, reason, and outcome of each stop; the driver’s race, gender, and age; whether a search was conducted; and whether the search found contraband. Related: The project’s findings so far. Previously: Raw traffic stop data from a smaller number of states (DIP 2015.10.28). | https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/
https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/data/
https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-10-28-edition | null | 0.121466 | -0.736227 | 547 | 2,119 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
391 | 2017.06.21 | 2 | Famine warnings. | “Created by USAID in 1985 to help decision-makers plan for humanitarian crises,” the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) “provides evidence-based analysis on some 34 countries.” As part of its work, FEWS NET publishes geospatial shapefiles that score each country’s “most likely food security outcome” on standardized scale: Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency, and Famine. Previously: Global food prices (DIP 2017.05.17). [h/t Melissa Segura] | https://www.fews.net/
https://www.fews.net/shapefiles
http://www.fews.net/IPC
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-17-edition | https://twitter.com/melissadsegura | -0.210732 | 0.40837 | 2,905 | 11,570 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
392 | 2017.06.21 | 3 | Two million open-source projects, and their dependencies. | Libraries.io monitors “over 2.4m unique open source projects, 25m repositories and 85m interdependencies between them.” Last week, the site released its first bulk dataset, which describes each project’s metadata, published versions, and dependencies on other software libraries. [h/t Nadia Eghbal] | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://libraries.io\nhttps://medium.com/@BenJam/libraries-io-releases-data-on-over-25m-software-repositories-ab1db665826e\nhttps://libraries.io/data" | https://twitter.com/nayafia/status/876795645847248896 | 0.521716 | 0.204801 | 2,480 | 9,953 | 75 | 75 | Open Research Datasets | false |
393 | 2017.06.21 | 4 | Political party manifestoes. | The Manifesto Project has collected and coded more than 4,000 electoral manifestoes from more than 1,000 political parties in more than 50 countries between 1945 and 2015. For each manifesto, the project’s dataset indicates whether the document expresses support for/against dozens of policies and attitudes, including “market regulation,” a “national way of life”, “environmental protection,” and “anti-imperialism.” You can also browse the manifestoes online. Caveat: The dataset is subject to a somewhat restrictive usage policy. [h/t The Quartz Directory of Essential Data] | https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/datasets
https://visuals.manifesto-project.wzb.eu/mpdb-shiny/cmp_dashboard_corpus/
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/terms_of_use | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hU7Snj4KZ-ppyy388l-sV4I26n4yGVb8xYnygPOS-5k/edit#gid=1436509184 | 0.668683 | -0.403812 | 1,269 | 4,970 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
394 | 2017.06.21 | 5 | Prisoners’ tattoos. | The Florida Department of Corrections’ public database contains a table describing current and released inmates’ tattoos. That data includes each tattoo’s location (e.g., “right arm,” “stomach,” “face”) and description (“cross,” “tribal,” and “skull” being the most common). Helpful: Dan Nguyen’s guide to converting the database into SQLite and CSV files. Related: Recent analyses by The Economist and by The Palm Beach Post. | http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/obis_request.html
https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/c6bcc9884c25cf68f3550560ccae5ca8
http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21712032-what-can-be-learned-prisoners-tattoos-statistical-analysis-art
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/body-art-000-florida-prison-inmates-runs-from-freaky-kinky/HXpaJsmobtJCGPP0vI9WlI/ | null | 0.159216 | -0.962612 | 101 | 330 | 6 | 6 | Criminal Justice Databases | false |
395 | 2017.06.28 | 1 | Infectious diseases in Europe. | The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases lets you browse, map, and download data on the historical incidence of several dozen diseases — from anthrax to Zika — in each of the European Economic Area’s countries. Related: Keila Guimarães’s recent investigation into penicillin shortages, which uses the Centre’s data on syphilis cases. | http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx?Instance=GeneralAtlas
https://qz.com/984705/syphilis-is-on-the-rise-because-penicillin-isnt-profitable/ | null | -0.329259 | -0.767855 | 469 | 1,834 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
396 | 2017.06.28 | 2 | People’s genes. | OpenSNP is a website that lets people publish the results of their genetic tests (such as those sold by 23andMe, deCODEme, FamilyTreeDNA), “find others with similar genetic variations, [get] the latest primary literature on their variations, and help scientists find new associations.” Since 2012, users have uploaded more than 3,000 sets of genetic variants, which you can download individually or in bulk or access via OpenSNP’s API. Users can also list various personal traits, such as eye color, height, coffee consumption, and lactose intolerance. Useful primer: SNP stands for “single nucleotide polymorphism,” the NIH explains. They’re “the most common type of genetic variation”; each one “represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a nucleotide.” | https://opensnp.org/
https://opensnp.org/statistics
https://opensnp.org/genotypes
https://github.com/openSNP/snpr/wiki/JSON-API
https://opensnp.org/phenotypes
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/genomicresearch/snp | null | 0.058313 | 0.753686 | 3,617 | 14,403 | 0 | 0 | Biological Databases and Analysis | false |
397 | 2017.06.28 | 3 | Real estate inventories. | The National Association of Realtors publishes monthly real estate inventory data “at the national level, the 500 largest metropolitan areas, the 1,000 largest counties, and over 15,000 zip codes.” The data, based on the realtors’ multiple listing services, goes back five years and “tracks key market metrics including list prices, days on market, and total active inventory.” As of early June, six counties — Manhattan, plus five in California — had median listing prices above $1 million. Previously: The Census Bureau’s Annual Characteristics of New Housing (DIP 2016.06.22), international house prices (DIP 2017.02.08), millions of mortgages (DIP 2015.12.30), and millions more mortgages (DIP 2017.03.15). [h/t Reddit user bbekks] | http://research.realtor.com/data/inventory-trends/
http://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-is-the-mls-multiple-listing-service/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-02-08-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-15-edition | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6flgrf/request_im_using_the_full_historical_inventory/ | -0.21838 | 0.056985 | 2,137 | 8,626 | 53 | 53 | Housing Market Data | false |
398 | 2017.06.28 | 4 | Every federally tax-exempt nonprofit. | The Internal Revenue Service publishes a file listing all “organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions” — currently more than 1 million charities, private foundations, and other groups. (Not all nonprofits apply for, or receive, tax-exempt status from the IRS; but all tax-exempt organizations are nonprofits.) Previously: Annual IRS 990 filings, in bulk (DIP 2016.06.22). [h/t Norbert Krupa + Derek Willis] | https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/forwardToDeductStatusSearchHelp.do
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition | https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/16/is-there-a-complete-list-of-all-us-tax-exempt-nonprofits-in-machine-readable-for | 0.234488 | -0.249492 | 1,575 | 6,223 | 62 | -1 | Government Financial Data | false |
399 | 2017.06.28 | 5 | 140-character politics. | The recently-launched Tweets Of Congress is collecting and publishing daily archives of tweets by congressional representatives, caucuses, and committees. Meanwhile, the Trump Twitter Archive has collected more than 30,000 of @realDonaldTrump’s tweets, which you can search and download. | https://alexlitel.github.io/congresstweets/
http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/about
http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive
https://github.com/bpb27/trump_tweet_data_archive | null | 0.789402 | -0.00799 | 2,041 | 8,178 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
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