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400 | 2017.07.19 | 1 | Solar eclipses. | You’ve probably seen The Washington Post’s solar eclipse graphics from last Monday. The stellar maps are largely based on an online tool that uses data from NASA's Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses. The tool can (among other things) generate maps and KMZ files describing the paths of the 11,898 solar eclipses Earth will have experienced between and 2000 BCE and 3000 CE. Helpful: NASA’s key to understanding the data terminology. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/eclipse/
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/5MCSE/xSE_Five_Millennium_Canon.html
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpubs/5MCSE.html
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SEcatkey.html | null | -0.564355 | 0.937428 | 3,917 | 15,771 | 33 | 33 | Space Exploration Datasets | false |
401 | 2017.07.19 | 2 | Dublin in detail. | Last week, a team at NYU announced “the world’s densest urban aerial laser scanning (LiDAR) dataset” — a 1.4-billion-point description of Dublin’s city center. They write: ”At over 300 points per square meter, this is more than 30 times denser than typical LiDAR data and is an order of magnitude denser than any other aerial LiDAR dataset.” The researchers collected the topographical data during a series of criss-crossing flyovers on March 26, 2015. They’ve also published a short, illustrative video. Previously: LiDAR datasets (DIP 2016.05.25) and 3D models (DIP 2017.04.05) of cities and countries around the world. [h/t Darrell Etherington] | http://cusp.nyu.edu/press-release/nyu-center-urban-science-progress-professor-releases-worlds-densest-urban-aerial-laser-scanning-dataset/
https://geo.nyu.edu/catalog/nyu_2451_38684
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEi2Wo7Bcuk
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-25-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-04-05-edition | https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/nyu-releases-the-largest-lidar-dataset-ever-to-help-urban-development/ | -0.452533 | 0.320939 | 2,705 | 10,787 | 51 | -1 | Surveillance and Mapping Data | false |
402 | 2017.07.19 | 3 | UN General Debate speeches. | Each September, the United Nations gathers for its annual General Assembly. Among the activities: the General Debate, a series of speeches delivered by the UN’s nearly 200 member states. The statements provide “an invaluable and, largely untapped, source of information on governments’ policy preferences across a wide range of issues over time,” write a trio of researchers who, earlier this year, published the UN General Debate Corpus — a dataset containing the transcripts of 7,701 speeches from 1970 to 2016. The researchers have also published an online tool for exploring and visualizing the dataset. Previously: UN General Assembly votes since 1946 (DIP 2016.07.13). [h/t Ronny Patz] | https://gadebate.un.org/en
http://www.smikhaylov.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/UNGDC_RAP_Final.pdf
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0TJX8Y
http://ungd.smikhaylov.net/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-13-edition | https://twitter.com/ronpatz/status/883052266567208960 | 0.767853 | -0.354029 | 1,336 | 5,361 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
403 | 2017.07.19 | 4 | Global economic forecasts. | The International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Database contains the fund’s projections for future “national accounts, inflation, unemployment rates, balance of payments, fiscal indicators, trade for countries and country groups” and commodity prices. (They predict that farm-bred Norwegian salmon will cost $6.79/kg in 2022.) The database also contains historical observations for many of the economic indicators back to 1980. [h/t David Mihalyi] | https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx | https://twitter.com/davidmihalyi/status/869562784186544128 | -0.013237 | 0.0919 | 2,207 | 8,895 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
404 | 2017.07.19 | 5 | Old Faithful et al. | The National Park Service and Geyser Observation and Study Association have been using water-temperature sensors to track the eruption times of dozens of geysers in Yellowstone — Old Faithful, of course, but also Beehive, Little Squirt, and Narcissus. GeyserTimes.org combines this data with historical logbooks and observations from “geyser gazers” to form what it describes as “the most comprehensive database of geyser eruption and observation data on the internet.” | http://www.gosa.org/about.aspx
http://geyserstudy.org/electronicsummary.aspx
http://www.geyserstudy.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=OLDFAITHFUL
http://www.geyserstudy.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=BEEHIVE
http://www.gosa.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=LITTLESQUIRT
http://geyserstudy.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=NARCISSUS
http://geysertimes.org/data.php
http://www.geyserstudy.org/ofvclogs.aspx
http://geysertimes.org/about.php | null | -0.4651 | 0.832518 | 3,729 | 15,010 | 32 | -1 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
405 | 2017.07.26 | 1 | Interned Japanese Americans. | The Densho Digital Repository is an archive of oral histories, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other primary sources relating to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Among the materials: several datasets listing people sent to the internment camps, based on official government records. The largest dataset contains more than 100,000 entries and includes details such as each internee’s “relocation” site, arrival date, hometown, birth year, time spent in Japan, marital status, religion, educational degrees, occupation, and military service. The National Archives hosts the raw data, as well as its documentation. | https://ddr.densho.org/
https://ddr.densho.org/names/
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1264228 | null | 0.196051 | 0.222593 | 2,534 | 10,060 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
406 | 2017.07.26 | 2 | Trump’s visits to Trump properties. | NBC News has been tracking the president’s visits to his own luxury properties. For each day since Trump took office, the data — available to download at the bottom of the page — tells you which properties he visited and whether any were golf courses. Since February, Trump has visited his properties roughly 10 days a month, including 25 trips to Mar-a-Lago and 42 trips to his golf courses. Related: A similar tracker from The New York Times. [h/t Rachel Schallom] | http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/how-much-time-trump-spending-trump-properties-n753366
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/05/us/politics/tracking-trumps-visits-to-his-branded-properties.html | http://tinyletter.com/best-of-interactives/letters/best-in-visual-storytelling-32 | 0.487056 | -0.25674 | 1,519 | 6,111 | 27 | 27 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
407 | 2017.07.26 | 3 | Women running for the U.S. House. | As the basis for his recent study, “Is Running Enough? Reconsidering the Conventional Wisdom about Women Candidates” (paywalled, but a draft is freely available), PhD candidate Peter Bucchianeri compiled a dataset of female candidates in House primary elections from 1972 to 2010. The spreadsheet covers 1,242 candidacies, and includes each candidate’s party, votes garnered in the primary and general elections, the seat’s incumbency status, the district’s demographics, and more. | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-017-9407-7
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9p6mt9a4vgipxf/Bucchianeri%20-%20Is%20Running%20Enough.pdf?dl=0
http://www.peterbucchianeri.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CFPBRI | null | 0.926761 | -0.291336 | 1,469 | 5,883 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
408 | 2017.07.26 | 4 | The Enron emails. | During the course of its Enron investigation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission obtained the emails of approximately 150 (mostly high-ranking) Enron staff. You can find versions of the dataset — cleaned, deduplicated, and restructured in various ways — hosted by Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, and Duke Law. Related: “What the Enron Emails Say About Us,” published by The New Yorker last week. Nathan Heller writes: The Enron archive “remains one of the country’s largest private e-mail corpora turned public. Its lasting value is less as an account of Enron’s daywork than as a social and linguistic data pool, a record of the way we write online when we’re not preening for the public eye.” | https://www.ferc.gov/industries/electric/indus-act/wec/enron/info-release.asp
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./enron/
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/enron_email.html
http://www.edrm.net/resources/data-sets/edrm-enron-email-data-set/
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/24/what-the-enron-e-mails-say-about-us | null | 0.801844 | 0.023448 | 2,105 | 8,435 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
409 | 2017.07.26 | 5 | Data podcast data. | Data Stories is a podcast about data visualization, hosted by Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner. To celebrate their recently-published 100th episode, the hosts released a spreadsheet detailing the date, title, number and genders of guests, length, and timestamped subchapters of each episode so far. Related: Christian Laesser’s visualization of the data. [h/t Benjamin Cooley] | http://datastori.es/
http://datastori.es/100-data-stories-100/
http://projects.datavis.club/100-data-stories/ | https://medium.com/towards-data-science/data-curious-17-07-2017-a-roundup-of-data-stories-datasets-and-visualizations-from-last-week-2a6766ac54d6 | 0.559859 | 0.63037 | 3,377 | 13,411 | 76 | 76 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
410 | 2017.08.02 | 1 | Data from the search for MH370. | After Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014, the Australian government undertook an enormous seafloor-mapping operation in search of the lost Boeing 777. Last month, it released data from the first phase of the project, which collected 278,000 square kilometers of bathymetry (i.e., seafloor topography) measurements. “In general, the world's deep oceans have had little investigation,” the government explains in an interactive map. “Only 10 to 15 percent of the ocean has been mapped with the sonar technology similar to that used in the search for MH370.” As a result, the MH370 search area “is now among the most thoroughly mapped regions of the deep ocean on the planet.” [h/t Soh Kam Yung] | http://marine.projects.ga.gov.au/mh370-phase-one-data-release.html
https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=038a72439bfa4d28b3dde81cc6ff3214 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802105 | -0.586156 | 0.709502 | 3,469 | 13,978 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
411 | 2017.08.02 | 2 | European Union lobbying. | The EU publishes a searchable database of people and organizations registered to lobby the European Parliament and the European Commission. The website LobbyFacts.eu takes that data and makes it available via an API. LobbyFacts also scrapes the European Commission’s disclosed lobbying meetings, which you can download here (warning: 10-megabyte direct download). Related: You can also explore the lobbyists and meetings via InegrityWatch.eu, which uses LobbyFacts’ data. Previously: U.S. government lobbyists (DIP 2017.05.31). [h/t Enigma Public + Xavier Dutoit] | http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do?redir=false&locale=en
https://lobbyfacts.eu/
http://api.lobbyfacts.eu/docs/api
https://lobbyfacts.eu/transparency_meetings
http://www.integritywatch.eu/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-31-edition | http://mailchi.mp/2ad52d3e7df1/between-two-rows-july-2017?e=64b85561c3
https://github.com/tttp/doi/blob/master/data/fetch.sh | 0.738531 | -0.216501 | 1,655 | 6,511 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
412 | 2017.08.02 | 3 | SAT, ACT, and AP scores. | The California Department of Education publishes aggregate scores on these high-school tests for each county, district, and school going back to the late 1990s. One hitch: For more than two months, the 2016 AP data “contained 350,000 more tests than had actually been taken,” according to inewsource.org’s Megan Wood, who spotted the discrepancies (and others) and got the department to fix them. Similar datasets are available from other states, including Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Bonus: inewsource.org’s has also published easy-to-search tables of the California AP, SAT, and ACT scores. | http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/ai/
http://inewsource.org/2017/06/13/state-admits-posting-faulty-data/
http://tea.texas.gov/acctres/sat_act_index.html
http://www.fldoe.org/accountability/accountability-reporting/act-sat-ap-data/index.stml
http://www.education.pa.gov/K-12/Assessment%20and%20Accountability/Pages/SAT-and-ACT.aspx#tab-1
http://data.inewsource.org/interactives/california-ap-scores-2011-2016/
http://data.inewsource.org/interactives/california-sat-scores-2011-2016/
http://data.inewsource.org/interactives/california-act-scores-2011-2016/ | null | 0.033792 | -0.386929 | 1,249 | 5,058 | 69 | -1 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
413 | 2017.08.02 | 4 | Individual library checkouts. | The Seattle Public Library publishes a dataset of every checkout of every physical item (e.g., paperback books and DVDs, but not e-books) since April 2005. It currently contains more than 90 million rows. Previously: The library’s monthly checkout counts, by title (DIP 2017.03.01). [h/t David Christensen] | https://data.seattle.gov/dataset/Checkouts-by-Title-Physical-Items-/3h5r-qv5w
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-01-edition | https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrchristensen/ | 0.500671 | 0.612583 | 3,312 | 13,280 | 76 | 76 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
414 | 2017.08.02 | 5 | Harmony lovers. | The New York Philharmonic has published three spreadsheets listing its subscribers — including where they sat, how much they paid, and where they had their tickets sent — for a slew of orchestral seasons between 1883 and the late 1990s. The earliest data includes names, too. (“Miss A. Brown” of 715 Fifth Avenue seems to have been a big fan, having subscribed to 26 seats for the 1890-91 season.) Previously: The Philharmonic’s performance history (DIP 2016.10.12). [h/t Rachel Shorey] | http://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/open-data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-10-12-edition | https://twitter.com/rachel_shorey/status/889944977282928641 | 0.330668 | 0.747318 | 3,562 | 14,293 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
415 | 2017.08.09 | 1 | Nutrition facts. | The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is the primary source for most of the food nutrition facts you see in America. The database assesses more than 8,000 foods, from abiyuch to zwieback, and provides the average nutrient levels per 100 grams — e.g., protein, carbohydrates, vitamin D, caffeine, lycopene, and water. North of the border, you can find the (bilingual) Canadian Nutrient File. It’s based on the USDA data, but excludes stateside foods “known not to be on the Canadian market”, adds some foods (such as poutine and ptarmigan), and makes adjustments based on “Canadian levels of fortification and regulatory standards.” The United Kingdom has its own nutrient file, as do many other countries. [h/t Reddit user Alacritous] | https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md/beltsville-human-nutrition-research-center/nutrient-data-laboratory/docs/usda-national-nutrient-database-for-standard-reference/
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2428
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/469
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/nutrient-data/canadian-nutrient-file-2015-download-files.html
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/nutrient-data/canadian-nutrient-file-compilation-canadian-food-composition-data-users-guide-2010.html
https://food-nutrition.canada.ca/cnf-fce/serving-portion.do?id=6772
https://food-nutrition.canada.ca/cnf-fce/serving-portion.do?id=5933
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid
http://www.fao.org/infoods/infoods/tables-and-databases/en/ | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6g56sl/canadian_nutrient_file_food_database_containing/ | -0.19991 | 0.516511 | 3,097 | 12,467 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
416 | 2017.08.09 | 2 | Interstate commodity flows. | The federally funded Freight Analysis Framework “integrates data from a variety of sources to create a comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation.” For each year between 2012 and 2015, the database “provides estimates for tonnage (in thousand tons) and value (in million dollars) by regions of origin and destination, commodity type, and mode.” Last week, Axios published an interactive map of the state-to-state flows for each commodity group, as well as some helpful caveats and “head-scratchers.” [h/t Chris Canipe] | http://faf.ornl.gov/fafweb/
https://www.axios.com/the-flow-of-goods-2463665414.html | https://twitter.com/ccanipe/status/892724588576206848 | -0.247264 | 0.136135 | 2,328 | 9,264 | 53 | -1 | Housing Market Data | false |
417 | 2017.08.09 | 3 | Pidgin and creole languages. | The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures contains data on 76 languages, such as Trinidad English Creole, Afrikaans, Guadeloupean Creole, and Singapore Bazaar Malay. For each language, the dataset includes information about 130 “structural features,” example sentences, and more. Previously: The World Atlas of Language Structures (DIP 2016.01.06) and a database of the Trans-New Guinea language family (DIP 2015.11.04). [h/t Rachael Tatman] | http://apics-online.info/
http://apics-online.info/download
http://apics-online.info/parameters
http://apics-online.info/sentences
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-06-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-04-edition | https://www.kaggle.com/rtatman/atlas-of-pidgin-and-creole-language-structures | 0.863403 | 0.523799 | 3,131 | 12,535 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
418 | 2017.08.09 | 4 | A century of UK coastal flooding. | Earlier this year, the researchers behind SurgeWatch.org published an updated version of their their database of UK coastal floods. They combined tidal gauge data with reports from scientific journals, newspapers, and social media to identify 329 “coastal flooding events” that occurred between 1915 to 2016. For each event, the dataset includes the date, region, and severity level, which ranges from 1 (“nuisance”) to 6 (“disaster,” applied to only one event — the North Sea flood of 1953). | https://www.surgewatch.org/
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/481720c2-35bd-6c10-e053-6c86abc06bb3/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953 | null | -0.735942 | 0.791035 | 3,656 | 14,608 | 29 | 29 | Disaster and Flood Data | false |
419 | 2017.08.09 | 5 | Talent agencies. | California’s Department of Industrial Relations publishes a dataset of all licensed talent agencies, with each agency’s name, address, license number, workers’ comp insurer, and bond issuer. Florida publishes something similar. Previously: Texas’s licensed professionals (DIP 2015.12.09). | https://www.dir.ca.gov/databases/dlselr/talag.html
http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/sto/file_download/public-records-talent.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-09-edition | null | -0.255873 | -0.365689 | 1,303 | 5,167 | 66 | -1 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
420 | 2017.08.16 | 1 | Historic newspapers. | Chronicling America — a project run by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities — provides information about more than 150,000 historic newspapers and access to digitized pages from many of them. Its API lets you search the database and doesn’t require registration; its bulk data includes text from more than 12 million pages. For instance, here’s the Omaha Daily Bee’s front page on April 7, 1917, the day after the U.S. entered World War I. [h/t Ed Summers] | http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ocr/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1917-04-07/ed-1/seq-1/ | https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/f8c7ea6e91e08b5a3f60a8c8a09f7f57c591a01f | 0.296085 | 0.320183 | 2,729 | 10,834 | 46 | -1 | Digital Historical Data | false |
421 | 2017.08.16 | 2 | Terrorism prosecutions. | “The U.S. government has prosecuted 808 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never even got close to committing an act of violence.” Those are the findings of The Intercept’s Trial and Terror database, first published in April and most recently updated last week. The underlying data — available on GitHub — contains each defendant’s name and demographic details, as well as each case’s description, status, charges, charge date, conviction date (if convicted), jurisdiction, and more. | https://trial-and-terror.theintercept.com/
https://github.com/firstlookmedia/trial-and-terror-data | null | 0.315187 | -0.775824 | 490 | 1,876 | 10 | 10 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
422 | 2017.08.16 | 3 | Brain scans. | The Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) project is “aimed at making MRI data sets of the brain freely available to the scientific community,” with the goal of “[facilitating] future discoveries in basic and clinical neuroscience.” So far, the project has published two collections: a cross-sectional dataset of scans from 416 people, ages 18 to 96; and a longitudinal dataset, based on 150 people aged 60 to 96, each of whom were scanned at least two different times. [h/t Andrew Beam] | http://www.oasis-brains.org/ | https://github.com/beamandrew/medical-data | 0.459169 | 0.295943 | 2,670 | 10,589 | 75 | -1 | Open Research Datasets | false |
423 | 2017.08.16 | 4 | The U.S. petroleum supply and exports. | The Energy Information Administration’s Petroleum Supply Monthly contains detailed data about how the United States obtains crude oil and petroleum products, and where that supply goes. In May, for instance, the U.S. refined nearly 314 million barrels of “finished motor gasoline” and exported 18.6 million barrels of it. | https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/monthly/ | null | -0.894919 | 0.405379 | 2,819 | 11,398 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
424 | 2017.08.16 | 5 | Prime psychology. | Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24‑Hour Bookstore, has a new book coming out next month — one that he believes “is the first novel in English to feature, as a main supporting character, a possibly-sentient sourdough starter.” To dole out advance copies of the book, Sloan conducted the following contest: Try to choose the smallest prime number that nobody else will pick. Now he’s posted the results — a CSV listing the number of contestants who chose each prime number. (Seventeen was the most popular number among the contest’s 1,354 entries; the smallest unique prime was 409.) | https://www.robinsloan.com/books/penumbra/
https://www.robinsloan.com/books/sourdough/
https://github.com/robinsloan/penumbra-primes | null | 0.555042 | 0.492137 | 3,057 | 12,259 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
425 | 2017.08.23 | 1 | A century of malarial mosquitoes. | A team of researchers has compiled “the largest ever geo-coded database of anophelines in Africa.” (Anophelines are the only kind of mosquito that transmits malaria.) The database covers 1898 to 2016 and includes more than 13,400 observations of mosquitoes in specific locations. For each observation, the dataset lists the country, administrative region(s), and latitude/longitude, as well as the time period, the species identified, the sampling method, and the source of the information. [h/t Michael Chew] | https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/2-57/
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/mosquitoes/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NQ6CUN | https://twitter.com/MichaelWKChew/status/898116844858552320 | -0.22491 | 0.8832 | 3,864 | 15,409 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
426 | 2017.08.23 | 2 | Who really controls UK companies? | Last year, the British government began requiring companies to identify all the people who exert power over them. The resulting “People with Significant Control” database contains each person’s name, country of residence, nationality, and “nature of control” — e.g., ownership of large numbers of shares, voting rights, or the ability to appoint/remove directors. [h/t Enigma Public] | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/people-with-significant-control-companies-house-register-goes-live
http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_pscdata.html | http://mailchi.mp/6dc38c39abc3/between-two-rows-august-2017 | 0.465873 | -0.173726 | 1,710 | 6,749 | 41 | -1 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
427 | 2017.08.23 | 3 | Carbon-conscious energy policies. | The Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, “is the most comprehensive source of information on incentives and policies that support renewables and energy efficiency in the United States.” The database, which was founded in 1995 and is funded by the Department of Energy, includes tax rebates, solar energy buybacks, building standards, and more. You can download the data in several formats, or browse and search it online. [h/t Carol Brotman White] | http://www.dsireusa.org/
http://www.dsireusa.org/resources/data-and-tools/
http://programs.dsireusa.org/system/program | https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32332 | -0.936617 | 0.457431 | 2,946 | 11,908 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
428 | 2017.08.23 | 4 | NEH grants and grant-evaluators. | The congressionally-established National Endowment for the Humanities publishes a dataset of all of the grants it has awarded since the late 1960s. On the same page, you can download a file describing the organization’s 25,000+ “evaluators” — “knowledgeable persons outside NEH who are asked for their judgments about the quality and significance” of proposed projects. [h/t Brett Bobley + Max Kemman] | https://securegrants.neh.gov/open/data/ | https://twitter.com/brettbobley/status/895994169403080705
https://twitter.com/MaxKemman/status/895995120444596225 | 0.299968 | -0.04097 | 1,961 | 7,891 | 56 | -1 | Data Platforms on Corporations | false |
429 | 2017.08.23 | 5 | The World Color Survey. | The 1970s, a team of linguistic investigators canvassed the globe, armed with boxes of color chips. They sought out a couple dozen native speakers of 110 unwritten languages, and asked: What do you call these colors? The results are available online. Related: This Vox video provides context. | http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/
http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/data.html
https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/5/16/15646500/color-pattern-language | null | 0.825517 | 0.511794 | 3,130 | 12,404 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
430 | 2017.08.30 | 1 | Flood maps. | FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center publishes geospatial files that detail the agency’s flood risk assessments — both current and historical. The maps include flood zones, levee locations, “base flood elevations,” and more. Helpful: FEMA’s technical documentation. Related: “Why Houston Isn’t Ready for Harvey,” published last week by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune; and “Hell and High Water,” the reporting team’s deep dive on Houston last year. Previously: The most comprehensive global dataset of cyclone paths (DIP 2017.04.19). | https://msc.fema.gov/portal/advanceSearch
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/886edbc98e2229a90d0593d5e46ddac9/Flood+Insurance+Rate+Map+Database+Technical+Reference.pdf
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey
https://projects.propublica.org/houston/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-04-19-edition | null | -0.768927 | 0.808225 | 3,655 | 14,734 | 29 | 29 | Disaster and Flood Data | false |
431 | 2017.08.30 | 2 | Redlining. | The Mapping Inequality project has digitized more than 150 of the “security maps” produced by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation between 1935 and 1940. Together, the maps “offer a view of Depression-era America as developers, realtors, tax assessors, and surveyors saw it — a set of interlocking color-lines, racial groups, and environmental risks.” To download the data for a given map, click on the cloud icon in the top-right corner. Related: A new research paper, by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, uses the data to quantify redlining’s lasting effects. Also related: The New York Times’ summary of the data and research. [h/t Kendall Taggart] | https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/
https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2017/wp2017-12
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/upshot/how-redlinings-racist-effects-lasted-for-decades.html | https://twitter.com/KendallTTaggart | -0.04186 | 0.255449 | 2,590 | 10,301 | 43 | -1 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
432 | 2017.08.30 | 3 | Home price indices. | The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis publishes S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index data, which measures changes in average home prices over time. The monthly-updated datasets — copyrighted, but free to download — are available at a national and metro-area level, and go back several decades. | https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release?rid=199 | null | -0.119078 | 0.05523 | 2,140 | 8,632 | 54 | 54 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
433 | 2017.08.30 | 4 | Website logos. | Favicons are the little square icons in your browser’s tabs, placed there by the websites you’ve loaded. Two recent projects attempted to collect these markers from the web’s million most-trafficked domains. One, by programmer Colin Morris, collected 360,000 favicons in July 2016. The second, by researchers at ETH Zurich, collected 548,00 favicons in April 2017. Semi-related: Morris’s “Finding bad flamingo drawings with recurrent neural networks”; the analysis uses Google’s 50-million-doodles data, featured in DIP 2017.05.04. | https://archive.org/details/favicons_201708
https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/lld/
https://colinmorris.github.io/blog/bad_flamingos
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-24-edition | null | 0.688954 | 0.133543 | 2,358 | 9,324 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
434 | 2017.08.30 | 5 | Game of Thrones characters, judged. | Earlier this month, The New York Times asked readers to rate 50 of the show’s most recognizable characters along two dimensions: good ↔ evil, and ugly ↔ beautiful. They’ve received 190,000+ submissions. The results are accessible as two JSON files: one for the averages and another for the distributions. | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/09/upshot/game-of-thrones-chart.html
https://int.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/2017-07-17-got-matrix/mean.json
https://int.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/2017-07-17-got-matrix/contours.json | null | 0.634456 | 0.564784 | 3,252 | 12,904 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
435 | 2017.09.13 | 1 | Global flooding. | The Dartmouth Flood Observatory’s Global Archive of Large Flood Events contains data about 4,500+ floods, dating back to 1985. It’s updated often, and is available in Excel, XML, HTML, and geospatial formats. The variables include each flood’s location, timespan, severity, main cause, and estimated impact. The organization also publishes detailed maps of the “maximum observed flooding” for specific disasters, such as for Hurricane Harvey and for Hurricane Irma. Related: A Science Magazine mini-profile of the DFO and its founder. Previously: U.S. tide gauges and flood observations (DIP 2016.03.23), UK coastal flooding (DIP 2017.08.09), and FEMA flood risk maps (DIP 2017.08.30). | http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/index.html
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Archives/index.html
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Archives/ArchiveNotes.html
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Events/2017USA4510/2017USA4510.html
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Events/2017USA4516/2017USA4516.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/colorado-global-flood-observatory-keeps-close-watch-harvey-s-torrents
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-03-23-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-09-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-30-edition | null | -0.7494 | 0.822019 | 3,720 | 14,864 | 29 | 29 | Disaster and Flood Data | false |
436 | 2017.09.13 | 2 | House price indices, part two. | Two weeks ago, DIP featured Case-Shiller’s home price index data. There are, in fact, several other prominent (and downloadable) house price indices, including the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s House Price Index, the National Association of Realtors’ indices, and Zillow’s Home Value Index. Helpful: This guide to various home price indices and how they’re constructed, by Jed Kolko, formerly Trulia’s chief economist. Related: This critique of Case-Shiller’s approach, also by Kolko. | http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-30-edition
https://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Downloads/Pages/House-Price-Index.aspx
https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/housing-statistics
https://www.zillow.com/research/data/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/05/kolko-dissecting-house-price-indices.html
http://jedkolko.com/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/08/kolko-lets-improve-not-ignore-seasonal.html | null | -0.140406 | 0.078285 | 2,203 | 8,887 | 54 | 54 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
437 | 2017.09.13 | 3 | Trump, McConnell, Schumer, Ryan, and Pelosi on TV. | The Internet Archive has pumped footage from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC through software trained to recognize the faces of Donald Trump and majority/minority leaders of the U.S. House and Senate. The result: Face-O-Matic, a dataset released to the public last week. For each face the software found, the dataset includes the network, program, date, time, duration, and a link to the footage on the TV News Archive. Since mid-July, Face-O-Matic has logged more than 50,000 sightings. [h/t Nancy Watzman] | https://archive.org/details/faceomatic
http://blog.archive.org/2017/09/06/face-o-matic-data-show-trump-dominates/
https://archive.org/details/tv | https://twitter.com/nwatzman | 0.753418 | 0.150467 | 2,360 | 9,456 | 58 | -1 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
438 | 2017.09.13 | 4 | SEC server logs. | When companies file reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, they do so through the SEC’s EDGAR system. The SEC makes those filings available online, and it uses EDGAR’s server logs to analyze web traffic to the site. The SEC’s EDGAR Log File Data Set contains a set CSVs — one for each day between February 14, 2003 and December 31, 2016 — extracted from those server logs. For each document visited, the data includes the visitor’s unique-but-obfuscated IP address, the date and time of the visit, the IDs of the document and associated company, and some information about the visitor’s browser. [h/t Brian C. Keegan] | https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
https://www.sec.gov/data/edgar-log-file-data-set.html | https://www.brianckeegan.com/about/ | 0.262422 | -0.147383 | 1,768 | 6,992 | 62 | 62 | Government Financial Data | false |
439 | 2017.09.13 | 5 | It wood be hard to ignore this dataset. | The “robust and curated” Global Wood Density Database contains more than 16,000 entries, culled from scientific literature, websites, and unpublished scholarship. The densest so far is a Caesalpinia sclerocarpa from Mexico, weighing in at 1.39 grams per cubic centimeter. Related: The TRY database of “curated plant traits” (free registration required). [h/t Amy Zanne] | http://wooddensity.univ-tlse3.fr/
http://datadryad.org/handle/10255/dryad.235
https://www.desertmuseum.org/programs/alamos_trees_caescl.php
https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Database.php | https://twitter.com/AmyZanne/status/901057652024893440 | -0.210229 | 0.919804 | 3,929 | 15,666 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
440 | 2017.09.20 | 1 | Broadband access and cost. | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission publishes a ton of data on the “wireline” telecommunications industry, including several datasets about broadband internet access. Among them: the places where providers offer service, subscriptions per 1,000 households in each Census tract, and a survey of plans available in urban areas. You can also find a spreadsheet of payphones-by-state at the bottom of that landing page. (As of last March, there were only 113 payphones left in North Dakota, down from 705 in 2008.) Related: “Signs of Digital Distress,” a new Brookings Institution report, with findings and maps based on the broadband subscription data. | https://www.fcc.gov/general/iatd-data-statistical-reports
https://www.fcc.gov/general/broadband-deployment-data-fcc-form-477
https://www.fcc.gov/general/form-477-census-tract-data-internet-access-services
https://www.fcc.gov/general/urban-rate-survey-data-resources
https://www.brookings.edu/research/signs-of-digital-distress-mapping-broadband-availability/ | null | 0.424252 | 0.015209 | 2,093 | 8,283 | 55 | -1 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
441 | 2017.09.20 | 2 | Post-disaster aerial imagery. | After major natural disasters, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey routinely collects detailed aerial photos of the affected areas. For each disaster — including Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, and a couple dozen others — you can download the full set of (georeferenced) images, by date and survey flight. [h/t David Yanofsky] | https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/ | http://yanofsky.info/ | -0.696939 | 0.842288 | 3,721 | 14,995 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
442 | 2017.09.20 | 3 | Voters’ attitudes and choices, over time. | The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, “a research collaboration comprised of nearly two dozen analysts and scholars from across the political spectrum,” has published the participant-level data from its 2016 VOTER survey. It’s a “unique longitudinal data set” that represents the “political attitudes, values, and affinities” of 8,000 American adults who were interviewed first in December 2011, then again before and after the 2012 election, and again in December 2016. [h/t Jenny Listman] | https://www.voterstudygroup.org/newsroom/press-release-democracy-fund-voter-study-group-to-release-full-longitudinal-dataset
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publications/2016-elections/data | https://twitter.com/jblistman | 0.869065 | -0.286015 | 1,467 | 5,879 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
443 | 2017.09.20 | 4 | Trump Organization domain registrations. | Earlier this year, Politico reporters scoured the internet’s WHOIS records for domains registered to the Trump Organization. They found thousands, including TrumpRussia.com, No2Trump.com, Trumpublican.net, and ImBeingSuedByTheDonald.com. (Most, including those, just send readers to a generic “domain parking” landing page.) Politico has open-sourced the article’s components, including a JSON file containing 1,267 of the domains, which includes each domain’s owner, creation date, last-updated date, and expiration date. [h/t Tyler Fisher] | https://whois.icann.org/en/about-whois
http://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/trump-organization-business-domain-names-vegas-moscow/
https://github.com/The-Politico/interactive_trump-urls
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/The-Politico/interactive_trump-urls/master/dist/data/cards.json | http://tylerjfisher.com/ | 0.717282 | 0.060142 | 2,166 | 8,685 | 58 | -1 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
444 | 2017.09.20 | 5 | xkcd. | The popular “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language” provides an interface for grabbing data about each comic strip, including the title, image file, date of publication, easter-egg-y “alt” text, and transcript. [h/t Karl L. Hughes] | https://xkcd.com/
https://xkcd.com/json.html
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/title_text | https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/73d22681b02e76b15fa9e910b0deab154ad19fca | 0.639651 | 0.518399 | 3,124 | 12,520 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
445 | 2017.09.27 | 1 | Easier-to-use crime data. | Earlier this month, the FBI and 18F released the first iteration of their Crime Data Explorer, a website that simplifies access to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program. You can download bulk data on individual incidents, state and national trends, hate crimes, arrests, assaults on officers, police employees, human trafficking, and cargo theft. You can also access the data via an API. Caution: The FBI’s data collection program is voluntary; not all law enforcement agencies participate. (In fact, more than 3,000 agencies don’t submit hate crime data.) [h/t Nick Wright] | https://18f.gsa.gov/2017/09/07/opening-the-nations-crime-data/
https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/
https://ucr.fbi.gov/ucr-program-data-collections
https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/downloads-and-docs
https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/api
https://ucr.fbi.gov/nibrs/2015/tables/data-tables
https://www.propublica.org/article/hate-crimes-are-up-but-the-government-isnt-keeping-good-track-of-them | http://nikolaswright.com/ | 0.191894 | -0.757909 | 486 | 1,996 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
446 | 2017.09.27 | 2 | Chyrons. | The TV News Archive’s new “Third Eye” project is extracting chyrons — those placards of text at the bottom of news broadcasts, also known as “lower thirds” — from four major cable networks: BBC News, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. The resulting database contains every chyron that Third Eye’s optical character recognition (OCR) software has extracted since late August. Related: This Washington Post piece analyzing cable news’ chyrons during James Comey’s congressional testimony, and this explanation of how they did it. [h/t Nancy Watzman] | http://blog.archive.org/2017/09/21/tv-news-chyron-data/
https://archive.org/services/third-eye.php
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/comey-hearing-chyrons/
https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-tracked-cable-news-chyrons/ | https://twitter.com/nwatzman | 0.728057 | 0.219824 | 2,551 | 10,094 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
447 | 2017.09.27 | 3 | Every building, river, and green space in Great Britain. | The UK’s Ordnance Survey makes detailed digital maps of Great Britain. Their free offerings include all of the island’s roads, rivers, green spaces, and place names. The Survey’s “open map” includes buildings, railways, electricity transmission lines, and other features. Related: Want only the buildings? The University of Sheffield’s Alasdair Rae has you covered. [h/t Robyn Inglis] | https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/opendata-products.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-roads.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-rivers.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-greenspace.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-map-local.html
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2017/09/buildings-of-great-britain.html | https://twitter.com/rhinglis/status/910794000516427776 | -0.2918 | 0.404531 | 2,838 | 11,437 | 37 | -1 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
448 | 2017.09.27 | 4 | NYC streets: the good, the bad, and the closed. | New York City’s Department of Transportation publishes a bunch of data, including its own assessments of each street segment’s quality on a 1-to-10 scale. It also publishes spreadsheets of all construction-related street closures, by intersection and by block, updated daily. [h/t Christian Moscardi] | http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/datafeeds.shtml
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Street-Pavement-Rating/2cav-chmn
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Street-Closures-due-to-construction-activities-by-/478a-yykk
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Street-Closures-due-to-construction-activities-by-/i6b5-j7bu | https://twitter.com/c_moscardi | -0.483586 | 0.157981 | 2,384 | 9,505 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
449 | 2017.09.27 | 5 | Your job, in numbers. | For each of 966 occupations, the Department of Labor’s O*NET database quantifies the types knowledge, skills, abilities, education, and training required, tasks involved, tools used, and more job-related parameters. Related: The Upshot uses the data to ask (and answer), “What Is Your Opposite Job?” | https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html?p=3
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/08/upshot/what-is-your-opposite-job.html | null | -0.190668 | -0.312974 | 1,369 | 5,555 | 66 | 66 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
450 | 2017.10.04 | 1 | Four decades of U.S. air quality. | The Environmental Protection Agency collects air quality samples from thousands of monitoring stations across the country. The resulting datasets, which go back to the 1980s, are available as daily files, annual files, and via an API. The monitored pollutants include ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, and more. You can also download daily Air Quality Index ratings and information about each monitoring station. Previously: Global air pollution datasets from Berkeley Earth (DIP 2017.03.22) and from the World Health Organization (DIP 2016.06.15). [h/t Swier Heeres] | https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data/download-daily-data
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_mart_welcome.html
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#AQI
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Meta
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-22-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-15-edition | https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/11750/air-quality-in-all-cities-in-the-usa/11751#11751 | -0.710078 | 0.389868 | 2,825 | 11,282 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
451 | 2017.10.04 | 2 | Chest x-rays. | Last week, the National Institutes of Health released a dataset containing more than 100,000 anonymized chest x-rays, from 30,000 patients, “including many with advanced lung disease.” For each image, the associated metadata includes the patient’s age, gender, and diagnosis labels. (The dataset’s authors used natural language processing to extract those labels from radiological reports; they estimate that fewer than 10% of the labels are incorrect.) Related: Andrew L. Beam’s list of medical datasets for machine learning. [h/t Chris Hamby] | https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-center-provides-one-largest-publicly-available-chest-x-ray-datasets-scientific-community
https://nihcc.app.box.com/v/ChestXray-NIHCC
https://nihcc.app.box.com/v/ChestXray-NIHCC/file/220660789610
https://github.com/beamandrew/medical-data | https://twitter.com/ChrisDHamby | 0.529725 | 0.290845 | 2,672 | 10,593 | 75 | 75 | Open Research Datasets | false |
452 | 2017.10.04 | 3 | Media coverage. | Media Cloud, a collaboration between MIT and Harvard–based researchers, describes itself as “an open-source platform for studying media ecosystems.” The project lets you track topics and keywords across thousands of sources — including mainstream news publications in the U.S. and many other countries — at both a story and sentence level. You can access Media Cloud’s data via its dashboard or its API. Both require (free) registration. Related: “The Media Really Has Neglected Puerto Rico,” by Dhrumil Mehta at FiveThirtyEight; the analysis uses data from Media Cloud, the TV News Archive, and Google Trends. Also related: The geometry of hurricane coverage, as told through the front pages of The New York Times and Washington Post. | https://mediacloud.org/
https://dashboard.mediacloud.org/
https://github.com/berkmancenter/mediacloud/blob/master/doc/api_2_0_spec/api_2_0_spec.md
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-really-has-neglected-puerto-rico/
https://archive.org/details/tv
https://www.google.com/trends/
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2017/09/low-tech-visualization-how-much-space.html | null | 0.616244 | 0.112603 | 2,291 | 9,191 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
453 | 2017.10.04 | 4 | Privately owned public spaces. | In certain cities, private developers can earn zoning concessions by converting sections of their properties into plazas, atriums, mini-parks, and other open-to-the-public spaces. You can download datasets of these “privately owned public spaces” in San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, and — thanks to a recent collaboration between Guardian Cities and local community group — London. Related: A guide to NYC’s POPS. [h/t Reddit user seeriktus + Ed Vine] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space
https://data.sfgov.org/Culture-and-Recreation/Privately-Owned-Public-Open-Spaces/65ik-7wqd
https://data.seattle.gov/Community/Privately-Owned-Public-Spaces-Map/52gz-md6f
https://nycopendata.socrata.com/Housing-Development/Privately-Owned-Public-Spaces/fum3-ejky
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/pseudo-public-space-explore-data-what-missing
https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/privately-owned-public-spaces
https://apops.mas.org/find-a-pops/ | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/72j3vw/dataset_london_privatelyowned_public_spaces_gigl/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347/ | -0.422622 | 0.194432 | 2,450 | 9,764 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
454 | 2017.10.04 | 5 | These American Voices. | For a new interactive essay at The Pudding, Ash Ngu analyzed the gender composition of This American Life episodes. To support the findings, Ngu has published the underlying data, extracted from the show’s transcripts. Among the data extracted: the number of words spoken by each person in each act of each episode. | http://stanford.edu/~ashngu/cgi-bin/
https://pudding.cool/2017/09/this-american-life/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KpGZzeBawsGsiYHhFgCkHFSImFlS2sdWFI4pnpUWdLQ/edit#gid=0 | null | 0.708464 | 0.658883 | 3,446 | 13,677 | 67 | -1 | Film Data and Analysis | false |
455 | 2017.10.11 | 1 | Wildfires. | “Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is an interagency program whose goal is to consistently map the burn severity and extent of large fires across all lands of the United States”; the most recent release contains more than 20,000 fires from 1984 to 2015. You can explore the data online, or download it in bulk. For more recent data, see GeoMAC, which aims to map all current wildfires; NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System, which uses satellites to detect fire locations and smoke plumes; and NASA’s MODIS and VIIRS datasets, which provide satellite-based detections for the entire globe. Previously: National Fire Incident Reporting System, which also includes structure fires and vehicle fires (DIP 2016.07.20). [h/t Max Joseph] | https://www.mtbs.gov/project-overview
https://www.mtbs.gov/articles/announcement/data-release-may-1-2017
https://www.mtbs.gov/viewer/index.html
https://www.mtbs.gov/direct-download
https://www.geomac.gov/
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/firms/active-fire-data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-20-edition | https://github.com/mbjoseph/mtbs-data | -0.834409 | 0.771159 | 3,589 | 14,474 | 24 | 24 | Wildfire Data and Monitoring | false |
456 | 2017.10.11 | 2 | Political crowd estimates. | The Crowd Counting Consortium, launched earlier this year, is a volunteer effort to “[collect] publicly available data on political crowds reported in the United States, including marches, protests, strikes, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.” The team publishes monthly spreadsheets that list each crowd’s date, location, type, and cause (e.g., “Oppose removal of confederate statue”); high and low size estimates; the number of reported arrests and injuries; links to sources; and additional details. Related: The project’s main coordinators have been summarizing their findings on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. [h/t Amanda L. James] | https://sites.google.com/view/crowdcountingconsortium/about
https://sites.google.com/view/crowdcountingconsortium/view-download-the-data?authuser=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/09/25/charlottesville-and-its-aftermath-brought-out-many-protesters-in-august-but-still-more-were-against-trump-and-his-policies/ | http://www.amandalynnjames.com/ | 0.310164 | -0.632649 | 745 | 3,027 | 11 | 11 | Protest and Violence Data | false |
457 | 2017.10.11 | 3 | Commercial vehicle safety. | The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration helps to regulate the United States’ large trucks and passenger buses. The datasets available through its Safety Measurement System include a census of all regulated carriers, the results of safety inspections, and reported crashes. The crash files list the number of injuries and fatalities; the weather, light, and road conditions; the involved vehicle’s VIN and license plate number; and more. [h/t Dan Brady] | https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/
https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Tools/Downloads.aspx | http://danjbrady.com/ | -0.567498 | -0.219806 | 1,549 | 6,299 | 38 | -1 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
458 | 2017.10.11 | 4 | San Francisco Bay water. | The U.S. Geological Survey has been measuring water quality in the San Francisco Bay for nearly 50 years. The agency recently published 210,826 of these measurements, collected from dozens of monitoring stations between April 1969 and December 2015. (It’s “one of the longest records of water-quality measurements in a North American estuary,” according to a recent academic article describing the data.) Each row specifies the measurement’s date, station, depth, temperature, and salinity; many rows include levels of chlorophyll, oxygen, nitrate, ammonium, and other matter. | https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5841f97ee4b04fc80e518d9f
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201798 | null | -0.666672 | 0.573863 | 3,210 | 12,821 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
459 | 2017.10.11 | 5 | Humans in motion. | Carnegie Mellon’s Motion Capture Database provides data files and videos representing humans performing various activities: shaking hands, drinking soda, exchanging “angry hand gestures,” doing cartwheels, mopping floors, laughing, chicken-dancing, and oh-so-much more. [h/t John Emerson] | http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/ | https://backspace.com | 0.397273 | 0.768696 | 3,628 | 14,553 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
460 | 2017.10.18 | 1 | Puerto Rico’s recovery. | Since shortly after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the territory’s government has been publishing a dashboard of recovery statistics. The website tracks a couple dozen metrics, including the percent of homes with electricity, number of people in shelters, and the number of open hospitals. For several of the main metrics, researcher Michael A. Johansson has been scraping daily figures from the dashboard and publishing them as a CSV file. Related: The Washington Post has been charting the recovery, and published a deep dive into the island’s ongoing power outages. | http://status.pr/
https://github.com/majohansson/maria-puerto-rico
https://github.com/majohansson/maria-puerto-rico/blob/master/data/StatusPR.csv
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/06/fema-buried-updates-on-puerto-rico-here-they-are/?utm_term=.85824229c3b4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/puerto-rico-hurricane-recovery/ | null | -0.174322 | -0.687974 | 602 | 2,484 | 15 | 15 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
461 | 2017.10.18 | 2 | Subnational conflicts. | University of Michigan–based researchers have created “a repository of micro-level, subnational event data on armed conflict and political violence around the world.” The project, dubbed xSub, standardizes information from 21 data sources, and includes conflicts in 139 countries between 1942 and 2016. For each administrative boundary (e.g., country, province, district) and data source, xSub’s data counts the number of violent incidents by year, month, week, or day. The numbers are also broken down by the sides involved, who initiated the conflict, and what types of force were used. [h/t Andy Halterman] | http://cross-sub.org/about/our-team
http://cross-sub.org/
http://www.cross-sub.org/data | https://twitter.com/ahalterman/status/906563742879674368 | 0.436069 | -0.644985 | 749 | 2,907 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
462 | 2017.10.18 | 3 | Patents and trademarks. | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publishes a huge amount of bulk data, including detailed XML files that contain information about millions of patent/trademark applications, assignments, trials, and appeals. The agency also publishes a collection of “research datasets”, which distill those bulk XML files into easier-to-use tabular data. [h/t Rachael Tatman] | https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/
https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/ip-policy/economic-research/research-datasets | https://www.kaggle.com/rtatman/trademark-application | 0.347101 | 0.100706 | 2,283 | 9,046 | 17 | 17 | Historical Data Projects | false |
463 | 2017.10.18 | 4 | Sister, Sister. | In the wake of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, Sister Marie Augusta Neal conducted an enormous opinion survey of Catholic “women religious.” More than 130,000 sisters responded to the 649 multiple-choice-question survey — the results of which the University of Notre Dame recently cleaned up and made available online. [h/t Kevin Schlottmann] | https://news.nd.edu/news/digital-preservation-at-notre-dame-breathes-new-life-into-1967-sisters-survey/
https://curate.nd.edu/show/0r967368551 | https://twitter.com/archivistkevin | -0.060447 | -0.315776 | 1,374 | 5,564 | 64 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
464 | 2017.10.18 | 5 | Get the idea? | ConceptNet “is a freely-available semantic network, designed to help computers understand the meanings of words that people use.” It defines approximately 28 million “statements,” i.e., relationships between various things. For instance, ConceptNet indicates that a newsletter is a type of “report”, and that a computer can be used to “send email”. You can download the entire dataset, or access it via an API. | http://conceptnet.io/
https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5/wiki/FAQ
https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5/wiki/Relations
http://conceptnet.io/c/en/newsletter
http://conceptnet.io/c/en/computer
https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5/wiki/Downloads
https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5/wiki/API | null | 0.799259 | 0.494494 | 3,065 | 12,275 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
465 | 2017.11.01 | 1 | Federal court cases. | The U.S. Federal Judicial Center’s “Integrated Data Base” contains a longitudinal record of all federal criminal, civil, and appellate court cases going back to the 1970s, as well as bankruptcy cases going back to late 2007. Each dataset contains dozens of detailed fields — including each case’s jurisdiction, name, docket number, relevant legal statutes, and more — accompanied by explanatory codebooks. You can download single-year snapshots and cumulative files, or interactively select specific slices of data to export. Related: “How the Bankruptcy System Is Failing Black Americans,” an investigation by ProPublica that used the IDB’s data on bankruptcy cases for its analysis. | https://www.fjc.gov/research/idb
https://features.propublica.org/bankruptcy-inequality/bankruptcy-failing-black-americans-debt-chapter-13/
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/national-bankruptcy-chapter-7-13
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bankruptcy-data-analysis | null | 0.749341 | -0.649134 | 759 | 2,927 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
466 | 2017.11.01 | 2 | High-profile sexual assault timelines. | Rebecca Zisser and Lazaro Gamio at Axios have compiled a timeline of alleged sexual assaults by Harvey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, Donald Trump, and Bill Cosby. For each of the 140+ cases recorded as of Oct. 20, the timeline indicates the year of the assault, the year the victim came forward (if they did), and the year of any legal settlement (if there was one). The underlying data is available as a spreadsheet. [h/t Mike Allen] | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CWJHTzvGtkQgyz5bdkolz1KeZLqq7sYqNA3zQaPlYo/view#gid=1175970372 | https://www.axios.com/axios-am-2498785314.html | 0.225238 | -0.628091 | 743 | 3,022 | 9 | 9 | Data Analysis and Disclosure | false |
467 | 2017.11.01 | 3 | Deepwater Horizon’s effects. | For years, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has been working to assess the damage done to natural resources by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. As part of that effort, they’ve collected and compiled several dozen related datasets, including toxicity studies, plankton samples, necropsies of stranded turtles, dolphin health assessments, and a “backyard boater” survey. [h/t Sebastian Kraus] | https://www.diver.orr.noaa.gov/deepwater-horizon-nrda-data | https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/about/team/kraus-sebastian.html | -0.701476 | 0.589153 | 3,209 | 12,947 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
468 | 2017.11.01 | 4 | County-level cardiovascular deaths. | Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to estimated cardiovascular mortality rates for each U.S. county, for every year between 1980 and 2014. The findings, based on 32 million de-identified death records, population data from the Census, and other sources, are also broken down by particular disease (e.g., aortic aneurysm, ischemic stroke, etc.) and gender. Related: The researchers’ JAMA article describing their methodology and findings. Previously: The Global Burden of Disease dataset, published by the same institute (DIP 2016.07.27). [h/t Michael A. Rice, a teacher at Ingraham High School in Seattle] | http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/united-states-cardiovascular-disease-mortality-rates-county-1980-2014
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2626571
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-27-edition | null | -0.170869 | -0.718057 | 602 | 2,357 | 15 | 15 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
469 | 2017.11.01 | 5 | Chimp personalities. | “Jane Goodall drew the attention of a global audience with vivid depictions of the personalities of eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Gombe National Park, yet only one attempt [in 1973] has been made to quantify these personality traits systematically,” writes a team of researchers in the latest issue of Scientific Data. To remedy the situation, the researchers paid field observers to score 128 Gombe chimpanzees on 24 personality traits — “dominant,” “excitable,” “helpful,” “sensitive,” and more — on a seven-point scale. | https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017146
https://osf.io/s7d9d/ | null | -0.125304 | 0.911785 | 3,931 | 15,671 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
470 | 2017.11.08 | 1 | Gun origins. | The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) helps trace guns — such as those recovered at crime scenes by law enforcement agencies — back to their original manufacturers, wholesale distributors, dealers, and purchasers. Each year, ATF publishes a range of datasets based on these gun traces. The datasets for 2016 provide state-by-state tallies of gun caliber, state of original purchase, possessors’ age, associated crime, and more. Related: “Gun Laws Stop At State Lines, But Guns Don’t,” from FiveThirtyEight, using the data. Also related: “How a Gun Trace Works,” from The Trace. Previously: Firearm background checks (DIP 2015.12.09), which my colleague Peter Aldhous analyzed last week, finding that gun sales did not spike after the Las Vegas shooting. | https://www.atf.gov/firearms/national-tracing-center
https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/data-statistics
https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/firearms-trace-data-2016
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-laws-stop-at-state-lines-but-guns-dont/
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/07/how-a-gun-trace-works-atf-ffl/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-09-edition
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/gun-sales-after-vegas-shooting | null | 0.08711 | -0.74651 | 546 | 2,117 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
471 | 2017.11.08 | 2 | Silicon Valley diversity. | Reporters at the Center for Investigative Reporting asked 200+ of the largest Silicon Valley tech companies for their official diversity data. Specifically, the reporters requested each company’s latest EEO-1, the detailed demographic report that every large U.S. employer must submit to the federal government. Only 23 companies shared their data. For those that did, their numbers are now available as a tidy spreadsheet. [h/t Sophie Chou] | https://www.revealnews.org/article/hidden-figures-how-silicon-valley-keeps-diversity-data-secret/
https://www.revealnews.org/article/how-we-analyzed-silicon-valley-tech-companies-diversity-data/
https://apps.revealnews.org/silicon-valley-diversity-list/
https://github.com/cirlabs/Silicon-Valley-Diversity-Data | http://sophiechou.com/ | -0.005144 | -0.447734 | 1,119 | 4,543 | 19 | -1 | Migration and Policy Data | false |
472 | 2017.11.08 | 3 | Rent-to-own prices. | As part of NerdWallet’s recent investigation into Rent-A-Center, “the nation’s largest rent-to-own company,” reporters compiled pricing data for 39 consumer products on rentacenter.com. For each product, the dataset lists the various Rent-A-Center costs (e.g., installment fees for weekly/monthly payment plans, cash prices, et cetera) in each of 48 states and D.C. — plus prices for the same product at standard online retailers. Related: NerdWallet’s analysis of the data. | https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/rentacenter/
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/rent-a-center-methodology/
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/rent-a-center-prices/ | null | -0.198323 | 0.051235 | 2,137 | 8,627 | 53 | 53 | Housing Market Data | false |
473 | 2017.11.08 | 4 | Indian movie theaters. | Over at BuzzFeed India, Harsha Devulapalli and Janak Jain have crowned Hyderabad the best city in India for going to the movies, based on their analysis of nearly 600 theaters in eight major cities. The underlying dataset lists each theater’s location, name, average ticket price (where available), number of screens, and number of seats. | https://www.buzzfeed.com/harshadevulapalli/whats-the-best-city-in-india-to-watch-a-movie
https://github.com/HarshaDevulapalli/indian-movie-theatres | null | 0.643024 | 0.7174 | 3,508 | 14,057 | 67 | 67 | Film Data and Analysis | false |
474 | 2017.11.08 | 5 | The friends of Friends. | A few years ago, economist Alex Albright and a friend transcribed the plotline-sharing dynamics of Friends’ six friends, across all 236 episodes. In the very first episode (“The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate”), Monica and Rachel each have their own plotline; Rachel and Ross share a plotline; and Chandler, Joey, and Ross share another plotline. Related: Albright’s analysis of the data. | https://github.com/apalbright/Friends
https://thelittledataset.com/2015/01/20/the-one-with-all-the-quantifiable-friendships/ | null | 0.539811 | 0.681356 | 3,441 | 13,794 | 76 | -1 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
475 | 2017.11.29 | 1 | Protests and political violence in Africa and Asia. | The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), records the locations, dates, actors, and outcomes of “all reported political violence and protest events in over 60 developing countries in Africa and Asia.” The Africa datasets currently go back to 1997 and cover more than 50 countries. The Asia datasets currently only go back to 2015, but ACLED’s website says it’s planning to add data soon going back to 2010. Both of the datasets are extensively documented, as is the methodology . [h/t Lari McEdward] | https://www.acleddata.com/about-acled/
https://www.acleddata.com/data/
https://www.acleddata.com/asia-data/
https://www.acleddata.com/methodology/ | https://twitter.com/LariMcEdward | 0.442423 | -0.640043 | 750 | 3,036 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
476 | 2017.11.29 | 2 | Stolen guns. | Missing Pieces is “a yearlong investigation by The Trace and more than a dozen NBC TV stations [that has] identified more than 23,000 stolen firearms recovered by police between 2010 and 2016 — the vast majority connected with crimes.” To support the investigation, the reporters obtained more than 800,000 records of stolen and recovered guns, which they’ve standardized into a single CSV file and supplemented with a data dictionary. The dataset “contains nearly complete stolen-gun records for the states of California and Florida, both of which have centralized collections of gun-theft data,” as well as records from nearly 300 other agencies across the country. Previously: The ATF’s gun trace statistics (DIP 2017.11.08) and firearm background checks (DIP 2015.12.09). [h/t Sarah Ryley] | https://www.thetrace.org/features/stolen-guns-violent-crime-america/
https://www.thetrace.org/missing-pieces-data/
https://storage.googleapis.com/missing-pieces/missing_pieces_data_dict_11-20-2017.pdf
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-11-08-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-09-edition | https://twitter.com/MissRyley/status/932677322834153472 | 0.099573 | -0.75332 | 483 | 1,990 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
477 | 2017.11.29 | 3 | (Some) White House visitor logs. | ProPublica has published a searchable and downloadable dataset of visitor logs and meeting calendars from five White House agencies: the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Council on Environmental Quality. ProPublica received the underlying documents from Property of the People, a transparency group that sued the Trump administration to release the records under the Freedom of Information Act. (The administration has not released the White House’s main visitor logs.) Related: Politico has manually compiled a searchable database it calls “The Unauthorized White House Visitor Logs”, based on thousands of known visits, meetings, phone calls, and other presidential interactions. Also related: The Obama administration’s White House visitor logs. | https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/trump-administration-white-house-complex-visitor-records
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex#methodology
https://twitter.com/PropOTP
https://www.politico.com/interactives/databases/trump-white-house-visitor-logs-and-records/index.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/goodgovernment/tools/visitor-records | null | 0.529366 | -0.215158 | 1,648 | 6,497 | 27 | -1 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
478 | 2017.11.29 | 4 | California elections and campaign finance. | Since 2014, the California Civic Data Coalition has been working to improve access to CAL-ACCESS, “the jumbled, dirty and difficult government database that tracks campaign finance and lobbying activity in California politics.” Their cleaned-up datasets are updated often and include formats suitable for beginners, “database junkies,” and masochists. Last month, the organization released data files cataloging every state ballot measure and candidate for public office since 2000. [h/t Zack Quaintance] | https://www.californiacivicdata.org/about/
http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/
https://calaccess.californiacivicdata.org/downloads/latest/
https://www.californiacivicdata.org/2017/10/31/processed-files/ | http://www.govtech.com/civic/Whats-New-in-Civic-Tech-New-York-City-Announces-Crowdfunding-Program-for-Women-Entrepreneurs.html | 0.836845 | -0.191047 | 1,658 | 6,645 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
479 | 2017.11.29 | 5 | Folktales. | The Aarne-Thompson-Uther Classification of Folk Tales organizes (mostly Indo-European) folktales into groups and hierarchies. As Atlas Obscura’s Cara Giaimo puts it, the ATU is “like the Dewey Decimal System, but with more ogres.” The ATU doesn’t publish any downloadable versions of its data, but researchers studying the “ancient roots” of such stories have built a data-matrix that denotes the presence/absence of the 275 ATU “tales of magic” across 50 Indo-European-speaking populations. [h/t Andrew McCartney] | http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=browse&act=select&fld=langname
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aarne-thompson-uther-tale-type-index-fables-fairy-tales
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150645
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150645.figures-only
http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu&act=range&id=300-749 | http://people.virginia.edu/~acm9q/ | 0.655043 | 0.550665 | 3,188 | 12,777 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
480 | 2017.12.06 | 1 | Two decades of workplace sexual harassment complaints. | My colleague Lam Thuy Vo obtained an anonymized dataset listing all 170,000+ sexual harassment claims submitted to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between October 1995 and September 2016. For each claim, the dataset indicates the date the complaint was filed, the complainant’s gender, and the general category of employer. Additional fields — available for most claims, but not all — indicate the complainant’s birthdate, race, and national origin, as well as the employer’s industry and approximate number of workers. Related: Lam’s story and interactive graphics, which place the data in context. | https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2017-12-eeoc-harassment-charges/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lamvo/eeoc-sexual-harassment-data | null | 0.182653 | -0.599141 | 805 | 3,275 | 9 | 9 | Data Analysis and Disclosure | false |
481 | 2017.12.06 | 2 | Financial consumer complaints. | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s consumer complaint database can be searched online, accessed via an API, and downloaded in bulk. The 915,000+ complaints the Bureau has received have been categorized into 18 financial product groups (e.g., mortgages, debt collection, student loans, cryptocurrency) and more than 160 kinds of issues (e.g., billing disputes, communication tactics, privacy). The agency says they “don’t verify all the facts alleged in these complaints,” but that they “take steps to confirm a commercial relationship between the consumer and the company.” [h/t Dan Brady] | https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/?from=0&searchField=all&searchText=&size=25&sort=created_date_desc
https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.consumerfinance.gov/jhzv-w97w
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/#download-the-data
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/ | http://www.danjbrady.com/ | 0.123933 | -0.157219 | 1,699 | 6,855 | 68 | -1 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
482 | 2017.12.06 | 3 | The StudentLife Study. | Back in 2013, four dozen Dartmouth College students agreed to let a custom smartphone app surveil them for the StudentLife Study. During the 10 weeks of the spring academic term, the app collected data on the students’ physical activity, GPS coordinates, eating schedule, sleep habits, phone usage, and more. The study combined all that information with a slew of other data, including the students’ class deadlines, academic performance, and their responses to surveys about stress, depression, personality, and sleep quality. The study’s public (and anonymized) dataset clocks in at 53 gigabytes. Related: “Towards Deep Learning Models for Psychological State Prediction using Smartphone Data: Challenges and Opportunities,” a recently-released academic paper that uses the StudentLife dataset. [h/t Konrad Kording] | http://studentlife.cs.dartmouth.edu/
http://studentlife.cs.dartmouth.edu/dataset.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06350 | https://twitter.com/KordingLab/status/936620930222247936 | 0.050595 | -0.207288 | 1,633 | 6,467 | 68 | 68 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
483 | 2017.12.06 | 4 | 5,000+ Brazilian news outlets. | Atlas da Notícia is a Brazilian project that aims to collect data on all local and regional news outlets in the country. Last month, the project released its first batch of data, which identified 5,354 newspapers and online publications in a total of 1,125 municipalities. The raw dataset is currently only available in Portuguese, but the aggregate tables have been translated into English. [h/t Sérgio Spagnuolo] | https://www.atlas.jor.br/en.html
https://github.com/voltdatalab/Atlas-Analytics
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SudAc6RAQuYu4bWj_gJnuGrRmJXTP_TYMdx7huHkrbA/edit#gid=0 | https://twitter.com/sergiospagnuolo | 0.315798 | 0.1914 | 2,474 | 9,812 | 17 | -1 | Historical Data Projects | false |
484 | 2017.12.06 | 5 | One family’s spending. | An anonymous married couple has decided “to be completely open about [their] finances so that people can see what an actual family’s budget looks like.” In addition to blogging about their financial habits, they’ve also published a spreadsheet of “(almost) every dollar” they spent between December 2015 and November 2017. For each transaction, the dataset provides the date, dollar amount, category (e.g., “Groceries”), and meta-category (e.g., “Food”). | https://ourfamilyandfinances.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html
https://ourfamilyandfinances.blogspot.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/7ei2ma/2_years_of_my_spending_history/ | null | 0.352464 | -0.208948 | 1,643 | 6,486 | 61 | -1 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
485 | 2017.12.13 | 1 | Government-sponsored cyberattacks. | Last month, the Council on Foreign Relations launched the Cyber Operations Tracker, a database of “publicly known state-sponsored cyber incidents that have occurred since 2005.” The 191 attacks in the database so far have been sponsored by 16 different countries, with China, Russia, and Iran being the most cited. For each incident, the dataset also includes the type of attack (e.g. espionage, data destruction), its name (e.g., “Stuxnet”), a description, the date it occurred, its victims, and the type of response, if any. | https://www.cfr.org/blog/tracking-state-sponsored-cyber-operations
https://www.cfr.org/interactive/cyber-operations | null | 0.555897 | -0.089731 | 1,905 | 7,523 | 41 | -1 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
486 | 2017.12.13 | 2 | Fatal and nonfatal officer-involved shootings. | For an investigation published Monday, Vice News spent “nine months collecting data on both fatal and nonfatal police shootings from the 50 largest local police departments in the United States.” They’ve published raw and standardized data on every shooting, plus the code they used to analyze it. [h/t Allison McCann] | https://news.vice.com/story/shot-by-cops
https://news.vice.com/story/nonfatal-police-shootings-data
https://github.com/vicenews/shot-by-cops/ | https://twitter.com/atmccann/status/940239584616697856 | 0.162683 | -0.803447 | 421 | 1,610 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
487 | 2017.12.13 | 3 | Sports team ratings. | For several years now, the folks at FiveThirtyEight have been quantifying professional sports teams’ current and historical strength, mostly using Elo rating systems. Their global club soccer ratings go back to 2016, their basketball ratings go back to 1946, their American football ratings go back to 1920, and their baseball ratings go back to 1871. For each of those, the entire histories of match-by-match ratings are available as CSV files. [h/t Jay Boice] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/soccer-spi
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nba-carmelo
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nfl-elo
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/mlb-elo | https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/issues/91#issuecomment-349672900 | 0.272471 | 0.48197 | 3,048 | 12,113 | 42 | 42 | Sports Data Collections | false |
488 | 2017.12.13 | 4 | State lawmakers’ financial disclosures. | For a recent investigation into state legislators’ financial interests, the Center for Public Integrity “analyzed disclosure reports from 6,933 lawmakers holding office in 2015 from the 47 states that required them.” You can search through the disclosures and download the data. For each of the 11,000+ disclosed interests, the dataset includes the lawmaker’s state, legislative body, and district; the name and industry of the financial interest; and a link to the lawmaker’s personal disclosure form. [h/t The Nerds at INN Labs] | https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/12/06/21297/conflicted-interests-state-lawmakers-often-blur-line-between-publics-business-and
https://apps.publicintegrity.org/disclosure/
https://github.com/PublicI/state-lawmakers-disclosures | http://mailchi.mp/inn/rudolph-the-red-nosed-robot | 0.757998 | -0.264845 | 1,528 | 6,128 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
489 | 2017.12.13 | 5 | Secure seeds. | In far northern Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault safekeeps hundreds of millions of seeds, helping to back up the world’s biodiversity. Data on the vault’s deposits, which often contain hundreds of seeds apiece, are available to search and to download. [h/t Enigma Public] | http://www.seedvault.no/
http://www.economist.com/node/21549931
https://www.nordgen.org/sgsv/index.php | https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=04aa10cf99e0998bd8e69a109&id=e28bb68e14 | -0.47526 | 0.856804 | 3,792 | 15,137 | 32 | -1 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
490 | 2017.12.27 | 1 | Historical credit ratings. | The SEC requires Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and other “nationally recognized statistical rating organizations” to report their rating assignments and changes (e.g., upgrades, downgrades, withdrawals) going back to 2010. The agencies publish the reports as XBRL-formatted files, and update them monthly. But “because most researchers are unfamiliar with XBRL and cannot easily locate the history files, this valuable resource has seen limited use,” according to the Center for Municipal Finance’s RatingsHistory.info, which now provides the reports as easier-to-use CSVs. [h/t data.world] | https://www.sec.gov/structureddata/rocr-publication-guide.html
http://www.municipalfinance.org/
http://ratingshistory.info/ | https://data.world/muni-finance/credit-ratings-history-data | 0.257468 | -0.137649 | 1,768 | 7,120 | 62 | 62 | Government Financial Data | false |
491 | 2017.12.27 | 2 | Marine traffic. | Ships use the internationally-standardized automatic identification systems (AIS) to broadcast their name, speed, direction, and other details. With a bit of radio hardware and software, anyone can collect the signals emitted by nearby vessels. AISHub aggregates AIS data from hundreds of volunteer signal-collectors around the world, and makes that data available via an API and online maps. The Finnish Transport Agency also provides an API of data collected by its AIS stations on the Baltic Sea and other local waters; Denmark’s government publishes free historical data of maritime traffic on Danish waters; and the Coast Guard publishes historical AIS data for U.S. coastal waters (currently only for 2009–2014). [h/t Topi Tjukanov + Miska Knapek] | https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=AISmain
http://www.aishub.net/
http://www.aishub.net/stations
http://www.aishub.net/api
https://meri.digitraffic.fi/api/v1/metadata/documentation/swagger-ui.html
https://www.dma.dk/SikkerhedTilSoes/Sejladsinformation/AIS/Sider/default.aspx
https://marinecadastre.gov/ais/ | https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/932698453347635202
https://twitter.com/miskaknapek/status/939154263430836225 | -0.464901 | 0.736831 | 3,537 | 14,242 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
492 | 2017.12.27 | 3 | A better mammography database. | The Digital Database for Screening Mammography was first released two decades ago, in 1997. It contains data and images from 2,620 mammographies — a mix of normal, benign, and malignant cases. In a Scientific Data article published last week, a team of Stanford University researchers describe a series of improvements they’ve made to the original database; their Curated Breast Imaging Subset of DDSM has modernized the database’s image formatting, added detailed “region-of-interest” annotations, and converted the metadata into CSV files. | http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/Mammography/Database.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017177
https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/CBIS-DDSM#9a3e6931566743438ac1bb86921a522d | null | 0.425953 | 0.326449 | 2,733 | 10,843 | 73 | -1 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
493 | 2017.12.27 | 4 | Drug-free school zones in Tennessee. | As part of a recent investigation, reporters at Reason Magazine used public records law to obtain geospatial data on each of Tennessee's 8,544 drug-free zones. In addition the geographic boundaries, the shapefile also includes each zone’s name and type (school, childcare, park, or library). [h/t CJ Ciaramella] | http://reason.com/archives/2017/12/18/the-myth-of-the-playground-pus
https://github.com/cjciaramella/tn-drug-free-school-zones | https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/942779337950015490 | -0.322843 | 0.17865 | 2,389 | 9,643 | 51 | -1 | Surveillance and Mapping Data | false |
494 | 2017.12.27 | 5 | Italian for watermelon. | Through a series of surveys, L'Atlante della Lingua Italiana QUOTidiana has been asking Italian speakers what words they use to describe various everyday things. The results for each question can be browsed as maps, or downloaded as XML files. When shown a picture of a watermelon, most respondents wrote “anguria,” but others responded with “cocomero,” “melone,” “citrone,” or “zipangulu.” [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://www.atlante-aliquot.de/index.php
https://www.atlante-aliquot.de/primo_turno.php
https://www.atlante-aliquot.de/primo_turno_anguria.php | http://mailchi.mp/586b767e6d30/preview-222-in-other-news-3576601?e=6c87ff0227 | 0.839221 | 0.504393 | 3,130 | 12,405 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
495 | 2018.01.03 | 1 | Taxes filed. | The IRS publishes a ton of tax statistics. One of the most interesting portions: data aggregated from individual income tax returns (i.e., Form 1040s), which the IRS provides at the state, county, and ZIP code level. Those datasets’ 100+ fields include details that range from the basic (e.g., the number of tax filings and total income reported) to the more obscure (e.g., the number of returns that included “educator expenses” and the total amount of overpayments refunded). [h/t Cecilia Reyes] | https://www.irs.gov/statistics
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-return-form-1040-statistics
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-historic-table-2
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-county-data
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-statistics-zip-code-data-soi | https://twitter.com/kcecireyes | -0.216122 | -0.09358 | 1,881 | 7,474 | 59 | 59 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
496 | 2018.01.03 | 2 | Distance learning. | The Open University Learning Analytics dataset features demographic information about 28,000+ students who, in 2013 and 2014, enrolled in any of seven particular distance learning courses at the UK’s Open University; their final results (distinction, pass, fail, or withdrawn); 173,000+ graded assignments; and 10+ million rows describing each student’s interactions with the courses’ “virtual learning environments.” Useful: The researchers’ academic article describing the dataset. | https://analyse.kmi.open.ac.uk/open_dataset
http://www.open.ac.uk/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017171 | null | 0.081558 | -0.230554 | 1,570 | 6,341 | 68 | 68 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
497 | 2018.01.03 | 3 | Animals on the move. | Movebank is a “a free, online database of animal tracking data hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.” On the site’s data map, you can display the animal tracks from particular studies — for instance, the migrations of more than a dozen turkey vultures. Contributing researchers can decide whether to share the underlying data; not all do. (Here’s the data for those vultures, plus six buffalo in Kruger National Park, and seven Venezuelan oilbirds.) [h/t Hari Karthic] | https://www.movebank.org/
https://www.movebank.org/panel_embedded_movebank_webapp
https://www.movebank.org/panel_embedded_movebank_webapp?gwt_fragment=page%253Dsearch_map_linked%252CindividualIds%253D17002752*%252B17002744*%252B17002737*%252B17002751*%252B17002732*%252B17002753*%252B17002743*%252B17002742*%252B17002748*%252B17002749*%252B17002739*%252B17002738*%252B17002740*%252B17002741*%252B17002745*%252B17002746*%252B17002747*%252B17002754*%252B17002750*%252Clat%253D10.423457393079747%252Clon%253D-86.25215000000173%252Cz%253D3
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.363
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.609
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.269 | https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/d601d012e401d229ed226a805f289a1a7aa97b96 | -0.196431 | 0.913824 | 3,929 | 15,667 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
498 | 2018.01.03 | 4 | Building permits. | The Census Bureau’s Building Permits Survey collects data from thousands of municipalities every month. For each municipality, metro area, and state, the datasets provide the number of permits issued for new residential housing, number housing units authorized, and total estimated value of the new construction. Previously: The Census Bureau’s Annual Characteristics of New Housing survey (DIP 2016.06.22). [h/t Susie Cambria + Issi Romem] | https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/definitions/
https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/how_the_data_are_collected/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition | https://twitter.com/susiecambria
https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/paying-for-dirt-where-have-home-values-detached-from-construction-costs | -0.224301 | -0.023499 | 2,008 | 7,985 | 59 | -1 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
499 | 2018.01.03 | 5 | Knotted string. | “The Khipu Database Project began in the fall of 2002, with the goal of collecting all known information about khipu” — the knotted string textiles used for recordkeeping in the Inca Empire — “into one centralized repository.” The project’s datasets include detailed structural data about hundreds of khipu, as well as an inventory of all known specimens. Related: The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots. | http://khipukamayuq.fas.harvard.edu/ProjectDescription.html
http://khipukamayuq.fas.harvard.edu/DataTables.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/khipus-inca-empire-harvard-university-colonialism | null | 0.154991 | 0.402247 | 2,852 | 11,465 | 44 | -1 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
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