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700 | 2019.03.20 | 1 | Africapolis. | “Produced by the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club, Africapolis.org is the only comprehensive and standardised geospatial database on cities and urbanisation dynamics in Africa. Combining demographic sources, satellite and aerial imagery and other cartographic sources, it is designed to enable comparative and long-term analyses of urban dynamics - covering 7,500 agglomerations in 50 countries.” You can download the data — which includes historical populations, urbanization metrics, and geospatial outlines — and also explore it online. [h/t Rafael Prieto Curiel] | http://www.oecd.org/swac/
http://www.africapolis.org/
http://africapolis.org/data
http://africapolis.org/explore | https://twitter.com/rafaelprietoc/status/1105526120647135233 | -0.255194 | 0.266556 | 2,583 | 10,415 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
701 | 2019.03.20 | 2 | The Book of the States. | The Council of State Governments’ annual Book of the States compiles 50-state reference tables on a range of topics, including elections, finances, courts, and more. It has been published since 1935, and the tables for the past decade-plus are available as spreadsheets. Now you know: The chief justice of the California Supreme Court makes $256,059 per year — the highest compensation for any state judge, and nearly double New Mexico’s top judge, according to 2018’s Table 5.4. [h/t Cezary Podkul] | https://www.csg.org/
http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/category/content-type/content-type/book-states
http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/content/book-states-2018-chapter-6-elections
http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/content/book-states-2018-chapter-7-state-finance
http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/content/book-states-2018-chapter-5-state-judicial-branch
http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/category/content-type/bos-archive
http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/content/book-states-2018-chapter-5-state-judicial-branch | https://twitter.com/Cezary/status/1104106392300875776 | 0.730774 | -0.634126 | 759 | 3,054 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
702 | 2019.03.20 | 3 | Metro-area segregation. | “[W]hy are so many cities and metropolitan areas still split along racial lines? And what is the role of local government in reinforcing those divides? To answer those questions, Governing conducted a six-month investigation of black-white segregation in the small cities of downstate Illinois.” As part of the investigation, the magazine calculated (and published) school and residential segregation metrics for hundreds of U.S. metropolitan areas, based on the latest Department of Education and Census Bureau data. Related: “The Most Diverse Cities Are Often The Most Segregated” (FiveThirtyEight, 2015). [h/t Mike Maciag] | https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-segregation-series.html
https://www.governing.com/gov-data/school-segregation-dissimilarity-index-for-metro-areas.html
https://www.governing.com/gov-data/residential-racial-segregation-metro-areas.html
https://www.governing.com/gov-data/segregation-report-methodology.html
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/ | https://twitter.com/mikemaciag | 0.039464 | -0.682156 | 673 | 2,626 | 5 | -1 | Migration and Detention Data | false |
703 | 2019.03.20 | 4 | Internet scans. | Security firm Rapid7’s Project Sonar “conducts internet-wide surveys across more than 70 different services and protocols to gain insights into global exposure to common vulnerabilities.” Much of the data (on DNS responses, SSL certificates, and more) can be bulk-downloaded through the company’s open data portal without an account, and historical data and the most-current data are available with a free account. Related: Project Sonar: An Underrated Source of Internet-wide Data (Patrik Hudak). Also: Rapid7’s guide to using their open data API with R. [h/t Sharon Machlis] | https://www.rapid7.com/research/project-sonar/
https://opendata.rapid7.com/sonar.fdns_v2/
https://opendata.rapid7.com/sonar.ssl/
https://opendata.rapid7.com/
https://0xpatrik.com/project-sonar-guide/
https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/02/13/level-up-your-internet-intelligence-using-the-rapid7-open-data-api-and-r/ | http://www.machlis.com/ | 0.562704 | 0.061304 | 2,162 | 8,676 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
704 | 2019.03.20 | 5 | Rooftop water tanks. | New York City requires the owners of buildings with rooftop water tanks to get the vessels inspected annually for things like sediment, bacteria, and dead bugs. The city publishes a dataset of the owner-report results, based on 15,000 inspections, mostly from 2015–17. Unfortunately: “A review of city records indicates that most building owners still do not inspect and clean their tanks” ... and the “city can’t even say with certainty how many there are or where they are located” ... and in “almost every case the [bacteriological] tests are conducted only after the tanks have been disinfected.” [h/t Zack Quaintance] | https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/Rooftop-Drinking-Water-Tank-Inspection-Results/gjm4-k24g
https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/energy-environment/new-york-city-water-tank-hazards.html | http://www.govtech.com/civic/Whats-New-in-Civic-Tech-New-York-City-Releases-Its-Annual-Data-Report.html | -0.501218 | 0.171587 | 2,383 | 9,503 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
705 | 2019.03.27 | 1 | Special investigations and charges. | FiveThirtyEight has compiled a dataset of all U.S. special counsel, independent counsel, and special prosecutor investigations since 1973 — and the people charged in them. Related: FiveThirtyEight’s visual comparison of the Mueller probe to other investigations. Bonus: FiveThirtyEight’s Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux has also been tracking major lawsuits related to President Trump and his administration; that dataset currently contains 45 civil cases and 6 criminal cases. | https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/russia-investigation
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/russia-investigation/
http://ameliatd.com/about
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-trumps-legal-battles-tell-us-about-presidential-power/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/trump-lawsuits | null | 0.751281 | -0.199367 | 1,656 | 6,640 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
706 | 2019.03.27 | 2 | Spring firsts. | Phenology (literally: “the science of appearance”) is the location-and-species-specific study of recurring plant and animal phenomena, such as the annual arrivals and departures of migratory birds. The USA National Phenology Network collects observational data from thousands of citizen scientists, professional researchers, NGOs, and other groups; assesses the data’s quality; and makes it available to explore and download. Previously: The flowering dates of Kyoto’s Prunus jamasakura cherry trees going back to the 9th century (DIP 2017.04.05). [h/t Greta Kaul] | https://www.usanpn.org/home
https://www.usanpn.org/data/quality
https://www.usanpn.org/data
https://www.usanpn.org/data/observational
http://atmenv.envi.osakafu-u.ac.jp/aono/kyophenotemp4/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-04-05-edition | https://twitter.com/gretakaul/status/1103324884363628544 | -0.282441 | 0.884067 | 3,862 | 15,405 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
707 | 2019.03.27 | 3 | Rebel groups. | “The Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence (FORGE) Dataset examines the roots of rebellion by considering the characteristics and activities of the ‘parent’ organizations from which rebel groups emerged,” plus details such as “the organization's ‘birthdate’ and founding location, initial goals, ideology, and ethnic/religious foundations.” The new dataset, developed by the University of Arizona’s Jessica Maves Braithwaite and the University of Maryland’s Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, contains 430 rebel groups active between 1946 and 2011. [h/t Jori Breslawski + Michael Poznansky] | https://www.jessicamaves.com/forge.html
https://www.jessicamaves.com/
http://www.kathleengallaghercunningham.com/ | https://twitter.com/BreslawskiJori/status/1108700123763224576
https://twitter.com/m_poznansky/status/1108384572033642498 | 0.429476 | -0.716686 | 621 | 2,395 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
708 | 2019.03.27 | 4 | Antarctic infrastructure. | University of Tasmania Ph.D. candidate Shaun T. Brooks has created a geospatial dataset of “all buildings and disturbance detected across Antarctica, manually digitised from Google Earth images.” The dataset includes research stations, lighthouses, weather stations, historic sites, and more. [h/t Jasmine Lee] | https://twitter.com/shauntbrooks
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_5134_Antarctic_Disturbance_Footprint | https://twitter.com/JaszzyJas/status/1102692597384937472 | -0.491426 | 0.781298 | 3,664 | 14,624 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
709 | 2019.03.27 | 5 | Uber for X. | From Alexis C. Madrigal, writing at The Atlantic: “Now, a decade since Uber blazed the trail, and half that since the craze faded, we built a spreadsheet of 105 Uber-for-X companies founded in the United States, representing $7.4 billion in venture-capital investment. We culled from lists, dug in Crunchbase, and pulled from old news coverage. It’s not a comprehensive list, but it is a large sample of the hopes and dreams of the entrepreneurs of the time.” | https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qPcpQ9rk08JhEApPSr2jSfJtSWa8RH0ANPibtWuRnh0/edit?usp=sharing
https://jungleworks.com/11-uber-for-x-startups-that-failed-are-you-making-the-same-mistakes/
https://www.quora.com/Uber-for-X-What-startups-are-working-on-Uber-for-X
https://www.producthunt.com/e/uber-for-x
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/upcounsel-raises-12m-series-b-connect-lawyers-businesses/
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/why-homejoy-failed/ | null | -0.53864 | 0.036876 | 2,126 | 8,477 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
710 | 2019.04.03 | 1 | Yemen air strikes. | To mark the four-year anniversary of the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen, the Yemen Data Project last week released civilian casualty estimates for the entire air war. The project’s researchers collect and cross-reference data from a range of sources, including news reports, social media, video footage, local authorities, and NGOs; their published data contains dates, locations, and casualty estimates for more than 19,000 air raids. As seen in: “Saudi Strikes, American Bombs, Yemeni Suffering: How Saudi Arabia’s war tactics have fueled Yemen’s humanitarian crisis” (New York Times, December 2018). [h/t Andrea Carboni] | http://yemendataproject.org/
https://twitter.com/YemenData/status/1110285476244520960
http://yemendataproject.org/methodology-1.html
http://yemendataproject.org/data.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/27/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-war-tactics-yemen-humanitarian-crisis.html | https://twitter.com/a_carboni/status/1110296341652144128 | 0.406956 | -0.676531 | 685 | 2,650 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
711 | 2019.04.03 | 2 | Teacher supply. | The UNESCO Institute of Statistics collects country-level data on the number of teachers, teacher-to-student ratios, and related figures. You can download the data or explore it in UNESCO’s eAtlas of Teachers or their interactive visualization of teacher supply in Asia. | http://data.uis.unesco.org/index.aspx?queryid=180
https://tellmaps.com/uis/teachers/#!/tellmap/873758989
http://uis.unesco.org/misc/uis/teachers.html | null | 0.07007 | -0.238214 | 1,570 | 6,212 | 68 | 68 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
712 | 2019.04.03 | 3 | Moralizing gods. | To test the “moralizing gods” hypothesis (which posits that “belief in morally concerned supernatural agents culturally evolved to facilitate cooperation among strangers in large-scale societies”), the authors of a recent paper in Nature “coded records from 414 societies that span the past 10,000 years from 30 regions around the world, using 51 measures of social complexity and 4 measures of supernatural enforcement of morality.” The dataset is available to download. Findings: “Our analyses not only confirm the association between moralizing gods and social complexity, but also reveal that moralizing gods follow — rather than precede — large increases in social complexity.” [h/t Juan Moreno-Cruz + Peter Irvine] | http://seshatdatabank.info/nature-paper-on-moralizing-gods/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1043-4
http://seshatdatabank.info/datasets/ | https://twitter.com/jmorenocruz/status/1111720070068080640
https://twitter.com/peteirvine/status/1111362490229764097 | 0.24418 | 0.31133 | 2,663 | 10,703 | 46 | 46 | Digital Historical Data | false |
713 | 2019.04.03 | 4 | Mid-Atlantic shorelines. | The Virginia Institute of Marine Science at The College of William & Mary maintains shoreline inventories for Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Delaware and North Carolina. The datasets include geospatial information about land use, vegetation, different types of structures (e.g., jetties, bulkheads, docks, boathouses), and more. [h/t Susie Cambria] | https://www.vims.edu/
https://www.vims.edu/ccrm/research/inventory/index.php | https://twitter.com/susiecambria | -0.599227 | 0.625694 | 3,340 | 13,337 | 26 | 26 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
714 | 2019.04.03 | 5 | The Index Thomisticus. | “In 1949, an Italian Jesuit priest named Roberto Busa presented a pitch to Thomas J. Watson, of I.B.M.,” according to a New Yorker article principally about the Enron email archive. “Busa was trained in philosophy, and had just published his thesis on St. Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic theologian with a famously unmanageable œuvre.” Watson agreed to help, “and, for the next thirty years, Busa encoded sixty-five thousand pages of Thomist text so that it could be word-searched, cross-referenced, and what we now call hyperlinked.” The Index Thomisticus became “the first corpus to be primed for digital scholarship,” and is available online to search and download. | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/24/what-the-enron-e-mails-say-about-us
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-07-26-edition
http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/it/index.age
https://itreebank.marginalia.it/view/download.php | null | 0.297311 | 0.295201 | 2,665 | 10,579 | 46 | 46 | Digital Historical Data | false |
715 | 2019.04.10 | 1 | Political conditions. | “The Rulers, Elections, and Irregular Governance (REIGN) dataset describes political conditions in every country each and every month. These conditions include the tenures and personal characteristics of world leaders, the types of political institutions and political regimes in effect, election outcomes and election announcements, and irregular events like coups, coup attempts and other violent conflicts.” The latest dataset covers 200 countries, from 1950 to the present, and includes dozens of variables for each monthly snapshot. [h/t Erik Gahner] | https://oefresearch.org/datasets/reign
https://oefdatascience.github.io/REIGN.github.io/ | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData | 0.585717 | -0.381527 | 1,266 | 5,093 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
716 | 2019.04.10 | 2 | Protests in autocracies. | Political science professor Nils B. Weidmann and collaborators have taken tens of thousands of reports — published by the AP, AFP, and BBC Monitoring — of political protests in autocratic countries and have turned them into structured data. The resulting Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database is available to download (free registration required), and comes with documentation and code examples. The database currently covers 2003–15, with data for 2016–17 in the works. | https://twitter.com/nils_weidmann
https://mmadatabase.org/about/
https://mmadatabase.org/
https://mmadatabase.org/get/
https://mmadatabase.org/about/documentation/
https://mmadatabase.org/use/code-examples/ | null | 0.436953 | -0.585548 | 877 | 3,419 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
717 | 2019.04.10 | 3 | FiveThirtyEight checks its work. | From Nate Silver: “we’ve been publishing forecasts for more than a decade now, and although we’ve sometimes tried to do an after-action report following a big election or sporting event, this is the first time we’ve studied all of our forecast models in a comprehensive way.” You can now explore and download thousands of FiveThirtyEight’s predictions about sports and politics (and their outcomes). [h/t Gavin Freeguard] | https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-we-say-70-percent-it-really-means-70-percent/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/checking-our-work-data | https://mailchi.mp/1f25aba9f45f/warning-graphic-content-5-april-2019 | 0.369393 | 0.349674 | 2,795 | 11,095 | 73 | -1 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
718 | 2019.04.10 | 4 | Public pension plans. | Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research compiles detailed financial data on state and local public pension plans. The database covers fiscal years 2001–18 and includes 180 public pension plans, which together “account for 95 percent of state/local pension assets and members in the US.” [h/t Cezary Podkul] | https://crr.bc.edu/
https://publicplansdata.org/public-plans-database/ | https://twitter.com/Cezary/status/1104106397015265280 | -0.049248 | -0.17234 | 1,694 | 6,716 | 63 | -1 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
719 | 2019.04.10 | 5 | Bird-building collisions. | To study the relationship between artificial light and “flight calling” among nocturnally-migrating species, a team of researchers examined 70,000 instances of birds colliding with buildings in Chicago. [h/t Ben Winger] | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0364
https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.8rr0498 | https://twitter.com/winger_ben/status/1113393643883245568 | -0.21523 | 0.939139 | 3,993 | 15,922 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
720 | 2019.04.17 | 1 | Medical device safety. | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, along with media partners in dozens of countries, has been compiling a cross-border database of medical-device safety alerts. The alerts include recalls as well as less-urgent notifications published by health authorities and manufacturers. You can download the public database, which so far includes 90,000+ notices for devices in 18 countries. The records include the date and type of notice; a device identifier; the reason for the alert; a classification of its severity; and more. Related: The Implant Files, an investigative series by the consortium, based on the data. | https://www.icij.org/investigations/implant-files/about-the-implant-files-investigation/
https://medicaldevices.icij.org/
https://medicaldevices.icij.org/p/download
https://www.icij.org/investigations/implant-files/ | null | -0.502994 | -0.333911 | 1,359 | 5,407 | 35 | 35 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
721 | 2019.04.17 | 2 | SCOTUS confirmation transcripts. | The R Street Institute has converted the last five decades of successful Supreme Court confirmation hearings into a spreadsheet, with one row for each statement, question, and answer. The 15 transcripts begin with William Rehnquist’s 1971 hearing and end with Neil Gorsuch’s in 2017. (Robert Bork’s failed nomination is excluded, and Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 transcript is not yet available.) [h/t Zachary Agatstein + Alex Spurrier] | https://www.rstreet.org/about-r-street/
https://www.rstreet.org/2019/04/04/supreme-court-confirmation-hearing-transcripts-as-data/ | https://twitter.com/callonzach/status/1113880923609673728
https://twitter.com/alspur/status/1114155897146814466 | 0.788183 | -0.529328 | 1,017 | 3,954 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
722 | 2019.04.17 | 3 | Scientific publishing, linked. | The Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, published under an Open Data Attributions license, describes 8+ billion relationships between scientific papers, their authors, affiliated institutions, conferences, journals, fields of study, and more. The data can be downloaded and also queried online through a SPARQL interface. [h/t Michael Färber] | http://ma-graph.org/
http://ma-graph.org/schema-linked-dataset-descriptions/
http://ma-graph.org/rdf-dumps/
http://ma-graph.org/sparql-endpoint/ | https://github.com/awesomedata/apd-core/commit/43e18bcf425c3d5c837957c959b3ef5cb04688f8 | 0.551287 | 0.266479 | 2,609 | 10,467 | 75 | 75 | Open Research Datasets | false |
723 | 2019.04.17 | 4 | 18th-century coroner inquests. | The London Lives initiative “makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners.” As part of the project, digital historian Sharon Howard has compiled a dataset of 2,894 Westminster coroners’ inquests from 1760 to 1799. The fields include the date of death, the name of the deceased, the cause of death, the coroner’s verdict, and more. Bonus: A recent Twitter thread from Howard highlighting more datasets. | https://www.londonlives.org/static/Project.jsp
http://sharonhoward.org/
https://github.com/sharonhoward/londonlives/tree/master/coroners_inquests
https://twitter.com/sharon_howard/status/1117430102088921088 | null | -0.101832 | -0.70819 | 604 | 2,361 | 15 | -1 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
724 | 2019.04.17 | 5 | Double rainbows. | The question: How many bags of Skittles must you open before finding two identical color-distributions? The answer: “82 days, 13 boxes, 468 packs, and 27,740 individual Skittles later [...]”. The data: available on GitHub. [h/t u/cavedave] | https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/identical-packs-of-skittles/
https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/follow-up-i-found-two-identical-packs-of-skittles-among-468-packs-with-a-total-of-27740-skittles/
https://github.com/possibly-wrong/skittles | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/bau3fy/dataset_of_skittles_pack_color_counts_with_a_pair/ | 0.012325 | 0.593967 | 3,296 | 13,120 | 13 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
725 | 2019.04.24 | 1 | Democracy. | Varieties of Democracy bills itself as “a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy” — one that “reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections.” The project scores countries annually on five high-level aspects of democracy, which are further broken down (by thousands of country-experts, based on a detailed codebook) into hundreds of more granular “indicators,” such as how often the government publicly attacks the judiciary, the extent to which authorities respect religious freedom, and the proportion of journalists who are women. Version 9 of the dataset, released earlier this month, covers 1789 to 2018 and includes 202 countries. [h/t John Polga-Hecimovich] | https://www.v-dem.net/en/
https://www.v-dem.net/en/reference/version-9-apr-2019/
https://www.v-dem.net/en/data/data-version-9/ | https://twitter.com/jpolga/status/1115260559665049600 | 0.657499 | -0.398219 | 1,269 | 4,970 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
726 | 2019.04.24 | 2 | World leaders. | The Archigos dataset provides historical data the leaders of nearly 200 countries between 1875 and 2015. The dataset — a collaboration between political scientists Hein Goemans, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Giacomo Chiozza — includes basic demographic information, plus categorizations of how each leader came to power, how they lost it, and their post-office fate. Now you know: No UK prime minister has died in office since 1865; José María Velasco Ibarra became president of Ecuador five separate times, and removed by coup four times; Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi is 92 years old. [h/t Jeffrey Sachs] | http://www.ksgleditsch.com/archigos.html
http://www.rochester.edu/college/faculty/hgoemans/
http://ksgleditsch.com/
http://www.chiozza.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_Prime_Ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom#Died_in_office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Velasco_Ibarra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beji_Caid_Essebsi | https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1117484417776148480 | 0.565669 | -0.338949 | 1,394 | 5,476 | 30 | -1 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
727 | 2019.04.24 | 3 | Ride-hailing. | Chicago has become the first city to publish detailed data from ride-hailing services, such as Uber and Lyft. Last week, officials released three datasets — on (anonymized) drivers, vehicles, and trips. The driver and vehicle datasets cover early 2015 through December 2018. The trip dataset covers only November and December 2018; even so, it includes more than 17 million rides. For each ride, the records contain the rough pickup and dropoff location, duration, the approximate fare and tip, and more. [h/t Sharon Machlis + Dan Nguyen + Karl Sluis + Michael A. Rice] | https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/4/15/18311340/uber-lyft-chicago-data-fares-drivers
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Transportation-Network-Providers-Drivers/j6wf-834c
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Transportation-Network-Providers-Vehicles/bc6b-sq4u
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Transportation-Network-Providers-Trips/m6dm-c72p | http://www.machlis.com/
https://twitter.com/dancow/status/1118312979756453889
https://twitter.com/karlsluis | -0.52779 | 0.012005 | 2,063 | 8,222 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
728 | 2019.04.24 | 4 | Software development time estimates. | Derek M. Jones analyzes software-engineering data. Recently, he convinced a small software company to release a dataset documenting its internal time estimates, spanning 10 years, 20 projects, and 10,000+ tasks. For each task, the dataset indicates the number of hours it was predicted to take, how long it actually took, the (anonymized) developers it was assigned to, and more. [h/t Erik Bern] | https://github.com/Derek-Jones/ESEUR-code-data
https://github.com/Derek-Jones/SiP_dataset | https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html | 0.601002 | 0.235964 | 2,547 | 10,214 | 75 | -1 | Open Research Datasets | false |
729 | 2019.04.24 | 5 | Hunger Games survival. | “In a Cox proportional hazards model, which covariates are associated with the odds (or hazard ratios) being ever in your favor?” To find out, Brett Keller created spreadsheet of all 24 tributes in the 74th Hunger Games, including the districts from which they hailed, their ages, and how many days they survived. | http://www.bdkeller.com/writing/hunger-games-survival-analysis
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qXSvoXJxKeX2mjjCVFloM1ZwrefiTtZNgrssgfbWoTI/edit#gid=0 | null | -0.100428 | -0.755015 | 476 | 1,977 | 15 | -1 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
730 | 2019.05.01 | 1 | State-owned oil companies. | The browseable and downloadable National Oil Company Database, a project of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, pulls together official data on nearly 100 metrics concerning 71 oil/gas companies owned by 61 countries. For instance: Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., reported transferring roughly $5.5 billion dollars to its government in 2016, down from nearly $28 million in 2013; Saudi Aramco produces the equivalent of 13 million barrels of oil daily; and in 2017, Russia’s Rosneft generated approximately $283,000 in revenue per employee. [h/t Rachel Ziemba] | https://www.nationaloilcompanydata.org/
https://resourcegovernance.org/ | https://twitter.com/reziemba/status/1121392285634179072 | -0.820366 | 0.417004 | 2,885 | 11,531 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
731 | 2019.05.01 | 2 | Decertified police officers. | USA Today has collaborated with more than 100 of its affiliated newsrooms and the Invisible Institute to gather police disciplinary records “from thousands of state agencies, prosecutors and local police departments” around the country, creating “the biggest collection of police misconduct records” ever assembled. They’re starting to make the records public, beginning with a database of 30,000+ officers who’ve had their certifications revoked. The database lists each officer’s name, state, agency, and year decertified. It includes records from 44 states, but you won’t find Massachusetts in it, for instance, because the state doesn’t license police officers. And although there are a handful of records from New York state, none regard NYPD officers; that’s in part because the country’s largest police force keeps its misconduct cases secret. (Last year, colleagues at BuzzFeed News published a database of 1,800 NYPD officers accused of misconduct, based on some of those secret records, obtained from a source who requested anonymity.) | https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/usa-today-revealing-misconduct-records-police-cops/3223984002/
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/biggest-collection-police-accountability-records-ever-assembled/2299127002/
https://twitter.com/TWallack/status/1121375082474029056
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/nypd-police-misconduct-database | null | 0.103199 | -0.757126 | 483 | 1,990 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
732 | 2019.05.01 | 3 | Nobel laureates’ papers. | A team of researchers has compiled the publication histories of 545 Nobel laureates — 92% of the prize-winners in physics, chemistry, and physiology-or-medicine between 1900 and 2016. The researchers say they spent more than 1,000 hours collecting and validating the data, drawing on the Nobel website, laureates’ personal pages, Wikipedia entries, and the Microsoft Academic Graph (featured in DIP earlier this month). | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/6NJ5RN
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-academic-graph/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fprojects%2Fmag%2F
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-04-17-edition | null | 0.53894 | 0.361842 | 2,801 | 11,234 | 70 | 70 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
733 | 2019.05.01 | 4 | Piano performances. | The MAESTRO dataset gathers recordings from nine years of the International Piano-e-Competition, where “virtuoso pianists perform on Yamaha Disklaviers which, in addition to being concert-quality acoustic grand pianos, utilize an integrated high-precision MIDI capture and playback system.” The MIDI data “includes key strike velocities and sustain pedal positions”; additional metadata contains each performance’s year, composer, and title. Related: OpenAI’s music-composing MuseNet neural network, trained in part on the MAESTRO data. | https://magenta.tensorflow.org/datasets/maestro
http://piano-e-competition.com/
https://openai.com/blog/musenet/ | null | 0.371872 | 0.793687 | 3,691 | 14,679 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
734 | 2019.05.01 | 5 | Fortnite. | Through an unofficial API, you can access to data on the latest items, weapons, challenges, and other aspects of the global video game phenomenon. | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://fortniteapi.com\nhttps://www.polygon.com/fortnite-battle-royale/2018/3/30/17177068/why-is-fortnite-popular" | null | 0.482078 | 0.772079 | 3,631 | 14,558 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
735 | 2019.05.08 | 1 | Food, globally. | The United Nations’ FAOSTAT provides dozens of country-by-country datasets on agriculture. The datasets include crop and livestock production, imports and exports, fertilizer usage, emissions, and more. Many go back to 1961. (In that year, Afghanistan harvested about 32,000 metric tons of apricots.) Related: Researchers have previously used this data to trace the “increasing homogeneity in global food supplies” over time. Also related: National Geographic’s visualization of that research. [h/t David Svab] | http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home
http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/HYOWIC
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/11/4001
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/diet-similarity/ | https://twitter.com/DavidSvab/status/1122977607677427712 | -0.242126 | 0.522735 | 3,096 | 12,464 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
736 | 2019.05.08 | 2 | Canadian candidates. | University of Montreal PhD candidate Semra Sevi has compiled data on all Canadian federal candidates from 1867 to 2017. The dataset lists each candidate’s gender, occupation, incumbency status, party affiliations, birth year, and electoral results. The tens of thousands of candidates have represented roughly 140 parties. Among them: Canada’s Work Less Party, which has fielded one lone federal candidate, who in 2008 received 1% of Vancouver East’s votes. [h/t Éric Grenier + Peter Loewen] | https://semrasevi.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ABFNSQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Less_Party | https://twitter.com/EricGrenierCBC/status/1122898072261005312
https://twitter.com/PeejLoewen/status/1122894599238774784 | 0.903281 | -0.316668 | 1,404 | 5,625 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
737 | 2019.05.08 | 3 | Visual questions from blind people. | A decade ago, researchers built VizWiz, a smartphone app that allowed blind users take photos and ask questions about them. For instance: “What color is this?” or “When is the expiration date?” Now 20,000 VizWiz images and questions, plus 200,000 answers, are available to download — part of a contest to develop algorithms for visual question-answering. Related: Be My Eyes, an app that lets you volunteer your visual assistance through a video call. | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.222.9697
http://vizwiz.org/data/
https://www.bemyeyes.com/ | null | 0.423806 | 0.466532 | 2,989 | 11,995 | 73 | -1 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
738 | 2019.05.08 | 4 | Windy City murals. | Last month, Chicago officials launched a public mural registry. So far, the database includes more than 140 pieces, credited to more than 100 artists. About half of the entries specify the mural’s medium (e.g., paint, spray, mosaic) and nearly all indicate the mural’s location and installation year. | https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/mural_registry.html
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Historic-Preservation/Mural-Registry/we8h-apcf | null | 0.291288 | 0.633953 | 3,369 | 13,394 | 79 | -1 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
739 | 2019.05.08 | 5 | Southpaws. | Using data scraped from BoxRec.com and UFCStats.com, Thomas Richardson analyzed “over 13,800 professional boxers and mixed martial artists of varying abilities” and has found “robust evidence that left-handed fighters have greater fighting success.” | https://osf.io/x3unr/
http://boxrec.com/
http://ufcstats.com/statistics/events/completed
https://twitter.com/Richie_Research/status/1119714989235945472
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/555912v3 | null | 0.335793 | 0.447146 | 2,986 | 11,861 | 73 | -1 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
740 | 2019.05.15 | 1 | U.S. executions. | The Death Penalty Information Center maintains a database of all executions in the United States since 1976. (There have been 1,495 so far.) The database tracks the date, method, county, and state of each execution; the name, age, sex, and race of the person executed; and the race and sex of the victims they were convicted of killing. Related: The Marshall Project’s The Next to Die. Previously: Death sentences (DIP 2018.08.01) and executed prisoners' last words (DIP 2019.03.06). | https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/views-executions
https://www.themarshallproject.org/next-to-die
https://endofitsrope.com/using-the-database/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-08-01-edition
https://selectstarsql.com/frontmatter.html#dataset
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-03-06-edition | null | 0.16957 | -0.969594 | 37 | 202 | 6 | 6 | Criminal Justice Databases | false |
741 | 2019.05.15 | 2 | Populism. | Team Populism is an initiative that “brings together renowned scholars from Europe and the Americas to study the causes and consequences” of the titular political style. The collaboration has published several datasets, including one that scores the populist rhetoric of 40 countries’ leaders between 2000 and 2018 — a project commissioned by The Guardian, which has visualized the findings and described the methodology. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen] | http://populism.byu.edu/
http://populism.byu.edu/Pages/Data
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2019/mar/06/revealed-the-rise-and-rise-of-populist-rhetoric
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/how-we-combed-leaders-speeches-to-gauge-populist-rise | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData#additional-overviews-of-datasets | 0.790912 | -0.432675 | 1,209 | 4,722 | 31 | -1 | Political Data Datasets | false |
742 | 2019.05.15 | 3 | Books in translation. | Publishers Weekly’s Translation Database tracks books of fiction and poetry that has been translated into English and published in the United States. The database, which contains more than 7,200 entries since 2008, includes the books’ original languages and countries of publication, the authors’ and translators’ names and genders, the publishers´ names, publication years, prices, and ISBNs. Related: “Will Translated Fiction Ever Really Break Through?” a recent Vulture article by Chad Post, who created the database. | https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/translation/home/index.html
https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/translated-fiction-has-been-growing-or-has-it.html
https://twitter.com/chadwpost | null | 0.798967 | 0.516526 | 3,129 | 12,531 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
743 | 2019.05.15 | 4 | Social animals. | A team of biologists has compiled and standardized data on 790+ animal social networks, covering more than 45 species on six continents. The Animal Social Network Repository features networks of wild and captive mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, and insects; the connective data-tissue includes dominance relationships, group memberships, grooming behaviors, and several other types of interactions. | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0056-z
https://github.com/bansallab/asnr
https://bansallab.github.io/asnr/ | null | -0.156183 | 0.938719 | 3,995 | 15,926 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
744 | 2019.05.15 | 5 | Speedcubing. | The World Cube Association “governs competitions for mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces,” the most famous of which is the Rubik’s Cube. The association also publishes a database of all competitions, competitors, results, rankings, and more. Related: “Children of the Cube,” by the New York Times’ John Branch. [h/t Michael Höhle + u/cavedave] | https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Cube
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/misc/export.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/sports/cubing-usa-nationals-max-park.html | http://staff.math.su.se/hoehle/blog/2019/05/06/wcamining.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/blamnh/mining_the_world_rubiks_cubing_association/ | 0.635503 | 0.485667 | 3,060 | 12,264 | 72 | 72 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
745 | 2019.05.22 | 1 | Internet speeds. | The Measurement Lab describes itself as “the largest open source Internet measurement effort in the world.” Volunteers run the lab’s tests on their own devices, measuring their internet connection’s speed, latency, and other characteristics. The lab then publishes the data it collects, both as raw output and as BigQuery tables. It also offers a tool for charting internet speeds by location and ISP, based on 240+ million tests generated from 87,000+ cities; you can access the data underlying any chart, and also download the same aggregations directly. [h/t Georgia Bullen] | https://www.measurementlab.net/
https://www.measurementlab.net/faq/
https://www.measurementlab.net/tests/
https://www.measurementlab.net/data/
https://www.measurementlab.net/data/docs/gcs/
https://www.measurementlab.net/data/docs/bq/quickstart/
https://viz.measurementlab.net/
https://viz.measurementlab.net/data | https://georgiabullen.com/ | 0.419236 | 0.105616 | 2,285 | 9,050 | 55 | 55 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
746 | 2019.05.22 | 2 | City finances. | The Fiscally Standardized Cities database “makes it possible to compare local government finances for 150 of the largest U.S. cities across more than 120 categories of revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets.” The database, developed by Adam Langley at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, covers the years 1977 to 2016 and takes into account the ways in which finances and responsibilities overlap between cities, counties, school districts, and other local governments. [h/t Cezary Podkul] | https://www.lincolninst.edu/research-data/data-toolkits/fiscally-standardized-cities
https://www.lincolninst.edu/research-data/data-toolkits/fiscally-standardized-cities/list-150-fiscs
https://www.lincolninst.edu/about-lincoln-institute/people/adam-h-langley
https://www.lincolninst.edu/ | https://twitter.com/Cezary/status/1104106397690556421 | -0.041869 | -0.115266 | 1,822 | 7,229 | 63 | -1 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
747 | 2019.05.22 | 3 | The Supreme Court of Canada’s interveners. | At Canada’s highest court, “interveners” are the rough equivalent of amicus brief filers in U.S. Supreme Court cases. Sancho McCann, a student at the University of British Columbia’s law school, has created a dataset of the past ten years of interveners and has analyzed it. For each of the 665 cases from 2009 to 2018, the dataset includes the case name, the previous court, a couple of case classifications, and the names of the interveners (if any). | https://sanchom.github.io/
https://github.com/sanchom/scc_stats
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zNUIDaw4Fd8H_zr-dZsIs8Si_8QlqPY6nIQGR8UzoVY/edit#gid=716506492
https://sanchom.github.io/interveners-2009-2018.html | null | 0.724367 | -0.624955 | 823 | 3,182 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
748 | 2019.05.22 | 4 | Primates. | A team of researchers at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México have aggregated the observations of 1,216 studies into a database describing 504 primate species. The traits in the database include body mass, habitat, type of diet, conservation status, and more. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Autonomous_University_of_Mexico
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0059-9
https://zenodo.org/record/2600338 | null | -0.138182 | 0.954699 | 3,995 | 16,055 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
749 | 2019.05.22 | 5 | From Abdul-Aziz to Young-Malcolm. | The Pudding’s Jan Diehm has identified and analyzed decades of hyphenated last names in seven North American sports leagues: the MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, MLS, WNBA, and NWSL. The code and data are available to download. Now you know: Two ambi-hyphenates — Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond and Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre — have played in the NHL (and none in any of other leagues). | https://twitter.com/jadiehm
https://pudding.cool/2019/05/hyphens/
https://github.com/the-pudding/hyphenated-names | null | 0.386964 | 0.495978 | 3,052 | 12,248 | 77 | -1 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
750 | 2019.05.29 | 1 | Education data, unified. | “Every year, the federal government releases large amounts of data on US schools, districts, and colleges. But this information is scattered across multiple datasets, and changes in data structure make it hard to measure change.” The Urban Institute’s Education Data Explorer aims to fix that by pulling together the Department of Education’s Common Core of Data, Civil Rights Data Collection, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, and College Scorecard, plus the Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates. You download custom queries, access the data via an API, or download bulk files for all elementary and secondary schools, school districts, and colleges. [h/t Daniel Wood] | https://educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer/about/
https://www.urban.org/
https://educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer/
https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/
https://ocrdata.ed.gov/
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/saipe.html
https://educationdata.urban.org/documentation/
https://educationdata.urban.org/documentation/schools.html
https://educationdata.urban.org/documentation/school-districts.html
https://educationdata.urban.org/documentation/colleges.html | https://twitter.com/DanielPWWood | 0.086243 | -0.347868 | 1,314 | 5,317 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
751 | 2019.05.29 | 2 | Las Calles de las Mujeres. | GeoChicas, an initiative to close the gender gap in the OpenStreetMap community, has built an interactive map and dataset that shows which streets in Latin America and Spain that are named after women (and the much larger number named after men). So far, they’ve mapped 11 cities in 8 countries, including Barcelona, Havana, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. | https://geochicas.org/
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GeoChicas
https://geochicasosm.github.io/lascallesdelasmujeres/
https://github.com/geochicasosm/lascallesdelasmujeres | null | -0.280992 | 0.304683 | 2,647 | 10,670 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
752 | 2019.05.29 | 3 | Serbian anti-corruption proceedings. | Postupci Protiv Funkcionera “is a unique database made by the Center for Investigative Reporting of Serbia, which gives citizens the opportunity to get information in one place about the processes conducted by the Serbian Anti-Corruption Agency against public officials in the period from 2010 to November 2018.” The database contains information on nearly 2,800 proceedings against more than 1,700 officials, and can be downloaded as an RDS file (and opened in R). Kudos: The project has been shortlisted for the 2019 Data Journalism Awards. (Full shortlist here.) | https://funkcioneri.cins.rs/
https://github.com/CINSerbia/cins_funkcioneri
https://github.com/CINSerbia/cins_funkcioneri/tree/master/app/data
https://mgimond.github.io/ES218/Week02b.html#reading_from_a_r_data_file
https://datajournalismawards.org/projects/database-on-proceedings-against-public-officials/
https://datajournalismawards.org/2019-shortlist/ | null | 0.673673 | -0.305641 | 1,461 | 5,739 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
753 | 2019.05.29 | 4 | Lone Star land use. | The Texas General Land Office’s geospatial data offerings include beach access points, shoreline environmental sensitivity ratings, offshore oil structures, oil and gas leases, and more. Related: “Relinquishing Riches: Auctions vs Informal Negotiations in Texas Oil and Gas Leasing,” and NBER working paper by economists Thomas R. Covert and Richard L. Sweeney; code and data available on GitHub. | http://www.glo.texas.gov/index.html
http://www.glo.texas.gov/land/land-management/gis/
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25712
https://home.uchicago.edu/~tcovert/
http://www.richard-sweeney.com/
https://github.com/rlsweeney/public_cs_texas | null | -0.752212 | 0.470303 | 3,015 | 12,047 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
754 | 2019.05.29 | 5 | From !!! to The Zutons. | Duncan Geere’s 00s Indie Band Database quantifies 130+ acts from the early-millennium’s indie music scenes. In addition to basic facts, the database also includes several subjective scales: “Guitars to Synths,” “Artsy to Populist,” “Loudness,” and “Coolness.” | https://www.duncangeere.com/
https://www.duncangeere.com/00sindiebanddatabase/ | null | 0.411656 | 0.782989 | 3,693 | 14,682 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
755 | 2019.06.05 | 1 | Freedom lawsuits in early America. | O Say Can You See, a project partially funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities, “documents the challenge to slavery and the quest for freedom in early Washington, D.C., by collecting, digitizing, making accessible, and analyzing freedom suits filed between 1800 and 1862, as well as tracing the multigenerational family networks they reveal.” The project provides several ways to access the data and documents; it covers more than 500 lawsuits, nearly 5,000 people, and tens of thousands of relationships. You can also explore the cases, people, and families online. [h/t Jan Willem Tulp] | http://earlywashingtondc.org/
http://earlywashingtondc.org/about/data
http://earlywashingtondc.org/about
http://earlywashingtondc.org/cases
http://earlywashingtondc.org/people
http://earlywashingtondc.org/families | https://twitter.com/janwillemtulp | 0.264935 | 0.139991 | 2,344 | 9,296 | 17 | 17 | Historical Data Projects | false |
756 | 2019.06.05 | 2 | Global voter turnout. | The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance’s Voter Turnout Database tracks the number of registered voters, total voter turnout, voting-age population, and associated metrics for elections in more than 200 countries, some going as far back as 1945. Related: The European Parliament’s election results website provides charts and bulk downloads. Also related: “What’s going on with abstention in Europe?,” a recent article by Lorenzo Ferrari and Jacopo Ottaviani. [h/t Gianna Grün + Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://www.idea.int/
https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/voter-turnout
https://election-results.eu/
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/What-s-going-on-with-abstention-in-Europe
https://twitter.com/lorferr
https://twitter.com/JacopoOttaviani | https://twitter.com/giannagruen/status/1132965118264913920
https://mailchi.mp/7959f80f0f06/preview-222-in-other-news-3716641 | 0.883204 | -0.389073 | 1,276 | 5,112 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
757 | 2019.06.05 | 3 | Chicago eviction trends. | The Chicago-focused Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing has built a database of evictions in the city from 2010 to 2017. It aggregates nearly 300,000 evictions to the ward, community area, and Census tract level, and contains metrics on case types, outcomes, legal representation, and more. There’s a user guide, bulk download, and methodology. Previously: The Eviction Lab, an effort to collect eviction data for the entire country (DIP 2018.04.18). [h/t Maya Dukmasova] | https://www.lcbh.org/
https://eviction.lcbh.org/
https://eviction.lcbh.org/data/user-guide
https://eviction.lcbh.org/data/download
https://eviction.lcbh.org/data/methodology
https://evictionlab.org/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-04-18-edition | https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tenant-attorneys-eviction-court/Content?oid=70321474 | -0.317211 | 0.040952 | 2,133 | 8,491 | 48 | -1 | New York City Housing Data | false |
758 | 2019.06.05 | 4 | Language learning. | In an study published last year (preprint PDF here), three Boston-area professors analyzed data from more than 600,000 people who took an online English grammar quiz. In addition to the participants’ answers, the dataset includes their native languages, the age they began learning English, the countries they’ve lived in, gender, age, and more. Related: Scott Chacon's analysis of the data, and what it might mean for older learners. [h/t George McIntire] | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027718300994
http://l3atbc-public.s3.amazonaws.com/pub_pdfs/JK_Hartshorne_JB_Tenenbaum_S_Pinker_2018.pdf
https://osf.io/pyb8s/
http://web.archive.org/web/20180217125721/http://archive.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/
https://osf.io/pyb8s/wiki/home/
https://medium.com/@chacon/mit-scientists-prove-adults-learn-language-to-fluency-nearly-as-well-as-children-1de888d1d45f | https://twitter.com/GeorgeMcInt | 0.821941 | 0.530489 | 3,130 | 12,532 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
759 | 2019.06.05 | 5 | Thirsty appliances. | “The BLOND dataset was collected at a typical office building in Germany, with the main occupants being academic institutes and their researchers.” BLOND’s several dozen terabytes of data provide “long-term continuous measurements of voltage and current waveforms” for 74 appliances in office over several months, including a bunch of computers, a printer, paper shredder, space heater, and an electric toothbrush. | https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201848
https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1375836
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201848/tables/2 | null | 0.508483 | 0.405352 | 2,864 | 11,488 | 70 | 70 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
760 | 2019.06.12 | 1 | Ebola in the DRC. | The Humanitarian Data Exchange has been tracking cases and deaths in the North Kivu Ebola outbreak. The numbers come from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s health ministry and distinguish between suspected, probable, and confirmed cases; they are available at both the national level and disaggregated into the ministry’s 25 currently-affected health zones. Related: “Ebola cases pass 2,000 as crisis escalates” (Nature). Also related: The World Health Organization’s weekly situation reports. Previously: Data from the 2014 Ebola outbreak (DIP 2018.05.23). [h/t Sam Phinizy] | https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ebola-cases-and-deaths-drc-north-kivu
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01735-0
https://www.who.int/ebola/situation-reports/drc-2018/en/
https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-05-23-edition | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20105201 | -0.288153 | -0.8019 | 406 | 1,581 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
761 | 2019.06.12 | 2 | ICE solitary confinement. | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and partners have obtained records that detail 8,000+ instances, between 2012 and 2017, in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers placed detainees in solitary confinement. For each confinement, the records indicate the detainee’s citizenship, detention facility, dates of confinement, and the stated reasons for it. Note: “ICE said it does not keep records of every solitary confinement placement. Instead it tracks only those cases where detainees were held in isolation for more than 14 days, and where immigrants with a ‘special vulnerability’ were placed in isolation.” [h/t Jason Norwood-Young] | https://www.icij.org/investigations/solitary-voices/about-the-solitary-voices-investigation/
https://www.icij.org/investigations/solitary-voices/thousands-of-immigrants-suffer-in-us-solitary-confinement/ | https://mailchi.mp/37c8b38125c3/naked-data-216-eu-elections-election-rigging-extracting-diamonds-erudite-insights-and-excellent-envisions | 0.000281 | -0.921277 | 160 | 704 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
762 | 2019.06.12 | 3 | Economic mobility. | Opportunity Insights, a research and policy institute that uses data analysis to examine economic mobility in the United States, publishes dozens of datasets stemming from their studies, often accompanied by code to replicate their findings. Related: “The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics,” a recent profile of Raj Chetty, who co-leads the institute. Bonus: The lecture materials for Chetty’s popular new class, “Using Big Data Solve Economic and Social Problems.” [h/t Michael A. Rice] | https://opportunityinsights.org/
https://opportunityinsights.org/data/
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/14/18520783/harvard-economics-chetty
https://opportunityinsights.org/course/ | null | -0.000814 | -0.188241 | 1,631 | 6,591 | 68 | -1 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
763 | 2019.06.12 | 4 | Three centuries of taxation. | For 220 countries between the 1750s and 2018, the Tax Introduction Dataset tracks “the year of the first permanent introduction at the national level of government of six major taxes, as well as on the top statutory tax rate for that year.” The six taxes are those on personal income, corporate income, inheritance, and general sales, plus VATs and compulsory social security contributions. [h/t Philipp Heimberger + Laura Seelkopf] | http://tid.seelkopf.eu/ | https://twitter.com/heimbergecon/status/1133663993028128769
https://twitter.com/LauraSeelkopf/status/1132921720237625346 | 0.077211 | -0.027876 | 2,018 | 8,004 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
764 | 2019.06.12 | 5 | National parks. | The U.S. Department of the Interior publishes data describing the boundaries of all 420 units of the National Park System. In addition to the 61 officially-designated national parks, the boundaries include the country’s national preserves, national seashores, and 30 other types of special places. | https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2225713 | null | -0.464802 | 0.551355 | 3,153 | 12,706 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
765 | 2019.06.19 | 1 | Drug prices. | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ National Average Drug Acquisition Cost dataset indicates how much U.S. pharmacies have to pay, on average, to obtain thousands of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The dataset contains millions of rows — one for each National Drug Code in the survey, for each week since 2013 — but you can also download smaller, weekly slices. The agency also publishes a dataset of changes in these average costs. Previously: Total and average costs for Medicare Part B and Part D prescriptions (DIP 2016.12.14). [h/t data.world] | https://data.medicaid.gov/Drug-Pricing-and-Payment/NADAC-National-Average-Drug-Acquisition-Cost-/a4y5-998d
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/prescription-drugs/pharmacy-pricing/index.html
https://data.medicaid.gov/Drug-Pricing-and-Payment/NADAC-Comparison/6gk3-9bxc
https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Information-on-Prescription-Drugs/MedicarePartB.html
https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Information-on-Prescription-Drugs/MedicarePartD.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-12-14-edition | https://page.data.world/data-digest-veteran-congresswomen-congressional-social-media-medicaid-drug-costs | -0.519945 | -0.534921 | 911 | 3,742 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
766 | 2019.06.19 | 2 | Discographies. | Discogs, a user-contributed music database and marketplace, publishes “monthly data dumps” listing the millions of artists, labels, and releases in its system. Additional types of data (e.g., user reviews) are available through Discogs’ API. [h/t Jan Willem Tulp] | https://www.discogs.com/
https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008545114-Overview-Of-How-Discogs-Is-Built
https://data.discogs.com/
https://www.discogs.com/about
https://www.discogs.com/developers/ | https://twitter.com/JanWillemTulp/status/1138473798313881600 | 0.419032 | 0.759029 | 3,629 | 14,426 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
767 | 2019.06.19 | 3 | Plant extinctions. | “Most people can name a mammal or bird that has become extinct in recent centuries, but few can name a recently extinct plant.” That’s from a new academic paper that presents “a comprehensive, global analysis of modern extinction in plants.” The paper itself is paywalled, but the dataset — of 571 extinct seed plants, plus other species that have been rediscovered or reclassified — is available to download. Related: World’s largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate, a summary of the findings. [h/t Joseph Stirt] | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0906-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0906-2#Sec4
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01810-6 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20150192 | -0.227778 | 0.936291 | 3,928 | 15,793 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
768 | 2019.06.19 | 4 | European monarchs. | Developer Michael Zemel has built an interactive timeline of 282 European kings, queens, emperors, and other monarchs. For each, the data includes his or her name, religion, period of reign, reason for losing power, wars involved in, relationships, and notable events. Zemel has also published a detailed writeup about his inspiration and process, plus the underlying data and code. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo + Sophie Warnes] | https://thebackend.dev/
https://thebackend.dev/monarchs/
https://thebackend.dev/building-monarchs
https://github.com/mzemel/monarchs | http://www.puntofisso.net/
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-census-google-results-and-eurovision-182227 | 0.522794 | -0.267273 | 1,520 | 5,985 | 27 | 27 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
769 | 2019.06.19 | 5 | An obviously perfect dataset. | MUStARD is a corpus of 690 text and video clips “for research in automated sarcasm discovery.” The dataset’s 690 examples — half involving sarcasm, half not — come from Friends, The Golden Girls, The Big Bang Theory, and Sarcasmaholics Anonymous. Related: Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An Obviously Perfect Paper), the researchers’ introduction to the dataset. | https://github.com/soujanyaporia/MUStARD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcOfFeKXcd4
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01815 | null | 0.75169 | 0.458543 | 3,000 | 12,016 | 71 | -1 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
770 | 2019.06.26 | 1 | Space imagery. | You can browse NASA’s Image and Video Library online; you can also access it via NASA’s API. Through that interface, you can search by caption, keyword, location, photographer, year created, and other fields; in return, you get structured data on each media file. The library was launched two years ago, bringing together more than 140,000 images, videos, and audio files that had previously been spread across dozens of separate collections. [h/t Seth Donoughe] | https://images.nasa.gov/
https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#Images
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-unveils-new-searchable-video-audio-and-imagery-library-for-the-public | https://www.sethdonoughe.com/ | 0.342858 | 0.791919 | 3,690 | 14,677 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
771 | 2019.06.26 | 2 | Supreme Court v. Congress. | The Judicial Review of Congress dataset, compiled by Princeton politics professor Keith E. Whittington, “catalogs all the cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court has substantively reviewed the constitutionality of a provision or application of a federal law.” The dataset currently covers 1,308 cases, stretching from the high court’s founding through its 2017 term. For each case, it specifies the statute being reviewed, how long the statute had been in effect, the main constitutional issues at hand, the outcome, and more. [h/t Sheldon Gilbert] | https://scholar.princeton.edu/kewhitt/judicial-review-congress-database
https://scholar.princeton.edu/kewhitt | https://twitter.com/sheldongilbert/status/1133778083021041666 | 0.759217 | -0.587612 | 888 | 3,440 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
772 | 2019.06.26 | 3 | Art-world salaries. | This is the spreadsheet that “broke the art world’s culture of silence.” In just a few weeks, Michelle Millar Fisher and anonymous colleagues have collected more than 2,600 self-reported salaries from their fellow curators, managers, interns, and other art-world employees. Related: “It took us three minutes to build this spreadsheet,” the organizers have written in The Art Newspaper. “It is not a perfect survey tool, nor was it ever intended to be. While we’ll work with statistics professionals to review and glean meaningful facts [...] Its primary goal is to catalyse us all into action.” [h/t u/cavedave] | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14_cn3afoas7NhKvHWaFKqQGkaZS5rvL6DFxzGqXQa6o/edit#gid=0
https://frieze.com/article/how-google-spreadsheet-broke-art-worlds-culture-silence
https://twitter.com/michellemfisher
https://twitter.com/AMTransparency
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/missions-statements-and-paychecks-let-s-put-our-money-where-our-mouths-are | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/by95n7/how_a_google_spreadsheet_broke_the_art_worlds/ | 0.360937 | 0.584808 | 3,243 | 13,015 | 79 | 79 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
773 | 2019.06.26 | 4 | UK post-graduation earnings. | The United Kingdom’s Department of Education publishes data on its university graduates’ annual earnings 1, 3, 5, and 10 years after graduation, broken down by school attended, subject studied, and demographic characteristics. [h/t Tera Allas] | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-higher-education-graduate-employment-and-earnings | https://twitter.com/TeraPauliina | 0.075706 | -0.244256 | 1,570 | 6,212 | 68 | 68 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
774 | 2019.06.26 | 5 | The State Of The State Of The States. | FiveThirtyEight has collected the text of all 50 state governors’ 2019 annual addresses, and has analyzed the most common words and phrases used by Republican and Democratic governors. | https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/state-of-the-state
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-americas-governors-are-talking-about/ | null | 0.927908 | -0.156062 | 1,789 | 7,035 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
775 | 2019.07.03 | 1 | Wiretaps. | The Administrative Office of the United States Courts posts its annual “wiretap reports”, which provide details on the wiretaps that state and federal judges have authorized. Last week, the agency published its 2018 report; the supplementary data includes each wiretap’s jurisdiction, authorizing judge, date of authorization, type of intercept, number of communications intercepted, total cost, and more. [h/t Chris Zubak-Skees + Steven Rich] | https://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports/analysis-reports/wiretap-reports
https://www.uscourts.gov/news/2019/06/28/2018-wiretap-report-orders-and-convictions-fall
https://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports/wiretap-report-2018 | https://twitter.com/zubakskees
https://twitter.com/dataeditor/status/1145720404574638081 | 0.698046 | -0.625761 | 758 | 3,052 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
776 | 2019.07.03 | 2 | Venmo transactions. | Dan Salmon, a grad student who specializes in information security, has published data on more than 7 million Venmo transactions, which he downloaded from the mobile payment platform’s public API. “I am releasing this dataset,” he writes, “in order to bring attention to Venmo users that all of this data is publicly available for anyone to grab without even an API key.” Practical: How to make your Venmo transactions private. Related: Salmon explains more, in Wired. Also: In 2018, Hang Do Thi Duc analyzed 200 million public Venmo transactions to show how revealing they could be. [h/t Álex Barredo] | https://danthesalmon.com/about/
https://github.com/sa7mon/venmo-data
https://publicbydefault.fyi/#venmo
https://www.wired.com/story/i-scraped-millions-of-venmo-payments-your-data-is-at-risk/
https://22-8miles.com/about/
https://publicbydefault.fyi/ | https://twitter.com/somospostpc/status/1140895108944076800 | 0.549932 | 0.011647 | 2,097 | 8,291 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
777 | 2019.07.03 | 3 | Territorial disputes. | The Issue Correlates of War project, which started in 1997 with a focus on territorial disputes, gathers “systematic data on contentious issues in world politics.” In addition to its two centuries of territorial claims, the project has also catalogued disputes over rivers, maritime zones, and ethnic groups, and compiled supplementary datasets on colonial history, historical country names, and more. | http://www.paulhensel.org/icow.html
http://www.paulhensel.org/icowterr.html
http://www.paulhensel.org/icowriver.html
http://www.paulhensel.org/icowmar.html
http://www.paulhensel.org/icowiden.html
http://www.paulhensel.org/icowcol.html
http://www.paulhensel.org/icownames.html | null | 0.500479 | -0.572457 | 880 | 3,552 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
778 | 2019.07.03 | 4 | Mangroves. | Global Mangrove Watch uses satellite data to track the global extent of those coastal intertidal forests; the project’s seven snapshots span 1996 to 2016. Note: To download the data, you’ll need to provide a few details and agree to certain terms and conditions. [h/t Dan Friess] | https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/kyoto/mangrovewatch.htm
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mangroves.html
http://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/45
https://www.unep-wcmc.org/policies/general-data-license-excluding-wdpa#data_policy | https://twitter.com/danfriess/status/1139812925319733248 | -0.487866 | 0.723354 | 3,536 | 14,112 | 20 | -1 | Forest and Land Data | false |
779 | 2019.07.03 | 5 | Annotated pizzas. | “In this paper, we aim to teach a machine how to make a pizza,” writes a team of computer scientists from MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute. One of the key ingredients: 9,213 photos of pizza, with their lists of toppings annotated by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. [h/t Kristin Houser + Center for Data Innovation] | http://pizzagan.csail.mit.edu/
http://pizzagan.csail.mit.edu/#Dataset | https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-pizza-ai
https://mailchi.mp/datainnovation/new-in-datawhat-the-evidence-shows-about-the-impact-of-the-gdpr-after-one-year | 0.13084 | 0.552842 | 3,172 | 12,744 | 44 | -1 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
780 | 2019.07.10 | 1 | Flood insurance. | Last month, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency released two major datasets from its National Flood Insurance Program: more than 47 million insurance policies and more than 2 million insurance claims. The latter includes details on each claim’s property, flood zone, amount paid, and more. Both datasets have been partially redacted to remove personally-identifiable information. [h/t Anna Weber] | https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2019/06/11/fema-publishes-nfip-claims-and-policy-data
https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program
https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/180376
https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/180374 | https://twitter.com/aweberNRDC/status/1139240770194612225 | -0.816702 | 0.800249 | 3,653 | 14,731 | 24 | 24 | Wildfire Data and Monitoring | false |
781 | 2019.07.10 | 2 | Internet censorship tests. | The Open Observatory of Network Interference, run by the Tor Project, “collects and processes network measurements with the aim of detecting network anomalies, such as censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation.” You can volunteer to run OONI’s tests from your computer or phone; so far, “millions of network measurements have been collected from more than 200 countries since 2012.” You can explore that data online, download it in bulk, and access it via an API. Related: OONI’s blog, which includes reports on some of its findings. [h/t John Emerson] | https://explorer.ooni.io/about/
https://www.torproject.org/
https://ooni.torproject.org/nettest/
https://explorer.ooni.io/world/
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/mining-ooni-data/
https://api.ooni.io/
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ | https://backspace.com/ | 0.411149 | 0.083113 | 2,221 | 8,922 | 55 | 55 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
782 | 2019.07.10 | 3 | North American ecoregions. | In order to develop its maps of North American ecoregions, the US Environmental Protection Agency consulted with other federal agencies and state agencies, plus the governments of Canada and Mexico. Each “ecoregion” is an area with “similarity in the mosaic of biotic, abiotic, terrestrial, and aquatic ecosystem components with humans being considered as part of the biota.” The maps are available both as PDFs and as geospatial data files, at four levels of increasing specificity. [h/t Brandyn Friedly] | https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/ecoregions | https://twitter.com/brandynfriedly/status/1142917979736350721 | -0.440075 | 0.681841 | 3,409 | 13,731 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
783 | 2019.07.10 | 4 | California parks and wilderness. | With more than 15,000 “super units,” and an even larger number of subdivisions within them, the California Protected Areas Database is “the authoritative GIS database of parks and open space in California.” It’s one of the two main databases that the California Natural Resources Agency publishes regarding protected lands; the other, the California Conservation Easement Database, tracks restricted-use private land. [h/t @cartonaut] | https://www.calands.org/cpad/
https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/california-protected-areas-database-2019a
https://data.cnra.ca.gov/organization/protected-areas-gis-data
http://resources.ca.gov/
https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/california-conservation-easement-database-2018
https://www.calands.org/cced/ | https://twitter.com/cartonaut/status/1145838466770464768 | -0.447035 | 0.523515 | 3,089 | 12,451 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
784 | 2019.07.10 | 5 | Ballparks. | James Fee has compiled a dataset of more than 400 baseball stadiums from more than 40 leagues around the world; each stadium’s information includes its name, team(s), league(s), and geographic coordinates. | http://spatiallyadjusted.com/about/
https://github.com/cageyjames/GeoJSON-Ballparks/ | null | -0.002388 | 0.431236 | 2,911 | 11,711 | 44 | -1 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
785 | 2019.07.17 | 1 | Four decades of wildlife trade. | The CITES Trade Database, named after the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, contains information about more than 20 million shipments of wildlife (e.g., live tapirs, sturgeon eggs, wolf skulls) and wildlife products (e.g., venus flytrap extract) since 1975. The database is maintained by a UN agency and includes the year of the shipment; the scientific name of the plant or animal; the type and quantity of the particular thing being traded; their purpose and source; and the country of origin, export, and export. Related: Citesdb, an R package for analyzing the database. | https://trade.cites.org/
https://www.unep-wcmc.org/
https://ropensci.github.io/citesdb/ | null | -0.220523 | 0.875315 | 3,864 | 15,409 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
786 | 2019.07.17 | 2 | Two decades of UN Security Council debates. | A group of researchers have collected, parsed, and added metadata to all UN Security Council debates from 1995 through 2017. The dataset includes more than 65,000 speeches (with information about each speaker), extracted from nearly 5,000 meeting transcripts. Related: The authors describe their methodology. [h/t Ronny Patz] | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/KGVSYH
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10969 | https://twitter.com/ronpatz/status/1144223706702630913 | 0.743239 | -0.328895 | 1,399 | 5,487 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
787 | 2019.07.17 | 3 | International arbitration. | The PluriCourts Investment Treaty Arbitration Database (PITAD) provides “a comprehensive, regularly-updated and networked overview of all-known investment arbitration cases.” You can download the 1,400+ cases or explore them online, searching by case, arbitrator, investor, or country. Note: PITAD says its data are “strictly for academic use.” Related: My former colleague Chris Hamby’s “The Court That Rules the World” series — “an exposé of a dispute-settlement process used by multinational corporations to undermine domestic regulations and gut environmental laws at the expense of poorer nations,” as the Pulitzer committee put it. [h/t Joel Dahlquist Cullborg] | https://pitad.org/
https://pitad.org/index#crud/flat_files/list
https://twitter.com/ChrisDHamby
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrishamby/super-court
https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/chris-hamby-buzzfeed-news | https://twitter.com/joeldahlquist/status/1090940676362125312 | 0.664263 | -0.577215 | 885 | 3,562 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
788 | 2019.07.17 | 4 | Foreign lobbyists. | The United States’ Foreign Agents Registration Act requires lobbyists who represent foreign governments to file paperwork with the Department of Justice. The database has long been available to browse online; last month, the agency added a last month, however, added three new features: full-text search, an API, and bulk downloads. [h/t Lachlan Markay + Jack Corrigan + u/surlyq] | https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
https://efile.fara.gov/ords/f?p=1381:1:12056132996267:::::
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1143160656792887298
https://efile.fara.gov/ords/f?p=1235:10
https://efile.fara.gov/ords/f?p=107:1::::::
https://efile.fara.gov/ords/f?p=API:BULKDATA | https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1143160656792887298
https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2019/07/justice-department-launches-api-foreign-lobbyist-data/158138/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/c8bowc/justice_department_launches_api_for_foreign/ | 0.649697 | -0.120209 | 1,844 | 7,273 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
789 | 2019.07.17 | 5 | Inter- and intra-national boundaries. | The Database of Global Administrative Areas aims “to map the administrative areas of all countries, at all levels of sub-division.” With 386,735 divisions and counting, “this is a never ending project, but we are happy to share what we have.” Note: “commercial use is not allowed without prior permission.” | https://gadm.org/
https://gadm.org/about.html
https://gadm.org/data.html | null | -0.209402 | 0.315896 | 2,713 | 10,802 | 37 | -1 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
790 | 2019.07.24 | 1 | Bodies of water. | The Water Observatory “provides reliable and timely information about surface water levels of water bodies across the globe.” The locations are based on NASA’s Global Reservoir and Dam Database and the World Wildlife Fund’s Global Lakes and Wetlands Database. Concerned about the accuracy of the boundaries in those databases, the researchers instead treated them as a “collection of potentially interesting water bodies” and then “extracted their polygons from the OpenStreetMap.” Of the 40,000 bodies of water they extracted, they’ve published water level data for roughly 7,000 through the project’s interactive dashboard and API. [h/t Emma Vitz] | https://www.blue-dot-observatory.com/aboutwaterobservatory
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/grand-v1-dams-rev01
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/global-lakes-and-wetlands-database
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
https://water.blue-dot-observatory.com
https://forum.sentinel-hub.com/t/water-observatory-backend-example/859/2 | https://twitter.com/EmmaVitz/status/1132466425157709825 | -0.648536 | 0.681103 | 3,403 | 13,718 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
791 | 2019.07.24 | 2 | Hydro, streams, and rivers. | As part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s efforts to evaluate America’s hydropower resources, researchers there have developed a system (and corresponding dataset) for classifying all 2.6 million streams in the Lower 48 by size, hydrology, gradient, temperature, and “valley confinement.” Elsewhere, other researchers have assessed the “connectivity status of 12 million kilometres of rivers globally” and have identified “those that remain free-flowing in their entire length”; you can download that data and also explore it online. | https://www.ornl.gov/
https://hydrosource.ornl.gov/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201917
https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/A_Stream_Classification_System_for_the_Conterminous_United_States/4233740
https://hydrosource.ornl.gov/environmental-information/us-stream-classification-system
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1111-9
https://figshare.com/articles/Mapping_the_world_s_free-flowing_rivers_data_set_and_technical_documentation/7688801
http://hydrolab.io/ffr/# | null | -0.700461 | 0.678429 | 3,401 | 13,715 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
792 | 2019.07.24 | 3 | The height of the frozen world. | ICESat-2, launched by NASA in September 2018, “is measuring the height of a changing Earth one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses per second”; the satellite “allow[s] scientists to monitor the elevation of ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, and more—all in unprecedented detail.” Its datasets are available to download. [h/t Michael McLaughlin] | https://nsidc.org/data/icesat-2
https://nsidc.org/data/icesat-2/data-sets | https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/06/tracking-the-height-of-glaciers/ | -0.590873 | 0.895512 | 3,853 | 15,514 | 34 | 34 | Geospatial and Environmental Data | false |
793 | 2019.07.24 | 4 | Drought conditions. | The Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index is a metric, calculated from climatic data, that “can be used for determining the onset, duration and magnitude of drought conditions with respect to normal conditions.” The project, based at the Spanish National Research Council, provides both a “near real-time” global drought monitor and a historical database. | http://spei.csic.es/index.html
http://spei.csic.es/map/maps.html
http://spei.csic.es/database.html | null | -0.689357 | 0.803934 | 3,657 | 14,739 | 29 | -1 | Disaster and Flood Data | false |
794 | 2019.07.24 | 5 | Welsh shipping crews. | “The Merchant Shipping Act 1835 required all British registered ships of 80 tons or more employed in the coastal trade or fisheries to carry crew agreements and accounts, often referred to as crew lists.” The lists include crew members’ ages, places of birth, previous vessels, and more. Thanks to the National Library of Wales Volunteering Programme, thousands of crew lists from the Welsh port of Aberystwyth, from 1856 to 1914, have been transcribed. [h/t u/cavedave] | https://www.library.wales/about-nlw/work-with-us/volunteer/
https://www.library.wales/collections/activities/research/nlw-data/aberystwyth-shipping-records-dataset/ | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/c07970/aberystwyth_shipping_records/ | -0.101015 | 0.592639 | 3,228 | 12,985 | 13 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
795 | 2019.07.31 | 1 | Foreign military trainings. | For nearly two decades, the US Department of Defense has released detailed tables on the foreign military units it has trained. For each training, the information describes the units trained, number of trainees, course name, start and end dates, location, cost, and more. Unfortunately, the government publishes these records only as PDFs. To make the data more accessible, Security Force Monitor, a project of the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, has converted the PDFs into an open, queryable database. An associated GitHub repository contains an extensive methodology, the extraction code, and the raw data. [h/t Jamon Van Den Hoek] | https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/pm/rls/rpt/fmtrpt/index.htm
https://www.state.gov/foreign-military-training-and-dod-engagement-activities-of-interest/
https://securityforcemonitor.org/about/
http://www.law.columbia.edu/human-rights-institute
https://securityforcemonitor.org/2019/07/18/unlocking-the-department-of-states-foreign-military-training-data-for-good-this-time/
https://trainingdata.securityforcemonitor.org/
https://github.com/security-force-monitor/fmtrpt_data | https://www.conflict-ecology.org/ | 0.365208 | -0.558093 | 939 | 3,671 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
796 | 2019.07.31 | 2 | Talk radio transcripts. | A team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab has built a corpus of machine-generated transcriptions from 284,000 hours of talk radio. The transcripts capture approximately 2.8 billion words from 50 semi-randomly selected stations, and include metadata, such as the program name, the speaker’s (guessed) gender, and whether the speaker seemed to be in the studio or on the phone. [h/t Lynn Cherny] | https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07073
https://github.com/social-machines/RadioTalk | https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/t:datasets/ | 0.724658 | 0.633448 | 3,383 | 13,422 | 67 | 67 | Film Data and Analysis | false |
797 | 2019.07.31 | 3 | Patent geography. | Researchers at two Swiss universities have created a dataset of inventors’ and applicants’ locations listed in 18.8 million patents filed between 1980 and 2014. The locations, which span 46 countries, are specified both by their geographic coordinates as well as their administrative areas (e.g. city, state, country). [h/t Gaétan de Rassenfosse] | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3425764
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OTTBDX | https://people.epfl.ch/gaetan.derassenfosse?lang=en | 0.002865 | 0.283176 | 2,656 | 10,560 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
798 | 2019.07.31 | 4 | UK ministerial resignations. | The UK Institute for Government has been updating a spreadsheet of ministers who’ve resigned since 1979, the post each one held, the reasons for resignation, and the prime minister in charge at the time. The spreadsheet, which so far contains 151 resignations through last week, includes a few methodological notes embedded as comments in the header row. [h/t Gavin Freeguard] | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gVHNx4kzXd947AFfQGiJg5zJrdNXrM81t2OC8UJFnw8/edit | https://twitter.com/GavinFreeguard/status/1151835392922062848 | 0.620438 | -0.353108 | 1,331 | 5,351 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
799 | 2019.07.31 | 5 | Soviet space dogs. | Duncan Geere has compiled a database of the 48 dogs who participated in the USSR’s space program in the 1950s and 1960s. The information, which also includes details about the canines’ 42 flights, is based on Olesa Turkina's book, Soviet Space Dogs. | https://www.duncangeere.com/
https://airtable.com/universe/expG3z2CFykG1dZsp/sovet-space-dogs
http://fuel-design.com/publishing/soviet-space-dogs/ | null | -0.091738 | 0.830936 | 3,741 | 15,034 | 2 | 2 | Animal Data Collections | false |
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