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500 | 2018.01.10 | 1 | Offshore drilling. | The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement — two of the agencies that replaced the troubled U.S. Minerals Management Service in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill — publish a few dozen bulk datasets related to their oversight of offshore drilling operations. Among them: lease owners, production metrics, company details, pipeline permits and locations, incident investigations, and platform structures. Related: “American Idle: Decommissioning costs sink offshore drillers into latest crisis,” a 2017 Debtwire investigation that used the platform data. [h/t Alex Plough] | https://www.boem.gov/
https://www.bsee.gov/
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Main/RawData.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Leasing/LeaseOwner/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Production/ProductionData/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Company/CompanyDetail/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Pipeline/PipelinePermits/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Pipeline/PipelineLocation/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Other/DataTables/IncidentInvestigations.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Platform/PlatformStructures/Default.aspx
http://investigations.debtwire.com/american-idle-decommissioning-costs-sink-offshore-drillers-into-latest-crisis/ | https://twitter.com/newshack | -0.776224 | 0.473268 | 3,015 | 12,046 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
501 | 2018.01.10 | 2 | Local health metrics. | The CDC’s 500 Cities Project provides “city and census tract-level data, obtained using small area estimation methods, for 27 chronic disease measures for the 500 largest American cities.” The metrics range from cancer prevalence to binge drinking to dental health to undersleeping. The latest data release was published in December and covers more than 28,000 Census tracts. [h/t Kate Rabinowitz] | https://www.cdc.gov/500cities/index.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/500cities/about.htm
https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/500-Cities/500-Cities-Local-Data-for-Better-Health-2017-relea/6vp6-wxuq | https://www.datalensdc.com/healthWealthGap.html | -0.233685 | -0.603746 | 792 | 3,249 | 14 | -1 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
502 | 2018.01.10 | 3 | 130+ years of prosecutor politicians. | With the help of research assistants, legal historian Jed Shugerman has compiled a “tentative database” of prosecutor politicians — presidents, Supreme Court justices, circuit court justices, governors, state attorneys general, and senators who served as prosecutors earlier in their careers. Shugerman’s spreadsheet goes back to 1880 and lists the dates served in office, political party, other offices held, and “relevant prosecutorial background” for each politician. [h/t Geoff Hing] | https://www.fordham.edu/info/23180/jed_shugerman
https://shugerblog.com/2017/07/07/the-rise-of-the-prosecutor-politicians-database-of-prosecutorial-experience-for-justices-circuit-judges-governors-ags-and-senators-1880-2017/ | https://twitter.com/geoffhing | 0.759231 | -0.472811 | 1,080 | 4,336 | 1 | -1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
503 | 2018.01.10 | 4 | Snow depth. | The National Water and Climate Center maintains a series of interactive snow maps. Their snow depth map is based on data from nearly one thousand monitoring stations around the country — mostly in western states, but also a handful in the Southwest, Northeast, and Midwest. To download data from a map, click on “Selected Stations” in the top-left corner, and then click “Export Data as CSV.” [h/t Charlie Loyd's collection of "near-realtime Earth observation resources" + Noah Veltman] | https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/
https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/snow_map.html
https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/webmap/#version=80.1&elements=W,R&networks=!&states=!&counties=!&hucs=&minElevation=&maxElevation=&elementSelectType=all&activeOnly=true&activeForecastPointsOnly=false&hucLabels=false&hucParameterLabels=false&stationLabels=&overlays=&hucOverlays=&mode=data&openSections=dataElement,parameter,date,basin,elements,location,networks&controlsOpen=true&popup=&popupMulti=&base=esriNgwm&displayType=station&basinType=6&dataElement=SNWD¶meter=OBS&frequency=DAILY&duration=I&customDuration=&dayPart=E&year=2018&month=1&day=7&monthPart=E&forecastPubMonth=1&forecastPubDay=1&forecastExceedance=50&seqColor=1&divColor=3&scaleType=D&scaleMin=&scaleMax=&referencePeriodType=POR&referenceBegin=1981&referenceEnd=2010&minimumYears=20&hucAssociations=true&lat=51.51&lon=-100.11&zoom=4.0 | https://planet.parts/
https://noahveltman.com/ | -0.600089 | 0.796851 | 3,660 | 14,617 | 32 | -1 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
504 | 2018.01.10 | 5 | San Diego burritos. | Scott Cole is a neuroscience PhD student at UC San Diego who, in his spare time, is leading a project to rate the region’s burritos on a 10-dimensional scale. | https://srcole.github.io/about/
https://srcole.github.io/100burritos/ | null | 0.287248 | 0.335194 | 2,729 | 10,962 | 46 | -1 | Digital Historical Data | false |
505 | 2018.01.17 | 1 | Three million NYC marriage licenses, reclaimed. | Reclaim The Records launched in 2015 and became a 501(c)(3) non-profit last year. Its mission: To “identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be in the public domain but which are being wrongly restricted by government archives, libraries, and agencies.” The organization files freedom-of-information requests and lawsuits to get the data, and “then we digitize everything we win and put it all online for free, without any paywalls or usage restrictions, so that it can never be locked up again.” Most of the records they’ve received so far have arrived as PDFs or microfilm. But a 2016 court settlement with the NYC City Clerk’s Office netted the group — and the public — a dataset of 3 million NYC marriage licenses from 1950 to 1995. | https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/
https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/2/
https://www.nycmarriageindex.com/ | null | 0.166361 | 0.077878 | 2,213 | 8,778 | 17 | -1 | Historical Data Projects | false |
506 | 2018.01.17 | 2 | Three decades of immigration policies. | The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) project has quantified the immigration regulations of 33 OECD countries between 1980 and 2010. The project, led by political sociologist Marc Helbling, dives deeply into the regulations related to four policy areas: labor migration, family reunification, asylum/refugees, and “co-ethnics.” You can find the dataset’s detailed codebook and methodology in this PDF. Related: Helbling's summary of the project’s goals, approach, and initial findings (Migration Data Portal). [h/t David Brady] | http://www.impic-project.eu/
http://www.impic-project.eu/data/
http://www.impic-project.eu/people/
https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2016/vi16-201.pdf
http://migrationdataportal.org/blog/impic-new-and-more-comprehensive-way-measure-immigration-policies | https://twitter.com/DaveBrady72/status/943872675943821312 | 0.01719 | -0.533193 | 928 | 3,777 | 19 | 19 | Migration and Policy Data | false |
507 | 2018.01.17 | 3 | London air pollution. | The London Air Quality Network, run by researchers at King's College London, gathers data on levels of nitrogen dioxide, ozone, fine particulate matter, and other pollutants from more than 100 monitoring sites. You can download the data as CSV files (for up to six metric and site combinations at a time) or fetch JSON and XML data from the site’s API. Related: “London air pollution live data – where will be first to break legal limits in 2018?” (The Guardian). Previously: Air quality data from the EPA (DIP 2017.10.04), OpenAQ (DIP 2017.03.29), Berkeley Earth (DIP 2017.03.22), and the World Health Organization (DIP 2016.06.15). [h/t Gavin Freeguard] | https://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/Default.aspx
https://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/datadownload.asp
https://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/API/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2018/jan/01/london-air-pollution-live-data-where-will-be-first-to-break-legal-limits-in-2018
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-10-04-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-29-edition
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://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=9fac8728699163e1b6adbdbeb&id=e96c45d25e | -0.681962 | 0.353676 | 2,762 | 11,028 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
508 | 2018.01.17 | 4 | Psychometric tests. | The Open Source Psychometrics Project “provides a collection of interactive personality tests with detailed results that can be taken for personal entertainment or to learn more about personality assessment.” You can download results from more than 30 such tests, including the Big Five Personality Test, the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills, and Bob Altemeyer's Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale. Related: “Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. I Found One That Isn’t” (FiveThirtyEight). [h/t Chris Zioutas] | https://openpsychometrics.org/
https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-personality-quizzes-are-junk-science-i-found-one-that-isnt/ | https://www.datacircle.io/metric/raw-data-from-online-personality-tests/54a06c7e-0171-4e0c-42f7-08d5495b5656/ | 0.371882 | 0.351461 | 2,795 | 11,095 | 73 | -1 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
509 | 2018.01.17 | 5 | The Ghibliverse. | The unofficial Studio Ghibli API contains structured information about the famed Japanese animation studio’s films (e.g., Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away), plus the characters, locations, and vehicles featured in them. You can also download a single file containing all the data. | https://ghibliapi.herokuapp.com/
https://github.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/blob/master/data.json | null | 0.52618 | 0.830714 | 3,760 | 15,073 | 40 | 40 | Media Franchise APIs | false |
510 | 2018.01.24 | 1 | Global trade dynamics. | The Atlas of Economic Complexity has collected decades of import/export data from the United Nations Comtrade database, and then applied “a unique method to clean the data to account for inconsistent reporting practices.” You can download the raw data, learn more about the cleaning process in the FAQ, explore current and historical trade flows, and browse the Atlas’s rankings of countries by “economic complexity.” Related: The researchers have also created regionally-detailed economic atlases of Mexico and Columbia. [h/t Annie White] | http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/
https://comtrade.un.org/
https://intl-atlas-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/learn/faq
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/rankings/
http://complejidad.datos.gob.mx/
http://datlascolombia.com/ | https://twitter.com/anniewhite | -0.012823 | 0.144647 | 2,335 | 9,407 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
511 | 2018.01.24 | 2 | Financial well-being. | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s National Financial Well-Being Survey collected more than 6,000 responses to the agency’s 10-question Financial Well-Being Scale, plus additional demographic and financial information. The survey results, which were collected in late 2016, come with a detailed methodology and data dictionary. Plus: You can take the questionnaire yourself, anonymously. [h/t Amy Cesal] | https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/financial-well-being-survey-data/
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/financial-well-being/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_nfwbs-puf-user-guide.pdf
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/financial-well-being/ | https://twitter.com/amycesal | -0.103634 | -0.229506 | 1,564 | 6,329 | 63 | 63 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
512 | 2018.01.24 | 3 | How long does it take to get to the nearest city? | A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Malaria Atlas Project have estimated the time it would take (as of 2015) to get from any square kilometer in the world to the nearest city of 50,000+ people. The analysis, which improves upon a similar effort from 15 years earlier, benefits from “the first-ever, global-scale synthesis of two leading roads datasets – Open Street Map (OSM) data and distance-to-roads data derived from the Google roads database.” You can download the data as a GeoTIFF, or explore the map online. [h/t Data & Eggs] | https://map.ox.ac.uk/research-project/accessibility_to_cities/
http://forobs.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/gam/index.php
https://roadlessforest.eu/map.html | http://thedataface.com/data-and-eggs/volume-36 | -0.310124 | 0.316338 | 2,710 | 10,796 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
513 | 2018.01.24 | 4 | Duke’s Greeks. | Using a range of public sources, The Duke Chronicle collected data on all 1,739 students listed in the Class of 2018’s “Freshman Picture Book” — including their hometowns, details about their high schools, whether they won a merit scholarship, and whether they play on a sports team — in order to analyze “trends between those who do and don't join Greek life at Duke.” Related: “Is Greek life at Duke as homogenous as you think?,” the first story in the Chronicle’s multipart series based on the data. [h/t Gautam Hathi] | http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/01/editors-note-regarding-recent-article-on-greek-life
https://github.com/Chrissymbeck/Greek-Life-Demographics
http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/01/is-greek-life-at-duke-as-homogenous-as-you-think | https://twitter.com/gautamhathi/status/954853781589581826 | 0.122275 | -0.306321 | 1,443 | 5,703 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
514 | 2018.01.24 | 5 | Ramen ratings. | Hans Lienesch calls himself The Ramen Rater, and (as his website’s banner declares) he’s been “Celebrating the Instant Noodle for 15 Years.” Over that time, he’s amassed a spreadsheet of more than 2,600 ratings. [h/t dreyco] | https://www.theramenrater.com/about-2-2/about-2/
https://www.theramenrater.com/resources-2/the-list/ | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/7phv58/2682_instant_noodle_ratings/ | 0.606105 | 0.472587 | 3,059 | 12,134 | 72 | 72 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
515 | 2018.02.07 | 1 | Hollywood’s romantic age gaps. | Lynn Fisher’s Hollywood Age Gap collects data on silver screen love interests — more than 880 so far, from more than 630 movies — and then calculates the difference in those actors’ ages. The largest gap so far is the 52-year age difference in Harold and Maude. The movie with the most pairings is Love Actually, with seven. You can download the data as JSON and CSV files from the project’s GitHub page. [h/t Julia Smith] | https://lynnandtonic.com/
https://hollywoodagegap.com/
https://github.com/lynnandtonic/hollywood-age-gap | https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=81670c9d1b5fbeba1c29f2865&id=3a8cef6b3c | 0.606215 | 0.690666 | 3,507 | 13,926 | 67 | 67 | Film Data and Analysis | false |
516 | 2018.02.07 | 2 | Terrorism incidents. | The Global Terrorism Database, run by a University of Maryland–based consortium, is an “open-source database” of more than 170,000 terrorist events. The database, which currently covers 1970 through 2016, is well-documented and includes information about about the attackers, locations, weapons, victims, and more. Note: To download the data, you first need to accept an end-user license agreement. Previously: Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States, from the same consortium (DIP 2017.05.24). [h/t Brian C. Keegan] | http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/using-gtd/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-24-edition | http://www.brianckeegan.com/about/ | 0.39198 | -0.677696 | 684 | 2,649 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
517 | 2018.02.07 | 3 | Invasive species. | The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species combines data and observations from thousands of sources to create a standardized database of such species in more than 200 countries. can be explored by kingdom (plants, animals, fungi, etc.), ecosystem, and country. Each slice of data can be downloaded as a CSV. Related: In a Scientific Data paper published last month, the researchers behind the effort described their methodology in detail. | http://www.griis.org/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017202 | null | -0.207608 | 0.957234 | 3,993 | 16,050 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
518 | 2018.02.07 | 4 | Federal Reserve forecasts. | Before each meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve’s research staff prepares a set of economic projections known as the Greenbook. Those forecasts are kept secret for five years, and then released to the public. The Philadelphia Fed’s archive of public Greenbook data dates back to 1966, and contains both PDFs and structured data files. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbook
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/real-time-center/greenbook-data/ | null | 0.115221 | -0.005562 | 2,019 | 8,135 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
519 | 2018.02.07 | 5 | Donkey Kong. | KongTrackr hosts detailed stats about specific games played on the beloved arcade fixture, with a focus on record-setting scores. The website’s database, which can be downloaded as a single JSON file, currently includes 1,715 games by 450 players. Related: KongTrackr played a role in some recent high-score commotion. Also related: KongTrackr says its site is “heavily influenced” by this database of StarCraft 2 results. | http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com
http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/exportDatabase
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/donkey-kong-scoreboard-strips-billy-mitchells-high-score-claims/
http://aligulac.com/ | null | 0.438286 | 0.553792 | 3,182 | 12,764 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
520 | 2018.02.14 | 1 | Nepal, post-earthquake. | In April 2015, the Ghorkha Earthquake killed more than 8,000 people in Nepal, and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. In early 2016, a team led by the not-for-profit Kathmandu Living Labs, in collaboration with Nepal’s government, undertook “a massive household survey using mobile technology to assess building damage in the earthquake-affected districts.” The responses to that survey are now available at the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Open Data Portal; you can explore the data online or download it in bulk. In all, the datasets include details on millions of individuals, plus information about each surveyed household and building. [h/t Reddit user “phishfart”] | http://www.kathmandulivinglabs.org/
http://admin.myrepublica.com/the-week/story/43132/banking-on-data.html
https://opendata.klldev.org/#/about
https://opendata.klldev.org/#/explore
https://opendata.klldev.org/#/download | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/7v4qrt/2015_nepal_earthquake_open_data_portal/ | -0.757795 | 0.742922 | 3,527 | 14,223 | 29 | -1 | Disaster and Flood Data | false |
521 | 2018.02.14 | 2 | Historical congressional results, historical boundaries. | Through the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (DIP 2016.09.28) and other sources, you can get historical election results for the U.S. Congress. And through the work of Jeffrey B. Lewis et al., you can get data describing the historical boundaries of each congressional district. In a Scientific Data article published last year, quantitative geographer Levi John Wolf presented a dataset that brings the two types of information together, so that all congressional election results from 1896 to 2014 are “explicitly linked to the geospatial data about the districts themselves.” | http://www.electiondataarchive.org/index.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-28-edition
http://cdmaps.polisci.ucla.edu/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017108
http://ljwolf.org/about
https://osf.io/mjvkb/ | null | 0.919669 | -0.277998 | 1,533 | 6,010 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
522 | 2018.02.14 | 3 | Human speech. | Common Voice is a Mozilla-led project that aims “to make voice recognition technology easily accessible to everyone.” To that end, the project asks visitors to record themselves speaking specific sentences, and to validate the recordings of other users. The whole dataset is available to download and currently clocks in at 12 gigabytes, compressed. (Bonus: That download page also links to other freely available voice datasets.) Related: The project’s FAQ. | https://voice.mozilla.org/
https://voice.mozilla.org/data
https://voice.mozilla.org/faq | null | 0.761238 | 0.56122 | 3,192 | 12,784 | 49 | -1 | Language Data and Research | false |
523 | 2018.02.14 | 4 | UK fire stats. | The United Kingdom’s Home Office publishes dozens of fire-safety related datasets, including aggregate statistics on response times, smoke alarms, and fire department staffing; incident-level data on appliance fires, vehicle fires, and fatalities; and much more. Of the 100,000+ domestic appliance fires reported over a six-year span, 52% were believed to have been caused by a “cooker incl. oven,” 11% by a “grill/toaster,” 2% by dishwashers, and just over 1% by deep-fat fryers. Semi-related: Jamie Oliver’s Bad Cheese Idea Is Still Starting Toaster Fires. [h/t Owen Boswarva] | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables
http://nymag.com/selectall/2015/11/jamie-olivers-bad-idea-is-still-starting-fires.html | https://twitter.com/owenboswarva/status/961884995957731328 | -0.853052 | 0.772994 | 3,588 | 14,473 | 24 | 24 | Wildfire Data and Monitoring | false |
524 | 2018.02.14 | 5 | Imported bats. | Via a Freedom of Information Act request to the Fish and Wildlife Service, Newsweek reporter Kristin Hugo obtained a spreadsheet listing all imports of bats — vampire, fruit, yellow-shouldered, leaf-nosed, and more — to the United States between January 2016 and October 2017. | http://www.strangebio.com/post/170249749601/conservationists-to-americans-please-stop-buying
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gtfdz6cqoenEsuauOPDy8mKJFernuy2CFde89ukPNtE/edit | null | -0.197198 | 0.868091 | 3,801 | 15,283 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
525 | 2018.02.21 | 1 | Rohingya refugees. | The Humanitarian Data Exchange has collated dozens of datasets related to the Rohingya refugee crisis. Among them: the geographic boundaries of Rohingya refugee settlements in Bangladesh, the numbers of refugees living in those settlements, and the infrastructure available there. | https://data.humdata.org/event/rohingya-displacement
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/outline-of-camps-sites-of-rohingya-refugees-in-cox-s-bazar-bangladesh
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/site-location-of-rohingya-refugees-in-cox-s-bazar
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cox-s-bazar-refugee-settlement-infrastructure | null | 0.127225 | -0.496641 | 1,060 | 4,168 | 18 | -1 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
526 | 2018.02.21 | 2 | U.S. Treasury sanctions. | Through its Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Treasury publishes several datasets that describe the people and companies subject to U.S. economic sanctions. The two main listings are the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (“SDN”) and the Consolidated Sanctions List. Those contain only currently-sanctioned entities, but the Treasury also publishes (semi-structured) documents describing historical additions and removals. Related: Enigma Public’s Sanctions Tracker. [h/t Jennifer Roscoe] | https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/Other-OFAC-Sanctions-Lists.aspx
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/consolidated.aspx
https://labs.enigma.com/sanctions-tracker/ | https://twitter.com/jenniferroscoe | 0.314844 | -0.285909 | 1,450 | 5,844 | 61 | -1 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
527 | 2018.02.21 | 3 | Happy moments. | HappyDB is “a corpus of 100,000 crowd-sourced happy moments.” An example: “My son gave me a big hug in the morning when I woke him up.” The researchers, who recently described their efforts in an academic paper, collected the sentiments from Mechanical Turk workers, who also supplied basic demographic information, such as age, gender, and whether they have children. [h/t Marcel Weiher] | https://rit-public.github.io/HappyDB/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07746 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16381964 | 0.753063 | 0.418411 | 2,936 | 11,632 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
528 | 2018.02.21 | 4 | Seven years of GitHub activity. | The GitHub Archive is an effort to record the popular code-sharing website’s public timeline, “archive it, and make it easily accessible for further analysis.” The dataset, which includes more than 20 types of events and often contains more than 1 million events per day, goes back to February 2011. Related: Structured data representing the “commit histories” of two dozen popular open-source projects, including Rust, Pandas, Redis, and Bitcoin. | https://www.githubarchive.org/
http://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/
https://github.com/gitential/datasets | null | 0.533339 | 0.126297 | 2,353 | 9,314 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
529 | 2018.02.21 | 5 | Public commemorations. | The Open Plaques project is dedicated to “documenting the historical links between people and places as recorded by commemorative plaques.” The latest data dump contains nearly 40,000 plaques — the vast majority in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. OpenBenches, meanwhile, has collected similar data for 4,300+ memorial benches. [h/t Jason Norwood-Young] | http://openplaques.org/
http://openplaques.org/data
https://openbenches.org/
https://github.com/edent/openbenches | https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=11977a67604b965526b63ee6e&id=50af5bb880 | 0.143096 | 0.46863 | 2,980 | 11,977 | 44 | -1 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
530 | 2018.02.28 | 1 | Peace agreements. | The PA-X Peace Agreements Database contains structured information about 1,500+ “formal, publicly-available documents” that address “conflict with a view to ending it.” The database covers more than 140 peace processes between 1990 and 2015, and each agreement has been coded for more than 200 variables — for instance, whether the agreement contains provisions about religious groups. [h/t Melissa Terras] | https://www.peaceagreements.org/
https://www.peaceagreements.org/files/PA_X_codebook_Version1_Feb_20_20.pdf | https://twitter.com/melissaterras/status/967344418146734080 | 0.476208 | -0.481064 | 1,071 | 4,318 | 12 | -1 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
531 | 2018.02.28 | 2 | Historical battles. | Political scientist Jeffrey Arnold has converted the U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency (CAA) Database of Battles from a series of Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets into tidier, easier-to-use CSV files. The dataset includes details of 660 battles — associated with several dozen wars — between 1600 and the mid/late-1900s. The fields indicate each battle’s “name, date, and location; the strengths and losses on each side; identification of the victor; temporal duration of the battle,” and more. | http://www.jrnold.me/
https://github.com/jrnold/CDB90/blob/master/src-data/M000121/README.TXT
https://github.com/jrnold/CDB90 | null | 0.481583 | -0.583882 | 879 | 3,422 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
532 | 2018.02.28 | 3 | American radiation. | The Environmental Protection Agency’s RadNet system “monitors the nation's air, precipitation and drinking water for radiation.” The radiation measurements, collected from 130+ stations in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, are available on a “near-real-time” basis. Related: Randall Munroe’s radiation dose chart. Previously: SafeCast (DIP 2016.02.03). [h/t Stanislav Kralin] | https://www.epa.gov/radnet
https://www.epa.gov/radnet/near-real-time-and-laboratory-data-state
https://xkcd.com/radiation/
https://blog.safecast.org/about/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-03-edition | https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/10678/us-radiation-measurements | -0.762392 | 0.463361 | 2,951 | 11,919 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
533 | 2018.02.28 | 4 | Fellow mammals. | The American Society of Mammalogists’ Mammal Diversity Database “is home base for tracking the latest taxonomic changes to species and higher groups of mammals.” Currently, it contains more than 1,300 genera and 6,000 total species. Fun facts: The impala is the only member of the genus Aepyceros, and the name “Schmidly's deer mouse” can refer to either of two species in two entirely different genera. [h/t Himanshu Goenka] | https://mammaldiversity.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impala | http://www.ibtimes.com/mammal-biodiversity-20-larger-previously-thought-new-database-find-2650075 | -0.190422 | 0.968382 | 3,993 | 16,051 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
534 | 2018.02.28 | 5 | Rick and Morty. | The (unofficial) Rick and Morty API provides data on 390+ characters, 60+ locations, and all 31 episodes of the science-fictional animated series. | https://rickandmortyapi.com/
https://rickandmortyapi.com/documentation#character
https://rickandmortyapi.com/documentation#location
https://rickandmortyapi.com/documentation#episode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty | null | 0.560054 | 0.830823 | 3,761 | 15,075 | 40 | 40 | Media Franchise APIs | false |
535 | 2018.03.07 | 1 | The grid. | The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes near-real-time data on the Lower 48’s electrical grid. The datasets include net electricity generation, flows in and out of the country’s various “balancing authorities,” regional demand, and forecasts of demand. You can explore the data online, access it through the EIA’s API, or download it in bulk. Helpful: The EIA’s guide to the data and “known issues”. | https://www.eia.gov/realtime_grid/
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=2123635
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulkfiles.php
https://www.eia.gov/realtime_grid/docs/UserGuideAndKnownIssues.pdf | null | -0.970661 | 0.416111 | 2,880 | 11,521 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
536 | 2018.03.07 | 2 | Pan-African surveys. | Afrobarometer “is a pan-African, non-partisan research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, economic conditions, and related issues in more than 35 countries in Africa.” You can download data from the first six rounds of surveys, conducted between 1999 and 2015. You can also read the detailed questionnaires and explore the results online. Note: To download the data, you’ll need to create a (free) account on the website. [h/t Jeffrey Arnold] | http://www.afrobarometer.org/about
http://www.afrobarometer.org/data/merged-data
http://www.afrobarometer.org/surveys-and-methods/questionnaires
http://afrobarometer.org/online-data-analysis/getting-started | https://github.com/jrnold/afrobarometer | -0.005314 | -0.05094 | 1,951 | 7,743 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
537 | 2018.03.07 | 3 | More brain scans. | Last year, the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience launched OpenNeuro, “a free and open platform for analyzing and sharing neuroimaging data.” (It’s the successor to the center’s earlier initiative, OpenfMRI.) You can, for instance, download scans of brains that were watching a particular episode of The Twilight Zone. Related: The Brain Imaging Data Structure, “a simple and intuitive way to organize and describe your neuroimaging and behavioral data.” Previously: The Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (DIP 2017.08.16). [h/t Laura Noren and Brad Stenger] | http://reproducibility.stanford.edu/about-us/
https://openneuro.org/faq
http://reproducibility.stanford.edu/openfmri-becomes-openneuro/
https://openfmri.org/
https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds001145/versions/00001
http://bids.neuroimaging.io/
http://www.oasis-brains.org/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-16-edition | https://cds.nyu.edu/newsletter/ | 0.48232 | 0.286314 | 2,671 | 10,590 | 75 | 75 | Open Research Datasets | false |
538 | 2018.03.07 | 4 | The Gray Lady of 19th century Havana. | The University of Miami Libraries has digitized 53,000+ pages of La Gaceta de La Habana, “the paper of record during the Spanish colonial occupation of Cuba in the nineteenth century.” The digitized editions span 33 of the years between 1849 and 1897. Previously: Historical U.S. newspapers (DIP 2017.08.16). [h/t Mike Stucka + Heather Froehlich] | https://github.com/UMiamiLibraries/collections-as-data/tree/master/LaGaceta
http://merrick.library.miami.edu/cubanHeritage/cubanlaw/lagaceta.php
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-16-edition | https://twitter.com/MikeStucka
https://twitter.com/heatherfro/status/969658558206873600 | 0.246544 | 0.287008 | 2,663 | 10,575 | 46 | 46 | Digital Historical Data | false |
539 | 2018.03.07 | 5 | Powerlifting. | OpenPowerlifting.org “aims to create a permanent, accurate, convenient, accessible, open archive of the world's powerlifting data. In support of this mission, all of the OpenPowerlifting data and code is available for download in useful formats.” So far, that includes 400,000+ performances at 9,000+ competitions in dozens of countries. [h/t u/cavedave] | http://www.openpowerlifting.org/data.html | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/7uqn4i/powerlifting_data/ | 0.386112 | -0.003556 | 2,028 | 8,152 | 56 | -1 | Data Platforms on Corporations | false |
540 | 2018.04.04 | 1 | The Western hemisphere. | The GOES-16 satellite was launched into orbit in November 2016, and it’s been collecting near-realtime images and data ever since. (GOES stands for “Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.”) It collects data on 16 different spectral bands, and it can capture a full image of the Western Hemisphere every 15 minutes, plus “an image of the Continental U.S. every five minutes, and two smaller, more detailed images of areas where storm activity is present, every 60 seconds.” You can browse the images and data online, and also download them as NetCDF files. Related: Washington Post graphics reporter John Muyskens’ list of GOES-16 resources and usage examples. [h/t John Muyskens] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-16
https://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/abi.html
https://www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/dataAndImageryImages.html
http://edc.occ-data.org/goes16/
https://github.com/jmuyskens/nicar18-data-blitz-goes-16 | https://twitter.com/JohnMuyskens/status/971797053910155265 | -0.630747 | 0.919824 | 3,915 | 15,639 | 34 | -1 | Geospatial and Environmental Data | false |
541 | 2018.04.04 | 2 | Gender pay gaps in Great Britain. | The UK government has begun requiring all companies with at least 250 employees in Great Britain (i.e., England, Scotland, and Wales) to report the pay differences between their male and female workers. Today is the official deadline to submit the reports; as of last night, more than 8,800 employers had done so. The reports include the percentage gaps in hourly earnings, differences in bonus pay, and the proportions of male and female employees in each pay quartile. You can search the data online and also download it as a CSV. Related: The Guardian’s series of reports on the data. [h/t Peter Yeung] | https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gender-pay-gap-reporting-overview
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gender-pay-gap-reporting-overview#data-you-must-publish-and-report
https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Viewing/search-results
https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Viewing/download
https://www.theguardian.com/society/equal-pay | https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=088b912cf6976d4efabca7bbc&id=b0accc7150 | -0.050887 | -0.313012 | 1,374 | 5,564 | 64 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
542 | 2018.04.04 | 3 | North Korea negotiations and provocations. | The Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Beyond Parallel project publishes several databases related to North Korean international relations — including 200+ negotiations between the U.S. and DPRK since 1990, and several hundred military provocations since 1958. Related: Los Angeles Times correspondent Matt Stiles’ visual explorations of the provocations data. Previously: The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ North Korea Missile Test Database (DIP 2017.05.17). [h/t Matt Stiles] | https://beyondparallel.csis.org/about/
https://beyondparallel.csis.org/databases/
http://thedailyviz.com/tag/provocations/
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/cns-north-korea-missile-test-database/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-17-edition | https://twitter.com/stiles/status/971800447815176192 | 0.472518 | -0.549481 | 943 | 3,678 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
543 | 2018.04.04 | 4 | Russian presidential voting. | Software engineer Michael Penkov has scraped the official, polling station–level results for Russia’s recent presidential election, and made the data available as a single JSON file. He’s also published an introductory Python notebook, which explains the data structure and provides English translations for the Russian field names. | http://michael.penkov.id.au/about/
https://github.com/mpenkov/prezident2018
https://github.com/mpenkov/prezident2018/blob/master/scrapyproject/results.json.gz
https://github.com/mpenkov/prezident2018/blob/master/Introduction.ipynb | null | 0.916877 | -0.243486 | 1,597 | 6,266 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
544 | 2018.04.04 | 5 | Even more dog (and cat) names. | Last year, Data Is Plural pointed readers to dog registration data for NYC, Tacoma, and Edmonton. It turns out that government of Zurich also publishes local dog registrations, including each canine’s name, gender, and birth year. And the Sunshine Coast Council, in Australia, publishes a spreadsheet of both dogs and cats, their primary breeds and colors, and whether they’ve been spayed/neutered. [h/t Open Data Institute] | https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-31-edition
https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset/https-data-stadt-zuerich-ch-dataset-pd_stapo_hundenamen
https://data.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Administration/Registered-Animals/7f87-i6kx/data | https://theodi.org/article/the-open-data-olympics-seven-weird-and-wonderful-open-datasets | -0.102446 | 0.788346 | 3,676 | 14,649 | 2 | 2 | Animal Data Collections | false |
545 | 2018.04.18 | 1 | Evictions. | A team led by Princeton sociologist and Evicted author Matthew Desmond has compiled the United States’ first-ever national-scale, publicly-available database of eviction metrics. Desmond’s Eviction Lab has collected more than 80 million records from cities, counties, and states across the country, and used them to calculate the number of evictions and eviction filings in each place. (Short methodology here; longer methodology here.) You can download the aggregate data in bulk (after supplying your email address) and explore it through an interactive map. Related: “In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America” (The New York Times), which includes additional background and graphics. | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/247816/evicted-by-matthew-desmond/9780553447453/
https://evictionlab.org/map/
https://evictionlab.org/about/
https://evictionlab.org/methods/
https://evictionlab.org/docs/Eviction%20Lab%20-Methodology%20Report%20v.1.0.0.pdf
https://evictionlab.org/get-the-data/
https://evictionlab.org/map/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/07/upshot/millions-of-eviction-records-a-sweeping-new-look-at-housing-in-america.html | null | -0.293505 | 0.063078 | 2,198 | 8,749 | 53 | -1 | Housing Market Data | false |
546 | 2018.04.18 | 2 | Executive orders. | The U.S. Office of the Federal Register publishes structured data on every presidential executive order since 1994. For each of the 886 entries, the dataset provides the order’s title, the date it was signed, the president who signed it, and where to find it in the Federal Register. [h/t u/cavedave] | https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/86cbdb/us_president_executive_orders/ | 0.615214 | -0.339113 | 1,395 | 5,479 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
547 | 2018.04.18 | 3 | State campaign finance laws. | The nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute has launched a database of current and historical state campaign finance laws. The information goes back to 1996 and describes each state’s contribution limits, various kinds of prohibitions, disclosure rules, and more. You can download the full dataset or explore it online. [h/t Rachel Shorey] | http://cfinst.org/about.aspx
http://cfinst.org/State/LawsDatabase.aspx
http://cfinst.org/State/LawsDatabase_Download.aspx
https://cfinst.github.io/ | https://twitter.com/rachel_shorey/status/981203851243122689 | 0.770754 | -0.209035 | 1,656 | 6,513 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
548 | 2018.04.18 | 4 | Academic parental leave policies. | Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Santa Fe Institute have compiled a dataset of 200+ universities’ parental leave policies. For each institution, the dataset indicates the amount of paid leave granted to//taken by both women and men, and what type of leave it is (e.g., relief from teaching, from all duties, et cetera). [h/t Sam Way] | https://aaronclauset.github.io/parental-leave/ | https://twitter.com/samfway/status/984199839473807362 | 0.001475 | -0.310718 | 1,440 | 5,696 | 64 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
549 | 2018.04.18 | 5 | Miscellany. | The University of Florida’s Larry Winner has collected hundreds of “miscellaneous” datasets, many from niche academic studies. A few highlights: “Antiseptic as Treatment for Amputation – Upper Limb” (from an 1870 study), “Sex, Lies, and Religiosity” (1971), and “Reading Times by E-Reader Device and Lighting Conditions” (2013). [h/t Charles Minshew] | http://users.stat.ufl.edu/~winner/
http://users.stat.ufl.edu/~winner/datasets.html | https://twitter.com/charlesminshew | 0.475232 | 0.324411 | 2,735 | 10,846 | 70 | -1 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
550 | 2018.04.25 | 1 | School shootings. | Over the past year, reporters at the Washington Post ”attempted to identify every act of gunfire at a primary or secondary school during school hours since the Columbine High massacre on April 20, 1999.” Using a range of sources, the reporters ”reviewed more than 1,000 alleged incidents, but counted only those that happened on campuses immediately before, during or just after classes.” The resulting database, published last week, currently contains more than 200 incidents and can be downloaded as a CSV. For each shooting, the database includes details about the location, timing, circumstances, shooter, casualties, and the school’s students. [h/t The INN Nerds] | https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/school-shootings-database/
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-school-shootings | https://mailchi.mp/inn/were-having-a-texas-tea-party | 0.261761 | -0.801963 | 424 | 1,616 | 10 | 10 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
551 | 2018.04.25 | 2 | America’s roads. | The federal Highway Performance Monitoring System “includes inventory information for all of the Nation's public roads as certified by the States’ Governors annually.” And it’s not just highways: “All roads open to public travel are reported in HPMS regardless of ownership, including Federal, State, county, city, and privately owned roads such as toll facilities.” Shapefiles representing the HPMS data are available for 2011–2015. For each segment of road, the dataset indicates the average daily traffic, number of turn lanes, surface type, and dozens of other variables. Related: America’s Quietest Routes, which uses the data. | https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms/fieldmanual/page01.cfm
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms/shapefiles.cfm
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms/fieldmanual/page00.cfm
https://www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes/ | null | -0.549244 | -0.065106 | 1,870 | 7,580 | 50 | -1 | Urban Transit Data | false |
552 | 2018.04.25 | 3 | Wind turbines. | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the American Wind Energy Association have partnered to publish the U.S. Wind Turbine Database. The dataset, which the government says will be “continuously updated,” currently contains 57,636 turbines and includes each turbine’s location, development project, manufacturer, model, height, rotor diameter, and other characteristics. You can download the data in several formats, and also explore it on an interactive map. [h/t Ed Vine] | https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/data/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347 | -0.869883 | 0.541407 | 3,140 | 12,552 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
553 | 2018.04.25 | 4 | A decade of New York Times front-page stories. | For her 2013 book, Making the News: Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting, UC Davis professor Amber E. Boydstun oversaw the compilation of a dataset of every front-page article in the New York Times from 1996 to 2006. Each of the 31,034 articles have been categorized by topic, according a detailed codebook, and given a short summary. Related: The Comparative Agendas Project's list of datasets that use its topic-classification system, including Boydstun’s data. Also related: The NYT’s APIs. [h/t Cornelius Puschmann] | http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16382220.html
http://www.amber-boydstun.com/supplementary-information-for-making-the-news.html
http://www.amber-boydstun.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/106535199/nyt_front_page_policy_agendas_codebook.pdf
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/pages/About
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/datasets_codebooks
https://developer.nytimes.com/ | https://twitter.com/cbpuschmann/status/972233548433383425 | 0.691705 | 0.150438 | 2,358 | 9,452 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
554 | 2018.04.25 | 5 | Cooks in the kitchen. | Computer-vision researchers convinced 32 participants (of 10 nationalities, living in 4 cities) to record everything they did in their kitchens for three days using a head-mounted camera. Later, the participants narrated what they had been doing. Taken together, the EPIC-Kitchens dataset includes 55 hours of video, nearly 40,000 narration segments, and more. [h/t Duncan Geere] | https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02748
https://epic-kitchens.github.io/2018 | https://tinyletter.com/duncangeere | 0.47809 | 0.546793 | 3,183 | 12,638 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
555 | 2018.05.09 | 1 | Clinical trials. | OpenTrials, a collaboration between Open Knowledge International and Oxford University’s Ben Goldacre, “aims to locate, match, and share all publicly accessible data and documents, on all trials conducted, on all medicines and other treatments, globally.” The project’s “public beta” brings together data from several of the world’s largest clinical trial registries — including the United States’ ClinicalTrials.gov, the European Union Clinical Trials Register, and the WHO’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform — and other related sources. You can explore the data through an online search tool, monthly bulk exports, and an API. | https://opentrials.net/
https://okfn.org/
http://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/
https://clinicaltrials.gov/
https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/search
http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/
https://explorer.opentrials.net/
https://explorer.opentrials.net/data
https://opentrials.net/2016/10/18/opentrials-api-information/ | null | 0.440496 | 0.095487 | 2,286 | 9,052 | 55 | 55 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
556 | 2018.05.09 | 2 | Medical examiner reports. | Cook County, Illinois, publishes data on all deaths reported to its medical examiner — 20,000+ deaths since August 2014, and updated daily. (FYI: “Not all deaths that occur in Cook County are reported to the Medical Examiner or fall under the jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner.”) Connecticut’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has published data on all accidental drug deaths reported between 2012 and 2017. The Dallas Morning News’ Dana Amihere obtained autopsy data from the Dallas County medical examiner's office, and NJ Advance Media’s Stephen Stirling obtained data on “all cases referred to the NJ Medical Examiner system from 1996 to 2016.” [Correction, 2018-05-09: The original version of this item misspelled Stephen Stirling's name. Data Is Plural regrets the error.] | https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/Public-Safety/Medical-Examiner-Case-Archive/cjeq-bs86
https://data.ct.gov/Health-and-Human-Services/Accidental-Drug-Related-Deaths-2012-2017/rybz-nyjw
https://github.com/write-this-way/dallas-co-autopsies
https://data.world/stevestirling/n-j-medical-examiner-data | null | -0.060667 | -0.807817 | 414 | 1,596 | 15 | -1 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
557 | 2018.05.09 | 3 | Himalayan expeditions. | The Himalayan Database tracks “all expeditions that have climbed in the Nepalese Himalaya.” The hyper-detailed database “is based on the expedition archives of Elizabeth Hawley, a longtime journalist based in Kathmandu, and it is supplemented by information gathered from books, alpine journals and correspondence with Himalayan climbers.” The database — long accessible only on CD, for a fee — is now available to download for free. (The main download is provided as a Microsoft Visual FoxPro database, but the .DBF files within it can be opened using other software, including LibreOffice.) Related: Yuichiro Miura, the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. [h/t Jacob Bradburn] | http://himalayandatabase.com/index.html
http://himalayandatabase.com/downloads.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuichiro_Miura | https://twitter.com/JacobBradburnIO | -0.075689 | 0.577769 | 3,229 | 12,859 | 13 | 13 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
558 | 2018.05.09 | 4 | 1.7 billion Milky Way stars. | The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft “has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of our home Galaxy.” Those measurements, released last month, are available to download. They’ve also been used to create a high-resolution image of all observed stars and to expand the ESA’s interactive space map. Related: This Vox article provides some more context. [h/t u/Kopachris] | http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_creates_richest_star_map_of_our_Galaxy_and_beyond
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2
https://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/
https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/Gaia_s_sky_in_colour2
http://sky.esa.int/
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/26/17281640/gaia-3d-map-milky-way-sky-map | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/8ev47w/astrometric_data_for_17_billion_stars_in_the/ | -0.522249 | 0.984436 | 4,047 | 16,286 | 33 | 33 | Space Exploration Datasets | false |
559 | 2018.05.09 | 5 | Sidewalk grates. | You know those metallic grates embedded into city sidewalks? D.C.’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer has identified 10,000+ of them in the District. Also: 89,727 curb segments. [h/t Sunlight Open Cities] | http://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/sidewalk-grates
http://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/curbs?geometry=-77.04,38.897,-77.024,38.9 | https://twitter.com/SunlightCities/status/992422225667031040 | -0.431858 | 0.181681 | 2,386 | 9,636 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
560 | 2018.05.23 | 1 | Ebola. | Caitlin Rivers, a computational epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, has started compiling data tracking the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So far, the datasets are based on case counts and other information from the DRC’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. A series of “data interpretation notes” accompanies each dataset. (Rivers administered a similar data repository during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.) Related: “Most Maps of the New Ebola Outbreak Are Wrong,” by Ed Yong. | http://www.caitlinrivers.com/
https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola_drc
https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/most-maps-of-the-new-ebola-outbreak-are-wrong/560777/ | null | -0.279896 | -0.779214 | 471 | 1,838 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
561 | 2018.05.23 | 2 | Public transit, curated. | As a way to “lower the barrier“ for analyzing public transportation data, researchers at Finland’s Aalto University have published “a curated collection of [now more than] 25 cities' public transport networks in multiple easy-to-use formats including network edge lists, temporal network event lists, SQLite databases, GeoJSON files, and the GTFS data format.” On the project’s website, you can browse, visualize, and download each city’s data. (The cities are mostly in Europe and Australia, but also include Detroit, Winnipeg, and Antofagasta, Chile.) Previously: TransitLand and TransitFeeds (DIP 2016.07.27). [h/t NYU Data Science Community Newsletter] | https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201889
http://transportnetworks.cs.aalto.fi/
https://transit.land/
https://transitfeeds.com/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-27-edition | https://cds.nyu.edu/newsletter/ | -0.558135 | 0.055926 | 2,126 | 8,604 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
562 | 2018.05.23 | 3 | Political resistance campaigns. | The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project, based at the University of Denver, “catalogues major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns around the globe from 1900-2013.” The project’s initial dataset explored the general characteristics of hundreds of campaigns; follow-up datasets have examined the annual activity and tactics of smaller subsets. Each dataset comes with a detailed codebook. Note: Free registration is required to download the most recent datasets. [h/t Peace Science Digest] | https://www.du.edu/korbel/sie/research/chenow_navco_data.html | https://twitter.com/PeaceSciDigest/status/988888349594173440 | 0.461923 | -0.641352 | 750 | 2,909 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
563 | 2018.05.23 | 4 | Wind. | Earlier this month, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory made a big new slice of its Wind Integration National Dataset available online. The latest version provides API access to 50 terabytes of wind-related measurements — about 10% of the full database. It includes “barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, temperature, and air density data” between 2007 and 2013, from nearly 5 million locations in/near the continental United States. The NREL has also published an animated map of the data. Note: Free registration is required to access the API. Previously: Wind turbines (DIP 2018.04.25). [h/t Michael McLaughlin] | https://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2018/nrel-releases-major-update-to-wind-energy-dataset.html
https://www.nrel.gov/grid/wind-toolkit.html
https://github.com/NREL/hsds-examples
https://nrel.github.io/hsds-viz/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-04-25-edition | http://www.datainnovation.org/2018/05/tracking-wind-energy-in-the-united-states/ | -0.885155 | 0.579829 | 3,203 | 12,935 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
564 | 2018.05.23 | 5 | What Wikipedians cite. | The Wikimedia Foundation has published a dataset listing each clearly-cited source (e.g., a book with an ISBN, a scholarly article with a DOI, etc.) on each page of each of Wikipedia’s 298 languages editions — 15,693,732 source-page combinations in all. Related: “The Most-Cited Authors on Wikipedia Had No Idea,” by Louise Matsakis. [h/t Ted Lawless] | https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/what-are-the-ten-most-cited-sources-on-wikipedia-lets-ask-the-data-34071478785a
https://figshare.com/articles/Wikipedia_Scholarly_Article_Citations/1299540
https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-most-cited-authors-no-idea/ | https://twitter.com/tedlawless/status/981960557807980544 | 0.623673 | 0.39462 | 2,867 | 11,495 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
565 | 2018.06.06 | 1 | Global gas and oil infrastructure. | The Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has published what it says is the “first-ever database inventory of oil and natural gas infrastructure information from the top hydrocarbon-producing and consuming countries in the world.” The database contains tons of geospatial information and “identifies more than 4.8 million individual features like wells, pipelines, and ports from more than 380 datasets in 194 countries. It includes information about the type, age, status, and owner/operator of infrastructure features.” Helpful: The authors’ (detailed) methodology paper. [h/t Michael McLaughlin] | https://www.energy.gov/fe/articles/netl-led-team-creates-first-ever-international-database-use-preventing-natural-gas
https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/global-oil-gas-features-database
https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/development-of-an-open-global-oil-and-gas-infrastructure-inventory-and-geodatabase | http://www.datainnovation.org/2018/05/cataloging-the-global-energy-infrastructure-to-prevent-oil-and-gas-leaks/ | -0.834377 | 0.418813 | 2,885 | 11,530 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
566 | 2018.06.06 | 2 | Volcanoes and eruptions. | The Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program maintains a database of more than 12,000 volcanoes and 11,000 eruptions — dating from 10450 BCE to the present year. You can search the data online, and then download the results as a spreadsheet. Related: “Here's every volcano that has erupted since Krakatoa.” [h/t Duncan Geere + Rachel Schallom + Lazaro Gamio] | https://volcano.si.edu/
https://volcano.si.edu/gvp_votw.cfm
https://volcano.si.edu/search_volcano.cfm
https://volcano.si.edu/search_eruption.cfm
https://www.axios.com/chart-every-volcano-that-erupted-since-krakatoa-467da621-41ba-4efc-99c6-34ff3cb27709.html | https://tinyletter.com/duncangeere/letters/s03e19-blocks
https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=5c12dabe1e59a9fbde1174b8c&id=84a7784f6b
https://twitter.com/LazaroGamio/status/1002273071854743553 | -0.496491 | 0.827154 | 3,728 | 14,880 | 32 | 32 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
567 | 2018.06.06 | 3 | Retracted medical papers. | PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s search engine for biomedical and life-sciences literature, lets you search for retracted publications; just add "retracted publication"[PTYP] to your query. For instance, here are retracted articles that were originally published in 2016. Using the “Send to” link at the top-right of the query pages, you can download all the results. Data scientist Neil Saunders has gathered this data and condensed it into an interactive, graphical report. (Clicking on the axis labels takes you the relevant PubMed search.) Related: The code behind Saunders’ report. [h/t u/cavedave] | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0027066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22retracted%20publication%22[PTYP]%20AND%202016[CRDT]
https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/
https://neilfws.github.io/PubMed/pmretract/pmretract.html
https://github.com/neilfws/PubMed/tree/master/retractions | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/8m8pem/pubmed_retractions_report/ | 0.585688 | 0.295916 | 2,674 | 10,597 | 75 | -1 | Open Research Datasets | false |
568 | 2018.06.06 | 4 | Cenotes. | The Mexican state of Yucatán publishes a dataset listing the names and locations of cenotes, the region’s famous water-filled sinkholes. Related: Other datasets from the Programa de Ordenamiento Ecológico Territorial del Estado de Yucatán. [h/t Forest Gregg] | http://bitacoraordenamiento.yucatan.gob.mx/documentos/detalles.php?IdArchivo=1058
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenote
http://bitacoraordenamiento.yucatan.gob.mx/galeria/index.php | https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/12864/mexican-sinkhole-locations/12866#12866 | -0.706108 | 0.721309 | 3,529 | 14,098 | 25 | -1 | Water Resources Data | false |
569 | 2018.06.06 | 5 | NICAR lightning talks. | Ever since 2010, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) annual conference has featured a session of five-minute “lightning talks,” selected by popular vote. NICARian Christine Zhang has compiled a spreadsheet of all 309 lightning talk proposals, the proposed presenters, their professional affiliations, how many votes each proposal received, and more. Related: “Nine Years of NICAR Lightning Talks (and Cats),” Zhang’s analysis of the data. Also related: The code behind Zhang’s analysis. | https://ire.org/nicar/
https://twitter.com/christinezhang
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mRdBPRHPJHUlbK-kpGIx31Y4o73SXHz_899SQx1rvEY/edit#gid=614018567
https://source.opennews.org/articles/nine-years-nicar-lightning-talks-and-cats/
https://github.com/underthecurve/lightning-talks-analysis | null | 0.660037 | -0.317421 | 1,397 | 5,610 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
570 | 2018.07.04 | 1 | The National Transit Database. | Every year, hundreds of U.S. transit systems — from the Pomona Valley Transportation Authority’s Claremont Dial-a-Ride to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s New York City Transit — submit detailed metrics to the congressionally-established National Transit Database. The NTD's datasets cover a broad set of topics, including “agency funding sources, inventories of vehicles and maintenance facilities, safety event reports, measures of transit service provided and consumed, and data on transit employees.” The NTD also provides a glossary, data collection manuals, and the underlying forms. [h/t Michael A. Rice, a teacher at Ingraham High School in Seattle] | http://www.pvtrans.org/asp/site/claremont/
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/ntd-data
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/national-transit-database-ntd-glossary
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/manuals
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/ntd-reporting-system-forms | null | -0.530536 | 0.036546 | 2,127 | 8,478 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
571 | 2018.07.04 | 2 | Landslides. | The Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository (COOLR) is a recently-launched NASA project that “seeks to cultivate an open platform where scientists and citizen scientists around the world can share landslide reports to guide awareness of landslide hazards for improving scientific modeling and emergency response.” The repository has been seeded with the agency’s Global Landslide Catalog, which it says is already “the largest openly available global database of rainfall-triggered mass movements known to date.” You can explore the COOLR data on an interactive map or download the data in several formats. | https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/600/citizen-science/landslides/about.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/citizen-science-salon/2018/03/23/help-nasa-build-the-largest-open-landslide-catalog-with-landslide-reporter/
https://data.nasa.gov/Earth-Science/Global-Landslide-Catalog/h9d8-neg4/data
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/600/citizen-science/landslides/resources.html#GLC
https://maps.nccs.nasa.gov/arcgis/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=824ea5864ec8423fb985b33ee6bc05b7
https://maps.nccs.nasa.gov/arcgis/apps/MapAndAppGallery/index.html?appid=574f26408683485799d02e857e5d9521 | null | -0.660565 | 0.831314 | 3,722 | 14,997 | 28 | -1 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
572 | 2018.07.04 | 3 | Regional Medicare usage. | The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes a series of “geographic variation” spreadsheets, which cover hundreds of metrics — such as kidney dialysis usage, the total cost of medical tests, and hospital readmission rates — related to Medicare beneficiaries’ healthcare in each state, county, and “hospital referral region.” [h/t Drew Ivan] | https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Geographic-Variation/GV_PUF.html | https://twitter.com/drewivan | -0.433487 | -0.572293 | 850 | 3,492 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
573 | 2018.07.04 | 4 | Anthony Bourdain’s travels. | Christine Zhang has compiled a CSV of 400+ locations featured in Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, The Layover, and Parts Unknown shows. The spreadsheet-as-remembrance includes each location’s name, country, latitude/longitude, plus the relevant episode’s show, season, number, and title. | https://twitter.com/christinezhang/status/1005974583206449152
https://github.com/underthecurve/bourdain-travel-places/blob/master/bourdain_travel_places.csv | null | -0.093785 | 0.380057 | 2,844 | 11,321 | 43 | 43 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
574 | 2018.07.04 | 5 | Cars at auction. | Kansas City publishes a dataset of cars for sale at its monthly auction. As of yesterday, the dataset contained 482 cars. For each car, the variables include the make, model, year, VIN, reason for being auctioned — e.g., “abandoned,” “stolen,” “illegally parked” — and other details. | https://data.kcmo.org/Traffic/Kansas-City-Monthly-Car-Auction/32xf-gvw8 | null | -0.467464 | -0.035037 | 1,937 | 7,842 | 50 | -1 | Urban Transit Data | false |
575 | 2018.07.18 | 1 | SCOTUS extracurriculars. | Since July 2014, ScotusMap.com has been tracking the U.S. Supreme Court justices’ public events — “whether the Supreme Court is in session or on summer recess, the justices keep busy with writers’ conferences, state bar luncheons, award ceremonies, and more.” The map’s database now contains more than 700 entries, and even includes events attended by the retired justices. Bonus: The creators of ScotusMap recently launched ScotusWat.ch, a website (with downloadable data) that “tracks the public statements made by United States senators about how they plan to vote on the Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and tallies them into a likely vote count.” [h/t Jay Pinho + Victoria Kwan] | http://www.scotusmap.com/posts/1
http://www.scotusmap.com/
http://www.scotuswat.ch/ | https://twitter.com/jaypinho
https://twitter.com/victoriakwan_ | 0.777151 | -0.624055 | 824 | 3,185 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
576 | 2018.07.18 | 2 | 34,361 European migration deaths. | The Amsterdam-based activist group UNITED for Intercultural Action has, since the early 1990s, been collecting information about the deaths of Europe’s refugee-seekers. The organization's volunteers “update the data annually, spending six months at a time verifying reports, categorising deaths and entering them into the database,” according to The Guardian's story about the endeavor and its findings. “When the project began, they received physical clippings from a network of groups around Europe. Now, the data is collected from email submissions and Google Alerts in a number of languages.” The story features a PDF-listing of the deaths, including the date the migrants were found dead, names and countries of origin (where known), and the causes of death. The Italian civic-data organization OnData has converted the PDF to a spreadsheet. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/the-list-europe-migrant-bodycount
http://ondata.it/
https://github.com/ondata/the-list | https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=715ce882b7 | 0.006522 | -0.616987 | 800 | 3,136 | 5 | 5 | Migration and Detention Data | false |
577 | 2018.07.18 | 3 | Building footprints. | Microsoft’s Bing Maps team has published an open dataset describing the outlines of nearly 125 million buildings in the United States. To build the dataset, the team trained neural networks to detect buildings’ footprints in satellite images. | https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data
https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints | null | -0.372751 | 0.352092 | 2,772 | 11,048 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
578 | 2018.07.18 | 4 | Makeup shades. | In a recent essay at The Pudding, Jason Li, Amber Thomas, and Divya Manian explored the shades of foundation offered by best-selling makeup brands in the U.S., Nigeria, India, and Japan. They also published the underlying data — color values for more than 600 shades from 36 different brands. | https://pudding.cool/2018/06/makeup-shades/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/makeup-shades | null | 0.506351 | 0.412003 | 2,928 | 11,616 | 70 | 70 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
579 | 2018.07.18 | 5 | FOIA’ed FBI files. | “When somebody's obituary appears in the New York Times, FOIA The Dead sends an automated request to the FBI for their (newly-available) records.” So far, the project has obtained and published FBI’s files on 54 people. The site’s data includes each person’s name, a short description, a link to the relevant obituary, a link to the received records, and the number of pages obtained. [h/t Noah Veltman] | https://foiathedead.org/about/
https://foiathedead.org/
https://foiathedead.org/entries.json | https://noahveltman.com/ | 0.165592 | -0.751506 | 485 | 1,994 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
580 | 2018.08.01 | 1 | The death penalty. | Law professor Brandon L. Garrett has led an effort to compile data on every death sentence in the U.S. since the early 1990s. Garrett’s “End of its Rope” database currently includes more than 4,900 sentencings, and specifies each defendant’s name, race, and gender; the state, county, and year of the sentence; whether it was a resentencing; and whether the defendant has been executed. You can download the data, browse it online, and explore it via an interactive map. | http://www.brandonlgarrett.com/
http://endofitsrope.com/using-the-database/
http://endofitsrope.com/data-and-documents/
http://endofitsrope.com/database/
http://endofitsrope.com/ | null | 0.190865 | -0.95624 | 102 | 332 | 6 | 6 | Criminal Justice Databases | false |
581 | 2018.08.01 | 2 | Global tax revenues. | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has launched a database “providing detailed and comparable tax revenue information for 80 countries around the world.” The Global Revenue Statistics Database, “which will expand to cover more than 90 countries by the end of 2018,” breaks tax revenues into dozens of categories and subcategories — such as sales taxes, taxes on capital gains, and taxes on exports. Related: The OECD’s interactive charts of the data. | http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/oecd-launches-largest-source-of-comparable-tax-revenue-data.htm
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RS_GBL
http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/global-revenue-statistics-database.htm | null | 0.062475 | 0.001429 | 2,081 | 8,259 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
582 | 2018.08.01 | 3 | Consumer-product chemicals. | Researchers at the Environmental Protection Agency have created a new dataset of “reported and predicted information on more than 75,000 chemicals and more than 15,000 consumer products.” The Chemicals and Products Database, as they’ve named it, is an “aggregation of publicly available data on chemical-use categorization, consumer product composition [...], and functional use of chemicals”, and uses “a consistent scheme for categorizing products and chemicals.” You can download the data via the EPA’s Chemistry Dashboard. | https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018125
https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/downloads | null | -0.695496 | 0.276433 | 2,569 | 10,387 | 21 | -1 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
583 | 2018.08.01 | 4 | Development projects and outcomes. | Earlier this year, Johns Hopkins professor Dan Honig released the Project Performance Database, which tracks the outcome ratings of international development projects (typically conducted by auditors on a four- or six-point scale). “The PPD is, at present, the world's largest” such database and “contains over 14,000 unique projects from eight agencies,” including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and others. [h/t Paddy Carter] | http://danhonig.info/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/PPD | https://twitter.com/CarterPaddy/status/964413653377155072 | 0.081088 | -0.042532 | 1,954 | 7,877 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
584 | 2018.08.01 | 5 | Public restrooms. | There are many official datasets of public toilets, including those in New York City parks, Vancouver, Seattle parks, many UK cities, Australia, and New Zealand. [h/t Jens von Bergmann] | https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Recreation/Directory-Of-Toilets-In-Public-Parks/hjae-yuav
https://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/public-washrooms.htm
https://data.seattle.gov/Parks-and-Recreation/Seattle-Parks-and-Recreation-GIS-Map-Layer-Shapefi/dfsk-abyq
https://data.gov.uk/search?q=toilets
https://data.gov.au/dataset/national-public-toilet-map
https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/public-toilets2 | https://twitter.com/vb_jens/status/1020555383910223873 | -0.455827 | 0.208288 | 2,449 | 9,890 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
585 | 2018.08.08 | 1 | Militarized disputes. | The Militarized Interstate Dispute datasets provide details about more than 2,200 instances between 1816 and 2010 where a government “threatened, displayed, or used force against another” — including each dispute’s timing, participants, death count, result, and more. A supplementary database tracks the disputes’ locations. The datasets are part of the Correlates of War project, which was founded in 1963 and which strives for “the systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge about war.” [h/t Erik Beuck] | http://cow.dss.ucdavis.edu/data-sets/MIDs
http://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/MIDLOC
http://cow.dss.ucdavis.edu/
http://cow.dss.ucdavis.edu/history | https://twitter.com/CharlesBeuck/status/1022935812147699713 | 0.484593 | -0.596566 | 815 | 3,295 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
586 | 2018.08.08 | 2 | Spending at Trump properties. | ProPublica is tracking the money that political campaigns and government agencies have reported spending at Donald Trump’s hotels, golf clubs, and restaurants. You can download the data, which includes the spender, property, date, amount, and listed purpose for each payment. From ProPublica’s notes: “Federal government spending is incomplete because many government agencies have actively fought requests to disclose spending at Trump properties. The data we have so far was released, in part, after lawsuits.” | https://projects.propublica.org/paying-the-president/
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/spending-at-trump-properties | null | 0.483635 | -0.214584 | 1,647 | 6,494 | 27 | -1 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
587 | 2018.08.08 | 3 | Overlooked computer scientists. | Researchers at Primer, a machine learning and natural language processing startup, have released a dataset describing more than 36,000 notable computer scientists, “only 15%” of which have Wikipedia biographies. The researchers trained their algorithms on a corpus of existing Wikipedia articles, Wikidata entries, news articles, and the Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus. (The latter contains data on more than 39 million research papers in computer science, neuroscience, and biomedical science.) The results include each computer scientist’s name, basic metadata, academic papers, and snippets of news articles mentioning them. Related: “Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem” (Wired). [h/t Sara Blask] | https://blog.primer.ai/technology/2018/08/03/Quicksilver.html
https://github.com/PrimerAI/primer_quicksilver
http://labs.semanticscholar.org/corpus/
https://www.wired.com/story/using-artificial-intelligence-to-fix-wikipedias-gender-problem/ | https://twitter.com/sarablask | 0.564825 | 0.385394 | 2,866 | 11,364 | 70 | 70 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
588 | 2018.08.08 | 4 | Death and taxes in the Garden State. | The nonprofit organization Reclaim The Records recently obtained New Jersey’s death index, and has made it available to search and download. The records include structured data for 1,275,833 deaths in the state between 2001 and 2017, plus digitized images of the death index for 1901-1903, 1920-1929, and 1949-2000. The structured data contains each person’s name, date of birth, date of death, and death certificate number — plus, for the most recent records, the locations of birth and death. Also: NJ Advance Media has published data on 17 years of drug overdose deaths from the state’s Office of the State Medical Examiner, and property tax rolls for “all 2.3 million taxable parcels of land” in 2017. (Free registration required to download the files.) [h/t Benjamin Cooley + Martin Burch] | https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/about/
https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/21/
https://www.newjerseydeathindex.com/
https://data.world/njdotcom/nj-statewide-overdose-deaths-1999-to-2016
https://data.world/njdotcom/nj-property-tax-rolls-2017 | https://medium.com/towards-data-science/data-curious-27-08-2017-a-roundup-of-data-stories-datasets-and-visualizations-from-last-week-4c2a1c10b068
https://twitter.com/seecmb/status/998642204825587713 | -0.072242 | -0.783826 | 413 | 1,723 | 15 | -1 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
589 | 2018.08.08 | 5 | More street trees. | London, Belfast, Vancouver, Washington (D.C.), Philadelphia, Boston, Cambridge (Mass.), Madison, Providence, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley are among the many cities that publish data cataloguing the trees that line their streets. Previously: NYC’s street trees (DIP 2016.11.16). [h/t Jens von Bergmann + Sunlight Open Cities + u/willwardo] | https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/local-authority-maintained-trees
https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/dataset/belfast-trees
https://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/streetTrees.htm
http://dcgis.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fea6079cf9bc4310a8b6c94f8c2bf1da
https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/philadelphia-street-tree-inventory
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/trees
https://www.cambridgema.gov/GIS/gisdatadictionary/Environmental/ENVIRONMENTAL_StreetTrees
https://data-cityofmadison.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/street-trees
https://data.providenceri.gov/Neighborhoods/Providence-Tree-Inventory/uv9w-h8i4/data
https://data.sfgov.org/City-Infrastructure/Street-Tree-List/tkzw-k3nq
https://data.oaklandnet.com/Environmental/Oakland-Street-Trees/4jcx-enxf
https://data.cityofberkeley.info/Natural-Resources/City-Trees/9t35-jmin/data
https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/treescount
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-11-16-edition | https://twitter.com/vb_jens/status/909600422213455872
https://twitter.com/SunlightCities/status/992429816237510660
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/8vsf32/a_treasure_trove_of_geospatial_datasets_for_the/ | -0.463733 | 0.244497 | 2,513 | 10,146 | 52 | -1 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
590 | 2018.08.15 | 1 | Peer-to-peer loans. | The Lending Club, which matches borrowers with investors, publishes a dataset of all loans issued through its platform since 2007. The dataset’s many fields include each loan’s amount, term, interest rate, grade, status, and purpose (as a category, and often also a fuller description), as well as the borrower’s employer, home ownership status, and annual income. You can also download all declined loans, i.e., those “that did not meet Lending Club's credit underwriting policy.” [h/t Charlie Stanton] | https://www.lendingclub.com/info/download-data.action | null | 0.166094 | -0.166589 | 1,701 | 6,858 | 62 | 62 | Government Financial Data | false |
591 | 2018.08.15 | 2 | Rocket launches. | SpaceX’s API provides data on the company’s rockets, launchpads, launches, and more. It also will tell you the current orbital position of the car SpaceX launched into space. [h/t Mike Allred] | https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/rocket.md
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/launchpad.md
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/launches.md
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/home.md
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/roadster.md
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster | https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/d684931d8e984ea878c6c5413fd606a51685e774 | 0.389933 | 0.877328 | 3,884 | 15,448 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
592 | 2018.08.15 | 3 | Sneaker factories. | Nike, Inc.’s manufacturing map displays 618 factories and material suppliers that the company uses to manufacture its products (as of May 2018). You can export the entire dataset, or browse and filter the data online. For each of the factories, the information includes the factory’s name, address, product type, number of workers, percentage of workers who are female, and more. [h/t Marc DaCosta] | http://manufacturingmap.nikeinc.com/ | http://marcdacosta.com/ | 0.042929 | 0.413625 | 2,913 | 11,586 | 44 | -1 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
593 | 2018.08.15 | 4 | Retail stores and products. | Best Buy’s API and Walmart’s API both let you search their products and stores. Both also require (free) registration to obtain an API key. In 2016, Best Buy also published bulk data describing its products and stores. [h/t Dan Nguyen + Dave Machado] | https://bestbuyapis.github.io/api-documentation/
https://developer.walmartlabs.com/docs
https://github.com/BestBuyAPIs/open-data-set | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5m9z0c/best_buys_developer_api_extremely_welldocumented/
https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/fa2dc74ccd4e91c1b8c90f3918c83a3a274aa734 | 0.593754 | 0.03672 | 2,163 | 8,550 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
594 | 2018.08.15 | 5 | Financial statements. | The SEC’s Office of Structured Disclosure publishes data extracted from corporations’ public financial statements. That dataset contains the numbers listed in each company’s primary financial statements — balance sheets, cash flows, et cetera. An even more detailed version of the dataset includes plain-text notes from the filings, plus numbers from a broader array of forms. Both datasets are updated quarterly and go back to 2009. | https://www.sec.gov/structureddata
https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/financial-statement-data-sets.html
https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/financial-statement-and-notes-data-set.html | null | 0.234902 | -0.11999 | 1,831 | 7,247 | 62 | 62 | Government Financial Data | false |
595 | 2018.08.22 | 1 | Political ads online. | Google recently launched a database of political ads “that have appeared on Google and partner properties.” The searchable and downloadable dataset indicates the organization that paid for each advertisement, approximately how much they spent, how long the ad ran, what demographics were used for targeting, and roughly how many people it reached. A few months ago, Facebook launched a similar initiative, but you need to logged in to view it and you can’t download the data. You can, however, get Facebook political-advertising data from at least two sources: A repository of 267,000 ads scraped from Facebook’s official archive by NYU researchers, and ProPublica’s ongoing, detailed database of ads and targeting parameters gathered through their Political Ad Collector. [h/t Sheera Frenkel] | https://transparencyreport.google.com/political-ads/library
https://www.facebook.com/ads/archive/?active_status=all&ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&country=US
https://github.com/online-pol-ads/FBPoliticalAds
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/political-advertisements-from-facebook
https://projects.propublica.org/facebook-ads/ | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/technology/political-ads-facebook-trump.html | 0.766807 | 0.04024 | 2,168 | 8,561 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
596 | 2018.08.22 | 2 | Healthcare service in Africa. | The African Economic Research Consortium, African Development Bank, and the World Bank have partnered to create the Service Delivery Indicators program — ”a new Africa-wide initiative” that dispatches teams of surveyors “to gauge the quality of service delivery in basic health services” across the continent. The initiative’s de-identified data contains results for nine countries so far, including assessments of facility infrastructure, worker absenteeism, and patient case simulations. [h/t Matthew Collin] | https://worldbank.github.io/SDI-Health/
https://github.com/worldbank/SDI-Health | https://twitter.com/aidthoughts | -0.062554 | -0.068172 | 1,885 | 7,611 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
597 | 2018.08.22 | 3 | Natural disaster satellite imagery. | DigitalGlobe’s open data program publishes georeferenced satellite imagery from before and after major natural disasters. The archive currently includes a couple dozen events, including recent flooding in Kerala and California’s Carr Wildfire and Mendocino Complex Fire. Previously: NOAA's emergency response aerial imagery (DIP 2017.09.20). [h/t Laura Noren and Brad Stenger] | https://www.digitalglobe.com/opendata
https://www.digitalglobe.com/opendata/all-events
http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/open-data-for-flooding-in-kerala-state-india/
http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/open-data-for-the-carr-wildfire/
http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/open-data-for-the-mendocino-complex-fire/
https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-09-20-edition | https://cds.nyu.edu/newsletter/ | -0.709873 | 0.870599 | 3,785 | 15,250 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
598 | 2018.08.22 | 4 | Half a century of opinions. | The University of North Carolina’s Louis Harris Data Center serves as “the national depository for publicly available survey data collected by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc.” The online depository contains more than 1,000 Harris polls, some from as early 1958. In total, they include “160,000 questions asked of more than 1,200,000 respondents.” [h/t Xan Gregg] | https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/harris | https://twitter.com/xangregg | 0.17328 | -0.018837 | 2,021 | 8,011 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
599 | 2018.08.22 | 5 | Jeans pockets. | Jan Diehm and Amber Thomas measured the pockets of 80 pairs of jeans — four pairs each from 20 brands, half marketed to men and the other half to women. Their findings “confirmed what every woman already knows to be true: women’s pockets are ridiculous.” In fact, “on average, the pockets in women’s jeans are 48% shorter and 6.5% narrower than men’s pockets.” For each pair of jeans, the duo’s underlying dataset contains the front and back pocket dimensions, material composition, retail price, and more. | https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/pockets | null | -0.005451 | -0.173853 | 1,695 | 6,719 | 68 | -1 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
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