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600 | 2018.09.12 | 1 | Power outages. | Utility companies are required to report major power outages and other “electric disturbance events” to the Department of Energy within a business day (or, depending on the type of event, sooner) of the incident. The federal agency then aggregates the reports annual summary datasets. For each event, the data includes the time it began and was resolved, the geographic areas it affected, the type of incident, and the estimated number of customers affected. [h/t Jordan Wirfs-Brock] | https://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/oe417.aspx
https://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/OE417_annual_summary.aspx | http://insideenergy.org/2014/08/18/data-explore-15-years-of-power-outages/ | -0.991891 | 0.445595 | 2,944 | 11,776 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
601 | 2018.09.12 | 2 | Deaths in Puerto Rico. | Last month, Puerto Rico’s government began publishing a dataset of all deaths registered in the U.S. territory from January 2017, updated weekly. For each death, the information includes the year and month of the death; the type and causes of death; the deceased’s age, sex, marital status, occupation, place of birth and residence, and more. Related: “More Than 2,000 Puerto Ricans Applied For Funeral Assistance After Hurricane Maria. FEMA Approved Just 75.” [h/t Giancarlo Gonzalez] | https://datos.estadisticas.pr/dataset/defunciones
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/puerto-rico-hurricane-funeral-assistance-fema | https://twitter.com/giangonz/status/1035956181230071809 | -0.148611 | -0.7652 | 475 | 1,974 | 15 | 15 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
602 | 2018.09.12 | 3 | Parking tickets in Chicago. | “For the first time, the city’s database, which tracks more than 28 million parking and vehicle compliance tickets, is easily available to the public,” according to ProPublica Illinois, which has published the two-gigabyte dataset in collaboration with WBEZ. The dataset, which covers January 2007 to mid-May 2018, “includes information on when, where, and by whom tickets were issued; de-identified license plates; vehicle make; registration zip code; the violation for which the vehicle was cited; the payment status and more.” | https://www.propublica.org/nerds/download-chicago-parking-ticket-data
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/chicago-parking-ticket-data | null | -0.479922 | -0.025018 | 2,000 | 7,969 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
603 | 2018.09.12 | 4 | Neighborhood boundaries. | Zillow has created a dataset outlining the boundaries of more than 17,000 neighborhoods in the United States’ largest cities, spanning 49 states (all but Wyoming) plus D.C. and Puerto Rico. Related: OpenStreetMap, which is API-queryable, has a “neighbourhood” tag type. [h/t Volodymyr Kupriyanov] | https://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Databases_and_data_access_APIs
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dneighbourhood | https://twitter.com/v_kupriyanov/status/977108035003969536 | -0.370563 | 0.199384 | 2,452 | 9,768 | 51 | 51 | Surveillance and Mapping Data | false |
604 | 2018.09.12 | 5 | Breweries. | Open Brewery DB is a searchable database of more than 8,000 breweries in the United States (although “future plans are to import world-wide data”). The site provides an API, which lets you query by name, location, and type — microbrewery, regional brewery, brewpub, and so on. Previously: Official brewery statistics (DIP 2017.05.24). [h/t Chris Mears] | https://www.openbrewerydb.org/
https://www.ttb.gov/beer/beer-stats.shtml
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-24-edition | https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/5777659c8e8a43437179c1cbc985a7a06d997c51 | -0.001591 | 0.440999 | 2,975 | 11,839 | 44 | 44 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
605 | 2018.09.19 | 1 | Parties and parliaments. | ParlGov, “a data infrastructure for political science,” has collected detailed information on 1,500+ political parties, the results of 900+ elections, and the formation of 1,400+ parliamentary cabinets. The 37 countries it covers include every member of the European Union plus certain non-EU members of the OECD (such as Israel, Turkey, and Canada — but not the United States). The datasets are available in several formats, can be explored online, and come with extensive documentation. [h/t Jovi Juan] | http://www.parlgov.org/
http://www.parlgov.org/data/table/view_party/
http://www.parlgov.org/data/table/view_election/
http://www.parlgov.org/data/table/view_cabinet/
http://www.parlgov.org/explore/ | https://twitter.com/DaoOfJ | 0.771986 | -0.352952 | 1,336 | 5,361 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
606 | 2018.09.19 | 2 | Home energy consumption. | For many decades, the Department of Energy’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey has been asking people about their homes’ energy-related characteristics (e.g., number of bedrooms and roofing materials) and energy-consuming appliances (e.g., television size and dishwasher use). Then, the agency cross-references those answers with billing data collected “directly from energy suppliers under a mandatory authority granted by Congress.” The survey has been conducted 14 times since 1978; survey microdata is available for the eight most recent iterations. | https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/
https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2015/index.php?view=microdata | null | -0.975158 | 0.403764 | 2,816 | 11,393 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
607 | 2018.09.19 | 3 | Open-access scholarship. | Unpaywall has collected data on millions of open-access scholarly articles, plus many more paywalled articles. You can download the full dataset, or submit specific Digital Object Identifiers to the website’s API or online form. For each article, you can learn whether it’s openly accessible, whether the journal that published it is open-access, and additional details about the article itself. [h/t @authcontroller] | http://unpaywall.org/
http://unpaywall.org/products/snapshot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
http://unpaywall.org/products/api
http://unpaywall.org/products/simple-query-tool | https://twitter.com/authcontroller/status/1029919541860560896 | 0.563972 | 0.135279 | 2,354 | 9,316 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
608 | 2018.09.19 | 4 | U.S. citizens’ deaths overseas. | The U.S. Department of State publishes, “to the maximum extent practicable,” a database of “each United States citizen who dies in a foreign country from a non-natural cause.” The database currently contains 13,045 deaths, starting in October 2002, and is updated every six months. For each incident, the database provides the date, city, and cause of death. [h/t Jacquelyn Elias] | https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/while-abroad/death-abroad1/death-statistics.html | https://twitter.com/JacquieEli/status/1039884713933119493 | -0.103143 | -0.785437 | 412 | 1,721 | 15 | -1 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
609 | 2018.09.19 | 5 | New York real estate brokers. | New York State’s Department of State publishes a structured listing of all real estate brokers, salespeople, and offices currently licensed by the agency. Roughly half of the 160,000 licensees are registered to business addresses in New York City. The ZIP code with the largest raw number of active licenses is 10022, a chunk of Midtown East that includes (among other things) the Waldorf Astoria and Trump Tower. | https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Active-Real-Estate-Salespersons-and-Brokers/yg7h-zjbf | null | -0.400967 | 0.083005 | 2,195 | 8,870 | 48 | -1 | New York City Housing Data | false |
610 | 2018.09.26 | 1 | Urban archaeology. | When Amsterdam began excavating parts of the Amstel River in 2003 to construct a new metro line, the city gave archaeologists access to two large sections of the riverbed. Over time, these archaeologists unearthed “a deluge of finds, some 700,000 in all: a vast array of objects, some broken, some whole, all jumbled together.” To showcase the work, the city has published Below the Surface, a website that lets you explore the 20,000 of the objects online, download detailed data on more than 130,000 of the artifacts, read the backstory, and watch a documentary about it. Among the discoveries: Thousands of tobacco pipes, hundreds of teapots, dozens of gin bottles, and one “miniature wind mill.” [h/t Adam J Calhoun + Manoj Mallela] | https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/pagina/de-opgravingen-0
https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en
https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten
https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/pagina/publicaties-en-datasets
https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/pagina/de-opgravingen-index
https://vimeo.com/274460486 | https://twitter.com/neuroecology/status/1012336008459882497
https://twitter.com/mallelatweets/status/1012495477403803648 | 0.052224 | 0.50466 | 3,105 | 12,355 | 44 | 44 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
611 | 2018.09.26 | 2 | Local lobbying. | Some cities — including San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin — provide downloadable databases of lobbyists who’ve officially registered to influence their administrations. Chicago has gone one step further, publishing data on lobbyists’ compensation, expenditures, gifts, and more. Previously: Lobbying data from the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and European Union (DIP 2017.05.31 + DIP 2017.08.02). [h/t Alisha Green and Laurenellen McCann] | https://sfethics.org/disclosures/lobbyist-disclosure
https://data.lacity.org/A-Well-Run-City/Registered-City-Lobbyists/j4zm-9kqu
https://data.austintexas.gov/City-Government/Lobbyists-Master-List-of-Lobbyists-Oracle-View-/96z6-upac
https://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/improved-lobbyist-data/
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Ethics/Lobbyist-Data-Compensation/dw2f-w78u
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Ethics/Lobbyist-Data-Expenditures-Large/xika-473c
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Ethics/Lobbyist-Data-Gifts/5d79-9xqr
http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldsearch.aspx
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/LDA_reports.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do?redir=false&locale=en
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-31-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-02-edition | https://sunlightfoundation.com/2013/04/04/the-landscape-of-municipal-lobbying-data/ | 0.764712 | -0.193605 | 1,656 | 6,640 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
612 | 2018.09.26 | 3 | Family life. | The National Survey of Family Growth, run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “gathers information on family life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men’s and women’s health.” Versions of the survey have been conducted nine times, dating back to 1973. The most recent results come from interviews of more than 10,205 people between September 2013 and September 2015. Related: The Pudding’s Amber Thomas used the data to explore trends in birth control. Bonus: Thomas also published the code and data behind her analysis. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/about_nsfg.htm
https://amber.rbind.io/
https://pudding.cool/2018/07/birth_control/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/birth-control | https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=4553ae1b07 | -0.137075 | -0.297412 | 1,435 | 5,687 | 65 | 65 | Labor and Employment Surveys | false |
613 | 2018.09.26 | 4 | Social assistance programs. | The Social Assistance, Politics and Institutions database, developed at an United Nations University research center, “provides a synthesis of longitudinal and harmonized comparable information on social assistance programmes in developing countries, covering the period 2000-2015.” For each program, such as Brazil’s “Bolsa Familia,” the database describes its basic characteristics, budget and financing, and population coverage. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen] | https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/sapi-social-assistance-politics-and-institutions-database | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData | 0.312772 | -0.338976 | 1,386 | 5,460 | 18 | -1 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
614 | 2018.09.26 | 5 | Avocado prices. | The Hass Avocado Board publishes weekly data on the retail volume and average price of Hass avocados sold in the United States, based on information collected “directly from retailers’ cash registers.” The data is available at the national and city level going back to 2015, distinguishes between conventional and organic avocados of various sizes. Related: Justin Kiggins has aggregated the historical spreadsheets for 2015 through March 2018 into a single file. | http://www.hassavocadoboard.com/retail/volume-and-price-data
http://www.justinkiggins.com/
https://www.kaggle.com/neuromusic/avocado-prices | null | -0.193148 | 0.177857 | 2,393 | 9,651 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
615 | 2018.10.03 | 1 | Critical habitats. | The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service publishes a database outlining the critical habitats for more than 700 threatened and endangered species. For each habitat, the dataset provides its geographic boundary lines, the species’ name and type, the size of the habitat, the date it was declared critical, and more. Related: Other geospatial datasets from the USFWS, including those on the Coastal Barrier Resources System and migratory bird populations. | https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/table/critical-habitat.html
https://www.fws.gov/gis/data/national/
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/boundaries-of-the-john-h-chafee-coastal-barrier-resources-system
https://migbirdapps.fws.gov/ | null | -0.331285 | 0.850843 | 3,797 | 15,146 | 4 | 4 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
616 | 2018.10.03 | 2 | European electoral polling. | PollOfPolls.eu aggregates political polls from 30 European countries. The Vienna-based initiative has, for instance, collected and standardized more than 1,000 individual polls on British parliament since 2014, and 60 on the Bavarian state elections. You can download each set of standardized data as either JSON or CSV. [h/t Jovi Juan] | https://pollofpolls.eu/ | https://twitter.com/DaoOfJ | 0.865219 | -0.395603 | 1,275 | 4,983 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
617 | 2018.10.03 | 3 | Car traffic. | The UK Department for Transport’s traffic counts calculate the average daily number of vehicles “for every junction-to-junction link on the 'A' road and motorway network in Great Britain.” Likewise, California publishes the average daily traffic, peak hourly traffic, truck traffic, and ramp traffic for each of its state highways. Previously: U.S. interstate highway traffic (DIP 2016.10.05) and public roads (DIP 2018.04.25) [h/t Dave Fisher-Hickey + u/ron_leflore] | https://www.dft.gov.uk/traffic-counts/index.php
http://www.dot.ca.gov/trafficops/census/
http://metrocosm.com/map-us-traffic/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-10-05-edition
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms/fieldmanual/page01.cfm
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-04-25-edition | https://www.kaggle.com/daveianhickey/2000-16-traffic-flow-england-scotland-wales
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/9j4y09/can_anyone_provide_me_with_real_time_traffic_data/e6orv72/ | -0.53521 | -0.07855 | 1,870 | 7,453 | 50 | -1 | Urban Transit Data | false |
618 | 2018.10.03 | 4 | Bike traffic. | A slew of cities have installed devices to count bicycles that pass through major routes. At least several publish hourly or daily tallies: London, Ottawa, Edinburgh, Seattle, Cambridge, Mass., and the Washington, DC area. New York City provides daily counter-tallies for its East River bridges, but currently only as PDFs. Related: "[Transport for London]’s cycle counter data: initial thoughts" and “What we can learn from Seattle’s bike-counter data.” [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | http://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/
http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/bicycle-trip-counters-automated
https://data.edinburghopendata.info/dataset/bike-counter-data-set-cluster
http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/bike-program/bike-counters
https://data.cambridgema.gov/dataset/Eco-Totem-Broadway-Bicycle-Count/q8v9-mcfg
http://counters.bikearlington.com/
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bike-counts.shtml
https://lastnotlost.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/counterdata/
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/what-we-can-learn-from-seattles-bike-counter-data/ | https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=e072aa9980 | -0.531438 | 0.076879 | 2,190 | 8,733 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
619 | 2018.10.03 | 5 | Florida’s billboards. | The Florida Department of Transportation publishes its inventory of active permits for billboards and other “outdoor advertising.” For each permit, the dataset provides details about the permit-holder and the structure itself — such as its location, height, whether it’s in a city, and more. [h/t Caitlin Ostroff] | http://fdotewp1.dot.state.fl.us/rightofway/DownloadData.aspx | https://twitter.com/ceostroff | -0.439396 | 0.083912 | 2,193 | 8,867 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
620 | 2018.10.10 | 1 | Public health policy. | LawAtlas.org publishes interactive maps that detail state and federal regulations on dozens of public health–related topics. Among them: e-cigarettes, HIV criminalization, fair housing, syringe distribution, and cell phone use while driving. (You can, for instance, use the e-cigarette map to identify all states where vaping is allowed in hotel rooms but prohibited in public parks.) You can download the underlying data, plus documentation about how the laws were categorized. Bonus: The website, run by Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research, will also teach you how to map laws yourself. Previously: The Correlates of State Policy Project (DIP 2016.07.06). | http://lawatlas.org/
http://lawatlas.org/topics
http://lawatlas.org/datasets/electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems
http://lawatlas.org/datasets/hiv-criminalization-statutes
http://lawatlas.org/datasets/state-fair-housing-protections-1498143743
http://lawatlas.org/datasets/syringe-policies-laws-regulating-non-retail-distribution-of-drug-parapherna
http://lawatlas.org/datasets/distracted-driving-1470663668
http://lawatlas.org/page/lawatlas-learning-library
http://ippsr.msu.edu/public-policy/correlates-state-policy
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-06-edition | null | -0.355596 | -0.30223 | 1,428 | 5,673 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
621 | 2018.10.10 | 2 | English health indicators. | England’s public health department generates quantitative “profiles” of the country’s well-being. The metrics include rates of HPV vaccination, dementia, exercise, diabetes, and much more. The results can be downloaded directly, and also accessed via an API. [h/t Sharon Machlis] | https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/child-health-profiles/data#page/1/gid/1938133237
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile-group/mental-health/profile/dementia/data#page/0
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/physical-activity/data#page/0
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/diabetes-ft/data#page/0
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/api | https://twitter.com/sharon000 | -0.266927 | -0.594099 | 791 | 3,246 | 14 | -1 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
622 | 2018.10.10 | 3 | Public holidays. | Nager.Date calculates the timing — past, present, and future — of public holidays for more than 90 countries. The holidays can be browsed online, accessed via an API, or downloaded as CSVs (one per country per year). Now you know: Today is Cuba’s Día de la Independencia and Suriname’s Day of the Maroons. [h/t Tino Hager] | https://date.nager.at/
https://date.nager.at/Home/Countries
https://date.nager.at/Home/Api
https://date.nager.at/PublicHoliday/Country/CU/2018
https://date.nager.at/PublicHoliday/Country/SR/2018 | https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/e2b1439b77c59e198db04566139cd3783fc41960 | 0.032931 | 0.183008 | 2,401 | 9,666 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
623 | 2018.10.10 | 4 | Medical marijuana in the Nutmeg State. | Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection has released a dataset listing all branded medical marijuana products registered with the state. For each of the nearly 4,000 products so far, the dataset describes the producer, brand name, form of dosage, and chemical potencies — plus links to images of each product and label. [h/t Kristin Hussey] | https://data.ct.gov/Health-and-Human-Services/Medical-Marijuana-Brand-Registry/egd5-wb6r/data | https://twitter.com/kristinhussey1 | -0.467147 | -0.400831 | 1,233 | 4,898 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
624 | 2018.10.10 | 5 | Parking meters in the five boroughs. | New York City provides the latitude, longitude, ID number, and current status — active, inactive, retired, planned, and removed — of more than 14,700 parking meters. [h/t Zack Quaintance] | https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Parking-Meters-GPS-Coordinates-and-Status/5jsj-cq4s | http://www.govtech.com/civic/Whats-New-in-Civic-Tech-New-York-City-Releases-Its-Annual-Data-Report.html | -0.446528 | 0.118797 | 2,257 | 9,123 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
625 | 2018.10.31 | 1 | Bridges. | The Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory contains detailed data on more than 600,000 “highway bridges” in the United States. The inventory goes back to 1992 and contains scores of fields, including the bridge’s age, condition, design, and materials. Now you know: Texas has the most highway bridges in the inventory, with more than 53,800. Bonus: You can also search the bridges via the unofficial BridgeReports.com. Related: The code the Baltimore Sun used to answer the question, “How safe are Maryland's bridges?” [h/t Christine Zhang] | https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi.cfm
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/ascii.cfm
https://bridgereports.com/
https://github.com/baltimore-sun-data/bridge-data
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bridge-collapse-maryland-20180815-story.html | https://twitter.com/christinezhang | -0.540025 | -0.05381 | 1,934 | 7,709 | 50 | -1 | Urban Transit Data | false |
626 | 2018.10.31 | 2 | Foreign influence campaigns on Twitter. | Earlier this month, Twitter released data on the public activity of “3,841 accounts affiliated with the [Internet Research Agency], originating in Russia, and 770 other accounts, potentially originating in Iran.” Together, the datasets “include more than 10 million Tweets and more than 2 million images, GIFs, videos, and Periscope broadcasts.” Related: My colleague Peter Aldhous used this data — combined with data on 3 million “Russian troll tweets” released this summer by Clemson University researchers and FiveThirtyEight — to examine the Internet Research Agency’s traction before and after the 2016 election. Bonus: Peter’s code. | https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/enabling-further-research-of-information-operations-on-twitter.html
https://about.twitter.com/en_us/values/elections-integrity.html#data
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-were-sharing-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/russia-online-trolls-viral-strategy
https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2018-10-russian-troll-tweets/ | null | 0.721253 | 0.057253 | 2,167 | 8,686 | 58 | -1 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
627 | 2018.10.31 | 3 | Electric utilities. | The U.S. Energy Information Administration uses Form EIA-861 to collect annual data from thousands of electric utilities about their sales, revenue, peak loads, customer counts, energy efficiency savings, and more. More than 3,400 utilities submitted the form (or its shorter cousin, EIA-861S) for 2017, and the data go back to 1990. [h/t Jordan Wirfs-Brock] | https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/ | http://www.jordanwb.com/ | -1 | 0.424216 | 2,880 | 11,648 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
628 | 2018.10.31 | 4 | Coal cleanup funds. | What happens when coal mines shut down? Money for their cleanup is supposed to be ensured by a system of bonds. But when Climate Home News’ Mark Olalde investigated these remediation funds, he found “a system incapable of dealing with large-scale bankruptcies, amid a declining industry, which severely threatens the environment and future of coal-mining communities across the country.” You can download the data behind Olalde’s findings — including bond databases covering the “23 states that produce 99% of US coal,” obtained via public records requests. [h/t Megan Darby] | http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/15/investigated-coal-industrys-clean-funds/
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/14/us-coal-hasnt-set-aside-enough-money-clean-mines/
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/15/us-coal-mines-clean-up-bonds-database/ | https://twitter.com/climatemegan | -0.728848 | 0.341806 | 2,696 | 10,897 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
629 | 2018.10.31 | 5 | Probably-fake political committees. | When the Federal Election Commission receives a registration form that contains “questionable information” from a candidate or committee, the agency asks for additional information. If the FEC doesn’t get a proper response, it adds the registration to its dataset of “unverified filers”. Among the 500+ registrations currently on the list: “VoldemortCantStopTheVote.org”, “Department of Treasury,” “Wookie PAC,” and “Al Pacino.” [h/t Chris Zubak-Skees] | https://www.fec.gov/data/advanced/?tab=filings | https://twitter.com/zubakskees | 0.880647 | -0.13726 | 1,788 | 7,160 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
630 | 2018.11.07 | 1 | Court decisions. | The Caselaw Access Project aims “to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library.” Currently, the project provides an API for fetching data on more than 6 million cases published between 1658 and 2018 — though public access is limited to downloading 500 cases per day. You can also download bulk data for all cases in Illinois and Arkansas, but getting bulk data for other states currently requires a research agreement. [h/t Caitlin Ostroff] | https://case.law/about/
https://case.law/api/
https://case.law/about/#usage
https://case.law/bulk/ | https://twitter.com/ceostroff/status/1056983328711196673 | 0.745965 | -0.623374 | 823 | 3,183 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
631 | 2018.11.07 | 2 | Foreign gifts to U.S. universities. | The Department of Education requires U.S. universities to report all major gifts from (and contracts with) foreign entities. The agency’s database of these gifts and contracts currently covers 2012 to mid-2018, and includes 18,000+ entries from more than 150 schools. Related: In the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, the AP’s Collin Binkley and Chad Day used the data to examine colleges’ financial ties to Saudi Arabia. [h/t Meghan Hoyer] | https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/data-center/school/foreign-gifts
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/foreign-gifts-and-contracts-report-2011
https://www.apnews.com/4d56411af6a8490e8030eacab4401571 | https://twitter.com/MeghanHoyer | 0.178656 | -0.33249 | 1,381 | 5,451 | 69 | -1 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
632 | 2018.11.07 | 3 | European protests, 1980 to 1995. | A team led by University of Kansas professor Ron Francisco has collected and codified data on protests, strikes, and other “coercive acts” in dozens of European countries during the late 20th century. There’s a row for each day of each protest, and each row specifies the issue at stake, the organizers, their target, the type of action, and the location — as well as the number of protesters, arrests, injuries, and deaths. [h/t Alexandre Léchenet] | http://web.ku.edu/~ronfrand/index.html
http://web.ku.edu/~ronfrand/data/index.html | http://alphoenix.net/ | 0.342021 | -0.626251 | 746 | 3,029 | 11 | 11 | Protest and Violence Data | false |
633 | 2018.11.07 | 4 | To swerve or not to swerve. | A recent study revealed the results of “the Moral Machine, an online experimental platform designed to explore the moral dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles.” The experiment asked participants to decide whether a self-driving car — faced with two deadly options — should stay on course (killing one group of pedestrians) or swerve (killing another). The project “gathered 40 million decisions in ten languages from millions of people in 233 countries and territories,” and a dataset containing every decision is available to download. Read more: “Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.” [h/t Walt Hickey] | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0637-6
https://osf.io/3hvt2/?view_only=4bb49492edee4a8eb1758552a362a2cf
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612341/a-global-ethics-study-aims-to-help-ai-solve-the-self-driving-trolley-problem/ | https://numlock.substack.com/p/numlock-news-october-26-2018 | 0.23905 | -0.396522 | 1,255 | 4,943 | 18 | 18 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
634 | 2018.11.07 | 5 | All things Star Trek. | STAPI bills itself as “the first public Star Trek API.” It provides access to structured data not only about the fictional universe (e.g., 6,364 characters, 1,215 spacecraft, and 155 conflicts) but also its intersection with reality (e.g., 5,302 performers, 731 television episodes, 76 soundtracks). [h/t Cezary Kluczyński] | http://stapi.co/ | https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/ca9f9d7869351a1653793deabd7c971e063d608d | 0.554476 | 0.84346 | 3,761 | 15,075 | 40 | 40 | Media Franchise APIs | false |
635 | 2018.11.28 | 1 | How high? | The German Aerospace Center is publishing global elevation data derived from its TanDEM-X satellite mission. For five years, two satellites orbited Earth together in a formation that allowed their radars to “ 'see' the same land area, but from slightly different perspectives” and to calculate elevations based on those differences. Although the most detailed versions of the data are “subject to restrictions due to the potential for commercial exploitation, and thus requires a scientific proposal,” the least detailed version (which still clocks in at more than 90 gigabytes) can be downloaded for free. [h/t Matt Brealey] | https://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-30139/year-all/#/gallery/32238
https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/dataguide/tdm90/ | https://twitter.com/badgrenola/status/1049698621413892096 | -0.565576 | 0.929752 | 3,917 | 15,771 | 34 | 34 | Geospatial and Environmental Data | false |
636 | 2018.11.28 | 2 | Word associations. | The Small World of Words project “is a large-scale scientific study that aims to build a mental dictionary or lexicon in the major languages of the world.” The experiment has asked hundreds of thousands of participants to list their immediate associations with various words (such as “telephone,” “journalist,” and “yoga”). In all, the project has collected more than 15 million responses. You can download the data, examine the project’s analysis pipeline, and explore the responses online. [h/t Lewis Mitchell] | https://smallworldofwords.org/en/project
https://smallworldofwords.org/en/project/stats
https://smallworldofwords.org/en/project/research
https://github.com/SimonDeDeyne/SWOWEN-2018
https://smallworldofwords.org/en/project/explore | https://twitter.com/lewis_math/status/1057894391707131904 | 0.819698 | 0.497356 | 3,066 | 12,276 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
637 | 2018.11.28 | 3 | International labor treaties. | Bilateral labor agreements regulate the migration of workers between two countries, and the Bilateral Labor Agreements Dataset aims to catalog as many of these treaties as it can. So far the University of Chicago Law School professors and researchers running the initiative have identified 582 treaties signed between 1945 and 2015. “However, this list is almost certainly underinclusive,” they write. “Many BLAs are not deposited in the major international treaty databases and they often do not receive much, if any, publicity.” [h/t Adam Chilton] | https://www.law.uchicago.edu/bilateral-labor-agreements-dataset | https://twitter.com/adamschilton/status/905943960882962432 | 0.433155 | -0.416304 | 1,197 | 4,827 | 27 | -1 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
638 | 2018.11.28 | 4 | Cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, and ducks. | Last month, an international team of researchers published the third major version of their Gridded Livestock of the World dataset, which estimates the global distribution of cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and ducks. The new dataset is based on 2010 statistics and provides estimates at “a spatial resolution of 0.083333 decimal degrees (approximately 10 km at the equator).” | https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018227#ref7
http://www.fao.org/livestock-systems/global-distributions/en/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/glw_3 | null | -0.268075 | 0.56211 | 3,159 | 12,718 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
639 | 2018.11.28 | 5 | Dog bites. | New York City’s Department of Health publishes a dataset of 8,000+ reported instances of dogs biting humans, mostly from 2015 through 2017. The agency collects the reports “to determine if the biting dog is healthy ten days after the person was bitten in order to avoid having the person bitten receive unnecessary rabies shots.” [h/t Justin Baker] | https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/DOHMH-Dog-Bite-Data/rsgh-akpg | https://twitter.com/AskJustinBaker/status/1030548250623987712 | -0.098056 | 0.773098 | 3,612 | 14,521 | 2 | 2 | Animal Data Collections | false |
640 | 2018.12.05 | 1 | Novel-writing, recorded. | In 2014, author C. M. Taylor began writing a new novel, this time with a twist: He would write the entire story on a laptop intentionally infected with spyware. With the help of the British Library, a program recorded every keystroke Taylor typed and took screenshots every few seconds. The novel, Staying On, was published in October; soon after, Taylor and the library made the spyware recordings available to download. [h/t Dan Hett] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._M._Taylor
https://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2018/11/c-m-taylor-on-keystroke-logging-project-with-british-library.html
https://cmtaylorstory.com/portfolio/staying-on/
https://twitter.com/CMTaylorStory/status/1067066295471038464
https://data.bl.uk/cmtaylorkeylogging/ | https://twitter.com/danhett/status/1067359176131821568 | 0.579322 | 0.363252 | 2,802 | 11,237 | 70 | 70 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
641 | 2018.12.05 | 2 | Body camera usage. | The New Orleans Police Department’s “Body Worn Camera Metadata” contains the dates, times, durations, and locations for 2.7 million body camera recordings, going back to 2014. Related: The agency publishes similar data for 1.5 million in-car camera recordings. [h/t Alexandre Léchenet] | https://data.nola.gov/Public-Safety-and-Preparedness/NOPD-Body-Worn-Camera-Metadata/qarb-kkbj
https://data.nola.gov/Public-Safety-and-Preparedness/NOPD-In-Car-Camera-Metadata/md3v-ph3u | http://lepanierasalade.fr/ | 0.15195 | -0.770055 | 484 | 1,865 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
642 | 2018.12.05 | 3 | UK grants. | The British nonprofit 360Giving helps grantmakers “to publish their grants data in an open, standardised way and helps people to understand and use the data.” Through its GrantNav platform, you can search across more than 300,000 grants — totalling more than £25 billion — given by scores of funders to nearly 180,000 recipients. You can download the results of each search, as well as the underlying datasets. [h/t Enigma Public] | http://www.threesixtygiving.org/
http://grantnav.threesixtygiving.org/
http://grantnav.threesixtygiving.org/datasets/ | https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=04aa10cf99e0998bd8e69a109&id=4a67186166 | 0.295873 | -0.136194 | 1,769 | 7,122 | 61 | 61 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
643 | 2018.12.05 | 4 | Subtitle word frequencies. | SUBTLEXus is a dataset of word frequencies in American English, derived from the subtitles for 8,388 films. The dataset, which covers more than 74,000 words, includes each word’s total frequency, the number of films in which the word appeared, and several other metrics. Bonus: Similar datasets are also available for Chinese and Dutch. [h/t The Language Goldmine] | https://www.ugent.be/pp/experimentele-psychologie/en/research/documents/subtlexus/overview.htm
https://www.ugent.be/pp/experimentele-psychologie/en/research/documents/subtlexch/overview.htm
http://crr.ugent.be/programs-data/subtitle-frequencies/subtlex-nl | http://languagegoldmine.com/ | 0.807701 | 0.512346 | 3,129 | 12,403 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
644 | 2018.12.05 | 5 | Snow plows. | Last month, I Quant NY’s Ben Wellington analyzed New York City’s raw snow plow data, “which had only been viewed 41 times before apparently.” The 250 million–row dataset is, as Wellington notes, “stored in an odd format” — snapshots that indicate, every 15 minutes, the last time each of the city’s street segments was plowed. Related: ClearStreets provides historical data from the City of Chicago’s Plow Tracker; Iowa Department of Transportation also publishes a live plow tracker; Syracuse and Pittsburgh have published historical snow plow data. | http://iquantny.tumblr.com/about
http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/180300705249/data-shows-no-increase-in-nyc-plowing-as-storm
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DSNY-PlowNYC-Data/rmhc-afj9
http://clearstreets.org/data
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/iframe/plow_tracker.html
http://data.iowadot.gov/datasets/20a0c10c06a54240b5f2893e0187e22c_0
http://data.syrgov.net/datasets?t=snowplow
https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/snow-plow-activity-2015-2016 | null | -0.47187 | 0.173235 | 2,384 | 9,633 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
645 | 2018.12.12 | 1 | Bike and pedestrian safety. | A growing number of cities publish detailed data on bicyclist and pedestrian injuries involving cars, including New York City, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, St. Paul, Minn., Chapel Hill, N.C., Tempe, Ariz., Toronto, and London — many through the cities’ “Vision Zero” street-safety initiatives. (Some of the datasets also include car-on-car collisions.) Related: “The most dangerous intersections in Seattle for bicyclists and pedestrians.” [h/t Rachel Schallom + Jeff Asher] | http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/vz_datafeeds.shtml
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Traffic-Crashes-Crashes/85ca-t3if
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/vision-zero-crash-records
https://data.seattle.gov/Transportation/Collisions/vac5-r8kk
https://information.stpaul.gov/Public-Safety/Pedestrian-And-Bike-Crash-Data-Dataset/bw92-5h94
https://www.chapelhillopendata.org/explore/?sort=modified&q=crashes
https://data.tempe.gov/dataset/high-severity-traffic-crashes-1-08
http://opendata-torontops.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/55d5b9f7af7d4710bc98743b2c005f02_0
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/road-safety
https://visionzeronetwork.org/resources/vision-zero-cities/
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/the-most-dangerous-intersections-in-seattle-for-bicyclists-and-pedestrians/ | http://www.rachelschallom.com/
https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/862709032515194880 | -0.52114 | 0.006484 | 2,063 | 8,222 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
646 | 2018.12.12 | 2 | Computer vulnerabilities. | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures is a downloadable list of more than 110,000 “publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities.” Each vulnerability is assigned a unique identifier (e.g., CVE-2014-0160) and given a description. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database takes the list and adds more information for each entry, “such as fix information, severity scores, and impact ratings.” That database is available in a variety of bulk downloads and data feeds; you can also search it online. [h/t GitHub user "nanoseconds"] | https://cve.mitre.org/
https://cve.mitre.org/data/downloads/index.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0160
https://nvd.nist.gov/
https://cve.mitre.org/about/cve_and_nvd_relationship.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/data-feeds
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search | https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/5bed75a1ea9fb3df6cc03101bc0441acd00f0273 | 0.552972 | 0.038375 | 2,161 | 8,547 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
647 | 2018.12.12 | 3 | Sunniness. | The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s solar datasets measure the average annual and monthly “total solar resource” for the United States, broken down by state, county, ZIP code, and roughly-10-square-kilometer chunks of the country. Bonus: More sun-radiation datasets via this Stack Overflow answer. [h/t Joe Hourclé] | https://www.nrel.gov/gis/data-solar.html
https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/1064/api-for-sun-radiation-illuminance-data/1065#1065 | https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/263/joe | -0.906969 | 0.510005 | 3,074 | 12,293 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
648 | 2018.12.12 | 4 | German political speeches. | Academic researcher Adrien Barbaresi has compiled a corpus of thousands of speeches from the the German Presidency, Presidency of the Bundestag, Chancellery, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The corpus, now in its third version, was first released in 2011. [h/t Adrien Barbaresi] | http://adrien.barbaresi.eu/
http://adrien.barbaresi.eu/corpora/speeches/ | https://github.com/awesomedata/apd-core/blob/4955130a8898b4d5ace0e699bc1506b3be75b659/core/NaturalLanguage/German-Political-Speeches-Corpus.yml | 0.759669 | -0.340107 | 1,400 | 5,488 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
649 | 2018.12.12 | 5 | Boy bands. | The Pudding’s Internet Boy Band Database is “an audio-visual history of every boy band to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1980.” You can download the underlying data, which is stored in two files: boys.csv and bands.csv. | https://pudding.cool/2018/11/boy-bands/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/boybands | null | 0.399304 | 0.75422 | 3,628 | 14,425 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
650 | 2018.12.19 | 1 | Life expectancy by Census tract. | The CDC’s Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project calculates how long someone, born in a given Census tract in 2010–15, might expect to live. The estimates are based on a combination of death records, Census population data, and statistical modeling. Related: “Map: What story does your neighborhood’s life expectancy tell?” (Quartz). Previously: Life expectancy by income, gender, and city (DIP 2016.04.13), and by country (DIP 2017.02.08). [h/t Dan Kopf] | https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/usaleep/usaleep.html
https://qz.com/1462111/map-what-story-does-your-neighborhoods-life-expectancy-tell/
https://healthinequality.org/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-02-08-edition
https://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/situation_trends/en/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-02-08-edition | https://twitter.com/dkopf/status/1073270528964608000 | -0.180538 | -0.670461 | 666 | 2,740 | 15 | 15 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
651 | 2018.12.19 | 2 | Global debt. | The International Monetary Fund’s Global Debt Database brings together “total gross debt” numbers for 190 countries, for the years 1950 to 2017. The database features a detailed methodology and includes indicators of government, household, and corporate debt. | https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets/GDD
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2018/05/14/Global-Debt-Database-Methodology-and-Sources-45838 | null | 0.041209 | 0.028025 | 2,081 | 8,386 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
652 | 2018.12.19 | 3 | Philly property transactions. | Philadelphia’s Department of Records has begun publishing a dataset of all real estate transfers recorded since late 1999. The 3.7 million records include deeds, mortgages, condo declarations, and a few other types of documents. The deed data includes each property’s fair market value, address, grantor and grantee names, various taxes, and more. Bonus: An interactive visualization of the data. Previously: UK property sales (DIP 2016.03.23). [h/t Michael McLaughlin] | https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/real-estate-transfers
https://data.phila.gov/visualizations/real-estate-transfers
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/price-paid-data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-03-23-edition | https://www.datainnovation.org/2018/11/tracking-property-transactions-in-philadelphia/ | -0.169432 | 0.105548 | 2,266 | 9,013 | 54 | 54 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
653 | 2018.12.19 | 4 | How much alcohol? | Open Units is a dataset detailing the total amount of alcohol in 1,000+ beer and cider offerings, “based on information made public by drinks manufacturers, distributors and retailers.” For instance, a 355-mL bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale contains 20 mL of alcohol, the same as a pint of Bud Light. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://www.getthedata.com/open-units | https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=ac77ad17f9 | -0.059215 | 0.395402 | 2,846 | 11,452 | 43 | 43 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
654 | 2018.12.19 | 5 | A lot of insect eggs. | A team of evolutionary biologists has compiled a dataset describing the size and shape of eggs laid by more than 6,700 insect species. You can explore and download the underlying data, which is based on measurements from 1,756 published sources. [h/t Cassandra Extavour] | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/11/19/471953
https://shchurch.github.io/dataviz/index.html
https://github.com/shchurch/insect_egg_database_viz/tree/master/data
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/suppl/2018/11/19/471953.DC1/471953-1.pdf | https://twitter.com/redmakeda/status/1064708154276089856 | -0.187605 | 0.949762 | 3,993 | 15,923 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
655 | 2019.01.02 | 1 | Local incarceration, 1970–2015. | The Vera Institute of Justice’s recently-expanded Incarceration Trends project combines data from a range of government reports — such as the Census of Jails and the National Corrections Reporting Program — into a single, longitudinal, well-documented dataset. For each county and year, the dataset tallies the number of people admitted to jails and prisons, the average daily incarcerated jail and prison population, and other related details. Many of the counts are also broken down by race, ethnicity, and sex. Bonus: The institute’s interactive map of the data. [h/t Chris Henrichson + Sam Petulla] | https://www.vera.org/blog/expanding-our-knowledge-on-local-incarceration-trends
https://github.com/vera-institute/incarceration_trends
http://trends.vera.org/incarceration-rates | https://twitter.com/chenrichson/status/1073642842566918145
https://twitter.com/spetulla | 0.009566 | -0.972357 | 32 | 192 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
656 | 2019.01.02 | 2 | Hourly pedestrians. | Melbourne, Australia, has placed dozens of pedestrian-counting sensors across the city, and publishes a dataset of the hourly observations going back to 2009. Now you know: Among the 2.5 million entries so far, the highest count has been the 12,289 pedestrians at the Bourke Street pedestrian bridge between 6pm and 7pm on Friday, October 26, 2018. Bonus: Melbourne’s interactive map of the data. Related: Pedestrian counts from the Brooklyn Bridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. | https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Transport-Movement/Pedestrian-volume-updated-monthly-/b2ak-trbp
https://mapio.net/pic/p-36548659/
http://www.pedestrian.melbourne.vic.gov.au/
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Brooklyn-Bridge-Automated-Pedestrian-Counts-Demons/6fi9-q3ta
https://data.somervillema.gov/dataset/Bicycle-Pedestrian-Counts/qu9x-4xq5 | null | -0.50719 | 0.085595 | 2,191 | 8,863 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
657 | 2019.01.02 | 3 | Nighttime brightness in Niger and Nigeria. | A pair of researchers have used satellite imagery to quantify nighttime lights in five urban areas in Niger and Nigeria — Agadez, Katsina, Maradi, Niamey, and Zinder. Describing their findings in a recent issue of Scientific Data, the researchers write, “Our data showed 1) urban illumination fluctuated seasonally, 2) corresponding population fluctuations were sufficient to drive seasonal measles outbreaks, and 3) overlooking these fluctuations during vaccination activities resulted in below-target coverage levels, incapable of halting transmission of the virus.” | https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/concern/generic_works/cjs956g06f
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018256 | null | -0.508553 | 0.795076 | 3,663 | 14,623 | 32 | -1 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
658 | 2019.01.02 | 4 | Ocean noises. | The UK Marine Noise Registry tracks “human activities in UK seas that produce loud, low to medium frequency (10Hz – 10kHz) impulsive noise” — including pile-driving, explosives, military sonar, and “acoustic deterrent devices.” For each of the UK’s oil and gas licensing blocks, the registry’s published data counts the number of days that a given type of impulsive noise was generated. Related: Owen Boswarva has built an interactive map of the data. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-7070
https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/data-centre/data-downloads-and-publications/licence-data/
https://data.gov.uk/search?q=%22Marine+Noise+Registry%22&filters%5Bpublisher%5D=Joint+Nature+Conservation+Committee&filters%5Btopic%5D=&filters%5Bformat%5D=&sort=recent
https://www.owenboswarva.com/
https://www.datadaptive.com/mnr/ | https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=f6b38561d7 | -0.537809 | 0.667623 | 3,406 | 13,597 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
659 | 2019.01.02 | 5 | A highly-measured beach. | The Narrabeen-Collaroy Beach Survey Program has been measuring a major stretch of the Sydney shore every month since April 1976. You can explore the data online and (free registration required) download it. [h/t Robbi Bishop-Taylor + Mitchell Harley] | http://narrabeen.wrl.unsw.edu.au/
http://narrabeen.wrl.unsw.edu.au/explore_data/
http://narrabeen.wrl.unsw.edu.au/download/narrabeen/ | https://twitter.com/EarthObserved/status/1070866071165448193
https://twitter.com/DocHarleyMD/status/1070870424869777408 | -0.611253 | 0.61858 | 3,276 | 13,208 | 26 | 26 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
660 | 2019.01.09 | 1 | The kids these days — and four decades ago. | Monitoring the Future surveys approximately 50,000 eighth-, tenth-, and twelfth-grade students in the U.S. each year. The project, which is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has been running since 1975. Although best known for its detailed drug-use questions, the surveys also ask questions related to education, labor, sex, race, politics, happiness, and other topics. Public-use versions of the data are available through the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (free registration required). [h/t Dan Kopf] | http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/purpose.html
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NAHDAP/series/35?start=0&SERIESQ=35&ARCHIVE=NAHDAP&sort=DATEUPDATED%20desc&rows=50 | https://twitter.com/dkopf | -0.124606 | -0.335093 | 1,372 | 5,432 | 65 | -1 | Labor and Employment Surveys | false |
661 | 2019.01.09 | 2 | Sound effects. | Last spring, the BBC published an archive of 16,000+ sound effects, licensed ”for personal, educational or research purposes.” Each audio file is accompanied by a description, categorization, and its length. For instance, the first sound effect on the archive’s page is a 194-second clip described as “two-stroke petrol engine driving small elevator, start, run, stop,” and categorized as “Engines: Petrol.” Not documented, but useful: You can download a CSV of the metadata. Highlight: The one-two punch of “several men snoring, hilariously” and “several men snoring, less hilariously.” [h/t Amy King] | http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/BBCSoundEffects.csv
http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/?q=hilariously | https://twitter.com/sephiramy/status/1080887893265068032 | 0.384139 | 0.822669 | 3,756 | 14,936 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
662 | 2019.01.09 | 3 | Fiscal crises. | Researchers at the International Monetary Fund have built a historical database of fiscal crises, defined as “periods of extreme fiscal distress, when governments have not been able to contain large fiscal imbalances leading to the adoption of extreme measures (e.g., debt default and monetization of the deficit).” The researchers, building off of previous work, have “expand[ed] the country coverage to 188 countries, over 1970-2015, more than double the size of the sample relative to many other studies,” and identified 436 distinct episodes of fiscal crisis. [h/t David Tercero Lucas] | https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2017/04/03/Fiscal-Crises-44795 | https://twitter.com/David_III_L/status/1079827591685652480 | 0.102245 | 0.002563 | 2,083 | 8,262 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
663 | 2019.01.09 | 4 | Dual citizenship policies. | If you decide to acquire a new citizenship, do you get to keep your previous one? Are you allowed to renounce it? The Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development’s Global Expatriate Dual Citizenship Dataset tracks how 200 countries have, each year since 1960, treated this situation. The extensive documentation provides links to the relevant laws, and descriptions of how each country’s rules have changed. [h/t Sam Petulla] | https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/dual-cit-database/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/TTMZ08 | https://twitter.com/spetulla | 0.613921 | -0.409762 | 1,203 | 4,839 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
664 | 2019.01.09 | 5 | From Spanskgrøn to Østerland. | Norse World is an “online, open access searchable index and mapping of the foreign place names found in medieval East Norse texts.” Through the project’s interactive map, you can search and download the data. | https://www.uu.se/en/research/infrastructure/norseworld/
https://norseworld.nordiska.uu.se/index.php
https://www.uu.se/en/research/infrastructure/norseworld/using-norse-world/search-and-filters
https://www.uu.se/en/research/infrastructure/norseworld/using-norse-world/exporting-the-data | null | -0.050604 | 0.416586 | 2,910 | 11,580 | 43 | 43 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
665 | 2019.01.16 | 1 | Journalists killed, imprisoned, and missing. | The Committee to Protect Journalists maintains a database of journalists who’ve been killed for reasons related to their work. The database goes back to 1992 and contains more than 1,300 entries, with details about the journalists, the circumstances of their deaths, and whether perpetrators have been convicted. More recently, the organization has also begun publishing data on journalists who’ve been imprisoned or gone missing. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://cpj.org/data/killed
https://cpj.org/data/methodology
https://cpj.org/data/imprisoned
https://cpj.org/data/missing | https://mailchi.mp/0c00c1b1d808/preview-222-in-other-news-3678081?e=6c87ff0227 | 0.228612 | -0.86797 | 295 | 1,102 | 10 | -1 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
666 | 2019.01.16 | 2 | Congressional district demographics. | The Census Bureau’s My Congressional District tool lets you browse (and download) demographic, socioeconomic, and business data corresponding to each of the country’s 435 congressional districts. Political scientist Ella Foster-Molina has compiled a historical dataset containing similar information for 1972 to 2014; it also contains details about each district’s representatives — such as their personal characteristics, the committees they served on, and the number of bills they sponsored. [h/t Josh McCrain + Derek Willis] | https://www.census.gov/mycd/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CI2EPI | https://twitter.com/joshmccrain/status/1082321114708275200
https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1082302252965117952 | 0.837344 | -0.230136 | 1,594 | 6,389 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
667 | 2019.01.16 | 3 | Political party data, linked. | Party Facts is a “collaborative data collection” that links various political-party datasets together. The project has two main tables. One contains basic information about 4,100+ political parties in more than 200 countries, including each party’s mother-tongue name and English translation, year founded, and Wikipedia page. The second table cross-references each party with its unique identifier in 26 external datasets, such as ParlGov (DIP 2018.09.19), The Manifesto Project (DIP 2017.06.21), and the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (DIP 2016.09.28). [h/t Matt Grossmann + Erik Gahner] | https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/
https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/download/
https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/data/
http://www.parlgov.org/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-09-19-edition
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-06-21-edition
http://www.electiondataarchive.org/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-28-edition | https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1083560158431723520
https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/3963599404680a5305a66daeda01bc52972118f9 | 0.837608 | -0.346183 | 1,338 | 5,365 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
668 | 2019.01.16 | 4 | Old shipping logs. | In previous centuries, maritime officers kept “detailed log books of the ships’ activities and management,” including observations of the wind and weather. The Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850 has digitized a quarter-million entries from such logbooks, originally written in Dutch, English, French, and Spanish, and published them as detailed, structured data. Helpful: Steven Ottens has converted the project’s fixed-width files into tab-delimited data. [h/t Robi Sen + Roger Davies + Topi Tjukanov] | https://webs.ucm.es/info/cliwoc/object.htm
https://webs.ucm.es/info/cliwoc/
http://projects.knmi.nl/cliwoc/
https://stvno.github.io/page/cliwoc/ | https://twitter.com/robi_sen/status/1049016327996755968
https://twitter.com/rogercdavies/status/1048926264575369218
https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1048498066230312960 | -0.647269 | 0.868677 | 3,787 | 15,254 | 28 | -1 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
669 | 2019.01.16 | 5 | Moooooooooo. | The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Dairy Data Set contains annual tabulations of production, sales, imports, exports, consumption, and other economic aspects of “the U.S. dairy situation.” As seen in: “Nobody Is Moving Our Cheese: American Surplus Reaches Record High” (NPR). | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/dairy-data/
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/683339929/nobody-is-moving-our-cheese-american-surplus-reaches-record-high | null | -0.233992 | 0.537591 | 3,160 | 12,593 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
670 | 2019.01.30 | 1 | Fatal and non-fatal gun crime. | On Thursday, Sarah Ryley, Sean Campbell, and I published a deeply-reported investigation into U.S. cities’ failure to solve shootings — a year-long collaboration between The Trace and BuzzFeed News. To reach our quantitative findings, we analyzed (and standardized) three major FBI datasets, internal data from 22 police departments, and a database of Baltimore victims and suspects. Data, code, and methodologies for the analyses are available on GitHub. Related: Last year, The Washington Post published Murder with Impunity, a series examining unsolved homicides; their data, on 52,000+ homicides in 50 cities, is also available on GitHub. | https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahryley/police-unsolved-shootings
https://www.thetrace.org/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahryley/5-things-to-know-about-cities-failure-to-arrest-shooters
https://github.com/the-trace-and-buzzfeed-news/federal-crime-data-analysis
https://github.com/the-trace-and-buzzfeed-news/local-police-data-analysis
https://github.com/the-trace-and-buzzfeed-news/baltimore-shootings-analysis
https://github.com/the-trace-and-buzzfeed-news/introduction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/investigations/where-murders-go-unsolved/?utm_term=.a53db2e96521
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-homicides | null | 0.180631 | -0.805197 | 421 | 1,611 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
671 | 2019.01.30 | 2 | Hourly rainfall. | Since 1997, the Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) algorithm has used satellite imagery to estimate rainfall rates around the world. The system’s hourly, daily, monthly, and annual estimates can now be explored online and downloaded. | https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018296?WT.ec_id=SDATA-201901
http://chrs.web.uci.edu/SP_activities00.php
https://chrsdata.eng.uci.edu/ | null | -0.698615 | 0.862771 | 3,785 | 15,251 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
672 | 2019.01.30 | 3 | Ethnonationalism. | Christina Isabel Zuber and Edina Szöcsik’s Ethnonationalism in Party Competition dataset compiles ratings for more than 200 political parties in 22 European countries. Experts rated the parties twice — first in 2011, and then again in 2017 — on a range of factors, such as the centrality of ethnonationalism to the parties’ platforms, and their positions on territorial autonomy for minorities. (Dataset access requires providing a name and email address.) [h/t Erik Gahner] | http://christinazuber.com/data/ | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData | 0.829098 | -0.359863 | 1,338 | 5,237 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
673 | 2019.01.30 | 4 | Uncertain spellings | . “Funemployed programmer” Colin Morris looked for all the times where commenters on Reddit added “(sp?)”, or a related annotation, to their remarks. E.g., “SF is putting on quite a show, especially Kapernick (sp?).” Morris then compiled a dataset of the words that preceded those annotations, accompanied by examples of their usage. [h/t Rich Posert] | http://colinmorris.github.io/about/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/16h0ih/our_most_comments_in_a_game_thread_record_didnt/c7vyofl/
https://github.com/colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling | https://twitter.com/PosertInLab/status/1085362032583442432 | 0.758536 | 0.421208 | 2,936 | 11,632 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
674 | 2019.01.30 | 5 | Twin City radio spins. | “Shane Nackerud needed to know: Does 89.3 the Current play the Replacements every day?” To figure it out, the University of Minnesota librarian extracted track listings from 1.1 million @currentplaylist tweets from 2009 through 2018. He’s also published the total play counts by artist and the raw data. [h/t Kent Gerber + Amy Riegelman] | http://www.citypages.com/music/what-songs-artists-has-the-current-played-most-since-2009-this-u-of-m-librarian-crunched-the-numbers/504392941
https://twitter.com/currentplaylist
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ByxdKfjDQ7RtSvLRaufHPa7hYSLXfzUO9QaFgVf_fJc/edit#gid=1779654962
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuWC9oTuQkwYlP6R6ljsOIpvMWfC-meZ/view | https://twitter.com/ktkgerber/status/1085944034240225281
https://twitter.com/amylibrarian/status/1085668015008608256 | 0.50053 | 0.699089 | 3,504 | 13,920 | 76 | -1 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
675 | 2019.02.06 | 1 | Cities’ CO2 emissions. | An international team of researchers has created a dataset of 343 cities’ CO2 emissions. The researchers aggregated and standardized the emissions data — largely self-reported — from three sources: the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Bonn Center for Local Climate Action and Reporting, and a new project at Peking University. The dataset includes cities large and small, from Lagos and Shanghai to Kadıovacık, Turkey (pop. 216) and Brisbane, California (pop. ~4,700). In addition to emissions, the dataset also provides contextual information about the cities, such as average household sizes and gasoline prices. | https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018280?WT.ec_id=SDATA-201901
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.884141
https://data.cdp.net/Emissions/2016-Citywide-GHG-Emissions/dfed-thx7
https://carbonn.org/ | null | -0.775071 | 0.325689 | 2,695 | 10,766 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
676 | 2019.02.06 | 2 | Cabinet turnover. | For a recent analysis of Trump administration turnover, FiveThirtyEight compiled a dataset of the last seven presidents’ cabinets — covering the 24 positions included in Donald Trump’s cabinet. (As author Nathaniel Rakich notes, “Not every president designates the same positions to be in the Cabinet.”) The dataset includes each cabinet member’s position, start date, departure date, and total days in office. | https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/two-years-in-turnover-in-trumps-cabinet-is-still-historically-high/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/cabinet-turnover | null | 0.61798 | -0.310231 | 1,459 | 5,735 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
677 | 2019.02.06 | 3 | Oklahoma prisoners. | In the course of investigating why Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate is so high, The Frontier and the Center for Investigative Reporting obtained “a decade’s worth of state prison data never before analyzed by the state itself.” The data includes information about each prisoner, their prison sentences, and their entries and exits from Department of Corrections supervision. [h/t Dan Nguyen] | https://www.revealnews.org/article/let-down-and-locked-up-why-oklahomas-female-incarceration-is-so-high/
https://www.readfrontier.org/
https://www.revealnews.org/
https://www.revealnews.org/article/before-you-dive-into-oklahomas-prison-data-read-reveals-tips/ | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/ajqp57/oklahoma_prisoners_2017_280k_records/ | 0.049147 | -0.986932 | 33 | 67 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
678 | 2019.02.06 | 4 | DC taxi rides. | The District of Columbia’s taxi trip data covers 2015–17 and includes each trip’s pickup and dropoff location, mileage, total fare, tip amount, and other details. Previously: Chicago and NYC taxi rides (DIP 2016.12.07). [h/t Richard Sigman] | http://opendata.dc.gov/datasets?q=taxicabs
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Taxi-Trips-Dashboard/spcw-brbq
http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-taxi-and-uber-trips-with-a-vengeance/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-12-07-edition | null | -0.523717 | 0.012619 | 2,063 | 8,222 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
679 | 2019.02.06 | 5 | Advice sought. | To support its data-driven feature, “30 Years of American Anxieties,” The Pudding gathered 20,000 questions posed to legendary advice columnist Dear Abby. | https://pudding.cool/2018/11/dearabby/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/dearabby | null | 0.197974 | 0.24561 | 2,534 | 10,188 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
680 | 2019.02.13 | 1 | The Census, but for forests. | The U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis program tracks “trends in forest area and location; in the species, size, and health of trees; in total tree growth, mortality, and removals by harvest; in wood production and utilization rates by various products; and in forest land ownership.” It also “serves as perhaps the largest publicly available” dataset of “downed and dead wood.” The inventory is available to download and comes with user guides. | https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018303?WT.ec_id=SDATA-201901
https://apps.fs.usda.gov/fia/datamart/datamart.html
https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/database-documentation/index.php | null | -0.4179 | 0.64767 | 3,346 | 13,477 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
681 | 2019.02.13 | 2 | Rebel groups and natural resources. | The Resources and Conflict Project’s Rebel Contraband Dataset “measures if and how rebel groups earn income from the exploitation of natural resources or criminal activities.” The dataset spans 1990–2015, covers more than 70 countries, and specifies dozens of types of resources — such as oil, cannabis, gold, tea, and timber. [h/t Eric Gahner] | http://civilwardynamics.org/data/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/COQ65B | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData | 0.423302 | -0.678816 | 685 | 2,651 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
682 | 2019.02.13 | 3 | German companies. | The Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland and OpenCorporates have partnered to make Germany’s official business register available to download in bulk. The dataset contains basic information about more than 5 million German companies, and more than 4 million associated officers. Note: Although the dataset’s landing page is written in German, its documentation is available in English. Related: Joachim Gassen’s initial analysis of the companies’ locations, using R. [h/t Sharon Machlis] | https://okfn.de/en/
https://opencorporates.com/
https://okfn.de/blog/2019/02/finally-open-company-data/
https://blog.opencorporates.com/2019/02/06/german-company-data-now-available-for-download-via-open-knowledge-deutschland/
https://offeneregister.de/
https://offeneregister.de/daten/
https://joachim-gassen.github.io/2019/02/where-the-german-companies-are/ | https://twitter.com/sharon000 | 0.298175 | -0.007864 | 2,025 | 8,147 | 56 | 56 | Data Platforms on Corporations | false |
683 | 2019.02.13 | 4 | Two decades of tobacco (and e-cigarette) laws. | The CDC’s State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation system tracks “current and historical state-level legislative data on tobacco [and now also e-cigarette] use prevention and control policies.” The system’s datasets provide quarterly snapshots — going back to 1995 — of rules concerning taxes, youth access, licensing, fire safety, and more. | https://www.cdc.gov/statesystem/index.html
https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/browse?limitTo=datasets&sortBy=alpha&tags=legislation&utf8=%E2%9C%93 | null | -0.309927 | -0.41726 | 1,174 | 4,780 | 66 | -1 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
684 | 2019.02.13 | 5 | Obstacle courses. | Drawing upon a fan wiki, Matt Laessig has created a spreadsheet of all 889 obstacles in the first 10 seasons of American Ninja Warrior. (Free registration required to download.) [h/t Ilan Brat] | https://sasukepedia.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_American_Ninja_Warrior_obstacles
https://twitter.com/MattLaessig
https://data.world/ninja/anw-obstacle-history | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanbrat | 0.514682 | 0.695056 | 3,504 | 13,920 | 76 | -1 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
685 | 2019.02.20 | 1 | Power plants. | The Global Power Plant Database, published by the World Resources Institute, “is a comprehensive, open source database of power plants around the world” and contains “information on plant capacity, generation, ownership, and fuel type.” The current edition, released in June 2018, covers 28,600+ power plants in 164 countries — including more than 1,000 each in Brazil, Canada, China, Great Britain, France, and the United States. Previously: U.S. power plants (DIP 2016.02.10). [h/t Kelly Rose + Paul Deane] | http://datasets.wri.org/dataset/globalpowerplantdatabase
https://www.wri.org/our-work
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-10-edition | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-rose-44237bb6/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6499389420544892928 | -0.906548 | 0.482012 | 3,010 | 12,037 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
686 | 2019.02.20 | 2 | The Oscars. | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences website hosts two searchable databases related to their annual awards show: one of nominees and winners, and another of acceptance speeches. The Academy doesn’t provide direct downloads, but many folks have created structured datasets from the records. For instance: Statistics professor Adam B. Kashlak has build a dataset that combines speech word-counts, Best Picture winners’ budgets, and total broadcast length. And: Alex Albright’s analysis from a few years ago, “I’d Like to Thank the Academy… for making this data available,” is based on her dataset of all speeches from the 2010–14 broadcasts. [h/t Jay Arthur] | http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/
http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~kashlak/
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~kashlak/kashCodeData.html
https://thelittledataset.com/about/
https://thelittledataset.com/2015/02/19/id-like-to-thank-the-academy-for-making-this-data-available/
https://github.com/apalbright/Oscars/blob/master/raw_data/oscars_10-14.csv | https://www.qimacros.com/about-knowware/jay-arthur-tqm-lean-six-sigma/ | 0.64169 | 0.658284 | 3,444 | 13,673 | 67 | -1 | Film Data and Analysis | false |
687 | 2019.02.20 | 3 | EU-funded projects in the UK. | MyEU.uk’s interactive map lets you search and explore tens of thousands of European Union–funded projects in the United Kingdom, aggregated from a range of official sources. The initiative, which opposes Brexit, has published its data-collection and data-processing code as well as a spreadsheet of all projects it has identified. [h/t Jovi Juan] | https://www.myeu.uk/
https://www.myeu.uk/about/
https://github.com/TechForUK/my_eu
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1doQnfcwxIBdTM1mecBevEt_4Vgih06fy_lWSZl0Hwac/edit#gid=0 | https://twitter.com/daoofj | 0.086445 | 0.321595 | 2,722 | 10,821 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
688 | 2019.02.20 | 4 | Electronic search warrants. | Thanks to a 2015 state bill, when California law enforcement agencies obtain search warrants for digital communications (or are granted access to such information in an emergency), they must notify the people whose information they targeted. The state’s Department of Justice publishes data about these notifications, including the agency name, the grounds for the warrant, the nature of the investigation, the companies searched (e.g., AT&T, Verizon, Google, Facebook), and more. As seen in: “San Bernardino County Sheriff's electronic surveillance use — already highest in state — continues to surge” (Palm Springs Desert Sun, Jan. 2019). | https://www.lawfareblog.com/so-whats-california-electronic-communications-privacy-act
https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2019/01/10/san-bernardino-county-sheriffs-department-searches-electronic-property-up/2542376002/ | null | 0.201049 | -0.632311 | 742 | 3,020 | 9 | 9 | Data Analysis and Disclosure | false |
689 | 2019.02.20 | 5 | Golfing discs. | The Professional Disc Golf Association publishes a spreadsheet of flying objects officially approved for use in competition. [h/t Ryan Maus] [Note, 2019-02-20: Original item included incorrect link, now fixed.] | https://www.pdga.com/introduction
https://www.pdga.com/documents/pdga-approved-discs | https://twitter.com/RPMaus | -0.654059 | -0.052029 | 1,931 | 7,702 | 39 | 39 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
690 | 2019.03.06 | 1 | Last words. | The Texas Department of Criminal Justice publishes a list of each death row inmate executed since 1982 — the year the state resumed capital punishment. In addition to providing basic demographic information, the listing also links to transcriptions of the inmates’ final statements. And although state doesn’t provide the statements as structured data, Zi Chong Kao has created a spreadsheet of of them (plus additional details extracted from the state’s website) for his interactive tutorial, Select Star SQL. Related: “‘Love’ Is the Most Common Word in Death Row Last Statements” (Will Young, Oct. 2018). [h/t Noah Veltman] | https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people_executed_in_Texas
https://selectstarsql.com/frontmatter.html#dataset
https://selectstarsql.com/
https://medium.com/s/story/love-is-the-most-common-word-in-death-row-last-statements-f15ab0e8ad16 | https://noahveltman.com/ | 0.158988 | -0.979154 | 37 | 202 | 6 | 6 | Criminal Justice Databases | false |
691 | 2019.03.06 | 2 | Crops. | The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s CropScape website provides interactive access to the agency’s Cropland Data Layer — “a raster, geo-referenced, crop-specific land cover data layer created annually for the continental United States using moderate resolution satellite imagery and extensive agricultural ground truth.” You can use CropScape to filter the data’s acreage estimates (for more than a hundred different crops) by state, county, or custom-drawn geographies — or download the complete data in bulk. [h/t Katie McGaughey] | https://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/SARS1a.php
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/sarsfaqs2.php
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/Release/ | https://twitter.com/ktmcgaughey/status/1095479304505475073 | -0.364285 | 0.593778 | 3,284 | 13,096 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
692 | 2019.03.06 | 3 | International students. | The UNESCO Institute of Statistics compiles data on “internationally mobile” university students, including annual numbers of students by country of origin and country of study. Related: UNESCO's interactive map of student flows. [h/t Francisco Marmolejo] | http://uis.unesco.org/
http://uis.unesco.org/en/glossary-term/international-or-internationally-mobile-students
http://data.uis.unesco.org/index.aspx?queryid=171
http://uis.unesco.org/en/uis-student-flow | https://twitter.com/fmarmole/status/761920615842328576 | 0.058663 | -0.218609 | 1,633 | 6,467 | 68 | 68 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
693 | 2019.03.06 | 4 | School dress codes. | For a recent article in The Pudding, Amber Thomas and two data assistants “recorded every rule listed in each dress code” at 481 public high schools in 36 states, plus “the words used in the dress code’s rationale, as well as any listed sanctions for breaking the dress code.” The 15,000+ rules and 1,470 sanctions are available to download. | https://pudding.cool/2019/02/dress-code-sexualization/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/dress_codes | null | 0.064854 | -0.336562 | 1,378 | 5,444 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
694 | 2019.03.06 | 5 | Bird eggs. | A few years ago, a team of scientists examined the shapes of 49,000 bird eggs belonging to 1,400 different species. You can download their calculations of each species’ average egg length, asymmetry, and ellipticity, which formed the basis of a graphics-forward article in Science Magazine. [h/t Sophie Warnes] | http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6344/1249
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2017/06/21/356.6344.1249.DC1
https://vis.sciencemag.org/eggs/ | https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-dialects-egg-shapes-and-the-race-to-2020-160100 | -0.201063 | 0.931719 | 3,929 | 15,795 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
695 | 2019.03.13 | 1 | Employment discrimination cases. | “Thousands of people report workplace discrimination to the government each year. Employers are rarely held accountable,” according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity. Reporters Maryam Jameel and Joe Yerardi “analyzed eight years of complaint data — through fiscal 2017 — from the [U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] as well as its state and local counterparts, reviewed hundreds of court cases and interviewed dozens of people who filed complaints.” The data (on more than 3.7 million allegations and their outcomes) and code are available online. Related: A visual exploration of the data. Previously: Two decades of workplace sexual harassment complaints (DIP 2017.12.06). [h/t Reddit user "cavedave" + Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://publicintegrity.org/workers-rights/workplace-inequities/injustice-at-work/workplace-discrimination-cases/
https://twitter.com/mrym_jml
https://twitter.com/joeyerardi
https://github.com/PublicI/employment-discrimination
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/discrimination-complaint-outcomes/
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2017-12-eeoc-harassment-charges/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-12-06-edition | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/avsf9z/workplace_discrimination_is_illegal_here_is_the/
https://mailchi.mp/e5d976d0dfe8/preview-222-in-other-news-3696061 | 0.013117 | -0.520677 | 992 | 3,904 | 19 | 19 | Migration and Policy Data | false |
696 | 2019.03.13 | 2 | U.S. wildfire costs. | Stanford University’s Big Local News project has compiled data from 100,000+ daily situation reports (known as “SIT-209”s) filed by federal firefighting authorities, detailing their efforts to suppress large wildfires. The dataset covers 2014 to 2017, and includes 240+ variables from each report, including estimated costs, damaged/destroyed buildings, injuries, fatalities, and more. Related: Eric Sagara’s quick introduction to the dataset. | https://twitter.com/BigLocalNews
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/xj043rd8767
https://fam.nwcg.gov/fam-web/
https://twitter.com/esagara
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BMUcXKaLUI4kSqj0cDNO7Lhih0B_x9XU/view | null | -0.838979 | 0.770701 | 3,589 | 14,474 | 24 | 24 | Wildfire Data and Monitoring | false |
697 | 2019.03.13 | 3 | Democratic endorsements. | FiveThirtyEight is tracking who’s endorsing whom to be the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nominee. The site has published a methodology describing its approach, plus the underlying data, which includes each endorser’s name, state, relevant position, and other details. (According to the site’s formula, Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are currently leading, although almost entirely based on home-state endorsements.) | https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-endorsements/democratic-primary/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/methodology/how-our-presidential-endorsement-tracker-works/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/endorsements | null | 0.939297 | -0.182234 | 1,726 | 6,780 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
698 | 2019.03.13 | 4 | 50,000 therapists. | The magazine Psychology Today hosts paid listings for therapists, who advertise their services to prospective patients. Andrew Thompson has created a dataset of the 50,000+ U.S. listings (as of October 2018), with each therapist’s name, city, specialties, and subject areas. | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
http://andrewsthompson.co/
https://components.one/datasets/therapists-by-metropolitan-regions/ | null | -0.381164 | -0.45739 | 1,107 | 4,391 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
699 | 2019.03.13 | 5 | Zoo animal lifespans. | Researchers based at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo have published “life expectancy estimates for hundreds of vertebrate species based on carefully vetted studbook data from North American zoos and aquariums.” Their dataset includes “sex-specific median life expectancies as well as sample size and 95% confidence limits for each estimate.” | https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201919
https://figshare.com/articles/AZA_MLE_Jul2018_csv/7539968 | null | -0.135184 | 0.939688 | 3,995 | 15,927 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
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