edition,position,headline,text,links,hattips
2015.10.21,1,Every place name in the United States.,"Sometimes, bureaucracy creates poetry. Since 1890, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has been cataloguing, standardizing, and promulgating official names for the places we hike, swim, work, and call home. Along the way, it began publishing Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), a searchable and downloadable database containing all of its domestic nomenclature. In Alaska alone, the database lists names for 167 dams, 303 post offices, 666 glaciers, 2,704 capes, and 9,575 streams. My favorite: Confusion Creek. [h/t @emilymbadger]","http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Confusion+Creek,+Alaska/@68.4510925,-152.0233116,15.94z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x50d80cfac6a29911:0xc46bfa2a83d54866",https://twitter.com/emilymbadger/status/653982851386310656
2015.10.21,2,“There’s finally federal data on low-income college graduation rates—but it’s wrong.”,"The Hechinger Report casts doubt on the Pell grant graduation numbers contained in the Department of Education’s recently-released College Scorecard. Why the discrepancy? “[W]hile schools are required by law to provide the graduation rates of Pell recipients to any applicants who ask, a loophole protects them from having to report the same figures to the government.” Oof.
","http://hechingerreport.org/theres-finally-federal-data-on-low-income-college-graduation-rates-but-its-wrong/
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/",
2015.10.21,3,What police-related data does your city publish?,"The Police Open Data Census, created by Code for America fellows in Indianapolis, is tracking “currently available open datasets about police interactions with citizens in the US,"" including officer-involved shootings, use of force, and citizen complaints. The census currently covers 36 police departments. Related: The NYPD says it will start tracking all officer use-of-force incidents — not just gunfire — next year, the New York Times reports.","https://codeforamerica.github.io/PoliceOpenDataCensus/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/nyregion/new-york-police-will-document-virtually-all-instances-of-force.html",
2015.10.21,4,How often do Wikipedia editors edit?,"The Wikimedia Foundation has published a dataset enumerating monthly revision counts for every editor, across all of its wikis. The foundation is asking for help investigating a few perplexing trends. For example: Why have the number “very active editors” — those with 100+ edits per month — increased while the number of merely “active” editors have plateaued?",https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/25/wikipedia-editor-numbers/,
2015.10.21,5,Four years of rejected license plates.,"WNYC, through a freedom-of-information request to the New York DMV, obtained a list of vanity plate approvals and denials from late 2010 to late 2014. Among the denials: “RUBMYDUB,” “S5SS5S5S,” “RFLMAO,” and “CBSNEWS.” (Strangely, “NBC4” was approved. Go figure.) The files and related story were published in August, but the data are timeless. [h/t @veltman]","https://github.com/datanews/license-plates
http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-yorkers-vanity-license-plates/",https://twitter.com/veltman/status/628972777882652672
2015.10.28,1,Data-shaming the robocallers.,"If you can’t beat ‘em, post spreadsheets about ‘em. Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission started publishing a dataset of complaints against telemarketers and robocalls. The FCC says the file will be updated weekly. It’s already being put to use: A clever programmer has crammed all the offending numbers into a single phone “contact” so that you can block them all at once. [h/t Shale Craig]","https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/205239443-Data-on-Unwanted-Calls
https://github.com/shalecraig/telemarketing",https://twitter.com/__shale__/status/657423817623506944
2015.10.28,2,The demographics of traffic stops.,"This weekend, the New York Times published a front-page article on “the disproportionate risk of driving while black.” Among other findings: “officers were more likely to conduct [searches] when the driver was black, even though they consistently found drugs, guns or other contraband more often if the driver was white.” The investigation drew on several statewide traffic-stop datasets that track the race and gender of stopped drivers. The “seven states with the most sweeping reporting requirements,” in order of how easy it seems (to me) to get detailed data: Connecticut, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, Maryland, Illinois, and Rhode Island.","http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/racial-disparity-traffic-stops-driving-black.html
http://ctrp3.ctdata.org/
http://trafficstops.ncdoj.gov/Default.aspx?pageid=2
https://www.ago.mo.gov/home/vehicle-stops-report
http://www.ncc.nebraska.gov/statistics/trafficstops/
http://www.goccp.maryland.gov/msac/law-enforcement.php
http://www.idot.illinois.gov/transportation-system/local-transportation-partners/law-enforcement/illinois-traffic-stop-study
http://www.ri.gov/press/view/23152",
2015.10.28,3,Where do Americans spend their days?,"Most population numbers tell you where people live. But legions of Americans commute for work across city, county, and state lines. The Census Bureau’s Commuter-Adjusted Daytime Population Data accounts for these daily migrations. Manhattan’s population (non-tourist) population doubles from 1.5 million to 3 million, by far the largest influx by raw numbers. But Lake Buena Vista, Fla., takes the percentage-growth prize. The city’s entire resident population could fit in two sedans, but its “daytime population” includes 33,000 workers — including a not-insubstantial number dressed as Mickey Mouse. [h/t Steven Romalewski]","https://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/data/daytimepop.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Buena_Vista,_Florida",https://twitter.com/SR_spatial/status/656827844128034816
2015.10.28,4,"Finally, free access to detailed U.S. import/export data.","Prior to October 15th, the Census Bureau’s USA Trade Online tool cost $300/year. No longer. The newly-free dataset covers more than 17,000 commodities, including a category for “magic tricks, practical joke articles; parts and accessories.” [h/t Noah Veltman]","https://usatrade.census.gov/
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-tps87.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonized_Tariff_Schedule_for_the_United_States
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/graphs/GOTM/201508/index.html",https://twitter.com/veltman
2015.10.28,5,Porn.,"Sexualitics.org is on a mission: “to contribute to human sexuality understanding through a Big Data approach.” Last year, the site posted detailed metadata on 800,000 adult videos, including titles, descriptions, view counts, and tags. It powers Porngram, an only-kinda-safe-for-work charting tool.","http://sexualitics.org/
http://sexualitics.github.io/
http://porngram.sexualitics.org/",
2015.11.04,1,Maternity leave policies at hundreds of American companies.,"The 600+ entries in this searchable, sortable database range from 3M to Amazon to Zynga, and list both paid and unpaid leave. The database, run by the women-in-the-workplace website FairyGodBoss.com, culls from published policies and employee tips. An introductory blog post provides more information.","https://fairygodboss.com/maternity-leave-resource-center
https://www.fairygodboss.com/
http://blog.fairygodboss.com/2015/10/21/our-maternity-leave-database-is-here/",
2015.11.04,2,"MoMA, mo’ data.","This July, the Museum of Modern Art published a dataset containing 120,000 artworks from its catalog, joining the UK’s Tate, the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt, and other forward-thinking museums. The MoMA data contains the names of the artwork and artist, the dates created and acquired, and the medium — but no images. Related: Artist Jer Thorp encourages you to “perform” the data. Also related: Every museum in the United States. [h/t Nadja Popovich]","https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection
https://github.com/tategallery/collection
https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection
http://www.penn.museum/collections/data.php
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/
https://medium.com/@blprnt/a-sort-of-joy-1d9d5ff02ac9
https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/museum-universe-data-file",https://twitter.com/popovichn
2015.11.04,3,All licensed firearm dealers since 2010.,"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives publishes a searchable and downloadable licensing database. License-holders fall into eleven categories. Among them: run-of-the-mill dealers, ammunition manufacturers, collectors of “curios and relics,” pawnbrokers, and importers of “destructive devices.” The ATF’s website contains monthly and state-by-state archives. [h/t Marc DaCosta] [Correction, 2015-11-04: There are only nine categories of license-holders. The published ATF data includes only eight of them; it does not include ""Collector of Curios and Relics."" Thanks to @MikeStucka for flagging this mistake.]","https://data.atf.gov/Licensees/Federal-Firearms-Licensee-Listing-2010-to-2015/qg4c-kex6
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/curios-relics
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-guides-importation-verification-firearms-national-firearms-act-definitions-1
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/listing-federal-firearms-licensees-ffls-2015",https://twitter.com/marc_dacosta
2015.11.04,4,One thousand ways to say “dog.”,"Trans-New Guinea is the world’s third-largest language family. But it’s also among the poorest-studied. TransNewGuinea.org, an online database launched in 2013, is trying to change that. It now contains more than 1,000 New Guinea languages and lists 145,000 word translations — including 1,065 entries for “dog.” It even has an API. A recent PLOS ONE journal article provides additional background and statistics. [h/t Simon J. Greenhill]","http://transnewguinea.org/
http://transnewguinea.org/language/
http://transnewguinea.org/word/dog
http://transnewguinea.org/api/v1/?format=json
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141563",https://twitter.com/simonjgreenhill
2015.11.04,5,When planes attack.,"Last May, a Gulfstream G150 taking off from Houston’s Ellington Airport struck an armadillo. The animal’s remains were collected, but were not sent to the Smithsonian Institution for identification. This anecdote comes from a single row in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Wildlife Strike Database, and draws on just seven of the 94 available fields. The database contains more than 168,000 strikes reported since 1990, almost all involving birds. Roughly 10% of the time, the animal's remains are sent to the Smithsonian's Feather Identification Lab. [h/t Dan Vergano]","http://wildlife.faa.gov/database.aspx
http://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/wildlife/smithsonian/",https://twitter.com/dvergano
2015.11.11,1,Naughty companies.,"Good Jobs First’s Violation Tracker calls itself “the first national search engine on corporate misconduct.” The new database currently contains nearly 100,000 penalties for environmental, health, and safety violations — sourced from 13 U.S. regulatory agencies — since 2010. Search results can be downloaded as CSV files, which contain a few additional fields. (Tip: Search for “*” to get all cases.) The largest single fine? The Department of Justice’s $20.8 billion penalty this year against BP. [h/t Samuel Rubenfeld]","http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker-data-sources
http://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/bp",https://twitter.com/srubenfeld/status/658980441387638784
2015.11.11,2,"The 139,756 side effects of 1,430 medical drugs.","The Side Effect Resource, a.k.a. SIDER, takes all the fine print from drug labels, and aggregates the information about side effects into a searchable, downloadable database. SIDER got a major upgrade last month, and now contains 40% more drug-effect pairs than before. The website incorporates both generic and brand names, so that searches for “Prozac” and “fluoxetine” bring you to the same page.","http://sideeffects.embl.de/
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/10/19/nar.gkv1075.abstract
http://sideeffects.embl.de/drugs/3386/",
2015.11.11,3,Albuquerque’s impressive open-data program.,"The New Mexico city publishes dozens of regularly-updated, well-documented datasets. Among them: government employee earnings, the number of daily visitors to the city’s swimming pools, real-time bus locations, the geography of police beats, and the city’s complete vendor checkbook. [h/t Tom Johnson, who emailed Data Is Plural to praise how Albuquerque is sharing its data: “I have not found any other city in the world doing so in such detail.”]",http://www.cabq.gov/abq-data,http://online.sfsu.edu/jjohnson/
2015.11.11,4,1.8 billion pages of books (and booklike things).,"Earlier this year, the HathiTrust Research Center released a massive dataset extracted from 4.8 million digitized volumes. For each of its 1.8 billion pages, the dataset includes word frequencies, languages used, and sentence counts, among other features.","https://www.hathitrust.org/htrc-releases-massive-dataset
https://portal.htrc.illinois.edu/features",
2015.11.11,5,Deadly Prussian horses.,"For his 1898 book, The Law of Small Numbers, statistician Ladislaus Bortkiewicz tabulated the number of Prussian cavalrymen killed by horse kicks each year between 1875 and 1894. (In total, 196 suffered that tragic fate.) The dataset is tiny, but boasts an outsized legacy: Bortkiewicz’s lethal horse kicks allegedly helped to popularize the then-obscure Poisson distribution. [h/t Noah Veltman]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_Bortkiewicz
http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/data/HorseKicks.html
http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2013/06/21/what-do-deaths-from-horse-kicks-have-to-do-with-statistics/",https://twitter.com/veltman
2015.11.18,1,Follow the F-17s.,"The Arms Transfer Database tracks the international flow of major weapons — artillery, missiles, military aircraft, tanks, and the like. Maintained by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the database contains documented sales since 1950 and is updated annually. SIPRI provides a download tool, which outputs rich-text files, but it’s also possible to download the data as CSV. [h/t Martín González]","http://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/armstransfers
http://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/armstransfers/background#Coverage
http://www.sipri.org/databases
https://gist.github.com/jsvine/9cb3300588ed402160fe",https://twitter.com/martgnz
2015.11.18,2,#campaign.,"The 2016 presidential hopefuls have been tweeting, ‘gramming, and ‘booking like a pack of millennials. Fusion collected nearly 70,000 images from the candidates’ social media accounts, then pumped the pictures through an automated tagging system. Now you can search for guns, money, beer and more — or download the raw data for your own analysis.","http://fusion.net/story/229021/2016-presidential-campaign-images/
http://fusion.net/interactive/213317/lose-yourself-in-our-massive-searchable-collection-of-candidates-social-media-photos/#tag=gun&order=date-desc
http://fusion.net/interactive/213317/lose-yourself-in-our-massive-searchable-collection-of-candidates-social-media-photos/#tag=cash&order=date-desc
http://fusion.net/interactive/213317/lose-yourself-in-our-massive-searchable-collection-of-candidates-social-media-photos/#tag=beer&order=date-desc
http://fusion.net/interactive/213317/lose-yourself-in-our-massive-searchable-collection-of-candidates-social-media-photos/",
2015.11.18,3,America’s exonerees.,"The National Registry of Exonerations contains “every known exoneration in the United States since 1989—cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence.” For each of the 1,702 cases, the registry includes details about the exoneree, the crime, and the factors — such as new DNA evidence — that contributed to the exoneration. [h/t agate]","http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx
http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/detaillist.aspx",http://agate.readthedocs.org/en/1.1.0/tutorial.html
2015.11.18,4,"Health data, unprotected.","Under the HITECH Act of 2009, companies must notify the government of any data breach involving the HIPAA-protected health data of 500 or more people. Summaries of those reports are available at the Department of Health and Human Services’s Breach Portal, which currently contains more than 1,300 incidents. Related: In April, JAMA published an analysis of the breaches. Also related: Forty years of legislative acronyms. [h/t Virginia Hughes]","http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/summary/
https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2247135
http://noahveltman.com/acronyms/",https://twitter.com/virginiahughes
2015.11.18,5,Britain’s booze.,"What contains 34,052 bottles and is worth an estimated £3 million? The United Kingdom’s official wine cellar, which provides libations for the government’s guests and hosts — and a dram of data for the public. Between April 2014 and March 2015, the cellar’s clients consumed more than 5,500 bottles of wine and liquor. Among them: 205 bottles of Champagne, 51-and-a-half bottles of gin, and one bottle Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 1986. [h/t Nadja Popovich]","https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-wine-cellar
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-statement-on-the-government-wine-cellar-for-the-financial-year-2014-to-2015",https://twitter.com/popovichn
2015.11.25,1,Complaints against Chicago police.,"The newly-launched Citizens Police Data Project has collected more than 56,000 allegations of police misconduct. The data, covering 2002-2008 and 2011-2015, includes demographic information about the complainant and the officer, as well as the type and location of the incident. Click here to download the raw data. Related: The City of Chicago’s wide-ranging data portal includes a spreadsheet of every reported crime in the city since 2001; you can explore neighborhood trends via the Chicago Tribune. [h/t Melissa Segura and Abraham Epton]","http://cpdb.co/landing/
http://cpdb.co/#!/data-tools/bVyoBL/citizens-police-data-project
http://j.mp/chicagopolicemisconductdata
https://data.cityofchicago.org/
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-present/ijzp-q8t2
http://crime.chicagotribune.com/","https://twitter.com/melissadsegura
https://twitter.com/aepton"
2015.11.25,2,Refugees in America.,"The Department of State publishes demographic reports on refugee arrivals since 2002. The data includes country of origin, resettlement city and state, religion, age, gender, and more. Related: At BuzzFeed, I used the data to chart the past decade of refugee arrivals. Also related: The UN’s refugee data portal.","http://www.wrapsnet.org/Reports/InteractiveReporting/tabid/393/Default.aspx
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/where-us-refugees-come-from-and-go-in-charts
http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/overview",
2015.11.25,3,1.7 billion Reddit comments.,"You can download every comment posted to Reddit since October 2007 … but you’ll need some patience and a terabyte of storage. If you’re more of the instant-gratification, don’t-have-an-external-hard-drive-lying-around type, you might enjoy FiveThirtyEight’s “How The Internet* Talks,” a sort of Google Ngrams for the Reddit data. [h/t Randall Olson and Ritchie King]","https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_every_publicly_available_reddit_comment/
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/
https://books.google.com/ngrams","https://twitter.com/randal_olson/status/667092303392194560
https://twitter.com/RitchieSKing"
2015.11.25,4,The most popular government web pages.,"The U.S. government has one very large Google Analytics account, and has begun sharing traffic data with the public. Not every federal website is accounted for, but more than 4,000 are. Over the past 90 days, they’ve racked up approximately 1.5 billion visits. The most popular page at the time of this writing? Weather.gov. Bonus: How they built it. [h/t Rebecca Williams]","https://analytics.usa.gov/
http://www.weather.gov/
https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-gov/",https://twitter.com/internetrebecca/status/662102448262238209
2015.11.25,5,A century of pumpkin pie.,"In 2011, the New York Public Library launched a crowdsourcing project to transcribe its massive collection of restaurant menus, dating back to the 1850s. So far, volunteers have transcribed more than 1.3 million dishes, their prices, and where on the menu each dish appeared. The library publishes a spreadsheet of all the data, and updates it twice a month. Happy Thanksgiving!","http://menus.nypl.org/
http://menus.nypl.org/data
http://menus.nypl.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=%22thanksgiving%2Bturkey%22%2BOR%2B%22thanksgiving%2Bmeal%22%2BOR%2B%22thanksgiving%2Bdinner%22",
2015.12.02,1,Historical climate data.,"The National Centers for Environmental Information maintains more than 20 petabytes of data, it says. Among the most useful slices is the Global Historical Climatology Network’s data, which aggregates reports on temperature, precipitation, wind, and more from tens of thousands of climate-monitoring stations around the world. One tidbit: January 1995 was Death Valley’s wettest month since at least the 1960s, with a whopping 2.59 inches of precipitation.","https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/global-historical-climatology-network-ghcn
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00103.1",
2015.12.02,2,Mass shootings in America.,"ShootingTracker.com provides datasets listing all U.S. mass shootings — defined as “when four or more people are shot in an event, or related series of events” — since 2013. So far in 2015, mass shootings have killed 447 people and wounded an additional 1,292.",http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Main_Page,
2015.12.02,3,A faster way to download open data.,"Socrata’s software powers open-data portals around the world. But downloading large datasets — e.g., this 2.8-gigabyte dataset of NYC parking tickets — from Socrata-powered portals can feel, well, sluggish. One solution: OpenDataCache.com, a free website that provides faster-to-download versions of virtually every dataset from 50+ Socrata portals. Related: Thomas Levine’s detailed analyses of Socrata-powered portals, published in 2013 and 2014. [h/t John Krauss and Steven Romalewski]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrata
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/dataset/Parking-Violations-Issued-Fiscal-Year-2015/c284-tqph
http://www.opendatacache.com/
https://thomaslevine.com/search/?q=socrata&models=articles.article","https://twitter.com/recessionporn/status/569267639358504960
https://twitter.com/sr_spatial"
2015.12.02,4,College sports financing.,"The Huffington Post and Chronicle of Higher Education teamed up to investigate how colleges bankroll their athletics. (Georgia State, for example, spent more than $100 million subsidizing sports between 2010 and 2014, mostly via student fees.) The report, published last week, draws on five years of revenue/expense reports from 234 Division I public universities. You can download the raw data or explore it online. Related: The Washington Post also tackled this topic — from a slightly different angle — last week, examining the profitability (or lack thereof) of athletic programs at 48 schools. [h/t Shane Shifflett]","http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/ncaa/sports-at-any-cost
http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/ncaa/subsidy-scorecards/eastern-kentucky-university
http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/ncaa/reporters-note
http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/ncaa/subsidy-scorecards
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/running-up-the-bills/",https://twitter.com/shaneshifflett
2015.12.02,5,"Celebrity faces, annotated.","The CelebA dataset, published in September, contains 200,000+ images of 10,000+ celebrities, each annotated with 40 yes/no variables. Some favorites: “5_o_Clock_Shadow,” “Bags_Under_Eyes,” and “Goatee.”",http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/CelebA.html,
2015.12.09,1,"The 2015 Global Open Data Index, released last night.","Open Knowledge International has just published its latest survey of openly available government data. This year’s audit includes 112 countries and territories, up from 97 last year. The survey scores each based on the availability of datasets in 13 key categories (e.g., “election results,” “government spending,” and “pollutant emissions”) and links out to the available datasets. In this year’s survey, Taiwan ranks first, the U.K. second, and Denmark third. The U.S. ranks eighth.","http://index.okfn.org/place/
http://index.okfn.org/methodology/",
2015.12.09,2,More data (and discussion) on mass shootings.,"Last week, Data Is Plural highlighted ShootingTracker.com, a source for data on shootings that wounded at least four people. Other resources include the Gun Violence Archive and Mother Jones’ detailed database of mass shootings since 1982. The Mother Jones database takes narrower approach, focusing on shootings that killed at least four people in a public setting. In a New York Times op-ed, published shortly after last week’s San Bernardino shooting, the editor behind that database argues that broader methodologies don’t distinguish between a “a 1 a.m. gang fight” and “the madness that just played out in Southern California.” A Washington Post article weighs the pros and cons of broader and narrower approaches. [h/t Robin Shields + Mark Follman + Christopher Ingraham]","https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-02-edition
http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/opinion/how-many-mass-shootings-are-there-really.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/03/what-makes-a-mass-shooting-in-america/","https://twitter.com/robinshields
https://twitter.com/markfollman/status/672564051889623040
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/672576536608907264"
2015.12.09,3,Firearm background checks.,"Gun dealers use the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System to determine whether someone is allowed to buy a firearm. There isn’t a one-to-one correlation between these background checks and gun sales, but they’re said to be the best available proxy. The FBI publishes a PDF tallying the monthly number of firearm checks for each state and type. At BuzzFeed News, we’ve parsed that PDF into a CSV/spreadsheet for easier use.","https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics
http://www.thetrace.org/2015/11/black-friday-gun-sales-background-checks/
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year_by_state_type.pdf
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/nics-firearm-background-checks",
2015.12.09,4,"Good FOOD, bad food.","The CDC’s Foodborne Outbreak Online Database (FOOD) contains 18,000+ outbreaks, which resulted in 358,000+ illnesses and 13,000+ hospitalizations, from 1998 through last year. In 2008, a multi-state Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak hospitalized 308 people — the highest count in the database.",http://wwwn.cdc.gov/foodborneoutbreaks/,
2015.12.09,5,Know thy barber.,"The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation maintains a webpage of well-formatted data on state-licensed workers, including tow truck operators, boxing judges, journeyman electricians, elevator inspectors, manicurists, and, yes, barbers. [h/t Ryan Murphy]",http://www.license.state.tx.us/licensesearch/licfile.asp,https://twitter.com/rdmurphy/status/642427166689509376
2015.12.16,1,Policing the police.,"The Department of Justice is authorized to investigate police departments that display a “pattern or practice” of civil rights violations. In April, the Marshall Project began publishing a spreadsheet of the DOJ investigations into local law enforcement. The dataset, which is updated regularly, indicates when each case began, when it ended, and what type of agreement (if any) was reached. The latest entry: An investigation into the Chicago Police Department, announced last week. Related: PBS Frontline's interactive map of DOJ investigations. [h/t Tom Meagher]","https://github.com/themarshallproject/doj14141/blob/master/data/doj_data.csv
https://github.com/themarshallproject/doj14141#the-department-of-justices-14141-civil-rights-investigations
http://apps.frontline.org/fixingtheforce/",https://twitter.com/ultracasual
2015.12.16,2,All the world’s glaciers.,"The recently-updated Randolph Glacier Inventory contains spreadsheets and outlines of every known glacier in the world. Of the 212,000+ glaciers inventoried, more than 27,000 are in Alaska. Someone please adopt Deserted Glacier. [h/t Robin Wilson’s stunningly extensive directory of free GIS data]","http://www.glims.org/RGI/rgi50_dl.html
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Deserted+Glacier,+Alaska+99686/@60.9786026,-145.6392684,7075m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x56b6f38f0ce35db9:0x1f9d53f4331c53fc",http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/
2015.12.16,3,College coaching salaries.,"Last week, USA Today released its annual accounting of assistant — yes, assistant — college football coaches’ salaries. At $1.6 million per annum, Auburn’s Will Muschamp leads the pack. More than 371 assistants have salaries of $250,000+. The release complements the publication’s database of head-coaching salaries. Related: Each state’s highest paid public employee, as of 2013-ish. [h/t Steve Berkowitz]","http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/football/assistant
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/football/coach
http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228",https://twitter.com/ByBerkowitz/status/674653175119536129
2015.12.16,4,Many pants on fire.,"You’ve probably heard of PolitiFact, the Tampa Bay Times project that fact-checks what politician say. What you might not know: PolitiFact has an API. You can use it to fetch detailed data the project’s national and state-level editions. Related: “All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others,” PolitiFact’s top editor writes in the New York Times.","http://www.politifact.com/
http://static.politifact.com/api/v2apidoc.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html",
2015.12.16,5,Every obscenity and death in Quentin Tarantino's movies.,This dataset is fucking amazing.,https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/tarantino,
2015.12.23,1,How America injures itself.,"Every year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission tracks emergency rooms visits to approximately 100 hospitals. The commission uses the resulting National Electronic Injury Surveillance System data to estimate national injury statistics, but it also publishes anonymized information for each consumer product–related visit, including the associated product code (e.g., 1701: “Artificial Christmas trees”) and a short narrative (“71 YO WM FRACTURED HIP WHEN GOT DIZZY AND FELL TAKING DOWN CHRISTMAS TREE AT HOME”).","http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Research--Statistics/NEISS-Injury-Data/
http://www.cpsc.gov//Global/Neiss_prod/completemanual.pdf",
2015.12.23,2,Farm to data-table.,"The USDA’s 2012 Census of Agriculture — the most recent vintage available — tallies agricultural activity at the national, state, and county levels. You can download detailed data from the agency’s Quick Stats tool. In 2012, Oregon harvested more Christmas trees than any other state: 6.8 million of them, or 39% of the census total.  [Correction, 2015-12-23: The Oregon numbers incorrectly referenced 2007 data. In 2012, Oregon harvested 6.4 million trees, or 37% of the census total. Thanks to @JoeMurph for flagging this mistake.]","http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/
http://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/?source_desc=CENSUS
http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_2_US_State_Level/st99_2_035_035.pdf",
2015.12.23,3,Wikipedia traffic trends.,"The Wikimedia Foundation publishes hourly pageview counts for each of its articles. It’s a tremendous amount of data — about 90 megabytes, compressed, per hour. Luckily, there’s also a tool for browsing individual pages’ daily traffic stats. Last Wednesday, the English-language page for ""Christmas tree"" received 7,822 visits, its highest mark so far this year.","http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/
http://stats.grok.se/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Christmas_tree",
2015.12.23,4,Little’s big tree maps.,"The Forest Service has digitized many of the tree species distribution maps from Elbert Little's “Atlas of United States Trees,” first published in the 1970s. Shapefiles and PDFs are available for for more than 600 species — including Ilex opaca (American holly) and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas fir).",http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/little/,
2015.12.23,5,The emjoiverse.,"The Unicode Consortium publishes a big ol’ HTML table of every emoji, how they look in various contexts, and when they entered the canon. The “Christmas tree” emoji occupies code point U+1F384, and was introduced in 2010. (“Menorah with nine branches” arrived in 2015.) [h/t Ben Collins]",http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html,https://twitter.com/benlcollins/status/676873468307095552
2015.12.30,1,"New Orleans slave sales, 1856–1861.","A new study in the American Economic Review suggests that slaveholders in the South underestimated the odds of “emancipation without compensation.” To reach its conclusions, researchers compiled a dataset of 15,377 slave sales, culled from remarkably detailed official records. Data for each sale includes demographic information about the slaves, seller, and buyer; the price paid; payment method; and researcher notes.",https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.20131483,
2015.12.30,2,Medicare’s priciest drugs.,"Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published a new drug-spending dataset. It focuses on medications that (a) cost the most, overall; (b) cost the most per patient; or (c) saw the largest price-hike between 2013 and 2014. Vimovo, an arthritis pain reliever, tops the price-hike rankings: Between 2013 and 2014, the average cost per unit increased more than sixfold, from $1.94 to $12.46. [h/t Virginia Hughes]",https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Information-on-Prescription-Drugs/,https://twitter.com/virginiahughes
2015.12.30,3,Millions of home loans.,"Over the weekend, the Seattle Times and BuzzFeed News published an investigation into Clayton Homes, a company that is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and that “has grown to dominate virtually every aspect of America’s mobile-home industry.” The investigation draws on data released through the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. The law requires large lenders to publish details about each of their loans. You can download the raw data from the FFIEC, or slightly user-friendlier versions from the CFPB. [h/t Mike Baker + Dan Wagner]","http://www.buzzfeed.com/danielwagner/warren-buffetts-predatory-lender-charges-minorities-a-lot-mo
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/hmda/learn-more
https://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/hmdaflat.htm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/hmda/explore","https://twitter.com/bymikebaker
https://twitter.com/wagnerreports"
2015.12.30,4,Every known satellite orbiting Earth.,"The Union of Concerned Scientists’s Satellite Database currently contains 1,305 entries and is updated “roughly quarterly.” The longest-orbiting: AMSAT-OSCAR 7, an amateur radio satellite launched in November 1974. Related: The satellites, visualized. [h/t David Yanofsky]","http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/space-weapons/satellite-database.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7
http://qz.com/296941/interactive-graphic-every-active-satellite-orbiting-earth/",https://twitter.com/YAN0/status/678953014535716864
2015.12.30,5,Things lost (and not yet found) on the New York subway.,"Among them: 37,622 cellphones; 3,604 hats; 1,903 scarves; 1,017 birth certificates; 483 diaries; 115 VHS tapes; 82 violins; 41 GPS navigation systems; and 9 answering machines. At least one of the 2,756 umbrellas is mine. [h/t Mona Chalabi + Allison McCann + Noah Veltman]",http://advisory.mtanyct.info/LPUWebServices/CurrentLostProperty.aspx,"http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/mta-new-york-lost-and-found-subway-most-common/
https://github.com/atmccann/mta-lost-found/
https://twitter.com/veltman"
2016.01.06,1,One year of fatal police encounters.,"After it became clear that the federal government was doing an awful job of keeping track of how often police kill civilians, two newspapers started counting last year. According to The Guardian’s tally, U.S. police killed 1,136 people in 2015. The Washington Post’s count — which focused on shootings only and didn’t include off-duty officers — counted 984 deaths. Both organizations provide methodologies and downloadable datasets (including demographic and geographic details): Guardian / WaPo.","http://graphics.wsj.com/justifiable-homicides-by-police/
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/about-the-counted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-the-washington-post-is-examining-police-shootings-in-the-us/2015/06/29/f42c10b2-151b-11e5-9518-f9e0a8959f32_story.html",
2016.01.06,2,The World Atlas of Language Structures.,"This database compares the phonological, grammatical, and lexical properties of hundreds of languages. One dataset looks at languages’ counting systems. (Many use the decimal system, but Yoruba uses the vigesimal system and Danish uses a hybrid.) Others examine the use of tone, how you say “tea”, and whether there are different words for “finger” and “hand”. [h/t Jacqui Maher]","http://wals.info/feature
http://wals.info/feature/131A#2/21.3/132.2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal
http://wals.info/feature/13A#2/19.3/152.9
http://wals.info/feature/138A#2/25.5/143.8
http://wals.info/feature/130A#2/14.9/153.6",https://twitter.com/jacqui/status/661943332877279232
2016.01.06,3,NYC felonies.,"The historically opaque New York Police Department has finally started publishing incident-level felony data — something that cities such as Chicago and Boston have done for years. The dataset includes the date, time, and approximate location of each offense. It currently covers the first nine months of 2015 and will (apparently) be updated quarterly. Don’t miss the footnotes in this PDF. Related: Some initial insights. Also related: “Which Cities Share The Most Crime Data?” [h/t Dan Nguyen + Mark Silverberg]","http://gothamist.com/2014/03/21/nypd_transparency.php
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYPD-7-Major-Felony-Incidents/hyij-8hr7
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/NYPDIncidentLevelDataFootnotes.pdf
http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/136641945194/your-neighborhoods-crime-rank-insights-from-the
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-cities-share-the-most-crime-data/","https://twitter.com/dancow/status/682302336220409856
https://twitter.com/skram/status/682287240148574208"
2016.01.06,4,Refugee arrivals along the Western Balkans route.,"The UN’s refugee agency is keeping track of daily refugee movements through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, and farther along into Europe. The downloadable data and interactive map cover migrations since October 2015.",http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/country.php?id=502,
2016.01.06,5,"The position of Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of “Billie Jean.”",Crowdsourced from his 1983 “Motown 25” performance. [h/t Nadja Popovich],http://whiteglovetracking.com/,https://twitter.com/PopovichN
2016.01.13,1,Religion in America.,"The 2010 Religious Congregations and Membership Study counts, for more than 200 religious groups, the number of congregations and adherents in each U.S. state and county. In total, the study reported more than 344,000 congregations and more than 150 million adherents — nearly half of the 2010 U.S. population. New counts are published every 10 years. [h/t Julia Silge]",http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/,http://juliasilge.com/blog/This-Is-the-Place/
2016.01.13,2,Shifting global borders.,"What did the world’s political boundaries look like in 1945? The lines between Swedish counties in 1968? The U.S. states in 1865? Thenmap, an open-source API and mapping tool, answers these questions and more. [h/t Carlos Matallín]",http://www.thenmap.net/,https://twitter.com/matallo/status/683994848345587716
2016.01.13,3,U.S. foreign assistance.,"USAID, the Peace Corps, the U.S. African Development Foundation, and other agencies report data on foreign assistance spending to ForeignAssistance.gov. The full dataset includes detailed information for each grant and contract — and comes with data dictionary. The website also provides a chart of participating agencies, and an interactive map of the data.","http://beta.foreignassistance.gov/
http://beta.foreignassistance.gov/learn/understanding-the-data
http://beta.foreignassistance.gov/explore",
2016.01.13,4,Retirees’ language preferences.,"Last year, more than 2 million people applied for new Social Security retirement and survivor benefits. When they did, they indicated their preferred language. More than 93% said English, and about 5% of applicants said Spanish — the second most popular choice. Among the 88 other options: 1,616 applicants chose American Sign Language, 32 chose Japanese, nine chose Yiddish, and one chose Swedish.",https://www.ssa.gov/open/data/LEP-Yearly-Spoken-Language-RSI-Claimants.html,
2016.01.13,5,State Department per diems.,"When State Department employees travel on official business abroad, they can get reimbursed — to a point — for lodging, meals, and things such as laundry. The department publishes monthly spreadsheets of the maximum per diems, which vary by location. The highest right now? The Cayman Islands ($735 per day). The lowest? Antarctica ($0/day) and Iraq ($11/day).",https://aoprals.state.gov/content.asp?content_id=233&menu_id=78,
2016.01.20,1,Flint water samples.,"Researchers from Virginia Tech have joined forces with Flint, Mich., residents to sample the city’s lead-tainted water supply. In December, the researchers posted the results of 271 samples, which indicated high levels of lead contamination. The most extreme sample found a lead concentration of 158 parts per billion — 10 times higher than the EPA’s “action level.” Related: The New York Times + The Washington Post have used the data.","http://flintwaterstudy.org/
http://flintwaterstudy.org/2015/12/complete-dataset-lead-results-in-tap-water-for-271-flint-samples/
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/15/us/flint-lead-water-michigan.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/15/this-is-how-toxic-flints-water-really-is/",
2016.01.20,2,The transatlantic slave trade.,"Slate Magazine’s “The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes” — recently named a multimedia finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors’ annual awards — tracks 20,528 transatlantic voyages over 315 years. The information comes via SlaveVoyages.org, which provides searchable, downloadable records of ships’ and captains’ names, regions where slaves were purchased and sent, and more.","http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html
https://twitter.com/ASME1963/status/687734147067031552
http://slavevoyages.org/
http://slavevoyages.org/voyage/search
http://slavevoyages.org/voyage/download",
2016.01.20,3,Campaign ad purchases.,"The FCC requires broadcasters to keep records of “all requests for broadcast time made by or on behalf of a candidate for public office.” With the help of volunteers, Political Ad Sleuth gathers those records and enters them into a searchable, downloadable database. Note: Due, in part, to the difficulty of transcribing the (non-standardized) records, the information in the database is incomplete.","https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/73.1943
http://politicaladsleuth.com/
http://politicaladsleuth.com/political-files/most-recent/",
2016.01.20,4,"568,454 reviews of “fine foods” on Amazon.","In 2013, Stanford University researchers published a paper examining how people’s tastes “change and evolve over time.” They drew, in part, on a dataset containing 13 years of Amazon reviews of gourmet foods. (Note: Not all foods were intended for humans.) The dataset comes in a slightly unconventional format; here’s a Python script to convert it to a TSV file. [h/t Kaggle]","http://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-FineFoods.html
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001E4KFG0
https://gist.github.com/jsvine/57679826ed582a95dd71",https://www.kaggle.com/snap/amazon-fine-food-reviews 
2016.01.20,5,One hyper-quantified human.,"Last month, Nature Communications published a study of the “long-term neural and physiological phenotyping of a single human.” That human? Study co-author Russell A. Poldrack, “a right-handed Caucasian male, aged 45 years at the onset of the study.” The 18 months of results — tracking brain connections, food consumption, stress levels, and much more — are available to download and explore. [h/t Sune Lehmann]","http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151209/ncomms9885/full/ncomms9885.html
http://results.myconnectome.org/
http://results.myconnectome.org/explore",https://twitter.com/suneman/status/686847329543020544
2016.01.27,1,Airplane confidential.,"NASA collects aviation safety reports from pilots, technicians, flight attendants, and other personnel. The (anonymized) published data contains text narratives, as well as details about flight conditions and other safety factors. (“Ok, I did it; the dumbest thing I have ever done in my entire life,” one confessional begins.) You can search the database but can only download so many records at a time. And you can request the full database from NASA, but you’ll have to wait. An alternative option: There’s a copy from November on the Internet Archive. [h/t Dave Riordan + Julian Simioni]","http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/search/database.html
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/search/requesting.html
https://archive.org/download/asrs-extracted.tar","https://twitter.com/riordan
https://github.com/orangejulius/asrs-data"
2016.01.27,2,Cancer statistics.,"Earlier this month, the American Cancer Society launched a new data dashboard. Metrics include estimated new cases, historical survival rates, and more. To download the corresponding spreadsheets, use the “tools” button on each page. [h/t Virginia Hughes]","http://cancerstatisticscenter.cancer.org/
http://cancerstatisticscenter.cancer.org/#/data-analysis/NewCaseEstimates
http://cancerstatisticscenter.cancer.org/#/data-analysis/SurvivalByStage",https://twitter.com/virginiahughes
2016.01.27,3,Tens of millions of movie ratings.,"MovieLens.org is a free, noncommercial movie recommender — sort of like Netflix, minus the ability to watch movies. The service is run by a research lab at the University of Minnesota. The lab publishes several datasets of user ratings and movie info. The largest contains 22 million ratings. Among movies with at least 1,000 ratings, The Shawshank Redemption has received the highest average score (4.44 of 5), while 2007’s Epic Movie has netted the lowest (1.48 of 5).","https://movielens.org/
http://grouplens.org/
http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/epic_movie/",
2016.01.27,4,Federal employees’ feelings.,"Last year, more than 400,000 federal employees took the Office of Personnel Management’s annual survey, which includes questions about satisfaction, leadership, and work schedules. You can download aggregate and raw results. Important note: The survey is voluntary and non-random.","http://www.fedview.opm.gov/2015/
http://www.fedview.opm.gov/2015/Reports/
http://www.fedview.opm.gov/2015/EVSDATA/",
2016.01.27,5,The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft.,"The University of Edinburgh hosts an incredibly detailed, and deeply documented database of more than 3,000 accused witches in Scotland. The mania reached its quantitative peak in 1662, when, according to the database, 402 people were accused of witchcraft. [h/t Felix Haass]","http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches/
http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/witches/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.graph2",https://twitter.com/felixhaass
2016.02.03,1,Angry travelers.,"The Transportation Security Administration publishes spreadsheets of legal claims against the agency, including the location, circumstances, and outcome of each claim. The most expensive settlement on record appears to involve a vehicle-related personal injury in July 2004, for which the TSA paid $125,000. On the other end of the spectrum: In 2014, a traveler recouped $1.25 for lost food or drink at Hilton Head Island Airport. [h/t Seth Kadish + Lindsey Cook]",http://www.dhs.gov/tsa-claims-data,"http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/post/138024589666/travelers-make-claims-again-the-transportation
https://twitter.com/Lindzcook"
2016.02.03,2,Famous people on Wikipedia.,"Last month, a group of researchers introduced Pantheon 1.0, “a manually verified dataset of globally famous biographies.” It starts with 11,341 Wikipedia biography pages in 25 languages, and adds birthplace, birthdate, gender, occupations, and page views. You can download the data or explore it online. Baffling factoid: As of May 2013, High School Musical star Corbin Bleu had biographies in more language editions than anyone other than Jesus Christ and Barack Obama. Related: A broader-but-shallower dataset of more than 400,000 influential people on the English-language Wikipedia. [h/t Ben Dilday]","http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201575
http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/about/datasets
http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/rankings/cities/all/all/-4000/2010/H15
http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/why-the-hell-is-corbin-bleu-such-a-huge-deal-on-wikipedia
https://github.com/bdilday/wikipedia_people",https://twitter.com/BenDilday/status/690334614007640065
2016.02.03,3,Zika data.,"Fears about the Zika virus — and a possible, but not proven, connection to microcephaly — are growing. Little data on the latest outbreak has been published, but here’s an open guide to what’s available so far, including reported cases of microcephaly in Brazil and the number of suspected Zika samples sent to Colombia’s national institute of health.","http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/zikas-not-a-global-health-emergency-its-potential-consequences-are/
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/zika-data",
2016.02.03,4,Post-Fukushima radiation.,"Next month marks the five-year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Since shortly after the meltdown, volunteers for Safecast have been collecting radiation measurements in Japan and beyond. The results are available to download or to access via API.","http://www.nei.org/News-Media/News/News-Archives/fukushima-chernobyl-and-the-nuclear-event-scale
http://blog.safecast.org/history/
http://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=35.2&x=137.9&z=5
http://blog.safecast.org/data/
https://api.safecast.org/en-US/home",
2016.02.03,5,Movie chatter.,"The Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus contains 220,579 “conversational exchanges” between 9,035 characters in 617 movies. Included: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”",http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html,
2016.02.10,1,Powering America.,"Every year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration requires thousands of power plants to report detailed data on fuel consumption and electricity generation. The datasets stretch back more than three decades, to 1989. In 2014, the most recent year available, Arizona’s Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station generated more electricity — 32 million megawatt hours — than any other power plant in the country. [h/t Marc DaCosta]","http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station",https://twitter.com/marc_dacosta
2016.02.10,2,Nature-spotting.,"iNaturalist is a sort of social network for nature enthusiasts. Users can post photos and descriptions of birds, fish, bugs, and even mold, which experts can then help to identify. In November, the site recorded its two-millionth observation. You can explore the data via API or, with a free account, use the site’s export tool. [h/t Dan Brady]","http://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2656845
http://inaturalist.tumblr.com/post/133980888898/2-million-observations
http://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export",http://danjbrady.com/
2016.02.10,3,Organ transplants.,"The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a public-private partnership, keeps records of organ donations, transplants, and waiting lists in the United States. The website’s “advanced” data tool lets you generate fairly detailed custom reports. One hitch: The site doesn’t provide an option to download the data. Data Is Plural wrote a small bit of software to fix that.","https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/
https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/converge/latestData/viewDataReports.asp
https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/converge/latestData/advancedData.asp
https://gist.github.com/jsvine/6ed721172a7f5019332b",
2016.02.10,4,More political ads.,"The Internet Archive’s Political TV Ad Archive uses audio fingerprinting to identify the campaign ads playing in key primary states. You can search the database, watch the ads, and download the data. The data file contains information about each ad’s sponsor, pro/con-ness, TV network, and time of airing. Previously: Political Ad Sleuth, featured Jan. 20.","http://politicaladarchive.org/
http://politicaladarchive.org/data/
http://politicaladsleuth.com/
http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-20-edition",
2016.02.10,5,One million songs.,"The Million Song Database contains metadata and “feature analysis” (e.g., loudness, tempo, and “danceability”) for, you guessed it, one thousand-thousand songs. The full dataset occupies hundreds of gigabytes, but you can also download a 1% sample. [h/t Neal Lathia]","http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/
http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/pages/example-track-description
http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/pages/getting-dataset",https://twitter.com/neal_lathia
2016.02.17,1,The kids are alright.,"Every two years since 1991, the CDC has conducted the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which asks high school students questions about drug use, sex, eating habits, and more. The results are available at the national, state, and district level. Results from the 2015 survey will be published in June, the CDC says. Related: Today’s teens _______ less than you did.","http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/overview.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/data.htm
http://www.vox.com/a/teens",
2016.02.17,2,Word-emotion associations.,"Computational linguists at Canada’s National Research Council used Mechanical Turk to crowdsource the emotional associations of 14,182 words. For each word, participants were asked whether it was “positive” and/or “negative”, and whether it was associated with any of eight emotions: anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise, and trust. The resulting Word-Emotion Association Lexicon was first published in 2010. Of the full lexicon, only two words — “treat” and “feeling” — were associated with all eight emotions. [h/t Bipul Mohanto]","http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/
http://saifmohammad.com/WebPages/NRC-Emotion-Lexicon.htm",http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/7008/labeled-sentiment-words-according-to-8-different-human-sentiments
2016.02.17,3,The United States of Land.,"In 2011, agriculture occupied about 22% of all land in the contiguous U.S., according to the National Land Cover Database. The NLCD classifies every 30-meter-by-30-meter chunk of land into one of 16 categories, including “woody wetlands,” “cultivated crops,” and “developed” land, at different intensities. (Alaska’s unique landscape has earned it a few additional categories, such as “dwarf scrub.”) The database is presented as raster files, so you’ll need some geospatial software to dig in. [h/t Ryan McNeill]","http://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd11_stat.php
http://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd2011.php
http://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd11_leg.php",https://twitter.com/mcneill_tweets
2016.02.17,4,Hundreds of thousands of chess games.,"Portable Game Notation, a file format used to describe chess matches, was invented in 1993. Since then, enthusiasts have created PGN files for virtually all top players’ games and every high-level tournament at sites such as PGN Mentor and Chess DB. [h/t Seth Kadish]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation
http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html#events
http://chess-db.com/public/grandmasters.jsp",http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/post/78821780083/when-i-started-this-blog-one-of-my-first
2016.02.17,5,A quarter-million bugs.,"For 18 years, a trap on the roof of the University of Copenhagen’s Zoological Museum lured moths, butterflies, and beetles to their early deaths. Researchers at the university counted and identified more than 250,000 specimens from 1,500+ species. The most common: Yponomeuta evonymella, a moth species also known as the bird-cherry ermine, which got trapped nearly 40,000 times.","http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12452/full
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.s4945/1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-cherry_ermine",
2016.02.24,1,Supremely useful data.,"The Supreme Court Database is exactly what it sounds like — and definitively so. The most recent release covers all SCOTUS cases from 1946 through 2014. For each case, the database contains 247 “pieces of information,” including the source of the case, why the court agreed to hear the case, the legal provisions at play, and how each justice voted.","http://supremecourtdatabase.org/index.php
http://supremecourtdatabase.org/data.php
http://supremecourtdatabase.org/documentation.php?var=caseSource
http://supremecourtdatabase.org/documentation.php?var=jurisdiction
http://supremecourtdatabase.org/documentation.php?var=lawType
http://supremecourtdatabase.org/documentation.php?var=vote",
2016.02.24,2,Armed conflict.,"The Uppsala Conflict Data Program maintains several large, interconnected datasets describing decades of war, genocide, and other armed hostilities. Looking for a slightly less depressing experience? Try the UCDP’s dataset of 216 peace agreements signed between 1975 and 2011. [h/t Tony Gray]","http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/program_overview/
http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/datasets/
http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/datasets/ucdp_peace_agreement_dataset/",https://twitter.com/tgraybam
2016.02.24,3,Nuclear capabilities.,"The Nuclear Latency Dataset contains “all known uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing facilities” built between 1939 and 2012. That amounts to 253 plants around the world, each with information on its construction timeframe, civilian-vs-military purpose, international oversight, and more. [h/t Abraham Epton]",http://www.matthewfuhrmann.com/datasets.html,https://twitter.com/aepton
2016.02.24,4,Cruise ship inspections.,"The CDC publishes a searchable database of its cruise ship sanitation inspections — but doesn’t provide an option to download the data. Last week, an open-data enthusiast scraped the database and posted CSVs of specific deficiencies and overall inspection scores since 1990. The lowest score: The Nippon Maru’s 38 points (out of 100) in 1998. Related: ProPublica’s “Cruise Control,” a searchable database of health and safety reports. [h/t Mike Stucka + Lena Groeger]","http://wwwn.cdc.gov/InspectionQueryTool/InspectionSearch.aspx
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/InspectionQueryTool/InspectionSearch.aspx
https://github.com/marks
https://github.com/marks/cdc-cruise-ship-inspections
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/InspectionQueryTool/InspectionDetailReport.aspx?ColI=MTMzMDc2-8Ref6xawqHU%3d
https://projects.propublica.org/cruises/","https://twitter.com/mikestucka
https://twitter.com/lenagroeger"
2016.02.24,5,Funny ha ha.,"Since 1999, Jester has been telling jokes. The website, built by UC Berkeley’s Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering, asks you to rate its sometimes-humorous offerings, and then uses those answers to guess which of the remaining 100+ jokes you’ll like best. The UC Berkeley team behind the project has released millions of joke ratings from more than 100,000 anonymous users. [h/t Alex Gude]","http://eigentaste.berkeley.edu/
http://eigentaste.berkeley.edu/dataset/",http://www.lab41.org/nine-datasets-for-investigating-recommender-systems/
2016.03.02,1,American infrastructure.,"Last week, the Department of Homeland Security published more than 250 infrastructure-related datasets, which had previously been marked as ""For Official Use Only."" The release covers a wide range of topics, including datasets on educational facilities, hurricane evacuation routes, poultry slaughterhouses, and sports venues. (According to that dataset, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway holds more people than any other major sports venue, with a listed capacity of 257,325.) [h/t Michael Keller]","https://hifld-dhs-gii.opendata.arcgis.com
https://blogs.esri.com/esri/esri-insider/2016/02/24/open-data-for-economic-resiliency/
https://hifld-dhs-gii.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?group_id=1b542a2d4fda47aea7e52cbc4fe9fd65
https://hifld-dhs-gii.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/0eab4e109ce2412882db595aa4555759_0
https://hifld-dhs-gii.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/b6b9cc72fb58476d92056d5c7ed25f8b_0
https://hifld-dhs-gii.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/85d3d0fc64924edbbd7c62e319d8a791_0",https://twitter.com/mhkeller
2016.03.02,2,British diets.,"The UK government has published data on 27 years of food consumption. The National Food Survey datasets are based on “food diaries” recorded by a sample of British families from 1974 to 2000. In addition to tracking food consumption, the data contains details about each household, including whether they kept vegetarian, had a pregnancy, and/or owned a microwave. [h/t Hannah Brooks + Sebastian Gutierrez]",http://britains-diet.labs.theodi.org/,http://www.datascienceweekly.org/newsletters/data-science-weekly-newsletter-issue-118
2016.03.02,3,"Bills, bills, bills.","Congress has finally begun publishing official bulk data on the status of its bills — something open-government advocates had been requesting for more than a decade. The bulk downloads include an XML file for each piece of legislation, with indicators tracking (among other things) committee referrals and actions. Nostalgia: I’m Just A Bill. [h/t Derek Willis]","https://www.govinfo.gov/features/featured-content/bill-status-bulk-data
http://fedscoop.com/congress-makes-bill-status-open-to-public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0",https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/702536223903129600
2016.03.02,4,Provincial populations.,"National population data is easy to find. But it’s much harder to find reliable, standardized population figures for finer-grained geographies. To that end, the World Bank has launched a pilot of its Subnational Population Database, which calculates estimates for 75 countries’ major provinces/states/regions.","http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/new-time-series-global-subnational-population-estimates-launched
http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/subnational-population",
2016.03.02,5,"Lights, camera, permit.","Through a freedom of information request, WNYC obtained four years of New York City film and television permits. The 40,000+ records date from October 2011 to September 2015 cover several types of permits, including those for scouting, shooting, and red carpet premieres. More: Popular TV shows’ shooting locations, mapped. [h/t John Templon]","https://github.com/datanews/film-permits
http://www.wnyc.org/story/tv-shooting-locations-new-york-city/",https://twitter.com/jtemplon
2016.03.09,1,Two thousand billionaires.,"Researchers have compiled a multi-decade database of the super-rich. Building off the Forbes World’s Billionaires lists from 1996–2014, scholars at Peterson Institute for International Economics have added a couple dozen more variables about each billionaire — including whether they were self-made or inherited their wealth. (Roughly half of European billionaires and one-third of U.S. billionaires got a significant financial boost from family, the authors estimate.)","http://www.iie.com/publications/interstitial.cfm?ResearchID=2917
http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/",
2016.03.09,2,Legislative linguistics.,"The Sunlight Foundation’s Capitol Words project lets you explore the frequency of words and phrases in the Congressional Record since 1996. For example: ""weapons of mass destruction"", “war” vs. “peace”, or “Obamacare”. The underlying data is available via an API.","http://capitolwords.org/
http://capitolwords.org/term/weapons_of_mass_destruction/
http://capitolwords.org/?terma=war&termb=peace
http://capitolwords.org/term/Obamacare/
http://capitolwords.org/api/1/",
2016.03.09,3,Historical mortgages.,"With the help of volunteers, the New York Public Library is transcribing 6,000+ mortgage and bond ledgers from Emigrant Savings Bank, founded in 1850 and the oldest such bank in the city. You can search the transcribed records, or download the (very) raw data.","http://emigrantcity.nypl.org/#/intro
http://emigrantcity.nypl.org/#/data/browse
http://emigrantcity.nypl.org/#/data/download",
2016.03.09,4,Overlapping crosswords.,"The cruciverb industry is facing its first major plagiarism scandal, unearthed thanks to a newly-published database of crosswords that are at least 25% similar to previous-published puzzles.","http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/
http://xd.saul.pw/xdiffs/",
2016.03.09,5,"Baseball, baseball, baseball.","If you’re looking for historical data on baseball teams, players, salaries, or managers, Sean Lahman’s Baseball Archive likely has it. The archive was updated with data from the 2015 season last week. Related: Retrosheet’s game logs — a record of every major league game since 1871. [h/t Joe Murphy]","http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/
http://www.retrosheet.org/gamelogs/index.html",https://twitter.com/joemurph
2016.03.23,1,Nuclear explosions.,"The Oklahoma Geological Survey Observatory’s “Catalog of Nuclear Explosions” contains a “nearly complete” list of such detonations — more than 2,000 of them between 1945 and 2006. The dataset roughly (but not precisely) overlaps with the explosions listed in the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s “Nuclear Explosions, 1945–1998” (PDF) report. Both datasets list the date and location of each explosion, the country responsible, the detonation site, and (where known) its explosive yield, among other variables. And both reports use unconventional formatting, so I’ve extracted a couple of CSVs for you.","http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/level2/nuke.cat.html
http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/31/060/31060372.pdf
https://github.com/data-is-plural/nuclear-explosions",
2016.03.23,2,British property sales.,"The UK’s Price Paid Data contains virtually all of the country’s residential property sales, with only a few exceptions. (Sales forced under court order are excluded, for example.) Each row includes the sale price, address, property type, and more. The full, multi-gigabyte dataset covers all sales since 1995, but you can also download files for individual years or the most recent month, or just search the dataset online. Related: Where can you afford to buy a house? [h/t Helena Bengtsson]","https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/price-paid-data
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/about-the-price-paid-data
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/price-paid-data-downloads
http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ppd
http://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2015/sep/02/unaffordable-country-where-can-you-afford-to-buy-a-house",https://twitter.com/helenabengtsson
2016.03.23,3,Rising waters.,"The U.S. National Water Level Observation Network tracks water levels at hundreds of tide gauges around the country. The data is available via an API. Related: Water’s Edge, a 2014 Reuters investigation based on the gauge data. Also related: The Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service’s flood observations and warnings, as structured data. [h/t Ryan McNeill]","http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/nwlon.html
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stations.html?type=Water+Levels
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/waters-edge-the-crisis-of-rising-sea-levels/
http://water.weather.gov/ahps/
http://water.weather.gov/ahps/download.php",https://twitter.com/mcneill_tweets
2016.03.23,4,What kind of economy does your county have?,"The USDA Economic Research Service’s County Typology Codes categorize each U.S. county based on (a) its dependence on certain industries and on (b) various socio-economic factors. For example, the data classifies 219 counties as “mining-dependent.” [h/t Steven Romalewski]",http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/county-typology-codes.aspx,https://twitter.com/SR_spatial
2016.03.23,5,Rodents of New York.,"NYC’s 311 dataset contains a special category for rat sightings. This slice of data, which is updated daily and stretches back to 2010, contains more than 73,000 rows. One-third of sightings have occurred in Brooklyn. Related: An academic study of NYC rat sightings. Also related: Reply All #56 — ”Zardulu”.","https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/Rat-Sightings/3q43-55fe
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157232/
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/zardulu/",
2016.03.30,1,U.S. drone permits.,"Want to fly a drone in the United States for non-recreational purposes? You’ll need a “Section 333” exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration, which governs drone activity. The FAA publishes a list of approved exemptions, which Bard College’s Center for the Study of the Drone has converted into a PDF-formatted database. The Verge, in turn, has converted that PDF into an easy-to-use CSV. Related: Last week, the FAA updated its dataset of unmanned aircraft sightings. [h/t Dan Vergano]","https://www.faa.gov/uas/legislative_programs/section_333/333_authorizations/
http://dronecenter.bard.edu/
http://dronecenter.bard.edu/analysis-us-drone-exemptions-14-15-2/
https://github.com/voxmedia/data-projects/tree/master/verge-drones-over-america
http://www.faa.gov/uas/law_enforcement/uas_sighting_reports/",https://twitter.com/dvergano
2016.03.30,2,Digital black markets.,"Researcher Gwern Branwen has assembled an archive of listings posted to “dark net markets"". Silk Road is the best-known among the group, but the collection covers scores of other markets, including Amazon Dark and FreeBay. The materials gathered from each site are slightly different; many include product advertisements and seller profiles. Warning: Some of the archives contain pictures, which may include offensive or disturbing imagery. And it’s probably wise to heed Gwern’s caveats: The scrapes “are large, complicated, redundant, and highly error-prone. They cannot be taken at face-value.” [h/t Mike Sconzo]",http://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20archives,http://www.secrepo.com/
2016.03.30,3,Titanic passengers.,"Based in large part on Encyclopedia Titanica, researchers have compiled a structured dataset of 1,309 passengers on the RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage. (To get the data, download titanic3.csv on this page.) The dataset includes passengers’ names, ages, ticket fare, cabin number, and whether they survived.","http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/DataSets/titanic.html
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/DataSets",
2016.03.30,4,"Groceries, quantified.","Open Food Facts is a crowdsourced database of food products’ nutrition data and ingredient lists. (E.g., this kilogram jar of Nutella contains 316 grams of fat.) The entire database can be downloaded in several formats.","http://world.openfoodfacts.org
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/3017620401473/nutella-1kg-ferrero
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data",
2016.03.30,5,"America, the varyingly beautiful.","In 1999, the USDA Economic Research Service published a “natural amenities scale,” which rated every county in the contiguous United States based on factors such as landscape variation and January sunniness. Last year, based on the dataset, a Washington Post reporter called Minnesota’s Red Lake County “the absolute worst place to live in America.” Now, he’s moving there. [h/t Jody Avirgan]","http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/natural-amenities-scale.aspx
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/17/every-county-in-america-ranked-by-natural-beauty/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/08/why-im-moving-to-the-place-i-called-americas-worst-place-to-live/",http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/he-called-it-americas-worst-place-to-live-now-hes-moving-there/
2016.04.06,1,Global bike-sharing.,"The citybik.es API provides access to live data on every bike-sharing station in more than 400 cities around the world. It’s free, and the underlying software is open-source. What data you get per station depends on the city, but typically includes the number of empty slots, number of available bikes, and location information. Looking for bulk data on bike-sharing rides? Many cities — including New York, Chicago, and D.C. — make it available. Related: “A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bike Rides.” Also related: Three maps illustrating the gender gap in bike-share usage.","http://api.citybik.es/v2/
https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes
https://www.citibikenyc.com/system-data
https://www.divvybikes.com/data
https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/trip-history-data
http://toddwschneider.com/posts/a-tale-of-twenty-two-million-citi-bikes-analyzing-the-nyc-bike-share-system/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/these-maps-show-a-massive-gender-gap-in-bicycle-riding",
2016.04.06,2,Nine years of homelessness estimates,". Every January, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, volunteers across the country attempt to count the homeless in their communities. The result: HUD’s “point in time” estimates, which are currently available for 2007–2015. The most recent estimates found 564,708 homeless people nationwide, with 75,323 of that count (more than 13%) living in New York City. Related: “Why counting America’s homeless is both imperative and imperfect.” Also related: “How Many Street Homeless? NYC’s Tallies Leave the Question Open.” [h/t Tim Henderson + Jonathan Stray]","https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/4832/2015-ahar-part-1-pit-estimates-of-homelessness/
http://fusion.net/story/49980/why-counting-americas-homeless-is-both-imperative-and-imperfect/
http://citylimits.org/2015/10/13/how-many-street-homeless-nycs-tallies-leave-the-question-open/","https://twitter.com/TimHendersonSL
https://twitter.com/jonathanstray"
2016.04.06,3,Tech’s water cooler.,"Hacker News’ official API provides data describing every submission, comment, and user on the community-driven website. You can also analyze the full dataset via Google’s recently-relaunched BigQuery Public Datasets program. [h/t Michael Gardiner]","https://github.com/HackerNews/API
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news",https://twitter.com/MikeARGS
2016.04.06,4,John Snow’s data.,"When physician John Snow constructed his now-famous dot-map of London’s Broad Street cholera outbreak in the 1850s, the leading geospatial technologies were ink and paper. Academic Robin Wilson has adapted the data for the computer age, converting Snow’s map into several modern GIS formats. Related: Infographics in the Time of Cholera.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak#John_Snow_investigation
http://blog.rtwilson.com/john-snows-cholera-data-in-more-formats/
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/infographics-in-the-time-of-cholera",
2016.04.06,5,Jon Snow data.,"An API Of Ice And Fire lets you fetch data about every book, character, and house in Game of Thrones — including allegiances, family trees, and dates of death. You can also download the data in bulk. Related: Macalester researchers recently published a network analysis (and underlying data) of all characters in A Storm of Swords, the third book in the series. Jon Snow, according to the analysis, was the second-most important character. [h/t Melissa Bierly]","https://anapioficeandfire.com/
https://anapioficeandfire.com/Documentation
https://github.com/joakimskoog/AnApiOfIceAndFire/tree/master/AnApiOfIceAndFire.Data.Feeder/Data
http://www.macalester.edu/~abeverid/thrones.html",https://blog.modeanalytics.com/analytics-dispatch-017/
2016.04.13,1,Global rainfall.,"To create the most detailed measurements of global rainfall ever, researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s Climate Hazards Group harmonize data from satellites and on-the-ground weather stations. The dataset, known as CHIRPS, stretches back more than 30 years and is freely available. Related: Eric Holthaus provides more details and explains why the dataset is so important. [h/t Dave Riordan]","http://chg.geog.ucsb.edu/data/chirps/index.html
http://ensia.com/features/this-new-data-set-is-poised-to-revolutionize-climate-adaptation/",https://twitter.com/riordan/status/717800678085758978
2016.04.13,2,Order in the courts.,"CourtListener gathers and publishes bulk data the Supreme Court, all federal appeals courts, and hundreds of other jurisdictions. The files include opinions, audio from oral arguments, dockets, and citations. It also has an API. (If you register, you can also create and explore networks of citation-linked cases.) [h/t Jeff Grove]","https://www.courtlistener.com/api/bulk-info/
https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest-info/
https://www.courtlistener.com/visualizations/scotus-mapper/",http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/faculty-staff/profile.cfm?Id=14
2016.04.13,3,Health and wealth.,"The Health Inequality Project calculates American life expectancies by income, gender, and geography. You can download the data at the national, state, county, and “commuting zone” levels. Where do poor Americans live the longest? New York City, Santa Barbara, and San Jose. [h/t Margot Sanger-Katz]","https://healthinequality.org/
https://healthinequality.org/data/
https://healthinequality.org/rankings/",http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/upshot/poor-new-yorkers-tend-to-live-longer-than-other-poor-americans.html
2016.04.13,4,"He said, she said (less).","Over the weekend, Hannah Anderson and Matt Daniels published an interactive analysis of male and female speaking roles in 2,000 movie scripts. Among their findings: 308 scripts gave 90%+ of the film’s dialogue to men, while just 8 scripts did so for women. The duo has also released “as much data as we can share (without getting sued)” on GitHub.","http://polygraph.cool/films/
https://github.com/matthewfdaniels/scripts/",
2016.04.13,5,Plane papers.,"The Federal Aviation Administration maintains a database of all non-military aircraft registrations, which includes extensive details about each plane/helicopter/glider/blimp and their owners. Related: “Spies In The Skies.” [h/t Peter Aldhous]","http://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certification/aircraft_registry/releasable_aircraft_download/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/spies-in-the-skies",https://twitter.com/paldhous
2016.04.20,1,Where computers (maybe) are.,"An under-scrutinized quirk in a little-known, widely-used database “turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell.” How? The database contains best-guess geographic coordinates for every IP address on the internet. But for millions of IP addresses, the best guess is just somewhere in the United States. And, until recently, the database translated that vague location into the latitude and longitude of a farm in Potwin, Kansas. (Now it points to a lake.)","http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/
https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/
http://fusion.net/story/290772/ip-mapping-maxmind-new-us-default-location/",
2016.04.20,2,The American consumer.,"Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published its midyear update to the Consumer Expenditure Survey. The survey collects data on spending, income, and a handful of characteristics about U.S. consumers. One tidbit: On average, Americans are spending approximately 33% of their income on housing, and a tad less than 1% on alcohol. [h/t Nathan Yau]","http://www.bls.gov/cex/midyear.htm
http://www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm",http://flowingdata.com/2015/04/02/how-we-spend-our-money-a-breakdown/
2016.04.20,3,Cricket.,"Baseball season is in full-swing, basketball and hockey playoffs have begun, and the NFL draft is nigh. No better time to highlight some cricket data! Cricsheet.org has gathered ball-by-ball data on more than 2,700 matches played since the mid-2000s. Looking for historical data? A new GitHub repository contains stats for more than 40,000 matches going back to 1773 (but mostly since the 1970s), scraped from ESPN Cricinfo. Related: How, statistically, the coin toss affects who’ll win. [h/t Derek Willis]","http://cricsheet.org/
https://github.com/dwillis/toss-up
http://www.espncricinfo.com/matches/engine/match/535000.html
https://github.com/dwillis/python-espncricinfo
http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/997931.html",https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/720569555119116289
2016.04.20,4,"Where clouds congregate, and when.",Researchers have analyzed 15 years of satellite imagery to create a nearly-global dataset of seasonal cloud coverage. The data — available at a kilometer-square resolution — could help scientists monitor and predict changes in ecosystems. [h/t Grant Smith + Joanna Klein],http://www.earthenv.org/cloud.html,"https://twitter.com/grantmeaccess/status/720992509950865412
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/science/a-cloud-atlas-provides-clues-to-life-on-earth.html"
2016.04.20,5,License to distill.,"The U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau publishes a few permit datasets, including this table of 1,900+ businesses licensed to produce and/or bottle liquor. [h/t Maggie Lee]","https://www.ttb.gov/foia/frl.shtml
https://www.ttb.gov/foia/xls/frl-spirits-producers-and-bottlers.htm",https://twitter.com/maggie_a_lee
2016.04.27,1,"FOIA, four ways.","On Saturday, BuzzFeed hosted a FOIA data hackathon. Participants used datasets — from MuckRock, FOIA Machine, FOIA Mapper, and FOIA.gov — to analyze federal, state, and local responsiveness to public records requests. The first three datasets contain details about individual FOIA requests and responses; FOIA.gov provides aggregate internal data from federal agencies.","https://github.com/FOIA-data-hackathon/Planning/wiki
https://github.com/FOIA-data-hackathon/Planning/wiki/Datasets
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/apr/16/join-muckrock-and-buzzfeed-hack-foia-april-23rd/
https://github.com/cirlabs/foiamachine/tree/master/stats
https://foiamapper.com/foia-downloads/
http://www.foia.gov/data.html",
2016.04.27,2,Particle physics.,"Last week, the researchers at CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment released more than 300 terabytes of data. The datasets include raw particle-detection data from the Large Hadron Collider, as well as pre-processed datasets the researchers say “can be readily analysed by university or high-school students.” [h/t Dad]","http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/cms-releases-new-batch-research-data-lhc
http://opendata.cern.ch/about/CMS",https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347
2016.04.27,3,Flight delays.,"The Bureau of Transportation Statistics requires the nation’s largest airlines to report scheduled and actual timing data for every domestic flight. The corresponding database includes information about delays, cancellations, and diversions, among other fields — and goes back to 1987. In January 2016, departing flights taxied for an average of 16 minutes, a minimum of 1 minute, and a maximum of 2 hours, 38 minutes. Related: “Which Flight Will Get You There Fastest?” [h/t Tom Augspurger]","http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DatabaseInfo.asp?DB_ID=120&DB_Name=Airline%20On-Time%20Performance%20Data
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/flights/",http://tomaugspurger.github.io/modern-1.html
2016.04.27,4,Congressional junkets.,"The U.S. House of Representatives requires all staff to reveal all “gift travel” — i.e., “free” trips that the government didn’t pay for. The Office of the Clerk compiles those filings into a database containing each trip’s dates and sponsors. (The Consumer Electronics Show paid for 49 staffers and one congressman to visit the Las Vegas convention in January.) The Senate publishes similar data, except it doesn’t include the sponsor name ... which kind of undermines the entire point. [h/t John Stanton]","http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/giftTravel.aspx
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/g_three_sections_with_teasers/lobbyingdisc.htm#lobbyingdisc=grt",https://twitter.com/dcbigjohn
2016.04.27,5,"A long time ago, in an API far, far away.","The Star Wars API provides programmatic access to data about every character, species, spaceship, planet, and film in George Lucas’ cinematic universe. You can also download JSON files containing all the data. [h/t Robin Sloan]","https://swapi.co/
https://github.com/phalt/swapi/tree/master/resources/fixtures",https://twitter.com/robinsloan
2016.05.04,1,Scientific paper trails.,"Sci-Hub bills itself as “the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers.” Who’s downloading papers from the site? “Everyone,” Science magazine concluded after analyzing data culled from six months of Sci-Hub server logs. For every download, the dataset identifies the paper downloaded, the date and time, an anonymized version of the downloader’s IP address, and a rough location. [h/t Melissa Bierly + Tom Grahame]","http://sci-hub.cc/
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.q447c","https://twitter.com/melissa_bierly
https://twitter.com/tfgrahame"
2016.05.04,2,"The Ku Klux Klan, 1915–1940.","Scholars at Virginia Commonwealth University have identified and mapped the locations of 2,000 KKK branches active in the early 20th century. The dataset contains the city, state, earliest-known-date, and sources for each “klavern.” Related: “Active Hate Groups in the United States in 2015,” a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [h/t K Reed]","http://labs.library.vcu.edu/klan/
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/hist_data/1/
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/active-hate-groups-united-states-2015",https://twitter.com/ternary_logic/status/726464655632269312
2016.05.04,3,Disciplined doctors.,"The National Practitioner Data Bank tracks medical malpractice payments, license suspensions, Medicare expulsions, and other lists of penalized physicians. The public use data file includes dozens of details per entry but excludes the part that is almost certainly most important to patients: the doctors' names. Related: “Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries,” according to a 2013 USA Today investigation that relied partly on the NPDB.","http://www.npdb.hrsa.gov/
http://www.npdb.hrsa.gov/resources/publicData.jsp
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/18/unnecessary-surgery-usa-today-investigation/2435009/",
2016.05.04,4,Goooooooooaaaaal.,"OpenFootball collects and publishes results and rosters from national and international soccer/football matches, including the Premier League and the World Cup. Related: English soccer/football results, 1871–2014. [h/t Wendy Mak]","http://openfootball.github.io/
https://github.com/jalapic/engsoccerdata",https://twitter.com/wwymak/status/714796436609757184
2016.05.04,5,Grape timing.,"Climate scientists have compiled a dataset of grape-harvest-dates from 380 European vineyards, across 27 regions, and stretching back 650 years. The earliest data-point refers to a Burgundy harvest in 1354. Related: The original academic paper. [h/t Martín González]","https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo/f?p=519:1:0::::P1_STUDY_ID:13194
http://www.clim-past.net/8/1403/2012/",https://twitter.com/martgnz
2016.05.11,1,Secret offshore companies.,"On Monday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released data on 210,000 companies, trusts, and funds named in the massive Panama Papers leak. The database is searchable online and downloadable as several CSV files. The dataset includes companies’ officers, registered addresses, and middlemen. It supplements a pre-existing cache of of 105,000 companies named in ICIJ’s 2013 ""Offshore Leaks"" investigation.","https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-database-release.html
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database
https://www.icij.org/offshore",
2016.05.11,2,Potentially habitable planets.,"Since 2009, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has been looking for Earth-like exoplanets — i.e., planets outside our solar system. Through the NASA Exoplanet Archive, you can explore, filter, and download databases of “candidate” and “confirmed” exoplanets, including Kepler’s discoveries. [h/t David Kipping]","http://kepler.nasa.gov/
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/intro.html
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/TblView/nph-tblView?app=ExoTbls&config=cumulative",https://twitter.com/david_kipping/status/728410422873870336
2016.05.11,3,“Marihuana.”,"The Institute for Cannabis (established in 1985 as The Institute for Hemp) has obtained, via FOIA, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of organizations licensed to handle marijuana — or, as the license application form calls it, “marihuana.” Many of the nearly 3,000 licensees are law enforcement organizations, but universities, pharmacies, and hospitals also pepper the list. [h/t Michael Ravnitzky]","http://birrenbach.com/INSTITUTE/
http://birrenbach.com/INSTITUTE/foia/dea/
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drugreg/reg_apps/225/225_form.pdf",
2016.05.11,4,Obesity over time.,"An international network of researchers who study noncommunicable diseases estimates the annual prevalence of obesity and diabetes for approximately 200 countries and territories around the world. The data currently covers 1975–2014 and is based, on 2,000+ surveys, according to the group. Related: Bloomberg’s chart and maps of the data.","http://www.ncdrisc.org/
http://www.ncdrisc.org/d-adiposity.html
http://www.ncdrisc.org/d-diabetes.html
http://www.ncdrisc.org/about-us.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-global-obesity/",
2016.05.11,5,Upward mobility.,"In response to a freedom-of-information request, the NYC Department of Buildings provided WNYC with a spreadsheet of 76,088 “registered elevator devices” in the city. Elevators and escalators dominate the list, but you’ll also find dumbwaiters, handicap lifts, and a few other vertical transporters. The spreadsheet includes data on location, speed, maximum capacity, floors served, and more. Related: FiveThirtyEight analyzed the data last week. [h/t Michael A. Rice, a teacher at Ingraham High School in Seattle + John Templon]","https://github.com/datanews/elevators
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-yorks-elevators-define-the-city/",https://twitter.com/jtemplon/status/727919536561885186
2016.05.18,1,Drug safety.,"To help monitor drug safety, the FDA collects “adverse event” reports submitted by patients, doctors, and manufacturers. You can download the (anonymized) reports from the FDA directly, but that dataset includes duplicate cases, and sometimes calls the same drug by different names. A group of researchers recently announced that they’ve cleaned up the data — removing duplicates and standardizing nomenclature — so that you don’t have to. The resulting dataset covers 4,245 drugs, more than 17,000 types of reactions, and nearly 5 million case reports. Previously: The SIDER database of pharmaceutical side effects, featured Nov. 11, 2015.","http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Surveillance/AdverseDrugEffects/default.htm
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Surveillance/AdverseDrugEffects/ucm082193.htm
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201626
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.8q0s4
http://sideeffects.embl.de/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-11-edition",
2016.05.18,2,Fossils.,"The Paleobiology Database, run by a non-profit group of researchers, has aggregated data on more than a million fossils from all around the world. You can access the dataset — organized by species, era, and location — via an interactive map, download form, or API.","https://paleobiodb.org
https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/
https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=displayDownloadGenerator
https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/occs/list_doc.html",
2016.05.18,3,"Immigrants, internationally.","The United Nations publishes estimates of the number of foreign-born residents living in every country. The figures cover 1990 to 2015, at five-year intervals. The Vatican (100% foreign-born) and the United Arab Emirates (88%) had the highest proportion of immigrant residents in 2015; the U.S. (46.6 million) boasted the largest total immigrant population. The dataset also includes estimates by age, sex, and country of origin. Previously: Refugees in America, featured Nov. 25, 2015. [h/t Manu Balachandran]","http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates15.shtml
http://www.wrapsnet.org/Reports/InteractiveReporting/tabid/393/Default.aspx
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-25-edition",https://www.theatlas.com/charts/4JYKtQedx
2016.05.18,4,Tens of millions of parking tickets.,"I Quant NY author Ben Wellington recently discovered that New York City had been “ticketing legally parked cars for millions of dollars a year.” To reach that finding, Wellington analyzed three years of parking tickets, amounting to more than 30 million summonses. NYC isn’t alone in providing parking ticket data; Philadelphia, Toronto, Baltimore, Seattle, and others publish similar datasets.","http://iquantny.tumblr.com/
http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/144197004989/the-nypd-was-systematically-ticketing-legally
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violations-Issued-Fiscal-Year-2014-August-/jt7v-77mi
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/dataset/Parking-Violations-Issued-Fiscal-Year-2015/c284-tqph
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violations-Issued-Fiscal-Year-2016/kiv2-tbus
https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/parking-violations
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=ca20256c54ea4310VgnVCM1000003dd60f89RCRD
https://data.baltimorecity.gov/Transportation/Parking-Citations/n4ma-fj3m
https://data.seattle.gov/Public-Safety/Parking-Violations-All/q2m9-8vqf",
2016.05.18,5,Musical metadata.,"The MusicBrainz database contains metadata on more than one million artists, 16 million recordings, 900,000 pieces of cover art. You can download the data in bulk or query it via an API. Previously: The smaller-but-more-detailed Million Song Dataset, featured Feb. 10. [h/t Geoff Boeing]","https://musicbrainz.org/
https://musicbrainz.org/statistics
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Download
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Version_2
http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-10-edition",http://geoffboeing.com/2016/05/analyzing-lastfm-history/
2016.05.25,1,"Ain’t no mountain high, ain’t no valley low.","Governments around the world have used “LiDAR” — a laser-powered surveying technology — to build impressively precise elevation maps. In many cases, they’ve also released these topographic datasets to the public. The U.S., for instance, publishes gobs of LiDAR data through the Interagency Elevation Inventory. And you can also find LiDAR datasets for the United Kingdom, Spain, Finland, Slovenia, Denmark, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and New York City. Related: Using LiDAR data to print a 3D map of London.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar
https://coast.noaa.gov/inventory/
https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-light-up-open-data/
http://pnoa.ign.es/presentacion
http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/professionals/topographic-data/remote-sensing/laser-scanning
http://evode.arso.gov.si/indexd022.html?q=node/12
http://rapidlasso.com/2014/05/15/lasmoons-asger-s-petersen/
http://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/internet/swisstopo/en/home/products/height.html
http://www.ahn.nl/index.html
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/1-foot-Digital-Elevation-Model-DEM-/dpc8-z3jc
http://www.aeracode.org/2016/5/16/hello-london-rising/",
2016.05.25,2,Risky predictions.,"“There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks,” a ProPublica analysis has found. The investigation focused on risk assessments and recidivism in Broward County, Florida, and found that black defendants were more likely than white defendants to be mislabeled as “high risk.” The reporters have published their methodology, code, and the underlying data — including two years of Broward County risk assessments — on GitHub.","https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing
https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis",
2016.05.25,3,Historical San Francisco rents.,"To help understand San Francisco’s soaring real estate prices, Eric Fischer transcribed decades of apartment and house listings in the San Francisco Chronicle. For each year from 1948 through 1979, Fischer jotted down every monthly rent advertised in the paper on the first Sunday in April. (Similar data for 1979 through 2001 is available from San Francisco’s Housing Study DataBook.) The transcriptions are available on GitHub. [h/t Kendall Taggart + Michael Andersen]","https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employment-construction-and-cost-of-san.html
http://sfrb.org/san-francisco-housing-study-databook
https://github.com/ericfischer/housing-inventory/","https://twitter.com/KendallTTaggart/status/732737115205701633
https://medium.com/@andersem/a-guy-just-transcribed-30-years-of-for-rent-ads-heres-what-it-taught-us-about-sf-housing-prices-bd61fd0e4ef9#.spmzmbb6r"
2016.05.25,4,American soccer salaries.,"The Major League Soccer Players Union publishes salary data going back to 2007, and released 2016’s figures last week. (At $7.17 million in total compensation, Orlando City’s Kaká ranks as the league’s highest-paid player.) The MLSPU publishes the data as PDFs; I’ve converted those PDFs into CSVs for you. [h/t Rose Eveleth + John Templon]","https://www.mlsplayers.org/salary_info.html
https://github.com/data-is-plural/mls-salaries","https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/733311382679130112
https://twitter.com/jtemplon"
2016.05.25,5,Photography biography.,"The Photographers’ Identities Catalog aggregates data on more than 110,000 photographers and photo studios throughout history. The information “has been culled from trusted biographical dictionaries, catalogs and databases, and from extensive original research” by the New York Public Library’s photography experts. The catalog — which includes data on gender, geography, range of years active, and more — is available as raw CSVs on GitHub.","http://pic.nypl.org/
https://github.com/NYPL/pic-data",
2016.06.01,1,Veterans in America.,"In 2014, approximately 22 million U.S. military veterans were still alive, including 1 million who served in World War II, 7.2 million who served during the Vietnam War era, and 3.9 million who have served in post-9/11 wars. Those numbers come from the VA’s National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, which publishes estimates and future-projections of the country’s veteran population. You can explore the data by age, race, ethnicity, gender, military branch, state, county, era of service, and more. (To see the files, click on the “Population Tables” header.) [h/t Charles Worthington]",http://www.va.gov/vetdata/Veteran_Population.asp,http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/1253
2016.06.01,2,Farmers in Africa.,"Between 2002 and 2004, researchers surveyed more than 9,500 farming households in 11 African countries to better understand how climate change might affect agricultural practices. Last month, they published the detailed results and documentation in Scientific Data. The dataset includes responses to questions about plantings, harvests, yields, water sources, animal purchases, taxes paid, and much more.",http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201620?WT.ec_id=SDATA-201605,
2016.06.01,3,"Income inequality, country-by-country.","The United Nations University’s World Income Inequality Database contains historical Gini coefficients for more than 170 countries — in some instances stretching back to the 1930s or ‘40s. The latest version of the database was released in October 2015 and includes key details about each estimate, such as the name of the primary source and the quality of data collection.","https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/wiid-%E2%80%93-world-income-inequality-database
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
https://www.wider.unu.edu/download/WIID3.3",
2016.06.01,4,Speling chellange.,"The Scripps National Spelling Bee publishes the competition’s results online, but not in any analysis-friendly format. Thankfully, statistician Christopher Long has scraped and spreadsheet-ified the Scripps results going back to 1996 – including last week’s finals. Related: FiveThirtyEight uses the data to ask, “Where Do Spelling Bee Words Come From?”","http://spellingbee.com/public/results/2016/round_results
http://angrystatistician.blogspot.com/
https://github.com/octonion/spelling
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/where-do-spelling-bee-words-come-from/",
2016.06.01,5,The LEGO-verse.,"BrickLink is a website for buying and selling LEGOs. It also happens to publish a (nearly?) complete inventory of every LEGO set and piece produced since 1949. Related: LEGO sets have become increasingly violent, according to a recent study. [h/t Lindsey Cook]","https://www.bricklink.com
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp
http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2016/legoViolence/index.html",http://tinyletter.com/UpDownAllAround/letters/so-random
2016.06.08,1,Nuclear accidents.,"Researchers in Europe have published a database of 216 nuclear energy accidents — a compendium they say is “twice the size of the previous best data set.” For each accident, the database contains the date, location, description, and four measurements of severity: its ratings on the International Nuclear Event Scale and on the Nuclear Accident Magnitude Scale, the number of fatalities, and total monetary cost. (The three most expensive: Chernobyl, Fukushima, and a 1995 accident at Japan’s Monju Nuclear Power Plant, estimated to have caused $15.5 billion in damages.) [h/t Dad]","https://innovwiki.ethz.ch/index.php/Nuclear_events_database
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.12587/full
http://www-ns.iaea.org/tech-areas/emergency/ines.asp
http://www.davidsmythe.org/nuclear/accidents.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant",https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347
2016.06.08,2,Government court payouts.,"The U.S. government maintains a “judgment fund,” which it uses to pay plaintiffs when federal agencies lose in court (or settle “actual or imminent lawsuits”). The Department of the Treasury, which administers the fund, publishes data on these payouts for each fiscal year going back to FY2006. [h/t CJ Ciaramella]","https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsservices/gov/pmt/jdgFund/judgementFund_home.htm
https://jfund.fms.treas.gov/jfradSearchWeb/JFPymtSearchAction.do",http://tinyletter.com/cjciaramella/letters/foia-rundown-elephants
2016.06.08,3,Local justice data.,"The Sunlight Foundation’s Hall of Justice brings together “nearly 10,000” criminal justice datasets and research documents from across the United States. You can search for topics and filter by geography, publisher, and accessibility (open, open-but-not-machine-readable, restricted access, et cetera.). Related: Sunlight’s “lessons learned from a year of opening police data.” [h/t Susie Cambria + Noah Veltman]","http://hallofjustice.sunlightfoundation.com/
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/05/04/lessons-learned-from-a-year-of-opening-police-data/","https://twitter.com/susiecambria
https://twitter.com/veltman"
2016.06.08,4,"The Netflix Prize, archived.","In 2006, Netflix launched a $1 million challenge to beat the company’s movie-recommendation algorithm. In 2009, Netflix awarded the prize to a group of AT&T scientists (though ultimately didn’t use the winning algorithm). The challenge, which was open to the public, was based on a dataset of 100 million ratings from 480,000 (anonymized) users, corresponding to more than 17,000 movies between Oct. 1998 and Dec. 2005. The dataset, once hosted at UC Irvine, is currently available through the Internet Archive. Previously: MovieLens, featured Jan. 27. [h/t Brandon Loudermilk]","http://www.netflixprize.com/
https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120409/03412518422/why-netflix-never-implemented-algorithm-that-won-netflix-1-million-challenge.shtml
https://web.archive.org/web/20090925184737/http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Netflix+Prize
https://archive.org/details/nf_prize_dataset.tar
http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-27-edition",http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/7884
2016.06.08,5,Billboard hits and lyrics.,Statistics grad student Kaylin Walker scraped 50 years of Billboard’s “Year-End Hot 100” rankings and those songs’ lyrics. Related: Walker’s analysis and methodology. [h/t Melissa Bierly],"https://github.com/walkerkq/musiclyrics
http://kaylinwalker.com/50-years-of-pop-music/",https://blog.modeanalytics.com/analytics-dispatch-026/
2016.06.15,1,(Almost) every politician.,"On everypolitician.org, you can search and download data on 70,000+ legislators (past and present) from 233 countries. (Among those missing: Cuba, Ethiopia, and Qatar.) The dataset includes each lawmaker’s party affiliation, years served, gender, social media profiles, and more. Related: Every member of the United States Congress since 1789.","http://everypolitician.org/
http://docs.everypolitician.org/repo_structure.html
http://everypolitician.org/countries.html
https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators",
2016.06.15,2,Title IX investigations.,"The Chronicle of Higher Education has been tracking federal investigations into sexual assault on college campuses. Recently, The Chronicle added an API, so that developers and data analysts can access the data more easily. Currently, the dataset includes 292 investigations conducted since April 2011 — 49 of which have been resolved. [h/t Jon Davenport]","http://projects.chronicle.com/titleix/
http://projects.chronicle.com/titleix/api/v1/docs/",https://twitter.com/JonDavenport1/status/741372292710707200
2016.06.15,3,Air quality.,"Last month, the World Health Organization released its latest update to the Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, which now covers nearly 3,000 cities in 103 countries. For each city, the dataset includes annual average density of two key categories of particulates (PM2.5 and PM10), as well as details regarding the data collection. According to the organization’s own analysis, “98% of cities in low and middle income countries with more than 100,000 inhabitants do not meet WHO air quality guidelines.” Related: ”A New Air Pollution Database Is Good, but Imperfect.”","http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair/databases/cities/en/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-new-air-pollution-database-is-good-but-imperfect/",
2016.06.15,4,Gone phishing.,"PhishTank is a clearinghouse that tracks thieves’ attempts to steal personal information and online credentials. The website also publishes bulk data on all verified phishing attempts — 44,000 and counting. With more than 1,000 phishing attempts recorded against it, PayPal is the single most-targeted website in the database. [h/t Herman Slatman]","https://www.phishtank.com/index.php
https://www.phishtank.com/developer_info.php",https://github.com/hslatman/awesome-threat-intelligence
2016.06.15,5,Gone fishing.,"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Statistics Division provides data on seafood caught by U.S. commercial fisheries, sliceable by month, species, and fishing gear. You can learn, for example, that these fisheries caught 88,893,305 pounds of Dungeness crab in 2006 — the highest recorded total since at least 1950. [h/t Gwynn Guilford]",https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/commercial-fisheries/commercial-landings/,https://www.theatlas.com/charts/4yVqvlTR
2016.06.22,1,Nonprofit IRS filings — at long last.,"Last week, the Internal Revenue Service released a huge dataset of nonprofits’ annual Form 990 filings, which provide details on program expenses, salaries, and more. More than 60% of Form 990s are filed digitally, according to the IRS. Previously, those forms were only available as images; now the IRS is publishing them as analysis-friendly XML files. (You can also download the data in bulk from the Internet Archive, thanks to Carl Malamud, the public domain advocate who led the fight for 990s-as-XML.) One early observer noted that the some of the data was misformatted, and has provided instructions for fixing it. [h/t Andrew Sullivan + Kendall Taggart]","https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/irs-makes-electronically-filed-form-990-data-available-in-new-format
https://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/irs-990/
https://archive.org/details/IRS990-efile
https://twitter.com/licyeus/status/743308612672466944
https://gist.github.com/licyeus/95b99d6feb423ebea604b5f3e2cdf590","https://twitter.com/licyeus/status/743308612672466944
https://twitter.com/kendallttaggart"
2016.06.22,2,"6,000 years of urbanization.","Earlier this month, researchers published “the first spatially explicit dataset of urban settlements from 3700 BC to AD 2000,” along with a detailed methodology. The dataset digitizes and geocodes population numbers originally tabulated by historian Tertius Chandler (Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth) and political scientist George Modelski (World Cities: -3,000 to 2,000). Though “far from comprehensive,” the authors say that the dataset a “first step towards understanding the geographic distribution of urban populations throughout history.” Related: “Watch 6,000 years of urbanization taking over the world.”","http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201634
http://urban.yale.edu/data
http://www.worldcat.org/title/four-thousand-years-of-urban-growth/oclc/59678315
http://www.worldcat.org/title/world-cities-3000-to-2000/oclc/57695214
http://qz.com/706051/706051/",
2016.06.22,3,Bull vs. man.,"Next month, thousands of adrenaline junkies will gather in Pamplona for the city’s annual Running of the Bulls. The San Fermin festival, which organizes the spectacle, publishes injury data on its website. (Here’s a shortcut to display every year of data, instead of one year at a time.) Last year, the bulls gored 10 runners and injured another 27. Related: “Your Chances Of Being Gored By A Bull In Pamplona Are Getting Higher.”","http://www.sanfermin.com/index.php/en/encierro/como-correr/cuanta-gente-corre-en-el-encierro-de-sanfermin
http://www.sanfermin.com/index.php/en/encierro/que-es
http://www.sanfermin.com/index.php/en/encierro/buscador/buscador-encierros
http://www.sanfermin.com/old/encierrometro/buscador_encierros.php?lang=eng&buscar=1
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/your-chances-of-being-gored-by-a-bull-in-pamplona-are-getting-higher/",
2016.06.22,4,"2BR with vinyl siding, sweet 2BR with vinyl siding.","The U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Characteristics of New Housing culls data on features such as square footage, wall material, number of bedrooms, and number of fireplaces. (Air conditioning was present in 93% of new single-family homes built in 2015, up from 49% in 1973.) Related: “Houses Keep Getting Bigger, Even as Families Get Smaller.” [h/t Lindsey Cook]","http://www.census.gov/construction/chars/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/upshot/houses-keep-getting-bigger-even-as-families-get-smaller.html",http://tinyletter.com/UpDownAllAround/letters/orlando
2016.06.22,5,The Hum.,"“Most people find this website because they are searching for the source of an unusual low frequency sound.” The World Hum Database currently includes more than 10,000 reader-submitted reports, including a recent submissions that describe the noise as sounding “like a fridge,” “like a train in the distance,” and “like a cicada that never shuts up.” [h/t Susie Cambria]","http://www.thehum.info/
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1EyjVZqUPpoXGQDa_cry9DqFaBVMOgEyq-3qo85bx#rows:id=1",https://twitter.com/susiecambria
2016.07.06,1,Public Policy.,"The Correlates of State Policy Project aims to become a “one-stop shop” for data related to public policy in America’s 50 states. So far, the project is tracking 700+ aspects of each state’s laws, budgets, demographics, and more. Among the policy variables: Can pharmacies dispense emergency contraception without a prescription? Does the state ban corporal punishment in schools? and Does the state have an endangered species act? Don’t miss the codebook, which describes the data and sources in greater detail. Related: State and Local Public Policies in the United States, a similar project, for which an update to include 2014 data is “underway.” [h/t Rob Gillezeau]","http://ippsr.msu.edu/public-policy/correlates-state-policy
http://www.matthewg.org/correlatesofstatepolicyprojectv1Codebook.pdf
http://www.statepolicyindex.com/about/",https://twitter.com/robgillezeau/status/746080180280537088
2016.07.06,2,Nursing homes.,"Last month, German investigative nonprofit Correctiv published a searchable database of 13,000 nursing homes in the country. The data are based on government inspections, and the reporters have published the raw and processed data on GitHub. Related: ProPublica’s searchable database of nursing homes in the United States and the Medicare’s nursing home data. [h/t Sandhya Kambhampati]","https://correctiv.org/en/investigations/nursing-homes/guide/
https://correctiv.org/en/investigations/nursing-homes/articles/2016/06/09/nursing-homes-what-we-know-what-we-do-not-know/
https://github.com/correctiv/pflege-notebook
http://projects.propublica.org/nursing-homes/
https://data.medicare.gov/data/nursing-home-compare",https://twitter.com/sandhya__k
2016.07.06,3,Russian election results.,"In a recently-updated paper, three academics say they’ve found “convincing evidence of election fraud” in federal Russian elections since 2004. To support their analyses, the researchers have published the underlying data, which includes polling station data from seven Russian elections (as well as one Polish and one Spanish election, which showed no such signs of fraud). Related: WSJ analysis of Russian parliamentary election “points to widespread fraud” (2012). [h/t Arthur Bashlykov]","http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6059
https://figshare.com/articles/kobakEtAl_AOAS2016_suppData_zip/3126883
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203391104577124540544822220",https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-bashlykov-8a3b2b102
2016.07.06,4,NYC property taxes and exemptions.,"Property tax data in New York City is technically available to the public, but the city makes it difficult to access. So a pair of civic hackers liberated the data. Now you can download 1.1 million rows of bulk data, which details each property’s type, assessed value, taxes due, owner’s name, and more. You can also download 750,000 rows of tax exemptions and abatements. Related: “A Look at NYC’s $650 Million Property Tax Breaks Related to Religion”","http://chriswhong.com/open-data/liberating-data-from-nyc-property-tax-bills/
http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/146688053904/payer-or-prayer-a-look-at-nycs-650-million",
2016.07.06,5,You shouldn’t point lasers at airplanes.,"And yet, people do... by the thousands. In 2005, the Federal Aviation Administration created a system for pilots to report “laser events,” which it says can temporarily blind crewmembers. The administration has published five years of data from the reporting system. In 2014, the most recent year available, pilots reported 3,894 laser beamings. The vast majority involved a green beam, and none were reported to have caused an injury.","http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=12765
http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/lasers/laws/",
2016.07.13,1,"Every United Nations vote, 1946–2014.",This repository contains voting data from each of the UN General Assembly’s the first 69 sessions. One spreadsheet summarizes the topic and results of each voted-upon resolution. (The dataset also indicates whether the U.S. State Department identified the vote as “important” — such those condemning human rights violations in Syria and North Korea — in its annual Voting Practices in the United Nations report.) Another file contains each country’s individual voting decisions. [h/t David Robinson],"https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/12379
http://www.state.gov/p/io/rls/rpt/index.htm",https://twitter.com/drob/status/751398401867182080
2016.07.13,2,The money bone.,"Late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services added data from 2015 to its Open Payments database, which tracks medical companies’ payments to doctors and teaching hospitals. The payments — which include consulting fees, gifts, honoraria, meals, drinks, grants, and more — totaled more than $7.5 billion last year. Related: ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs project, which began tracking medical industry payments in 2010, long before CMS released the OpenPayments database. [h/t Cat Ferguson + Chris Hamby]","https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Press-releases/2016-Press-releases-items/2016-06-30.html
https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
https://www.cms.gov/OpenPayments/About/Natures-of-Payment.html
https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/","https://twitter.com/biocuriosity
https://twitter.com/ChrisDHamby"
2016.07.13,3,Hundreds of millions of street addresses.,"OpenAddresses.io is an effort to collect the official geocoordinates of the all the world’s physical addresses. (These data come from “authoritative” sources, such as city governments. When Google Maps tells you the location of an address, it’s often just a very-educated guess, extrapolated from coarser data.) As of Monday evening, the project had processed 265,078,567 addresses, mostly in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Related: “Open-source geo is really something right now.”","https://openaddresses.io/
https://results.openaddresses.io/
https://trackchanges.postlight.com/open-source-geo-is-really-something-right-now-f8e310c5f57a#.t2f638jnj",
2016.07.13,4,Workplace safety.,"The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) conducted 86,000 workplace inspections last year. The agency makes its inspection results — including investigations of fatal accidents and severe injuries — available in bulk and via an API.","http://ogesdw.dol.gov/views/data_summary.php
http://developer.dol.gov/health-and-safety/dol-osha-enforcement",
2016.07.13,5,Catch ‘em all.,"Pokéapi is an API “detailing everything about the Pokémon main game series,” including every character, evolution, battle skill, and more. The data is also available as a series of CSVs. Currently, however, the dataset doesn’t include details from the so-hot-right-now Pokémon Go game.","https://pokeapi.co/
https://github.com/phalt/pokeapi/tree/master/data/v2/csv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go",
2016.07.20,1,Coups d'état.,"Two political science professors at the University of Kentucky are compiling a dataset of coup attempts. So far, the dataset covers both successful and unsuccessful attempts from 1950 to late 2015. During those 65+ years, coup plotters have been foiled about half the time, with 236 victories and 238 failures. According to the dataset, Bolivia’s top leaders have faced 23 coup attempts, including 11 successful overthrows — more than any other country by either metric. [h/t Arthur Charpentier]",http://www.jonathanmpowell.com/coup-detat-dataset.html,https://twitter.com/freakonometrics
2016.07.20,2,Tech support.,"StackOverflow is a Q&A site for programmers, and part of the larger StackExchange network of Q&A communities. StackExchange publishes periodic data dumps of the networks’ users, questions, answers, votes, and comments. On Monday, the company released “StackLite,” a smaller, easier-to-use slice of the data. (Even so, it contains metadata on more than 15 million questions.) If you don’t want to download anything, you can also explore and analyze the data online. [h/t David Robinson]","http://stackoverflow.com/
http://stackexchange.com/
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
https://github.com/dgrtwo/StackLite
https://data.stackexchange.com/",http://varianceexplained.org/r/stack-lite/
2016.07.20,3,🔥 🔥 🔥 .,"The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) is “the world’s largest, national, annual database of fire incident information,” containing about 1 million fires per year, including wildfires, structure fires, vehicle fires, and more. NFIRS data from 2013 (and prior years) are available online from FEMA. Looking for 2014’s data? The government asks you to request it via postal mail; or you could trust the copy a public safety analyst uploaded in March. (See the links at the bottom of that page.) The U.S. Fire Administration, which maintains NFIRS, publishes additional datasets, including a spreadsheet of 27,000+ fire departments and a database of on-duty firefighter fatalities. Also, the U.S. Geological Survey publishes data on current and historical wildfire perimeters. [h/t Nick Penzenstadler + Nadja Popovich]","https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/nfirs/
https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/112009
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nfirs-2014-available-dov-chelst
https://github.com/dnchelst/NFIRS
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/order_download_data.html
https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/census-download/main/download
https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/GeoMAC/","https://twitter.com/npenzenstadler/status/754010911292190720
https://twitter.com/popovichn"
2016.07.20,4,World heritage sites.,"Today, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee will wrap up its 40th session, during which it has “inscribed” more than 20 new awe-inspiring places around the world. Online, the organization publishes spreadsheets and map files of 1,031 heritage sites it has previously inducted. For each site, the spreadsheet tracks its location, size, date inducted, category (“cultural,” “natural,” or “mixed”), and which selection criteria it met, and more. Through 2015, the countries with the largest number of heritage sites were Italy (51), China (48), and Spain (44).","http://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/40COM/
http://whc.unesco.org/en/newproperties/
http://whc.unesco.org/en/syndication
http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria/",
2016.07.20,5,"Paperwork, work, work, work, work, work.","Thanks to the Paperwork Reduction Act, federal agencies must get approval from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for any “information collection” (e.g., a form) that seeks 10 or more responses. You can search all information collections — under review, approved, or rejected — online, or download an XML file of all active collections.","http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRASearch
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAXML",
2016.07.27,1,How we die.,"The Global Burden of Disease dataset represents “the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide,” according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which runs the project. For each disease and each country, the dataset contains estimates of the total deaths, years of life lost, and years lived with disability. The estimates are currently available for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2013. Related: “Where We Live and How We Die: What a year of death looks like around the world.” [h/t Mimi Onuoha + Data & Society]","http://www.healthdata.org/gbd/data
http://www.healthdata.org/gbd
https://howwegettonext.com/where-we-live-and-how-we-die-36eeb4c256ab#.6g464ysu0","https://twitter.com/thistimeitsmimi
http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=5cf8e71652&e=3bafe38e66"
2016.07.27,2,Public transit.,"Transitland and TransitFeeds both aggregate data on routes, stops, and timetables from hundreds of public transit systems — from the Bay Area’s BART, to New York’s MTA, to Milan’s ATM, to Budapest’s BKK.","https://transit.land/
https://transitfeeds.com/",
2016.07.27,3,Public libraries.,"The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services annually collects responses from 9,000 public library systems. The results, currently available through 2013, include information about the libraries’ collection size, physical footprint, population served, hours, and more. Previously: Every known museum in the United States, featured Nov. 11, 2015.","https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/public-libraries-united-states-survey/public-libraries-united
https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/museum-universe-data-file
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-04-edition",
2016.07.27,4,Walrus hangouts.,"The Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) accounts for the vast majority of walruses on the planet. When they’re not swimming, Pacific walruses like to rest at places called “haulouts.” A new dataset and study include details on 150 current and historic haulouts, the largest of which has been reported to attract more than 100,000 walruses. Miscellany: Three of the study’s authors work for the U.S. Department of the Interior; the fourth works for Russia’s Institute of Biological Problems of the North. [h/t Keith Collins]","http://alaska.usgs.gov/products/data.php?dataid=74
http://www.ibpn.ru/en/",https://twitter.com/collinskeith
2016.07.27,5,Bigfoot sightings.,"The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization dubs itself “the only scientific research organization exploring the bigfoot/sasquatch mystery.” The BFRO collects and vets sighting reports, and publishes them online. (Direct link to KMZ file.) Related: “'Squatch Watch: 92 Years of Bigfoot Sightings in the US and Canada.” [h/t Joshua Stevens + Lynn Cherny]","http://www.bfro.net/
http://www.bfro.net/news/google_earth.asp
http://www.bfro.net/app/AllReportsKMZ.aspx
http://www.joshuastevens.net/visualization/squatch-watch-92-years-of-bigfoot-sightings-in-us-and-canada/","https://twitter.com/jscarto/status/743861481998016512
https://twitter.com/arnicas/status/743859743945555968"
2016.08.03,1,Vaccination nations.,"The World Health Organization publishes a slew of datasets on national vaccination rates and policies. Some facts gleaned from the data: Asked whether they provided routine vaccinations to children at school, just 55% of 191 countries that responded said they did. And: In 2015, Equatorial Guinea reported that only 26% of infants had received a first dose of measles vaccine, a lower rate than any other country’s. [h/t Philip Shemella]",http://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/data/en/,http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/7220/vaccination-policies/9345#9345
2016.08.03,2,Deaths in police custody.,"At least 6,913 people died while in the custody of Texas police, jails, and prisons between 2005 and 2015, according to the newly-launched Texas Justice Initiative. The data, gathered through freedom-of-information requests, contains the age, sex, and race/ethnicity of each person who died, as well as the general cause of death and a more detailed summary. Read more at: The Atlantic. Related: California’s Department of Justice publishes similar statistics and raw data. [h/t Melissa Segura + Reade Levinson]","http://texasjusticeinitiative.org/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/7000-deaths-in-custody-texas/493325/
https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/death-in-custody/overview
https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data","https://twitter.com/MelissaDSegura
https://twitter.com/readelev"
2016.08.03,3,Electricity prices.,"In May 2016, U.S. residential consumers paid an average of roughly 12.8 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity. The price was lowest in Louisiana (9.28 cents) and Washington state (9.54 cents), and highest in Hawaii (26.87 cents) and Connecticut (21.63 cents). These data-points, and more, are available through the Energy Information Administration’s electric power reports, which are updated monthly. [h/t Jordan Wirfs-Brock]","http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_06_a
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/",https://github.com/InsideEnergy/24-energy-stories-CAR16
2016.08.03,4,Measuring up.,"A group of public health researchers have estimated the average height of adults in 200 countries over the course of a century. Their calculations are based on a re-analysis of 1,472 previous studies, which collectively measured nearly 19 million participants. The resulting dataset contains annual height estimates for both men and women born each year between 1896 and 1996. During that time, South Korean women’s average height increased by approximately 8 inches, the largest gain of any group. These days, the Netherlands boasts the tallest men, and Latvia the tallest women.","https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e13410
http://www.ncdrisc.org/d-height.html",
2016.08.03,5,Email like it’s 1993.,"The 20 Newsgroups dataset contains 20,000 messages (including some duplicates) sent to 20 Usenet bulletin boards in 1993. Among the groups: alt.atheism, misc.forsale, sci.electronics, talk.politics.guns, and talk.politics.mideast.","http://qwone.com/~jason/20Newsgroups/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup",
2016.08.10,1,Pretrial inmates.,"Connecticut has begun publishing a daily census of every inmate held in jail while awaiting trial. Starting July 1, the database contains one row per inmate per day; each row includes basic demographic data (age, gender, race), as well as the inmate’s bond amount, main offense, and jail location. Read more at: The New Haven Independent and TrendCT. Question: This release seems unprecedented; does any other state or country publish such detailed data on pretrial inmates? [h/t Camille Seaberry]","https://data.ct.gov/Public-Safety/Accused-Pre-Trial-Inmates-in-Correctional-Faciltie/b674-jy6w
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/bail_reform1/
http://trendct.org/2016/07/20/pre-trial-inmates/",http://www.ctdatahaven.org/staff
2016.08.10,2,"U.S. slave populations, 1790–1860.","For more than a century, the U.S. Census collected slave population figures. An assistant professor at George Mason University has aggregated that data, and mapped it. He cautions: “Treat the Census numbers skeptically: even in the best of circumstances the Census undercounts the population.” Previously: New Orleans slave sales in the December 30 edition; slave ship voyages in the January 20 edition.","http://lincolnmullen.com/
https://github.com/lmullen/slavery-map/blob/master/census.csv
http://lincolnmullen.com/projects/slavery/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-20-edition",
2016.08.10,3,Hospital ratings.,"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services evaluates hospitals on dozens of measures — relating to safety, timeliness of care, patient satisfaction, and more — and publishes the results online as the “Hospital Compare” dataset. The dataset also includes an overall score, which distills each hospital’s results into a single five-star rating. If you don’t want to download the data, you can explore the results online. [h/t Drew Ivan]","https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/Data-Updated.html#
https://data.medicare.gov/data/archives/hospital-compare
https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/Hospital-overall-ratings-calculation.html
https://www.medicare.gov/HospitalCompare/search.html",https://twitter.com/drewivan
2016.08.10,4,Rocks.,"Macrostrat.org provides data and maps on thousands of geologic formations around the world. The database currently includes 1,474 “regional columns,” 33,903 “rock units,” and 1,750,044 “geologic map polygons.” You can also explore the data through the University of Minnesota’s “Flyover Country” iOS and Android apps. [h/t Grant J. Smith]","https://macrostrat.org/
https://macrostrat.org/#api
https://macrostrat.org/burwell/
http://fc.umn.edu/",https://twitter.com/grantmeaccess/status/720992509950865412
2016.08.10,5,Heartbeats.,"PhysioNet has published sound and data files for more than 3,000 heart recordings (a.k.a. phonocardiograms). The files support PhysioNet’s 2016 contest, which seeks algorithms that can detect abnormal heart sounds. [h/t Joe Isaacson]","http://physionet.org/physiobank/database/challenge/2016/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonocardiogram
http://physionet.org/challenge/2016/#introduction",https://github.com/jisaacso/DeepHeart
2016.08.17,1,Beaches.,"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s BEACON system contains data on more than 5,000 public beaches. For each state’s most “significant” beaches, BEACON’s downloadable reports include data on water quality, pollution advisories, closures, and more. Of these highly-visited beaches, the longest — at nearly 24 miles — is the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area’s South Jetty, also home to “the largest expanse of coastal sand dunes in North America.”","https://watersgeo.epa.gov/beacon2/reports.html
http://www.fs.fed.us/visit/destination/oregon-dunes-national-recreation-area-%E2%80%93-south-jetty-area",
2016.08.17,2,Internet access.,"Through its Form 477 program, the Federal Communications Commission collects detailed data on broadband internet access in the United States. One of the easiest ways to access county-level data is through the agency's Mapping Broadband Health in America project, which overlays internet access data and physical health indicators. The latest tabulations come from 2014. In more than a quarter of counties with at least 1,000 residents that year, broadband reached less than 50% of the population.","https://www.fcc.gov/general/broadband-deployment-data-fcc-form-477
https://www.fcc.gov/health/maps/methodology",
2016.08.17,3,Music makers.,"The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) boasts a membership of “more than 585,000 US composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers of every kind of music.“ The organization also maintains a downloadable catalog of the writers and publishers behind nearly 9 million songs. (But the downloaded files lack key details, such as the date the song was published.)","http://www.ascap.com/about
https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceWeb/",
2016.08.17,4,Relative living standards.,"The Penn World Table contains GDP estimates, normalized for purchasing power, for 182 countries. These “real GDP” estimates — based on a combination of price surveys and national accounts data — stretch back at least to 1960, and many to 1950. In the most recent year available, 2014, Qatar’s real GDP per capita ranked highest: roughly $144,340 in 2011 U.S. dollars. The Central African Republic’s ranked lowest (~$594), and the United States’ ranked 11th (~$52,292). [h/t Willem Kerstholt]","http://www.rug.nl/research/ggdc/data/pwt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_accounts",https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemkerstholt
2016.08.17,5,Hunter-gatherers.,"In the 1990s, ethnoarchaeologist Lewis Binford digitized more than 200 variables describing 339 groups of hunter-gatherers, a project his collaborator and widow Amber Johnson continues to maintain. The data come from historical ethnographies of societies, ranging from the Chichimec of the 1570s (in what is now Mexico), to the Dorobo of the 1920s (in what is now Kenya), to the Shompen of the 1980s (in the Nicobar Islands).","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Binford
http://ajohnson.sites.truman.edu/data-and-program/",
2016.08.24,1,Crime in cities.,"The Marshall Project has collected and analyzed four decades of FBI data “on the most serious violent crimes in 68 police jurisdictions.” The FBI data covers 1975 through 2014; the reporters “also obtained data directly from 61 local agencies for 2015 — a period for which the FBI has not yet released its numbers.” Between 2010 and 2015, violent crime increased most in Milwaukee (+11%) and declined most in Prince George’s County, Md. (-22%).","https://github.com/themarshallproject/city-crime
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/08/18/crime-in-context",
2016.08.24,2,One billion Australian healthcare claims.,"Australia’s Department of Health has recently released an enormous dataset of Medicare and subsidized-prescription claims. It includes all claims from a random 10% sample of patients, and “contains approximately 1 billion lines of data relating to approximately 3 million Australians.” The Medicare claims go back to 1984, and the prescription claims go back to 2003. [h/t Drew Ivan]",https://data.gov.au/dataset/a8e3c0bc-44ac-4e9a-8b3c-b779438ddb10,
2016.08.24,3,Oil concessions.,"The OpenOil project aims to collect and standardizes data oil and gas development contracts around the world. So far, they’ve gathered at least some data from more than 60 countries. They’ve also published a map of oil concessions in the Middle East and Africa. [h/t Michael Gardiner]","http://openoil.net/
http://repository.openoil.net/wiki/Concession_Layer_Methodology
http://maps.openoil.net/concessions/",
2016.08.24,4,New York racehorse deaths and injuries.,"New York State tracks every time a horse has been injured or died at a state race track since March 2009. The dataset, which is updated often, also includes a few other types of incidents, such as when a rider falls or horse loses badly. Related: “Horses’ Deaths at Aqueduct Prompt New Rules.” [h/t Mark Secada]","https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Equine-Death-and-Breakdown/q6ts-kwhk
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/sports/horses-deaths-at-aqueduct-prompt-new-rules.html",
2016.08.24,5,German traffic signs.,"The German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark dataset contains 50,000+ images of 43 kinds of German traffic signs — from the classic “STOP,” to various speed limits, to roundabout indicators. The dataset, published by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Institut für Neuroinformatik, formed the basis of a 2011 machine-learning competition. [h/t Viktor Schepik]",http://benchmark.ini.rub.de/?section=gtsrb&subsection=dataset,
2016.08.31,1,Family money.,"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics is “the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world,” according to its University of Michigan overseers. The study, which began in 1968, has interviewed more than 70,000 people, including four generations of some families. You can access the data for free, but you first need to register for an account and agree to a set of guidelines. An example insight: In 2013 — the most recent year for which data is available — approximately 11% of families said they owned a business in the previous year. [h/t Don Fullerton + Nirupama S. Rao]",http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/,http://www.nber.org/papers/w22580
2016.08.31,2,Fatal car crashes.,"On Monday, the Department of Transportation released 2015 data from its Fatality Analysis Reporting System. The dataset contains detailed information about every fatal motor-vehicle crash in the U.S., aggregated from a variety of state databases, including police reports, death certificates, and licensing files. In 2015, such crashes led to 35,092 deaths, 7.2% more than in 2014. [h/t Tanya Snyder]","https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/2015-traffic-fatalities-data-has-just-been-released-call-action-download-and-analyze
http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS",https://twitter.com/TSnyderDC/status/770339872792014848
2016.08.31,3,Global agriculture.,"EarthStat provides geographic data on harvest regions, yields, and fertilizer use for more than 100 crops. The website also publishes data on pasture land, water depletion, and climatological effects on crop yields.",http://www.earthstat.org/,
2016.08.31,4,The California Database Hunt.,"California Senate Bill 272, enacted last year, required every local government agencies to publish a “catalog of enterprise systems” — essentially a guide to all the big databases they keep — by July 1 of this year. To find out who complied, a group of data-transparency organizations hosted the California Database Hunt last weekend. Volunteers searched 680 agencies, and published two spreadsheets of their findings: 430 (63%) of local agencies had posted their database catalogs, while 250 had not. [h/t Stephanie M. Lee]","https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB272
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/transparency-advocates-collect-more-400-database-catalogs",https://twitter.com/stephaniemlee
2016.08.31,5,Tennis time.,"The 2016 U.S. Open began on Monday. It’s as good an occasion as any to highlight the work of. TennisAbstract.com’s Jeff Sackmann, who has published decades of match results and historical rankings from the men’s ATP and women’s WTA tours. Related: How FiveThirtyEight is using the data to forecast this year’s U.S. Open. Also: Prize money for the four Grand Slam tournaments, by gender and over time. And: The Tennis Racket. [h/t Nadja Popovich + John Templon]","http://www.tennisabstract.com/
https://github.com/JeffSackmann
https://github.com/JeffSackmann/tennis_atp
https://github.com/JeffSackmann/tennis_wta
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-were-forecasting-the-2016-us-open/
https://github.com/popovichN/grand-slam-prize-money
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/the-tennis-racket","https://twitter.com/popovichn
https://twitter.com/jtemplon"
2016.09.07,1,Healthcare spending.,"Since 1996, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey has collected data on “the specific health services that Americans use,” and the “health insurance held by and available to U.S. workers.” In a typical year, the survey collects data from more than 30,000 people from more than 10,000 families. In addition to the raw data files, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which runs the survey, also provides summary data tables. They show that, for example, in 2013 an estimated 61% of Americans faced expenses for prescription drugs, which cost the median patient about $278 before insurance. [h/t Ricardo Pietrobon]","https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/
https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files.jsp
https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/quick_tables.jsp
https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/tables_compendia_hh_interactive.jsp?_SERVICE=MEPSSocket0&_PROGRAM=MEPSPGM.TC.SAS&File=HCFY2013&Table=HCFY2013_PLEXP_A&VAR1=AGE&VAR2=SEX&VAR3=RACETH5C&VAR4=INSURCOV&VAR5=POVCAT13&VAR6=REGION&VAR7=HEALTH&VARO1=4+17+44+64&VARO2=1&VARO3=1&VARO4=1&VARO5=1&VARO6=1&VARO7=1&_Debug=",https://twitter.com/rpietro
2016.09.07,2,Radio rights.,"The Federal Communications Commission decides who can use the nation’s airwaves and how. To date, they’ve issued millions of licenses, including nearly 200,000 last year for broadcast, personal use, law enforcement, and more. Almost exactly six years ago, the FCC launched a consolidated portal that pulls data from its various licensing systems into a single dataset. You can download all 17 million licenses in bulk, search for specific licenses online, or query the dataset’s API. [h/t Marc DaCosta]","http://reboot.fcc.gov/blog?entryId=752037
https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/licensing
http://reboot.fcc.gov/license-view/
http://reboot.fcc.gov/license-view/search-results.html
https://www.fcc.gov/general/license-view-api",https://twitter.com/marc_dacosta
2016.09.07,3,Night lights.,"Earlier this summer, a group researchers published a “new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness,” also known as light pollution. You can download a KMZ version of their atlas and view it in Google Earth. The researchers haven’t made their most detailed, “floating point” dataset available for public download; instead, they ask that you first submit a data-request form. [h/t Matthew Petroff]","http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1600377.full
http://pmd.gfz-potsdam.de/contact/showshort.php?id=escidoc:1541893&contactform
http://pmd.gfz-potsdam.de/contact/showshort.php?id=escidoc:1541893&contactform",https://mpetroff.net/2016/06/light-pollution-map/
2016.09.07,4,Innovation nation.,"Last week, a team of researchers published HistPat, a database containing county-of-residence data for 2.8 million U.S. patents granted between 1836 and 1975. The database covers approximately 83% of all patents granted to U.S. residents during that time, according to the authors. The most frequent home counties for innovation were New York County (422,234 patents); Cook County, Ill. (215,021), and Los Angeles County (90,171). Related: The National Bureau of Economic Research’s dataset of patent citations, 1975-1999. And: “Cancer moonshot” patents, 1976–2016. [h/t Drew Ivan]","http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201674
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BPC15W
http://www.nber.org/patents/
https://developer.uspto.gov/product/cancer-moonshot-patent-data",https://twitter.com/drewivan
2016.09.07,5,The federal fleet.,"The U.S. General Services Administration publishes an annual dataset about vehicles owned and leased by the federal government. The spreadsheets — which contain details on total inventories, cost, usage, and fuel consumption — go back to fiscal year 2011. In FY 2015, federal vehicles drove 4.8 billion miles, down about 9% from FY 2011. [h/t John Templon]",http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/102943,https://twitter.com/jtemplon
2016.09.14,1,Minimum wages.,"Researchers at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth have compiled a dataset of current and historical minimum wages in America. The federal and state minimum-wage data stretches back to May 1974 — when the federal minimum was $2.00 per hour, or roughly equivalent $9.76 per hour in today’s dollars — while the data for cities and counties starts in January 2004. [h/t Ben Casselman]","http://equitablegrowth.org/
https://github.com/equitablegrowth/VZ_historicalminwage/releases
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=2&year1=1974&year2=2016",https://twitter.com/bencasselman/status/773516754354049024
2016.09.14,2,Health habits.,"The CDC calls its Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System “the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world.” Every year, the survey asks more than 400,000 American adults about a range of health-related topics, from tobacco to seatbelt use, from alcohol consumption to arthritis, from HIV testing to immunizations. Annual datasets from 1984–2015 are currently available. [h/t Ricardo Pietrobon]",http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/,https://twitter.com/rpietro
2016.09.14,3,Sea ice.,"The National Snow and Ice Data Center, based at the University of Colorado, publishes the Sea Ice Index. The data files, which track ice coverage in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, include daily and monthly measurements from November 1978 to the present. Lately, the extent of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean has been two or more standard deviations below its long-term average, according to the center, while Antarctic sea ice remained at average levels. [h/t Dan Vergano]","https://nsidc.org/about/overview
https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g02135_seaice_index/
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2016/09/arctic-sea-ice-nears-its-minimum-extent-for-the-year/",https://twitter.com/dvergano
2016.09.14,4,"State prison admissions, by county.","Reporters at the New York Times have assembled a dataset counting the number of inmates each U.S. county sent to state prison in 2006, 2013, and 2014. The reporters derived the numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Corrections Reporting Program, which only certain researchers can access. Related: “This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why?”","https://github.com/TheUpshot/prison-admissions
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/series/38/studies/36373?archive=NACJD&sortBy=7
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html",
2016.09.14,5,"Captionless cartoons, captioned.","A group of computer scientists and the New Yorker’s cartoon editor walk into a room… and write an academic article titled, “Humor in Collective Discourse: Unsupervised Funniness Detection in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.” The corresponding dataset — available via the “cartoons” link on this page — includes 50 cartoons and nearly 300,000 reader-submitted captions.","http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08126
http://clair.si.umich.edu/homepage/downloads.html",
2016.09.28,1,State-level results.,"Perhaps better known for its campaign-finance data, the Federal Election Commission also publishes official state-level results for presidential, House, and Senate elections going back to 1982. The results include all official candidates, and sometimes even write-ins (depending on the state). In the 2008 presidential election, eight Rhode Island voters wrote-in “Stephen Colbert,” five scribbled “Joe the Plumber,” and seven chose “Jesus.”",http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/electionresults.shtml,
2016.09.28,2,County-level and precinct-level results.,"OpenElections, a Knight Foundation–funded project, aims “to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States.” They’ve made progress, but are looking for additional volunteers. In the meantime, you can download county-level presidential results from the National Atlas of the United States for 2004, 2008, and 2012 — or all combined. And you can download precinct-level results from 2002 to 2012 from the Harvard Election Data Archive (codebook here).","http://www.openelections.net/
http://openelections.net/about/
http://openelections.net/get-involved/
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2004-presidential-general-election-county-results-direct-download
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2008-presidential-general-election-county-results-direct-download
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/presidential-general-election-results-2012-direct-download
https://github.com/helloworlddata/us-presidential-election-county-results
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/21919
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eda/
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/156214/heda_docs.pdf",
2016.09.28,3,Ways and means.,"The U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Election Administration and Voting Survey “includes data on the ability of civilian, military and overseas citizens to register to vote and successfully cast a ballot,” as well as an overview of each state’s voting laws and procedures. [h/t Derek Willis]","http://www.eac.gov/
http://www.eac.gov/research/election_administration_and_voting_survey.aspx",https://twitter.com/derekwillis
2016.09.28,4,Global elections.,"The Constituency-Level Elections Archive, based at the University of Michigan, collects and standardizes results from lower-house legislative elections around the world. (In the U.S., the lower house is the House of Representatives; in the U.K., it’s the House of Commons; in Albania, it’s the Kuvendi i Shqipërisë.) The latest release covers 1,591 elections from 136 countries. [h/t Jeremy Darrington]","http://www.electiondataarchive.org/
http://www.electiondataarchive.org/datacenter.html",http://libguides.princeton.edu/elections/foreign
2016.09.28,5,Bush v. Gore v. hanging chads.,"After 2000’s contentious election, the National Opinion Research Center — funded by a consortium of news organizations — rigorously reviewed 175,010 Florida ballots that weren’t recognized as “valid” votes for president. In November 2001 the researchers concluded that, even with a full recount of disputed ballots, George W. Bush still would have won the state by 493 votes. The underlying data is available in several formats.","http://www.electionstudies.org/florida2000/sponsors.htm
http://www.electionstudies.org/florida2000/index.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/us/examining-vote-overview-study-disputed-florida-ballots-finds-justices-did-not.html
http://www.electionstudies.org/florida2000/data/data_files.htm",
2016.10.05,1,Global foreign aid.,"AidData, an organization based at the College of William & Mary, has compiled a dataset of more than 1.5 million foreign aid projects between 1947 and 2013. Together, the dataset accounts for more than $7 trillion in commitments from 96 donors such as the U.S. government, UNICEF, the Nordic Development Fund, and the World Bank. AidData also publishes geospatial datasets and a data user guide. Previously: ForeignAssistance.gov, featured Jan. 13. [h/t Kedar Pavgi]","http://aiddata.org/about-aiddatas-work
http://aiddata.org/country-level-research-datasets
http://aiddata.org/subnational-geospatial-research-datasets
http://aiddata.org/data-user-guide
http://beta.foreignassistance.gov/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-13-edition",https://twitter.com/KedarPavgi/status/774595172034371584
2016.10.05,2,Educational attainment.,"Researchers at the Vienna-based Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital have developed a dataset of historical and projected education levels for 171 countries. For five-year age groups in each country, the project estimates the percentage of people in each of several categories of educational attainment — no education, primary education, secondary education, post-secondary education, and a few gradations in between. The dataset is available to browse and download via the Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer – look for “Educational Attainment Distribution” in the “indicators” dropdown.","http://www.wittgensteincentre.org/en/index.htm
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-demographic-economics/article/a-harmonized-dataset-on-global-educational-attainment-between-1970-and-2060-an-analytical-window-into-recent-trends-and-future-prospects-in-human-capital-development/D5540E2C23E4CB89AF08ECD9379B38FD
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Institute/VID/dataexplorer/index.html",
2016.10.05,3,Student loan default rates.,"The federal government publishes default rates for federal student loans, aggregated by school, state, and school type. Last week, it published data covering students whose loans were due for repayment beginning in FY2013.The national default rate for those students as of this August was 11.3%. At certain schools, however, more than a third of students defaulted. More: Some background on the 10 colleges with highest default rates, by my colleague Molly Hensley-Clancy.","https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/data-center/student/default
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/national-student-loan-cohort-default-rate-declines-steadily
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/these-colleges-have-the-worst-student-loan-default-rates
https://twitter.com/mollyhc",
2016.10.05,4,R&D spending.,"The UNESCO Institute for Statistics’ data on national research and development budgets contains estimates of personnel and total spending by field, funding source, and more. You can also explore the data online through a series of interactive graphics. [h/t Rebecca Galloway]","http://data.uis.unesco.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SCN_DS&lang=en
http://www.uis.unesco.org/_LAYOUTS/UNESCO/research-and-development-spending/",https://twitter.com/rtgalloway
2016.10.05,5,Highway traffic.,"FOIA enthusiast Max Galka received a month of highway traffic data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The dataset “includes hourly traffic counts for each hour of each day of [November 2015] at approximately 4,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide.” In all, the dataset “amounts to a total of 14 million traffic count readings and a total of 6 billion vehicles counted.”","https://twitter.com/galka_max
http://metrocosm.com/map-us-traffic/",
2016.10.12,1,Presidential newspaper endorsements.,"Noah Veltman has collected all presidential endorsements (and non-endorsements) of 100+ major newspapers from 1980 (Reagan vs. Carter) to 2016. You can view the data as a spreadsheet, or as a formatted table.","https://twitter.com/veltman
https://github.com/veltman/endorsements/
http://noahveltman.com/endorsements/",
2016.10.12,2,Forest cover.,"The World Bank keeps statistics on total forest coverage per country and worldwide. (Between 1990 and 2015, that worldwide total declined from 41.3 million to 40.0 million square kilometers.) More than 98% of all land area in Suriname was forest in 2015, according to a related dataset — the highest proportion of any country. [h/t Tariq Khokhar + Max Galka]","http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.K2
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?year_high_desc=true","about:blank
https://twitter.com/galka_max/status/781943480708894720"
2016.10.12,3,Performances and exhibitions.,"The New York Philharmonic’s performance history dataset contains “all known concerts” — more than 20,000 of ‘em — played by the Philharmonic and the groups with which it has merged (e.g., the New York Symphony). Last month, the Museum of Modern Art published a dataset containing “all of the known exhibitions held at the museum from 1929 through 1989” — 1,788 in total. The first featured Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, and van Gogh. [h/t Stacy-Marie Ishmael + Miriam Posner + Chad Weinard]","https://github.com/nyphilarchive/PerformanceHistory/
https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/exhibitions
http://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1767","https://twitter.com/s_m_i/status/783427305142046720
https://twitter.com/miriamkp/status/783424561773633536
https://twitter.com/caw_/status/776529362439012354"
2016.10.12,4,Computer memory prices.,"John C. McCallum has collected the advertised prices of computer memory over time. In 1957, one byte of memory cost $392, or the equivalent of $411 million per megabyte; today, one metabyte costs about a third of a cent. [h/t Jorge Luis]","http://www.jcmit.com/index.htm
http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm",https://twitter.com/jorgeluis500
2016.10.12,5,"“Murray, I think you dropped New Zealand's mineral exports for '08-'09.”","You don’t have to like Flight of the Conchords to enjoy New Zealand’s national statistics website, though it couldn’t hurt. The country publishes data on a broad range of topics, including abortion, work stoppages, the Māori census, and, of course, exports. In '08 and '09, the country exported NZD $3.5 billion and NZD $2.4 billion, respectively, of ”mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes.” [h/t Drew Ivan]","https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buoztHLk9JQ
http://www.stats.govt.nz/
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/health/abortion.aspx
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/income-and-work/Strikes.aspx
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/people_and_communities/maori.aspx
http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLECODE7311",https://twitter.com/drewivan
2016.10.19,1,American manufacturing.,"The Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Manufacturers provides state-by-state and industry-by-industry statistics for America’s manufacturing sector. Metrics include the number of employees, annual payroll, “value added,” beginning-of-year inventory, and many more. In 2014, dog and cat food manufacturers employed about 18,000 people nationwide. Related: “Why Are Politicians So Obsessed With Manufacturing?” [h/t Scott Stern + RJ Andrews]","http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/asm.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/magazine/why-are-politicians-so-obsessed-with-manufacturing.html","https://twitter.com/sstern_mit/status/786974010911428608
https://twitter.com/infowetrust/status/786971887653924864"
2016.10.19,2,County-level health care.,"Each year, the Department of Health and Human Services updates its Area Health Resources Files, a vast suite of local health care data collated from more than 50 sources. Among the topics covered: the number health care professionals by specialty, various rates of hospital usage, air quality, and demographic profiles. You can download the data, or explore and map it online. [h/t Ricardo Pietrobon]","http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/index.htm
http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/download.htm
http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/arfdashboard/HRCT.aspx
http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/arfdashboard/ArfGeo.aspx",https://twitter.com/rpietro
2016.10.19,3,Global financial history.,"The Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database claims to be “the most extensive long-run macro-financial dataset to date.” It contains dozens of variables — GDP per capita, long-term interest rates, and the timing of systemic financial crises, for example — for 17 “advanced economies”. The dataset uses a Creative Commons license and has been extensively documented.",http://www.macrohistory.net/data/,
2016.10.19,4,"8,675 farmers markets.","The Department of Agriculture publishes a spreadsheet of farmers markets in the United States. For each market, the dataset notes its location, hours, and the types of goods available (e.g., vegetables, seafood, flowers, et cetera). [h/t Susie Lu]",https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/farmers-markets-geographic-data,http://www.susielu.com/data-viz/farmers-markets
2016.10.19,5,Readers like you.,"Today’s newsletter marks the 50th edition of Data Is Plural, as well as its one-year anniversary. To celebrate, I’ve started publishing a spreadsheet that details each edition’s basic stats — total subscribers, the “open rate,” the number of people who chose to unsubscribe, and more.",https://github.com/data-is-plural/newsletter-stats#data-is-plural-newsletter-stats,
2016.10.26,1,"Congressional Research Service reports, in bulk.","The website EveryCRSReport.com provides unprecedented public access to reports from the Congressional Research Service — essentially the national legislature’s think-tank. The website, which launched last week by Demand Progress and Congressional Data Coalition, also lets you download metadata and text for each report. [h/t Daniel Schuman]","https://www.everycrsreport.com/
https://medium.com/@danielschuman/why-i-came-to-believe-crs-reports-should-be-publicly-available-and-built-a-website-to-make-it-77b4b0f6233e
https://www.everycrsreport.com/about.html
https://www.everycrsreport.com/download.html",https://twitter.com/danielschuman
2016.10.26,2,School testing.,"The Department of Education’s EDFacts data tracks public grade schools’ participation and proficiency rates on standardized math and reading/language exams. The files provide data on all students who took the tests, broken down by race/ethnicity, sex, disability status, homelessness, and more. A related set of data files, available on the same page, tracks high-school graduation rates.",http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/data-files/index.html,
2016.10.26,3,Cities and culture.,"The World Cities Culture Forum, a convening of 32 major cities on six continents, has assembled a series of mini-datasets on 70+ “cultural indicators”. Those indicators range from the number of art galleries in each city (Paris had 1,151 in 2012) to the number of international tourists each city sees per year (Istanbul had 11.8 million in 2014) to the value of cinema ticket sales (Shanghai sold $563 million in 2014). Note: The data points draw on various sources — at least one just says “Google” — and aren’t necessarily directly comparable. [h/t Camilo Moreno]","http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/art-galleries
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/number-of-international-tourists-per-year
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/total-value-of-cinema-ticket-sales-per-year-ppp
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/number-of-comedy-clubs",https://twitter.com/cmorenok
2016.10.26,4,Airborne.,"OpenFlights.org has collected data on more than 60,000 flight routes, including 915 itineraries departing Atlanta’s Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport. (That airport was recently named the world’s busiest, for the 18th year in a row.) For each route, the dataset indicates the airline, the departing airport, the arriving airport, the number of stops, and what type of plane is typically used. The website also provides datasets on thousands of airports and airlines. Important caveat: “This data is not suitable for navigation.”","http://openflights.org/data.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2016/09/12/worlds-busiest-airport-atlanta-takes-title-again/90271028/",
2016.10.26,5,TSA confiscations.,"Between October 2014 and September 2015, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration confiscated 22,196 “dangerous” items at airports, including 156 times at New York’s JFK. (Twice there, someone had placed fireworks in checked baggage.) That’s according to data obtained from the government by FOIA enthusiast Max Galka, who has also built an interactive map of the confiscations.","http://metrocosm.com/get-the-data/#tsa
https://twitter.com/galka_max
http://metrocosm.com/confiscated-items-airport-security/",
2016.11.02,1,Medicare beneficiaries.,"The U.S. government’s Medicare Health Outcomes Survey tracks the “physical and mental health and well-being” of Americans covered by Medicare. Each survey, currently available for 1998–2000 to 2012–2014, follows a sample of Medicare beneficiaries for two years, and asks them questions along the lines of, “In the past 12 months, have you had a problem with balance or walking?” The 2012–2014 data includes (at least partial) responses from 296,320 people. [h/t Ricardo Pietrobon] [Update, 2016-11-02: The original link in this item points to an ICPSR page, which provides access only to people at ""member institutions."" Here's a better link to the data: http://www.hosonline.org/en/data-dissemination/research-data-files/]",http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/23380?classification=ICPSR.IX.&q=&sortBy=7,https://twitter.com/rpietro
2016.11.02,2,Where we live and build.,"The European Commission’s Global Human Settlement Layer combines satellite imagery and census data to measure three things: population, building density, and urban/rural classification. The resulting datasets are fairly detailed — they provide population estimates for every 250-meter square in the world, for example — and are available for 1975, 1990, 2000, and 2015. [h/t Alaistair Rae]","http://ghslsys.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php
http://ghslsys.jrc.ec.europa.eu/datasets.php",http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2016/10/the-global-human-settlement-layer.html
2016.11.02,3,Complaints against NYC police.,"Earlier this autumn, New York City began publishing a dataset of official citizen complaints against the city’s police, for every case closed since 2006. For each of the 200,000+ allegations, the main dataset includes various details about the incident — e.g., where it took place, and whether there’s video evidence — but no information about the officer involved. Related: Similar data from Indianapolis, which includes demographic information about the complained-against officers but not their names. Also related: “The local projects that are making police complaint data open and accessible.” Previously: Complaints against Chicago police, featured Nov. 11, 2015. [h/t Eve Ahearn]","http://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/policy/data-transparency-initiative.page
https://www.projectcomport.org/department/IMPD/
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/10/25/the-local-projects-that-are-making-police-complaint-data-open-and-accessible/
https://cpdb.co/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-25-edition",https://twitter.com/eveahe
2016.11.02,4,Millions of Amazon reviews.,"Julian McAuley, an assistant professor at UC San Diego, has collected a massive amount of user-generated data from Amazon.com, including 142.8 million reviews and 1.4 million answered Q&As. (As of mid-2014, Sophie la Girafe was the most-reviewed item in the baby category. Backstory here.) Much of the data can be downloaded directly, but the largest files require contacting McAuley for access. [h/t Reddit user samofny]","http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~jmcauley/
http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/
http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/qa/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IDSLOG
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/number_1/2011/03/im_french_chew_on_me.html",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/59owtn/amazon_review_data_1428_million_reviews_spanning/
2016.11.02,5,"The dangerous dogs of Austin, Texas.","The city publishes a spreadsheet — last updated in May — of local dogs who’ve officially been “declared dangerous.” (“They have attacked in the past. The owner is required to provide $100,000 in financial responsibility. If they attack again the court could order them put to sleep.”) The file currently contains 63 entries, from a Labrador named Charlie to a Blue Lacy named Flint. [h/t Sharon Machlis]",https://data.austintexas.gov/Public-Safety/Declared-Dangerous-Dogs/ykw4-j3aj,https://twitter.com/sharon000
2016.11.16,1,Hate crimes in the United States.,"Since the 1990s, the FBI has collected data on hate crimes from local law enforcement agencies. On Monday, the bureau released data for 2015, reporting “5,850 criminal incidents and 6,885 related offenses, as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.” Those numbers are based on reports from 14,997 participating agencies. On the FBI’s website, you can view and download summary tables of the most recent data. You can also download incident-specific data for 1992 through 2014 from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. Unfortunately, as ProPublica noted yesterday, the FBI dataset is “deeply flawed”; more than 3,000 law enforcement agencies don’t participate in the program. [h/t John Templon]","https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2015-hate-crime-statistics
https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2015/topic-pages/jurisdiction_final
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/series/57/studies?searchIn=TITLE&archive=NACJD&q=%22Hate+Crime+Data%22&sortBy=7
https://www.propublica.org/article/hate-crimes-are-up-but-the-government-isnt-keeping-good-track-of-them",https://twitter.com/jtemplon
2016.11.16,2,Fake news on Facebook.,"Last month, colleagues at BuzzFeed News and I analyzed and fact-checked 1,000+ posts from hyperpartisan Facebook pages, and found a disturbingly high rate of fake news. Here’s the data. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed the possibility that fake news influenced the election, calling it a “pretty crazy idea”. Meanwhile, renegade Facebook employees have now formed an unofficial task force to battle fake news on the platform.","https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-analysis
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2016-10-facebook-fact-check
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/zuckerberg-techonomy-fake-news-election
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/renegade-facebook-employees-form-task-force-to-battle-fake-n",
2016.11.16,3,Election Day on “the front page of the internet.”,"Jason Baumgartner — a.k.a. Stuck_In_the_Matrix — has collected and published every submission and comment posted to Reddit from November 8th through November 10th. For each of the nearly 8 million comments, the dataset includes the message, the author, the subreddit it was posted to, the comment thread’s ID, and more. Previously: 1.7 billion Reddit comments, featured Nov. 25, 2015.","https://www.reddit.com/user/Stuck_In_the_Matrix
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5ch2bq/reddit_raw_election_data_comments_and_submissions/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_every_publicly_available_reddit_comment/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-25-edition",
2016.11.16,4,The most important entries on Wikipedia.,"Germany-based researcher Andreas Thalhammer has applied PageRank — the algorithm at the heart of Google’s origin story — to the world of Wikipedia. The result: the DBpedia PageRank dataset, which estimates the importance of each page based on the other pages that link to it. You can download the data directly, or query it online. (According to the metric, Aristotle, Plato, and Karl Marx are history’s three most Wiki-central philosophers.)","https://twitter.com/thalhamm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
http://people.aifb.kit.edu/ath/#DBpedia_PageRank
http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&qtxt=PREFIX+rdf%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2F02%2F22-rdf-syntax-ns%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+vrank%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fvoc%2Fvrank%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+dbo%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0A%0D%0ASELECT+%3Fs+%3Fv+%0D%0AFROM+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%3E+%0D%0AFROM+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpeople.aifb.kit.edu%2Fath%2F%23DBpedia_PageRank%3E+%0D%0AWHERE+{%0D%0A%3Fs+rdf%3Atype+dbo%3AUniversity.%0D%0A%3Fs+vrank%3AhasRank%2Fvrank%3ArankValue+%3Fv.%0D%0A}%0D%0AORDER+BY+DESC%28%3Fv%29+LIMIT+50%0D%0A&format=text%2Fhtml&CXML_redir_for_subjs=121&CXML_redir_for_hrefs=&timeout=30000&debug=on
http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=PREFIX+rdf%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2F02%2F22-rdf-syntax-ns%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+vrank%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fvoc%2Fvrank%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+dbo%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0A%0D%0ASELECT+%3Fs+%3Fv+%0D%0AFROM+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%3E+%0D%0AFROM+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpeople.aifb.kit.edu%2Fath%2F%23DBpedia_PageRank%3E+%0D%0AWHERE+%7B%0D%0A%3Fs+rdf%3Atype+dbo%3APhilosopher.%0D%0A%3Fs+vrank%3AhasRank%2Fvrank%3ArankValue+%3Fv.%0D%0A%7D%0D%0AORDER+BY+DESC%28%3Fv%29+LIMIT+50%0D%0A&format=text%2Fhtml&CXML_redir_for_subjs=121&CXML_redir_for_hrefs=&timeout=30000&debug=on",
2016.11.16,5,Every street tree in NYC.,"Earlier this month, New York City published the results of its decennial tree count. You can explore a map of every street tree in NYC — nearly 700,000 of ‘em — or download the corresponding dataset, which contains info on each tree’s species, circumference, health status, and other observations. (Note: That dataset appears to contain about one-third fewer trees than the map’s count, for reasons I can’t quite figure out.) Results of the 1995 and 2005 tree censuses are also available.","https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/treescount
https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2015-Street-Tree-Census-Blockface-Data/ju3b-rwpy
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?q=Street%20Tree%20Census",
2016.11.30,1,What kills us.,"The CDC’s Underlying Cause of Death database provides county-level mortality statistics based on death certificates of U.S. residents for each year from 1999 to 2014. The tool lets you group the data by geography, demographics, place of death (e.g., inpatient hospital, hospice, home, etc.), and other variables. In 2014, for example, about 40,000 residents died of pancreatic cancer — with the highest rates coming in America’s most-rural counties (~15.6 deaths per 100,000 residents) and the lowest rates in country’s most-urban counties (~11.3 per 100,000). The CDC’s “compressed mortality” datasets contain slightly less detail, but go all the way back to 1968. [h/t Drew Ivan]","https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html
https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/ucd.html
https://wonder.cdc.gov/mortSQL.html",https://twitter.com/drewivan
2016.11.30,2,Gunshot detections.,"Earlier this month, Forbes published an examination of ShotSpotter, a company that uses networks of outdoor microphones to detect and locate gunshot-like sounds. Forbes found that ShotSpotter has produced “few tangible results.” “In some cities, ShotSpotter hasn’t had the effect city officials and residents had hoped for. While officers are responding to more illegal gunfire, they rarely catch the shooter.” To support its findings, Forbes has published the ShotSpotter data they received from police departments in seven cities: Brockton, Mass.; East Palo Alto, Calif.; Kansas City, Mo.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Omaha, Neb.; San Francisco, Calif.; and Wilmington, N.C. The data varies somewhat for each city, but typically includes the date, time, location, and outcome of the each gunshot alert. [h/t Matt Drange]","http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/11/17/shotspotter-struggles-to-prove-impact-as-silicon-valley-answer-to-gun-violence/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/11/17/shotspotter-alerts-police-to-lots-of-gunfire-but-produces-few-tangible-results",https://twitter.com/mattdrange
2016.11.30,3,Comparing election forecasts.,"This year, I decided to grade a bunch of prominent election forecasts for BuzzFeed News. Now that Michigan has finally been called, I’ve published the results. I’ve also published the underlying data and code on GitHub, including state-level predictions from all nine forecasters in the analysis.","https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/grading-the-2016-election-forecasts
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/2016-election-forecast-grades
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2016-11-grading-the-election-forecasts",
2016.11.30,4,Five years of Facebook posts from 15 news sites.,"Data analyst Patrick Martinchek has published a dataset of all Facebook posts from “15 of the top mainstream media sources” — a group that includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fox News, and other familiar sources — from January 2012 through Nov. 8, 2016. Related: “What I Discovered About Trump and Clinton From Analyzing 4 Million Facebook Posts.”","https://www.facebook.com/Patrick.Martinchek
https://data.world/martinchek/2012-2016-facebook-posts
https://shift.newco.co/what-i-discovered-about-trump-and-clinton-from-analyzing-4-million-facebook-posts-922a4381fd2f",
2016.11.30,5,I’ll take “Datasets” for $200.,"A few years ago, Reddit user trexmatt uploaded 216,930 Jeopardy! trivia-tidbits, scraped from j-archive.com, “the nearly comprehensive online Jeopardy! archive maintained by obsessive fans.” Each entry lists the question, answer, category, value, round, show number, and show air-date.","https://www.reddit.com/user/trexmatt/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/1uyd0t/200000_jeopardy_questions_in_a_json_file/
http://www.j-archive.com/
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/02/this_fanmaintained_episode_database_helps_contestants_prepare_for_jeopardy.html",
2016.12.07,1,Pipelines.,"The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes a bunch of geographic data, including shapefiles mapping the country’s crude oil, petroleum product, hydrocarbon gas liquid, and natural gas pipelines. (They were last updated five months ago.) Additionally, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration keeps track of “significant incidents” — for example, those that caused a serious injury or $50,000 in damage. Related: “Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure.” Also related: ProPublica’s Pipeline Safety Tracker, covering 1986–2012.","https://www.eia.gov/maps/layer_info-m.php
http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline/library/data-stats/flagged-data-files
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/maps-of-american-infrastrucure/
https://projects.propublica.org/pipelines/",
2016.12.07,2,Solar panels.,"The Open PV Project is a “community driven, comprehensive database” of solar panel installations in the U.S., ranging from home installations to utility-scale projects. The database, run by the Department of Energy, contains more than 1 million installations — with a total capacity of 16,000+ megawatts — and tracks their locations, sizes, costs, installers, and other variables. [h/t Dad]",https://openpv.nrel.gov/index,https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347
2016.12.07,3,Chicago cab rides.,"Last month, Chicago’s city government published data on more than 100 million local taxi rides taken in the city since 2013. (The city gathers the data through “periodic reporting by two major payment processors believed to cover most taxis in Chicago.”) The dataset contains each ride’s start/end times, pickup/dropoff location (based on Chicago’s “community areas”), distance, cost, payment type, and taxi company. Related: “Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance,” which contains pointers to similar data for New York City. [h/t Dan Nguyen]","http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/chicago-taxi-data-released/
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://twitter.com/dancow/status/803471830707093504
2016.12.07,4,STEM surveys.,"The IPUMS Higher Ed portal provides data from three “leading surveys for studying the science and engineering (STEM) workforce in the United States.” The surveys currently cover 1993 through 2013 and include questions about educational choices, demographics, employment outcomes, and more. Requires a free account. [h/t Michael A. Rice, a teacher at Ingraham High School in Seattle]",https://highered.ipums.org/highered/,
2016.12.07,5,"Classical music, annotated.","“MusicNet is a collection of 330 freely-licensed classical music recordings, together with over 1 million annotated labels indicating the precise time of each note every recording, the instrument that plays each note, and the note's position in the metrical structure of the composition.” [h/t Lon Riesberg]",http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~thickstn/musicnet.html,http://dataelixir.com/issues/108#resources
2016.12.14,1,Medicare drug costs.,"The federal government has released data on Medicare’s prescription drug spending from 2011 to 2015. Previously, Medicare had only published data on the most expensive drugs; the new release includes data on all drugs used by at least 11 Medicare patients in a given year. Caveat: Medicare “is prohibited from publicly disclosing drug-specific information on manufacturer rebates,” so the “spending metrics do not reflect any manufacturers’ rebates or other price concessions.” [h/t Charles Ornstein]",https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Information-on-Prescription-Drugs/2015MedicareData.html,https://twitter.com/charlesornstein/status/806587500307353601
2016.12.14,2,Breached accounts.,"Troy Hunt runs HaveIBeenPwned.com, a service that lets you see whether your email address has been included in any major data breaches. Last week, Hunt published an anonymized dataset based on the breaches he’s collected. (That post provides a torrent file for the dataset; you can also download the data here.) Unlike the HaveIBeenPwned website, the dataset doesn’t include information about specific accounts; instead it counts the number of email addresses that have been compromised on particular combinations of websites. For example, 14.6 million email addresses appeared in both the LinkedIn and Dropbox breaches. (You can read more about each breach here.)","https://haveibeenpwned.com/
https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-1-4-billion-records-from-have-i-been-pwned-for-you-to-analyse/
https://github.com/data-is-plural/haveibeenpwned-account-combinations
https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites",
2016.12.14,3,Water world.,"The European Commission and Google engineers have mapped surface water – including lakes, rivers, reservoirs, oceans, and more – on every 30-meter-by-30-meter square on Earth between 1984 and 2015. During that time, “permanent surface water has disappeared from an area of almost 90,000 square kilometres, roughly equivalent to that of Lake Superior, though new permanent bodies of surface water covering 184,000 square kilometres have formed elsewhere.” The data, based on the U.S. government’s Landsat satellite images, are available to download and explore online. Related: “Mapping Three Decades of Global Water Change,” published by The New York Times, based on this dataset.","http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature20584.html
https://landsat.usgs.gov/
https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/download
https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/09/science/mapping-three-decades-of-global-water-change.html",
2016.12.14,4,Crowdfunding.,"A Lithuania-based web-scraping company has been collecting data on Kickstarter projects and Indiegogo campaigns every month. The datasets include (among other things) each project’s number of backers, amount pledged, and category. You can also explore the data online. [h/t Vincent Granville]","https://webrobots.io/about-us/
https://webrobots.io/kickstarter-datasets/
https://webrobots.io/indiegogo-dataset/
http://crowdfunding.webrobots.io/",http://www.datasciencecentral.com/forum/topics/more-free-data-sets
2016.12.14,5,Energy use at 10 Downing Street.,"UK-based CarbonCulture helps organizations measure and publish their buildings’ energy and water use in near-realtime. Among the first users: 10 Downing Street, the Tate Modern, and University College London. For each building, you can download yearly datasets, which are broken down into 30-minute intervals. [h/t Max Roser]","https://platform.carbonculture.net/places/10-downing-street/9/https://platform.carbonculture.net/about/
https://platform.carbonculture.net/places/10-downing-street/9/
https://platform.carbonculture.net/places/tate-modern/8962/
https://platform.carbonculture.net/communities/ucl/30/",https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/802553471618732033
2016.12.21,1,"The Affordable Care Act, quantified.","Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a dataset of state-level Obamacare metrics. The dataset is divided into five main categories: coverage gains, employer coverage, individual market coverage, Medicaid, and Medicare. Between 2010 and 2015, the proportion of Nevadans without health insurance dropped from 22.6% to 12.3% — the largest percentage-point decrease of any state. (In 2015, an estimated 17.1% of Texans still didn’t have health insurance, the highest rate of any state that year.) The metrics come from various sources, including the Census, academic studies, and the department’s own estimates. [h/t Nadja Popovich]",https://aspe.hhs.gov/compilation-state-data-affordable-care-act,https://twitter.com/PopovichN
2016.12.21,2,Petroleum rig counts.,"Since the 1940s, oilfield services corporation Baker Hughes and its predecessor companies have been publishing “rig counts” — the number of rigs actively drilling for oil and/or gas in various parts of the world. These days, the company updates its North America numbers every week and its international counts every month. As of December 16, they counted 637 rigs in — and offshore of — the United States, nearly half of them in Texas. [h/t Jordan Wirfs-Brock]","http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-rigcountsoverview
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-reportsother
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-rigcountsintl",https://github.com/InsideEnergy/24-energy-stories-CAR16
2016.12.21,3,The birds and the bees (and more).,"The U.S. Geological Survey’s BISON service brings together “species occurrence” data from hundreds of sources. The service, whose name stands for ”Biodiversity Information Serving our Nation,” currently contains 262 million records, each of which refers to the observation of “an organism at a particular time in a particular place.” Most of the observations are based on direct sightings; others use fossils, written records, or other sources. The data aren’t available for bulk download, but can be accessed via BISON’s free API. [h/t Clare Malone]",https://bison.usgs.gov/,http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-trumps-white-house-could-mess-with-government-data/
2016.12.21,4,Two planes too close.,"The FAA’s Near Midair Collision System keeps track of incidents where two planes flew uncomfortably close to each other. The system, which is based on reports from pilots and flight crew members, contains more than 7,500 incidents dating back to 1987. The FAA received 305 of these reports for the first 10 months of 2016, including 35 classified as “critical.”","http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:33:0::NO:::
http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:35:0::NO::P35_REGION_VAR:1",
2016.12.21,5,The geography of language on Twitter.,"Last week, Quartz published an addictive tool that lets you map word usage on Twitter, by U.S. county. It’s based on an academic analysis of 890 million geocoded tweets uttered between October 2013 and November 2014. Data and details available here.","http://qz.com/862325/the-great-american-word-mapper/
https://sites.google.com/site/wordmapperinfo/",
2017.01.11,1,What Facebook knows about us.,"In September, ProPublica published a Chrome extension that showed readers what Facebook said it knew about them — and then asked readers to share that data. In the following months, readers unearthed more than 52,000 of the “unique interest categories” that Facebook uses for advertising, such as “yoga,” “beer,” and “Scent of a Woman (1992 film).” But ProPublica’s reporters also found that Facebook doesn’t tell users about the “far more sensitive” data it buys about their offline lives, which can include “their income, the types of restaurants they frequent and even how many credit cards are in their wallets.” To support these findings, ProPublica published two key datasets: the crowdsourced “interest categories” and the list of categories that Facebook allows advertisers to target.","https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-what-facebook-knows-about-you
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-doesnt-tell-users-everything-it-really-knows-about-them
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/facebook-ad-categories",
2017.01.11,2,Getting warmer.,"Scientists expect that, when the final numbers come in, 2016 will have been Earth’s hottest year on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes monthly data on “temperature anomalies” — how much hotter or cooler a month was than the 20th century average. (November 2016, the most recent month available, was 0.73° Celsius warmer than the average November.) You can grab the data for the entire globe, by hemisphere, or by continent; for the land and ocean combined, or separately; and going all the way back to 1880. Related: My colleague Peter Aldhous demonstrates how he charted this data using R. Also: NOAA released its 2016 U.S. “State of the Climate” report on Monday.","https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/another-hottest-year
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global
https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2016-12-warmest-year/
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/201613",
2017.01.11,3,Four wars’ bombing missions.,"Years ago, Lt. Col. Jenns Robertson began entering information into “a simple Excel spreadsheet that eventually matured into the largest compilation of releasable U.S. air operations data in existence.” Last month, the Department of Defense published a “beta” version of this data, known as Theater History of Operations Reports (THOR). Currently, THOR’s data covers bombing operations from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. For each bombing, the reports include data about the aircraft, munitions, targets, results, and more.",https://www.data.mil/s/v2/data-stories-an-overview-of-thor/a100cd16-c2a7-453b-8ea6-45947c1bbc51/,
2017.01.11,4,So many satellites.,"CelesTrak’s T.S. Kelso has been obsessively transcribing NORAD’s “resident space object” data for decades. Among his offerings: the SATCAT satellite catalog, which provides data on all known satellites launched since 1957 — more than 41,900 of ‘em. Kelso also provides a SATCAT Boxscore, which is like a baseball box score ... but for satellites. The U.S., it turns out, is responsible for almost exactly one-third of the 1,590 satellites classified as “active.” Previously: The Union of Concerned Scientists’ satellite database, featured Dec. 30, 2015. [h/t Noah Veltman]","https://celestrak.com/
https://celestrak.com/webmaster.asp
https://celestrak.com/NORAD/documentation/
https://celestrak.com/satcat/search.asp
https://celestrak.com/satcat/boxscore.asp
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/space-weapons/satellite-database
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition",http://noahveltman.com/
2017.01.11,5,Where Waldo is.,"In 2015, computer scientist Randy Olson tried computing “the optimal search strategy for finding Waldo” in the seven original Where’s Waldo? books. In doing so, he transcribed a 2013 Slate chart of Waldo’s locations (itself transcribed from those seven original books). The resulting dataset contains 68 rows — one for each Waldo — and four columns: book, page, x coordinate, and y coordinate.","http://www.randalolson.com/2015/02/03/heres-waldo-computing-the-optimal-search-strategy-for-finding-waldo/
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/11/where_s_waldo_a_new_strategy_for_locating_the_missing_man_in_martin_hanford.html
http://www.randalolson.com/wp-content/uploads/wheres-waldo-locations.csv",
2017.01.18,1,TrumpWorld.,"At BuzzFeed News, a few colleagues and I spent the past two months compiling a big database of organizations and people connected to President-elect Trump, his family, advisers, and Cabinet picks. On Sunday, we published what we’ve found so far — connections between more than 1,500 organizations and people altogether. Still, there are certainly things we’ve missed. So you can download and search the data, but you can also help us expand it. See something we’ve overlooked? Let us know!",https://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/help-us-map-trumpworld,
2017.01.18,2,Food stamp foods.,"Late last year, the USDA published a study that used “point-of-sale transaction data from a leading grocery retailer to examine the food choices” of households receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. In an appendix, the report ranks the total spending on major commodities by SNAP households and non-SNAP households. Soft drinks, “fluid milk products,” and ground beef were the top three commodities purchased by SNAP households. Milk, soft drinks, and cheese were the top three for non-SNAP households. That information is presented as a PDF table, but I’ve converted it to a spreadsheet-friendly text file for you. [h//t Reddit user ""junglejuicy""]","https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/foods-typically-purchased-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-households
https://github.com/data-is-plural/usda-snap-spending-study
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5o249x/foods_typically_purchased_by_supplemental/",
2017.01.18,3,Online and offline prices.,"Between December 2014 and March 2016, Alberto Cavallo — co-founder of MIT’s Billion Prices Project — sent 323 crowdsourced workers to collect product prices from 56 large retailers in 10 countries. Then, he found the prices for the same products on the retailers’ websites. The results, which contain tens of thousands of observations, are available as several Excel spreadsheets. (Caveat: The dataset’s “Terms of Use” rules stipulate that the information is “EXCLUSIVELY FOR USE IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS”.) Related: Cavallo summarized his findings in a paper published recently by the American Economic Review.","http://www.mit.edu/~afc/
http://bpp.mit.edu/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2FXXOUHF
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20160542",
2017.01.18,4,German rail.,"State-owned Deutsche Bahn AG is Europe’s largest railway company by revenue, serving 12 million train and bus passengers each day. It also happens to publish a bunch of open data, including datasets on its routes, stations, platforms, and cargo facilities. [h/t Martin Bergmann]","http://www.railway-technology.com/features/featureengines-of-trade-the-ten-biggest-rail-companies-by-revenue-4943955/
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset?groups=datasets
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/data-streckennetz
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/data-stationsdaten
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/data-bahnsteig-regio
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/betriebsstellen-gueterverkehr",https://www.linkedin.com/in/bergma
2017.01.18,5,Dot-gov domains.,"The General Services Administration recently updated its list of known .gov domains. It currently includes more than 1,300 federal domains — from aapi.gov to youthrules.gov — and more than 4,300 domains registered by state, local, and native sovereign agencies.","https://github.com/GSA/data/tree/gh-pages/dotgov-domains
http://aapi.gov
http://www.youthrules.gov/",
2017.01.25,1,Colleges and economic mobility.,"A team of economists studying “the equality of opportunity” has published new research identifying which colleges “help the most children climb the income ladder.” For their analysis, the researchers combined federal tax records and data from the Department of Education. California State University–Los Angeles was one of the greatest engines of mobility; nearly 1 in 10 students enrolled there began in the bottom 20% of income but reached the top 20% by their early thirties. You can download the findings, which include similar statistics for more than 2,000 schools, as a series of spreadsheets. Related: “Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours,” from the New York Times.","http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/team/
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/college/
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html",
2017.01.25,2,Three centuries of UK macroeconomic data.,"The Bank of England publishes a spreadsheet of historical economic data going back, in some cases, to the late 1600s. The country’s GDP in 1700 was £11.7 billion in 2013 prices. That’s about 1/157th the size of the UK’s GDP in 2015. And in November 1694, monthly short-term interest rates were roughly 6%. [h/t Ian Greenleigh]", http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/Pages/onebank/threecenturies.aspx,https://data.world/ian/3-centuries-of-uk-economy-data
2017.01.25,3,TV talk.,"The GDELT Project and the Internet Archive have collaborated to make the latter's Television News Archive more powerfully searchable. Their new tool, announced in December, lets you search across “more than 5.7 billion words from over 150 distinct stations spanning July 2009 to present” at a sentence-by-sentence level. The results are downloadable as CSV or JSON files. Previously: The Political TV Ad Archive (Feb. 2, 2016).","http://gdeltproject.org/
https://archive.org/details/tv
http://television.gdeltproject.org/cgi-bin/iatv_ftxtsearch/iatv_ftxtsearch
https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/20/new-research-tool-for-visualizing-two-million-hours-of-television-news/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-10-edition",
2017.01.25,4,European trees.,"EU-Forest is a new dataset that, according to its authors, “extends by almost one order of magnitude the publicly available information on European tree species distribution.” The new project merges and harmonizes data from 21 national forest surveys and two related databases. In all, EU-Forest includes more than 580,000 observations of more than 200 species in 1km-by-1km square plots of land, and is available in both tabular and geospatial file formats. Previously: American tree maps (Dec. 23, 2015) and NYC street trees (Nov. 16, 2016).","https://figshare.com/collections/A_high-resolution_pan-European_tree_occurrence_dataset/3288407
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2016123
https://figshare.com/articles/Tree_occurrences_at_species_level/3497885
https://figshare.com/articles/Occurrences_location_shapefile/3497891
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-23-edition
http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-11-16-edition",
2017.01.25,5,Standard mugshots.,"The National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes Special Database 18 “for use in development and testing of automated mugshot identification systems.” The dataset contains 3,248 mugshot photos portraying 1,573 different people (mostly men), and includes each arrestee’s age and gender. [h/t Noah Veltman]",https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-special-database-18,http://noahveltman.com/
2017.02.08,1,Metro/subway ridership.,"Two weeks ago, Bloomberg News reporters requested entrance and exit data from Washington, DC’s Metrorail system for three days: Jan. 20, 2009 (Obama's first inauguration), Jan. 20, 2017 (Trump's inauguration), and Jan. 21, 2017 (the Women's March). A week later, they received the data — but as PDFs, which they turned into structured data and published this week. Related: NYC’s MTA publishes detailed turnstile-by-turnstile data, and Chicago publishes daily “L” ridership data for each station going back to 2001. Plus: “Second Avenue Subway Relieves Crowding on Neighboring Lines,” which uses the NYC data.","https://github.com/bizweekgraphics/wmata-ridership-data
http://web.mta.info/developers/turnstile.html
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/CTA-Ridership-L-Station-Entries-Daily-Totals/5neh-572f
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/nyregion/second-avenue-subway-relieves-crowding-on-neighboring-lines.html",
2017.02.08,2,International house prices since 1975.,"The International House Price Database combines and standardizes house price indices from 23 countries — mostly in Europe and North America, but also including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Israel. The dataset, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, is deeply documented and updated quarterly. Previously: Historical San Francisco rents (May 25, 2016) and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Characteristics of New Housing (June 22, 2016).","https://www.dallasfed.org/institute/houseprice/
https://www.dallasfed.org/institute/houseprice#tab3
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-25-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition",
2017.02.08,3,Nobel Prizes.,"The prestigious Scandinavian awards have an API. The official documentation explains it succinctly: “The data is free to use and contains information about who has been awarded the Nobel Prize, when, in what prize category and the motivation, as well as basic information about the Nobel Laureates such as birth data and the affiliation at the time of the award. The data is regularly updated as the information on Nobelprize.org is updated, including at the time of announcements of new Laureates.” Related: “These Nobel Prize Winners Show Why Immigration Is So Important For American Science,” by my colleague Peter Aldhous. Plus: The R code supporting Peter's analysis.","https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelmedia/nobelprize_org/developer/
https://nobelprize.readme.io/v1.0
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/immigration-and-science
http://www.peteraldhous.com/
https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2017-01-immigration-and-science/",
2017.02.08,4,Recipe ingredients.,"For their 2011 paper, “Flavor network and the principles of food pairing,” four scientists analyzed 56,498 recipes downloaded from three websites — allrecipes.com, epicurious.com, and menupan.com. To support their findings, the authors published two datasets. One names the cuisine and ingredients for each recipe. The other dataset counts how often any two ingredients appeared in the same recipe. (Parmesan cheese and beef appeared together 93 times; starfruit and Algerian geranium oil just once.) Related: “food2vec – Augmented cooking with machine intelligence,” published last month. [h/t Rob Barry]","http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00196
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00196#supplementary-information
https://jaan.io/food2vec-augmented-cooking-machine-intelligence/",http://rob-barry.com/
2017.02.08,5,Life expectancies.,"The World Health Organization publishes life expectancy estimates for 194 countries, for each year between 2000 and 2015. Related: “One Dataset, Visualized 25 Ways.” Previously: American life expectancies by city (April 13, 2016).","http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/situation_trends/en/
http://flowingdata.com/2017/01/24/one-dataset-visualized-25-ways/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-04-13-edition",
2017.02.15,1,Volunteer weather reports.,"The National Weather Service’s Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) is a 127-year-old network of volunteer weather observers. “More than 8,700 volunteers take observations on farms, in urban and suburban areas, National Parks, seashores, and mountaintops,” according to the NWS. Want to become a volunteer? Because the program is so old, “many areas already have the necessary stations operating,” but “about 200 observers resign each year, about 4 per state.” While you’re waiting, you can download the COOP data from Iowa State University. [h/t Bill Frischling]","http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/what-is-coop.html
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/become.htm
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/COOP/",https://twitter.com/billfrisch
2017.02.15,2,Museum-worthy images.,"Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art made 375,000 images free to use, remix, and share under a Creative Commons Zero license. The museum also publishes bulk metadata on more than 420,000 pieces of art; that file indicates whether a given artwork is in the public domain, and hence whether the images fall under the new license. You can also search the images here. Other museums providing open-access imagery include the National Gallery of Art, the Getty, and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Previously: Mo’ museum metadata (Nov. 4, 2015). [h/t Joshua Barone + Sarah Bond]","http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/digital-underground/2017/open-access-at-the-met
https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection#!?perPage=20&showOnly=withImage%7Copenaccess&sortBy=Relevance&sortOrder=asc&offset=0&pageSize=0
https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html
http://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&cat=highlight&f=%22Open+Content+Images%22&rows=10&srt=a&dir=s&pg=1
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-04-edition","https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/design/met-museum-makes-375000-images-available-for-free.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/02/08/the-met-museum-just-made-375000-images-open-access-but-here-are-a-few-more-museums-that-are-oa/"
2017.02.15,3,Clinical trials.,"The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative — a public-private partnership of more than 80 organizations — upgraded its clinical trials database late last month. The relational database, called the Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), contains “all information (protocol and result data elements) about every study registered” through that titular government website. The AACT data is well-documented and accessible both via download and remote database connection. ClinicalTrials.gov also publishes the underlying data itself, but as one big XML file.","https://www.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/
https://www.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/news/upgraded-aact-database-offers-improved-functionality-analyzing-clinicaltrialsgov-data
http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/learn_more
http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/download
http://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/connect
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/resources/download",
2017.02.15,4,Mood swings.,"From the Journal of Open Psychology Data: “We present a dataset of a single (N=1) participant diagnosed with major depressive disorder, who completed 1,478 measurements over the course of 239 consecutive days in 2012 and 2013.” The “participant” happens to be one of the study’s authors — Peter C. Groot, a researcher at Maastricht University Medical Centre. Each day, he recorded the degree to which “I feel relaxed,” “I feel lonely,” “I worry,” and responses to dozens of other prompts. [h/t Sacha Epskamp]","http://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jopd.29/
https://osf.io/j4fg8/",https://twitter.com/SachaEpskamp/status/830762054399168512
2017.02.15,5,Student athletes.,"The NCAA publishes data on its student athletes’ academic progress and graduation rates. The numbers are aggregated by school and sport — from baseball, to women’s bowling, to mixed rifle. [h/t Albert Bowden]",https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/NCAA/data.html,http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10527
2017.02.22,1,Subsidized housing.,"Earlier this month, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released its “Picture of Subsidized Households” report for 2016. The dataset describes the living conditions, demographics, and finances of families receiving subsidies via the agency’s various programs — including public housing, Section 8 vouchers, and several others. The figures are provided for the entire U.S., by state, metro area, housing agency, city, county, Census tract, and even by housing development. HUD provides a data dictionary explaining each field, as well as a tool to query the data without downloading the entire dataset. [h/t Pat Smith]","https://twitter.com/HUDUSERnews/status/830145945987858436
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/assthsg.html
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/pictures/dictionary_2016.pdf",https://twitter.com/cityresearch
2017.02.22,2,Nearby stars and potential exoplanets.,"Last week, a team of researchers released a dataset containing “60,949 Doppler velocity measurements covering 1,624 stars taken over 20 years” from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The authors have already used the dataset to identify more than 100 exoplanets — i.e., planets outside our solar system. Now, they’re hoping that the public and other researchers will use their data to help discover even more. Previously: The NASA Exoplanet Archive (May 11, 2016). [h/t Arthur Bashlykov]","http://home.dtm.ciw.edu/ebps/data/
http://news.mit.edu/2017/dataset-nearby-stars-available-public-exoplanets-0213
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-11-edition",https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-bashlykov-8a3b2b102
2017.02.22,3,Local UV exposure.,"The National Cancer Institute has estimated ultraviolet radiation exposure estimates for every county in the continental United States. The estimates, based on a peer-reviewed methodology and 30 years of data from the National Solar Radiation Data Base, can also be explored using the institute’s mapping tool. Luna County, New Mexico had the highest estimated UV exposure at 5,723 Watt-hours per square meter; Clallam County, Washington, was exposed to the least estimated UV radiation, at 3,012 Wh/m². [h/t J. Albert Bowden II]","https://gis.cancer.gov/tools/uv-exposure/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zaria_Tatalovich/publication/228942287_A_comparison_of_thiessen-polygon_kriging_and_spline_models_of_UV_exposure/links/56605c3b08aebae678aa0abf.pdf
http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/
https://gis.cancer.gov/geoviewer/app/",https://data.world/albert/us-county-level-uv-exposure
2017.02.22,4,NBA refereeing.,"Since March 2015, the National Basketball Association has issued post-game reports reviewing referees’ calls during the final two minutes of neck-and-neck games. The NBA publishes those reports as PDFs; journalist Russell Goldenberg has been converting them to spreadsheet-friendly CSVs. Goldenberg is also analyzing and visualizing the data — updated daily — to show, for example, which players are benefitting most from incorrect and missed calls. (Answer so far: the Wizards’ Marcin Gortat and the Nets’ Brook Lopez.)","http://official.nba.com/nba-last-two-minute-reports-archive/
https://github.com/polygraph-cool/last-two-minute-report/tree/master/output
https://pudding.cool/2017/02/two-minute-report/",
2017.02.22,5,"Pick a card, any card.","When researchers asked 1,354 people to name or visualize a playing card, 1 in 6 of them first chose the Ace of Spades. Here’s the data, which includes each participant’s three card choices, age, and gender.","http://www.psychologyofmagic.org/research/cards/paper.html
https://osf.io/534g2/",
2017.03.01,1,Words kids learn.,"Wordbank is an “open database of children's vocabulary development.” So far, the Stanford-hosted project has gathered data from more than 71,000 standardized and anonymized vocabulary questionnaires across 23 languages. You could spend hours exploring the data online, charting how quickly children learn individual words, how quickly the same word (e.g., “grandma,” “abuela,” “ба́бушка”) is learned in different languages, and connections between words. You can download the data for each word or for each child’s vocabulary. Bonus: Wordbank has an R package and a GitHub repository. [h/t Hacker News user ""Jasamba""]","http://wordbank.stanford.edu/
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=item_trajectories
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=uni_lemmas
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=networks
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=item_data
http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=instrument_data
http://langcog.github.io/wordbankr/
https://github.com/langcog/wordbank",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726395
2017.03.01,2,Police officers as immigration enforcers.,"In an early executive order, Donald Trump instructed the Department of Homeland Security to expand its use of Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the federal government to deputize local law enforcement agencies in its search for undocumented immigrants. In response to FOIA requests, DHS has previously released data on the local agencies that participate in the 287(g) program. The Marshall Project has collated the DHS data, which includes the number of immigrants deported, for 2006 to 2013 (the most recent year available). During that timespan, “more than 175,000 people nationwide were deported under the program,” Anna Flagg writes. “More than 30,000 of them came from Maricopa County, Ariz., the most from any single jurisdiction.” [h/t Tom Meagher]","https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united
https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-9505.html
https://github.com/themarshallproject/ICE287g-removals
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/02/20/the-opposite-of-sanctuary",http://www.tommeagher.com/about.html
2017.03.01,3,Vehicle specs.,"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides an impressively rich API detailing every manufacturer, make, and model in its database. The API can translate cars’ Vehicle Identification Numbers into the nitty-gritty details that those VINs encode, including the plant where the vehicle was manufactured, number of doors, engine measurements, fuel type, and more. [h/t Justin Myers]",https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/,http://www.justinmyers.net/
2017.03.01,4,A decade-plus of Seattle library checkouts.,"Last month, the Seattle Public Library released a dataset tracking the total number of checkouts for each title by year and month from April 2005 to December 2016 (so far). The dataset isn’t limited to physical books; it also includes e-books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, and more. Last year, the three most popular physical books were Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train (2,355 checkouts), Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies (2,151 checkouts), and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2,134 checkouts).","https://shelftalkblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/for-the-love-of-data-an-open-data-release/
https://data.seattle.gov/Community/Checkouts-by-Title/tmmm-ytt6/data",
2017.03.01,5,Gator hunting.,"Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission publishes data from its statewide recreational alligator hunt. For each alligator harvested between 2000 and 2015, the dataset includes the date, the hunting area, and the length of the carcass. (Legal hunting tools include crossbows, harpoons, spearguns, fishing poles, snatch hooks, and bang sticks — but not rifles, pistols, or other guns.) [h/t Christopher Groskopf + Neil Bedi + Eric Sagara]","http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/alligator/harvest/data-export/
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/alligator/harvest/
http://myfwc.com/media/3791759/alligator-hunting-guide.pdf","https://github.com/onyxfish/nicar-2017-agate
https://twitter.com/esagara"
2017.03.08,1,The federal checkbook.,"From Treasury.io: “Every day at 4pm, the United States Treasury publishes data tables summarizing the cash spending, deposits, and borrowing of the federal government.” Those data tables “catalog all the money taken in that day from taxes, the programs, and how much debt the government took out.” On Monday, for instance, the government spent $481 million on the Postal Service. One hitch: The Treasury’s data tables are (subjectively) ugly and (objectively) spreadsheet-unfriendly. So Treasury.io — an open-source civic project — continuously converts the files into good ol’ tabular data. You can download individual tables as CSVs, get the whole dataset as a big SQLite database, or query the API. There’s also a data dictionary and a Twitter bot.","http://treasury.io/
https://www.fms.treas.gov/fmsweb/viewDTSFiles?dir=w&fname=17030600.txt
https://github.com/csvsoundsystem/federal-treasury-api
https://github.com/csvsoundsystem/federal-treasury-api/wiki/Treasury.io-Data-Dictionary
https://twitter.com/treasuryio",
2017.03.08,2,Historical Bitcoin prices.,"The Bitcoin exchange rate hit an all time high last week, at more than $1,290 to the dollar. That’s according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index, an average rate derived from several major exchanges. You can download daily and hourly data for the index and its components. [h/t Jan Doggen]","http://www.coindesk.com/price/
http://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin-price-index/",http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/6891
2017.03.08,3,Drug patents and exclusivity.,"The FDA’s “Orange Book” lists approved drugs, their associated patents, and government-granted exclusivity rights. The Orange Book is available as a 1,400-page PDF, but you can also download the key data as structured text files. The files are updated monthly. Related: “Drugs For Rare Diseases Have Become Uncommonly Rich Monopolies,” published by Kaiser Health News and NPR in January. Question for readers: The Orange Book data comes as tilde-delimited files, the first I’ve ever seen. Do you have ~any other examples~? [h/t Sydney Lupkin]","https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm129662.htm
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/UCM071436.pdf
https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm129689.htm
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/17/509506836/drugs-for-rare-diseases-have-become-uncommonly-rich-monopolies",https://twitter.com/slupkin
2017.03.08,4,Speaking roles in 2016’s blockbusters.,"Researcher Amber Thomas has parsed the transcripts of last year’s 10 highest grossing films. The resulting data files indicate each character’s number of turns speaking, number of words spoken, and gender. Previously: Dialogue from 2,000 movies, by gender (April 13, 2016).","https://proquestionasker.github.io/
https://proquestionasker.github.io/projects/MovieDialogue/
https://github.com/ProQuestionAsker/2016MovieDialogue
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-04-13-edition",
2017.03.08,5,Pictures of food.,"A trio of European researchers has published a dataset containing 101,000 photos of food — 1,000 images each from 101 food categories, all downloaded from foodspotting.com. The categories include apple pie, escargots, onion rings, paella, bibimbap, prime rib, and more. [h/t Reddit user cavedave]","https://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/datasets_extra/food-101/
https://www.foodspotting.com",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5v436t/food_101_pictures_of_food_dataset/
2017.03.15,1,"Who’s visited the U.S. on visas, and how.","Donald Trump’s new travel ban is scheduled to take effect at 12:01am Eastern tonight. The State Department doesn’t publish realtime visa data, but it does publish historical data, including the number of non-immigrant visas issued each fiscal year between 1997 and 2016, by nationality and visa type. (For example, the government issued 226 “fiancé(e)” K-1 visas to Syrian nationals in fiscal year 2016.) The agency also reports how many visas of each type it refused each year, as well as refusal rates by nationality. [h/t Thomas Kasang] [Update, 2017-12-12: The State Department link appears no longer to be working; here's a copy from the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20171201161048/https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/statistics/non-immigrant-visas.html ]","https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/statistics/non-immigrant-visas.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20171201161048/https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/statistics/non-immigrant-visas.html",https://github.com/axibase/atsd-use-cases/blob/master/USVisaRefusal/README.md
2017.03.15,2,Sounds of YouTube.,"Last week, a research team at Google published AudioSet, a dataset of “2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos.” The clips have been classified into hundreds of categories, including “plucked string instrument,” “computer keyboard,” “chuckle, chortle,” “snoring,” and “fowl.” [h/t Suman Deb Roy]","https://research.google.com/audioset/
https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/plucked_string_instrument.html
https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/computer_keyboard.html
https://research.google.com/audioset//dataset/chuckle_chortle.html
https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/snoring.html
https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/fowl.html",https://twitter.com/_RoySD/status/840227343142670336
2017.03.15,3,Many millions of mortgages.,"Freddie Mac — the government-sponsored, publicly traded company also known as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation — publishes data on 23 million single-family home mortgages it has originated or guaranteed since 1999. The dataset includes the loan amount and interest rate, the borrower’s credit score, the property type (e.g., condo, co-op, manufactured housing), metro area, first payment month, whether the borrower is a first-time homebuyer, and lots more. Freddie Mac requests that you register before downloading the data, but you can also access the files directly. Don’t miss the terms and conditions, which prohibit republishing the files. Previously: Data on millions more loans from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (Dec. 30, 2015).","http://www.freddiemac.com/news/finance/sf_loanlevel_dataset.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5x0tws/freddie_mac_fixedrate_mortgage_dataset_from/
https://freddiemac.embs.com/FLoan/HistoricalDataTerms.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition",
2017.03.15,4,Chicago traffic camera violations.,"The Windy City publishes two datasets on traffic violations. One tallies the daily number of speeding violations in each Children’s Safety Zone; the other, red-light violations at each camera-surveilled intersection. Both go back to July 2014. The city also publishes a spreadsheet of city-towed vehicles. Related: The Chicago Tribune’s long-running investigation into the city’s traffic camera troubles. [h/t Jacob Sheff]","https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Speed-Camera-Violations/hhkd-xvj4/
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Red-Light-Camera-Violations/spqx-js37
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Towed-Vehicles/ygr5-vcbg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/",https://www.datazar.com/file/f0c0d92c9-1ae3-468d-ac50-dfc82c32b30c
2017.03.15,5,Nearly every proposed amendment to the Constitution.,"To prepare for an exhibition last year, the National Archives and Records Administration created a dataset of more than 11,000 constitutional amendment proposals introduced in Congress between 1787 and 2014. [h/t Justin Lewis]",https://www.archives.gov/open/dataset-amendments.html,https://www.datazar.com/file/f5d4b5cb5-8a4e-4ff0-905e-fe2f1acbd5e0
2017.03.22,1,Real-time air quality.,"The team at Berkeley Earth has released the data files behind their real-time global air quality map. The map and data track measurements of pollution particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter. “Under typical conditions,” the Berkeley Earth team writes, this particulate matter “is the most damaging form of air pollution likely to be present, contributing to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, respiratory infections, and other diseases.” Previously: The World Health Organization’s Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database (June 15, 2016).","http://berkeleyearth.org/about/
http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-maps-data-download/
http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-map/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-15-edition",
2017.03.22,2,Previous federal budget proposals.,"To accompany its 2016 and 2017 budget proposals, the Obama administration published machine-readable copies on GitHub. Each proposal’s data are divided into three CSV files: for budget authority, outlays, and receipts. The accompanying user guide explains the data sources and structure. Sample tidbit: The White House expected the Department of Homeland Security to pull in $712 million in excise taxes from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund in 2017. [h/t Dan Nguyen]","https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/tree/2017
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/blob/2017/USER_GUIDE.md
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata/blob/2017/data/receipts.csv
https://www.uscg.mil/npfc/About_NPFC/osltf.asp",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5zzpli/previous_2_years_of_white_house_budgets_available/
2017.03.22,3,Indian state elections.,"Five states in India, representing nearly 250 million residents — Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur — have already held legislative assembly elections this year. India’s Election Commission publishes these results, but only as webpages. A couple of Hyderabad-based developers have scraped the website, and published CSVs of the data on GitHub. Previously: Data Is Plural’s election edition (Sept. 28, 2016).","http://eciresults.nic.in/
https://github.com/Vizbi/state-elections
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-28-edition",
2017.03.22,4,Construction spending.,"The Census’ Value of Construction Put in Place Survey “provides monthly estimates of the total dollar value of construction work done in the U.S.” For instance, construction spending in 2016 totaled approximately $1.1 trillion, $89 billion of which went to education-related construction. The survey has been collected monthly since 1964; historical data files are available going back to 1993. [h/t Kevin Gilmore]","https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html
https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/historical_data.html",https://www.datazar.com/file/f18c892eb-b940-4177-88b8-cbd92e9ae5f5
2017.03.22,5,Gone fishing.,"NOAA Fisheries’ Greater Atlantic Region publishes spreadsheets of the federal permits it awards to fishing vessels, operators, and dealers. For each vessel, the data includes the boat’s name, owner, principal port city, length, horsepower, and categories of fish permitted. The agency’s Southeast Regional Office also publishes lists of its permits — for shark dealers, domestic swordfish dealers, spiny lobster tailing, and more — but as HTML tables with no CSV-export option. [h/t J. Albert Bowden II]","https://www.greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/aps/permits/data/index.html
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/index.html
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/SK.htm
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/SD.htm
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/operations_management_information_services/constituency_services_branch/freedom_of_information_act/common_foia/LT.htm",https://data.world/albert/permits-vessels-ifq-foias
2017.03.29,1,Military spending.,"The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Military Expenditure Database is based on official reports, International Monetary Fund yearbooks, newspaper articles, and other sources. It covers most major countries since the 1950s and more than 100 countries since 1988. The dataset also quantifies military spending on a per-capita basis, as share of the country’s GDP, and as a proportion of total government spending. Also: The Defense Manpower Data Center publishes spreadsheets detailing the number of active and reserve U.S. personnel stationed in each state, territory, and foreign country. Previously: SIPRI’s database of international arms transfers (Nov. 18, 2015). [h/t K.K. Rebecca Lai, Troy Griggs, Max Fisher and Audrey Carlsen]","https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex
https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex/sources-and-methods
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/index.jsp
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/dwp_reports.jsp
https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers",https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/is-americas-military-big-enough.html
2017.03.29,2,Food surveillance.,"Late last year, the FDA began publishing a dataset of ”adverse events” that have been reported to its Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. The database currently covers January 2004 through December 2016, and includes reports of (suspected) bad reactions to foods, dietary supplements, and cosmetics. For instance, the first row names a particular brand of chocolate chips as the potential culprit in the hospitalization of a two-year-old girl, whose symptoms included a rash, swelling face, cough, and difficulty breathing. Previously: FDA adverse event data for pharmaceutical drugs (May 18, 2016). [h/t Sheila Hagar + Drew Ivan]","https://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2016/12/why-fda-is-making-data-extracted-from-reports-of-adverse-events-for-foods-and-cosmetics-available-to-the-public/
https://www.fda.gov/Food/ComplianceEnforcement/ucm494015.htm
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-18-edition","https://twitter.com/ubsheilahagar
https://twitter.com/drewivan"
2017.03.29,3,Failed banks.,"The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation publishes a spreadsheet of failed banks for which the agency has been appointed as a receiver — some 550 banks since October 2000. It also provides short descriptions of each bank failure. The most recent: Proficio Bank of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, which closed on March 3. More on the FDIC’s receivership program here.","https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/
https://www.fdic.gov/about/strategic/strategic/receivership.html",
2017.03.29,4,"Real-time air quality, part II.","After last week’s item on Berkeley Earth’s real-time air quality data, reader Olaf Veerman pointed me to OpenAQ. The open-source project currently gathers pollution data from nearly 5,500 locations in 47 countries, aggregated “from real-time government and research grade sources.” You can download the data via OpenAQ’s API. [h/t Olaf Veerman]","http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-22-edition
http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-maps-data-download/
https://twitter.com/oBirdman
https://openaq.org
https://github.com/openaq
https://openaq.org/#/countries
https://docs.openaq.org/",https://twitter.com/oBirdman
2017.03.29,5,100 million domain names.,"The anonymously-published DNS Census 2013 “is an attempt to provide a public dataset of registered domains and DNS records” — essentially the Internet’s phone book. The dataset, which has also been uploaded to the Internet Archive, includes 2.7 billion Domain Name System records and 106,928,034 distinct domains, organized by extension (e.g., .com, .info, .edu). RIP, certificationcommissionforhealthcareinformationtechnology.biz. [h/t Andrew Ferlitsch]","https://dnscensus2013.neocities.org/
https://archive.org/details/DNSCensus2013
https://archive.org/download/DNSCensus2013/2nd-level-domains/",http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/2122
2017.04.05,1,3D NYC.,"In 2014, the NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications conducted a massive aerial survey of the city. Then, they converted the images and data they collected into a three-dimensional model of every building in all five boroughs. Related: In December, The New York Times used the data to map the city’s shadows. Also related: Berlin, the Hague, and Lyon offer digital 3D models of their cities, too. Previously: LiDAR-powered elevation data from around the world (May 25, 2016). [h/t Dan Nguyen]","http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doitt/initiatives/3d-building.page
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/upshot/Mapping-the-Shadows-of-New-York-City.html
http://www.businesslocationcenter.de/en/downloadportal
https://data.overheid.nl/data/dataset/3d-model-den-haag/resource/2191118b-5ccc-436b-a5f8-eca12f8f8281
https://data.grandlyon.com/search/?Q=maquettes+textur%25C3%25A9es
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-25-edition",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/62mcpy/3d_geospatial_data_for_new_york_city_buildings/
2017.04.05,2,Cherry blossoms.,"Yasuyuki Aono, an associate professor at Osaka Prefecture University, has collected the historical flowering dates of Kyoto’s Prunus jamasakura cherry trees going all the way back to the 9th century. The dataset is based on “many diaries and chronicles written by Emperors, aristocrats, [governors] and monks,” Aono writes. The dates are those “on which cherry blossom viewing parties had been held or full flowerings had been observed.” Over the past century, Kyoto’s cherry trees have been blooming earlier and earlier. Related: @bbgblossoms, a Twitter bot that tracks the status of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 152 cherry trees. [h/t Eric Steig]","http://atmenv.envi.osakafu-u.ac.jp/aono/kyophenotemp4/
https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/848939887839526912
https://twitter.com/bbgblossoms
https://www.bbg.org/collections/cherries",https://twitter.com/ericsteig/status/848656113201315840
2017.04.05,3,Government bond ownership.,"Bruegel, “a European think tank that specialises in economics,” publishes a quarterly-updated dataset quantifying sovereign bond holdings for 12 countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the U.K., and the United States. For each country, the dataset tells you what proportion of the federal government’s bonds are held by each of five types of owners: the country’s central bank, other public institutions, domestic banks, other domestic investors, and foreign investors. [h/t @CoolDatasets]","http://bruegel.org/
http://bruegel.org/publications/datasets/sovereign-bond-holdings/",https://twitter.com/CoolDatasets/status/839851026949812224
2017.04.05,4,Science grants.,"The National Science Foundation publishes data on all of the grants the agency has awarded since the 1970s (and some earlier ones, too). Each grant is represented as an XML file, which contains information about the project, the awardee, and the NSF division that awarded the grant. [h/t France A. Córdova]",https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/download.jsp,http://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10945
2017.04.05,5,Avian invasions.,"In peer-reviewed paper published last week, a trio of University College London researchers describe their Global Avian Invasions Atlas. The dataset includes information on “971 species, introduced to 230 countries and administrative areas across all eight biogeographical realms, spanning the period 6000 BCE – AD 2014.”","http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201741
https://figshare.com/articles/Data_from_The_Global_Avian_Invasions_Atlas_-_A_database_of_alien_bird_distributions_worldwide/4234850",
2017.04.12,1,Plum presidential appointments.,"Every four years, Congress publishes United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, better known as the Plum Book. The 2016 version, which is available as both PDF and Excel files, identifies more than 8,000 executive and legislative branch jobs subject to “noncompetitive appointment.” Those positions include 1,710 presidential appointments, which are as wide-ranging as the ambassadorship to Afghanistan and the directorship of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Whistleblower Protection Program. Related: For positions requiring its confirmation, the Senate publishes XML files of pending, confirmed, and withdrawn nominees.","https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2016/content-detail.html
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/nominations.htm",
2017.04.12,2,Miles per gallon.,"The Environmental Protection Agency publishes fuel efficiency data on all the car models it has tested, going back to the 1980s… minus all the Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche diesels caught cheating. The data typically includes three estimates: for city driving, highway driving, and a city-highway combination.",https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml,
2017.04.12,3,Pirated papers.,"Sci-Hub, which describes itself as “the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers,” recently released a list of the 62,835,101 academic papers it has collected. That dataset identifies each paper only by its DOI — a short, unique ID. Helpfully, graduate student Bastian Greshake has extracted the journal name, publisher, and publication ear from those DOIs. Greshake has also combined that data with six months of Sci-Hub download data (previously featured in DIP 2016.05.04), and analyzed the datasets together. Among his findings: Both are “largely made up of recently published articles, with users disproportionately favoring newer articles and 35% of downloaded articles being published after 2013.”","https://sci-hub.cc/
https://figshare.com/articles/List_of_DOIs_of_papers_collected_by_SciHub/4765477
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/what-is-doi.aspx
http://ruleofthirds.de/
https://zenodo.org/record/472493
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.q447c
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-04-edition
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/10/124495",
2017.04.12,4,International aid for maternal and child health.,"Researchers at the World Health Organization have assembled a dataset of international aid — both from official government assistance and private grants — devoted to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health from 2003 to 2013. The dataset, which the researchers described in a recent academic article, draws on 2.1 million records, and is based largely on the OECD’s Creditor Reporting System. Related: Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department cut all its funding for the UN's family planning agency; it was the agency’s third-largest donor.","http://datacompass.lshtm.ac.uk/320/
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201738
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?datasetcode=CRS1
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/the-us-wont-give-any-more-money-to-the-un-population-fund",
2017.04.12,5,One million comic book panels.,"Comic books make use of white space — or gutters — to propel the story forward, relying on readers’ intuitive ability to fill in the gaps between panels. To see whether computers could learn to make the same inferences, a group of computer scientists built a giant corpus of public-domain comics and tried training a series of neural networks on it. (Spoiler: Humans are much better at this.) The underlying dataset contains 1.2 million panels from nearly 200,000 scanned pages of nearly 4,000 books in the Digital Comic Museum, all published during the 1938–1954 “Golden Age” of American comics. It also contains 2.5 million chunks of text extracted from the comics’ speech balloons, thought bubbles, and narration boxes. [h/t Robin Sloan]","https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05118
https://obj.umiacs.umd.edu/comics/index.html
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/",https://www.robinsloan.com/
2017.04.19,1,"UK, US, Rx.","The UK’s National Health Service publishes monthly data on drugs prescribed in England through the country’s single-payer health care system. (Drugs prescribed in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland aren’t included.) For each prescriber-and-drug combination, the dataset includes the quantity and cost of prescriptions for each month since August 2010. The US publishes similar data about prescriptions issued through Medicare, but only on an annual basis and currently only covering 2013 and 2014. Related: ProPublica’s Prescriber Checkup, which uses the Medicare data to examine doctors’ prescribing patterns. Previously: A decade-plus of Australian prescription data (DIP 2016.08.24). [h/t Adam Crahen]","https://data.gov.uk/dataset/prescribing-by-gp-practice-presentation-level
https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Part-D-Prescriber.html
https://projects.propublica.org/checkup/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-08-24-edition",https://twitter.com/acrahen/status/853487201837101056
2017.04.19,2,Vaccination rates by state.,"The CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases collects and publishes state-by-state vaccination rates for infants, kindergartners, teens, and adults — plus, flu vaccination rates for several age groups. Each dataset includes several years’ worth of data, with many going back to 2008 or 2009. Related: “California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates,” by my colleague Peter Aldhous, with additional county-level data from the Golden State. Previously: International vaccination rates and policies (DIP 2016.08.03).","https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/childvaxview/data-reports/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/schoolvaxview/data-reports/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/teenvaxview/data-reports/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/adultvaxview/data-reports/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/interactive.htm
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/record-vaccination-in-california
http://www.peteraldhous.com/
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Pages/ImmunizationLevels.aspx
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-08-03-edition",
2017.04.19,3,Tropical cyclones.,"Through its International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship project, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes what it calls “the most complete global set of historical tropical cyclones available.” For each tropical cyclone — a category that includes typhoons, hurricanes, tropical depressions, and more — the dataset includes its position, wind speed, central pressure, and classification at six-hour intervals. The dataset is updated annually and includes some historical cyclones from as early as 1842. [h/t Daniel Miller]","https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php?name=ibtracs-data",https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/10994
2017.04.19,4,Where plants grow best.,"The USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map “is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location.” The USDA and Oregon State, which have jointly developed the map, previously sold access to the underlying data through a vendor. But after the vendor shut down earlier this year, OSU began publishing the data free of charge (though with some licensing restrictions). The dataset is available as detailed shapefiles and as ZIP code–based spreadsheets. [h/t Waldo Jaquith + Lynn Cherny]","http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Default.aspx
http://web.archive.org/web/20151001025259/http://climatesource.com/cgi-bin/csshop/scan/st=db/co=yes/sf=category/se=phz_us_phz/op=eq/va=banner_text=US%20%28grids%20%26%20shapefiles%29.html
http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/projects/plant_hardiness_zones.php","https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/851995078067453952
https://twitter.com/arnicas/status/852198803310616576"
2017.04.19,5,Spelling self-corrections.,"For a 2012 academic paper, researchers captured the keystrokes of paid volunteers as they typed descriptions of images. Whenever a participant used the backspace key to correct a word, the researchers added it to a dataset of self-corrections. Each of the 44,000 lines in the English-language version of the dataset contains the original mistake and the correction. The most common change was in → on. Other common fixes included waling → walking and pople → people. [h/t Seth Stephens-Davidowitz]","http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2390665.2390749
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52418",http://sethsd.com/everybodylies/
2017.04.26,1,National park visitors.,"The U.S. National Park Service publishes a ton of data about visitors to its parks, historic sites, memorials, preserves, and more. Among them: Visitors per park (annually since 1904, and monthly since 1979), overnight stays by type of lodging (tents, RVs, backcountry, etc.), and traffic. Related: “The National Parks Have Never Been More Popular” (FiveThirtyEight, 2016). [h/t Jack King]","https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/Reports/National
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-national-parks-have-never-been-more-popular/",https://data.world/inform8n/us-national-parks-visitation-1904-2016-with-boundaries
2017.04.26,2,Word frequencies.,"You’re probably familiar with the Google Books Ngram Viewer, which lets you chart word and phrase frequencies over time. Google publishes the underlying data but those files can (depending on your tools and goals) be cumbersomely large. Here’s an alternative: DIP reader (and former colleague) Chris Wilson has condensed the overall frequencies for 87,000 words — those found in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — into a svelte, four-megabyte file. Related: BYU’s advanced interface to the Google Books data. Also related: “The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language” (Wired, 2015). And also: “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them” (The Atlantic, 2017).","https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=data+is%2Cdata+are&year_start=1800&year_end=2012&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdata%20is%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdata%20are%3B%2Cc0
http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2.html
http://mechanicalscribe.com/notes/google-ngrams-for-cmu-pronunciation-dictionary/
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
https://github.com/mechanicalscribe/cmu_tf_idf
http://googlebooks.byu.edu/x.asp
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/pitfalls-of-studying-language-with-google-ngram/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/",
2017.04.26,3,Women’s empowerment in India.,"For each of India’s 36 states and Union Territories, the country’s latest National Family Health Survey includes 114 metrics, such as the percentages of “households using iodized salt” and “men who have comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS.” Unfortunately, the government publishes the reports only as PDFs. But the Hindustan Times has extracted the data for the survey’s eight “women’s empowerment and gender based violence” metrics, including the percentages of “ever-married women who have ever experienced spousal violence” and “women having a bank or savings account that they themselves use.” They’ve published that data as a spreadsheet and used it to construct an interactive Women Empowerment Index. [h/t Gurman Bhatia]","http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-4.shtml
https://github.com/HindustanTimesLabs/women-empowerment-index
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/179onU4jvFPqhLlM-7ZJu5xv0LQLOsQq-TrMJNFQkSjI/edit#gid=1937549234
http://www.hindustantimes.com/interactives/women-empowerment-index/",http://www.gurmanbhatia.com/
2017.04.26,4,"Marriage and divorce, pregnancy and infertility in the U.S.","The CDC has been running its National Survey of Family Growth since 1973. For the first three decades, it surveyed only women ages 15-44. Starting in 2002, it began also surveying men. The latest survey was conducted in 2013-15, when it collected data from 10,205 residents about sexual activity and contraception, pregnancy and infertility, marriage and divorce, adoption, parenting, and more. [h/t Allen B. Downey]","https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/index.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/nsfg_2013_2015_puf.htm",http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/thinkstats002.html#htoc5
2017.04.26,5,This must be the r/place.,"For April Fools, Reddit launched a million-pixel canvas called “r/place.” Users could place a single-pixel tile, in one of 16 colors, anywhere on the canvas — but only every five minutes. By the end of r/place’s 72-hour lifetime, Redditors had placed 16.5 million tiles on the canvas, likely making it “the largest collaborative art project in history.” Last week, Reddit published the entire history of the canvas as structured data. [h/t Felipe Hoffa]","https://www.reddit.com/r/place/
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdata/comments/6640ru/place_datasets_april_fools_2017/",https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/854395005028454401
2017.05.10,1,The border fence.,"There’s about 700 miles of official fencing between the U.S. and Mexico, covering about one-third of the full border. The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t provide structured spatial data about the fence’s path. But, thanks to a Texas law professor’s FOIA and some serious elbow grease, reporters at Reveal have created “the most detailed border fence map publicly available.” For each segment of fence, Reveal’s dataset includes the fence type (i.e., pedestrian, vehicle, or unknown), the government’s name for the segment, and the project through which the segment was built.","https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/borderwall/maps/background-maps.html
http://cironline.org/blog/post/surprising-tools-cir-used-map-us-mexico-border-fence-6255
https://www.revealnews.org/article/the-wall-building-a-continuous-u-s-mexico-barrier-would-be-a-tall-order/
https://github.com/cirlabs/border_fence_map",
2017.05.10,2,Insurance premiums and payouts.,"Last month, ProPublica and Consumer Reports published an analysis of car insurance costs in four states, finding that “some major insurers charge minority neighborhoods as much as 30 percent more than other areas with similar accident costs.” The reporters also published a detailed methodology and dataset supporting their findings. The dataset contains company-by-company insurance premiums for a (hypothetical) college-educated, excellent-credit, accident-free 30-year-old woman in each of 6,261 ZIP codes in the four states — California, Texas, Missouri, and Illinois. The dataset also includes several years of average (per-car) insurance payouts for each ZIP code, which the reporters obtained from state insurance commissioners. Related: The insurance industry's rebuttal and ProPublica's counter-rebuttal.","https://www.propublica.org/article/minority-neighborhoods-higher-car-insurance-premiums-white-areas-same-risk
https://www.propublica.org/article/minority-neighborhoods-higher-car-insurance-premiums-methodology
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/carinsurance#src-line
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/04/05/447012.htm
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-car-insurance-industry-attacks-our-story-our-response",
2017.05.10,3,Three million grocery orders.,"Groceries-on-demand startup Instacart has released a dataset containing 3 million orders from 200,000 (anonymized) users. “For each user, we provide between 4 and 100 of their orders, with the sequence of products purchased in each order,” the company’s head of data science writes. “We also provide the week and hour of day the order was placed, and a relative measure of time between orders.” Here’s the data dictionary.","https://www.instacart.com/datasets/grocery-shopping-2017
https://tech.instacart.com/3-million-instacart-orders-open-sourced-d40d29ead6f2
https://gist.github.com/jeremystan/c3b39d947d9b88b3ccff3147dbcf6c6b",
2017.05.10,4,What do you do with a PhD in science?,"The National Science Foundation’s Survey of Doctorate Recipients “is a longitudinal biennial survey conducted since 1973 that provides demographic and career history information about individuals with a research doctoral degree in a science, engineering, or health (SEH) field from a U.S. academic institution.” You can download aggregated data and detailed survey responses going back to 1993. The next release is scheduled for this month. Related: The NSF has published an interactive graphic of the data. [h/t Peter Aldhous]","https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctoratework/
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctoratework/#tabs-2
https://sestat.nsf.gov/datadownload/
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/next-releases.cfm#survey5
https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/infographic2/",http://www.peteraldhous.com/
2017.05.10,5,*Such* an important dataset.,"Grad students in Princeton’s computer science department have published a dataset they call Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus, or “SARC” for short. “The corpus has 1.3 million sarcastic statements — 10 times more than any previous dataset,” the authors write, and takes advantage of Reddit users’ habit of tagging sarcastic comments with an “/s”. Related: A dataset of sarcastic Amazon reviews. [h/t Carlos Somohano + Reddit user cavedave]","http://nlp.cs.princeton.edu/SARC/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05579
https://github.com/ef2020/SarcasmAmazonReviewsCorpus/wiki","https://www.getrevue.co/profile/datamachina/issues/data-machina-issue-114-55313
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/68s1c9/a_collection_of_sarcastic_and_regular_amazon/"
2017.05.17,1,North Korean missile tests.,"The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies publishes what it calls “the first database to record flight tests of all missiles launched by North Korea capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kilograms a distance of at least 300 kilometers.” The database currently contains 107 missile tests — starting with North Korea’s first, launched in April 1984, to its latest, launched Sunday morning. For each test, the data includes the missile’s launch site, highest altitude, distance travelled, landing location, success/failure, and other details. [h/t Ian Greenleigh]","http://www.nonproliferation.org/
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/cns-north-korea-missile-test-database/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gracewyler/north-korea-reportedly-launches-ballistic-missile",https://data.world/ian/the-cns-north-korea-missile-test-database
2017.05.17,2,Global food prices.,"The UN World Food Programme’s vulnerability analysis group collects and publishes food price data for more than 1,000 towns and cities in more than 70 countries. The dataset, which goes back more than a decade, covers basic staples, such as wheat, rice, milk, oil, and more. It’s updated monthly and feeds into (among other things) the UNWFP’s price-spike indicators. Related: The Humanitarian Data Exchange, which hosts the dataset for the UN. Also: The Economist’s Big Mac Index. [h/t Andrew McCartney]","http://vam.wfp.org/
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/wfp-food-prices
http://foodprices.vam.wfp.org/ALPS-at-a-glance.aspx
https://data.humdata.org/
http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index",
2017.05.17,3,Rising seas.,"How might rising sea levels affect coastal flooding? A new-ish NOAA Technical Report, published in January, combines historical data on global sea levels with “regional factors contributing to sea level change for the entire U.S. coastline.” The result: Localized projections under six sea-level rise scenarios, ranging from “low” to “extreme.” You can download the data (at the bottom of this page) or explore it on a map. Related: Climate Central describes what NOAA’s “extreme” scenario could mean for America (including more maps and calculations). Previously: Tide gauge data (DIP 2016.03.23) and sea ice measurements (DIP 2016.09.14). [h/t Susie Cambria]","http://www.noaa.gov/media-release/new-regional-sea-level-scenarios-help-communities-prepare-for-risks
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/key-indicators/global-mean-sea-level
https://scenarios.globalchange.gov/sea-level-rise
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/extreme-sea-level-rise-stakes-for-america-21387
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-03-23-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-14-edition",https://about.me/susiecambria
2017.05.17,4,“The watch list Chicago police fought to keep secret.”,"The Chicago Sun-Times has obtained and published an August 2016 copy of the Chicago Police Department’s “Strategic Subject List,” a database that scores nearly 400,000 (unnamed) people on a scale from 10 to 500, based on an algorithm that attempts to estimate their risk of being involved in gun violence (either as a shooter or a victim). The database includes demographic, geographic, criminal history, and other information about the people it ranks. “But the database doesn’t indicate — and the police won’t say — how much weight is given to each factor in computing the scores, which are produced using an algorithm developed at the Illinois Institute of Technology,” according to the Sun-Times.",http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/what-gets-people-on-watch-list-chicago-police-fought-to-keep-secret-watchdogs/,
2017.05.17,5,Story arcs.,"“The WikiPlots corpus is a collection of 112,936 story plots extracted from English language Wikipedia.” The plots describe movies, books, plays, TV series, TV episodes, video games, and other stories — essentially, any *thing that has a Wikipedia article with the word “plot” in one of its subheadings. Related: “Examining the arc of 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis” and “Gender and verbs across 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis,” two blog posts by David Robinson that use the data.","https://github.com/markriedl/WikiPlots
http://varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-plots/
http://varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-gender-plots/
http://varianceexplained.org/about/",
2017.05.24,1,America’s card catalog.,"Last week, the Library of Congress released its largest dataset ever: nearly 25 million records for books, maps, manuscripts and other items in its online catalog. For each item, the data includes standardized bibliographic information, such as the title, author, publication date, and genre. (The dataset represents the online catalog as it was in 2013; more recent data will cost you.) Related: A bit of background about the library’s MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging Records) data format.","https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-068/
http://www.loc.gov/cds/PDFdownloads/mds2016.pdf
https://opensource.com/article/17/4/bit-about-marc-handlers",
2017.05.24,2,Domestic radicalization.,"The Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) database “contains deidentified individual-level information on the backgrounds, attributes, and radicalization processes of nearly 1,500 violent and non-violent extremists who adhere to far right, far left, Islamist, or single issue ideologies in the United States” — including the Klu Klux Klan, the Taliban, and the Animal Liberation Front, among others. The dataset covers 1948 through 2013 and was released earlier this year by a team at the University of Maryland. [h/t Lorand Bodo]","http://www.start.umd.edu/data-tools/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-pirus
http://www.start.umd.edu/news/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-pirus-data-now-available",https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/864186557242249216
2017.05.24,3,Ransomware payments.,"When the malware program known as “WannaCry” hit hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this month, it demanded that the computers’ owners pay $300 in Bitcoin — or lose all of their data. Keith Collins at Quartz has been using Blockchain’s API to track Bitcoin payments to the three digital wallets that the hackers designated to receive the ransoms. He’s published the data and is also using it to power a Twitter bot. Related: “Victims of the WannaCry ransomware attacks have stopped paying up” and “Inside the digital heist that terrorized the world—and only made $100k,” both by Collins. Previously: Historical Bitcoin prices (DIP 2017.03.08).","http://keithcollins.github.io/
https://blockchain.info/api
https://github.com/keithcollins/actual_ransom
https://twitter.com/actual_ransom
https://qz.com/986094/wannacry-ransomware-attacks-victims-have-stopped-paying-the-ransom/
https://qz.com/985093/inside-the-digital-heist-that-terrorized-the-world-and-made-less-than-100k/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-08-edition",
2017.05.24,4,Fifty million doodles.,"Google is clever: It created a drawing game, got 15 million people to play it, and then turned those doodles into into a public dataset of people drawing. You can download the raw data, or just browse the doodles online.","https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data
https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data",
2017.05.24,5,🎶 Two thousand cans of craft beer on the wall 🎶.,"The website CraftCans.com publishes a database of 2,000+ canned beers. For each beer, the database lists its name, style, brewery, size, alcohol level, and bitterness. The website doesn’t provide a direct download, but — as Jean-Nicholas Hould points out — you can basically just copy-paste the website’s data into your favorite spreadsheet program. Or, if you want something slightly cleaner, you can use this script. Related: This data-profiling tutorial by Hould, which uses the data. Also related: RateBeer.com’s API, but you’ll need to request a developer key to use it. Plus: This interactive graphic, which uses the RateBeer data to explore America’s microbrew epicenters. And also: Official brewery production stats from the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. [h/t Daniel Brady]","http://www.craftcans.com/
http://craftcans.com/db.php?search=all&sort=beerid&ord=desc&view=text
http://www.jeannicholashould.com/python-web-scraping-tutorial-for-craft-beers.html
https://gist.github.com/jsvine/c537ac9509e7d0ed713cced4992faf39
http://www.jeannicholashould.com/profiling-a-dataset-of-craft-beers.html
https://www.ratebeer.com/json/ratebeerapi.asp
https://pudding.cool/2017/04/beer/
https://www.ttb.gov/beer/beer-stats.shtml",http://danjbrady.com/
2017.05.31,1,Government payrolls.,"Last week at BuzzFeed News, we shared a vast trove federal payroll data. Those records — provided by Office of Personnel Management through the Freedom of Information Act — cover more than 40 years and millions of employees. The dataset includes salaries, titles, job types, and demographic variables. In many-but-not-all cases (per OPM’s data release policies), it also includes names. Previously, federal payroll data had been searchable online, but very little was available in downloadable, analysis-friendly formats. Also: Many states – including New York, California, Florida, New Jersey, Minnesota, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Washington – proactively make payroll data available for download. (Some cities, such as Chicago, do, too.)","https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/sharing-hundreds-of-millions-of-federal-payroll-records
http://php.app.com/agent/federalemployees/search
https://www.fedsdatacenter.com/federal-pay-rates/
https://data.ny.gov/browse?tags=salaries%2Fpayroll&utf8=%E2%9C%93
http://publicpay.ca.gov/
http://salaries.myflorida.com/
http://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/transparency/payroll/
https://mn.gov/mmb/transparency-mn/payrolldata.jsp
https://www.ark.org/dfa/transparency/employee_compensation.php
http://www.admin.sc.gov/accountability-portal/state-salaries
http://fiscal.wa.gov/salaries.aspx
http://fiscal.wa.gov/salaries.aspx
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Administration-Finance/Current-Employee-Names-Salaries-and-Position-Title/xzkq-xp2w",
2017.05.31,2,Government lobbying.,"U.S. lobbyists must notify Congress within 45 days of being retained by new clients. Every quarter after that, they’re required to file activity reports that detail the agencies they lobbied, the topics they covered, and the income they earned. Bulk downloads of both types of reports are available as XML files from the House (going back to 2004) and from the Senate (since 1999). Although they receive the same filings, each chamber “follows different data-cleaning, processing, and editing procedures before storing the data,” according to this recent GAO report.","http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldsearch.aspx
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/LDA_reports.htm
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-320",
2017.05.31,3,State gun laws.,"A team of researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health has collected data on the presence/absence of 133 different types of firearm laws in each U.S. state, for each year between 1991 and 2016. The legal provisions are grouped into 14 categories, such as background checks, “Stand Your Ground” laws, and child access prevention. You can download a spreadsheet of the data, and also browse state-by-state summaries. Previously: The Correlates of State Policy Project (DIP 2016.07.06).","https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/about.html
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/categories.html
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/table.html
https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/state-by-state.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-06-edition",
2017.05.31,4,Industrial sector data.,"Aswath Damodaran — a professor of finance at the NYU’s business school — maintains a trove of data on per-sector financials, including effective tax rates, return on equity, and working capital ratios by industry. For most datasets, Damodaran publishes both current and historical versions. [h/t Tim McGovern]","http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/data.html
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/taxrate.htm
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/roe.html
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/wcdata.html
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datacurrent.html
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/dataarchived.html",https://twitter.com/herdingbats
2017.05.31,5,NYC doggies.,"You might have seen New York City’s bubble map of dog names. It turns out that the underlying dataset — which includes the name, gender, age as of 2015, breed, and borough of more than 110,000 dogs — is available on GitHub. You can also download slightly older, but more detailed data from WNYC’s Dogs of NYC project. That data includes each dog’s coat colors, whether it had been spayed/neutered, and its ZIP code. Related: Similar pet license data from Tacoma, Wash., and Edmonton, Canada. [h/t Alex P. Miller + Dan Nguyen]","http://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/dognames/
https://github.com/Kaz-A/dog_names/
https://fusiontables.google.com/data?docid=1pKcxc8kzJbBVzLu_kgzoAMzqYhZyUhtScXjB0BQ#rows:id=1
https://project.wnyc.org/dogs-of-nyc/
https://data.cityoftacoma.org/Neighborhoods/Current-Pet-License-City-of-Tacoma-Fircrest/qnnn-t9wt
https://data.edmonton.ca/Community-Services/Pet-Licenses-by-Neighbourhood/5squ-mg4w","https://twitter.com/alexpmil/status/861703366203801600
http://danwin.com/"
2017.06.07,1,"Millions of scientists, and their migrations.","ORCID is a nonprofit organization that provides unique identifiers for researchers — mostly scientists so far — to make it easier to distinguish between them. It has issued more than 3 million IDs so far, and provides annual bulk downloads of all researchers’ public profiles. In many cases, the researchers have supplied their education and employment histories. That enabled Science magazine to analyze the migrations of more than 110,000 researchers who’ve listed multiple countries in these public CVs. (The data and code underlying the analysis are also available to download.) [h/t Shaun Coffey]","https://orcid.org/
https://orcid.org/content/orcid-public-data-file-use-policy
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/vast-set-public-cvs-reveals-world-s-most-migratory-scientists
http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.48s16",https://twitter.com/ShaunCoffey/status/865880767015956480
2017.06.07,2,Trump’s pre-presidency flights.,"Before Donald Trump began flying on Air Force One, he rode a fleet of private aircraft. Reporters at Bloomberg used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain flight records for three major components of that fleet — a ”Boeing 757 with gold-plated seatbelt buckles, known as Trump Force One during the campaign; a Cessna 750 Citation X jet; and a Sikorsky helicopter”. For each of the more than 1,500 flights taken between August 2010 and November 2016, the dataset contains the date, time, and airport of both the departure and arrival. Trump wasn’t necessarily aboard each of those flights; the dataset does not contain passengers information. Related: Bloomberg’s analysis/maps of the data. Also related: The Washington Post used the data to estimate the flights’ CO2 emissions.","https://github.com/BloombergGraphics/2017-trump-flight-data
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-01/this-is-where-trump-traveled-before-becoming-president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/06/trumps-campaign-planes-alone-had-the-carbon-footprint-of-500-americans-for-a-year/",
2017.06.07,3,Severe workplace injuries.,"Beginning in January 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration began requiring U.S. employers to report “all severe work-related injuries, defined as an amputation, in-patient hospitalization, or loss of an eye.” You can download a spreadsheet of these injuries — some 20,000 in 2015 and 2016 combined. It contains the injury dates, descriptions, and outcomes, as well as the employers’ names and locations. Previously: OSHA’s more detailed (but slightly more cumbersome) inspection data and API (DIP 2016.07.13). [Clarification, 2017-06-07/2017-06-14: The dataset dataset reflects ""federal OSHA states only.” It excludes “injuries in state plans,"" which cover private sector employees in 21 states.]","https://www.osha.gov/severeinjury/index.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-13-edition",
2017.06.07,4,Annotated Reddit conversations.,"Researchers at Google took a semi-random sample of 9,473 Reddit threads, containing 116,347 comments in total. Then, they paid people to categorize each comment by its “discourse act” — e.g., whether it was a question, answer, announcement, agreement, humor, et cetera. The result is Coarse Discourse, “a dataset for understanding online discussions.” [h/t Roberto Bayardo]",https://github.com/google-research-datasets/coarse-discourse,https://twitter.com/roberto_bayardo/status/864591636097110017
2017.06.07,5,E. coli at Ocean Beach.,The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Beach Water Quality Monitoring Program measures bacteria levels at fifteen locations on the city’s shoreline. You can download the measurements by clicking the “raw data” link below this map. The data powers the (unsurprisingly) unofficial @BeachPooBot account on Twitter. [h/t Reddit user cavedave],"http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=87
http://sfwater.org/cfapps/lims/beachmain1.cfm
https://github.com/John-Brandon/Beach_Poo_Bot
https://twitter.com/BeachPooBot",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5vk72n/san_francisco_shit_in_the_water_data/
2017.06.14,1,Supreme Court transcripts.,"Oyez.org bills itself as, among other things, “a complete and authoritative source for all of the [Supreme] Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.” The site has an API and releases all its material — including timestamped transcripts of oral arguments — under a Creative Commons license. A least two GitHub repositories have aggregated the transcripts and make them easy to bulk-download. For each segment of audio, the transcripts list the start/end time, the speaker, and the text. Related: PuppyJusticeAutomated, a YouTube channel that (a) must be seen to be understood and (b) uses the Oyez API. Previously: CourtListener (DIP 2016.04.13) and The Supreme Court Database (DIP 2016.02.24). [h/t Walker Boyle + Reddit user 21cannons]","https://www.oyez.org/
https://www.oyez.org/about
https://api.oyez.org
https://www.oyez.org/license
https://github.com/walkerdb/supreme_court_transcripts/
https://github.com/free-law-coalition/oyez-scotus
https://www.youtube.com/c/PuppyJusticeAutomated
https://github.com/ALSchwalm/PuppyJusticeAutomated
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-04-13-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-23-edition","https://github.com/walkerdb
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6epse3/all_existing_supreme_court_oral_argument/"
2017.06.14,2,Federal corporate prosecutions.,"Last week, the University of Virginia School of Law launched an expanded version of its Corporate Prosecution Registry. The revamped database includes “detailed information about every federal organizational prosecution since 2001, as well as deferred and non-prosecution agreements with organizations since 1990” — more than 3,000 cases so far. Previously: Good Jobs First’s Violation Tracker (DIP 2015.11.11). [h/t Tom Jackman]","http://content.law.virginia.edu/news/201706/go-resource-researching-corporate-prosecution-just-got-more-powerful
http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/corporate-prosecution-registry/index.html
http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/corporate-prosecution-registry/about.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-11-edition",https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/06/05/new-database-of-rarely-tracked-corporate-crime-prosecutions-launches-today/
2017.06.14,3,Business owners.,"The Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons “provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.” The most recent data comes from 2012. The survey has been conducted every five years since 1972, but data from before 1992 is “available only in printed form.” Related: “30% Of The Black-Owned Businesses In New York Disappeared In 5 Years,” by my colleague Cora Lewis.","https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sbo/about.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sbo/data.html
https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/in-5-years-new-york-lost-30-of-its-black-owned-businesses
https://twitter.com/cora",
2017.06.14,4,Antibiotic resistance,". ResistoMap is an interactive visualization of antibiotic drug resistance, based on more than 1,500 bacteria genome samples from people’s intestinal tracts. The data behind the visualization is available to download. It’s partly based on two prior datasets: McMaster University’s Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (“a bioinformatic database of resistance genes, their products and associated phenotypes”) and the University of Gothenburg’s BacMet (“an easy-to-use bioinformatics resource of antibacterial biocide- and metal-resistance genes”). [h/t Carlos Somohano]","http://resistomap.rcpcm.org/
https://figshare.com/s/081a528b7ad55725a2ae
https://card.mcmaster.ca/
http://bacmet.biomedicine.gu.se/index.html",https://www.getrevue.co/profile/datamachina/issues/data-machina-issue-119-61138
2017.06.14,5,L.A. pot dispensaries.,"The Los Angeles City Controller has released a map of the city’s openly-operating medical marijuana businesses. You can access a spreadsheet of the 191 dispensaries that comply with Proposition D, which the city passed in 2013. Additionally, you can find hundreds of (active and inactive) dispensaries by filtering the city’s business registrations to those whose primary NAICS category is listed as “medical marijuana collective.” [h/t Zack Quaintance]","http://www.lacontroller.org/mjrelease
http://lacontroller.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8737a0a6f867495d93b6ba484eaf8cbc
https://controllerdata.lacity.org/Revenue/191-Prop-D-Compliant-Medical-Marijuana-Businesses/vva2-przx/
https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Los_Angeles_Medical_Marijuana_Dispensaries,_Measures_D,_E_and_F_(May_2013)",http://www.govtech.com/civic/Whats-New-in-Civic-Tech-App-Foster-Support-for-Kentucky-Fiber-Initiative.html
2017.06.21,1,130 million traffic stops.,"“Police pull over more than 50,000 drivers on a typical day, more than 20 million motorists every year. Yet the most common police interaction — the traffic stop — has not been tracked, at least not in any systematic way,” according to the Stanford Open Policing Project. To that end, the group has been collecting and standardizing traffic-stop data from state police agencies across America. Its first data release, published Monday, contains 130 million records from 31 states. The records vary by agency, but the most-complete states include the date, time, location, reason, and outcome of each stop; the driver’s race, gender, and age; whether a search was conducted; and whether the search found contraband. Related: The project’s findings so far. Previously: Raw traffic stop data from a smaller number of states (DIP 2015.10.28).","https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/
https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/data/
https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-10-28-edition",
2017.06.21,2,Famine warnings.,"“Created by USAID in 1985 to help decision-makers plan for humanitarian crises,” the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) “provides evidence-based analysis on some 34 countries.” As part of its work, FEWS NET publishes geospatial shapefiles that score each country’s “most likely food security outcome” on standardized scale: Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency, and Famine. Previously: Global food prices (DIP 2017.05.17). [h/t Melissa Segura]","https://www.fews.net/
https://www.fews.net/shapefiles
http://www.fews.net/IPC
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-17-edition",https://twitter.com/melissadsegura
2017.06.21,3,"Two million open-source projects, and their dependencies.","Libraries.io monitors “over 2.4m unique open source projects, 25m repositories and 85m interdependencies between them.” Last week, the site released its first bulk dataset, which describes each project’s metadata, published versions, and dependencies on other software libraries. [h/t Nadia Eghbal]","https://libraries.io
https://medium.com/@BenJam/libraries-io-releases-data-on-over-25m-software-repositories-ab1db665826e
https://libraries.io/data",https://twitter.com/nayafia/status/876795645847248896
2017.06.21,4,Political party manifestoes.,"The Manifesto Project has collected and coded more than 4,000 electoral manifestoes from more than 1,000 political parties in more than 50 countries between 1945 and 2015. For each manifesto, the project’s dataset indicates whether the document expresses support for/against dozens of policies and attitudes, including “market regulation,” a “national way of life”, “environmental protection,” and “anti-imperialism.” You can also browse the manifestoes online. Caveat: The dataset is subject to a somewhat restrictive usage policy. [h/t The Quartz Directory of Essential Data]","https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/datasets
https://visuals.manifesto-project.wzb.eu/mpdb-shiny/cmp_dashboard_corpus/
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/terms_of_use",https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hU7Snj4KZ-ppyy388l-sV4I26n4yGVb8xYnygPOS-5k/edit#gid=1436509184
2017.06.21,5,Prisoners’ tattoos.,"The Florida Department of Corrections’ public database contains a table describing current and released inmates’ tattoos. That data includes each tattoo’s location (e.g., “right arm,” “stomach,” “face”) and description (“cross,” “tribal,” and “skull” being the most common). Helpful: Dan Nguyen’s guide to converting the database into SQLite and CSV files. Related: Recent analyses by The Economist and by The Palm Beach Post.","http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/obis_request.html
https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/c6bcc9884c25cf68f3550560ccae5ca8
http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21712032-what-can-be-learned-prisoners-tattoos-statistical-analysis-art
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/body-art-000-florida-prison-inmates-runs-from-freaky-kinky/HXpaJsmobtJCGPP0vI9WlI/ ",
2017.06.28,1,Infectious diseases in Europe.,"The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases lets you browse, map, and download data on the historical incidence of several dozen diseases — from anthrax to Zika — in each of the European Economic Area’s countries. Related: Keila Guimarães’s recent investigation into penicillin shortages, which uses the Centre’s data on syphilis cases.","http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx?Instance=GeneralAtlas
https://qz.com/984705/syphilis-is-on-the-rise-because-penicillin-isnt-profitable/",
2017.06.28,2,People’s genes.,"OpenSNP is a website that lets people publish the results of their genetic tests (such as those sold by 23andMe, deCODEme, FamilyTreeDNA), “find others with similar genetic variations, [get] the latest primary literature on their variations, and help scientists find new associations.” Since 2012, users have uploaded more than 3,000 sets of genetic variants, which you can download individually or in bulk or access via OpenSNP’s API. Users can also list various personal traits, such as eye color, height, coffee consumption, and lactose intolerance. Useful primer: SNP stands for “single nucleotide polymorphism,” the NIH explains. They’re “the most common type of genetic variation”; each one “represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a nucleotide.”","https://opensnp.org/
https://opensnp.org/statistics
https://opensnp.org/genotypes
https://github.com/openSNP/snpr/wiki/JSON-API
https://opensnp.org/phenotypes
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/genomicresearch/snp",
2017.06.28,3,Real estate inventories.,"The National Association of Realtors publishes monthly real estate inventory data “at the national level, the 500 largest metropolitan areas, the 1,000 largest counties, and over 15,000 zip codes.” The data, based on the realtors’ multiple listing services, goes back five years and “tracks key market metrics including list prices, days on market, and total active inventory.” As of early June, six counties — Manhattan, plus five in California — had median listing prices above $1 million. Previously: The Census Bureau’s Annual Characteristics of New Housing (DIP 2016.06.22), international house prices (DIP 2017.02.08), millions of mortgages (DIP 2015.12.30), and millions more mortgages (DIP 2017.03.15). [h/t Reddit user bbekks]","http://research.realtor.com/data/inventory-trends/
http://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-is-the-mls-multiple-listing-service/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-02-08-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-15-edition",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6flgrf/request_im_using_the_full_historical_inventory/
2017.06.28,4,Every federally tax-exempt nonprofit.,"The Internal Revenue Service publishes a file listing all “organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions” — currently more than 1 million charities, private foundations, and other groups. (Not all nonprofits apply for, or receive, tax-exempt status from the IRS; but all tax-exempt organizations are nonprofits.) Previously: Annual IRS 990 filings, in bulk (DIP 2016.06.22). [h/t Norbert Krupa + Derek Willis]","https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/forwardToDeductStatusSearchHelp.do
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition",https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/16/is-there-a-complete-list-of-all-us-tax-exempt-nonprofits-in-machine-readable-for
2017.06.28,5,140-character politics.,"The recently-launched Tweets Of Congress is collecting and publishing daily archives of tweets by congressional representatives, caucuses, and committees. Meanwhile, the Trump Twitter Archive has collected more than 30,000 of @realDonaldTrump’s tweets, which you can search and download.","https://alexlitel.github.io/congresstweets/
http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/about
http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive
https://github.com/bpb27/trump_tweet_data_archive",
2017.07.19,1,Solar eclipses.,"You’ve probably seen The Washington Post’s solar eclipse graphics from last Monday. The stellar maps are largely based on an online tool that uses data from NASA's Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses. The tool can (among other things) generate maps and KMZ files describing the paths of the 11,898 solar eclipses Earth will have experienced between and 2000 BCE and 3000 CE. Helpful: NASA’s key to understanding the data terminology.","https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/eclipse/
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/5MCSE/xSE_Five_Millennium_Canon.html
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpubs/5MCSE.html
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SEcatkey.html",
2017.07.19,2,Dublin in detail.,"Last week, a team at NYU announced “the world’s densest urban aerial laser scanning (LiDAR) dataset” — a 1.4-billion-point description of Dublin’s city center. They write: ”At over 300 points per square meter, this is more than 30 times denser than typical LiDAR data and is an order of magnitude denser than any other aerial LiDAR dataset.” The researchers collected the topographical data during a series of criss-crossing flyovers on March 26, 2015. They’ve also published a short, illustrative video. Previously: LiDAR datasets (DIP 2016.05.25) and 3D models (DIP 2017.04.05) of cities and countries around the world. [h/t Darrell Etherington]","http://cusp.nyu.edu/press-release/nyu-center-urban-science-progress-professor-releases-worlds-densest-urban-aerial-laser-scanning-dataset/
https://geo.nyu.edu/catalog/nyu_2451_38684
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEi2Wo7Bcuk
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-05-25-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-04-05-edition",https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/nyu-releases-the-largest-lidar-dataset-ever-to-help-urban-development/
2017.07.19,3,UN General Debate speeches.,"Each September, the United Nations gathers for its annual General Assembly. Among the activities: the General Debate, a series of speeches delivered by the UN’s nearly 200 member states. The statements provide “an invaluable and, largely untapped, source of information on governments’ policy preferences across a wide range of issues over time,” write a trio of researchers who, earlier this year, published the UN General Debate Corpus — a dataset containing the transcripts of 7,701 speeches from 1970 to 2016. The researchers have also published an online tool for exploring and visualizing the dataset. Previously: UN General Assembly votes since 1946 (DIP 2016.07.13). [h/t Ronny Patz]","https://gadebate.un.org/en
http://www.smikhaylov.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/UNGDC_RAP_Final.pdf
 https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0TJX8Y
http://ungd.smikhaylov.net/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-13-edition",https://twitter.com/ronpatz/status/883052266567208960
2017.07.19,4,Global economic forecasts.,"The International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Database contains the fund’s projections for future “national accounts, inflation, unemployment rates, balance of payments, fiscal indicators, trade for countries and country groups” and commodity prices. (They predict that farm-bred Norwegian salmon will cost $6.79/kg in 2022.) The database also contains historical observations for many of the economic indicators back to 1980. [h/t David Mihalyi]",https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx,https://twitter.com/davidmihalyi/status/869562784186544128
2017.07.19,5,Old Faithful et al.,"The National Park Service and Geyser Observation and Study Association have been using water-temperature sensors to track the eruption times of dozens of geysers in Yellowstone — Old Faithful, of course, but also Beehive, Little Squirt, and Narcissus. GeyserTimes.org combines this data with historical logbooks and observations from “geyser gazers” to form what it describes as “the most comprehensive database of geyser eruption and observation data on the internet.”","http://www.gosa.org/about.aspx
http://geyserstudy.org/electronicsummary.aspx 
http://www.geyserstudy.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=OLDFAITHFUL
http://www.geyserstudy.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=BEEHIVE
http://www.gosa.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=LITTLESQUIRT
http://geyserstudy.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=NARCISSUS
http://geysertimes.org/data.php
http://www.geyserstudy.org/ofvclogs.aspx
http://geysertimes.org/about.php",
2017.07.26,1,Interned Japanese Americans.,"The Densho Digital Repository is an archive of oral histories, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other primary sources relating to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Among the materials: several datasets listing people sent to the internment camps, based on official government records. The largest dataset contains more than 100,000 entries and includes details such as each internee’s “relocation” site, arrival date, hometown, birth year, time spent in Japan, marital status, religion, educational degrees, occupation, and military service. The National Archives hosts the raw data, as well as its documentation.","https://ddr.densho.org/
https://ddr.densho.org/names/
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1264228",
2017.07.26,2,Trump’s visits to Trump properties.,"NBC News has been tracking the president’s visits to his own luxury properties. For each day since Trump took office, the data — available to download at the bottom of the page — tells you which properties he visited and whether any were golf courses. Since February, Trump has visited his properties roughly 10 days a month, including 25 trips to Mar-a-Lago and 42 trips to his golf courses. Related: A similar tracker from The New York Times. [h/t Rachel Schallom]","http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/how-much-time-trump-spending-trump-properties-n753366
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/05/us/politics/tracking-trumps-visits-to-his-branded-properties.html",http://tinyletter.com/best-of-interactives/letters/best-in-visual-storytelling-32
2017.07.26,3,Women running for the U.S. House.,"As the basis for his recent study, “Is Running Enough? Reconsidering the Conventional Wisdom about Women Candidates” (paywalled, but a draft is freely available), PhD candidate Peter Bucchianeri compiled a dataset of female candidates in House primary elections from 1972 to 2010. The spreadsheet covers 1,242 candidacies, and includes each candidate’s party, votes garnered in the primary and general elections, the seat’s incumbency status, the district’s demographics, and more.","https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-017-9407-7
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9p6mt9a4vgipxf/Bucchianeri%20-%20Is%20Running%20Enough.pdf?dl=0
http://www.peterbucchianeri.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CFPBRI",
2017.07.26,4,The Enron emails.,"During the course of its Enron investigation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission obtained the emails of approximately 150 (mostly high-ranking) Enron staff. You can find versions of the dataset — cleaned, deduplicated, and restructured in various ways — hosted by Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, and Duke Law. Related: “What the Enron Emails Say About Us,” published by The New Yorker last week. Nathan Heller writes: The Enron archive “remains one of the country’s largest private e-mail corpora turned public. Its lasting value is less as an account of Enron’s daywork than as a social and linguistic data pool, a record of the way we write online when we’re not preening for the public eye.”","https://www.ferc.gov/industries/electric/indus-act/wec/enron/info-release.asp
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./enron/
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/enron_email.html
http://www.edrm.net/resources/data-sets/edrm-enron-email-data-set/
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/24/what-the-enron-e-mails-say-about-us",
2017.07.26,5,Data podcast data.,"Data Stories is a podcast about data visualization, hosted by Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner. To celebrate their recently-published 100th episode, the hosts released a spreadsheet detailing the date, title, number and genders of guests, length, and timestamped subchapters of each episode so far. Related: Christian Laesser’s visualization of the data. [h/t Benjamin Cooley]","http://datastori.es/
http://datastori.es/100-data-stories-100/
http://projects.datavis.club/100-data-stories/",https://medium.com/towards-data-science/data-curious-17-07-2017-a-roundup-of-data-stories-datasets-and-visualizations-from-last-week-2a6766ac54d6
2017.08.02,1,Data from the search for MH370.,"After Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014, the Australian government undertook an enormous seafloor-mapping operation in search of the lost Boeing 777. Last month, it released data from the first phase of the project, which collected 278,000 square kilometers of bathymetry (i.e., seafloor topography) measurements. “In general, the world's deep oceans have had little investigation,” the government explains in an interactive map. “Only 10 to 15 percent of the ocean has been mapped with the sonar technology similar to that used in the search for MH370.” As a result, the MH370 search area “is now among the most thoroughly mapped regions of the deep ocean on the planet.” [h/t  Soh Kam Yung]","http://marine.projects.ga.gov.au/mh370-phase-one-data-release.html
https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=038a72439bfa4d28b3dde81cc6ff3214",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802105
2017.08.02,2,European Union lobbying.,"The EU publishes a searchable database of people and organizations registered to lobby the European Parliament and the European Commission. The website LobbyFacts.eu takes that data and makes it available via an API. LobbyFacts also scrapes the European Commission’s disclosed lobbying meetings, which you can download here (warning: 10-megabyte direct download). Related: You can also explore the lobbyists and meetings via InegrityWatch.eu, which uses LobbyFacts’ data. Previously: U.S. government lobbyists (DIP 2017.05.31). [h/t Enigma Public + Xavier Dutoit]","http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do?redir=false&locale=en
https://lobbyfacts.eu/
http://api.lobbyfacts.eu/docs/api
https://lobbyfacts.eu/transparency_meetings
http://www.integritywatch.eu/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-31-edition","http://mailchi.mp/2ad52d3e7df1/between-two-rows-july-2017?e=64b85561c3
https://github.com/tttp/doi/blob/master/data/fetch.sh"
2017.08.02,3,"SAT, ACT, and AP scores.","The California Department of Education publishes aggregate scores on these high-school tests for each county, district, and school going back to the late 1990s. One hitch: For more than two months, the 2016 AP data “contained 350,000 more tests than had actually been taken,” according to inewsource.org’s Megan Wood, who spotted the discrepancies (and others) and got the department to fix them. Similar datasets are available from other states, including Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Bonus: inewsource.org’s has also published easy-to-search tables of the California AP, SAT, and ACT scores.","http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/ai/
http://inewsource.org/2017/06/13/state-admits-posting-faulty-data/
http://tea.texas.gov/acctres/sat_act_index.html
http://www.fldoe.org/accountability/accountability-reporting/act-sat-ap-data/index.stml
http://www.education.pa.gov/K-12/Assessment%20and%20Accountability/Pages/SAT-and-ACT.aspx#tab-1
http://data.inewsource.org/interactives/california-ap-scores-2011-2016/
http://data.inewsource.org/interactives/california-sat-scores-2011-2016/
http://data.inewsource.org/interactives/california-act-scores-2011-2016/",
2017.08.02,4,Individual library checkouts.,"The Seattle Public Library publishes a dataset of every checkout of every physical item (e.g., paperback books and DVDs, but not e-books) since April 2005. It currently contains more than 90 million rows. Previously: The library’s monthly checkout counts, by title (DIP 2017.03.01). [h/t David Christensen]","https://data.seattle.gov/dataset/Checkouts-by-Title-Physical-Items-/3h5r-qv5w
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-01-edition",https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrchristensen/
2017.08.02,5,Harmony lovers.,"The New York Philharmonic has published three spreadsheets listing its subscribers — including where they sat, how much they paid, and where they had their tickets sent — for a slew of orchestral seasons between 1883 and the late 1990s. The earliest data includes names, too. (“Miss A. Brown” of 715 Fifth Avenue seems to have been a big fan, having subscribed to 26 seats for the 1890-91 season.) Previously: The Philharmonic’s performance history (DIP 2016.10.12). [h/t Rachel Shorey]","http://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/open-data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-10-12-edition",https://twitter.com/rachel_shorey/status/889944977282928641
2017.08.09,1,Nutrition facts.,"The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is the primary source for most of the food nutrition facts you see in America. The database assesses more than 8,000 foods, from abiyuch to zwieback, and provides the average nutrient levels per 100 grams — e.g., protein, carbohydrates, vitamin D, caffeine, lycopene, and water. North of the border, you can find the (bilingual) Canadian Nutrient File. It’s based on the USDA data, but excludes stateside foods “known not to be on the Canadian market”, adds some foods (such as poutine and ptarmigan), and makes adjustments based on “Canadian levels of fortification and regulatory standards.” The United Kingdom has its own nutrient file, as do many other countries. [h/t Reddit user Alacritous]","https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md/beltsville-human-nutrition-research-center/nutrient-data-laboratory/docs/usda-national-nutrient-database-for-standard-reference/
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2428
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/469
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/nutrient-data/canadian-nutrient-file-2015-download-files.html
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/nutrient-data/canadian-nutrient-file-compilation-canadian-food-composition-data-users-guide-2010.html
https://food-nutrition.canada.ca/cnf-fce/serving-portion.do?id=6772
https://food-nutrition.canada.ca/cnf-fce/serving-portion.do?id=5933
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid
http://www.fao.org/infoods/infoods/tables-and-databases/en/",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/6g56sl/canadian_nutrient_file_food_database_containing/
2017.08.09,2,Interstate commodity flows.,"The federally funded Freight Analysis Framework “integrates data from a variety of sources to create a comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation.” For each year between 2012 and 2015, the database “provides estimates for tonnage (in thousand tons) and value (in million dollars) by regions of origin and destination, commodity type, and mode.” Last week, Axios published an interactive map of the state-to-state flows for each commodity group, as well as some helpful caveats and “head-scratchers.” [h/t Chris Canipe]","http://faf.ornl.gov/fafweb/
https://www.axios.com/the-flow-of-goods-2463665414.html",https://twitter.com/ccanipe/status/892724588576206848
2017.08.09,3,Pidgin and creole languages.,"The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures contains data on 76 languages, such as Trinidad English Creole, Afrikaans, Guadeloupean Creole, and Singapore Bazaar Malay. For each language, the dataset includes information about 130 “structural features,” example sentences, and more. Previously: The World Atlas of Language Structures (DIP 2016.01.06) and a database of the Trans-New Guinea language family (DIP 2015.11.04). [h/t Rachael Tatman]","http://apics-online.info/
http://apics-online.info/download
http://apics-online.info/parameters
http://apics-online.info/sentences
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-06-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-04-edition",https://www.kaggle.com/rtatman/atlas-of-pidgin-and-creole-language-structures
2017.08.09,4,A century of UK coastal flooding.,"Earlier this year, the researchers behind SurgeWatch.org published an updated version of their their database of UK coastal floods. They combined tidal gauge data with reports from scientific journals, newspapers, and social media to identify 329 “coastal flooding events” that occurred between 1915 to 2016. For each event, the dataset includes the date, region, and severity level, which ranges from 1 (“nuisance”) to 6 (“disaster,” applied to only one event — the North Sea flood of 1953).","https://www.surgewatch.org/
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/481720c2-35bd-6c10-e053-6c86abc06bb3/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953",
2017.08.09,5,Talent agencies.,"California’s Department of Industrial Relations publishes a dataset of all licensed talent agencies, with each agency’s name, address, license number, workers’ comp insurer, and bond issuer. Florida publishes something similar. Previously: Texas’s licensed professionals (DIP 2015.12.09).","https://www.dir.ca.gov/databases/dlselr/talag.html
http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/sto/file_download/public-records-talent.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-09-edition",
2017.08.16,1,Historic newspapers.,"Chronicling America — a project run by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities — provides information about more than 150,000 historic newspapers and access to digitized pages from many of them. Its API lets you search the database and doesn’t require registration; its bulk data includes text from more than 12 million pages. For instance, here’s the Omaha Daily Bee’s front page on April 7, 1917, the day after the U.S. entered World War I. [h/t Ed Summers]","http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ocr/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1917-04-07/ed-1/seq-1/",https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/f8c7ea6e91e08b5a3f60a8c8a09f7f57c591a01f
2017.08.16,2,Terrorism prosecutions.,"“The U.S. government has prosecuted 808 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never even got close to committing an act of violence.” Those are the findings of The Intercept’s Trial and Terror database, first published in April and most recently updated last week. The underlying data — available on GitHub — contains each defendant’s name and demographic details, as well as each case’s description, status, charges, charge date, conviction date (if convicted), jurisdiction, and more.","https://trial-and-terror.theintercept.com/
https://github.com/firstlookmedia/trial-and-terror-data",
2017.08.16,3,Brain scans.,"The Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) project is “aimed at making MRI data sets of the brain freely available to the scientific community,” with the goal of “[facilitating] future discoveries in basic and clinical neuroscience.” So far, the project has published two collections: a cross-sectional dataset of scans from 416 people, ages 18 to 96; and a longitudinal dataset, based on 150 people aged 60 to 96, each of whom were scanned at least two different times. [h/t Andrew Beam]",http://www.oasis-brains.org/,https://github.com/beamandrew/medical-data
2017.08.16,4,The U.S. petroleum supply and exports.,"The Energy Information Administration’s Petroleum Supply Monthly contains detailed data about how the United States obtains crude oil and petroleum products, and where that supply goes. In May, for instance, the U.S. refined nearly 314 million barrels of “finished motor gasoline” and exported 18.6 million barrels of it.",https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/monthly/,
2017.08.16,5,Prime psychology.,"Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24‑Hour Bookstore, has a new book coming out next month — one that he believes “is the first novel in English to feature, as a main supporting character, a possibly-sentient sourdough starter.” To dole out advance copies of the book, Sloan conducted the following contest: Try to choose the smallest prime number that nobody else will pick. Now he’s posted the results — a CSV listing the number of contestants who chose each prime number. (Seventeen was the most popular number among the contest’s 1,354 entries; the smallest unique prime was 409.)","https://www.robinsloan.com/books/penumbra/
https://www.robinsloan.com/books/sourdough/
https://github.com/robinsloan/penumbra-primes",
2017.08.23,1,A century of malarial mosquitoes.,"A team of researchers has compiled “the largest ever geo-coded database of anophelines in Africa.” (Anophelines are the only kind of mosquito that transmits malaria.) The database covers 1898 to 2016 and includes more than 13,400 observations of mosquitoes in specific locations. For each observation, the dataset lists the country, administrative region(s), and latitude/longitude, as well as the time period, the species identified, the sampling method, and the source of the information. [h/t Michael Chew]","https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/2-57/
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/mosquitoes/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NQ6CUN",https://twitter.com/MichaelWKChew/status/898116844858552320
2017.08.23,2,Who really controls UK companies?,"Last year, the British government began requiring companies to identify all the people who exert power over them. The resulting “People with Significant Control” database contains each person’s name, country of residence, nationality, and “nature of control” — e.g., ownership of large numbers of shares, voting rights, or the ability to appoint/remove directors. [h/t Enigma Public]","https://www.gov.uk/government/news/people-with-significant-control-companies-house-register-goes-live
http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_pscdata.html",http://mailchi.mp/6dc38c39abc3/between-two-rows-august-2017
2017.08.23,3,Carbon-conscious energy policies.,"The Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, “is the most comprehensive source of information on incentives and policies that support renewables and energy efficiency in the United States.” The database, which was founded in 1995 and is funded by the Department of Energy, includes tax rebates, solar energy buybacks, building standards, and more. You can download the data in several formats, or browse and search it online. [h/t Carol Brotman White]","http://www.dsireusa.org/
http://www.dsireusa.org/resources/data-and-tools/
http://programs.dsireusa.org/system/program",https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32332
2017.08.23,4,NEH grants and grant-evaluators.,"The congressionally-established National Endowment for the Humanities publishes a dataset of all of the grants it has awarded since the late 1960s. On the same page, you can download a file describing the organization’s 25,000+ “evaluators” — “knowledgeable persons outside NEH who are asked for their judgments about the quality and significance” of proposed projects. [h/t Brett Bobley + Max Kemman]",https://securegrants.neh.gov/open/data/,"https://twitter.com/brettbobley/status/895994169403080705
https://twitter.com/MaxKemman/status/895995120444596225"
2017.08.23,5,The World Color Survey.,"The 1970s, a team of linguistic investigators canvassed the globe, armed with boxes of color chips. They sought out a couple dozen native speakers of 110 unwritten languages, and asked: What do you call these colors? The results are available online. Related: This Vox video provides context.","http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/
http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/data.html
https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/5/16/15646500/color-pattern-language",
2017.08.30,1,Flood maps.,"FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center publishes geospatial files that detail the agency’s flood risk assessments — both current and historical. The maps include flood zones, levee locations, “base flood elevations,” and more. Helpful: FEMA’s technical documentation. Related: “Why Houston Isn’t Ready for Harvey,” published last week by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune; and “Hell and High Water,” the reporting team’s deep dive on Houston last year. Previously: The most comprehensive global dataset of cyclone paths (DIP 2017.04.19).","https://msc.fema.gov/portal/advanceSearch
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/886edbc98e2229a90d0593d5e46ddac9/Flood+Insurance+Rate+Map+Database+Technical+Reference.pdf
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey
https://projects.propublica.org/houston/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-04-19-edition",
2017.08.30,2,Redlining.,"The Mapping Inequality project has digitized more than 150 of the “security maps” produced by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation between 1935 and 1940. Together, the maps “offer a view of Depression-era America as developers, realtors, tax assessors, and surveyors saw it — a set of interlocking color-lines, racial groups, and environmental risks.” To download the data for a given map, click on the cloud icon in the top-right corner. Related:  A new research paper, by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, uses the data to quantify redlining’s lasting effects. Also related: The New York Times’ summary of the data and research. [h/t Kendall Taggart]","https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/
https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2017/wp2017-12
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/upshot/how-redlinings-racist-effects-lasted-for-decades.html",https://twitter.com/KendallTTaggart
2017.08.30,3,Home price indices.,"The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis publishes S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index data, which measures changes in average home prices over time. The monthly-updated datasets — copyrighted, but free to download — are available at a national and metro-area level, and go back several decades.",https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release?rid=199,
2017.08.30,4,Website logos.,"Favicons are the little square icons in your browser’s tabs, placed there by the websites you’ve loaded. Two recent projects attempted to collect these markers from the web’s million most-trafficked domains. One, by programmer Colin Morris, collected 360,000 favicons in July 2016. The second, by researchers at ETH Zurich, collected 548,00 favicons in April 2017. Semi-related: Morris’s “Finding bad flamingo drawings with recurrent neural networks”; the analysis uses Google’s 50-million-doodles data, featured in DIP 2017.05.04.","https://archive.org/details/favicons_201708
https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/lld/
https://colinmorris.github.io/blog/bad_flamingos
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-24-edition",
2017.08.30,5,"Game of Thrones characters, judged.","Earlier this month, The New York Times asked readers to rate 50 of the show’s most recognizable characters along two dimensions: good ↔ evil, and ugly ↔ beautiful. They’ve received 190,000+ submissions. The results are accessible as two JSON files: one for the averages and another for the distributions.","https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/09/upshot/game-of-thrones-chart.html
https://int.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/2017-07-17-got-matrix/mean.json
https://int.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/2017-07-17-got-matrix/contours.json",
2017.09.13,1,Global flooding.,"The Dartmouth Flood Observatory’s Global Archive of Large Flood Events contains data about 4,500+ floods, dating back to 1985. It’s updated often, and is available in Excel, XML, HTML, and geospatial formats. The variables include each flood’s location, timespan, severity, main cause, and estimated impact. The organization also publishes detailed maps of the “maximum observed flooding” for specific disasters, such as for Hurricane Harvey and for Hurricane Irma. Related: A Science Magazine mini-profile of the DFO and its founder. Previously: U.S. tide gauges and flood observations (DIP 2016.03.23), UK coastal flooding (DIP 2017.08.09), and FEMA flood risk maps (DIP 2017.08.30).","http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/index.html
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Archives/index.html
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Archives/ArchiveNotes.html
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Events/2017USA4510/2017USA4510.html
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Events/2017USA4516/2017USA4516.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/colorado-global-flood-observatory-keeps-close-watch-harvey-s-torrents
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-03-23-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-09-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-30-edition",
2017.09.13,2,"House price indices, part two.","Two weeks ago, DIP featured Case-Shiller’s home price index data. There are, in fact, several other prominent (and downloadable) house price indices, including the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s House Price Index, the National Association of Realtors’ indices, and Zillow’s Home Value Index. Helpful: This guide to various home price indices and how they’re constructed, by Jed Kolko, formerly Trulia’s chief economist. Related: This critique of Case-Shiller’s approach, also by Kolko.","http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-30-edition
https://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Downloads/Pages/House-Price-Index.aspx
https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/housing-statistics
https://www.zillow.com/research/data/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/05/kolko-dissecting-house-price-indices.html
http://jedkolko.com/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/08/kolko-lets-improve-not-ignore-seasonal.html",
2017.09.13,3,"Trump, McConnell, Schumer, Ryan, and Pelosi on TV.","The Internet Archive has pumped footage from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC through software trained to recognize the faces of Donald Trump and majority/minority leaders of the U.S. House and Senate. The result: Face-O-Matic, a dataset released to the public last week. For each face the software found, the dataset includes the network, program, date, time, duration, and a link to the footage on the TV News Archive. Since mid-July, Face-O-Matic has logged more than 50,000 sightings. [h/t Nancy Watzman]","https://archive.org/details/faceomatic
http://blog.archive.org/2017/09/06/face-o-matic-data-show-trump-dominates/
https://archive.org/details/tv",https://twitter.com/nwatzman
2017.09.13,4,SEC server logs.,"When companies file reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, they do so through the SEC’s EDGAR system. The SEC makes those filings available online, and it uses EDGAR’s server logs to analyze web traffic to the site. The SEC’s EDGAR Log File Data Set contains a set CSVs — one for each day between February 14, 2003 and December 31, 2016 — extracted from those server logs. For each document visited, the data includes the visitor’s unique-but-obfuscated IP address, the date and time of the visit, the IDs of the document and associated company, and some information about the visitor’s browser. [h/t Brian C. Keegan]","https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
https://www.sec.gov/data/edgar-log-file-data-set.html",https://www.brianckeegan.com/about/
2017.09.13,5,It wood be hard to ignore this dataset.,"The “robust and curated” Global Wood Density Database contains more than 16,000 entries, culled from scientific literature, websites, and unpublished scholarship. The densest so far is a Caesalpinia sclerocarpa from Mexico, weighing in at 1.39 grams per cubic centimeter. Related: The TRY database of “curated plant traits” (free registration required). [h/t Amy Zanne]","http://wooddensity.univ-tlse3.fr/
http://datadryad.org/handle/10255/dryad.235
https://www.desertmuseum.org/programs/alamos_trees_caescl.php
https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Database.php",https://twitter.com/AmyZanne/status/901057652024893440
2017.09.20,1,Broadband access and cost.,"The U.S. Federal Communications Commission publishes a ton of data on the “wireline” telecommunications industry, including several datasets about broadband internet access. Among them: the places where providers offer service, subscriptions per 1,000 households in each Census tract, and a survey of plans available in urban areas. You can also find a spreadsheet of payphones-by-state at the bottom of that landing page. (As of last March, there were only 113 payphones left in North Dakota, down from 705 in 2008.) Related: “Signs of Digital Distress,” a new Brookings Institution report, with findings and maps based on the broadband subscription data.","https://www.fcc.gov/general/iatd-data-statistical-reports
https://www.fcc.gov/general/broadband-deployment-data-fcc-form-477
https://www.fcc.gov/general/form-477-census-tract-data-internet-access-services
https://www.fcc.gov/general/urban-rate-survey-data-resources
https://www.brookings.edu/research/signs-of-digital-distress-mapping-broadband-availability/",
2017.09.20,2,Post-disaster aerial imagery.,"After major natural disasters, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey routinely collects detailed aerial photos of the affected areas. For each disaster — including Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, and a couple dozen others — you can download the full set of (georeferenced) images, by date and survey flight. [h/t David Yanofsky]",https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/,http://yanofsky.info/
2017.09.20,3,"Voters’ attitudes and choices, over time.","The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, “a research collaboration comprised of nearly two dozen analysts and scholars from across the political spectrum,” has published the participant-level data from its 2016 VOTER survey. It’s a “unique longitudinal data set” that represents the “political attitudes, values, and affinities” of 8,000 American adults who were interviewed first in December 2011, then again before and after the 2012 election, and again in December 2016. [h/t Jenny Listman]","https://www.voterstudygroup.org/newsroom/press-release-democracy-fund-voter-study-group-to-release-full-longitudinal-dataset
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publications/2016-elections/data",https://twitter.com/jblistman
2017.09.20,4,Trump Organization domain registrations.,"Earlier this year, Politico reporters scoured the internet’s WHOIS records for domains registered to the Trump Organization. They found thousands, including TrumpRussia.com, No2Trump.com, Trumpublican.net, and ImBeingSuedByTheDonald.com. (Most, including those, just send readers to a generic “domain parking” landing page.) Politico has open-sourced the article’s components, including a JSON file containing 1,267 of the domains, which includes each domain’s owner, creation date, last-updated date, and expiration date. [h/t Tyler Fisher]","https://whois.icann.org/en/about-whois
http://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/trump-organization-business-domain-names-vegas-moscow/
https://github.com/The-Politico/interactive_trump-urls
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/The-Politico/interactive_trump-urls/master/dist/data/cards.json",http://tylerjfisher.com/
2017.09.20,5,xkcd.,"The popular “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language” provides an interface for grabbing data about each comic strip, including the title, image file, date of publication, easter-egg-y “alt” text, and transcript. [h/t Karl L. Hughes]","https://xkcd.com/
https://xkcd.com/json.html
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/title_text",https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/73d22681b02e76b15fa9e910b0deab154ad19fca
2017.09.27,1,Easier-to-use crime data.,"Earlier this month, the FBI and 18F released the first iteration of their Crime Data Explorer, a website that simplifies access to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program. You can download bulk data on individual incidents, state and national trends, hate crimes, arrests, assaults on officers, police employees, human trafficking, and cargo theft. You can also access the data via an API. Caution: The FBI’s data collection program is voluntary; not all law enforcement agencies participate. (In fact, more than 3,000 agencies don’t submit hate crime data.) [h/t Nick Wright]","https://18f.gsa.gov/2017/09/07/opening-the-nations-crime-data/
https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/
https://ucr.fbi.gov/ucr-program-data-collections
https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/downloads-and-docs
https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/api
https://ucr.fbi.gov/nibrs/2015/tables/data-tables
https://www.propublica.org/article/hate-crimes-are-up-but-the-government-isnt-keeping-good-track-of-them",http://nikolaswright.com/
2017.09.27,2,Chyrons.,"The TV News Archive’s new “Third Eye” project is extracting chyrons — those placards of text at the bottom of news broadcasts, also known as “lower thirds” — from four major cable networks: BBC News, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. The resulting database contains every chyron that Third Eye’s optical character recognition (OCR) software has extracted since late August. Related: This Washington Post piece analyzing cable news’ chyrons during James Comey’s congressional testimony, and this explanation of how they did it. [h/t Nancy Watzman]","http://blog.archive.org/2017/09/21/tv-news-chyron-data/
https://archive.org/services/third-eye.php
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/comey-hearing-chyrons/
https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-tracked-cable-news-chyrons/",https://twitter.com/nwatzman
2017.09.27,3,"Every building, river, and green space in Great Britain.","The UK’s Ordnance Survey makes detailed digital maps of Great Britain. Their free offerings include all of the island’s roads, rivers, green spaces, and place names. The Survey’s “open map” includes buildings, railways, electricity transmission lines, and other features. Related: Want only the buildings? The University of Sheffield’s Alasdair Rae has you covered. [h/t Robyn Inglis]","https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/opendata-products.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-roads.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-rivers.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-greenspace.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-map-local.html
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2017/09/buildings-of-great-britain.html",https://twitter.com/rhinglis/status/910794000516427776
2017.09.27,4,"NYC streets: the good, the bad, and the closed.","New York City’s Department of Transportation publishes a bunch of data, including its own assessments of each street segment’s quality on a 1-to-10 scale. It also publishes spreadsheets of all construction-related street closures, by intersection and by block, updated daily. [h/t Christian Moscardi]","http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/datafeeds.shtml
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Street-Pavement-Rating/2cav-chmn
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Street-Closures-due-to-construction-activities-by-/478a-yykk
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Street-Closures-due-to-construction-activities-by-/i6b5-j7bu",https://twitter.com/c_moscardi
2017.09.27,5,"Your job, in numbers.","For each of 966 occupations, the Department of Labor’s O*NET database quantifies the types knowledge, skills, abilities, education, and training required, tasks involved, tools used, and more job-related parameters. Related: The Upshot uses the data to ask (and answer), “What Is Your Opposite Job?”","https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html?p=3
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/08/upshot/what-is-your-opposite-job.html",
2017.10.04,1,Four decades of U.S. air quality.,"The Environmental Protection Agency collects air quality samples from thousands of monitoring stations across the country. The resulting datasets, which go back to the 1980s, are available as daily files, annual files, and via an API. The monitored pollutants include ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, and more. You can also download daily Air Quality Index ratings and information about each monitoring station. Previously: Global air pollution datasets from Berkeley Earth (DIP 2017.03.22) and from the World Health Organization (DIP 2016.06.15). [h/t Swier Heeres]","https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data/download-daily-data
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_mart_welcome.html
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#AQI
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Meta
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-22-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-15-edition",https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/11750/air-quality-in-all-cities-in-the-usa/11751#11751
2017.10.04,2,Chest x-rays.,"Last week, the National Institutes of Health released a dataset containing more than 100,000 anonymized chest x-rays, from 30,000 patients, “including many with advanced lung disease.” For each image, the associated metadata includes the patient’s age, gender, and diagnosis labels. (The dataset’s authors used natural language processing to extract those labels from radiological reports; they estimate that fewer than 10% of the labels are incorrect.) Related: Andrew L. Beam’s list of medical datasets for machine learning. [h/t Chris Hamby]","https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-center-provides-one-largest-publicly-available-chest-x-ray-datasets-scientific-community
https://nihcc.app.box.com/v/ChestXray-NIHCC
https://nihcc.app.box.com/v/ChestXray-NIHCC/file/220660789610
https://github.com/beamandrew/medical-data",https://twitter.com/ChrisDHamby
2017.10.04,3,Media coverage.,"Media Cloud, a collaboration between MIT and Harvard–based researchers, describes itself as “an open-source platform for studying media ecosystems.” The project lets you track topics and keywords across thousands of sources — including mainstream news publications in the U.S. and many other countries — at both a story and sentence level. You can access Media Cloud’s data via its dashboard or its API. Both require (free) registration. Related: “The Media Really Has Neglected Puerto Rico,” by Dhrumil Mehta at FiveThirtyEight; the analysis uses data from Media Cloud, the TV News Archive, and Google Trends. Also related: The geometry of hurricane coverage, as told through the front pages of The New York Times and Washington Post.","https://mediacloud.org/
https://dashboard.mediacloud.org/
https://github.com/berkmancenter/mediacloud/blob/master/doc/api_2_0_spec/api_2_0_spec.md
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-really-has-neglected-puerto-rico/
https://archive.org/details/tv
https://www.google.com/trends/
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2017/09/low-tech-visualization-how-much-space.html",
2017.10.04,4,Privately owned public spaces.,"In certain cities, private developers can earn zoning concessions by converting sections of their properties into plazas, atriums, mini-parks, and other open-to-the-public spaces. You can download datasets of these “privately owned public spaces” in San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, and — thanks to a recent collaboration between Guardian Cities and local community group — London. Related: A guide to NYC’s POPS. [h/t Reddit user seeriktus + Ed Vine]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space
https://data.sfgov.org/Culture-and-Recreation/Privately-Owned-Public-Open-Spaces/65ik-7wqd
https://data.seattle.gov/Community/Privately-Owned-Public-Spaces-Map/52gz-md6f
https://nycopendata.socrata.com/Housing-Development/Privately-Owned-Public-Spaces/fum3-ejky
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/pseudo-public-space-explore-data-what-missing
https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/privately-owned-public-spaces
https://apops.mas.org/find-a-pops/","https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/72j3vw/dataset_london_privatelyowned_public_spaces_gigl/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347/"
2017.10.04,5,These American Voices.,"For a new interactive essay at The Pudding, Ash Ngu analyzed the gender composition of This American Life episodes. To support the findings, Ngu has published the underlying data, extracted from the show’s transcripts. Among the data extracted: the number of words spoken by each person in each act of each episode.","http://stanford.edu/~ashngu/cgi-bin/
https://pudding.cool/2017/09/this-american-life/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KpGZzeBawsGsiYHhFgCkHFSImFlS2sdWFI4pnpUWdLQ/edit#gid=0",
2017.10.11,1,Wildfires.,"“Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is an interagency program whose goal is to consistently map the burn severity and extent of large fires across all lands of the United States”; the most recent release contains more than 20,000 fires from 1984 to 2015. You can explore the data online, or download it in bulk. For more recent data, see GeoMAC, which aims to map all current wildfires; NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System, which uses satellites to detect fire locations and smoke plumes; and NASA’s MODIS and VIIRS datasets, which provide satellite-based detections for the entire globe. Previously: National Fire Incident Reporting System, which also includes structure fires and vehicle fires (DIP 2016.07.20). [h/t Max Joseph]","https://www.mtbs.gov/project-overview
https://www.mtbs.gov/articles/announcement/data-release-may-1-2017
https://www.mtbs.gov/viewer/index.html
https://www.mtbs.gov/direct-download
https://www.geomac.gov/
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/firms/active-fire-data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-20-edition",https://github.com/mbjoseph/mtbs-data
2017.10.11,2,Political crowd estimates.,"The Crowd Counting Consortium, launched earlier this year, is a volunteer effort to “[collect] publicly available data on political crowds reported in the United States, including marches, protests, strikes, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.” The team publishes monthly spreadsheets that list each crowd’s date, location, type, and cause (e.g., “Oppose removal of confederate statue”); high and low size estimates; the number of reported arrests and injuries; links to sources; and additional details. Related: The project’s main coordinators have been summarizing their findings on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. [h/t Amanda L. James]","https://sites.google.com/view/crowdcountingconsortium/about
https://sites.google.com/view/crowdcountingconsortium/view-download-the-data?authuser=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/09/25/charlottesville-and-its-aftermath-brought-out-many-protesters-in-august-but-still-more-were-against-trump-and-his-policies/",http://www.amandalynnjames.com/
2017.10.11,3,Commercial vehicle safety.,"The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration helps to regulate the United States’ large trucks and passenger buses. The datasets available through its Safety Measurement System include a census of all regulated carriers, the results of safety inspections, and reported crashes. The crash files list the number of injuries and fatalities; the weather, light, and road conditions; the involved vehicle’s VIN and license plate number; and more. [h/t Dan Brady]","https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/
https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Tools/Downloads.aspx",http://danjbrady.com/
2017.10.11,4,San Francisco Bay water.,"The U.S. Geological Survey has been measuring water quality in the San Francisco Bay for nearly 50 years. The agency recently published 210,826 of these measurements, collected from dozens of monitoring stations between April 1969 and December 2015. (It’s “one of the longest records of water-quality measurements in a North American estuary,” according to a recent academic article describing the data.) Each row specifies the measurement’s date, station, depth, temperature, and salinity; many rows include levels of chlorophyll, oxygen, nitrate, ammonium, and other matter.","https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5841f97ee4b04fc80e518d9f
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201798",
2017.10.11,5,Humans in motion.,"Carnegie Mellon’s Motion Capture Database provides data files and videos representing humans performing various activities: shaking hands, drinking soda, exchanging “angry hand gestures,” doing cartwheels, mopping floors, laughing, chicken-dancing, and oh-so-much more. [h/t John Emerson]",http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/,https://backspace.com
2017.10.18,1,Puerto Rico’s recovery.,"Since shortly after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the territory’s government has been publishing a dashboard of recovery statistics. The website tracks a couple dozen metrics, including the percent of homes with electricity, number of people in shelters, and the number of open hospitals. For several of the main metrics, researcher Michael A. Johansson has been scraping daily figures from the dashboard and publishing them as a CSV file. Related: The Washington Post has been charting the recovery, and published a deep dive into the island’s ongoing power outages.","http://status.pr/
https://github.com/majohansson/maria-puerto-rico
https://github.com/majohansson/maria-puerto-rico/blob/master/data/StatusPR.csv
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/06/fema-buried-updates-on-puerto-rico-here-they-are/?utm_term=.85824229c3b4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/puerto-rico-hurricane-recovery/",
2017.10.18,2,Subnational conflicts.,"University of Michigan–based researchers have created “a repository of micro-level, subnational event data on armed conflict and political violence around the world.” The project, dubbed xSub, standardizes information from 21 data sources, and includes conflicts in 139 countries between 1942 and 2016. For each administrative boundary (e.g., country, province, district) and data source, xSub’s data counts the number of violent incidents by year, month, week, or day. The numbers are also broken down by the sides involved, who initiated the conflict, and what types of force were used. [h/t Andy Halterman]","http://cross-sub.org/about/our-team
http://cross-sub.org/
http://www.cross-sub.org/data",https://twitter.com/ahalterman/status/906563742879674368
2017.10.18,3,Patents and trademarks.,"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publishes a huge amount of bulk data, including detailed XML files that contain information about millions of patent/trademark applications, assignments, trials, and appeals. The agency also publishes a collection of “research datasets”, which distill those bulk XML files into easier-to-use tabular data. [h/t Rachael Tatman]","https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/
https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/ip-policy/economic-research/research-datasets",https://www.kaggle.com/rtatman/trademark-application
2017.10.18,4,"Sister, Sister.","In the wake of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, Sister Marie Augusta Neal conducted an enormous opinion survey of Catholic “women religious.” More than 130,000 sisters responded to the 649 multiple-choice-question survey — the results of which the University of Notre Dame recently cleaned up and made available online. [h/t Kevin Schlottmann]","https://news.nd.edu/news/digital-preservation-at-notre-dame-breathes-new-life-into-1967-sisters-survey/
https://curate.nd.edu/show/0r967368551",https://twitter.com/archivistkevin
2017.10.18,5,Get the idea?,"ConceptNet “is a freely-available semantic network, designed to help computers understand the meanings of words that people use.” It defines approximately 28 million “statements,” i.e., relationships between various things. For instance, ConceptNet indicates that a newsletter is a type of “report”, and that a computer can be used to “send email”. You can download the entire dataset, or access it via an API.","http://conceptnet.io/
https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5/wiki/FAQ
https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5/wiki/Relations
http://conceptnet.io/c/en/newsletter
http://conceptnet.io/c/en/computer
https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5/wiki/Downloads
https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5/wiki/API",
2017.11.01,1,Federal court cases.,"The U.S. Federal Judicial Center’s “Integrated Data Base” contains a longitudinal record of all federal criminal, civil, and appellate court cases going back to the 1970s, as well as bankruptcy cases going back to late 2007. Each dataset contains dozens of detailed fields — including each case’s jurisdiction, name, docket number, relevant legal statutes, and more — accompanied by explanatory codebooks. You can download single-year snapshots and cumulative files, or interactively select specific slices of data to export. Related: “How the Bankruptcy System Is Failing Black Americans,” an investigation by ProPublica that used the IDB’s data on bankruptcy cases for its analysis.","https://www.fjc.gov/research/idb
https://features.propublica.org/bankruptcy-inequality/bankruptcy-failing-black-americans-debt-chapter-13/
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/national-bankruptcy-chapter-7-13
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bankruptcy-data-analysis",
2017.11.01,2,High-profile sexual assault timelines.,"Rebecca Zisser and Lazaro Gamio at Axios have compiled a timeline of alleged sexual assaults by Harvey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, Donald Trump, and Bill Cosby. For each of the 140+ cases recorded as of Oct. 20, the timeline indicates the year of the assault, the year the victim came forward (if they did), and the year of any legal settlement (if there was one). The underlying data is available as a spreadsheet. [h/t Mike Allen]",https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CWJHTzvGtkQgyz5bdkolz1KeZLqq7sYqNA3zQaPlYo/view#gid=1175970372,https://www.axios.com/axios-am-2498785314.html
2017.11.01,3,Deepwater Horizon’s effects.,"For years, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has been working to assess the damage done to natural resources by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. As part of that effort, they’ve collected and compiled several dozen related datasets, including toxicity studies, plankton samples, necropsies of stranded turtles, dolphin health assessments, and a “backyard boater” survey. [h/t Sebastian Kraus]",https://www.diver.orr.noaa.gov/deepwater-horizon-nrda-data,https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/about/team/kraus-sebastian.html
2017.11.01,4,County-level cardiovascular deaths.,"Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to estimated cardiovascular mortality rates for each U.S. county, for every year between 1980 and 2014. The findings, based on 32 million de-identified death records, population data from the Census, and other sources, are also broken down by particular disease (e.g., aortic aneurysm, ischemic stroke, etc.) and gender. Related: The researchers’ JAMA article describing their methodology and findings. Previously: The Global Burden of Disease dataset, published by the same institute (DIP 2016.07.27). [h/t Michael A. Rice, a teacher at Ingraham High School in Seattle]","http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/united-states-cardiovascular-disease-mortality-rates-county-1980-2014
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2626571
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-27-edition",
2017.11.01,5,Chimp personalities.,"“Jane Goodall drew the attention of a global audience with vivid depictions of the personalities of eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Gombe National Park, yet only one attempt [in 1973] has been made to quantify these personality traits systematically,” writes a team of researchers in the latest issue of Scientific Data. To remedy the situation, the researchers paid field observers to score 128 Gombe chimpanzees on 24 personality traits — “dominant,” “excitable,” “helpful,” “sensitive,” and more — on a seven-point scale.","https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017146
https://osf.io/s7d9d/",
2017.11.08,1,Gun origins.,"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) helps trace guns — such as those recovered at crime scenes by law enforcement agencies — back to their original manufacturers, wholesale distributors, dealers, and purchasers. Each year, ATF publishes a range of datasets based on these gun traces. The datasets for 2016 provide state-by-state tallies of gun caliber, state of original purchase, possessors’ age, associated crime, and more. Related: “Gun Laws Stop At State Lines, But Guns Don’t,” from FiveThirtyEight, using the data. Also related: “How a Gun Trace Works,” from The Trace. Previously: Firearm background checks (DIP 2015.12.09), which my colleague Peter Aldhous analyzed last week, finding that gun sales did not spike after the Las Vegas shooting.","https://www.atf.gov/firearms/national-tracing-center
https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/data-statistics
https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/firearms-trace-data-2016
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-laws-stop-at-state-lines-but-guns-dont/
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/07/how-a-gun-trace-works-atf-ffl/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-09-edition
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/gun-sales-after-vegas-shooting",
2017.11.08,2,Silicon Valley diversity.,"Reporters at the Center for Investigative Reporting asked 200+ of the largest Silicon Valley tech companies for their official diversity data. Specifically, the reporters requested each company’s latest EEO-1, the detailed demographic report that every large U.S. employer must submit to the federal government. Only 23 companies shared their data. For those that did, their numbers are now available as a tidy spreadsheet. [h/t Sophie Chou]","https://www.revealnews.org/article/hidden-figures-how-silicon-valley-keeps-diversity-data-secret/
https://www.revealnews.org/article/how-we-analyzed-silicon-valley-tech-companies-diversity-data/
https://apps.revealnews.org/silicon-valley-diversity-list/
https://github.com/cirlabs/Silicon-Valley-Diversity-Data",http://sophiechou.com/
2017.11.08,3,Rent-to-own prices.,"As part of NerdWallet’s recent investigation into Rent-A-Center, “the nation’s largest rent-to-own company,” reporters compiled pricing data for 39 consumer products on rentacenter.com. For each product, the dataset lists the various Rent-A-Center costs (e.g., installment fees for weekly/monthly payment plans, cash prices, et cetera) in each of 48 states and D.C. — plus prices for the same product at standard online retailers. Related: NerdWallet’s analysis of the data.","https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/rentacenter/
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/rent-a-center-methodology/
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/rent-a-center-prices/",
2017.11.08,4,Indian movie theaters.,"Over at BuzzFeed India, Harsha Devulapalli and Janak Jain have crowned Hyderabad the best city in India for going to the movies, based on their analysis of nearly 600 theaters in eight major cities. The underlying dataset lists each theater’s location, name, average ticket price (where available), number of screens, and number of seats.","https://www.buzzfeed.com/harshadevulapalli/whats-the-best-city-in-india-to-watch-a-movie
https://github.com/HarshaDevulapalli/indian-movie-theatres",
2017.11.08,5,The friends of Friends.,"A few years ago, economist Alex Albright and a friend transcribed the plotline-sharing dynamics of Friends’ six friends, across all 236 episodes. In the very first episode (“The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate”), Monica and Rachel each have their own plotline; Rachel and Ross share a plotline; and Chandler, Joey, and Ross share another plotline. Related: Albright’s analysis of the data.","https://github.com/apalbright/Friends
https://thelittledataset.com/2015/01/20/the-one-with-all-the-quantifiable-friendships/",
2017.11.29,1,Protests and political violence in Africa and Asia.,"The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), records the locations, dates, actors, and outcomes of “all reported political violence and protest events in over 60 developing countries in Africa and Asia.” The Africa datasets currently go back to 1997 and cover more than 50 countries. The Asia datasets currently only go back to 2015, but ACLED’s website says it’s planning to add data soon going back to 2010. Both of the datasets are extensively documented, as is the methodology . [h/t Lari McEdward]","https://www.acleddata.com/about-acled/
https://www.acleddata.com/data/
https://www.acleddata.com/asia-data/
https://www.acleddata.com/methodology/",https://twitter.com/LariMcEdward
2017.11.29,2,Stolen guns.,"Missing Pieces is “a yearlong investigation by The Trace and more than a dozen NBC TV stations [that has] identified more than 23,000 stolen firearms recovered by police between 2010 and 2016 — the vast majority connected with crimes.” To support the investigation, the reporters obtained more than 800,000 records of stolen and recovered guns, which they’ve standardized into a single CSV file and supplemented with a data dictionary. The dataset “contains nearly complete stolen-gun records for the states of California and Florida, both of which have centralized collections of gun-theft data,” as well as records from nearly 300 other agencies across the country. Previously: The ATF’s gun trace statistics (DIP 2017.11.08) and firearm background checks (DIP 2015.12.09). [h/t Sarah Ryley]","https://www.thetrace.org/features/stolen-guns-violent-crime-america/
https://www.thetrace.org/missing-pieces-data/
https://storage.googleapis.com/missing-pieces/missing_pieces_data_dict_11-20-2017.pdf
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-11-08-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-09-edition",https://twitter.com/MissRyley/status/932677322834153472
2017.11.29,3,(Some) White House visitor logs.,"ProPublica has published a searchable and downloadable dataset of visitor logs and meeting calendars from five White House agencies: the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Council on Environmental Quality. ProPublica received the underlying documents from Property of the People, a transparency group that sued the Trump administration to release the records under the Freedom of Information Act. (The administration has not released the White House’s main visitor logs.) Related: Politico has manually compiled a searchable database it calls “The Unauthorized White House Visitor Logs”, based on thousands of known visits, meetings, phone calls, and other presidential interactions. Also related: The Obama administration’s White House visitor logs.","https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/trump-administration-white-house-complex-visitor-records
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex#methodology
https://twitter.com/PropOTP
https://www.politico.com/interactives/databases/trump-white-house-visitor-logs-and-records/index.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/goodgovernment/tools/visitor-records",
2017.11.29,4,California elections and campaign finance.,"Since 2014, the California Civic Data Coalition has been working to improve access to CAL-ACCESS, “the jumbled, dirty and difficult government database that tracks campaign finance and lobbying activity in California politics.” Their cleaned-up datasets are updated often and include formats suitable for beginners, “database junkies,” and masochists. Last month, the organization released data files cataloging every state ballot measure and candidate for public office since 2000. [h/t Zack Quaintance]","https://www.californiacivicdata.org/about/
http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/
https://calaccess.californiacivicdata.org/downloads/latest/
https://www.californiacivicdata.org/2017/10/31/processed-files/",http://www.govtech.com/civic/Whats-New-in-Civic-Tech-New-York-City-Announces-Crowdfunding-Program-for-Women-Entrepreneurs.html
2017.11.29,5,Folktales.,"The Aarne-Thompson-Uther Classification of Folk Tales organizes (mostly Indo-European) folktales into groups and hierarchies. As Atlas Obscura’s Cara Giaimo puts it, the ATU is “like the Dewey Decimal System, but with more ogres.” The ATU doesn’t publish any downloadable versions of its data, but researchers studying the “ancient roots” of such stories have built a data-matrix that denotes the presence/absence of the 275 ATU “tales of magic” across 50 Indo-European-speaking populations. [h/t Andrew McCartney]","http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=browse&act=select&fld=langname
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aarne-thompson-uther-tale-type-index-fables-fairy-tales
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150645
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150645.figures-only
http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu&act=range&id=300-749",http://people.virginia.edu/~acm9q/
2017.12.06,1,Two decades of workplace sexual harassment complaints.,"My colleague Lam Thuy Vo obtained an anonymized dataset listing all 170,000+ sexual harassment claims submitted to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between October 1995 and September 2016. For each claim, the dataset indicates the date the complaint was filed, the complainant’s gender, and the general category of employer. Additional fields — available for most claims, but not all — indicate the complainant’s birthdate, race, and national origin, as well as the employer’s industry and approximate number of workers. Related: Lam’s story and interactive graphics, which place the data in context.","https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2017-12-eeoc-harassment-charges/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lamvo/eeoc-sexual-harassment-data",
2017.12.06,2,Financial consumer complaints.,"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s consumer complaint database can be searched online, accessed via an API, and downloaded in bulk. The 915,000+ complaints the Bureau has received have been categorized into 18 financial product groups (e.g., mortgages, debt collection, student loans, cryptocurrency) and more than 160 kinds of issues (e.g., billing disputes, communication tactics, privacy). The agency says they “don’t verify all the facts alleged in these complaints,” but that they “take steps to confirm a commercial relationship between the consumer and the company.” [h/t Dan Brady]","https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/?from=0&searchField=all&searchText=&size=25&sort=created_date_desc
https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.consumerfinance.gov/jhzv-w97w
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/#download-the-data
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/",http://www.danjbrady.com/
2017.12.06,3,The StudentLife Study.,"Back in 2013, four dozen Dartmouth College students agreed to let a custom smartphone app surveil them for the StudentLife Study. During the 10 weeks of the spring academic term, the app collected data on the students’ physical activity, GPS coordinates, eating schedule, sleep habits, phone usage, and more. The study combined all that information with a slew of other data, including the students’ class deadlines, academic performance, and their responses to surveys about stress, depression, personality, and sleep quality. The study’s public (and anonymized) dataset clocks in at 53 gigabytes. Related: “Towards Deep Learning Models for Psychological State Prediction using Smartphone Data: Challenges and Opportunities,” a recently-released academic paper that uses the StudentLife dataset. [h/t Konrad Kording]","http://studentlife.cs.dartmouth.edu/
http://studentlife.cs.dartmouth.edu/dataset.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06350",https://twitter.com/KordingLab/status/936620930222247936
2017.12.06,4,"5,000+ Brazilian news outlets.","Atlas da Notícia is a Brazilian project that aims to collect data on all local and regional news outlets in the country. Last month, the project released its first batch of data, which identified 5,354 newspapers and online publications in a total of 1,125 municipalities. The raw dataset is currently only available in Portuguese, but the aggregate tables have been translated into English. [h/t Sérgio Spagnuolo]","https://www.atlas.jor.br/en.html
https://github.com/voltdatalab/Atlas-Analytics
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SudAc6RAQuYu4bWj_gJnuGrRmJXTP_TYMdx7huHkrbA/edit#gid=0",https://twitter.com/sergiospagnuolo
2017.12.06,5,One family’s spending.,"An anonymous married couple has decided “to be completely open about [their] finances so that people can see what an actual family’s budget looks like.” In addition to blogging about their financial habits, they’ve also published a spreadsheet of “(almost) every dollar” they spent between December 2015 and November 2017. For each transaction, the dataset provides the date, dollar amount, category (e.g., “Groceries”), and meta-category (e.g., “Food”).","https://ourfamilyandfinances.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html
https://ourfamilyandfinances.blogspot.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/7ei2ma/2_years_of_my_spending_history/",
2017.12.13,1,Government-sponsored cyberattacks.,"Last month, the Council on Foreign Relations launched the Cyber Operations Tracker, a database of “publicly known state-sponsored cyber incidents that have occurred since 2005.” The 191 attacks in the database so far have been sponsored by 16 different countries, with China, Russia, and Iran being the most cited. For each incident, the dataset also includes the type of attack (e.g. espionage, data destruction), its name (e.g., “Stuxnet”), a description, the date it occurred, its victims, and the type of response, if any.","https://www.cfr.org/blog/tracking-state-sponsored-cyber-operations
https://www.cfr.org/interactive/cyber-operations",
2017.12.13,2,Fatal and nonfatal officer-involved shootings.,"For an investigation published Monday, Vice News spent “nine months collecting data on both fatal and nonfatal police shootings from the 50 largest local police departments in the United States.” They’ve published raw and standardized data on every shooting, plus the code they used to analyze it. [h/t Allison McCann]","https://news.vice.com/story/shot-by-cops
https://news.vice.com/story/nonfatal-police-shootings-data
https://github.com/vicenews/shot-by-cops/",https://twitter.com/atmccann/status/940239584616697856
2017.12.13,3,Sports team ratings.,"For several years now, the folks at FiveThirtyEight have been quantifying professional sports teams’ current and historical strength, mostly using Elo rating systems. Their global club soccer ratings go back to 2016, their basketball ratings go back to 1946, their American football ratings go back to 1920, and their baseball ratings go back to 1871. For each of those, the entire histories of match-by-match ratings are available as CSV files. [h/t Jay Boice]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/soccer-spi
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nba-carmelo
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nfl-elo
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/mlb-elo",https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/issues/91#issuecomment-349672900
2017.12.13,4,State lawmakers’ financial disclosures.,"For a recent investigation into state legislators’ financial interests, the Center for Public Integrity “analyzed disclosure reports from 6,933 lawmakers holding office in 2015 from the 47 states that required them.” You can search through the disclosures and download the data. For each of the 11,000+ disclosed interests, the dataset includes the lawmaker’s state, legislative body, and district; the name and industry of the financial interest; and a link to the lawmaker’s personal disclosure form. [h/t The Nerds at INN Labs]","https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/12/06/21297/conflicted-interests-state-lawmakers-often-blur-line-between-publics-business-and
https://apps.publicintegrity.org/disclosure/
https://github.com/PublicI/state-lawmakers-disclosures",http://mailchi.mp/inn/rudolph-the-red-nosed-robot
2017.12.13,5,Secure seeds.,"In far northern Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault safekeeps hundreds of millions of seeds, helping to back up the world’s biodiversity. Data on the vault’s deposits, which often contain hundreds of seeds apiece, are available to search and to download. [h/t Enigma Public]","http://www.seedvault.no/
http://www.economist.com/node/21549931
https://www.nordgen.org/sgsv/index.php",https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=04aa10cf99e0998bd8e69a109&id=e28bb68e14
2017.12.27,1,Historical credit ratings.,"The SEC requires Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and other “nationally recognized statistical rating organizations” to report their rating assignments and changes (e.g., upgrades, downgrades, withdrawals) going back to 2010. The agencies publish the reports as XBRL-formatted files, and update them monthly. But “because most researchers are unfamiliar with XBRL and cannot easily locate the history files, this valuable resource has seen limited use,” according to the Center for Municipal Finance’s RatingsHistory.info, which now provides the reports as easier-to-use CSVs. [h/t data.world]","https://www.sec.gov/structureddata/rocr-publication-guide.html
http://www.municipalfinance.org/
http://ratingshistory.info/",https://data.world/muni-finance/credit-ratings-history-data
2017.12.27,2,Marine traffic.,"Ships use the internationally-standardized automatic identification systems (AIS) to broadcast their name, speed, direction, and other details. With a bit of radio hardware and software, anyone can collect the signals emitted by nearby vessels. AISHub aggregates AIS data from hundreds of volunteer signal-collectors around the world, and makes that data available via an API and online maps. The Finnish Transport Agency also provides an API of data collected by its AIS stations on the Baltic Sea and other local waters; Denmark’s government publishes free historical data of maritime traffic on Danish waters; and the Coast Guard publishes historical AIS data for U.S. coastal waters (currently only for 2009–2014). [h/t Topi Tjukanov + Miska Knapek]","https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=AISmain
http://www.aishub.net/
http://www.aishub.net/stations
http://www.aishub.net/api
https://meri.digitraffic.fi/api/v1/metadata/documentation/swagger-ui.html
https://www.dma.dk/SikkerhedTilSoes/Sejladsinformation/AIS/Sider/default.aspx
https://marinecadastre.gov/ais/","https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/932698453347635202
https://twitter.com/miskaknapek/status/939154263430836225"
2017.12.27,3,A better mammography database.,"The Digital Database for Screening Mammography was first released two decades ago, in 1997. It contains data and images from 2,620 mammographies — a mix of normal, benign, and malignant cases. In a Scientific Data article published last week, a team of Stanford University researchers describe a series of improvements they’ve made to the original database; their Curated Breast Imaging Subset of DDSM has modernized the database’s image formatting, added detailed “region-of-interest” annotations, and converted the metadata into CSV files.","http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/Mammography/Database.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017177
https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/CBIS-DDSM#9a3e6931566743438ac1bb86921a522d",
2017.12.27,4,Drug-free school zones in Tennessee.,"As part of a recent investigation, reporters at Reason Magazine used public records law to obtain geospatial data on each of Tennessee's 8,544 drug-free zones. In addition the geographic boundaries, the shapefile also includes each zone’s name and type (school, childcare, park, or library). [h/t CJ Ciaramella]","http://reason.com/archives/2017/12/18/the-myth-of-the-playground-pus
https://github.com/cjciaramella/tn-drug-free-school-zones",https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/942779337950015490
2017.12.27,5,Italian for watermelon.,"Through a series of surveys, L'Atlante della Lingua Italiana QUOTidiana has been asking Italian speakers what words they use to describe various everyday things. The results for each question can be browsed as maps, or downloaded as XML files. When shown a picture of a watermelon, most respondents wrote “anguria,” but others responded with “cocomero,” “melone,” “citrone,” or “zipangulu.” [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.atlante-aliquot.de/index.php
https://www.atlante-aliquot.de/primo_turno.php
https://www.atlante-aliquot.de/primo_turno_anguria.php",http://mailchi.mp/586b767e6d30/preview-222-in-other-news-3576601?e=6c87ff0227
2018.01.03,1,Taxes filed.,"The IRS publishes a ton of tax statistics. One of the most interesting portions: data aggregated from individual income tax returns (i.e., Form 1040s), which the IRS provides at the state, county, and ZIP code level. Those datasets’ 100+ fields include details that range from the basic (e.g., the number of tax filings and total income reported) to the more obscure (e.g., the number of returns that included “educator expenses” and the total amount of overpayments refunded). [h/t Cecilia Reyes]","https://www.irs.gov/statistics
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-return-form-1040-statistics
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-historic-table-2
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-county-data
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-statistics-zip-code-data-soi",https://twitter.com/kcecireyes
2018.01.03,2,Distance learning.,"The Open University Learning Analytics dataset features demographic information about 28,000+ students who, in 2013 and 2014, enrolled in any of seven particular distance learning courses at the UK’s Open University; their final results (distinction, pass, fail, or withdrawn); 173,000+ graded assignments; and 10+ million rows describing each student’s interactions with the courses’ “virtual learning environments.” Useful: The researchers’ academic article describing the dataset.","https://analyse.kmi.open.ac.uk/open_dataset
http://www.open.ac.uk/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017171",
2018.01.03,3,Animals on the move.,"Movebank is a “a free, online database of animal tracking data hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.” On the site’s data map, you can display the animal tracks from particular studies — for instance, the migrations of more than a dozen turkey vultures. Contributing researchers can decide whether to share the underlying data; not all do. (Here’s the data for those vultures, plus six buffalo in Kruger National Park, and seven Venezuelan oilbirds.) [h/t Hari Karthic]","https://www.movebank.org/
https://www.movebank.org/panel_embedded_movebank_webapp
https://www.movebank.org/panel_embedded_movebank_webapp?gwt_fragment=page%253Dsearch_map_linked%252CindividualIds%253D17002752*%252B17002744*%252B17002737*%252B17002751*%252B17002732*%252B17002753*%252B17002743*%252B17002742*%252B17002748*%252B17002749*%252B17002739*%252B17002738*%252B17002740*%252B17002741*%252B17002745*%252B17002746*%252B17002747*%252B17002754*%252B17002750*%252Clat%253D10.423457393079747%252Clon%253D-86.25215000000173%252Cz%253D3
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.363
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.609
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.269",https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/d601d012e401d229ed226a805f289a1a7aa97b96
2018.01.03,4,Building permits.,"The Census Bureau’s Building Permits Survey collects data from thousands of municipalities every month. For each municipality, metro area, and state, the datasets provide the number of permits issued for new residential housing, number housing units authorized, and total estimated value of the new construction. Previously: The Census Bureau’s Annual Characteristics of New Housing survey (DIP 2016.06.22). [h/t Susie Cambria + Issi Romem]","https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/definitions/
https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/how_the_data_are_collected/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-22-edition","https://twitter.com/susiecambria
https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/paying-for-dirt-where-have-home-values-detached-from-construction-costs"
2018.01.03,5,Knotted string.,"“The Khipu Database Project began in the fall of 2002, with the goal of collecting all known information about khipu” — the knotted string textiles used for recordkeeping in the Inca Empire — “into one centralized repository.” The project’s datasets include detailed structural data about hundreds of khipu, as well as an inventory of all known specimens. Related: The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots.","http://khipukamayuq.fas.harvard.edu/ProjectDescription.html
http://khipukamayuq.fas.harvard.edu/DataTables.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/khipus-inca-empire-harvard-university-colonialism",
2018.01.10,1,Offshore drilling.,"The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement — two of the agencies that replaced the troubled U.S. Minerals Management Service in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill — publish a few dozen bulk datasets related to their oversight of offshore drilling operations. Among them: lease owners, production metrics, company details, pipeline permits and locations, incident investigations, and platform structures. Related: “American Idle: Decommissioning costs sink offshore drillers into latest crisis,” a 2017 Debtwire investigation that used the platform data. [h/t Alex Plough]","https://www.boem.gov/
https://www.bsee.gov/
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Main/RawData.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Leasing/LeaseOwner/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Production/ProductionData/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Company/CompanyDetail/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Pipeline/PipelinePermits/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Pipeline/PipelineLocation/Default.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Other/DataTables/IncidentInvestigations.aspx
https://www.data.bsee.gov/Platform/PlatformStructures/Default.aspx
http://investigations.debtwire.com/american-idle-decommissioning-costs-sink-offshore-drillers-into-latest-crisis/",https://twitter.com/newshack
2018.01.10,2,Local health metrics.,"The CDC’s 500 Cities Project provides “city and census tract-level data, obtained using small area estimation methods, for 27 chronic disease measures for the 500 largest American cities.” The metrics range from cancer prevalence to binge drinking to dental health to undersleeping. The latest data release was published in December and covers more than 28,000 Census tracts. [h/t Kate Rabinowitz]","https://www.cdc.gov/500cities/index.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/500cities/about.htm
https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/500-Cities/500-Cities-Local-Data-for-Better-Health-2017-relea/6vp6-wxuq",https://www.datalensdc.com/healthWealthGap.html
2018.01.10,3,130+ years of prosecutor politicians.,"With the help of research assistants, legal historian Jed Shugerman has compiled a “tentative database” of prosecutor politicians — presidents, Supreme Court justices, circuit court justices, governors, state attorneys general, and senators who served as prosecutors earlier in their careers. Shugerman’s spreadsheet goes back to 1880 and lists the dates served in office, political party, other offices held, and “relevant prosecutorial background” for each politician. [h/t Geoff Hing]","https://www.fordham.edu/info/23180/jed_shugerman
https://shugerblog.com/2017/07/07/the-rise-of-the-prosecutor-politicians-database-of-prosecutorial-experience-for-justices-circuit-judges-governors-ags-and-senators-1880-2017/",https://twitter.com/geoffhing
2018.01.10,4,Snow depth.,"The National Water and Climate Center maintains a series of interactive snow maps. Their snow depth map is based on data from nearly one thousand monitoring stations around the country — mostly in western states, but also a handful in the Southwest, Northeast, and Midwest. To download data from a map, click on “Selected Stations” in the top-left corner, and then click “Export Data as CSV.” [h/t Charlie Loyd's collection of ""near-realtime Earth observation resources"" + Noah Veltman]","https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/
https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/snow_map.html
https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/webmap/#version=80.1&elements=W,R&networks=!&states=!&counties=!&hucs=&minElevation=&maxElevation=&elementSelectType=all&activeOnly=true&activeForecastPointsOnly=false&hucLabels=false&hucParameterLabels=false&stationLabels=&overlays=&hucOverlays=&mode=data&openSections=dataElement,parameter,date,basin,elements,location,networks&controlsOpen=true&popup=&popupMulti=&base=esriNgwm&displayType=station&basinType=6&dataElement=SNWD&parameter=OBS&frequency=DAILY&duration=I&customDuration=&dayPart=E&year=2018&month=1&day=7&monthPart=E&forecastPubMonth=1&forecastPubDay=1&forecastExceedance=50&seqColor=1&divColor=3&scaleType=D&scaleMin=&scaleMax=&referencePeriodType=POR&referenceBegin=1981&referenceEnd=2010&minimumYears=20&hucAssociations=true&lat=51.51&lon=-100.11&zoom=4.0","https://planet.parts/
https://noahveltman.com/"
2018.01.10,5,San Diego burritos.,"Scott Cole is a neuroscience PhD student at UC San Diego who, in his spare time, is leading a project to rate the region’s burritos on a 10-dimensional scale.","https://srcole.github.io/about/
https://srcole.github.io/100burritos/",
2018.01.17,1,"Three million NYC marriage licenses, reclaimed.","Reclaim The Records launched in 2015 and became a 501(c)(3) non-profit last year. Its mission: To “identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be in the public domain but which are being wrongly restricted by government archives, libraries, and agencies.” The organization files freedom-of-information requests and lawsuits to get the data, and “then we digitize everything we win and put it all online for free, without any paywalls or usage restrictions, so that it can never be locked up again.” Most of the records they’ve received so far have arrived as PDFs or microfilm. But a 2016 court settlement with the NYC City Clerk’s Office netted the group — and the public — a dataset of 3 million NYC marriage licenses from 1950 to 1995.","https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/
https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/2/
https://www.nycmarriageindex.com/",
2018.01.17,2,Three decades of immigration policies.,"The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) project has quantified the immigration regulations of 33 OECD countries between 1980 and 2010. The project, led by political sociologist Marc Helbling, dives deeply into the regulations related to four policy areas: labor migration, family reunification, asylum/refugees, and “co-ethnics.” You can find the dataset’s detailed codebook and methodology in this PDF. Related: Helbling's summary of the project’s goals, approach, and initial findings (Migration Data Portal). [h/t David Brady]","http://www.impic-project.eu/
http://www.impic-project.eu/data/
http://www.impic-project.eu/people/
https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2016/vi16-201.pdf
http://migrationdataportal.org/blog/impic-new-and-more-comprehensive-way-measure-immigration-policies",https://twitter.com/DaveBrady72/status/943872675943821312
2018.01.17,3,London air pollution.,"The London Air Quality Network, run by researchers at King's College London, gathers data on levels of nitrogen dioxide, ozone, fine particulate matter, and other pollutants from more than 100 monitoring sites. You can download the data as CSV files (for up to six metric and site combinations at a time) or fetch JSON and XML data from the site’s API. Related: “London air pollution live data – where will be first to break legal limits in 2018?” (The Guardian). Previously: Air quality data from the EPA (DIP 2017.10.04), OpenAQ (DIP 2017.03.29), Berkeley Earth (DIP 2017.03.22), and the World Health Organization (DIP 2016.06.15). [h/t Gavin Freeguard]","https://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/Default.aspx
https://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/datadownload.asp
https://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/API/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2018/jan/01/london-air-pollution-live-data-where-will-be-first-to-break-legal-limits-in-2018
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-10-04-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-29-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-03-22-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-15-edition",https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=9fac8728699163e1b6adbdbeb&id=e96c45d25e
2018.01.17,4,Psychometric tests.,"The Open Source Psychometrics Project “provides a collection of interactive personality tests with detailed results that can be taken for personal entertainment or to learn more about personality assessment.” You can download results from more than 30 such tests, including the Big Five Personality Test, the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills, and Bob Altemeyer's Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale. Related: “Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. I Found One That Isn’t” (FiveThirtyEight). [h/t Chris Zioutas]","https://openpsychometrics.org/
https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-personality-quizzes-are-junk-science-i-found-one-that-isnt/",https://www.datacircle.io/metric/raw-data-from-online-personality-tests/54a06c7e-0171-4e0c-42f7-08d5495b5656/
2018.01.17,5,The Ghibliverse.,"The unofficial Studio Ghibli API contains structured information about the famed Japanese animation studio’s films (e.g., Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away), plus the characters, locations, and vehicles featured in them. You can also download a single file containing all the data.","https://ghibliapi.herokuapp.com/
https://github.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/blob/master/data.json",
2018.01.24,1,Global trade dynamics.,"The Atlas of Economic Complexity has collected decades of import/export data from the United Nations Comtrade database, and then applied “a unique method to clean the data to account for inconsistent reporting practices.” You can download the raw data, learn more about the cleaning process in the FAQ, explore current and historical trade flows, and browse the Atlas’s rankings of countries by “economic complexity.” Related: The researchers have also created regionally-detailed economic atlases of Mexico and Columbia. [h/t Annie White]","http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/
https://comtrade.un.org/
https://intl-atlas-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/learn/faq
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/rankings/
http://complejidad.datos.gob.mx/
http://datlascolombia.com/",https://twitter.com/anniewhite
2018.01.24,2,Financial well-being.,"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s National Financial Well-Being Survey collected more than 6,000 responses to the agency’s 10-question Financial Well-Being Scale, plus additional demographic and financial information. The survey results, which were collected in late 2016, come with a detailed methodology and data dictionary. Plus: You can take the questionnaire yourself, anonymously. [h/t Amy Cesal]","https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/financial-well-being-survey-data/
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/financial-well-being/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_nfwbs-puf-user-guide.pdf
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/financial-well-being/",https://twitter.com/amycesal
2018.01.24,3,How long does it take to get to the nearest city?,"A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Malaria Atlas Project have estimated the time it would take (as of 2015) to get from any square kilometer in the world to the nearest city of 50,000+ people. The analysis, which improves upon a similar effort from 15 years earlier, benefits from “the first-ever, global-scale synthesis of two leading roads datasets – Open Street Map (OSM) data and distance-to-roads data derived from the Google roads database.” You can download the data as a GeoTIFF, or explore the map online. [h/t Data & Eggs]","https://map.ox.ac.uk/research-project/accessibility_to_cities/
http://forobs.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/gam/index.php
https://roadlessforest.eu/map.html",http://thedataface.com/data-and-eggs/volume-36
2018.01.24,4,Duke’s Greeks.,"Using a range of public sources, The Duke Chronicle collected data on all 1,739 students listed in the Class of 2018’s “Freshman Picture Book” — including their hometowns, details about their high schools, whether they won a merit scholarship, and whether they play on a sports team — in order to analyze “trends between those who do and don't join Greek life at Duke.” Related: “Is Greek life at Duke as homogenous as you think?,” the first story in the Chronicle’s multipart series based on the data. [h/t Gautam Hathi]","http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/01/editors-note-regarding-recent-article-on-greek-life
https://github.com/Chrissymbeck/Greek-Life-Demographics
http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/01/is-greek-life-at-duke-as-homogenous-as-you-think",https://twitter.com/gautamhathi/status/954853781589581826
2018.01.24,5,Ramen ratings.,"Hans Lienesch calls himself The Ramen Rater, and (as his website’s banner declares) he’s been “Celebrating the Instant Noodle for 15 Years.” Over that time, he’s amassed a spreadsheet of more than 2,600 ratings. [h/t dreyco]","https://www.theramenrater.com/about-2-2/about-2/
https://www.theramenrater.com/resources-2/the-list/",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/7phv58/2682_instant_noodle_ratings/
2018.02.07,1,Hollywood’s romantic age gaps.,"Lynn Fisher’s Hollywood Age Gap collects data on silver screen love interests — more than 880 so far, from more than 630 movies — and then calculates the difference in those actors’ ages. The largest gap so far is the 52-year age difference in Harold and Maude. The movie with the most pairings is Love Actually, with seven. You can download the data as JSON and CSV files from the project’s GitHub page. [h/t Julia Smith]","https://lynnandtonic.com/
https://hollywoodagegap.com/
https://github.com/lynnandtonic/hollywood-age-gap",https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=81670c9d1b5fbeba1c29f2865&id=3a8cef6b3c
2018.02.07,2,Terrorism incidents.,"The Global Terrorism Database, run by a University of Maryland–based consortium, is an “open-source database” of more than 170,000 terrorist events. The database, which currently covers 1970 through 2016, is well-documented and includes information about about the attackers, locations, weapons, victims, and more. Note: To download the data, you first need to accept an end-user license agreement. Previously: Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States, from the same consortium (DIP 2017.05.24). [h/t Brian C. Keegan]","http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/using-gtd/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-24-edition",http://www.brianckeegan.com/about/
2018.02.07,3,Invasive species.,"The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species combines data and observations from thousands of sources to create a standardized database of such species in more than 200 countries. can be explored by kingdom (plants, animals, fungi, etc.), ecosystem, and country. Each slice of data can be downloaded as a CSV. Related: In a Scientific Data paper published last month, the researchers behind the effort described their methodology in detail.","http://www.griis.org/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017202",
2018.02.07,4,Federal Reserve forecasts.,"Before each meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve’s research staff prepares a set of economic projections known as the Greenbook. Those forecasts are kept secret for five years, and then released to the public. The Philadelphia Fed’s archive of public Greenbook data dates back to 1966, and contains both PDFs and structured data files.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbook
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/real-time-center/greenbook-data/",
2018.02.07,5,Donkey Kong.,"KongTrackr hosts detailed stats about specific games played on the beloved arcade fixture, with a focus on record-setting scores. The website’s database, which can be downloaded as a single JSON file, currently includes 1,715 games by 450 players. Related: KongTrackr played a role in some recent high-score commotion. Also related: KongTrackr says its site is “heavily influenced” by this database of StarCraft 2 results.","http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com
http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/exportDatabase
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/donkey-kong-scoreboard-strips-billy-mitchells-high-score-claims/
http://aligulac.com/",
2018.02.14,1,"Nepal, post-earthquake.","In April 2015, the Ghorkha Earthquake killed more than 8,000 people in Nepal, and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. In early 2016, a team led by the not-for-profit Kathmandu Living Labs, in collaboration with Nepal’s government, undertook “a massive household survey using mobile technology to assess building damage in the earthquake-affected districts.” The responses to that survey are now available at the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Open Data Portal; you can explore the data online or download it in bulk. In all, the datasets include details on millions of individuals, plus information about each surveyed household and building. [h/t Reddit user “phishfart”]","http://www.kathmandulivinglabs.org/
http://admin.myrepublica.com/the-week/story/43132/banking-on-data.html
https://opendata.klldev.org/#/about
https://opendata.klldev.org/#/explore
https://opendata.klldev.org/#/download",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/7v4qrt/2015_nepal_earthquake_open_data_portal/
2018.02.14,2,"Historical congressional results, historical boundaries.","Through the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (DIP 2016.09.28) and other sources, you can get historical election results for the U.S. Congress. And through the work of Jeffrey B. Lewis et al., you can get data describing the historical boundaries of each congressional district. In a Scientific Data article published last year, quantitative geographer Levi John Wolf presented a dataset that brings the two types of information together, so that all congressional election results from 1896 to 2014 are “explicitly linked to the geospatial data about the districts themselves.”","http://www.electiondataarchive.org/index.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-28-edition
http://cdmaps.polisci.ucla.edu/
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017108
http://ljwolf.org/about
https://osf.io/mjvkb/",
2018.02.14,3,Human speech.,"Common Voice is a Mozilla-led project that aims “to make voice recognition technology easily accessible to everyone.” To that end, the project asks visitors to record themselves speaking specific sentences, and to validate the recordings of other users. The whole dataset is available to download and currently clocks in at 12 gigabytes, compressed. (Bonus: That download page also links to other freely available voice datasets.) Related: The project’s FAQ.","https://voice.mozilla.org/
https://voice.mozilla.org/data
https://voice.mozilla.org/faq",
2018.02.14,4,UK fire stats.,"The United Kingdom’s Home Office publishes dozens of fire-safety related datasets, including aggregate statistics on response times, smoke alarms, and fire department staffing; incident-level data on appliance fires, vehicle fires, and fatalities; and much more. Of the 100,000+ domestic appliance fires reported over a six-year span, 52% were believed to have been caused by a “cooker incl. oven,” 11% by a “grill/toaster,” 2% by dishwashers, and just over 1% by deep-fat fryers. Semi-related: Jamie Oliver’s Bad Cheese Idea Is Still Starting Toaster Fires. [h/t Owen Boswarva‏]","https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables
http://nymag.com/selectall/2015/11/jamie-olivers-bad-idea-is-still-starting-fires.html",https://twitter.com/owenboswarva/status/961884995957731328
2018.02.14,5,Imported bats.,"Via a Freedom of Information Act request to the Fish and Wildlife Service, Newsweek reporter Kristin Hugo obtained a spreadsheet listing all imports of bats — vampire, fruit, yellow-shouldered, leaf-nosed, and more — to the United States between January 2016 and October 2017.","http://www.strangebio.com/post/170249749601/conservationists-to-americans-please-stop-buying
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gtfdz6cqoenEsuauOPDy8mKJFernuy2CFde89ukPNtE/edit",
2018.02.21,1,Rohingya refugees.,"The Humanitarian Data Exchange has collated dozens of datasets related to the Rohingya refugee crisis. Among them: the geographic boundaries of Rohingya refugee settlements in Bangladesh, the numbers of refugees living in those settlements, and the infrastructure available there.","https://data.humdata.org/event/rohingya-displacement
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/outline-of-camps-sites-of-rohingya-refugees-in-cox-s-bazar-bangladesh
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/site-location-of-rohingya-refugees-in-cox-s-bazar
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cox-s-bazar-refugee-settlement-infrastructure",
2018.02.21,2,U.S. Treasury sanctions.,"Through its Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Treasury publishes several datasets that describe the people and companies subject to U.S. economic sanctions. The two main listings are the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (“SDN”) and the Consolidated Sanctions List. Those contain only currently-sanctioned entities, but the Treasury also publishes (semi-structured) documents describing historical additions and removals. Related: Enigma Public’s Sanctions Tracker. [h/t Jennifer Roscoe]","https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/Other-OFAC-Sanctions-Lists.aspx
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/consolidated.aspx
https://labs.enigma.com/sanctions-tracker/",https://twitter.com/jenniferroscoe
2018.02.21,3,Happy moments.,"HappyDB is “a corpus of 100,000 crowd-sourced happy moments.” An example: “My son gave me a big hug in the morning when I woke him up.” The researchers, who recently described their efforts in an academic paper, collected the sentiments from Mechanical Turk workers, who also supplied basic demographic information, such as age, gender, and whether they have children. [h/t Marcel Weiher]","https://rit-public.github.io/HappyDB/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07746",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16381964
2018.02.21,4,Seven years of GitHub activity.,"The GitHub Archive is an effort to record the popular code-sharing website’s public timeline, “archive it, and make it easily accessible for further analysis.” The dataset, which includes more than 20 types of events and often contains more than 1 million events per day, goes back to February 2011. Related: Structured data representing the “commit histories” of two dozen popular open-source projects, including Rust, Pandas, Redis, and Bitcoin.","https://www.githubarchive.org/
http://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/
https://github.com/gitential/datasets",
2018.02.21,5,Public commemorations.,"The Open Plaques project is dedicated to “documenting the historical links between people and places as recorded by commemorative plaques.” The latest data dump contains nearly 40,000 plaques — the vast majority in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. OpenBenches, meanwhile, has collected similar data for 4,300+ memorial benches. [h/t Jason Norwood-Young]","http://openplaques.org/
http://openplaques.org/data
https://openbenches.org/
https://github.com/edent/openbenches",https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=11977a67604b965526b63ee6e&id=50af5bb880
2018.02.28,1,Peace agreements.,"The PA-X Peace Agreements Database contains structured information about 1,500+ “formal, publicly-available documents” that address “conflict with a view to ending it.” The database covers more than 140 peace processes between 1990 and 2015, and each agreement has been coded for more than 200 variables — for instance, whether the agreement contains provisions about religious groups. [h/t Melissa Terras]","https://www.peaceagreements.org/
https://www.peaceagreements.org/files/PA_X_codebook_Version1_Feb_20_20.pdf",https://twitter.com/melissaterras/status/967344418146734080
2018.02.28,2,Historical battles.,"Political scientist Jeffrey Arnold has converted the U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency (CAA) Database of Battles from a series of Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets into tidier, easier-to-use CSV files. The dataset includes details of 660 battles — associated with several dozen wars — between 1600 and the mid/late-1900s. The fields indicate each battle’s “name, date, and location; the strengths and losses on each side; identification of the victor; temporal duration of the battle,” and more.","http://www.jrnold.me/
https://github.com/jrnold/CDB90/blob/master/src-data/M000121/README.TXT
https://github.com/jrnold/CDB90",
2018.02.28,3,American radiation.,"The Environmental Protection Agency’s RadNet system “monitors the nation's air, precipitation and drinking water for radiation.” The radiation measurements, collected from 130+ stations in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, are available on a “near-real-time” basis. Related: Randall Munroe’s radiation dose chart. Previously: SafeCast (DIP 2016.02.03). [h/t Stanislav Kralin]","https://www.epa.gov/radnet
https://www.epa.gov/radnet/near-real-time-and-laboratory-data-state
https://xkcd.com/radiation/
https://blog.safecast.org/about/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-03-edition",https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/10678/us-radiation-measurements
2018.02.28,4,Fellow mammals.,"The American Society of Mammalogists’ Mammal Diversity Database “is home base for tracking the latest taxonomic changes to species and higher groups of mammals.” Currently, it contains more than 1,300 genera and 6,000 total species. Fun facts: The impala is the only member of the genus Aepyceros, and the name “Schmidly's deer mouse” can refer to either of two species in two entirely different genera. [h/t Himanshu Goenka]","https://mammaldiversity.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impala",http://www.ibtimes.com/mammal-biodiversity-20-larger-previously-thought-new-database-find-2650075
2018.02.28,5,Rick and Morty.,"The (unofficial) Rick and Morty API provides data on 390+ characters, 60+ locations, and all 31 episodes of the science-fictional animated series.","https://rickandmortyapi.com/
https://rickandmortyapi.com/documentation#character
https://rickandmortyapi.com/documentation#location
https://rickandmortyapi.com/documentation#episode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty",
2018.03.07,1,The grid.,"The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes near-real-time data on the Lower 48’s electrical grid. The datasets include net electricity generation, flows in and out of the country’s various “balancing authorities,” regional demand, and forecasts of demand. You can explore the data online, access it through the EIA’s API, or download it in bulk. Helpful: The EIA’s guide to the data and “known issues”.","https://www.eia.gov/realtime_grid/
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/qb.php?category=2123635
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulkfiles.php
https://www.eia.gov/realtime_grid/docs/UserGuideAndKnownIssues.pdf",
2018.03.07,2,Pan-African surveys.,"Afrobarometer “is a pan-African, non-partisan research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, economic conditions, and related issues in more than 35 countries in Africa.” You can download data from the first six rounds of surveys, conducted between 1999 and 2015. You can also read the detailed questionnaires and explore the results online. Note: To download the data, you’ll need to create a (free) account on the website. [h/t Jeffrey Arnold]","http://www.afrobarometer.org/about
http://www.afrobarometer.org/data/merged-data
http://www.afrobarometer.org/surveys-and-methods/questionnaires
http://afrobarometer.org/online-data-analysis/getting-started",https://github.com/jrnold/afrobarometer
2018.03.07,3,More brain scans.,"Last year, the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience launched OpenNeuro, “a free and open platform for analyzing and sharing neuroimaging data.” (It’s the successor to the center’s earlier initiative, OpenfMRI.) You can, for instance, download scans of brains that were watching a particular episode of The Twilight Zone. Related: The Brain Imaging Data Structure, “a simple and intuitive way to organize and describe your neuroimaging and behavioral data.” Previously: The Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (DIP 2017.08.16). [h/t Laura Noren and Brad Stenger]","http://reproducibility.stanford.edu/about-us/
https://openneuro.org/faq
http://reproducibility.stanford.edu/openfmri-becomes-openneuro/
https://openfmri.org/
https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds001145/versions/00001
http://bids.neuroimaging.io/
http://www.oasis-brains.org/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-16-edition",https://cds.nyu.edu/newsletter/
2018.03.07,4,The Gray Lady of 19th century Havana.,"The University of Miami Libraries has digitized 53,000+ pages of La Gaceta de La Habana, “the paper of record during the Spanish colonial occupation of Cuba in the nineteenth century.” The digitized editions span 33 of the years between 1849 and 1897. Previously: Historical U.S. newspapers (DIP 2017.08.16). [h/t Mike Stucka + Heather Froehlich]","https://github.com/UMiamiLibraries/collections-as-data/tree/master/LaGaceta
http://merrick.library.miami.edu/cubanHeritage/cubanlaw/lagaceta.php
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-16-edition","https://twitter.com/MikeStucka
https://twitter.com/heatherfro/status/969658558206873600"
2018.03.07,5,Powerlifting.,"OpenPowerlifting.org “aims to create a permanent, accurate, convenient, accessible, open archive of the world's powerlifting data. In support of this mission, all of the OpenPowerlifting data and code is available for download in useful formats.” So far, that includes 400,000+ performances at 9,000+ competitions in dozens of countries. [h/t u/cavedave]",http://www.openpowerlifting.org/data.html,https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/7uqn4i/powerlifting_data/
2018.04.04,1,The Western hemisphere.,"The GOES-16 satellite was launched into orbit in November 2016, and it’s been collecting near-realtime images and data ever since. (GOES stands for “Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.”) It collects data on 16 different spectral bands, and it can capture a full image of the Western Hemisphere every 15 minutes, plus “an image of the Continental U.S. every five minutes, and two smaller, more detailed images of areas where storm activity is present, every 60 seconds.” You can browse the images and data online, and also download them as NetCDF files. Related: Washington Post graphics reporter John Muyskens’ list of GOES-16 resources and usage examples. [h/t John Muyskens]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-16
https://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/abi.html
https://www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/dataAndImageryImages.html
http://edc.occ-data.org/goes16/
https://github.com/jmuyskens/nicar18-data-blitz-goes-16",https://twitter.com/JohnMuyskens/status/971797053910155265
2018.04.04,2,Gender pay gaps in Great Britain.,"The UK government has begun requiring all companies with at least 250 employees in Great Britain (i.e., England, Scotland, and Wales) to report the pay differences between their male and female workers. Today is the official deadline to submit the reports; as of last night, more than 8,800 employers had done so. The reports include the percentage gaps in hourly earnings, differences in bonus pay, and the proportions of male and female employees in each pay quartile. You can search the data online and also download it as a CSV. Related: The Guardian’s series of reports on the data. [h/t Peter Yeung]","https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gender-pay-gap-reporting-overview
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gender-pay-gap-reporting-overview#data-you-must-publish-and-report
https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Viewing/search-results
https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Viewing/download
https://www.theguardian.com/society/equal-pay",https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=088b912cf6976d4efabca7bbc&id=b0accc7150
2018.04.04,3,North Korea negotiations and provocations.,"The Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Beyond Parallel project publishes several databases related to North Korean international relations — including 200+ negotiations between the U.S. and DPRK since 1990, and several hundred military provocations since 1958. Related: Los Angeles Times correspondent Matt Stiles’ visual explorations of the provocations data. Previously: The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ North Korea Missile Test Database (DIP 2017.05.17). [h/t Matt Stiles]","https://beyondparallel.csis.org/about/
https://beyondparallel.csis.org/databases/
http://thedailyviz.com/tag/provocations/
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/cns-north-korea-missile-test-database/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-17-edition",https://twitter.com/stiles/status/971800447815176192
2018.04.04,4,Russian presidential voting.,"Software engineer Michael Penkov has scraped the official, polling station–level results for Russia’s recent presidential election, and made the data available as a single JSON file. He’s also published an introductory Python notebook, which explains the data structure and provides English translations for the Russian field names.","http://michael.penkov.id.au/about/
https://github.com/mpenkov/prezident2018
https://github.com/mpenkov/prezident2018/blob/master/scrapyproject/results.json.gz
https://github.com/mpenkov/prezident2018/blob/master/Introduction.ipynb",
2018.04.04,5,Even more dog (and cat) names.,"Last year, Data Is Plural pointed readers to dog registration data for NYC, Tacoma, and Edmonton. It turns out that government of Zurich also publishes local dog registrations, including each canine’s name, gender, and birth year. And the Sunshine Coast Council, in Australia, publishes a spreadsheet of both dogs and cats, their primary breeds and colors, and whether they’ve been spayed/neutered. [h/t Open Data Institute]","https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-05-31-edition
https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset/https-data-stadt-zuerich-ch-dataset-pd_stapo_hundenamen
https://data.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Administration/Registered-Animals/7f87-i6kx/data",https://theodi.org/article/the-open-data-olympics-seven-weird-and-wonderful-open-datasets
2018.04.18,1,Evictions.,"A team led by Princeton sociologist and Evicted author Matthew Desmond has compiled the United States’ first-ever national-scale, publicly-available database of eviction metrics. Desmond’s Eviction Lab has collected more than 80 million records from cities, counties, and states across the country, and used them to calculate the number of evictions and eviction filings in each place. (Short methodology here; longer methodology here.) You can download the aggregate data in bulk (after supplying your email address) and explore it through an interactive map. Related: “In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America” (The New York Times), which includes additional background and graphics.","https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/247816/evicted-by-matthew-desmond/9780553447453/
https://evictionlab.org/map/
https://evictionlab.org/about/
https://evictionlab.org/methods/
https://evictionlab.org/docs/Eviction%20Lab%20-Methodology%20Report%20v.1.0.0.pdf
https://evictionlab.org/get-the-data/
https://evictionlab.org/map/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/07/upshot/millions-of-eviction-records-a-sweeping-new-look-at-housing-in-america.html",
2018.04.18,2,Executive orders.,"The U.S. Office of the Federal Register publishes structured data on every presidential executive order since 1994. For each of the 886 entries, the dataset provides the order’s title, the date it was signed, the president who signed it, and where to find it in the Federal Register. [h/t u/cavedave]",https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders,https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/86cbdb/us_president_executive_orders/
2018.04.18,3,State campaign finance laws.,"The nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute has launched a database of current and historical state campaign finance laws. The information goes back to 1996 and describes each state’s contribution limits, various kinds of prohibitions, disclosure rules, and more. You can download the full dataset or explore it online. [h/t Rachel Shorey]","http://cfinst.org/about.aspx
http://cfinst.org/State/LawsDatabase.aspx
http://cfinst.org/State/LawsDatabase_Download.aspx
https://cfinst.github.io/",https://twitter.com/rachel_shorey/status/981203851243122689
2018.04.18,4,Academic parental leave policies.,"Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Santa Fe Institute have compiled a dataset of 200+ universities’ parental leave policies. For each institution, the dataset indicates the amount of paid leave granted to//taken by both women and men, and what type of leave it is (e.g., relief from teaching, from all duties, et cetera). [h/t Sam Way]",https://aaronclauset.github.io/parental-leave/,https://twitter.com/samfway/status/984199839473807362
2018.04.18,5,Miscellany.,"The University of Florida’s Larry Winner has collected hundreds of “miscellaneous” datasets, many from niche academic studies. A few highlights: “Antiseptic as Treatment for Amputation – Upper Limb” (from an 1870 study), “Sex, Lies, and Religiosity” (1971), and “Reading Times by E-Reader Device and Lighting Conditions” (2013). [h/t Charles Minshew]","http://users.stat.ufl.edu/~winner/
http://users.stat.ufl.edu/~winner/datasets.html",https://twitter.com/charlesminshew
2018.04.25,1,School shootings.,"Over the past year, reporters at the Washington Post ”attempted to identify every act of gunfire at a primary or secondary school during school hours since the Columbine High massacre on April 20, 1999.” Using a range of sources, the reporters ”reviewed more than 1,000 alleged incidents, but counted only those that happened on campuses immediately before, during or just after classes.” The resulting database, published last week, currently contains more than 200 incidents and can be downloaded as a CSV. For each shooting, the database includes details about the location, timing, circumstances, shooter, casualties, and the school’s students. [h/t The INN Nerds]","https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/school-shootings-database/
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-school-shootings",https://mailchi.mp/inn/were-having-a-texas-tea-party
2018.04.25,2,America’s roads.,"The federal Highway Performance Monitoring System “includes inventory information for all of the Nation's public roads as certified by the States’ Governors annually.” And it’s not just highways: “All roads open to public travel are reported in HPMS regardless of ownership, including Federal, State, county, city, and privately owned roads such as toll facilities.” Shapefiles representing the HPMS data are available for 2011–2015. For each segment of road, the dataset indicates the average daily traffic, number of turn lanes, surface type, and dozens of other variables. Related: America’s Quietest Routes, which uses the data.","https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms/fieldmanual/page01.cfm
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms/shapefiles.cfm
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms/fieldmanual/page00.cfm
https://www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes/",
2018.04.25,3,Wind turbines.,"Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the American Wind Energy Association have partnered to publish the U.S. Wind Turbine Database. The dataset, which the government says will be “continuously updated,” currently contains 57,636 turbines and includes each turbine’s location, development project, manufacturer, model, height, rotor diameter, and other characteristics. You can download the data in several formats, and also explore it on an interactive map. [h/t Ed Vine]","https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/data/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347
2018.04.25,4,A decade of New York Times front-page stories.,"For her 2013 book, Making the News: Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting, UC Davis professor Amber E. Boydstun oversaw the compilation of a dataset of every front-page article in the New York Times from 1996 to 2006. Each of the 31,034 articles have been categorized by topic, according a detailed codebook, and given a short summary. Related: The Comparative Agendas Project's list of datasets that use its topic-classification system, including Boydstun’s data. Also related: The NYT’s APIs. [h/t Cornelius Puschmann]","http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16382220.html
http://www.amber-boydstun.com/supplementary-information-for-making-the-news.html
http://www.amber-boydstun.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/106535199/nyt_front_page_policy_agendas_codebook.pdf
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/pages/About
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/datasets_codebooks
https://developer.nytimes.com/",https://twitter.com/cbpuschmann/status/972233548433383425
2018.04.25,5,Cooks in the kitchen.,"Computer-vision researchers convinced 32 participants (of 10 nationalities, living in 4 cities) to record everything they did in their kitchens for three days using a head-mounted camera. Later, the participants narrated what they had been doing. Taken together, the EPIC-Kitchens dataset includes 55 hours of video, nearly 40,000 narration segments, and more. [h/t Duncan Geere]","https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02748
https://epic-kitchens.github.io/2018",https://tinyletter.com/duncangeere
2018.05.09,1,Clinical trials.,"OpenTrials, a collaboration between Open Knowledge International and Oxford University’s Ben Goldacre, “aims to locate, match, and share all publicly accessible data and documents, on all trials conducted, on all medicines and other treatments, globally.” The project’s “public beta” brings together data from several of the world’s largest clinical trial registries — including the United States’ ClinicalTrials.gov, the European Union Clinical Trials Register, and the WHO’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform — and other related sources. You can explore the data through an online search tool, monthly bulk exports, and an API.","https://opentrials.net/
https://okfn.org/
http://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/
https://clinicaltrials.gov/
https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/search
http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/
https://explorer.opentrials.net/
https://explorer.opentrials.net/data
https://opentrials.net/2016/10/18/opentrials-api-information/",
2018.05.09,2,Medical examiner reports.,"Cook County, Illinois, publishes data on all deaths reported to its medical examiner — 20,000+ deaths since August 2014, and updated daily. (FYI: “Not all deaths that occur in Cook County are reported to the Medical Examiner or fall under the jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner.”) Connecticut’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has published data on all accidental drug deaths reported between 2012 and 2017. The Dallas Morning News’ Dana Amihere obtained autopsy data from the Dallas County medical examiner's office, and NJ Advance Media’s Stephen Stirling obtained data on “all cases referred to the NJ Medical Examiner system from 1996 to 2016.” [Correction, 2018-05-09: The original version of this item misspelled Stephen Stirling's name. Data Is Plural regrets the error.]","https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/Public-Safety/Medical-Examiner-Case-Archive/cjeq-bs86
https://data.ct.gov/Health-and-Human-Services/Accidental-Drug-Related-Deaths-2012-2017/rybz-nyjw
https://github.com/write-this-way/dallas-co-autopsies
https://data.world/stevestirling/n-j-medical-examiner-data",
2018.05.09,3,Himalayan expeditions.,"The Himalayan Database tracks “all expeditions that have climbed in the Nepalese Himalaya.” The hyper-detailed database “is based on the expedition archives of Elizabeth Hawley, a longtime journalist based in Kathmandu, and it is supplemented by information gathered from books, alpine journals and correspondence with Himalayan climbers.” The database — long accessible only on CD, for a fee — is now available to download for free. (The main download is provided as a Microsoft Visual FoxPro database, but the .DBF files within it can be opened using other software, including LibreOffice.) Related: Yuichiro Miura, the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. [h/t Jacob Bradburn]","http://himalayandatabase.com/index.html
http://himalayandatabase.com/downloads.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuichiro_Miura",https://twitter.com/JacobBradburnIO
2018.05.09,4,1.7 billion Milky Way stars.,"The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft “has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of our home Galaxy.” Those measurements, released last month, are available to download. They’ve also been used to create a high-resolution image of all observed stars and to expand the ESA’s interactive space map. Related: This Vox article provides some more context. [h/t u/Kopachris]","http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_creates_richest_star_map_of_our_Galaxy_and_beyond
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2
https://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/
https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/Gaia_s_sky_in_colour2
http://sky.esa.int/
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/26/17281640/gaia-3d-map-milky-way-sky-map",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/8ev47w/astrometric_data_for_17_billion_stars_in_the/
2018.05.09,5,Sidewalk grates.,"You know those metallic grates embedded into city sidewalks? D.C.’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer has identified 10,000+ of them in the District. Also: 89,727 curb segments. [h/t Sunlight Open Cities]","http://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/sidewalk-grates
http://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/curbs?geometry=-77.04,38.897,-77.024,38.9",https://twitter.com/SunlightCities/status/992422225667031040
2018.05.23,1,Ebola.,"Caitlin Rivers, a computational epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, has started compiling data tracking the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So far, the datasets are based on case counts and other information from the DRC’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. A series of “data interpretation notes” accompanies each dataset. (Rivers administered a similar data repository during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.) Related: “Most Maps of the New Ebola Outbreak Are Wrong,” by Ed Yong.","http://www.caitlinrivers.com/
https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola_drc
https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/most-maps-of-the-new-ebola-outbreak-are-wrong/560777/",
2018.05.23,2,"Public transit, curated.","As a way to “lower the barrier“ for analyzing public transportation data, researchers at Finland’s Aalto University have published “a curated collection of [now more than] 25 cities' public transport networks in multiple easy-to-use formats including network edge lists, temporal network event lists, SQLite databases, GeoJSON files, and the GTFS data format.” On the project’s website, you can browse, visualize, and download each city’s data. (The cities are mostly in Europe and Australia, but also include Detroit, Winnipeg, and Antofagasta, Chile.) Previously: TransitLand and TransitFeeds (DIP 2016.07.27). [h/t NYU Data Science Community Newsletter]","https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201889
http://transportnetworks.cs.aalto.fi/
https://transit.land/
https://transitfeeds.com/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-27-edition",https://cds.nyu.edu/newsletter/
2018.05.23,3,Political resistance campaigns.,"The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project, based at the University of Denver, “catalogues major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns around the globe from 1900-2013.” The project’s initial dataset explored the general characteristics of hundreds of campaigns; follow-up datasets have examined the annual activity and tactics of smaller subsets. Each dataset comes with a detailed codebook. Note: Free registration is required to download the most recent datasets. [h/t Peace Science Digest]",https://www.du.edu/korbel/sie/research/chenow_navco_data.html,https://twitter.com/PeaceSciDigest/status/988888349594173440
2018.05.23,4,Wind.,"Earlier this month, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory made a big new slice of its Wind Integration National Dataset available online. The latest version provides API access to 50 terabytes of wind-related measurements — about 10% of the full database. It includes “barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, temperature, and air density data” between 2007 and 2013, from nearly 5 million locations in/near the continental United States. The NREL has also published an animated map of the data. Note: Free registration is required to access the API. Previously: Wind turbines (DIP 2018.04.25). [h/t Michael McLaughlin]","https://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2018/nrel-releases-major-update-to-wind-energy-dataset.html
https://www.nrel.gov/grid/wind-toolkit.html
https://github.com/NREL/hsds-examples
https://nrel.github.io/hsds-viz/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-04-25-edition",http://www.datainnovation.org/2018/05/tracking-wind-energy-in-the-united-states/
2018.05.23,5,What Wikipedians cite.,"The Wikimedia Foundation has published a dataset listing each clearly-cited source (e.g., a book with an ISBN, a scholarly article with a DOI, etc.) on each page of each of Wikipedia’s 298 languages editions — 15,693,732 source-page combinations in all. Related: “The Most-Cited Authors on Wikipedia Had No Idea,” by Louise Matsakis. [h/t Ted Lawless]","https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/what-are-the-ten-most-cited-sources-on-wikipedia-lets-ask-the-data-34071478785a
https://figshare.com/articles/Wikipedia_Scholarly_Article_Citations/1299540
https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-most-cited-authors-no-idea/",https://twitter.com/tedlawless/status/981960557807980544
2018.06.06,1,Global gas and oil infrastructure.,"The Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has published what it says is the “first-ever database inventory of oil and natural gas infrastructure information from the top hydrocarbon-producing and consuming countries in the world.” The database contains tons of geospatial information and “identifies more than 4.8 million individual features like wells, pipelines, and ports from more than 380 datasets in 194 countries. It includes information about the type, age, status, and owner/operator of infrastructure features.” Helpful: The authors’ (detailed) methodology paper. [h/t Michael McLaughlin]","https://www.energy.gov/fe/articles/netl-led-team-creates-first-ever-international-database-use-preventing-natural-gas
https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/global-oil-gas-features-database
https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/development-of-an-open-global-oil-and-gas-infrastructure-inventory-and-geodatabase",http://www.datainnovation.org/2018/05/cataloging-the-global-energy-infrastructure-to-prevent-oil-and-gas-leaks/
2018.06.06,2,Volcanoes and eruptions.,"The Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program maintains a database of more than 12,000 volcanoes and 11,000 eruptions — dating from 10450 BCE to the present year. You can search the data online, and then download the results as a spreadsheet. Related: “Here's every volcano that has erupted since Krakatoa.” [h/t Duncan Geere + Rachel Schallom + Lazaro Gamio]","https://volcano.si.edu/
https://volcano.si.edu/gvp_votw.cfm
https://volcano.si.edu/search_volcano.cfm
https://volcano.si.edu/search_eruption.cfm
https://www.axios.com/chart-every-volcano-that-erupted-since-krakatoa-467da621-41ba-4efc-99c6-34ff3cb27709.html","https://tinyletter.com/duncangeere/letters/s03e19-blocks
https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=5c12dabe1e59a9fbde1174b8c&id=84a7784f6b
https://twitter.com/LazaroGamio/status/1002273071854743553"
2018.06.06,3,Retracted medical papers.,"PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s search engine for biomedical and life-sciences literature, lets you search for retracted publications; just add ""retracted publication""[PTYP] to your query. For instance, here are retracted articles that were originally published in 2016. Using the “Send to” link at the top-right of the query pages, you can download all the results. Data scientist Neil Saunders has gathered this data and condensed it into an interactive, graphical report. (Clicking on the axis labels takes you the relevant PubMed search.) Related: The code behind Saunders’ report. [h/t u/cavedave]","https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0027066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22retracted%20publication%22[PTYP]%20AND%202016[CRDT]
https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/
https://neilfws.github.io/PubMed/pmretract/pmretract.html
https://github.com/neilfws/PubMed/tree/master/retractions",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/8m8pem/pubmed_retractions_report/
2018.06.06,4,Cenotes.,"The Mexican state of Yucatán publishes a dataset listing the names and locations of cenotes, the region’s famous water-filled sinkholes. Related: Other datasets from the Programa de Ordenamiento Ecológico Territorial del Estado de Yucatán. [h/t Forest Gregg]","http://bitacoraordenamiento.yucatan.gob.mx/documentos/detalles.php?IdArchivo=1058
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenote
http://bitacoraordenamiento.yucatan.gob.mx/galeria/index.php",https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/12864/mexican-sinkhole-locations/12866#12866
2018.06.06,5,NICAR lightning talks.,"Ever since 2010, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) annual conference has featured a session of five-minute “lightning talks,” selected by popular vote. NICARian Christine Zhang has compiled a spreadsheet of all 309 lightning talk proposals, the proposed presenters, their professional affiliations, how many votes each proposal received, and more. Related: “Nine Years of NICAR Lightning Talks (and Cats),” Zhang’s analysis of the data. Also related: The code behind Zhang’s analysis.","https://ire.org/nicar/
https://twitter.com/christinezhang
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mRdBPRHPJHUlbK-kpGIx31Y4o73SXHz_899SQx1rvEY/edit#gid=614018567
https://source.opennews.org/articles/nine-years-nicar-lightning-talks-and-cats/
https://github.com/underthecurve/lightning-talks-analysis",
2018.07.04,1,The National Transit Database.,"Every year, hundreds of U.S. transit systems — from the Pomona Valley Transportation Authority’s Claremont Dial-a-Ride to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s New York City Transit — submit detailed metrics to the congressionally-established National Transit Database. The NTD's datasets cover a broad set of topics, including “agency funding sources, inventories of vehicles and maintenance facilities, safety event reports, measures of transit service provided and consumed, and data on transit employees.” The NTD also provides a glossary, data collection manuals, and the underlying forms. [h/t Michael A. Rice, a teacher at Ingraham High School in Seattle]","http://www.pvtrans.org/asp/site/claremont/
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/ntd-data
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/national-transit-database-ntd-glossary
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/manuals
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/ntd-reporting-system-forms",
2018.07.04,2,Landslides.,"The Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository (COOLR) is a recently-launched NASA project that “seeks to cultivate an open platform where scientists and citizen scientists around the world can share landslide reports to guide awareness of landslide hazards for improving scientific modeling and emergency response.” The repository has been seeded with the agency’s Global Landslide Catalog, which it says is already “the largest openly available global database of rainfall-triggered mass movements known to date.” You can explore the COOLR data on an interactive map or download the data in several formats.","https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/600/citizen-science/landslides/about.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/citizen-science-salon/2018/03/23/help-nasa-build-the-largest-open-landslide-catalog-with-landslide-reporter/
https://data.nasa.gov/Earth-Science/Global-Landslide-Catalog/h9d8-neg4/data
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/600/citizen-science/landslides/resources.html#GLC
https://maps.nccs.nasa.gov/arcgis/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=824ea5864ec8423fb985b33ee6bc05b7
https://maps.nccs.nasa.gov/arcgis/apps/MapAndAppGallery/index.html?appid=574f26408683485799d02e857e5d9521",
2018.07.04,3,Regional Medicare usage.,"The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes a series of “geographic variation” spreadsheets, which cover hundreds of metrics — such as kidney dialysis usage, the total cost of medical tests, and hospital readmission rates — related to Medicare beneficiaries’ healthcare in each state, county, and “hospital referral region.” [h/t Drew Ivan]",https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Geographic-Variation/GV_PUF.html,https://twitter.com/drewivan
2018.07.04,4,Anthony Bourdain’s travels.,"Christine Zhang has compiled a CSV of 400+ locations featured in Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, The Layover, and Parts Unknown shows. The spreadsheet-as-remembrance includes each location’s name, country, latitude/longitude, plus the relevant episode’s show, season, number, and title.","https://twitter.com/christinezhang/status/1005974583206449152
https://github.com/underthecurve/bourdain-travel-places/blob/master/bourdain_travel_places.csv",
2018.07.04,5,Cars at auction.,"Kansas City publishes a dataset of cars for sale at its monthly auction. As of yesterday, the dataset contained 482 cars. For each car, the variables include the make, model, year, VIN, reason for being auctioned — e.g., “abandoned,” “stolen,” “illegally parked” — and other details.",https://data.kcmo.org/Traffic/Kansas-City-Monthly-Car-Auction/32xf-gvw8,
2018.07.18,1,SCOTUS extracurriculars.,"Since July 2014, ScotusMap.com has been tracking the U.S. Supreme Court justices’ public events — “whether the Supreme Court is in session or on summer recess, the justices keep busy with writers’ conferences, state bar luncheons, award ceremonies, and more.” The map’s database now contains more than 700 entries, and even includes events attended by the retired justices. Bonus: The creators of ScotusMap recently launched ScotusWat.ch, a website (with downloadable data) that “tracks the public statements made by United States senators about how they plan to vote on the Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and tallies them into a likely vote count.” [h/t Jay Pinho + Victoria Kwan]","http://www.scotusmap.com/posts/1
http://www.scotusmap.com/
http://www.scotuswat.ch/","https://twitter.com/jaypinho
https://twitter.com/victoriakwan_"
2018.07.18,2,"34,361 European migration deaths.","The Amsterdam-based activist group UNITED for Intercultural Action has, since the early 1990s, been collecting information about the deaths of Europe’s refugee-seekers. The organization's volunteers “update the data annually, spending six months at a time verifying reports, categorising deaths and entering them into the database,” according to The Guardian's story about the endeavor and its findings. “When the project began, they received physical clippings from a network of groups around Europe. Now, the data is collected from email submissions and Google Alerts in a number of languages.” The story features a PDF-listing of the deaths, including the date the migrants were found dead, names and countries of origin (where known), and the causes of death. The Italian civic-data organization OnData has converted the PDF to a spreadsheet. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/the-list-europe-migrant-bodycount
http://ondata.it/
https://github.com/ondata/the-list",https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=715ce882b7
2018.07.18,3,Building footprints.,"Microsoft’s Bing Maps team has published an open dataset describing the outlines of nearly 125 million buildings in the United States. To build the dataset, the team trained neural networks to detect buildings’ footprints in satellite images.","https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data
https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints",
2018.07.18,4,Makeup shades.,"In a recent essay at The Pudding, Jason Li, Amber Thomas, and Divya Manian explored the shades of foundation offered by best-selling makeup brands in the U.S., Nigeria, India, and Japan. They also published the underlying data — color values for more than 600 shades from 36 different brands.","https://pudding.cool/2018/06/makeup-shades/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/makeup-shades",
2018.07.18,5,FOIA’ed FBI files.,"“When somebody's obituary appears in the New York Times, FOIA The Dead sends an automated request to the FBI for their (newly-available) records.” So far, the project has obtained and published FBI’s files on 54 people. The site’s data includes each person’s name, a short description, a link to the relevant obituary, a link to the received records, and the number of pages obtained. [h/t Noah Veltman]","https://foiathedead.org/about/
https://foiathedead.org/
https://foiathedead.org/entries.json",https://noahveltman.com/
2018.08.01,1,The death penalty.,"Law professor Brandon L. Garrett has led an effort to compile data on every death sentence in the U.S. since the early 1990s. Garrett’s “End of its Rope” database currently includes more than 4,900 sentencings, and specifies each defendant’s name, race, and gender; the state, county, and year of the sentence; whether it was a resentencing; and whether the defendant has been executed. You can download the data, browse it online, and explore it via an interactive map.","http://www.brandonlgarrett.com/
http://endofitsrope.com/using-the-database/
http://endofitsrope.com/data-and-documents/
http://endofitsrope.com/database/
http://endofitsrope.com/",
2018.08.01,2,Global tax revenues.,"The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has launched a database “providing detailed and comparable tax revenue information for 80 countries around the world.” The Global Revenue Statistics Database, “which will expand to cover more than 90 countries by the end of 2018,” breaks tax revenues into dozens of categories and subcategories — such as sales taxes, taxes on capital gains, and taxes on exports. Related: The OECD’s interactive charts of the data.","http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/oecd-launches-largest-source-of-comparable-tax-revenue-data.htm
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RS_GBL
http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/global-revenue-statistics-database.htm",
2018.08.01,3,Consumer-product chemicals.,"Researchers at the Environmental Protection Agency have created a new dataset of “reported and predicted information on more than 75,000 chemicals and more than 15,000 consumer products.” The Chemicals and Products Database, as they’ve named it, is an “aggregation of publicly available data on chemical-use categorization, consumer product composition [...], and functional use of chemicals”, and uses “a consistent scheme for categorizing products and chemicals.” You can download the data via the EPA’s Chemistry Dashboard.","https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018125
https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/downloads",
2018.08.01,4,Development projects and outcomes.,"Earlier this year, Johns Hopkins professor Dan Honig released the Project Performance Database, which tracks the outcome ratings of international development projects (typically conducted by auditors on a four- or six-point scale). “The PPD is, at present, the world's largest” such database and “contains over 14,000 unique projects from eight agencies,” including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and others. [h/t Paddy Carter]","http://danhonig.info/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/PPD",https://twitter.com/CarterPaddy/status/964413653377155072
2018.08.01,5,Public restrooms.,"There are many official datasets of public toilets, including those in New York City parks, Vancouver, Seattle parks, many UK cities, Australia, and New Zealand. [h/t Jens von Bergmann]","https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Recreation/Directory-Of-Toilets-In-Public-Parks/hjae-yuav
https://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/public-washrooms.htm
https://data.seattle.gov/Parks-and-Recreation/Seattle-Parks-and-Recreation-GIS-Map-Layer-Shapefi/dfsk-abyq
https://data.gov.uk/search?q=toilets
https://data.gov.au/dataset/national-public-toilet-map
https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/public-toilets2",https://twitter.com/vb_jens/status/1020555383910223873
2018.08.08,1,Militarized disputes.,"The Militarized Interstate Dispute datasets provide details about more than 2,200 instances between 1816 and 2010 where a government “threatened, displayed, or used force against another” — including each dispute’s timing, participants, death count, result, and more. A supplementary database tracks the disputes’ locations. The datasets are part of the Correlates of War project, which was founded in 1963 and which strives for “the systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge about war.” [h/t Erik Beuck]","http://cow.dss.ucdavis.edu/data-sets/MIDs
http://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/MIDLOC
http://cow.dss.ucdavis.edu/
http://cow.dss.ucdavis.edu/history",https://twitter.com/CharlesBeuck/status/1022935812147699713
2018.08.08,2,Spending at Trump properties.,"ProPublica is tracking the money that political campaigns and government agencies have reported spending at Donald Trump’s hotels, golf clubs, and restaurants. You can download the data, which includes the spender, property, date, amount, and listed purpose for each payment. From ProPublica’s notes: “Federal government spending is incomplete because many government agencies have actively fought requests to disclose spending at Trump properties. The data we have so far was released, in part, after lawsuits.”","https://projects.propublica.org/paying-the-president/
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/spending-at-trump-properties",
2018.08.08,3,Overlooked computer scientists.,"Researchers at Primer, a machine learning and natural language processing startup, have released a dataset describing more than 36,000 notable computer scientists, “only 15%” of which have Wikipedia biographies. The researchers trained their algorithms on a corpus of existing Wikipedia articles, Wikidata entries, news articles, and the Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus. (The latter contains data on more than 39 million research papers in computer science, neuroscience, and biomedical science.) The results include each computer scientist’s name, basic metadata, academic papers, and snippets of news articles mentioning them. Related: “Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem” (Wired). [h/t Sara Blask]","https://blog.primer.ai/technology/2018/08/03/Quicksilver.html
https://github.com/PrimerAI/primer_quicksilver
http://labs.semanticscholar.org/corpus/
https://www.wired.com/story/using-artificial-intelligence-to-fix-wikipedias-gender-problem/",https://twitter.com/sarablask
2018.08.08,4,Death and taxes in the Garden State.,"The nonprofit organization Reclaim The Records recently obtained New Jersey’s death index, and has made it available to search and download. The records include structured data for 1,275,833 deaths in the state between 2001 and 2017, plus digitized images of the death index for 1901-1903, 1920-1929, and 1949-2000. The structured data contains each person’s name, date of birth, date of death, and death certificate number — plus, for the most recent records, the locations of birth and death. Also: NJ Advance Media has published data on 17 years of drug overdose deaths from the state’s Office of the State Medical Examiner, and property tax rolls for “all 2.3 million taxable parcels of land” in 2017. (Free registration required to download the files.) [h/t Benjamin Cooley + Martin Burch]","https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/about/
https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/21/
https://www.newjerseydeathindex.com/
https://data.world/njdotcom/nj-statewide-overdose-deaths-1999-to-2016
https://data.world/njdotcom/nj-property-tax-rolls-2017","https://medium.com/towards-data-science/data-curious-27-08-2017-a-roundup-of-data-stories-datasets-and-visualizations-from-last-week-4c2a1c10b068
https://twitter.com/seecmb/status/998642204825587713"
2018.08.08,5,More street trees.,"London, Belfast, Vancouver, Washington (D.C.), Philadelphia, Boston, Cambridge (Mass.), Madison, Providence, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley are among the many cities that publish data cataloguing the trees that line their streets. Previously: NYC’s street trees (DIP 2016.11.16). [h/t Jens von Bergmann + Sunlight Open Cities + u/willwardo]","https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/local-authority-maintained-trees
https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/dataset/belfast-trees
https://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/streetTrees.htm
http://dcgis.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fea6079cf9bc4310a8b6c94f8c2bf1da
https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/philadelphia-street-tree-inventory
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/trees
https://www.cambridgema.gov/GIS/gisdatadictionary/Environmental/ENVIRONMENTAL_StreetTrees
https://data-cityofmadison.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/street-trees
https://data.providenceri.gov/Neighborhoods/Providence-Tree-Inventory/uv9w-h8i4/data
https://data.sfgov.org/City-Infrastructure/Street-Tree-List/tkzw-k3nq
https://data.oaklandnet.com/Environmental/Oakland-Street-Trees/4jcx-enxf
https://data.cityofberkeley.info/Natural-Resources/City-Trees/9t35-jmin/data
https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/treescount
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-11-16-edition","https://twitter.com/vb_jens/status/909600422213455872
https://twitter.com/SunlightCities/status/992429816237510660
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/8vsf32/a_treasure_trove_of_geospatial_datasets_for_the/"
2018.08.15,1,Peer-to-peer loans.,"The Lending Club, which matches borrowers with investors, publishes a dataset of all loans issued through its platform since 2007. The dataset’s many fields include each loan’s amount, term, interest rate, grade, status, and purpose (as a category, and often also a fuller description), as well as the borrower’s employer, home ownership status, and annual income. You can also download all declined loans, i.e., those “that did not meet Lending Club's credit underwriting policy.” [h/t Charlie Stanton]",https://www.lendingclub.com/info/download-data.action,
2018.08.15,2,Rocket launches.,"SpaceX’s API provides data on the company’s rockets, launchpads, launches, and more. It also will tell you the current orbital position of the car SpaceX launched into space. [h/t Mike Allred]","https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/rocket.md
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/launchpad.md
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/launches.md
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/home.md
https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/roadster.md
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster",https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/d684931d8e984ea878c6c5413fd606a51685e774
2018.08.15,3,Sneaker factories.,"Nike, Inc.’s manufacturing map displays 618 factories and material suppliers that the company uses to manufacture its products (as of May 2018). You can export the entire dataset, or browse and filter the data online. For each of the factories, the information includes the factory’s name, address, product type, number of workers, percentage of workers who are female, and more. [h/t Marc DaCosta]",http://manufacturingmap.nikeinc.com/,http://marcdacosta.com/
2018.08.15,4,Retail stores and products.,"Best Buy’s API and Walmart’s API both let you search their products and stores. Both also require (free) registration to obtain an API key. In 2016, Best Buy also published bulk data describing its products and stores. [h/t Dan Nguyen + Dave Machado]","https://bestbuyapis.github.io/api-documentation/
https://developer.walmartlabs.com/docs
https://github.com/BestBuyAPIs/open-data-set","https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5m9z0c/best_buys_developer_api_extremely_welldocumented/
https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis/commit/fa2dc74ccd4e91c1b8c90f3918c83a3a274aa734"
2018.08.15,5,Financial statements.,"The SEC’s Office of Structured Disclosure publishes data extracted from corporations’ public financial statements. That dataset contains the numbers listed in each company’s primary financial statements — balance sheets, cash flows, et cetera. An even more detailed version of the dataset includes plain-text notes from the filings, plus numbers from a broader array of forms. Both datasets are updated quarterly and go back to 2009.","https://www.sec.gov/structureddata
https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/financial-statement-data-sets.html
https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/financial-statement-and-notes-data-set.html",
2018.08.22,1,Political ads online.,"Google recently launched a database of political ads “that have appeared on Google and partner properties.” The searchable and downloadable dataset indicates the organization that paid for each advertisement, approximately how much they spent, how long the ad ran, what demographics were used for targeting, and roughly how many people it reached. A few months ago, Facebook launched a similar initiative, but you need to logged in to view it and you can’t download the data. You can, however, get Facebook political-advertising data from at least two sources: A repository of 267,000 ads scraped from Facebook’s official archive by NYU researchers, and ProPublica’s ongoing, detailed database of ads and targeting parameters gathered through their Political Ad Collector. [h/t Sheera Frenkel]","https://transparencyreport.google.com/political-ads/library
https://www.facebook.com/ads/archive/?active_status=all&ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&country=US
https://github.com/online-pol-ads/FBPoliticalAds
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/political-advertisements-from-facebook
https://projects.propublica.org/facebook-ads/",https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/technology/political-ads-facebook-trump.html
2018.08.22,2,Healthcare service in Africa.,"The African Economic Research Consortium, African Development Bank, and the World Bank have partnered to create the Service Delivery Indicators program — ”a new Africa-wide initiative” that dispatches teams of surveyors “to gauge the quality of service delivery in basic health services” across the continent. The initiative’s de-identified data contains results for nine countries so far, including assessments of facility infrastructure, worker absenteeism, and patient case simulations. [h/t Matthew Collin]","https://worldbank.github.io/SDI-Health/
https://github.com/worldbank/SDI-Health",https://twitter.com/aidthoughts
2018.08.22,3,Natural disaster satellite imagery.,"DigitalGlobe’s open data program publishes georeferenced satellite imagery from before and after major natural disasters. The archive currently includes a couple dozen events, including recent flooding in Kerala and California’s Carr Wildfire and Mendocino Complex Fire. Previously: NOAA's emergency response aerial imagery (DIP 2017.09.20). [h/t Laura Noren and Brad Stenger]","https://www.digitalglobe.com/opendata
https://www.digitalglobe.com/opendata/all-events
http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/open-data-for-flooding-in-kerala-state-india/
http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/open-data-for-the-carr-wildfire/
http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/open-data-for-the-mendocino-complex-fire/
https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-09-20-edition",https://cds.nyu.edu/newsletter/
2018.08.22,4,Half a century of opinions.,"The University of North Carolina’s Louis Harris Data Center serves as “the national depository for publicly available survey data collected by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc.” The online depository contains more than 1,000 Harris polls, some from as early 1958. In total, they include “160,000 questions asked of more than 1,200,000 respondents.” [h/t Xan Gregg]",https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/harris,https://twitter.com/xangregg
2018.08.22,5,Jeans pockets.,"Jan Diehm and Amber Thomas measured the pockets of 80 pairs of jeans — four pairs each from 20 brands, half marketed to men and the other half to women. Their findings “confirmed what every woman already knows to be true: women’s pockets are ridiculous.” In fact, “on average, the pockets in women’s jeans are 48% shorter and 6.5% narrower than men’s pockets.” For each pair of jeans, the duo’s underlying dataset contains the front and back pocket dimensions, material composition, retail price, and more.","https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/pockets",
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/
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
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",
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
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
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
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",
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
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
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,
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"
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/
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
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
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",
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/",
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
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/"
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
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
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",
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
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
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
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
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
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/",
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/
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
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
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
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
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/
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
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
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
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
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
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",
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
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
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/
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
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/
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",
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"
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
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
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
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",
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
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",
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/
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
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
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"
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",
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",
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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",
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
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"
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"
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"
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",
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",
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/",
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
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
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"
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/",
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",
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/
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",
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",
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",
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
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
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",
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
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"
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/
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
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/",
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
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/
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
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
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",
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
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"
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",
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",
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/",
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",
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
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
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
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/
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
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",
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
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"
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
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/",
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
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",
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"
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
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",
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
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/",
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
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
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
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/",
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"
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
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",
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/
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
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
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"
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
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",
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
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",
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",
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/",
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.","https://fortniteapi.com
https://www.polygon.com/fortnite-battle-royale/2018/3/30/17177068/why-is-fortnite-popular",
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
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"
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/",
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",
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",
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",
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
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",
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/",
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/"
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/
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
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",
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",
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",
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
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",
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/",
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",
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/",
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
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"
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
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
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",
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
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
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/",
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"
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,
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
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
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
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"
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",
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/
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
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/
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
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/",
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"
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
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",
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
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"
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
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/
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
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
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/",
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/",
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
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
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/"
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",
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
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/#",
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/
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",
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/
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/
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/
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
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
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/",
2019.08.07,1,Opioid distribution.,"The Washington Post and the Charleston Gazette-Mail recently won a year-long legal battle to obtain a large slice of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s data on opioid shipments. (The data had previously been provided to plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit, but a judge had sealed the records from public access.) The Post has begun publishing its findings, as well as a cleaned-up version of the dataset that focuses on “shipments of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills to chain pharmacies, retail pharmacies and practitioners” between 2006 and 2012. The raw, unsealed dataset is also available. Related: A 500-row subset, so you can see what the data looks like before downloading the large files.","https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/how-an-epic-legal-battle-brought-a-secret-drug-database-to-light/2019/08/02/3bc594ce-b3d4-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e32623ec4459
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/76-billion-opioid-pills-newly-released-federal-data-unmasks-the-epidemic/2019/07/16/5f29fd62-a73e-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/dea-pain-pill-database/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2019/07/18/how-download-use-dea-pain-pills-database/
https://twitter.com/dataeditor/status/1151905391678230528
https://github.com/r4dat/ARCOS_OPIOIDS_WashPo",
2019.08.07,2,Federal judges.,"The government-run Federal Judicial Center publishes a daily-updated “biographical directory” of all judges who’ve served on federal courts — the Supreme Court, appellate courts, district courts, the bygone circuit courts, plus a few others. The directory is presented as structured data, and includes information on the judges’ demographics, educations, professional careers, nominations and more. Related: The University of South Carolina’s Judicial Research Initiative also maintains historical datasets of district and appellate court judges; they contain many of the same variables plus some extras, such as religion and estimated net worth. [h/t Dan Nguyen + Sergio Galletta, Elliott Ash, and Daniel L. Chen]","https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/biographical-directory-article-iii-federal-judges-export
http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/poli/juri/index.htm
http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/poli/juri/attributes.htm","https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/cl4ogt/the_us_judicial_branch_maintains_a_spreadsheet_of/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3415393"
2019.08.07,3,"Hospitals, from Angola to Zimbabwe.","An international team of researchers has compiled a “comprehensive spatial inventory” of nearly 100,000 public health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. The dataset includes facilities in 50 countries and lists each facility’s name, country, administrative region, type, ownership, and coordinates. [h/t Karen Grepin]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0142-2
https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/Public_health_facilities_in_sub_Saharan_Africa/7725374/1",https://twitter.com/KarenGrepin/status/1154675390411149315
2019.08.07,4,Antarctic icebergs.,"Brigham Young University’s Antarctic Iceberg Tracking Database provides surveillance on hundreds of floating hunks of ice, past and present. The records cover 1978 plus 1992 through mid-2019; a subset of the database lists 117 icebergs’ daily position, estimated size, and rotation angle. [h/t Robin Hawkes]",https://www.scp.byu.edu/data/iceberg/,https://www.getrevue.co/profile/maps/issues/spatial-awareness-7-maps-spatial-newsletter-by-robin-hawkes-190525
2019.08.07,5,State liquor prices.,"About a third of US states hold a monopoly on the local sale of hard liquor. Some of them — including Virginia, Alabama, Michigan, Utah, and North Carolina — let you download their price lists as spreadsheets. [h/t Christopher Ingraham]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state
https://www.abc.virginia.gov/products/products-faqs/product-downloads
https://alabcboard.gov/QPL
https://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154-89334_10570_14173---,00.html
https://webapps2.abc.utah.gov/Production/OnlinePriceList/DisplayDivCategory.aspx
https://abc.nc.gov/Pricing/PriceList",https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/449353017733943296
2019.08.14,1,140 years of London theatre.,"The London Stage Database “is the latest in a long line of projects that aim to capture and present the rich array of information available on the theatrical culture of London, from the reopening of the public playhouses following the English civil wars in 1660 to the end of the eighteenth century.” The database contains information on more than 50,000 events, which you can search online and download in bulk, and are often supplemented with detailed notes and cast lists. The site also offers a user guide and a detailed explanation of the data’s provenance. (“We hope that visitors to the site will find this frank acknowledgment and foregrounding of the dataset’s history and limitations refreshing rather than frustrating.”) [h/t Ula Klein]","https://londonstagedatabase.usu.edu/
https://londonstagedatabase.usu.edu/search.php
https://londonstagedatabase.usu.edu/data.php
https://londonstagedatabase.usu.edu/guide.php
https://londonstagedatabase.usu.edu/about.php",https://twitter.com/KleinUla/status/1149815316358340616
2019.08.14,2,Airports and runways.,"OurAirports, a community-assisted project that began in 2007, provides bulk data detailing 55,000+ airports and 41,000+ runways, plus listings of airport radio frequencies and global navigation aids. In addition to standard airports, the records include 23 balloonports, 1,000+ seaplane bases, and 11,000+ heliports. Related: “How we created a map of the global architecture of airport runways, which turned out to be a wind map.” [h/t Robin Hawkes]","http://ourairports.com/
http://ourairports.com/data/
https://towardsdatascience.com/trails-of-wind-39967f07a67f",https://www.getrevue.co/profile/maps/issues/spatial-awareness-5-maps-spatial-newsletter-by-robin-hawkes-188158
2019.08.14,3,Black tech conferences.,"ThePLUG, a news site that reports on the black innovation economy, has been collecting data on conferences for black tech professionals. The dataset currently contains 33 events in more than a dozen cities, and lists their costs, year started, contact information, sponsors, and more. [h/t Sherrell Dorsey]","https://tpinsights.com/
https://tpinsights.com/2018/09/28/black-tech-conferences-offer-a-lifeline-in-a-predominantly-white-industry/
https://airtable.com/shr5YDyyXCC2HQF6E",https://www.sherrelldorsey.com/
2019.08.14,4,European electricity.,"The Open Power System Data platform has aggregated energy data from across Europe into a series of standardized datasets, including electricity consumption, power plants, and generation capacity. The project has also published an “IT philosophy,” a guide for new users, and a detailed listing of primary sources.","https://open-power-system-data.org/
https://data.open-power-system-data.org/
https://data.open-power-system-data.org/time_series/
https://data.open-power-system-data.org/national_generation_capacity/2019-02-22
https://data.open-power-system-data.org/national_generation_capacity/2019-02-22
https://open-power-system-data.org/it
https://open-power-system-data.org/step-by-step
https://open-power-system-data.org/data-sources",
2019.08.14,5,TED talks.,"Katherine M. Kinnaird and John Laudun — professors whose research includes cultural analytics and computational folklore studies — have created a dataset of 2,656 TED talks, with metadata and transcripts, and have published a detailed description of the project. [h/t Lynn Cherny]","http://katherinemkinnaird.net/
http://johnlaudun.org/
https://github.com/kinnaird-laudun/data/tree/master/Release_v0
https://culturalanalytics.org/2019/07/ted-talks-as-data/",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/t:datasets/
2019.08.21,1,Oil and gas.,"The Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) coordinates the collection, standardization, and publication of oil and gas data from around the world; the 100+ countries that participate represent the vast majority of global production. The oil data goes back to 2002; the gas data goes back to 2009. Both datasets are updated monthly and track a range of subproducts (e.g., crude oil, diesel, jet fuel) and flows (e.g., imports, exports, production) for each country. Previously: Global and gas infrastructure (DIP 2018.06.06) and state-owned oil companies (DIP 2019.05.01).","https://www.jodidata.org/about-jodi/history.aspx
https://www.jodidata.org/about-jodi/jodi-world-databases.aspx
https://www.jodidata.org/gas/database/data-downloads.aspx
https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/global-oil-gas-features-database
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-06-06-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-05-01-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-05-01-edition",
2019.08.21,2,Historical terrorist groups.,"Joshua Tschantret, a political science Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa, has compiled a dataset of 260+ terrorist groups formed between 1860 and 1969. For the purposes of the dataset, “terrorist groups are operationally defined as politically-motivated non-state actors using bombings or assassinations,” Tschantret writes in an introductory article (PDF). About one-third of the groups in the dataset operated in the US, Russia, or China; the rest are spread across dozens of other countries. Related: Additional documentation (PDF). Good to know: On Twitter, Tschantret explains why the Black Panthers are included. [h/t Carla Martinez Machain]","https://jtschantret.com/
https://jtschantret.com/data/
https://jtschantret.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/the-old-terrorism-a-dataset-1860-1969.pdf
https://jtschantret.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/online-appendix.pdf
https://twitter.com/jtschantret/status/1161171198841151489",https://twitter.com/carlammm/status/1161262430422470657
2019.08.21,3,A decade of TV news words.,"The TV-NGRAM project pulls 14 TV stations’ data from the Television News Archive and calculates how often each word (and two-word combination) was said during each 30-minute window. Most of the stations’ counts go back 9 or 10 years, and all are updated daily.","https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-television-news-ngram-datasets-tv-ngram/
https://archive.org/details/tv",
2019.08.21,4,A century of UK general elections.,"On Monday, the British government published a dataset of voting results, by party and parliamentary constituency, for every UK general election since 1918 — merging modern data with a handful of historical sources.",https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-8647,
2019.08.21,5,Confidence.,"The Confidence Database is aggregating data from behavioral studies that have asked participants’ how confident they were in their own assessments. As of its launch earlier this month, the database contains 145 datasets, 8,700 participants, and 4 million individual observations. [h/t Audrey Mazancieux + Doby Rahnev]","https://osf.io/s46pr/
https://psyarxiv.com/h8tju","https://twitter.com/MazancieuxA/status/1159477377950461952
https://twitter.com/DobyRahnev/status/1159461364815056897"
2019.08.28,1,Multinational corporations.,"The OECD’s ADIMA database tracks multinational corporations — Walmart, Toyota, Nestle, etc. — and their subsidiaries. It currently includes economic statistics about each of the world’s 100 largest multinationals, the names and locations of 26,000 subsidiaries, and information about nearly 20,000 of their websites. The OECD says plans to expand the number of companies in the future. Now you know: In 2016, the companies in the dataset “generated nearly $10 trillion in revenues (almost 20% of global GDP), earned $730 billion in profits and paid $185 billion in taxes,” according to the OECD.","http://www.oecd.org/sdd/its/measuring-multinational-enterprises.htm
http://www.oecd.org/sdd/its/statistical-insights-the-adima-database-on-multinational-enterprises.htm",
2019.08.28,2,Citations and self-citations.,"A team led by meta-research pioneer John Ioannidis has developed a dataset of citation metrics for science’s 100,000 most-cited authors. The dataset includes each author’s name, institutional affiliation, number of publications, total citations, “h-index,” and more. For each citation metric, there’s a second version that excludes self-citations. Related: “Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database” (Nature).","https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-ioannidis
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/1
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7",
2019.08.28,3,Congressional whip counts.,"Government professor C. Lawrence Evans’ dataset of US House ""whip counts"" describes more than 650 of the informal polls conducted by party leadership — covering 1955–86 for Democrats and 1975–80 for Republicans, on topics as varied as dairy prices, Alaskan statehood, voting rights, and Vietnam. It also indicates how each party member responded. [h/t Neil Malhotra + Janet Box-Steffensmeier]","https://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/clevan/home
https://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/clevan/congressionalwhipcountdatabase","https://twitter.com/namalhotra/status/1165700263824375809
https://twitter.com/jboxstef/status/1138153812248616965"
2019.08.28,4,German federal judges.,"Legal scholar and open-data enthusiast Hanjo Hamann has digitized seventy years of rosters from Germany’s seven federal courts, extracted structured data about the judges, and linked them to their Wikidata IDs. Related: Hamann’s detailed description of the dataest’s historical context and its construction. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://www.coll.mpg.de/hanjo-hamann
http://www.richter-im-internet.de
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jels.12230",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData
2019.08.28,5,Movie shots.,"James E. Cutting, a Cornell University psychology professor, has compiled several datasets on the structure of popular films, including one that indicates the length of each shot in 220 movies from 1915 to 2015. [h/t Igor Schwarzmann + Noah Brier]",http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~jec7/data.htm,"https://twitter.com/zeigor
https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-interesting-the-hostile"
2019.09.04,1,Malaria geography.,"The University of Oxford’s Malaria Atlas Project collects, models, and publishes a range of datasets related to the mosquito-borne disease, including localized incidence rates. You can explore and download the data, layer by layer, through the project’s interactive map. [h/t Clara Burgert-Brucker]","https://map.ox.ac.uk/
https://map.ox.ac.uk/data-directory/
https://map.ox.ac.uk/malaria-burden-data-download/
https://map.ox.ac.uk/faq/can-access-gis-data-map/
https://map.ox.ac.uk/explorer/",https://twitter.com/crburgert/status/1165782515728179202
2019.09.04,2,CAR refugees.,"The Central African Republic’s ongoing civil war has pressed more than 600,000 people to flee the country. The violence has also internally displaced another 600,000 people, a phenomenon that the UN's Humanitarian Data Exchange has been tracking. In addition to counts of internally displaced people by locality, the UN’s datasets include a listing of refugee sites and the country's road network. Related: A multimedia presentation of one family's 600-kilometer journey in search of safety. [h/t Becky Band Jain]","https://www.cfr.org/interactive/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/violence-central-african-republic
https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/car
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/car-baseline-assessment-data-iom-dtm
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/car-shapefile-idp-sites
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/car-roads-and-paths-shapefile
https://data.humdata.org/visualization/a-journey-of-600km-car/",https://twitter.com/bexband
2019.09.04,3,Publicly funded patents.,"The 3PFL dataset — Patents and Publications with a Public-Funding Linkage — lists more than 13,000 US patents that have acknowledged federal funding. The dataset, accompanied by a detailed methodology, also links the patents to details about the funding, as well as to scientific publications that stemmed from it. Previously: Patent geography (DIP 2019.07.31). [h/t Gaétan de Rassenfosse]","https://zenodo.org/record/3369582
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218927
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OTTBDX
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-07-31-edition",https://people.epfl.ch/gaetan.derassenfosse?lang=en
2019.09.04,4,Drama.,"The Drama Corpora Project has collected and processed more than 800 plays in German, Greek, Spanish, Russian, Latin, and English. For each play, the project provides a structured-data version of the text, a network diagram, speech distribution metrics, plus several other files and features. [h/t Lynn Cherny]","https://dracor.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/t:datasets/
2019.09.04,5,"Rah, rah, rah! Fight, fight, fight!","FiveThirtyEight has built a dataset of 65 college football fight songs, which contains each song’s name, authors, year written, tempo, duration, and whether it includes various tropes, such as spelling out words or mentioning the school’s colors. Related: FiveThirtyEight’s “Guide To The Exuberant Nonsense Of College Fight Songs,” where you can listen to the songs, read the lyrics, and explore an interactive chart of tempo versus duration.","https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/fight-songs
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/college-fight-song-lyrics/",
2019.09.11,1,Protected lands.,"The UN’s World Database on Protected Areas is, it says, “the most up to date and complete source of information on protected areas, updated monthly with submissions from governments, non-governmental organizations, landowners and communities.” It contains structured, geospatial information on more than 245,000 nature reserves, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and other kinds of conservation sites. The project provides bulk downloads, an interactive map, country-level statistics, and an API. Previously: The California Protected Areas Database (DIP 2019.07.10). [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.protectedplanet.net/
https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/about
https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/unep-regions
https://api.protectedplanet.net/
https://www.calands.org/cpad/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-07-10-edition-1",https://mailchi.mp/3eeacdf7fd0a/preview-222-in-other-news-3740637
2019.09.11,2,City street speeds and travel times.,"Uber Movement, from the titular ride-hailing company, “shares anonymized data aggregated from over ten billion trips to help urban planning around the world.” Online, you can explore street speeds and estimated travel times for dozens of cities. To download data from the website, Uber requires you to provide your name, email address, and purpose. But they also provide a command-line tool that lets you download street-speed data without any registration. [h/t Michael A. Rice]","https://movement.uber.com/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/movement-data-toolkit",
2019.09.11,3,London bike infrastructure.,"Transport for London has launched its Cycling Infrastructure Database, which “contains the location of more than 240,000 pieces of cycling infrastructure in London, including places to park and the location of cycle lanes.” The new information can be found among the agency’s broader collection of cycling data; look for the “CyclingInfrastructure” folder. [h/t Jolyon Whaymand]","https://tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/tfl-press-release-worlds-largest-cycling-database-set-to-make-cycling-in-the-capital-easier
https://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/",https://twitter.com/joejolyon/status/1156884350094499841
2019.09.11,4,Deaths on the job.,"Since 1992, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ has collected data on work-related deaths through its Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. The results are presented as various cross-tabulations — by industry, demographic, circumstances, and more. Related: The agency also publishes data on non-fatal injuries and illnesses. [h/t Elissa Philip Gentry and W. Kip Viscusi]","https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm
https://www.bls.gov/iif/soii-data.htm",https://academic.oup.com/aler/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/aler/ahz007/5531642
2019.09.11,5,Bug fixes.,"Researchers at Brazil’s Federal University of Ceará have published a new dataset “composed of more than 70,000 bug-fix reports from 10 years of bug-fixing activity of 55 projects from the Apache Software Foundation.”","https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3345639
https://figshare.com/articles/Replication_Package_-_PROMISE_19/8852084",
2019.09.18,1,Amazonian deforestation.,"Since 1988, Brazil’s PRODES project has been using satellite imagery to track clear-cutting in the country’s Amazon basin. The government’s TerraBrasilis web portal provides an interactive map and downloads of the data. Global Forest Watch also provides a dataset of PRODES-detected deforestation, from 2001 to 2015. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","http://www.obt.inpe.br/OBT/assuntos/programas/amazonia/prodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaz%C3%B4nia_Legal
http://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/en/home-page/
http://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/app/map/deforestation?hl=en-us
http://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/en/download-2/
http://data.globalforestwatch.org/datasets/4160f715e12d46a98c989bdbe7e5f4d6_1",https://mailchi.mp/3eeacdf7fd0a/preview-222-in-other-news-3740637
2019.09.18,2,State immigration laws.,"Political science professor Jamie Monogan has compiled a dataset of more than 2,700 immigration laws passed by US state legislatures from 2005 to 2016. The dataset summarizes the laws and also categorizes them by subject, scope, and whether they appear to be welcoming or hostile to immigrants.[h/t Jason Anastasopoulos]","https://spia.uga.edu/faculty-member/jamie-monogan/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/psj.12359
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/F8YTX2",https://twitter.com/jlanastas/status/1172327364056846336
2019.09.18,3,How states relate.,"The State Networks dataset gathers comparative and relationship metrics for every combination of the 50 US states, plus the District of Columbia. Among the metrics: the number of flights between each state-pair, migration in either direction, and total value of goods imported. The comparisons also include state-to-state differences in demographics, ideology, and GDP. [h/t Matt Grossmann]",https://ippsr.msu.edu/public-policy/state-networks,https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1171418973063303168
2019.09.18,4,Interconnecting roads.,"Urban planning professor Geoff Boeing’s US street network data represents America’s roads as a network graph, where each intersection (and dead-end) is a node, and each street segment is an edge between two of those nodes. The project’s data repository contains these networks for each city, county, Census tract, and more. You might remember: Boeing’s urban street orientation charts. [h/t Robin Hawkes]","https://geoffboeing.com/
https://geoffboeing.com/2019/03/us-street-network-models-measures/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CUWWYJ
https://geoffboeing.com/2019/09/urban-street-network-orientation/",https://www.getrevue.co/profile/maps/issues/spatial-awareness-6-maps-spatial-newsletter-by-robin-hawkes-189338
2019.09.18,5,Dark-web screenshots.,"CIRCL, Luxembourg’s computer security incident response team, has published a dataset of 37,500 .onion website screenshots, a subset of which have been categorized by topic (e.g., “drugs-narcotics”, “extremism”, “finance”) and/or purpose (e.g., “forum”, “file-sharing”, “scam”). [h/t Alexandre Dulaunoy]","https://www.circl.lu/
https://www.circl.lu/opendata/circl-ail-dataset-01/",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20406155
2019.09.25,1,District court decisions.,"The Carp-Manning U.S. District Court Database provides “data on 110,000+ decisions by federal district court judges handed down from 1927 to 2012.” It includes details of each case (such as the issue area and jurisdiction), each judge (year appointed, gender, race, and political party), and whether the decision was “liberal” or “conservative.” Previously: Federal judges’ data-biographies (DIP 2019.08.07). [h/t  Scott Hofer and Jason Casellas]","https://www.umassd.edu/cas/polisci/resources/us-district-court-database/
https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/biographical-directory-article-iii-federal-judges-export
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-08-07-edition",https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1532673X19867052?journalCode=aprb
2019.09.25,2,"India, geo-linked.","The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India is “an open access repository currently comprising dozens of datasets covering India’s 500,000 villages and 8,000 towns.” To make the datasets work well together, the project uses a common set of IDs for each town, village, and constituency. The downloadable files (free registration required) include data from censuses, elections, road construction, and more. Related: Introductory tweets from co-creator Paul Novosad.","http://www.devdatalab.org/shrug
http://www.devdatalab.org/shrug_download/
https://twitter.com/paulnovosad/status/1169364171781287936",
2019.09.25,3,Colonies.,"Political science professor Jack Paine has compiled a dataset of 144 territories colonized by Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, the United States, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand during the 16th through 20th centuries. The dataset includes the year of colonization, year of independence, and various metrics related to the colonies’ legislature and suffrage.","http://www.jackpaine.com/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-politics/article/democratic-contradictions-in-european-settler-colonies/5B39382138A2D57175F6BE2A2ABF1CB4
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LU8IDT",
2019.09.25,4,Kiwi and Canadian building outlines.,"Microsoft has released a dataset describing the geometric footprints of 12 million buildings in Canada, as detected by a neural network analyzing satellite imagery. (Last year, the company published similar data for the United States.) And the government of New Zealand has published building-outline data for most of the country. It’s based on aerial imagery, “using a combination of automated and manual processes,” and comes with detailed documentation. [h/t Michael McLaughlin + Robin Hawkes]","https://github.com/Microsoft/CanadianBuildingFootprints
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-07-18-edition
https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints
https://medium.com/on-location/an-open-building-outlines-dataset-for-new-zealand-eef8b558ef7a
https://www.linz.govt.nz/land/maps/aerial-imagery-and-orthophotography
https://nz-buildings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html","https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/03/mapping-the-footprints-of-buildings-in-canada/
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/maps/issues/spatial-awareness-10-maps-spatial-newsletter-by-robin-hawkes-196361"
2019.09.25,5,UK noise pollution.,"In 2012, the British government collected noise-level data from across the country and throughout London, including average daytime and nighttime loudness. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] [Update, 2019-09-25: Data collected in 2017 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-noise-mapping-2019]","https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-strategic-noise-mapping
https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/noise-pollution-in-london",https://mailchi.mp/3eeacdf7fd0a/preview-222-in-other-news-3740637
2019.10.02,1,"Wealth, asset, and debt distributions.","The Federal Reserve’s Enhanced Financial Accounts datasets are supplements to the central bank’s more-aggregated Financial Accounts of the United States statistics. Among them: wealth, asset, and debt distributions by percentile and demographic. Also: College savings plans by state and the banking industry’s balance sheet. [h/t u/loopback2019]","https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/efa/enhanced-financial-accounts.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/Z1/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/efa/efa-distributional-financial-accounts.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/efa/efa-project-section-529-college-plans.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/efa/efa-project-consolidated-balance-sheet.htm",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/b761im/federal_reserves_new_time_series_on_wealth/
2019.10.02,2,Snapchat political ads.,"Snapchat has released detailed data about every political ad purchased on its platform in 2018 and 2019. For each ad, the information includes its targeting parameters (age, gender, location, interests, internet service provider, device operating system, and more), the dates the it ran, the amount spent, number of impressions, and a link to the ad itself. Snap says this year’s data will be updated daily and that new ads will appear within 24 hours of first delivery. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://businesshelp.snapchat.com/en-US/article/political-ads-library
https://www.snap.com/en-US/political-ads/",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData
2019.10.02,3,Datos cubanos.,"Official, reliable data on Cuba is hard to come by. So Cuban journalist Barbara Maseda’s Proyecto Inventario has been collecting and publishing datasets relevant to the island nation — including by documenting the country’s legislators, blackouts, and non-agricultural cooperatives. Related: Júlio Lubianco’s profile of Maseda and the project.","https://twitter.com/barbaramaseda
https://proyectoinventario.org/
https://proyectoinventario.org/parlamento-cuba-ix-legislatura-anpp/
https://proyectoinventario.org/apagones-programados-cuba-reportes-ciudadanos/
https://proyectoinventario.org/registro-cooperativas-no-agropecuarias-cuba/
https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-21226-cuban-journalist-uses-creativity-dig-information-and-maintain-database-other-media",
2019.10.02,4,Bird sounds.,"Machine learning scientist Agnieszka Mikołajczyk has been gathering useful resources for identifying birds by sound. The resources include about a dozen datasets of audio recordings, many of which are immediately downloadable.","https://github.com/AgaMiko
https://github.com/AgaMiko/Bird-recognition-review",
2019.10.02,5,Designer data.,"Nearly 10,000 people took the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ “Design Census” earlier this year. The (non-scientific but detailed) results are out, and the raw data are (prominently) available to download. [h/t Robin Sloan]",https://designcensus.org/,https://www.robinsloan.com/
2019.10.09,1,Financial access.,"Last week, the International Monetary Fund released the results of its 10th annual Financial Access Survey. It’s a “supply-side” dataset; its country-level metrics include, for instance, the number of automated teller machines (mainland China has the most, with more than 1 million) and active mobile banking accounts (Pakistan and Bangladesh are tops). Many of the metrics are also disaggregated by gender.","https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2019/09/27/pr19359-imf-releases-the-2019-financial-access-survey-results
https://data.imf.org/FAS",
2019.10.09,2,The rules for making rules.,"The Parliamentary Rules Database traces “the formal rules of procedure for various parliaments over time.” Currently, the database covers two parliaments — the UK House of Commons and the Irish Dáil. The House of Commons info includes more than 137,000 “standing orders,” going all the way back to 1811. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://parlrulesdata.org/
https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/standing-orders/",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData
2019.10.09,3,Electricity in rural India.,"Last month, the Smart Power India and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy published Rural Electricity Demand in India, a new survey dataset that “covers 10,000 households and 2,000 rural enterprises across 200 villages in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Rajasthan.” Respondents were asked, among other things, how many hours per day they get electricity, whether they have solar panels, and the price they pay for kerosene. [h/t Hisham Zerriffi + Johannes Urpelainen]","http://www.smartpowerindia.org/
https://sais-isep.org/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/REDI","https://twitter.com/hishamzerriffi/status/1175544673571524610
https://twitter.com/jurpelai/status/1175050741427257345"
2019.10.09,4,Web encryption.,"Programmer Lee Butterman has built a dataset of the SSL encyryption connections associated with 350 million web domains. For each connection, the dataset indicates the SSL certificate’s issuer, cryptographic algorithms used, and other details. [h/t Jason Norwood-Young]","https://www.leebutterman.com/
https://www.leebutterman.com/2019/08/01/handshaking-the-web-dataset-of-350-million-ssl-connections.html
https://www.leebutterman.com/2019/08/05/analyzing-hundreds-of-millions-of-ssl-connections.html",https://mailchi.mp/c1861f935ce7/naked-data-232-stripy-teslas-twitter-twerps-and-thomas-cooked
2019.10.09,5,Walter White and company.,"Web developer Tim Biles has created an unofficial Breaking Bad API. It provides structured data on every character, episode, and death in the TV series, plus selected quotations.","https://timbilestim.netlify.com
https://breakingbadapi.com/documentation",
2019.10.16,1,Presidential popularity.,"The Executive Approval Project uses international polling data measure public support for presidents, prime ministers, and other political executives in 50 countries. For most of the countries, the database goes back to the 1990s; for some, it goes even further. Access requires providing a name, affiliation, and email address — plus agreeing to receive updates. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]",http://www.executiveapproval.org/,https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/
2019.10.16,2,California power outages.,"Last week, Pacific Gas and Electric began cutting power to hundreds of thousands of Californians — a precaution to keep the company’s aging infrastructure from sparking wildfires. Simon Willison has been scraping PG&E’s outage website every 10 minutes, and pushing the results into a database you can query and download. [h/t Lam Thuy Vo]","https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-10/pg-e-california-power-outages-grid-climate-change
https://simonwillison.net/
https://simonwillison.net/2019/Oct/10/pge-outages/
http://critweb-outage.pgealerts.com/?WT.mc_id=Vanity_pge-outages
https://pge-outages.simonwillison.net/pge-outages",https://lamthuyvo.com
2019.10.16,3,Mobile broadband prices.,"Since 2017, the Alliance for Affordable Internet has been collecting country-level prices for mobile data. The most recent data covers 99 low- and middle-income countries for the second quarter of 2019. The rates are based on “the cheapest plan(s) providing at least 1GB of broadband data over a 30-day period from the largest mobile network operator in each country.” [h/t Teddy Woodhouse]","https://a4ai.org/who-we-are/
https://a4ai.org/mobile-broadband-pricing-data-historical/
https://a4ai.org/extra/mobile_broadband_pricing_usd-2019Q2",https://twitter.com/TeddyWoodhouse
2019.10.16,4,Dating.,"Stanford’s How Couples Meet and Stay Together study, which receives funding from both the university and the National Science Foundation, has been asking American adults about dating since 2009. A new-and-updated version of the survey includes questions related to dating apps. [h/t u/morningshower]","https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst
https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst2017",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/dhxiva/how_couples_meet_and_stay_together_dataset_in_csv/
2019.10.16,5,🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴.,"A team of researchers has “derived measurements of essential functional traits” for more than 2,500 species of palm plants — including but not limited to palm trees. Their PalmTraits database, based on published studies and preserved specimens, includes variables such as maximum height, fruit shape, and whether the fruit color is “conspicuous.”","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0189-0
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.ts45225",
2019.10.23,1,Autocracies.,"The Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset bills itself as “the first comprehensive data set on the founding origins, modes of gaining and losing power, ruling tenures, and other characteristics of autocratic ruling parties.” The dataset, created by political science professor Michael K. Miller, covers nearly 500 parties in more than 150 countries between 1940 and 2015. [h/t u/smurfyjenkins]","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022002719876000
https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/data
https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/home",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/dgve6r/new_dataset_on_all_autocratic_ruling_parties/
2019.10.23,2,Euro-bank speeches.,"European Central Bank has begun publishing a spreadsheet of all executive board members’ speeches since the late 1990s. The dataset contains each speech’s date, speaker(s), title, subtitle, and text; the ECB says it will be updated every two months. [h/t Volker Nitsch + Peter Tillmann]",https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/html/downloads.en.html,"https://twitter.com/nitschv/status/1184048455741857793
https://twitter.com/peterhtillmann/status/1183833071050727430"
2019.10.23,3,Biomedical citations.,"The National Institutes of Health’s new Open Citation Collection brings together 420 million academic citations in biomedical literature. The data — the most comprehensive available for biomedicine — now underpins the NIH’s iCite platform, where you can explore citation statistics online. The citations are also available as a bulk download and via an API. [h/t Travis Hoppe]","https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000385
https://icite.od.nih.gov/
https://doi.org/10.35092/yhjc.c.4586573
https://icite.od.nih.gov/api",https://twitter.com/metasemantic/status/1182358118564450304
2019.10.23,4,Adoptable dogs.,"The Pudding’s Amber Thomas used PetFinder’s API to collect detailed data on all adoptable dogs at shelters and rescue organizations on a single day in September. Related: Thomas's story for The Pudding, which uses the data to examine state-to-state relocations.","https://pudding.cool/author/amber-thomas/
https://www.petfinder.com/developers/api-docs
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/dog-shelters
https://pudding.cool/2019/10/shelters/",
2019.10.23,5,Charts and minds.,"The Data Visualization Society has published the results of its annual community survey, which received 1,359 responses from data visualization practitioners. The public data contains answers to 50 questions on topics such as compensation, tools, community, and more. [h/t Amy Cesal]","https://www.datavisualizationsociety.com/
https://github.com/data-visualization-society/data_visualization_survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-CMHrt1gYOxO9Tdk6cjyLIpJnAJMDjS94OBDHi6YU2g3sBA/viewform",https://www.amycesal.com/
2019.11.13,1,Millions of violent crimes.,"The Trace has posted raw data on 4.3 million murders, nonfatal shootings, assaults, robberies, and rapes, obtained from 56 police and sheriff’s departments in the United States. Related: Sarah Ryley's introductory Twitter thread. Also related: The Trace and BuzzFeed News’ investigative reporting on cities’ failure to arrest shooters, for which Sarah, Sean Campbell, and I used many of these datasets.","https://www.thetrace.org/
https://www.thetrace.org/violent-crime-data/
https://twitter.com/missryley/status/1190361721526992896
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahryley/police-unsolved-shootings
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahryley/5-things-to-know-about-cities-failure-to-arrest-shooters
https://github.com/the-trace-and-buzzfeed-news/introduction",
2019.11.13,2,"Online news language, updated live.","The GDELT Project’s Web News Ngram dataset keeps track the frequency individual words and two-word in online news around the world. The dataset incorporates news sources in 142 languages and provides overall word counts for every 15-minute window since January 1, 2019. An additional dataset tracks phrasings used in 10 character-based languages. Previously: GDELT’s similar dataset for television news (DIP 2019.08.21). [h/t Kalev Leetaru]","https://www.gdeltproject.org/
https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-web-news-ngram-datasets-web-ngram/
https://blog.gdeltproject.org/the-languages-of-the-new-web-news-ngram-datasets-web-ngram/
https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-web-ngram-character-ngram-datasets/
https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-television-news-ngram-datasets-tv-ngram/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-08-21-edition",https://www.kalevleetaru.com/
2019.11.13,3,Interwar debt.,"In a recent working paper titled “Instruments of Debtstruction,” researchers at the International Monetary Fund share a “comprehensive instrument-level database of sovereign debt for 18 advanced and emerging countries over the period 1913–46.” (The dataset currently published alongside the paper seems to be missing one of the 18 countries, Russia.) The “instruments” include bonds, credit lines, and several other forms of debt; for each instrument issued, the dataset contains the debt’s coupon rate, maturity, and currency.",https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/10/25/Instruments-of-Debtstruction-A-New-Database-of-Interwar-Debt-48689,
2019.11.13,4,Food flows.,"A team of researchers has developed a statistical model to estimate the flow of food commodities between every pair of US counties in 2012. To calculate the estimates, the researchers used data from the Census’s Commodity Flow Survey, ORNL’s Freight Analysis Framework, the USDA’s Census of Agriculture, and several other sources. Related: One of the paper’s authors summarizes the findings. [h/t Jain Family Institute weekly newsletter]","https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab29ae
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cfs.html
https://faf.ornl.gov/fafweb/
https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/
https://theconversation.com/we-mapped-how-food-gets-from-farms-to-your-home-125475",https://www.jainfamilyinstitute.org/media/jfi-letter/
2019.11.13,5,Perceived vs. real ages.,"AgeGuess.org asks visitors to guess people’s ages, based on photographs. You can download a database of the results, which currently includes more than 220,000 guesses about more than 4,600 photos. For each photograph, the database also includes some metadata, such as the person’s actual age. Related: The researchers describe their project in Scientific Data.","https://www.ageguess.org/
https://www.ageguess.org/download
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0245-9",
2019.11.20,1,Chicago prosecutions.,"Since early 2018, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office has been publishing detailed data on every felony case it has handled since 2010. (The office, whose jurisdiction includes Chicago, is the second-largest local prosecutorial agency in the country.) The datasets cover four main stages: intake, initiation, charging, and sentencing. Related: In a recent Pudding article copublished with The Marshall Project and Chicago Reporter, Matt Daniels used the data to examine how prosecutions have changed under State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who promised reforms.","https://www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/
https://www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/about/case-level-data
https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/browse?tags=state%27s+attorney+case-level&sortBy=most_accessed
https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/Courts/Intake/3k7z-hchi
https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/Courts/Initiation/7mck-ehwz
https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/Courts/Dispositions/apwk-dzx8
https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/Courts/Sentencing/tg8v-tm6u
https://pudding.cool/2019/10/prosecutors/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/10/24/the-kim-foxx-effect-how-prosecutions-have-changed-in-cook-county
https://projects.chicagoreporter.com/kim-foxx-prosecutions-20191024/
https://twitter.com/matthew_daniels",
2019.11.20,2,Electricity prices.,"OpenEI’s Utility Rate Database contains nearly 50,000 expert-verified rates — current and historical — for residential, commercial, industrial, and street-lighting electricity from thousands of US utility companies. Related: OpenEI’s other data offerings. [h/t Arik Levinson and Emilson Delfino Silva]","https://openei.org/wiki/Utility_Rate_Database
https://openei.org/wiki/Data",https://www.nber.org/papers/w26385
2019.11.20,3,Financial well-being.,"Since the mid-1980s, the US Census Bureau has periodically conducted its Survey of Income and Program Participation and provided anonymized, respondent-level data. In addition to the titular topics, the extensive questionnaires also ask about “family dynamics, educational attainment, housing expenditures, asset ownership, health insurance, disability, child care, and food security.” Related: My colleagues Scott Pham and Venessa Wong used SIPP’s data on familial support to “finally end the myth of the lazy millennial.”","https://www.census.gov/sipp/
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sipp/data/datasets.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sipp/about/sipp-content-information.html
https://twitter.com/scottpham
https://twitter.com/venessawwong
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2019-11-sipp
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/millennials-parents-stereotypes-boomers-data",
2019.11.20,4,Soccer/football play-by-play.,"A group of academics has partnered with a soccer-data company to publish what they believe to be “the largest collection of soccer-logs ever released.” The dataset describes every “event” on the field — each pass, shot, foul, tackle, penalty, and more — for the 2017/18 season of five European leagues, the 2018 World Cup, and the 2016 European championship.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0247-7
https://figshare.com/collections/Soccer_match_event_dataset/4415000",
2019.11.20,5,Central Park squirrels.,"Last October, the Squirrel Census dispatched 300+ volunteers to record every squirrel they saw in Central Park. In June, the organizers published a multimedia report of their findings (at $75 each). Now they’ve made the data — with each squirrel’s location, fur color, behavior, and more — available through New York City’s open data portal. Related: CityLab has more details on the project and interviews its creator. [h/t Jesus M. Castagnetto + Tidy Tuesday]","https://www.thesquirrelcensus.com/
https://squirrelcensus.bigcartel.com/product/central-park-squirrel-census-2019-report
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2018-Central-Park-Squirrel-Census-Squirrel-Data/vfnx-vebw
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/06/squirrel-census-results-population-central-park-nyc/592162/","https://twitter.com/jmcastagnetto/status/1191418797384753152
https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday#2019"
2019.11.27,1,UN blue helmets.,"The United Nations publishes data describing its active peacekeeping missions and police and military personnel, plus all peacekeeping fatalities since 1948. Also: The International Peace Institute’s Peacekeeping Database tracks member-countries’ historical contributions of personnel going back to 1990. Plus: Last month, researchers at Uppsala University’s Department of Peace and Conflict Research introduced a Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations dataset, which provides detailed information about the location and troops for all UN peacekeeping deployments in Africa from 1994 to 2014, with stated plans to extend coverage through 2018 soon. [h/t u/smurfyjenkins]","https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/open-data-portal
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/peacekeeping-master-open-datasets
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/data-troop-and-police-contributions
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/peacekeeper-fatalities
http://www.providingforpeacekeeping.org/contributions/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022343319871978?journalCode=jpra
https://www.pcr.uu.se/data/geo-pko/",https://www.reddit.com/r/IRstudies/comments/dmhn38/dataset_the_geocoded_peacekeeping_operations/
2019.11.27,2,Earthquakes in Mexico.,"Researchers have constructed a “unified catalog” more than 5,000 earthquakes in Mexico. To do so, they standardized, deduplicated, and fact-checked quake information from more than 100 local, regional, and international sources. The final dataset goes back to 1787 and details each quake’s epicenter, depth, magnitude, and sources. The researchers consider the catalog to be complete for earthquakes with a moment magnitude of 6+ since 1925, and for those with a magnitude of 4+ since 1990.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0234-z
https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/An_updated_and_unified_earthquake_catalog_1787-2018_for_seismic_hazard_assessment_studies_in_Mexico/4492763
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale",
2019.11.27,3,Seized Greek real estate.,"For an article in AthensLive, Sotiris Sideris collected data on properties up for bidding through eauction.gr, Greece’s official website for auctioning real estate seized from over-indebted borrowers. The dataset includes 45,918 lots listed between mid-November 2017 (when the website launched) and September 1, 2019. For each lot, the dataset specifies the auction date, property characteristics, starting bid, total debt, debtor, “hastener” pursuing the auction, links to additional documentation, and more.","https://medium.com/athenslivegr/whose-home-is-this-f3b45d878b0b
https://twitter.com/sotsideris
https://github.com/2109Sot/eauction_data
https://www.eauction.gr/",
2019.11.27,4,Bollywood.,"Parth Parikh, an engineering student in Mumbai, has created The Indian Movie Database, which aggregates and cross-references data on Bollywood films from IMDB, Wikipedia, and MovieLens. It currently contains more than 4,700 movies released between 1950 and 2019.","https://pncnmnp.github.io/
https://github.com/pncnmnp/TIMDB/
https://www.imdb.com/
https://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/",
2019.11.27,5,Medieval monasteries.,"Economists Serra Boranbay-Akan and Carmine Guerriero have built a dataset describing the locations and operating years of more than 3,000 Cistercian and Franciscan monasteries in 90 European regions between the years 1000 and 1600.","https://www.qatar.cmu.edu/directory/serra-boranbay-akan/
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/c.guerriero/en
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340919310868",
2019.12.04,1,"Income inequality around the world, over time.","Political scientist Frederick Solt’s Standardized World Income Inequality Database provides annual Gini coefficients for 196 countries and territories. For many, the calculations go back to the 1960s. The database draws on hundreds of sources, including international organizations, national statistical offices, and academic studies. In an accompanying paper, Solt argues that the SWIID represents an improvement over other similar efforts, such as the United Nations University’s World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2016.06.01). [h/t Y. Julia Jung]","https://fsolt.org/
https://fsolt.org/swiid/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
https://fsolt.org/swiid/swiid_source/
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/mwnje/
https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/wiid-world-income-inequality-database
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-01-edition",https://twitter.com/YJuliaJung/status/1200986856881610753
2019.12.04,2,Ambassadorial qualifications.,"The Foreign Service Act of 1980 requires US presidents to provide Congress a “report on the demonstrated competence” for each ambassadorial nominee. In 2014, the government began disclosing these records, which had long been held secret. But the government’s policy applied only to new nominees. Law professor Ryan Scoville, however, used the Freedom of Information Act to pry loose the rest — more than three decades of concise biographies — and, earlier this year, put them online, accompanied by a dataset that describes the nominees’ qualifications and political contributions. Related: “Unqualified Ambassadors,” Scoville’s Duke Law Journal article on the topic, and his summary in Lawfare. [h/t u/smurfyjenkins]","https://www.state.gov/resources-bureau-of-human-resources/
https://ryanscoville.com/about/
https://ryanscoville.com/2019/02/13/certificates-of-competency-for-nominees-to-be-chiefs-of-mission-1980-2014/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333988
https://www.lawfareblog.com/troubling-trends-ambassadorial-appointments-1980-present",https://www.reddit.com/r/IRstudies/comments/e31izg/dataset_the_professional_qualifications_and/
2019.12.04,3,Samoa’s measles outbreak.,The Samoan government has been tweeting updates regarding the country’s measles crisis. Epidemiologist Chris von Csefalvay has been converting those tweets into a simple dataset that counts the number of cases and deaths (by age group) at the time of each tweet.,"https://twitter.com/samoagovt/status/1201637336515112960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Samoa_measles_outbreak
https://bitsandbugs.io/chris-von-csefalvay/
https://github.com/chrisvoncsefalvay/samoa-measles-2019",
2019.12.04,4,Science PhD candidates.,"Last month, Nature released findings and response data from its fifth survey of science graduate students. The questionnaire covered demographics, motivations, ambitions, satisfaction, mental health, and other topics. More than 6,000 students participated, including 1,000+ each living in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Related: Nature’s editorial board calls for “urgent attention” to students’ mental health. [h/t Mattias Björnmalm]","https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03459-7
https://figshare.com/s/74a5ea79d76ad66a8af8
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03489-1",https://twitter.com/bearore/status/1195296027567443974
2019.12.04,5,British Isle bumps.,"The Database of British and Irish Hills began 20 years ago and now catalogs more than 20,000 bits of bumpy terrain. The data files include detailed coordinates, map references, and descriptive characteristics. [h/t Declan Valters]","http://www.hills-database.co.uk/index.html
http://www.hills-database.co.uk/downloads.html",https://twitter.com/dvalts/status/1192513425307504645
2019.12.11,1,Death row.,"“Forty-three years after the Supreme Court reversed course and reinstated the death penalty, reliable data on the individuals sent to death row is maddeningly difficult to obtain.” So reporters at The Intercept “set out to compile a comprehensive dataset on everyone sentenced to die in active death penalty jurisdictions since 1976.” The resulting database contains more than 7,300 entries; for each person, it contains demographics, sentencing information, whether the person is still on death row, whether they’ve been exonerated, and more. Previously: Death sentences (DIP 2018.08.01), executions (DIP 2019.05.15), and last words (DIP 2019.03.06).","https://theintercept.com/series/the-condemned/
https://github.com/firstlookmedia/the-condemned-data
https://endofitsrope.com/using-the-database/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-08-01-edition
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/execution-database
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-05-15-edition
https://selectstarsql.com/frontmatter.html#dataset
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-03-06-edition",
2019.12.11,2,Environmental treaties.,"The International Environmental Agreements Database Project describes more than 3,700 “international environmental treaties, conventions, and other agreements with links to text, membership, performance data, secretariat, and summary statistics.” The database, hosted at the University of Oregon, includes agreements from the 1850s to the present and can be queried online. It also includes detailed pages for each treaty, such as this one for the UN’s Paris Agreement. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://iea.uoregon.edu/
https://iea.uoregon.edu/iea-project-contents
https://iea.uoregon.edu/base-agreement-list
https://iea.uoregon.edu/membership-long-form/5046",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData
2019.12.11,3,Spelling fixes.,"The GitHub Typo Corpus contains structured data on misspellings, bad grammar, and the ways they've been corrected. To build the dataset, Masato Hagiwara and Masato Mita analyzed the “commits” — sets of changes to files, typically accompanied by short summaries — made to tens of thousands of projects on the code-sharing platform GitHub. With “more than 350k edits and 65M characters in more than 15 languages,” the authors say it's “the largest dataset of misspellings to date.” [h/t u/Loves_Portisheads]","https://github.com/mhagiwara/github-typo-corpus
http://masatohagiwara.net/
https://sites.google.com/view/masatomita/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12893",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/e5hdxt/spelling_and_grammar_correction_corpus_from/
2019.12.11,4,Book ratings.,"In 2004, computer scientist Cai-Nicolas Ziegler scraped (with permission) 433,000 numeric ratings of 186,000 books by 78,000 users on the book-tracking website BookCrossing. For most users, the data includes their stated city and age. [h/t Ningshan Zhang, Kyle Schmaus, and Patrick O. Perry]","http://dbis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/team/ziegler/cai
http://www2.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/
https://www.bookcrossing.com/",https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02321
2019.12.11,5,Yearbook photos.,"Over at The Pudding, Elle O'Brien and Jan Diehm chart the rise and fall of “big hair”. To ’do it, they combed through a public dataset of 37,921 portraits, culled from the yearbooks of 115 American high schools in 26 states between 1905 and 2013. [h/t Sophie Warnes]","https://www.elle-obrien.com/
http://jandiehmdesigns.com/
https://pudding.cool/2019/11/big-hair/
https://github.com/andronovhopf/Bigdata_Bighair
http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~shiry/projects/yearbooks/yearbooks.html",https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-inheritance-tax-nightingale-and-wine-212281
2019.12.18,1,Emissions indicators.,"The Climate Action Tracker is “an independent scientific analysis” that keeps tabs on 32 countries’ progress on tackling climate change. Through its data portal, you can explore the project’s dozens of indicators — such as emissions per capita and renewable energy capacity — and also download the data in bulk. The countries covered include “the biggest emitters and a representative sample of smaller emitters,” and account for “about 80% of global emissions and approximately 70% of global population.” [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://climateactiontracker.org
https://climateactiontracker.org/data-portal/",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData
2019.12.18,2,MENA public opinion.,"The Arab Barometer has “been conducting high quality and reliable public opinion surveys in the Middle East and North Africa since 2006,” and bills itself as “the largest repository of publicly available data on the views of men and women in the MENA region.” You can download raw survey data or explore it through the Barometer’s online analysis tool. [h/t Chris Marsicano]","https://www.arabbarometer.org/about/
https://www.arabbarometer.org/survey-data/data-downloads/
https://www.arabbarometer.org/survey-data/data-analysis-tool/",https://twitter.com/ChrisMarsicano/status/1201970565029879808
2019.12.18,3,Duterte’s drug war deaths.,"In the Philippines’ drug war, President Rodrigo Duterte has given police broad permission to kill suspected drug dealers. But an investigation by reporters at the Columbia Journalism School earlier this year found that “large numbers of killings [...] have been excluded from official counts.” The reporters collected data from 23 sources on 2,320 killings by police and unidentified assailants between July 2016 and December 2017 in three municipalities. Their dataset (free account required to download, alternate version here) indicates the month, local police station, whether police recorded the death, and more. Related: Because so many deaths appear to have gone unreported, the journalists worked with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group to estimate the total number of undocumented deaths. [h/t Scilla Alecci]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Drug_War
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/philippines-dead-rodrigo-duterte-drug-war/595978/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6133399-Data-Sources-June04.html
https://data.world/stabile-center/ph-drug-war
https://github.com/HRDAG/PH-drug-related-killings/tree/master/import/input
https://hrdag.org/
https://github.com/HRDAG/PH-drug-related-killings",https://twitter.com/shirafu
2019.12.18,4,Think tank citations.,"Andrew Thompson scoured three years of articles from nine publications — Axios, BuzzFeed News, The Economist, The Hill, The New York Times, Politico, Vice News, Vox, and The Wall Street Journal — for mentions of any organization in Wikipedia’s list of US think tanks. The resulting spreadsheet contains more than 15,000 entries, relating to 172 think tanks. Each entry lists the publication, the think tank, the relevant sentence, and a link to the article.","http://andrewsthompson.co/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks_in_the_United_States
https://components.one/datasets/think-tank-mentions-in-nine-publications-2016-2018/",
2019.12.18,5,Boo!,"Where’s The Jump aims “to provide a comprehensive listing of the jump scares in horror and thriller movies.” The website doesn’t provide data downloads, but its list of 540+ movies — with year of release, “jump count,” “jump scare rating,” availability on Netflix, and more — can be copy-pasted into a spreadsheet. Related: “The Lazy Director’s Guide To Jump Scares.” [h/t Sophie Warnes]","https://wheresthejump.com/
https://wheresthejump.com/full-movie-list/
https://wheresthejump.com/the-lazy-directors-guide-to-jump-scares/",https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-the-100th-edition-213612
2020.01.01,1,Global water quality.,"The UN’s GEMStat project provides “scientifically-sound data” on freshwater quality around the world. The data portal lets visitors explore and download water-sample results from thousands of stations in more than 80 countries. The information available for each sample varies, but it can include chemical, biological, and physical properties. Note: Not all locations have been sampled recently, and data downloads are limited to 500 stations at a time and for noncommercial purposes only. Related: “The Invisible Water Crisis,” a World Bank report from last year that used the GEMStat data. [h/t Rylan Dobson]","https://gemstat.org
https://gemstat.org/data/data-portal/
https://gemstat.bafg.de/applications/public.html?publicuser=PublicUser
https://gemstat.org/custom-data-request/
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/32245",https://twitter.com/rylan_dobson/status/1165142955243515904
2020.01.01,2,State legislator ideologies.,"Political scientists Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty’s have assigned ideology scores, on a conservative-to-liberal scale, to every US lawmaker in all 50 state legislatures. The most recent update, published May 2018, covers more than 22,000 legislators from 1993 through 2016. Shor and McCarty derived the numeric scores from a combination of legislative voting records and responses to Vote Smart’s “Political Courage Test.”","https://research.bshor.com
https://www.princeton.edu/~nmccarty/
https://americanlegislatures.com/faq/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/6QWX7Q
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/about/political-courage-test/",
2020.01.01,3,Copyright complaints.,"Google has received millions of requests from copyright holders to delist billions of URLs from its search results. The company’s transparency reports include a section where you can explore and download data about these requests. One of the datasets describes 8.5 million delisting requests, with their dates, copyright holders, numbers of URLs targeted, and links to more details in the Lumen archive. Another contains every web domain targeted, while another lists the URLs for which Google says it took no action. [h/t Dan Nguyen]","https://transparencyreport.google.com
https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/overview
https://www.lumendatabase.org",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/54kv4e/database_of_copyright_removal_requests_made_to/
2020.01.01,4,California university history.,"The UC ClioMetric History Project is digitizing decades of administrative records from the University of California and other schools in the state (such as USC and Stanford). So far, they’ve uploaded data on more than 750,000 student enrollments, tens of thousands of faculty members, and 800,000 courses.","https://uccliometric.org
https://uccliometric.org/students/
https://uccliometric.org/faculty/
https://uccliometric.org/courses/",
2020.01.01,5,Game show gambles.,"To study how people make decisions in risky situations, a team of academics analyzed contestants’ choices in 100+ episodes of Deal or No Deal that aired in the Netherlands, Germany, and the US. Their dataset is available through ICPSR (registration required) and the Wayback Machine.","https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=636508
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal
https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/113232/version/V1/view
http://web.archive.org/web/2018*/https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.98.1.38",
2020.01.15,1,Missing migrants.,"The Missing Migrants Project “tracks deaths of migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, who have gone missing along mixed migration routes worldwide.” Research for the project, an initiative of the International Organization for Migration, began after the fatal Lampedusa shipwrecks of October 2013. For each incident, the project’s datasets specify the location, the number of people who died, the number who are missing, the number who survived, the sources of information, the source quality, and more. Previously: European migration deaths, 1993 to May 2018 (DIP 2018.07.18). [h/t u/cavedave + Topi Tjukanov]","https://missingmigrants.iom.int/about
https://www.iom.int
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck
https://missingmigrants.iom.int/downloads
https://github.com/ondata/the-list
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-07-18-edition","https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/eiwiww/dataset_where_migrants_die/
https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1212641818975916032"
2020.01.15,2,Global antitrust.,"The Comparative Competition Law project classifies the legal provisions and enforcement of antitrust laws around the world, over time. The project is run by law professors Anu Bradford and Adam Chilton, and features several datasets and detailed codebooks. (They require an email address but no formal registration.) Related: Chilton’s introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Libor Dusek]","https://comparativecompetitionlaw.org
https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/anu-bradford
http://www.adamchilton.org
http://comparativecompetitionlaw.org/data/
https://twitter.com/adamschilton/status/1192498999204483074",https://twitter.com/dusek_libor/status/1192520366373187586
2020.01.15,3,Microorganisms.,"The Microbe Directory is an attempt to profile more than 7,000 bacteria, viruses, archaea, and other microorganisms. The directory can be downloaded in bulk and describes the microbes’ optimal temperature, optimal pH, Gram stain, pathogenicity, antimicrobial resistance, and more.","https://microbe.directory/
https://microbe.directory/developers
https://github.com/microbe-directory/microbe-directory",
2020.01.15,4,Geographic (re)naming proposals.,"When someone wants to officially name or rename a geographic feature of the United States — such as a mountain, creek, or island — they file a proposal with the US Board on Geographic Names. Those proposals end up on the agency’s “Action List,” the most recent year of which can be downloaded as a spreadsheet. Previously: The Board’s database of every US geographic name (DIP 2015.10.21). [h/t Noah Veltman]","https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/board-on-geographic-names
https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=geonames_web:review_lists:0:::::
https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/board-on-geographic-names/download-gnis-data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-10-21-edition",https://twitter.com/veltman/status/1201906847382269953
2020.01.15,5,The life of a supercomputer.,"CIEMAT — a public institution in Spain that studies energy and the environment — has published nearly a decade of processing receipts from its Euler supercomputer. The records, which span the supercomputer’s entire lifetime, contain metadata for more than 9 million computing jobs, including timestamps, memory usage, and more.","http://fusionwiki.ciemat.es/wiki/CIEMAT
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340919313629
https://www.cse.huji.ac.il/labs/parallel/workload/l_ciemat_euler/index.html",
2020.01.22,1,China’s projects abroad.,"The AidData research lab at the College of William & Mary has published several datasets on China’s international soft-power efforts, including the first-ever dataset of government-financed development projects abroad (covering 3,485 projects between 2000 and 2014) and a structured dataset of diplomacy efforts in 25 Asia/Pacific countries between 2000 and 2016. [h/t Nick Routley + Simon Kuestenmacher]","https://www.aiddata.org/about
https://www.aiddata.org/blog/aiddata-releases-first-ever-global-dataset-on-chinas-development-spending-spree
https://www.aiddata.org/data/geocoded-chinese-global-official-finance-dataset
https://www.aiddata.org/data/chinas-public-diplomacy-dashboard-dataset-version-1-0","https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-chinese-financing-is-fueling-megaprojects
https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1216764349026574337"
2020.01.22,2,Broadcast geography.,"To construct her maps “visualizing the geography of FM radio” in the US, Erin Davis combined the Federal Communication Commission’s service contour data — the area where reception for a station “is generally protected from interference caused by other stations” — with the agency’s radio station licensing data and genre information from radio-locator.com. The FCC also provides service contour data for broadcast television. Previously: All FCC-issued licenses (DIP 2016.09.07). [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://erdavis.com/2020/01/04/visualizing-the-geography-of-fm-radio/
https://erdavis.com/about/
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/fm-service-contour-data-points
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/fm-query
https://radio-locator.com
https://www.fcc.gov/media/television/tv-service-contour-data-points
http://reboot.fcc.gov/license-view/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-07-edition",https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=c55fd8b814
2020.01.22,3,Street sprawl.,"Using 46 million kilometers of data from OpenStreetMap, Christopher Barrington-Leigh and Adam Millard-Ball have published “the first systematic and globally commensurable measures of street-network sprawl based on graph-theoretic and geographic concepts.” You can explore their findings via an interactive map and also download aggregate metrics for nearly 200 cities and more than 160 countries. [h/t Roberto Rocha]","https://planet.openstreetmap.org
https://wellbeing.ihsp.mcgill.ca
https://people.ucsc.edu/~adammb/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223078
https://sprawlmap.org/
https://sprawl.research.mcgill.ca/publications/2020-PNAS-sprawl/website-FAQ.html",https://twitter.com/robroc
2020.01.22,4,Cannabis tests.,"Despite US adults increasingly gaining state-legal access to cannabis, “no universal standards for laboratory testing protocols currently exist,” write Nick Jikomes and Michael Zoorob, in a March 2018 article for Scientific Reports. “To investigate these concerns, we analyzed a publicly available seed-to-sale traceability dataset from Washington state containing measurements of the cannabinoid content of legal cannabis products from state-certified laboratories.” The dataset, obtained by the authors via public records requests, includes more than 200,000 test results over the course of three years.","https://twitter.com/trikomes
https://michaelzoorob.com/about/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22755-2
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/E8TQSD",
2020.01.22,5,Backyard ice rinks.,"RinkWatch “asks people who love outdoor skating to help environmental scientists monitor winter weather conditions” by reporting the conditions of their backyard ice rinks. The project’s downloadable data includes more than 30,000 “skateable” / “not skateable” observations of more than 1,200 rinks since 2012. As mentioned in: Last week’s New York Times article about outdoor skating trails in Quebec.","https://www.rinkwatch.org/
https://www.rinkwatch.org/download.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/travel/ice-skating-Quebec.html",
2020.01.29,1,How we spend our time.,"Ever year since 2003, the American Time Use Survey, has been measuring how much time we spend sleeping, eating, and working; with friends, with family, and alone; and much more. Unlike many other time use surveys, the ATUS’s respondent-level datasets are freely available to the general public. Other time use surveys with downloadable data include the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey and a Kosovo time use survey sponsored by the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Related: Through IPUMS, you can build custom data extracts of the ATUS, of historical US time survey data, and of the Multinational Time Use Study (registration required). As seen in: “How the American Work Day Changed in 15 Years” and “A Day in the Life: Women and Men,” two visualizations by Nathan Yau. [h/t Petrit Selimi]","https://www.bls.gov/tus/home.htm
https://www.timeuse.org/information/access-data
https://www.bls.gov/tus/data.htm
https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/rlms-hse
https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/205/study-description
https://ipums.org
https://www.atusdata.org/atus/
https://www.ahtusdata.org/ahtus/
https://www.mtusdata.org/mtus/
https://flowingdata.com/2019/07/16/how-the-american-work-day-changed-in-15-years/
https://flowingdata.com/2019/03/06/women-men-timeuse/
https://twitter.com/flowingdata",https://twitter.com/Petrit/status/1043413638068006912
2020.01.29,2,Dams.,"The Global Georeferenced Database of Dams contains geographic data on more than 38,000 dams and their watersheds. The project, published by geographers at King’s College London, is based on a combination of satellite imagery, national registries, and other sources. At least one co-author has been working on the project since 2008. [h/t Jida Wang]","https://globaldamwatch.org/goodd/
https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/GOODD_a_global_dataset_of_more_than_38_000_georeferenced_dams/4648214
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0362-5
https://twitter.com/drarnoutvans/status/1219664646107533318",https://twitter.com/JIDA1983/status/1220374752533131264
2020.01.29,3,Three decades of Spanish migration.,"Spain’s national statistics institute publishes annual microdata on the relocation of residents within, into, and out of the country. The datasets indicate each relocator’s gender and age, birthplace, previous location, and destination — down to the municipality for locations within Spain. Currently, the records cover 1988 to 2018. Related: El Confidencial’s report on intra-provincial migration patterns, using this data, and related GitHub repository. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://github.com/ECLaboratorio/unidad-de-datos/tree/master/proyectos/migraciones_espana
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elconfidencial.com%2Feconomia%2F2019-09-27%2Fexodo-urbano-espana-migraciones-provincias_2240119%2F&sandbox=1
https://github.com/ECLaboratorio/unidad-de-datos/tree/master/proyectos/migraciones_espana",https://mailchi.mp/a4bbc86cc07b/preview-222-in-other-news-3750685
2020.01.29,4,Darknet market survival.,"The researcher who goes by “Gwern” maintains a dataset of more than 80 darknet marketplaces founded between 2011 and 2015. For each market (such as the infamous Silk Road), the dataset lists when it began, when it closed, why it closed, its URL, what cryptocurrencies it accepted, whether guns were allowed to be sold, and more.","https://www.gwern.net/Links
https://www.gwern.net/DNM-survival",
2020.01.29,5,California vanity plates.,"Through a public records request, Noah Veltman has obtained data on more than 23,000 personalized license plate applications flagged for review by the California DMV. For each flagged application, the dataset contains the applicant’s justification, comments from the state’s reviewers, and the proposal’s outcome. The reviewers rejected about 80% of the proposals, including those believed to be referencing racial slurs, swearing, drugs, sex, violence, and more. Previously: New York vanity plate applications (DIP 2015.10.21).","https://twitter.com/veltman
https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates
https://github.com/datanews/license-plates
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-10-21-edition",
2020.02.05,1,Credibly accused clergy.,"Reporters at ProPublica have assembled the first-ever nationwide database of US Catholic clergy “credibly accused” of sexual abuse, based on nearly 180 official lists released by dioceses and religious orders. (The majority of the lists were published during the past year and a half, following a landmark grand jury report in Pennsylvania.) The database contains more than 6,700 names so far, plus details available from some of the lists, including birth year, ordination year, assignments, and status.","https://www.propublica.org/article/we-assembled-the-only-nationwide-database-of-priests-deemed-credibly-accused-of-abuse-heres-how
https://projects.propublica.org/credibly-accused/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury_investigation_of_Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_in_Pennsylvania",
2020.02.05,2,Coronavirus cases.,"As the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak intensifies, a team at Johns Hopkins has been mapping the number of confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries. The project aggregates data from several sources, including the WHO, US CDC, European CDC, and DXY, a website that reports case counts from China’s CDC and National Health Commission. The dataset powering the Johns Hopkins map is available as a spreadsheet. [h/t Fionn Delahunty]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases
https://ncov.dxy.cn/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wQVypefm946ch4XDp37uZ-wartW4V7ILdg-qYiDXUHM/edit#gid=787605648",http://www.fionn.xyz
2020.02.05,3,Baseball sign-stealing.,"“I’m an Astros fan. They cheated during the 2017 regular season — the evidence is clear. In an attempt to understand the scope of the cheating and the players involved, I decided to listen to every pitch from the Astros’ 2017 home games and log any banging noise I could detect.” That’s from Tony Adams, who analyzed audio spectrograms corresponding to more than 8,200 pitches. Last week, he published a website documenting his findings, including a spreadsheet of the data. Related: Adams’s list of stories and analyses that have used the data. [h/t Dan Brady]","https://twitter.com/adams_at
http://signstealingscandal.com/about/
http://signstealingscandal.com/
http://signstealingscandal.com/files/
http://signstealingscandal.com/statistical-analysis/",https://danjbrady.com
2020.02.05,4,Hotel bookings.,"In 2018, a trio of researchers at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa published a dataset detailing nearly 120,000 (anonymized) bookings at two (unnamed) hotels in Portugal between July 2015 and August 2017. The bookings, extracted from the hotels’ property management systems, are described in detail: the number of adults, children, and babies for the reservation; country of origin; customer, room, and deposit types; whether the guests were repeat visitors; the number of special requests made; and more.",https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340918315191,
2020.02.05,5,Last (but not least) names.,"From the US Census Bureau, you can download a dataset of all surnames that belonged to at least 100 people in 2010, and the same for 2000. Those datasets indicate the total number of people with the name, and distribution of those people by race/ethnicity. A similar list, but based on a sample population and without demographic information, is also available for 1990. Pop quiz: Try to guess the five most popular surnames that are also colors ... in order. [h/t Lynn Cherny]","https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2000_surnames.html
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/1990_census/1990_census_namefiles.html",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/
2020.02.12,1,Banking crises.,"Luc Laeven and Fabián Valencia — economists at the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, respectively — have built and maintain a dataset of systemic banking crises, like those that rippled across the globe in 2008. First published in 2008 and most recently updated in 2018, the dataset covers on 151 crises affecting 118 countries from 1970 to 2017. For each episode, the dataset provides the starting and ending dates, policy responses, output loss, fiscal cost, increase in public debt, and more. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://sites.google.com/site/laevenl/home
https://www.imf.org/external/np/cv/AuthorCV.aspx?AuthID=179
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2018/09/14/Systemic-Banking-Crises-Revisited-46232",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/5499561d2ff6b692ed59770b0f62e3fe98995bdc
2020.02.12,2,Europe in translation.,"IATE is the European Union’s official terminology database, containing translations for words and phrases such as “orange juice,” “climate change policy”, and “competence of the Member States.” (That’s succo d’arancia in Italian, ilmastonmuutospolitiikka in Finnish, and tagállami hatáskör in Hungarian.) Over the past 20+ years, the project has accumulated more than 970,000 entries, translated into nearly 8 million phrasings in 25 languages. You can search the entries online or download the entire dataset as a single XML file. [h/t Laura Solana Garzón]","https://iate.europa.eu/home
https://iate.europa.eu/download-iate",https://twitter.com/Yambo_LSG/status/1224270800150245381
2020.02.12,3,Tropical cyclone simulations.,"A team of scientists have used historical hurricane and typhoon data to simulate a 10,000 plausible years of cyclone activity. The dataset covers the world’s most active “basins” — the areas where cyclones form — and includes each simulated storm’s path, maximum wind speed, average pressure, and more. [h/t Jose A Cañizares]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0381-2
https://data.4tu.nl/repository/uuid:82c1dc0d-5485-43d8-901a-ce7f26cda35d",https://mobile.twitter.com/jcnathaz/status/1225676744625012736
2020.02.12,4,arXiv metadata.,"Founded nearly 30 years ago, arXiv is an open-access repository of more than 1,600,000 scholarly articles — typically “preprints” of papers, uploaded by the authors before being peer-reviewed — in physics, math, computer science, statistics, economics, and several other fields. The website participates in Open Archives Initiative, providing metadata on uploaded articles through the initiative’s protocol; it also has an API. Last summer, computer science student Bora M. Alper collected the metadata for all the site’s papers and published it as a single file.","https://arxiv.org
https://www.openarchives.org
https://arxiv.org/help/oa/index
https://arxiv.org/help/api/index
https://boramalper.org
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/c39mmj/arxiv_complete_metadata_dump_20190618_internet/
https://archive.org/details/arXiv-metadata-dump-2019-06-18.tar.xz",
2020.02.12,5,Biggie data.,"What are the greatest hip-hop songs of all time? Last year, the BBC posed that question to more than 100 artists, producers, critics, and other experts, asking each to rank their top five tracks. (Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy” nabbed the highest rating.) Software engineer Simon Jockers has turned the responses into a structured dataset and visualized the results.","http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191007-the-greatest-hip-hop-songs-of-all-time-who-voted
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191007-the-greatest-hip-hop-songs-of-all-time
https://simonjockers.de
https://github.com/sjockers/bbc-best-rapmusic
https://blog.datawrapper.de/best-hip-hop-songs-of-all-time-visualized/",
2020.02.19,1,"Electric utilities, standardized.","“Electric utilities report a huge amount of information to the US government,” but “much of this data is not released in well documented, ready-to-use, machine readable formats.” That assessment comes from the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project, which aims to clean, standardize, and cross-link the electric utility information gathered by various agencies. Earlier this month, PUDL published its first data release; it includes information originally collected through Energy Information Administration Form 860 (details about individual generators) and Form 923 (individual power plants), the Environmental Protection Agency’s Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (hourly emissions), and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Form 1 (price rates and financial audits). The code PUDL uses to download, extract, and standardize the raw data is also available online. [h/t Zane Selvans]","https://catalyst.coop/pudl/
https://zenodo.org/record/3653159
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/
https://www.epa.gov/emc/emc-continuous-emission-monitoring-systems
https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/forms/form-1/data.asp
https://github.com/catalyst-cooperative/pudl",https://twitter.com/ZaneSelvans
2020.02.19,2,School vaccination rates.,"Reporters at the Wall Street Journal collected data on school-specific vaccination rates — both overall and also for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine — from 32 US states’ health departments. In total, the WSJ’s dataset covers more than 46,000 schools, of which 42,000 have at least one vaccination rate available. Most states provided data for the 2018–19 school year; the rest did so for 2017–18.",https://github.com/WSJ/measles-data,
2020.02.19,3,"4,500 years of empire.","To help study “the imperial roots of global trade,” a trio of economists have built a dataset of 168 historical empires. For each empire, the dataset lists the modern-day countries under rule (and during which years), plus whether the empire had a centralized administration, centralized religion, and/or monopoly on coin-minting. [h/t Jain Family Institute]","https://voxeu.org/article/imperial-roots-global-trade
https://www.wnvermeulen.com/empires/",https://mailchi.mp/newsletter.jainfamilyinstitute.org/some-totality
2020.02.19,4,Farm households.,"The Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) “collects information on 758 variables covering household demographics, farm area, crops grown and their production, livestock holdings” and more. In an academic article published this month, researchers from the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute presented a dataset of responses collected from 13,310 farm households in 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and Asia between 2015 and early 2018.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0388-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0388-8
https://www.ilri.org
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/9M6EHS",
2020.02.19,5,Pinball.,"The crowdsourced website pinballmap.com provides data on more than 25,500 pinball machines at more than 7,400 locations in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Finland, and Japan. The website’s API lets you access the underlying data, including the specific machines available at each location.","https://pinballmap.com
https://pinballmap.com/api/v1/docs",
2020.02.26,1,"Government contracts, standardized.","The Open Contracting Data Standard is a “free, non-proprietary open data standard” that makes it “easier to share, compare and analyze” the contracts that governments award to bidders. The project has been gaining traction, with dozens of local and federal governments using the standard to publish detailed official data, including in the UK, Canada, Colombia, Nepal, Uganda, and Afghanistan.","https://www.open-contracting.org/data-standard/
https://www.open-contracting.org/impact-stories/
https://www.open-contracting.org/worldwide/
https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-contracting
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/open-contracting-data-standard-pilot/about-the-ocds-pilot
https://www.colombiacompra.gov.co/transparencia/gestion-documental/datos-abiertos
http://ppip.gov.np
https://gpp.ppda.go.ug
https://ageops.net/en/home",
2020.02.26,2,"Tech workers, united.","The Collective Actions In Tech project database aims to document every instance of tech-industry workers banding together to raise awareness of a shared cause. The database, which is developed collaboratively and available to download, so far contains more than 200 protests, strikes, union drives, legal actions, and open letters. (The earliest event: In 1979, IBM workers protested their company’s business with apartheid South Africa.) Related: Writing for The Guardian, two of the project’s organizers describe “our eight most important insights.” [h/t anjakefala]","https://collectiveactions.tech
https://github.com/collective-action/tech/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
https://github.com/collective-action/tech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/22/tech-worker-activism-2019-what-we-learned",https://anja.kefala.info
2020.02.26,3,Anti-press incidents.,"Since 2017, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has collected information on more than 400 incidents targeting journalists in the United States, such as arrests, attacks, and denials of access. The initiative,  led by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists, provides bulk downloads of the data, plus an API. Related: The project also maintains a spreadsheet of anti-press tweets by Donald Trump. Previously: CPJ’s database of journalists who’ve been killed for reasons related to their work (DIP 2019.01.16). [h/t Sid Rao]","https://pressfreedomtracker.us
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/3-years-tracking-our-january-2020-newsletter/
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/about/
https://freedom.press/
https://www.cpj.org/
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/data/
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/back-campaign-trail-president-trump-increases-his-anti-press-tweet-offensive/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uNA6nsgcRhhQ0b6USsMNzhYLMfuDRSMhbGZNZ00WkHk/edit?usp=sharing
https://cpj.org/data/killed
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-01-16-edition",https://twitter.com/sidnext2none
2020.02.26,4,EU laws.,"The CEPS EurLex dataset contains more than 142,000 European Union regulations, directives, and official decisions — ”almost the entire corpus of the EU’s legally binding acts passed between 1952 - 2019.” The dataset contains two dozen variables, including dates, subject matter, authors, various links, and the full text of most laws. The information comes, ultimately, from the EU’s online legal repository, eur-lex.europa.eu. [h/t Moritz Laurer]","https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0EGYWY
https://eur-lex.europa.eu",https://twitter.com/MoritzLaurer/status/1229356229660639237
2020.02.26,5,Cockatoo Island prisoners.,"Historical criminologist Katherine Roscoe has transcribed archival records to create a detailed dataset of more than 2,500 people imprisoned between 1847 and 1869 at Cockatoo Island Prison — “Sydney’s most notorious 19th century prison,” now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.","https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-social-policy-and-criminology/staff/katherine-roscoe/
https://cockatooconvicts.wordpress.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatoo_Island_(New_South_Wales)",
2020.03.04,1,Climate policies.,"The Climate Policy Database, a project of the NewClimate Institute, has collected data on more than 3,800 regulations, subsidies, and other policies related to climate change mitigation. The downloadable and browseable database, drawn from more than a dozen sources, includes policies from nearly every country in the world and lists the policies’ names, jurisdictions, years of enactment, general objectives, and more. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","http://climatepolicydatabase.org/
https://newclimate.org/about-newclimate/
http://climatepolicydatabase.org/index.php/Download_policies
http://climatepolicydatabase.org/index.php/Special:BrowsePolicy
http://climatepolicydatabase.org/index.php?title=About_the_database",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/
2020.03.04,2,Political emails.,"Reporters at the The Markup, a newly launched newsroom that “investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society,” subscribed to receive emails from more than 200 presidential candidates, advocacy organizations, and other political groups. Four months later, they had received more than 5,000 messages, which they used to examine Gmail’s treatment of political communications. On GitHub, they’ve published the emails, relevant code, and a cleaned-up dataset. Related: Last year, FiveThirtyEight signed up for emails from the Democratic presidential campaigns; by August, they had collected 830 messages, which they published and used to see who was talking most about Donald Trump.","https://themarkup.org/
https://themarkup.org/2020/02/25/editor-letter-julia-angwin
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/show-your-work-wheres-my-email
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/wheres-my-email
https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-wheres-my-email
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/candidate-emails
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-democrats-are-campaigning-on-trump/",
2020.03.04,3,Smithsonian imagery.,"“For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithsonian has released 2.8 million high-resolution two- and three-dimensional images from across its collections onto an open access online platform for patrons to peruse and download free of charge,” the institution announced last week. The new platform includes “data and material from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo”; the records are accessible via an API, and the metadata is also available on GitHub. Related: KaoKore, a dataset of 5,552 face images cropped from Japanese artworks at several (non-Smithsonian) institutions. [h/t Erin Petenko + Corin Faife]","https://www.si.edu/openaccess
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-releases-28-million-images-public-domain-180974263/
https://www.si.edu/openaccess/devtools
https://github.com/Smithsonian/OpenAccess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08595
https://github.com/rois-codh/kaokore","https://twitter.com/EPetenko/status/1232687035237961729
https://twitter.com/corintxt"
2020.03.04,4,London grocery purchases.,"“We present the Tesco Grocery 1.0 dataset: a record of 420 M food items purchased by 1.6 M fidelity card owners who shopped at the 411 Tesco stores in Greater London over the course of the entire year of 2015, aggregated at the level of census areas to preserve anonymity,” researchers announced in a recent academic paper. For each area, the dataset contains “the number of transactions and nutritional properties [...] including the average caloric intake and the composition of nutrients.” [h/t Luca Maria Aiello]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0397-7
https://figshare.com/articles/Area-level_grocery_purchases/7796666",https://twitter.com/lajello/status/1230447728708243456
2020.03.04,5,Bug splats.,"Danish zoologist Anders Pape Møller counted the number of insects killed on the windscreen of a single car after each of 1,375 journeys along the same stretch of road between 1997 and 2017. After accounting for time of day, weather, and other factors, Møller says his data suggests an 80% decline in flying insects during that time. Related: The Guardian on two bug-splat studies, including Møller’s. [h/t Laura Norén and Brad Stenger]","https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.5236
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gq73493
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects",https://cds.nyu.edu/communitynewsletter/
2020.03.11,1,More coronavirus data.,"Last month, DIP featured coronavirus case counts mapped by researchers at Johns Hopkins. Since then, efforts to collect and publish COVID-19 data have grown, including: the Johns Hopkins team has moved its data repository to GitHub ... the Open COVID-19 Data Curation Group has expanded its data on individual cases ... the Italian government is publishing local case and test counts on GitHub ... Princeton PhD student Sang Woo Park is building a detailed dataset of cases in South Korea ... the decade-old Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data is sharing COVID-19 genome samples and mutations ... while the collaboratively-edited CoronavirusTechHandbook.com is pointing to additional datasets and data-trackers. Related: My colleague Peter Aldhous is using the Johns Hopkins data to publish clear, concise graphics tracking known case counts globally and in the United States. [h/t John Emerson + Hannah Nam + Bruno Salzano + illo + Lam Thuy Vo + Mago Torres]","https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-02-05-edition
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30119-5/fulltext
https://github.com/beoutbreakprepared/nCoV2019
https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19
https://twitter.com/sang_woo_park
https://github.com/parksw3/COVID19-Korea
https://www.gisaid.org/
https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/next-hcov-19-app/
https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
https://www.peteraldhous.com/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/coronavirus-updating-charts-maps-us-states
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/coronavirus-updating-charts-maps-us-states","https://backspace.com/
https://twitter.com/HannahNamMD/status/1233929884994547715
https://twitter.com/brsalzano/status/1236564010318925826
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22520069
https://twitter.com/lamthuyvo
https://twitter.com/magiccia"
2020.03.11,2,Political parties around the world.,"The Global Party Survey is “an international scientific study, directed by Pippa Norris, designed to compare political parties around the world. Drawing on survey data gathered from 1,861 party and election experts, the study uses 21 core items to estimate key ideological values, issue positions, and populist rhetoric for 1,127 parties in 170 countries.” Last month, Norris released the dataset and a paper that uses it to measure “populism as a global phenomenon.” Previously: The Manifesto Project (DIP 2017.06.21) and Party Facts (DIP 2019.01.16).","https://www.globalpartysurvey.org/methods
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/pippa-norris
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/GlobalPartySurvey
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/measuring-populism-worldwide
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-06-21-edition
https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-01-16-edition",
2020.03.11,3,Flights in and out of SFO.,"San Francisco International Airport’s museum team has been collecting information on all flights in and out of SFO’s terminals. Online, you can browse and search the  data, which includes details about the airlines, flight numbers, gates of arrival and departure, and more. Earlier this year, the team published a downloadable database of 769,250 flights from 2019. (Or 1.2 million flights, if you count codeshares.) [h/t Simon Batistoni]","https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/about/
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2019/05/17/flights/
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/flights/
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2020/01/24/flightdata/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeshare_agreement",https://buttondown.email/vaguemtn
2020.03.11,4,Bicycle racers.,"Applied mathematics PhD student Thomas Camminady has built a spreadsheet of all Tour de France riders since 1903 (including name, team, time taken, and final ranking), based on the competition’s official results page.","https://camminady.org/
https://github.com/camminady/LeTourDataSet/
https://www.letour.fr/en/history",
2020.03.11,5,Penguins.,"The MAPPPD project — Mapping Application for Penguin Populations and Projected Dynamics — “aims to deliver open access penguin population data for the Antarctic continent, and occupancy probabilities for flying birds around the Antarctic Peninsula.” The data, last updated about a year ago, can be both browsed online and downloaded. [h/t Michael Polito]","http://www.penguinmap.com/
http://www.penguinmap.com/mapppd",https://twitter.com/MJPolito
2020.03.18,1,COVID-19 testing in the US.,"The COVID Tracking Project “collects information from 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and 5 other U.S. territories to provide the most comprehensive testing data we can collect for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.” The project — a collaboration between The Atlantic, data scientist Jeff Hammerbacher, and a growing team of volunteers — “attempt[s] to include positive and negative results, pending tests, and total people tested for each state or district currently reporting that data.” (Unfortunately, not all states are reporting each of those numbers, and private-lab testing also complicates the picture.) You can access the data online, through an API, on GitHub, and via Twitter. Related: How to Understand Your State’s Coronavirus Numbers (The Atlantic, March 12).","https://covidtracking.com/
https://covidtracking.com/about-team/
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1240017561757962245
https://covidtracking.com/data/
https://covidtracking.com/api/
https://github.com/COVID19Tracking/covid-tracking-data
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/how-understand-your-states-coronavirus-numbers/607921/",
2020.03.18,2,Coronavirus research papers.,"The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset is “a free resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.” The dataset, produced by a collaboration of several research groups and the National Library of Medicine, “will be updated weekly."" Related: On Monday, the White House issued a “call to action to the tech community” regarding the dataset, asking experts “to develop new text and data mining techniques that can help the science community answer high-priority scientific questions related to COVID-19.”","https://pages.semanticscholar.org/coronavirus-research
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/call-action-tech-community-new-machine-readable-covid-19-dataset/",
2020.03.18,3,WFH.,"Stayinghome.club is compiling hundreds of coronavirus-spurred work-from-home policies, university annoucements, and event cancellation statuses. The project is collaboratively edited on GitHub, and includes instructions for how to add your company/university/event. [h/t Jackie Kazil]","https://stayinghome.club/
https://stayinghome.club/companies.html
https://stayinghome.club/universities.html
https://stayinghome.club/events.html
https://github.com/phildini/stayinghomeclub",https://twitter.com/JackieKazil
2020.03.18,4,Health security preparedness.,"The Global Health Security Index is “the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 countries” that signed on to the WHO’s 2005 International Health Regulations. The index is built on a “framework of 140 questions, organized across 6 categories, 34 indicators, and 85 subindicators to assess a country’s capability to prevent and mitigate epidemics and pandemics.” The first edition of the index was released this past October, and can be downloaded as a macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet. The National Health Security Preparedness Index aims to do something similar, but for US states; the 2019 results are also available as a spreadsheet. [h/t Big Local News]","https://www.ghsindex.org/about/
https://www.who.int/ihr/legal_issues/states_parties/en/
https://www.ghsindex.org/news/inaugural-global-health-security-index-finds-no-country-is-prepared-for-epidemics-or-pandemics/
https://www.ghsindex.org/report-model/
https://nhspi.org/
https://nhspi.org/nations-ability-to-manage-health-emergencies-rises/
https://nhspi.org/tools-resources/2019-release-health-security-data-explorer/nhspi_2019_data_download/",https://biglocalnews.org/
2020.03.18,5,Speed dating.,"Between 2002 and 2004, professors Ray Fisman and Sheena Iyengar ran a series of speed dating events for Columbia University graduate students, while collecting detailed data on the participants and results. The full dataset is available to download; data scientist Keith McNulty has also created a simplified version of it.","https://twitter.com/RFisman
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/ss957
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2008/01/21/the_speeddating_1/
https://drkeithmcnulty.com/
https://drkeithmcnulty.com/2020/02/14/what-matters-in-speed-dating/",
2020.03.25,1,"COVID-19 cases, continued.","The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has been publishing a COVID-19 dashboard and daily-updated data files tracking country-level cases and deaths. Related: Our World In Data explains why the publication switched from using the World Health Organization’s situation reports to the ECDC’s data for its analyses and graphics. Also related: USAFacts is using data from state governments, local public health agencies, and Johns Hopkins University (DIP 2020.03.11) to map US cases at the county level, with the underlying data available to download. [h/t YY Ahn + Big Local News]","https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/
https://qap.ecdc.europa.eu/public/extensions/COVID-19/COVID-19.html
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide
https://ourworldindata.org/
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-source-data
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
https://usafacts.org/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-03-11-edition
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/","https://github.com/covid19-data/covid19-data
https://biglocalnews.org/"
2020.03.25,2,Official coronavirus interventions.,"ACAPS, a humanitarian analysis nonprofit, is cataloguing government measures implemented in response to the pandemic. The measures range from quarantine policies (the most common) to electronic surveillance and the lockdown of refugee camps. As of Tuesday evening, the dataset contained 1,741 entries; each entry includes the date implemented, source links, and descriptive comments. Computational social scientist Rex Douglass, meanwhile, is crowdsourcing a dataset of mandatory government restrictions, such as bans on large gatherings, restaurant shutdowns, and shelter-in-place decrees. It has fewer entries so far, but more detail on US cities and states. [h/t Nishanth Arulappan]","https://www.acaps.org/who-we-are/in-short
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/acaps-covid19-government-measures-dataset
https://rexdouglass.com/
https://github.com/rexdouglass/TIGR
https://github.com/rexdouglass/TIGR/blob/master/data_out/TIGR_version1_latest.tsv",https://twitter.com/NArulappan/status/1240305942798848001
2020.03.25,3,Getting around.,"The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Census Transportation Planning Products initiative “produces special tabulations of American Community Survey (ACS) data that have enhanced value for transportation planning, analysis, and strategic direction,” such as commute times, carpooling, bicycle usage, available vehicles, and more. The program’s core dataset “consists of almost 200 residence-based tables, 115 workplace-based tables and 39 flow tables (home to work) for over 325,000 geographies.” [h/t Adrienne Heller]","https://www.transportation.org/home/organization/
https://ctpp.transportation.org/
https://ctpp.transportation.org/2012-2016-5-year-ctpp/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienne-heller-aicp-env-sp-0b96837/
2020.03.25,4,"Prisoners, polled.","The Marshall Project and Slate have partnered to conduct a survey of incarcerated people’s political views. They’ve received more than 8,000 responses so far, and have made the (anonymized) data available to download.","https://www.themarshallproject.org/
https://slate.com/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/11/how-we-pulled-off-a-groundbreaking-political-survey-behind-bars
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/11/what-do-we-really-know-about-the-politics-of-people-behind-bars
https://github.com/themarshallproject/incarcerated_survey",
2020.03.25,5,Unfinished business.,"BusinessFinancing.co.uk attempted to identify the oldest, still-operating companies in every country in the world, and put its findings into a spreadsheet. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo + Iman Ghosh]","https://businessfinancing.co.uk/about/
https://businessfinancing.co.uk/the-oldest-company-in-almost-every-country/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ynIAoLhz0SZYzjpwZ5e5mFzBxt6V28FTBjX7A99jq3E/edit#gid=1002274442","https://mailchi.mp/ad9d9051041f/preview-222-in-other-news-3843345
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/oldest-companies/"
2020.04.01,1,Subnational COVID-19 case counts.,"The New York Times is conducting “a round-the-clock effort to tally every known coronavirus case in the United States,” and has begun publishing a dataset of county-level cases and deaths. France publishes spreadsheets of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths by département and sex; on GitHub, there’s an active effort to collect and standardize this dataset and others from France. The German government has a dashboard showing official case counts in each of its Bundesländer and Landkreise; software engineer Jan-Philip Gehrcke has been pulling that data into standardized CSV files. Spain publishes daily case, hospitalization, death, and recovery counts for each comunidad autónoma, as a dashboard with downloadable data; investigative outlet Datadista has been compiling and standardizing that dataset and similar ones.","https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-county-data-us.html
https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/donnees-hospitalieres-relatives-a-lepidemie-de-covid-19/
https://github.com/opencovid19-fr/data
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823b17327b2bf1d4/page/page_1/
https://gehrcke.de/about/
https://github.com/jgehrcke/covid-19-germany-gae
https://covid19.isciii.es/
https://datadista.com/
https://github.com/datadista/datasets/tree/master/COVID%2019",
2020.04.01,2,"Official coronavirus interventions, continued.","The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker “aims to track and compare government responses to the coronavirus outbreak worldwide rigorously and consistently.” The project posts daily information concerning 11 kinds of responses, ranging from travel bans to investment in vaccines, and is based on data “collected from public sources by a team of dozens of Oxford University students and staff from every part of the world.” One of those public sources is UNESCO, which has been tracking countries’ school closure policies over time. In the US, the Kaiser Family Foundation is keeping tabs on the current mandates issued by state governors (rather than legislators or local governments).","https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker
https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/state-data-and-policy-actions-to-address-coronavirus/",
2020.04.01,3,Visa fees.,"The Global Visa Cost Dataset, published by the European University Institute’s Migration Policy Centre, “reports the cost [in 2019] of country-to-country visas for tourism, student, business, work, transit, family reunification and other motives worldwide.” The dataset’s authors describe their methodology and findings in a detailed working paper. There is, they write, “a fundamentally paradoxical situation: The richer a country, the less its citizens pay for visas to go abroad.”","http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/globalmobilities/dataset/
http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/about/
https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/66583",
2020.04.01,4,iPhone search warrants.,"In light of ongoing debates over encryption, tech publication Motherboard “collected and analyzed over 500 iPhone search warrants and related documents filed throughout 2019 to build a database of cases in which law enforcement attempted to get information from an iPhone.” The database, published last month, includes court-docket information, the requesting agency, the suspected crimes, phone models, and more. [h/t Colin Prince]","https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkeeay/apple-dmca-take-down-tweet-containing-an-iphone-encryption-key
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l20Kgp77tG7BBDnblx8vH_VWevuCbPkg?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xmh1QEXYJmVPFlqAdEIVGemvbkoZmk_WyAPGC4eY-eE/edit?usp=sharing",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22557091
2020.04.01,5,Before Wikipedia.,"The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860. The effort, which captured approximately 167 million words across 143 volumes, was named a runner-up in the 2019 Digital Humanities Awards.","https://data.nls.uk/data/digitised-collections/encyclopaedia-britannica/
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2019/results/",
2020.04.08,1,Pandemic-era economic policies.,"A group of researchers have built a structured dataset quantifying 166 countries’ economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset draws mainly from the International Monetary Fund’s COVID-19 Policy Tracker — which describes the policies in free-form text — and supplements it with additional research. The quantified policies include fiscal stimuli, monetary stimuli, interest-rate cuts, and interventions to control the countries’ balance of payments. [h/t u/smurfyjenkins]","http://web.boun.edu.tr/elgin/COVID.htm
https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/fve5ta/dataset_economic_policy_measures_adopted_by_166/
2020.04.08,2,Historical economic productivity.,"The Long-Term Productivity database was created at the Bank of France in 2013, and has been updated several times since then. For 23 OECD countries from 1890 to 2018, the database tracks total factor productivity, labor productivity, capital intensity, GDP per capita, and more. [h/t Mokhtar Tabari]","http://longtermproductivity.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity
https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_intensity",https://www.mokhtartabari.ca/
2020.04.08,3,Forty-plus years of FOIA.,"Journalism professor A.Jay Wagner has compiled a dataset of 14 federal agencies’ Freedom of Information Act annual reports from 1975 through 2018. For each agency and year, the dataset contains the number of FOIA requests processed, granted, and denied; exemptions invoked; appeal outcomes; staffing figures; fees assessed; and more. [h/t George LeVines]","https://www.ajaywagner.com/
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_data/1/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgelevines/
2020.04.08,4,Police drones.,"Last month, the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College released the third edition of its Public Safety Drones report, in which researchers identified “1,578 state and local police, sheriff, fire, and emergency services agencies in the U.S. that are believed to have acquired drones.” You can explore and download the data through the report’s interactive map.","https://dronecenter.bard.edu/about/
https://dronecenter.bard.edu/projects/public-safety-drones-project/public-safety-drones-3rd-edition/
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1zcTdAkQB_gqVX383oQcyujM7Nd85rquH",
2020.04.08,5,A lot of domain names.,"Software engineer Bohdan Turkynewych has compiled a dataset of more than 50 million domain names, discovered by crawling the web and processing 86 terabytes of internet traffic. Related: French registry Afnic publishes a full list of all registered .fr domains. [h/t Javier Sáenz]","https://www.linkedin.com/in/bohdanturkynewych
https://github.com/tb0hdan/domains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fran%C3%A7aise_pour_le_nommage_Internet_en_coop%C3%A9ration
http://opendata.afnic.fr/en/products-and-services/services/opendata-en.html",https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/6835
2020.04.15,1,COVID-19 testing around the world.,"Nearly every country publishes the number of residents who’ve tested positive for COVID-19. Far fewer post data on the total number of people tested (or tests performed). But as more countries start doing that, the team at Our World In Data has begun compiling a regularly-updated dataset on COVID-19 testing, along with key context, a detailed methodology, and interactive charts.","https://ourworldindata.org/
https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data/testing
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing",
2020.04.15,2,Aggregated smartphone movements.,"A team of academics has begun publishing a series of “exposure indices” based on smartphone “pings” collected by a location-analytics company. One set of indices describes the proportion of smartphones that, on a given day in a given US state or county, were observed at least once in another given state or county during the previous 14 days. Another tries to quantify how often smartphones are observed in the same “commercial venues” as other devices. “We are making these indices publicly available to all researchers in the context of the spread of COVID-19,” the researchers write.",https://github.com/COVIDExposureIndices/COVIDExposureIndices,
2020.04.15,3,Privacy policies.,"Researchers at Imperial College London and Oxford have compiled a dataset of more than 4,000 privacy policies published on major US companies’ websites. For each policy, the dataset includes its full text, counts the number of words and paragraphs in it, calculates a readability metric, and reports the number of third-party tracking cookies loaded through the policy’s webpage. [h/t Antione Uettwiller]",https://github.com/ansgarw/privacy,https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.uettwiller17
2020.04.15,4,Thirty years of NYC trash and recycling.,"New York City’s Department of Sanitation publishes a dataset of the monthly tonnage it collects from city residences, going back to 1990. For each community district and month, the dataset tallies the weight of household trash, recyclables, “organics,” and more — including, for each January, the tonnage of Christmas trees collected. Related: Reporters at The City recently analyzed the dataset, and found potential evidence of Manhattanites fleeing the city in March. They also interviewed the Department of Sanitation’s anthropologist-in-residence.","https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DSNY-Monthly-Tonnage-Data/ebb7-mvp5
https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/garbage-pickups-tell-tale-of-two-cities-as-manhattan-shrinks.html
https://robinnagle.com/",
2020.04.15,5,Animal Crossing.,"VillagerDB is an online and downloadable database of thousands of the characters, accessories, tools, and other items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons — the Sims-like game that’s breaking sales records and saving my colleague’s marriage. [h/t Justin]","https://villagerdb.com/
https://github.com/jefflomacy/villagerdb/tree/master/data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/26/21195022/animal-crossing-switch-sales-japan-famitsu
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/animal-crossing-quarantine-distraction",https://twitter.com/ACWorldBlog/status/1248376259735769090
2020.04.22,1,Tracking the COVID policy trackers.,"Economics graduate student Lukas Lehner has gathered, with help from the hive-mind, a list of dozens of websites and datasets tracking policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic – a few that have been mentioned in DIP, plus many that haven’t. Lehner’s tracker-tracker groups the resources into several topic areas, summarizes them, and indicates their data formats. [h/t François Briatte]","https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/people/lukas-lehner
https://twitter.com/LukasLehner_/status/1251048564899397632
https://lukaslehner.github.io/covid19policytrackers/",https://f.briatte.org/
2020.04.22,2,"Every Census question, ever.","Programmer Alec Barrett has built a spreadsheet listing every question asked on every decennial US Census since 1790 — more than 900 items overall. In addition to the questions themselves, the dataset describes the subgroups of people questioned and the types of answers expected. Related: The dataset powers “The Evolution of the American Census,” Barrett’s interactive exploration of how the questions have changed over time, and what they say about America.","https://github.com/anbnyc
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/census-history
https://pudding.cool/2020/03/census-history/",
2020.04.22,3,Chemical weapons attacks in Syria.,"“Building on years of painstaking work alongside our Syrian and international partners,” the Global Public Policy Institute “has compiled the most comprehensive dataset of incidents of chemical weapons use in Syria to date.” The institute has published a new interactive data portal to display the data on 345 attacks between 2012 and 2019. The data fields include the date and time of the attack, location, chemical agent, munition type and method of delivery, perpetrator, confidence rating, and more. [h/t Tobias Schneider]","https://chemicalweapons.gppi.net/
https://chemicalweapons.gppi.net/data-portal/",https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1247665719334100994
2020.04.22,4,"NYC sidewalks, narrow and broad.",Urban planner Meli Harvey has taken New York City’s official dataset of sidewalks and dissected its geometries to map the width of each segment of walkable pavement. [h/t Dan Brady],"http://meliharvey.com/
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Sidewalk/vfx9-tbb6
https://github.com/meliharvey/sidewalkwidths-nyc
http://www.sidewalkwidths.nyc/",https://danjbrady.com
2020.04.22,5,Crowdsourced moral judgements.,"Data scientist Elle O’Brien recently described how she built and cleaned a dataset of the moral dilemmas posted to r/AmItheAsshole, “a semi-structured online forum that’s the internet’s closest approximation of a judicial system.” For each of the 97,628 posts collected, the dataset includes the title, body, date, number of Reddit upvotes, and number of comments — plus the community’s verdict. [h/t u/thumbsdrivesmecrazy]","https://www.elle-obrien.com/
https://dvc.org/blog/a-public-reddit-dataset
https://github.com/iterative/aita_dataset
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/f5t5fo/a_public_dataset_of_reddit_posts_about_moral/
2020.04.29,1,Six million parliamentary speeches.,"ParlSpeech V2 contains 6.3 million parliamentary speeches from nine countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The dataset, created by political scientists Christian Rauh and Jan Schwalbach, includes the full text of each speech, plus the date, speaker, and the speaker’s party. Related: Roll call votes from the European Parliament’s first six terms (1979–2009). [h/t Robert Stelzle]","https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN
https://sites.google.com/site/christianrauh/
https://twitter.com/janschwalbach
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix/HixNouryRolandEPdata.HTM",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/pull/5
2020.04.29,2,COVID-19 preprints.,"Preprints — academic papers published online before they’ve gone through traditional peer review — have become a common way for scientists to disseminate their coronavirus-related findings. So researchers Nicholas Fraser and Bianca Kramer have begun compiling a dataset of more than 6,000 COVID-19 preprints. For each paper, the dataset includes the title, abstract, DOI, date posted, and the hosting repository (such as medRxiv, the most common so far).","https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-6339
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5965-6560
https://github.com/nicholasmfraser/covid19_preprints
https://www.medrxiv.org/",
2020.04.29,3,Mobility indicators.,"Tech companies have repurposed some of the data they collect from you into explorable, downloadable datasets that estimate the degree to which movement patterns have (or haven’t) changed in recent months. Among them: Apple, which is quantifying requests for directions; Google, which is counting visits to places such as grocery stores and transit station; and Descartes Labs, which is tracking smartphone movements. Related: Sociologist Kieran Healy recently found and explained a curious February 17 spike in Apple’s data. [h/t Hillary Hartley]","https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
https://github.com/descarteslabs/DL-COVID-19
https://kieranhealy.org/about/
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2020/04/23/apples-covid-mobility-data/",https://mobile.twitter.com/hillary/status/1250130170029248512
2020.04.29,4,US retail.,"Since the 1950s, the US Census Bureau has conducted monthly surveys of retail and food-services industries. The results — which estimate sales and inventory numbers by subsector — are available as machine-readable data going back to 1992. The next release is scheduled for May 15. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]",https://www.census.gov/retail/index.html,https://mailchi.mp/b13add45c669/preview-222-in-other-news-3862701
2020.04.29,5,Poems by kids.,"PoKi is “a corpus of 61,330 poems written by children from grades 1 to 12,” scraped with permission from a Scholastic website. The dataset includes each poem’s title, text, and character count, plus the author’s first name and grade. Noteworthy: “PoKi is made freely available for research with the condition that the research be used for the benefit of children.”","https://github.com/whipson/PoKi-Poems-by-Kids
http://web.archive.org/web/20191025052907/teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_readall.asp",
2020.05.06,1,Coronavirus and race.,"Last week, the COVID Tracking Project (DIP 2020.03.18) launched a beta release of its COVID Racial Data Tracker, built in collaboration with American University’s Antiracist Research & Policy Center. The tracker collects demographic statistics, now published by most states, that disaggregate the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths by race and/or ethnicity. “This is a challenging dataset to compile and code, and our data sources remain in flux, but we offer this beta release for full transparency,” the project’s organizers write; they’re seeking feedback “as we work toward building a complete dataset and getting it into our API and onto the website.”","https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-03-18-edition
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1254909756742852608
https://covidtracking.com/race
https://antiracismcenter.com/",
2020.05.06,2,COVID-19 in prisons.,"The Marshall Project has been tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths in US prisons. To compile that dataset, every week the publication’s reporters ask each state prison system and the federal Bureau of Prisons “for the total number of coronavirus tests administered to its staff members and prisoners, the cumulative number who tested positive among staff and prisoners, and the numbers of deaths for each group.”","https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons
https://github.com/themarshallproject/COVID_prison_data",
2020.05.06,3,Essential NYC construction sites.,"New York City’s Department of Buildings has been publishing a dataset and interactive map of construction sites deemed “essential,” and thus eligible to continue work during the coronavirus pandemic. The current list covers more than 6,700 sites, including more than 1,200 at schools, 1,000 for public housing, and 250 related to health care. [h/t Josh Laurito]","https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/essential-active-construction.html
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/buildings/about/essential-construction-faq.page",https://tinyletter.com/nycdatajobs/letters/nyc-data-188-spotify-northwell-health-the-knot-predicting-weekly-unemployment-claims-turner-cit-bayer
2020.05.06,4,Space dollars.,"The Planetary Science Budget Dataset “integrates the spending history, by year, of every NASA planetary science mission and related activities.” It also calculates funding by destination (e.g., Mars, Venus, the moon, etc.), and annual budget breakdowns for individual missions. The dataset is maintained by The Planetary Society, a nonprofit founded 40 years ago by Carl Sagan, Louis Friedman, and Bruce Murray — and now led by Bill Nye. [h/t Ingrid Burrington]","https://www.planetary.org/get-involved/be-a-space-advocate/become-an-expert/planetary-exploration-budget-dataset.html
https://www.planetary.org/about/",https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1257431537252999168
2020.05.06,5,Love Island.,"Developer advocate Amy Boyd has assembled a dataset of 96 contestants who appeared on the British dating reality series Love Island from 2016 to 2019, including each contestant’s name, age, profession, and various metrics of success in the competition. [h/t Nick Latocha]","https://twitter.com/AmyKateNicho
https://github.com/amynic/love-island-workshop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Island_(2015_TV_series)",https://twitter.com/nckltcha/status/1253977479204818944
2020.05.13,1,Employee protections.,"The UN International Labour Organization’s Employment Protection Legislation Database tracks “legal information on the regulation of temporary contracts and employment termination at the initiative of the employer,” on a national-regulatory level. The database quantifies and categorizes regulations under nine “themes” — including grounds for dismissal, procedures for collective dismissals, severance pay, and redress — and for more than 100 countries.",https://eplex.ilo.org/,
2020.05.13,2,COVID stimulus recipients.,"The nonprofit Good Jobs First has launched COVID Stimulus Watch, which is gathering data on the grants and loans that have been provided to corporations through the $2 trillion CARES Act. So far, the dataset contains more than 5,700 awards, totalling $54 billion. The records are based on information from public financial filings, press releases, and, most recently, data from the government’s healthcare-focused Provider Relief Fund.","https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/about-us
https://covidstimuluswatch.org/blog/2020-04/covid-stimulus-watch-new-website-documents-accountability-track-records-cares-act
https://covidstimuluswatch.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_Aid,_Relief,_and_Economic_Security_Act
https://covidstimuluswatch.org/blog/2020-05/covid-stimulus-watch-adds-5000-healthcare-provider-awards
https://data.cdc.gov/Administrative/HHS-Provider-Relief-Fund/kh8y-3es6",
2020.05.13,3,National wildernesses.,"Since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964, the US federal government has established 803 official wilderness areas, which cover more than 111 million acres. They’re all part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, co-managed by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Forest Service. The University of Montana’s Wilderness.net brings data about each of the agencies’ wildernesses into one place, where it can be explored via an interactive map and downloaded in bulk. For each wilderness, the dataset provides its name, description, boundaries, acreage, year designated, and more.","https://wilderness.net/learn-about-wilderness/fast-facts/default.php
https://wilderness.net/default.php
https://umontana.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a415bca07f0a4bee9f0e894b0db5c3b6
https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/gis-gps.php",
2020.05.13,4,EU legislative edits.,"Computer science graduate student Victor Kristof has built a dataset of 450,000 legislative edits proposed by members of the EU parliament from 2009 to 2019. For each proposed edit, the dataset points to the relevant legislation, names the parlimentarian, and indicates whether the edit was accepted. In an accompanying academic paper, Kristof et al. describe the dataset’s construction and “propose a model for predicting the success of such edits.”","https://victorkristof.me/
https://zenodo.org/record/3757714
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3366423.3380041",
2020.05.13,5,Millions of Iowa liquor purchases.,"Iowa’s Alcoholic Beverages Division publishes itemized data on all liquor sales by grocery/liquor/convenience-type stores since January 2002 — more than 18 million purchases in all. For each purchase, the dataset includes the specific kind, amount, and cost of the liquor, plus the date and location of the sale. Previously: State liquor prices (DIP 2019.08.07). [h/t Martin Burch]","https://data.iowa.gov/Sales-Distribution/Iowa-Liquor-Sales/m3tr-qhgy
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-08-07-edition",https://twitter.com/seecmb/status/1259948995981516801
2020.05.20,1,Excess deaths.,"The Economist has published the data behind its estimates of excess deaths due to COVID-19. The data repository currently covers 20 countries; it provides recent weekly/monthly death totals, officially-counted COVID-19 death, and average historical death totals for the same time periods. Related: Data journalist James Tozer’s introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Sharon Machlis]","https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries
https://twitter.com/J_CD_T/status/1261625814854045696",https://twitter.com/sharon000/status/1262029159976574976
2020.05.20,2,Trade agreements.,"The Design of Trade Agreements database collects information about customs unions, free trade agreements, and other similar treaties signed between 1948 and 2018. It currently includes more than 800 agreements, plus additional negotiations, accessions, withdrawals, consolidations, and amendments. For each agreement, the database indicates the its name, member countries, year of signature, and a number of policy-specific variables. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://www.designoftradeagreements.org
https://www.designoftradeagreements.org/downloads/",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/
2020.05.20,3,US forests.,"The US Department of Agriculture’s National Forest Type Dataset shows the geographic distribution of the country’s “forest types” — defined as ”logical ecological groupings of species mixes.” (Examples include “deciduous oak woodland” and “subalpine fir.”) To estimate the extent of each forest type, the dataset’s developers combined satellite imagery with “nearly 100 other geospatial data layers, including elevation, slope, aspect, and ecoregions.” Related: The Washington Post has used the dataset to map fall foliage and forests where Christmas-y trees grow. [h/t Joe Fox]","https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/rastergateway/forest_type/
https://wapo.st/peep-these-leaves
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/12/where-christmas-trees-come/",https://twitter.com/joemfox
2020.05.20,4,Historical crop yields.,"The Global Dataset of Historical Yields combines data from agricultural censuses and satellite sensors to estimate the annual yields for four major crops — maize, rice, wheat, and soybean — annually from 1981 to 2016, for each 0.5-degree square on the planet. Related: The dataset’s authors describe their methodology and the latest update.","https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909132
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0433-7",
2020.05.20,5,Victorian fiction.,"At the Circulating Library “offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction.” Launched by literature professor Troy J. Bassett in 2007, the searchable, browseable, downloadable database now contains information on more than 19,000 titles by more than 4,000 authors.","https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/index.php
https://twitter.com/3VolumeNovel
https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/search.php
https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/view_authors.php
http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/snapshots.php",
2020.05.27,1,Census response rates.,"As it has in the past, the US Census Bureau is encouraging residents to respond to the 2020 Census’s mailed questionnaire, which reduces the need for in-person census-taking. The agency calculates these ""self-response"" rates all the way down to individual Census tracts, and provides that data as a CSV and via its API. Those datasets, however, only represent the latest numbers, so researchers at the CUNY’s Center for Urban Research have been creating daily snapshots, which they’re also mapping and analyzing for the public. Related: The Center’s FAQ for the data. [h/t Steven Romalewski]","https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond.html
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/2020map/2020/
https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/decennial-response-rates.html
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUR
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qrwrdkmjb3fjmg5/AAAaxYr9yeU9hBQMJcggriuEa?dl=0
https://www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us/
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-Urban-Research/CUR-research-initiatives/Census-2020-Self-Response-Data-Questions-and-Answers",https://twitter.com/SR_spatial
2020.05.27,2,More excess mortality data.,"Last week’s newsletter featured the data and code that The Economist is using to estimate excess deaths due to COVID-19. Also last week: The New York Times began publishing the data behind its similar-but-different estimates. And earlier this month, the team at the Human Mortality Database launched its Short-term Mortality Fluctuations data series, which provides “user-friendly access to detailed data on mortality by week, sex, and aggregated age group” for more than a dozen countries. [h/t Esteban Ortiz-Ospina]","http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-05-20-edition
https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries
https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/excess-deaths
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html
https://www.mortality.org/
https://www.mortality.org/Public/STMF_DOC/STMFNote.pdf",https://twitter.com/EOrtizOspina/status/1263153998057660416
2020.05.27,3,Ranked-choice votes.,"The website ranked.vote, built by quantitative analyst Paul Butler, standardizes and visualizes the detailed results of a few dozen elections — in Maine, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Burlington — that have used ranked-choice voting, where voters can list their preferred candidates in sequential order.","https://ranked.vote/
https://paulbutler.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting",
2020.05.27,4,Interwar literary lending.,"From 1919 to 1941, Sylvia Beach ran Shakespeare and Company, the legendary Paris bookstore. It featured a lending library, whose members included writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Simone de Beauvoir, and Ernest Hemingway. Princeton University’s Shakespeare and Company Project has digitized hundreds of the library’s lending cards and logbooks, and has made the data available to explore and download. [h/t Tom Merritt Smith]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(bookstore)
https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/
https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/sources/
https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/members/
https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/about/data/",https://twitter.com/tmrtsmith
2020.05.27,5,Seashells.,"A team of researchers has built a dataset that characterizes 29,622 samples of shells from 7,894 water-dwelling species. You can search the shell images online and also download the full dataset.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0230-3
http://www.cis.um.edu.mo/research/shelldataset/
https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/A_shell_dataset_for_shell_features_extraction_and_recognition/4428335",
2020.06.10,1,Black Lives Matter protests.,"An unnamed geospatial analyst has been mapping “every town or city I can find where a George Floyd / Black Lives Matter protest, action, or vigil has occurred since May 25” — more than 2,600 so far. The data files powering the map include each city’s name, state/region, country, coordinates, and the date it was added. Related: For a study of the relationship between police-caused deaths and demonstrations, Williamson et al. built a dataset of Black Lives Matter protests in 2014 and 2015.","https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/gx8uoa/mapping_george_floyd_black_lives_matter_protests/
https://www.creosotemaps.com/blm2020/
https://www.creosotemaps.com/blm2020/json/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/black-lives-matter-evidence-that-policecaused-deaths-predict-protest-activity/BFA2E74F4BCB25C3C222807E8B1111D4/share/53d6d67c798695fc19688bd571777e433fca550d
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L2GSK6",
2020.06.10,2,Police violence at the BLM protests.,"Several groups are collecting examples of disproportionate police responses to the protests against police brutality. One such collection, spurred by criminal defense attorney T. Greg Doucette, has compiled hundreds of instances of “unnecessary violence by law enforcement officers against civilians”; for each one, the underlying spreadsheet provides the city and state of the incident, links to visual documentation on Twitter and YouTube, and a short description. Another collection, which emerged from the /r/2020PoliceBrutality subreddit and seeks “to accumulate and contextualize evidence of police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests,” also includes incident dates, an interactive map, and APIs. Related: Bellingcat and The Guardian have compiled a spreadsheet of 140+ “reports of arrests, violence, and intimidation against journalists” at the protests. [h/t anjakefala + Aric Toler]","https://watchwatch.org/
https://time.com/5849839/police-brutality-george-floyd-protests-spreadsheet/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YmZeSxpz52qT-10tkCjWOwOGkQqle7Wd1P7ZM1wMW0E/edit
https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality
https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/
https://846policebrutality.com/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/06/05/visualizing-police-violence-against-journalists-at-protests-across-the-us/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/05/im-getting-shot-attacks-on-journalists-surge-in-us-protests
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F7Q-XoCoHzb_cX28ARCL4BMsuxp3EpkouUDJ2cRSjOQ/edit","https://anja.kefala.info
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1268892644941447168"
2020.06.10,3,Police reforms and union contracts.,"Campaign Zero’s 8cantwait.org advocates for eight specific reforms to curtail police officers’ use of force, including bans on chokeholds, requiring de-escalation tactics, and establishing comprehensive reporting. The organization has compiled the use of force policies for 100 large police departments, and determined whether they’ve instituted these reforms. (Direct CSV download here.) And at checkthepolice.org, the organization has gathered police union contracts in major cities and assessed whether they contain language makes it harder to hold officers accountable for misconduct. [h/t Samuel Sinyangwe]","https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
https://8cantwait.org/
https://useofforceproject.org/database
https://8cantwait.org/compare/
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/campaign-zero-use-of-force/data/force.csv
https://www.checkthepolice.org/
https://www.checkthepolice.org/database",https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655721052020737
2020.06.10,4,Police militarization.,"The US Defense Logistic Agency’s Law Enforcement Support Office sends surplus Department of Defense equipment to local law enforcement agencies, through an arrangement known as the 1033 program. The Pentagon publishes quarterly updates of the equipment transferred — which can range from coffee makers to rifles to entire aircraft — but only began doing so after the program came under intense scrutiny for its role in the militarized police response to the 2014 Ferguson protests and police militarization in general. Related: Despite the criticisms, the 1033 program has sent police departments hundreds of millions of dollars in military equipment since Ferguson, including more than 490 mine-resistant vehicles, my colleague John Templon reports.","https://www.dla.mil/DispositionServices/Offers/Reutilization/LawEnforcement/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1033_program
https://www.dla.mil/DispositionServices/Offers/Reutilization/LawEnforcement/PublicInformation/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/03/the-pentagon-finally-details-its-weapons-for-cops-giveaway
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimdalrympleii/war-zone-in-ferguson-how-billions-in-military-weapons-ended
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johntemplon/police-departments-military-gear-1033-program",
2020.06.10,5,Tech’s BLM statements.,"The Plug, a news site that focuses on the Black innovation economy, has been assembling a dataset of statements made by tech companies on racial justice, Black Lives Matter, and George Floyd. The dataset links to more than 200 statements so far and includes each company’s name, the timing of the statement, and other relevant context, such as the URL of their most recent diversity report and the percentage of employees and/or leaders who identify as Black. [h/t Sherrell Dorsey]","https://tpinsights.com/
https://tpinsights.com/2020/05/31/twilio-box-spotify-and-other-tech-ceos-speak-out-against-racism-and-police-brutality-others-stay-silent/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZx-_tm3PPyx6-ZJAST1xxOJRfn7KfYDjDT6JedrTfs/edit#gid=0",https://www.sherrelldorsey.com/
2020.06.17,1,Confederate monuments.,"For several years, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Whose Heritage?” project has been gathering and mapping information on “public symbols of the Confederacy,” such as monuments, place names, official holidays, commemorative license plates, and municipal seals. For each of the 1,800+ entries, the project’s dataset indicates the type of monument/symbol, its location, sponsor, year dedicated, and (if applicable) year removed. [h/t Gita Jackson + Dan Brady]","https://www.splcenter.org/
https://www.splcenter.org/data-projects/whose-heritage
https://www.splcenter.org/20190201/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confederacy
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17ps4aqRyaIfpu7KdGsy2HRZaaQiXUfLrpUbaR9yS51E/edit","https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqnjy/is-there-a-racist-monument-in-your-town-check-this-map-to-find-out
https://danjbrady.com"
2020.06.17,2,More protest data.,"CountLove.org has been using news reports to quantify protest events in the US since 2017. Its downloadable dataset currently contains more than 27,000 events and provides each event’s date, location, and approximate number of attendees. The events are also tagged with one or more topics, such as civil rights, healthcare, for racial justice, and against regulation. The site’s search/mapping tool lets you to filter by those tags, and also for “curated protest data for a more compassionate country.” Related: Tommy Leung and Nathan Perkins describe how they built the project. [h/t Audra Burch et al.]","https://countlove.org/
https://countlove.org/faq.html
https://countlove.org/search.html
https://www.tommyleung.com/about.htm
https://www.nathanntg.com/
https://www.tommyleung.com/countLove/index.htm",https://twitter.com/abscribe/status/1272169075662376960
2020.06.17,3,The Green Books.,"The New York Public Library has digitized more than 20 volumes of the Green Book —  a series of travelers’ guides, published from the 1930s to 1960s by US postal worker Victor Green, that listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other establishments where Black visitors would be safe and welcome. The library has converted its digital copies into semi-structured text and turned the 1947 edition into a fully-structured dataset. The University of South Carolina has built a dataset of the 1,500+ listings in the 1956 edition. Inn 2015, NYPL Labs combined both years’ datasets into a tool to map the locations and plan routes with them.","https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-green-book#/?tab=about
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/03/24/schomburg-treasures-green-book
https://github.com/NYPL-publicdomain/greenbooks
https://github.com/NYPL-publicdomain/greenbooks/tree/master/geojson
https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/the-negro-travelers-green-book-1956/
https://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/",
2020.06.17,4,Sentences for measuring bias.,"StereoSet aims to measure biases toward stereotypes — as they relate to profession, gender, race, and religion — in statistical language models, using a dataset containing thousands of sentences, each with several variations. Through the project’s online data explorer, you can examine the sentences and see how some popular language models perform. [h/t Michael McLaughlin]","https://stereoset.mit.edu/
https://github.com/moinnadeem/StereoSet
https://stereoset.mit.edu/explore/dev/",https://www.datainnovation.org/2020/05/measuring-bias-in-natural-language-models/
2020.06.17,5,A few hundred penguins.,"Data educator Allison Horst earlier this month released a dataset describing the physical characteristics of 344 Antarctic penguins, derived from data collected by marine biologist Kristen Gorman and the Palmer Station. With palmerpenguins, Horst aims to provide a data-exploration alternative to the ubiquitous iris dataset, which was first published, in 1936, in the Annals of Eugenics. Previously: Thousands of penguins (DIP 2020.03.11). [h/t Alex Cookson]","https://www.allisonhorst.com/
https://twitter.com/allison_horst/status/1270046399418138625
https://github.com/allisonhorst/palmerpenguins/blob/master/data-raw/penguins_raw.csv
https://www.uaf.edu/cfos/people/faculty/detail/kristen-gorman.php
https://pal.lternet.edu/
https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_flower_data_set
http://www.penguinmap.com/mapppd
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-03-11-edition",https://twitter.com/alexcookson/status/1270073380792872962
2020.06.24,1,New policing bills.,"The National Conference of State Legislatures has built a database of state-level policing bills and executive orders introduced since May 25, the day George Floyd was killed. The database covers proposed bills on “oversight and data, training, standards and certification, use of force, technology, policing alternatives and collaboration, [...] and other timely issues.” So far, it contains brief descriptions, author information, statuses, and last-activity dates for more than 250 pieces of legislation in 25 states and DC. Although the database does not provide downloads, its HTML output is highly structured. Related: Last week, The Marshall Project’s Weihua Li, Humera Lodhi, and Damini Sharma analyzed the database and put the bills in context.","https://www.ncsl.org
https://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/legislative-responses-for-policing.aspx
https://twitter.com/Weihua_Li1
https://twitter.com/HumeraLodhi
https://twitter.com/sharmad23
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/18/which-states-are-taking-on-police-reform-after-george-floyd",
2020.06.24,2,Indigenous lands.,"Native-Land.ca maps the historical geographic extents of Indigenous territories in North America, Australia, New Zealand, parts of South America, and elsewhere. The project’s datasets cover 1,400+ territories, 900+ languages, and 800+ related treaties, drawn from a wide range of resources. It was launched in 2015 by programmer Victor Temprano and is now run by a not-for-profit organization with a board of directors. Related: Earlier this year, High Country News published Land-Grab Universities, a “two-year inquiry into the origin of wealth that undergirds the nation’s system of higher education,” accompanied by a detailed methodology and dataset spanning nearly 11 million acres of expropriated Indigenous land.","https://native-land.ca/
https://native-land.ca/api-docs/
https://native-land.ca/resources/
http://victortemprano.com
https://native-land.ca/about/
https://www.landgrabu.org
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-education-how-we-investigated-the-land-grant-university-system
https://github.com/HCN-Digital-Projects/landgrabu-data",
2020.06.24,3,The Gay Guides.,"Mapping the Gay Guides “aims to understand often ignored queer geographies using the Damron Address Books, an early but longstanding travel guide aimed at gay men since the early 1960s.” The project — launched earlier this year and led by historians Amanda Regan and Eric Gonzaba — includes an interactive map, downloadable dataset, methodology, and ethics statement. It already covers more than 22,000 entries in more than 30 states, with plans for further expansion. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.mappingthegayguides.org
https://www.mappingthegayguides.org/2020/02/announcing-the-launch-of-mapping-the-gay-guides/
https://mappingthegayguides.org/about/
https://mappingthegayguides.org/regan/
https://mappingthegayguides.org/gonzaba/
https://mappingthegayguides.org/map/
https://github.com/MappingtheGayGuides/MGG-Data
https://mappingthegayguides.org/methodology/
https://mappingthegayguides.org/ethics/",https://mailchi.mp/42557319b05d/preview-222-in-other-news-3837485
2020.06.24,4,Coronavirus-era child care.,"Economist and parenting book–author Emily Oster has been collecting and publishing “preliminary, unscientific data on child care centers which were open in the pandemic.” The dataset currently includes more than 900 centers, their locations, age ranges served, whether they were open the whole time or just part of it, the number of students and staff, and the number of COVID-19 cases in students and staff. [h/t Laura Libby]","https://emilyoster.net/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYIy0Dc9PW9sWCSWNXypw36FLoMiSx9jDalgDPcccK4T7ezQ/viewform
https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1275044876133044225
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L45r63t8hpYfGLpT6gWKjYMscu8Wut6jtlxO-1FAW9c/edit",https://twitter.com/LauraALibby/status/1274084844817940480
2020.06.24,5,These datasets lead to Rome.,"The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations at Harvard University “makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for [...] mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.” The project’s datasets include economic indicators, climate records, ports and harbors, shipwrecks, roads, and more. [h/t Pier Rolla]","https://darmc.harvard.edu/
https://darmc.harvard.edu/data-availability",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/h0702y/has_anyone_put_together_a_document_listing_all/
2020.07.01,1,The coronavirus economy.,"Opportunity Insights’ Economic Tracker “combines anonymized data from leading private companies – from credit card processors to payroll firms – to provide a real-time picture of indicators such as employment rates, consumer spending, and job postings across counties, industries, and income groups.” Small business revenue, for instance, appears to be down about 55% in Boston, compared to the beginning of the year. The project’s GitHub page provides aggregated data corresponding to each of the charts and graphs. Previously: Opportunity Insights’ extensive datasets on economic mobility (DIP 2019.06.12). [h/t Matteo Ferroni + Dan Stein]","https://tracktherecovery.org/
https://github.com/Opportunitylab/EconomicTracker
https://opportunityinsights.org/data/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-06-12-edition","https://twitter.com/matteoferroni93/status/1273312600793714689
https://twitter.com/DanStein_econ/status/1273301012091035648"
2020.07.01,2,Voter registration.,"At least three states publish monthly, machine-readable statistics on new voter registrations: Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. Maryland and the District of Columbia publish similar data as PDF tables. A recent report by Center for Election Innovation & Research analyzed pandemic-era registrations, using that data plus numbers obtained from Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, and Texas. The analysis found a “steep decline in new registrations,” largely attributable to social distancing measures and DMV closures. To accompany an article on the topic, FiveThirtyEight has compiled CEIR’s counts for those 12 states, for the first five months of 2016 and 2020, into a simple CSV.","https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reportsxlsx/
https://www.elections.virginia.gov/resultsreports/registration-statistics/
https://dl.ncsbe.gov/?prefix=data/voterstats/
https://elections.maryland.gov/voter_registration/stats.html
https://www.dcboe.org/Data-Resources-Forms/Voter-Registration-Stats
https://electioninnovation.org/new-voter-registrations-in-2020/
https://electioninnovation.org/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/voter-registrations-are-way-way-down-during-the-pandemic/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/voter-registration",
2020.07.01,3,COVID clusters.,"A team of researchers in the UK has been gathering data on COVID-19 “transmission events” that have resulted in clusters of cases, based on various official, scholarly, and news reports. For each of the 250+ events listed so far, the dataset specifies the setting (e.g., “work,” “household,” “religious,” “elderly care”), whether it was indoors or outdoors, geographical location, number of cases involved, and more. The New York Times has also been tracking the location and size of COVID-19 clusters in the US — so far, more than 1,700 clusters with at least 50 cases. The NYT doesn’t provide a download button, but its webpage loads the data from a JSON file. [h/t Kai Kupferschmidt]","https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-83
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16wtnHe4hM6I7TFHXVpLXY8R4GAUzAJ-7NWbKIVvsVuA/edit
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html#clusters",https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all
2020.07.01,4,Subway accessibility.,"To better understand accessibility issues in the NYC subway, the Two Sigma Data Clinic has constructed a series of datasets and diagrams describing each station’s elevator connections — from the street to the station, and between various points and platforms within it. Related: The subway system’s official list of elevators and escalators. Previously: Turnstile data from NYC and Chicago (DIP 2017.02.08). [h/t Erin Stein]","https://medium.com/dataclinic/open-tools-to-analyze-accessibility-within-the-nyc-subway-system-383fb111b4ad
https://dataclinic.twosigma.com/
https://github.com/tsdataclinic/mta
https://github.com/tsdataclinic/mta/tree/master/data/processed/stationgraph
https://github.com/tsdataclinic/mta/tree/master/figures/elevator_maps
http://advisory.mtanyct.info/eedevwebsvc/allequipments.aspx
http://web.mta.info/developers/turnstile.html
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/CTA-Ridership-L-Station-Entries-Daily-Totals/5neh-572f
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-02-08-edition",https://twitter.com/eeeestein/status/1271539959632211971
2020.07.01,5,Humans using computers.,BEHACOM is a dataset that details minute-by-minute usage statistics for 12 Spanish and Italian men “interacting for fifty-five consecutive days with their personal computers in their own way and without restrictions.”,"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920306612
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/cg4br62535/2",
2020.07.08,1,The Paycheck Protection Program.,"On Monday, the US Treasury Department and Small Business Administration released detailed data on the financial assistance given to businesses through the government’s Paycheck Protection Program. For the 660,000+ loans of at least $150,000, the dataset includes each recipient’s name, address, industry classification, and business type, plus the name of lender, the number of jobs the business said would be supported, loan amount (grouped into several ranges), and more. For aid less than $150,000, the dataset contains similar information, but without names or addresses. Related: Efforts to make the data more accessible are already underway. Simon Willison, for instance, generated a searchable database of all loans of $150,000+, and The Washington Post has published an interactive database of the $1,000,000+ loans. Also related: There are some errors in the data.","https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1052
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Protection_Program
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares-act/assistance-for-small-businesses/sba-paycheck-protection-program-loan-level-data
https://simonwillison.net
https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1280283053726691329
https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com/loans_150k_plus/foia_150k_plus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/sba-ppp-data/
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/06/ppp-small-business-coroniavirus-loan-database-contains-errors.html",
2020.07.08,2,Women in office.,"Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics has made public its Women Elected Officials Database, which “represents the most complete collection of information anywhere in the world about women elected officials in the United States.” It covers all “women who have held office at the congressional, statewide elected executive, and state legislative levels nationwide,” going back to the 1890s. For each of the 11,540 officeholders, “the database includes their geographic information, party identification, and race identification where available.” You can explore the data online and also (with a free registration) download it. Previously: Women candidates for the US House, 1972–2010 (DIP 2017.07.26) .","https://cawp.rutgers.edu
https://cawpdata.rutgers.edu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_J._Eisenhuth
https://cawpdata.rutgers.edu/women-elected-officials
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CFPBRI
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-07-26-edition",
2020.07.08,3,Programmer surveys.,"For the past decade, programming Q&A site StackOverflow has run an annual survey, asking developers about the languages they use, their workplaces, learning goals, salaries, and more. The site provides anonymized, respondent-level data for each survey, including the 2020 edition, which received 64,000+ responses. Between 2016 and 2018, the not-for-profit FreeCodeCamp ran an annual “new coder” survey, which attracted more than 31,000 responses in its most recent year; those datasets are also available to download. [h/t Jason Norwood-Young","https://stackoverflow.com
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/
https://www.freecodecamp.org
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-2018-new-coder-survey-31-000-people-told-us-how-theyre-learning-to-code-and-getting-dev-jobs-e10feb9ed419/
https://github.com/freeCodeCamp?q=new-coder-survey",https://nakeddata.org/2020/06/12/the-most-loved-and-dreaded-computing-languages/
2020.07.08,4,UK land parcels.,"Last week, the UK expanded access to its datasets defining the geographical boundaries of 23 million “title extents” in England, Wales, and Scotland. Previously: UK property sales (DIP 2016.03.23).","https://www.gov.uk/government/news/inspire-data-to-be-shared-under-open-terms
https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/datasets/inspire
https://ros.locationcentre.co.uk/inspire/
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/price-paid-data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-03-23-edition",
2020.07.08,5,Dungeons & Dragons dialogue.,"Microsoft researchers Revanth Rameshkumar and Peter Bailey have assembled the Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset, converting 159 transcripts of a popular, live-streamed role-playing show into structured information about 398,682 bits of dialogue. [h/t Lynn Cherny]","https://twitter.com/rev_rameshkumar
https://twitter.com/peter_r_bailey
https://github.com/RevanthRameshkumar/CRD3
https://critrole.com",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/
2020.07.15,1,1.75 million US COVID patients.,"The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published a dataset containing demographic and medical information on 1.75 million deidentified COVID-19 patients. For each confirmed or probable case, the dataset report reports the patient’s age group and race/ethnicity, the date of their initial symptoms, whether they were hospitalized, whether they had an “underlying morbidity or disease,” and more — although several of the fields contain high percentages of “unknown” values. The dataset is similar to the one The New York Times got from the CDC through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit (see: “The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus”), but it does not specify the patient’s county. [h/t Marc Bevand + Steven Mosher]","https://data.cdc.gov/Case-Surveillance/COVID-19-Case-Surveillance-Public-Use-Data/vbim-akqf
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus-data-united-states.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html","https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1282139606905786369
https://twitter.com/stevenmosher/status/1282136596628688896"
2020.07.15,2,More government responses to the coronavirus.,"The CoronaNet Research Project aims “to collect as much information as we can about the various fine-grained actions governments are taking to defeat the coronavirus.” The project, which has drawn contributions from more than 400 researchers around the world, published its initial release a few weeks ago, and now details nearly 16,000 policy events in nearly 200 countries. Related: The nonprofit Hikma Health says it has compiled “the largest county-level COVID-19 policy dataset in the nation,” covering 1,200 US counties and more than 120 Native American communities. The dataset indicates the dates on which each jurisdiction undertook various responses, such as closing schools and restricting large gatherings. [h/t Alex Pashanov]","https://www.coronanet-project.org/
https://www.coronanet-project.org/download.html
https://www.hikmahealth.org/
https://www.hikmahealth.org/map
https://github.com/hikmahealth/covid19countymap/tree/gh-pages",https://twitter.com/AlexPashanov/status/1275441552324612102
2020.07.15,3,COVID cases in migrant worker dorms.,"The anonymous author of Squirrelling Data has been collating information from the Singapore Ministry of Health’s coronavirus press releases. Among the datasets: daily case counts in dozens of migrant worker dormitories, which have been hit hard. [h/t Joses Ho]","https://squirrellingdata.wixsite.com/home/
https://squirrellingdata.wixsite.com/home/post/singapore-covid-19-data
https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NcoRQkvlPTiXh1_CWtjQFyyGXNTY5enbRPNLf4cHuhc/edit#gid=0
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/singapore-million-migrant-workers-suffer-as-covid-19-surges-back",https://www.josesho.com/
2020.07.15,4,Case citations.,"The Caselaw Access Project (DIP 2018.11.07) has begun publishing a citation graph, a dataset listing the previous cases that each court decision cites. The latest release covers 43 million citations. The project also provides aggregated versions of the data, plus interactive graphics showing the frequency of citations to and from courts in each state.","https://case.law/about/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-11-07-edition
https://case.law/download/citation_graph/
https://case.law/download/citation_graph/2020-05-08/
https://case.law/exhibits/cite-grid",
2020.07.15,5,Old British lighthouses.,"The Historical Light Aids to Navigation dataset “shows the development of historical lighthouses, lightships, harbour lights and beacons in England and Wales for several benchmark years between 1514-1911,” drawn from navigational charts, government publications, and other sources. For each of the 600+ entries, the dataset provides the light aid’s name, geocoordinates, and (when available) its visibility range, height, and number of lights.","https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854172/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920308854",
2020.07.22,1,Police surveillance tech.,"The Atlas of Surveillance, a new project from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, documents various types of surveillance technology used by 3,500 law enforcement agencies around the US. The 5,300 data-points, crowdsourced with the help of hundreds of students and volunteers, cover a dozen categories of technology, such as automated license plate readers, facial recognition systems, and partnerships with doorbell camera–companies. [h/t anigbrowl]","https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
https://www.eff.org/
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/search
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/methodology",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23824845
2020.07.22,2,COVID-related behavior.,"Since early April, Imperial College London and YouGov have been surveying people in 29 countries about their coronavirus-related behaviors and opinions. Topics include mask usage, self-isolation, working from home, vaccinations, and economic activity; the 230,000+ (anonymized) responses are available to download. [h/t Akin Unver]","https://www.imperial.ac.uk/global-health-innovation/our-research/covid-19-response/covid-19-behaviour-tracker/
https://github.com/YouGov-Data/covid-19-tracker",https://twitter.com/AkinUnver/status/1282815737288183810
2020.07.22,3,Mexican migration to the US.,"The Mexican Migration Project “was created in 1982 by an interdisciplinary team of researchers to further our understanding of the complex process of Mexican migration to the United States.” Since then, the project — co-directed by professors at the University of Guadalajara and Princeton University — has interviewed more than 176,000 people from 170 communities in Mexico, some who migrated and others who did not. The datasets (registration required) record various facets of their lives and migrations: demographic, health, and economic attributes; migration timings, circumstances, and destinations; community characteristics; and more. [h/t Brian K. Kovak and Rebecca Lessem]","https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/
https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/databases/dataoverview-en.aspx
https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/research/maps-en.aspx
https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/databases/instructions-en.aspx
https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/databases/codebooks-en.aspx",https://www.nber.org/papers/w26790
2020.07.22,4,The Arctic seafloor.,"The General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean project has published a new version of its Arctic Ocean depth chart, which was first released in 1997 and last updated in 2012. The latest dataset incorporates new sources, has “more than twice the resolution” as the previous version, and is more precise. Previously: Arctic (and Antarctic) ice coverage (DIP 2016.09.14), which is hitting year-over-year lows.","https://www.gebco.net/about_us/overview/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0520-9
https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/arctic_ocean/
https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-14-edition
https://twitter.com/paldhous/status/1283049748614848528",
2020.07.22,5,The Big Mac Index.,"The Economist’s Big Mac Index, which the magazine invented in 1986, compares the cost of the signature McDonald’s hamburger around the world. “Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible,” it says. “Yet the Big Mac index has become a global standard, included in several economic textbooks and the subject of dozens of academic studies.” The index is updated twice a year (including last week) and now covers 55 countries; both the data (going back to April 2000) and calculation code are available to download.","https://www.economist.com/news/2020/07/15/the-big-mac-index
https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data",
2020.07.29,1,COVID-19 treatments and vaccines.,"The Milken Institute’s FasterCures project is tracking hundreds of potential COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. For each candidate, the project’s database lists its category (e.g., DNA-based vaccines, cell-based therapies, et cetera), a brief description, its stage of development, “anticipated next steps,” funders, and more. Related: The project’s interactive graphic exploring the vaccines.","https://milkeninstitute.org/centers/fastercures
https://covid-19tracker.milkeninstitute.org/
https://airtable.com/shrSAi6t5WFwqo3GM/tblEzPQS5fnc0FHYR/viweyymxOAtNvo7yH?blocks=bipZFzhJ7wHPv7x9z
https://www.covid-19vaccinetracker.org/",
2020.07.29,2,NYPD officer misconduct.,"ProPublica has published a dataset of more than 12,000 civilian complaints against nearly 4,000 NYPD officers. The reporters obtained the data through a freedom-of-information request to New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, after state lawmakers overturned a decades-old statute that had shielded the records. ProPublica’s database “lists the name of each officer, the race of the complainant and the officer, a category describing the alleged misconduct, and whether the CCRB concluded the officers’ conduct violated NYPD rules.” Related: In 2018, my colleagues Kendall Taggart and Mike Hayes obtained thousands of NYPD disciplinary records from a source who requested anonymity — giving the public access to this closely-guarded information for the first time and demonstrating how the department had let hundreds of officers keep their jobs after committing fireable offenses. (Soon after, the NYPD announced an independent panel to review its disciplinary program.) [h/t Jan Willem Tulp + Ed Vine]","https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-civilian-complaint-review-board-editors-note
https://projects.propublica.org/nypd-ccrb/
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/civilian-complaints-against-new-york-city-police-officers
https://twitter.com/KendallTTaggart
https://twitter.com/michaelhayes
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/nypd-police-misconduct-database
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/nypd-police-misconduct-database-explainer
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikehayes/nypd-disciplinary-review-board-created","https://twitter.com/JanWillemTulp
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347"
2020.07.29,3,US political polls.,"FiveThirtyEight’s frequently-updated polling database provides results from thousands of polls (and hundreds of pollsters) on the current presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Those datasets — plus historical polling averages for presidential elections since 1980 — are available to download. The files list each poll’s sample size, methods, timeframe, FiveThirtyEight pollster rating, and more.","https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/polls
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/",
2020.07.29,4,Territorial self-governance.,"Christoph Trinn and Felix Schulte’s TERRGO dataset presents “a fresh look at territorial self-governance in more than 2,200 second-level regions in 96 Western and non-Western democracies, semi-democracies, and a selection of autocratic regimes between 2000 and 2018.” For each region (for instance, Guam or Greenland), TERRGO provides several self-governance metrics, such as whether the national constitution protects the its status and to what degree it can set taxes.","https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/politikwissenschaften/personal/croissant/trinn_en.html
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/politikwissenschaften/personal/croissant/schulte_en.html
https://territorial-governance.com/",
2020.07.29,5,Meteorite landings.,"The Meteoritical Society’s Meteoritical Bulletin Database “is a clearinghouse for basic information about each meteorite, including the classification, place and year of discovery, whether if was observed to fall, references to catalogues in which the meteorite is described, and known synonyms that may be encountered in the literature.” The society doesn’t provide an easy way to download the full database, but NASA’s open data portal hosts a key slice of it — 45,000+ landings recorded through mid-2013. Related: Craig Taylor’s animated, 3-D rendering of the data. [h/t EwanP]","https://meteoritical.org/
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/
https://data.nasa.gov/Space-Science/Meteorite-Landings/gh4g-9sfh
https://twitter.com/CraigTaylorViz
https://twitter.com/CraigTaylorViz/status/1287007372053970945",
2020.08.05,1,Cabinet members.,"WhoGov, a new project led by two graduate students at Oxford, provides “bibliographic information, such as gender and party affiliation, on cabinet members in July every year in the period 1966-2016 in all countries with a population of more than 400,000 citizens.” In all, the dataset covers more than 50,000 officials, “makes it possible to answer questions such as; what is the share of female cabinet members globally, which type of regime has the highest cabinet turnover, and have cabinets increased in size over time?” [h/t Yujin Julia Jung + Max Grömping]","https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-centres/nuffield-politics-research-centre/whogov/
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-centres/nuffield-politics-research-centre/whogov/people/
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-centres/nuffield-politics-research-centre/whogov/download-dataset/","https://twitter.com/YJuliaJung/status/1285598237068582912
https://twitter.com/MaxGroemping/status/1285641311677231106"
2020.08.05,2,Values and beliefs.,"The World Values Survey, first fielded in 1981, “is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents.” Last month, the project began releasing data from its seventh wave of interviews, conducted in 77 countries and covering hundreds of questions about religion, migration, stereotypes, trust, and more. [h/t Michael Howlett + Seth J. Meyer]","http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSEventsShow.jsp?ID=413
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp","https://twitter.com/howlettm/status/1285279256906395648
https://twitter.com/SethJMeyer/status/1287439947209879552"
2020.08.05,3,Software supply chain attacks.,"Breaking Trust, a new project from the Atlantic Council, provides a dataset of 115 “software supply chain” attacks and disclosures in the past decaude. These vulnerabilities occur “when an attacker accesses and edits software somewhere in the complex software development supply chain to compromise a target farther up the chain by inserting their own malicious code.” The dataset’s examples include Stuxnet, malicious browswer extensions, and various attacks on software package registries. [h/t Maya Kaczorowski + Lily Liu]","https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/breaking-trust-shades-of-crisis-across-an-insecure-software-supply-chain/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/resources/breaking-trust-the-dataset/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
https://threatpost.com/500-malicious-chrome-extensions-millions/152918/","https://twitter.com/MayaKaczorowski/status/1288231258422575105
https://twitter.com/LilyZimeng/status/1290331849928118272"
2020.08.05,4,Animals with SARS-CoV-2.,"The USDA has been publishing basic information about animals that its National Veterinary Services Laboratories have confirmed contracted the novel coronvirus. The simple table — unavailable to download, but easy enough to copy-paste into a spreadsheet — lists the types of animals (mostly “Cat” and “Dog,” but also a lion and a tiger), the states they lived in, the dates confirmed, and the methods of diagnosis.","https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/sa_one_health/sars-cov-2-animals-us
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/lab-info-services/sa_about_nvsl/ct_about_nvsl",
2020.08.05,5,A lot of CAD sketches.,"SketchGraphs characterizes 15 million computer-aided design (CAD) sketches, “extracted from real-world CAD models” and obtained from a popular online CAD platform. Each of the dataset’s sketches “is represented as a geometric constraint graph where edges denote designer-imposed geometric relationships between primitives, the nodes of the graph.”",https://github.com/PrincetonLIPS/SketchGraphs/,
2020.08.12,1,Coronavirus humanitarian funding.,"The Centre for Disaster Protection and Development Initiatives have been jointly compiling data on the billions of dollars of humanitarian and development aid that the IMF, World Bank, and other agencies have allocated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For each “flow” of funds, the dataset specifies the funding source, amount, approval date, purpose, and more. Related: The UN’s provides a downloadable and explorable dataset of its coronavirus–related humanitarian funding, and has built an interactive map based on these and related datasets.","https://www.disasterprotection.org/
https://devinit.org/
https://www.disasterprotection.org/funding-covid-19-response
https://www.disasterprotection.org/latest-news/funding-covid-19-response-tracking-global-humanitarian-and-development-flows-to-meet-crisis-needs
https://pfbi.unocha.org/COVID19/
https://centre.humdata.org/covid-19-map-explorer-whats-included-and-how-we-built-it/
https://data.humdata.org/visualization/covid19-humanitarian-operations/",
2020.08.12,2,US climate change.,"On Friday, the Washington Post released several datasets and computer scripts from its Pulitzer Prize–winning series, “2°C: Beyond the Limit,” which examined how “extreme climate change has arrived in America.” The data files — derived from NOAA’s nClimDiv and nClimGrid climate datasets — contain the annual average temperatures and seasonal temperature changes for each state and county in the contiguous US.","https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/07/how-use-posts-climate-data-analysis/
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-2C-beyond-the-limit-usa/
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-washington-post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-america/
https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00005
https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00332",
2020.08.12,3,International banking statistics.,"The Bank for International Settlements, established in 1930 and run by a group of central banks, publishes a range of statistical datasets “designed to inform analysis of financial stability, international monetary spillovers and global liquidity.” The datasets are available to explore online and to download; they cover exchange rates, cross-border liabilities, consumer prices, debt service ratios, and more. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://www.bis.org/about/index.htm
https://www.bis.org/about/member_cb.htm
https://www.bis.org/statistics/index.htm
https://stats.bis.org/statx/toc/LBS.html
https://www.bis.org/statistics/full_data_sets.htm",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/a09133e2c4343415c6d6cbdc81f88da3748265a5
2020.08.12,4,Electric vehicle charging.,"A team led by public policy professor Omar Asensio used a field experiment to collect data on 3,395 electric vehicle charging sessions. The dataset “contains sessions from 85 EV drivers with repeat usage at 105 stations across 25 sites at a workplace charging program”; it indicates the date and length of each session, total energy used, cost, and more.","https://spp.gatech.edu/people/person/omar-isaac-asensio
https://github.com/asensio-lab/workplace-charging-experiment
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NFPQLW",
2020.08.12,5,44 million Reddit votes.,"On Reddit, users can choose to publicize their history of upvoting and downvoting other users’ posts. Software engineer Joey Leake recently collected and published data on more than 44 million of these votes. For each, Leake’s dataset lists the post ID, relevant subreddit, the vote’s timestamp (in most cases), and the voter’s username.","https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-leake-83229b1/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/hzdkbp/a_huge_collection_of_reddit_voting_data/
https://www.kaggle.com/josephleake/huge-collection-of-reddit-votes/",
2020.08.19,1,Federal sentencing.,"The United States Sentencing Commission publishes annual datasets, going back to 2002, on people and organizations criminally sentenced in federal court. The files are anonymized, but contain hundreds of variables detailing the circumstances and outcomes of each decision. The commission also publishes “special collections” with additional information on drug-trafficking and economic crimes. Note: The datasets are published as SAS and SPSS files, but Kevin H. Wilson has shared Python code to convert them to CSVs. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.ussc.gov/
https://www.ussc.gov/research/datafiles/commission-datafiles
https://kevinhayeswilson.com/
https://github.com/khwilson/SentencingCommissionDatasets",https://mailchi.mp/6e3a3405cf45/preview-222-in-other-news-3899490
2020.08.19,2,The demographics of power.,"The Reflective Democracy Campaign and the Center for Technology and Civic Life have partnered to produce datasets examining the demographics of 3,000+ elected sheriffs; 2,800+ elected prosecutors; and candidates for federal, state, and local offices in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. [h/t Stacy Montemayor]","https://wholeads.us/
https://www.techandciviclife.org/
https://wholeads.us/resources/for-researchers/",https://twitter.com/teacupwoozy
2020.08.19,3,House work.,"With help from academics and former Hill staffers, journalist Derek Willis has assembled an archive of the weekly job and internship bulletins sent by the US House of Representatives. The archive, which goes back to late 2013, includes both the original PDFs and text extracted from them.","http://thescoop.org/about/
https://github.com/dwillis/house-jobs",
2020.08.19,4,Late-medieval English immigrants.,"England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is “a fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation,” drawing on “taxation assessments, letters of denization and protection, and a variety of other licences and grants.” In addition to names, the dataset includes nationalities, places of residence, occupations, and more. [h/t W. Mark Ormrod]","https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/
https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/browse/",https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/englands-immigrants-13301550-aliens-in-later-medieval-and-early-tudor-england/18763980AF6911AD8DEA4B5D27984007
2020.08.19,5,Bees.,"The US Geological Survey’s Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab keeps tabs on the country’s bee species, including through a dataset of more than 400,000 observations of “native and non-native bees, wasps and other insects.” (Free registration required.) Related: The lab also publishes “The Very Handy Manual: How to Catch and Identify Bees and Manage a Collection,” plus thousands of high-resolution photos.","https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pwrc/science/native-bee-inventory-and-monitoring-lab
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/f519367d-6b9d-411c-b319-99424741e7de
https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/atoms/files/The%20Very%20Handy%20Manual%20-%202015.pdf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml",
2020.08.26,1,Protests around the world.,"The Mass Mobilization Project is “an effort to understand citizen movements against governments, what citizens want when they demonstrate against governments, and how governments respond to citizens.” The project’s dataset covers more than 14,000 protests in more than 160 countries between 1990 and early 2017. For each protest, it indicates the location, dates, estimated number of participants, protesters’ demands, the state’s response, and more. The project, led by political scientists David H. Clark and Patrick M. Regan, is indirectly funded by the CIA through the government-sponsored Political Instability Task Force. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://massmobilization.github.io/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/MMdata
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=miiCGvgAAAAJ&hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Regan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Instability_Task_Force",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/884ae0d5e6dce893c2ad986ae51fb09bbd0d0cd2
2020.08.26,2,Ruling elites.,"The Authoritarian Ruling Elites Database, compiled by political scientist Austin S. Matthews, is “a collection of biographical and professional information on the individuals who constitute the top elite of authoritarian regimes.” Each of the project’s 18 datasets focuses on a particular regime, such as the military dictatorship that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. The biographical data-points include gender, occupation, dates of birth and death, tenure among the elite, and more.","https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/QZ9BSA
https://sites.google.com/view/austinsmatthews/home",
2020.08.26,3,Government publications.,"The US Government Publishing Office’s govinfo.gov provides online access to a wide range of official federal publications — including bulk downloads of congressional bills, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and more. It also provides sitemaps “to crawl and harvest content” from many of its other collections. [h/t Christine Stefano]","https://www.govinfo.gov/
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/bills
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/fr
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/cfr
https://www.govinfo.gov/sitemaps",https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-stefano-5615456/
2020.08.26,4,National park trails.,"The US National Park Service publishes a dataset of 28,000+ lines describing “formal and informal trails as well as routes within and across” the park system. The dataset provides the trail names, types, surfaces, allowed uses, and more. [h/t u/torrijasycafe]",https://public-nps.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nps-trails-geographic-coordinate-system-1,https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/icxtxf/csv_of_us_national_park_trails/
2020.08.26,5,Bad words.,"“With millions of images in our library and billions of user-submitted keywords, we work hard at Shutterstock to make sure that bad words don’t show up in places they shouldn’t.” The company’s dataset of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words contains the block-lists for their autocompletion and recommendation features, covering 2,600+ words and phrases in 28 languages. [h/t Katie McCulloch]",https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words,https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-04-16-f*%24!-you-in-4-languages/
2020.09.02,1,A who’s who of historical China.,"The China Biographical Database is packed with details on “approximately 470,000 individuals” from historical China, “primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries.” The extensively documented records include information about kinships, social statuses, offices and postings, aliases, known addresses, and more. The project, which has a long history of its own, provides bulk downloads as well as an API. [h/t Yifei Hu]","https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/supporting-documents
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/history-of-cbdb
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/download-cbdb-standalone-database
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/cbdb-api",https://twitter.com/yifeiphu
2020.09.02,2,School reopenings.,"Education Week is collecting coronavirus-era reopening plans “from a sample of school districts around the country.” The dataset (free registration required) covers more than 800 US public school districts so far, and is being updated weekly. USAFacts has collected similar information from the 255 largest US public school districts as of August 17. And coronaviral.fyi has pulled together data on a thousand districts’ plans in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. [h/t Sasha Anderson + Stephen Stirling and Rebekah F. Ward]","https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-districts-reopening-plans-a-snapshot.html
https://fs24.formsite.com/edweek/lpuqp09jhq/index.html
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-are-children-going-back-school-americas-225-largest-public-school-districts/
http://www.coronaviral.fyi/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16f99488ylGL9L1BaeqaD-yy85mayS7-BSHJS31ukiXk/edit#gid=608920111","https://twitter.com/sashananderson
https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=f41127908fa3aa16b3d6c4d99&id=542bdcc636"
2020.09.02,3,US cabinets.,"UX designer Tait Chamberlain has constructed a dataset of all US presidential cabinet nominations — including nominees appointed, withdrawn, and rejected — from George Washington’s to the current administration. The spreadsheets contain “service dates, notable scandals, education, military service, foreign birth, known minority and gender status, whether the appointee died in office, and the senate confirmation vote tallies.” Previously: Cabinets around the world, 1966–2016 (DIP 2020.08.05).","https://taitcha.com/
https://github.com/taitcha/American_cabinet_appointments
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-centres/nuffield-politics-research-centre/whogov/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-08-05-edition",
2020.09.02,4,Papal visits.,"For their “Pacem in Terris: Are Papal Visits Good News for Human Rights?” working paper, economists Marek Endrich and Jerg Gutmann have compiled “the first global dataset on papal travels outside of Italy.” For each country-year combination between 1964 and 2017, the dataset indicates whether the Pope visited, who he was, and the country’s “latent human rights” score for that year.","https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwilewps/37.htm
https://www.jura.uni-hamburg.de/die-fakultaet/personenverzeichnis/endrich-marek.html
https://sites.google.com/site/jerggutmann/home
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lr3qQvtReCAbke6DksuX5IoGMqwjbN_r/view
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/HumanRightsScores",
2020.09.02,5,The Bible.,"Tim Morgan’s bible-api.com “provides a JSON API for grabbing bible verses and passages.” You can choose verses from six translations in five languages, and can download both the underlying code and the data. [h/t Oto Brglez]","https://timmorgan.dev/
https://bible-api.com/
https://github.com/seven1m/bible_api
https://github.com/seven1m/open-bibles",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737601
2020.09.30,1,State bills.,"For years, Open States has allowed you to “track bills, review upcoming legislation, and see how your local representatives are voting in your state.” The volunteer-driven project provides bulk downloads of nearly all its data, plus an API. More recently, it has started tracking coronavirus-related legislation, with data on more than 3,300 bills across the country. [h/t Amy Cesal]","https://openstates.org/
https://openstates.org/about/
https://openstates.org/data/
https://docs.openstates.org/en/latest/api/v2/
https://openstates.org/covid19/",https://www.amycesal.com/
2020.09.30,2,Centuries of federal debt.,"The US Treasury’s “Debt to the Penny” dataset reports the total amount of outstanding public debt issued by the federal government — updated daily and going back to April 1, 1993. As of Monday, that number was $26,811,409,726,497.33. Another of the Treasury’s datasets provides annual debt figures going back to 1789. [h/t Sam Hunley]","https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/historical-debt-outstanding/historical-debt-outstanding",https://twitter.com/shunley42/status/1301875586101583877
2020.09.30,3,Wind.,"The Global Wind Atlas aims “to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world.” The internationally-funded project provides a range of global and country-specific datasets, including wind speeds at various heights, as well as a description of its methodology and an FAQ. [h/t Anton Rühling]","https://globalwindatlas.info/
https://globalwindatlas.info/downloads/gis-files
https://globalwindatlas.info/about/method
https://globalwindatlas.info/about/faq",https://twitter.com/AntnRueh/status/1291634332965261312
2020.09.30,4,Cross-border friendliness.,"The Social Connectedness Index, a collaboration between Facebook and academic researchers, quantifies “the intensity of connectedness between locations” by measuring the frequency of Facebook-friendships linking their residents. The index represents this measurement on a scale from 1 to 1,000,000,000; the publicly available datasets provide it for every pair of countries, every pair of US counties, every county-country pair, and between subnational regions around the world. Related: An illustrative Twitter thread demonstrating the data. [h/t Johannes Stroebel]","https://dataforgood.fb.com/tools/social-connectedness-index/
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/social-connectedness-index
https://twitter.com/stroebel_econ/status/1247537135487299590",https://twitter.com/stroebel_econ
2020.09.30,5,Prime numbers.,"Mathematician Chris K. Caldwell maintains a searchable, downloadable database of the largest prime numbers known to humankind — plus who discovered them, when, and how. Related: Smaller primes.","https://www.utm.edu/staff/caldwell/
https://primes.utm.edu/primes/search.php
https://primes.utm.edu/primes/download.php
https://primes.utm.edu/primes/home.php
https://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/",
2020.10.07,1,Polling places.,"As part of a new investigative series, the Center for Public Integrity and Stateline have published a dataset of polling places during the 2012–18 US general elections for 30 states (and plan to add more states “in the coming weeks”). To assemble the dataset, reporters filed 1,200 records requests, and then converted the disparate files they received into standardized CSVs listing each polling place’s county, precinct, name, and address.","https://publicintegrity.org/topics/politics/elections/ballotboxbarriers/
https://publicintegrity.org/
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline
https://github.com/PublicI/us-polling-places
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/ballotboxbarriers/data-release-sheds-light-on-past-polling-place-changes",
2020.10.07,2,Xinjiang internment camps.,"In August, BuzzFeed News published a two-part investigation into China’s “vast new infrastructure” for imprisoning Muslim minorities in its Xinjiang region. The reporters used a novel methodology to of hundreds of detention facilities: examining the gaps in Baidu Maps’ satellite imagery. Last month, they published a dataset of those facilities’ coordinates and statuses. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has also launched its Xinjiang Data Project, identifying more than 380 detention facilities as well as the destruction of religious/cultural sites in the region. The project — which builds on previous research by the institute, BuzzFeed News, and others — classifies the detention sites into four tiers, from “low-security re-education facilities” to “suspected maximum-security prisons.” [h/t William Yang]","https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/satellite-images-investigation-xinjiang-detention-camps
https://github.com/critocrito/xinjiang-camps-data
https://www.aspi.org.au/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/china-has-built-380-internment-camps-in-xinjiang-study-finds
https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/
https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/data/?tab=datasets
https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/explainers/exploring-xinjiangs-detention-facilities/
https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/explainers/cultural-erasure/
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/mapping-xinjiangs-re-education-camps",https://twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1308950380219252736
2020.10.07,3,Historical newspaper imagery.,"The Library of Congress’ Newspaper Navigator dataset extracts “visual content” from more than 16 million pages of newspapers from 1789 to 1963, drawn from the library’s Chronicling America project (DIP 2017.08.16). To compile the dataset, its creators used machine learning to detect seven types of visuals: photos, illustrations, maps, comics, editorial cartoons, headlines, and ads. They also built an interactive search tool. [h/t Jessamyn West]","https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-16-edition
https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/newspaper-navigator
https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search",https://www.metafilter.com/188743/This-is-the-largest-dataset-of-its-kind-ever-produced
2020.10.07,4,Even older UK economic figures.,"The Bank of England has considerably expanded its longitudinal dataset on the UK’s economy (DIP 2017.01.25), renaming it “a millennium of macroeconomic data.” A few indicators (such as GDP per capita) now stretch back to 1086, thanks to the Domesday Book, while several others (such as consumer price inflation) now extend to the 13th century. [h/t Alex Albright]","https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/research-datasets
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-01-25-edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book",https://thelittledataset.com/about/
2020.10.07,5,A lifetime of first kisses.,"The Kiss List explores artist Galen Beebe’s 48 first kisses. Reconstructed from “memories and journals,” and developed with her partner John West, the dataset and visualization present “a set of facts that show who, what, where, when, and why I kissed how I did.”","http://beebe-west.com/viz/kiss-list/
https://www.galenbeebe.com/
http://beebe-west.com/john/
https://github.com/jswest/kiss-list-refresh/blob/master/public/data.json.js",
2020.10.21,1,Voting equipment.,"Verified Voting is “a non-partisan organization focused exclusively on the critical role technology plays in election administration,"" and its Verifier project provides “the only comprehensive data set of voting equipment down to the precinct level of the United States, going back to 2006.” For each election year and jurisdiction, the database indicates the type of technology in use (ranging from hand-counted paper ballots to touchscreen systems), equipment brands and models, and other details, such as whether there is a “voter-verified paper audit trail.” [h/t Jonathan Cohen]","https://verifiedvoting.org/
https://verifiedvoting.org/verifier/",https://twitter.com/jonpcohen
2020.10.21,2,Jail deaths.,"Last week, Reuters published an investigation into deaths in US jails. Because the federal government doesn’t publish jail-by-jail mortality data, reporters “filed more than 1,500 records requests to obtain information about deaths in 523 U.S. jails – every jail with an average population of 750 or more inmates, and the 10 largest jails or jail systems in nearly every state.” The resulting dataset contains details about more than 7,500 inmate deaths between 2008 and 2019, including the cause of death, custody status, and demographic information. Among the findings: “At least two-thirds of the dead inmates identified by Reuters, 4,998 people, were never convicted of the charges on which they were being held.” [h/t Grant Smith]","https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-deaths/
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-graphic/",https://twitter.com/grantmeaccess
2020.10.21,3,College athletics.,"The Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act requires thousands of US colleges to provide annual data on athletic particpation, staffing, and finances by team gender and sport. School- and team-level datasets are available through the Department of Education for the academic years ending 2003–19. Related: USAFacts recently used the data to examine college football finances. [h/t Sasha Anderson]","https://www2.ed.gov/finaid/prof/resources/athletics/eada.html
https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/
https://usafacts.org/articles/coronavirus-college-football-profit-sec-acc-pac-12-big-ten-millions-fall-2020/",https://twitter.com/sashananderson
2020.10.21,4,Bug bounties.,"Technology companies often offer “bug bounties” — rewards to people who tell them about vulnerabilities in their websites and apps, often coordinated through online platforms. For the past few years, security engineer Arkadiy Tetelman has been scraping and publishing data about the bug bounty “targets” listed on several platforms, including the eligible domains, maximum payouts, and more.","https://twitter.com/arkadiyt
https://github.com/arkadiyt/bounty-targets-data",
2020.10.21,5,Shrinking salmon.,"Scientists recently documented “widespread declines in Pacific salmon size based on 60 years of measurements from 12.5 million fish across Alaska,” collected by state officials from more than 1,000 sampling locations. The underlying dataset lists each salmon’s age, sex, length, and other details where available. [h/t Holly Kindsvater]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17726-z
https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/view/doi:10.5063/F1707ZTM",https://twitter.com/HollyKindsvater/status/1298960157876027394
2020.10.28,1,"Pregnancy, birth, and abortion.","Last month the Guttmacher Institute, a “research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights,” released its latest estimates of annual pregnancies, births, and abortions among women in the US — overall, and also by age-group and state. The national statistics cover 1973 to 2016, while the state-level numbers go from 1988 to 2016; both sets of estimates are derived from a combination of government data and the institute’s own Abortion Provider Census. Related: An introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Isaac Maddow-Zimet]","https://www.guttmacher.org/report/pregnancies-births-abortions-in-united-states-1973-2016#
https://osf.io/kthnf/
https://guttinst.github.io/National-State-Pregnancy-Codebook/
https://www.guttmacher.org/report/abortion-incidence-service-availability-us-2017
https://twitter.com/Imaddowzimet/status/1313501719406555138",https://twitter.com/Imaddowzimet
2020.10.28,2,COVID-19 in ICE facilities.,"Since late March, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been updating a webpage that tallies coronavirus cases and deaths at each of its detention facilities. But the site doesn’t provide any historical numbers; it’s just a snapshot. To fill that gap, the Vera Institute of Justice has been continually downloading the webpage, parsing it, and turning the information into structured, longitudinal data. Related: Over the summer, Vera used the data to estimate “the true scope” of COVID-19 in ICE detention, and called on the agency to provide more detailed statistics.","https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus
https://www.vera.org/
https://github.com/vera-institute/ice-detention-covid
https://www.vera.org/the-hidden-curve-covid-19-in-ice-detention",
2020.10.28,3,Mining areas.,"A team of academics has built a dataset and map indicating the geographic extents of 6,000+ mining sites around the world. The project traces out 21,000+ polygons covering 57,000+ square kilometers, with boundaries based on experts’ visual interpretation of satellite imagery. It focuses on “above-ground features,” such as “open cuts, tailings dams, waste rock dumps, water ponds, and processing infrastructure.”","https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.910894
https://www.fineprint.global/visualisations/viewer/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00624-w",
2020.10.28,4,E-bike and e-scooter laws.,"A dataset of state regulations pertaining to standard bicycles, electric bicycles, and electric scooters accompanies a recent paper in the Journal of Law and Mobility. It includes various classifications for each state — indicating, for instance, whether riders can use the sidewalk, whether adults must wear helmets, and whether DUI laws apply.","https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/W9NGI2
https://repository.law.umich.edu/jlm/vol2020/iss1/2/",
2020.10.28,5,Witch trials.,"Some years ago, economists Peter T. Leeson and Jake Russ compiled a dataset of 10,000+ witch trials in Europe. Over the course of 550 years, the trials accused more than 43,000 people and led to 16,000 deaths. Related: Leeson and Russ’s academic paper analyzing the data (PDF). Previously: The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft (DIP 2016.01.27). [h/t Sophie Warnes]","https://economics.gmu.edu/people/pleeson
https://www.jakeruss.com/
https://github.com/JakeRuss/witch-trials
https://www.peterleeson.com/Witch_Trials.pdf
https://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-27-edition",https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-blasts-birdwatchers-and-battleground-states-272882
2020.11.11,1,Child detention.,"The Marshall Project has obtained and published official data from US Customs and Border Protection listing 580,000+ times that the agency detained migrant children since early 2017. For each detention, the dataset includes the date and time the child entered and left CBP custody, as well as the child’s age, gender, and citizenship. Related: The Marshall Project’s report on the data.","https://github.com/themarshallproject/cbp-migrantchildren-detention-data
https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/cbp-child-detentions-2017-to-2020
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/30/500-000-kids-30-million-hours-trump-s-vast-expansion-of-child-detention",
2020.11.11,2,USPS performance.,"As part of Jones v. United States Postal Service, a federal lawsuit filed in August, USPS must submit weekly performance reports that indicate, at a national and district level, the percentage of mail that was processed (though not necessarily delivered) on time. The agency files these reports as PDFs; Save the Post Office, a decade-old website run by a retired English professor, has been collecting those PDFs and converting them into spreadsheets. Related: Aaron Gordon’s pre-election analysis of the USPS data, from Gordon’s (limited-run) newsletter about the postal service.","https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17449832/jones-v-united-states-postal-service/
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/about/
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/updates-on-the-service-performance-reports/
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WIiUIu0PP_5D1j8R_-T7IN7kVWk9lvuj
https://themail.substack.com/p/crunch-time
https://themail.substack.com/",
2020.11.11,3,Transit costs.,"“Why do transit-infrastructure projects in New York cost 20 times more on a per kilometer basis than in Seoul?” With the aim of answering questions like these, the NYU-based Transit Costs Project is building a dataset that already spans more than 500 urban rail projects around the world. For each project, the dataset specifies the city, start year, end year, rail length, number of stations, total cost, and more.","https://transitcosts.com/about/
https://transitcosts.com/data/
https://transitcosts.com/projects/",
2020.11.11,4,The early Islamic world.,"The al-Ṯurayyā Project features an interactive map of the early Islamic world, with 2,000 named locations — from Damascus to Baghdad and beyond — and historical routes between them. The underlying dataset includes geocoordinates, Arabic spellings, transliterations, primary sources, and other details. [h/t Jajwalya Karajgikar]","https://althurayya.github.io/
https://github.com/althurayya/althurayya.github.io/tree/master/master",https://twitter.com/JajRK/status/1299889379817775106
2020.11.11,5,The opera.,"Operabase has gathered information about more than 500,000 opera performances staged since 1996. The website doesn’t provide direct downloads but you can access a dataset on six full seasons of stagings, covering thousands of runs in hundreds of cities, thanks to a “data donation” to support Alexander N. Cuntz’s study of how copyright affects performance frequency.","https://www.operabase.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/8LUFN8
https://ideas.repec.org/e/pcu83.html
https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4521",
2020.11.18,1,Global inequality.,"The World Inequality Database “aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.” The project, co-directed by Thomas Piketty, published a major update last week, expanding its geographic and temporal coverage. The data points vary by country; you can download them interactively or in bulk. Previously: Frederick Solt’s Standardized World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2019.12.04) and the United Nations University’s World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2016.06.01).","https://wid.world/wid-world/
https://wid.world/team/
https://wid.world/news-article/2020-regional-updates/
https://wid.world/summary-table/
https://wid.world/data/
https://fsolt.org/
https://fsolt.org/swiid/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-12-04-edition
https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/wiid-world-income-inequality-database
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-01-edition",
2020.11.18,2,Urban traffic.,"Researchers from ETH Zurich’s Institute for Transport Planning and Systems have assembled 170 million observations of traffic intensity on urban roads, registered by 23,000+ detection points in 40 cities, “making it the largest multi-city traffic dataset publically available.” The cities are mostly in Western Europe, but also include Tokyo, Taipei, Melbourne, Vilnius, Los Angeles, and Toronto. [h/t ddechamb]","https://www.ivt.ethz.ch/en/
https://utd19.ethz.ch/",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405632
2020.11.18,3,Education and civil rights.,"For decades, the US Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection has compiled “data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation’s public schools,” including “student enrollment and educational programs and services, most of which is disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency, and disability.” Last month, the department released the CRDC for the 2017–18 school year. Related: ProPublica has used CRDC data to investigate racial inequality and the use of restraints and seclusions. [h/t Andrew McCartney]","https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/data.html
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-2017-18-civil-rights-data-collection
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-2017-18.html
https://projects.propublica.org/miseducation/methodology
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/reporting-recipe-investigating-restraint-and-seclusion-in-us-schools",https://twitter.com/wouldeye125
2020.11.18,4,State spending on kids.,"A new dataset from the Urban Institute “provides a comprehensive accounting of public spending on children from 1997 through 2016.” Drawing on the US Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and other sources, the dataset summarizes “state-by-state spending on education, income security, health, and other areas.” [h/t Erica Greenberg]","https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/state-state-spending-kids-dataset
https://www.urban.org/
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/gov-finances.html",https://twitter.com/EricaHGreenberg/status/1300540133427613701
2020.11.18,5,Yet more urban trees.,"DIP editions 2016.11.16 and 2018.08.08 featured datasets of trees in NYC and other cities. But wait, there's more: millions of trees in Bogotá, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Helsinki, and Dublin. [h/t Juan Pablo Marín Díaz + Ana Lucía González + Cormac O’Keeffe + Topi Tjukanov + Tuija Sonkkila + Martin Bangratz + Sanne Hombroek + u/cavedave]","https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-11-16-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-08-08-edition
http://especiales.datasketch.co/arboles-bogota/metodologia.html
https://opendata.paris.fr/explore/dataset/les-arbres/information/
https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/stadt-wien_baumkatasterderstadtwien
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/bomen/?LANG=en
https://hri.fi/data/en_GB/dataset/helsingin-kaupungin-puurekisteri
https://data.smartdublin.ie/dataset/trees","https://twitter.com/jpmarindiaz/status/1324000258452541440
https://twitter.com/anlugonz/status/1323991925708492800
https://twitter.com/ocaoimh/status/1093494467351449600
https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1130481172151177217
https://twitter.com/ttso/status/1192730262993620992
https://twitter.com/MartinBangratz/status/1130489730234236929
https://twitter.com/sannehombroek/status/1130545212386873345
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/br8b32/tree_gps/"
2020.12.02,1,Student loans.,"The US Department of Education publishes a range of aggregate datasets on federal student loans, including the amounts outstanding ($1.5+ trillion overall, from 43 million students), volumes of financial aid requested and awarded (by student demographic and by school), default rates, and forgiveness.","https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/portfolio
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/application-volume
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/title-iv
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/default
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/loan-forgiveness",
2020.12.02,2,Rural facilities in India.,"As part of its Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana road-development program, India’s Ministry of Rural Development has gathered data on 700,000+ rural facilities, which data-science engineer Pratap Vardhan has organized into state-level CSV files. The information includes each facility’s name, category (e.g., education, medical, etc.), subcategory, state, district, block, address, and geocoordinates. Related: An exploratory Twitter thread by Vardhan, who says, “This is probably the largest open indian geo-tagged dataset I’ve seen!? It’s mostly great!?”","http://omms.nic.in/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradhan_Mantri_Gram_Sadak_Yojana
https://pratapvardhan.com
https://github.com/pratapvardhan/rural-facilities-pmgsy
https://twitter.com/PratapVardhan/status/1332174593877020673",
2020.12.02,3,More coups.,"Last month, the University of Illinois’ Cline Center for Advanced Social Research published version 2.0 of its Coup D’état Project, a dataset detailing more than 900 coups, attempted coups, and coup conspiracies from 1945 to 2019. Each entry indicates the country and date, plus the “type of actor who initiated the coup (i.e. military, palace, rebel, etc.) as well as the fate of the deposed executive (killed, injured, exiled, etc.).” Previously: Powell and Thyne’s coup dataset (DIP 2016.07.20).","https://clinecenter.illinois.edu
https://clinecenter.illinois.edu/project/research-themes/democracy-and-development/coup-detat-project-cdp
https://databank.illinois.edu/datasets/IDB-9651987
https://www.jonathanmpowell.com/coup-detat-dataset.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-20-edition",
2020.12.02,4,Jefferson’s weather.,"From July 1776 to June 1826, Thomas Jefferson recorded thousands of nearly-daily weather observations — temperatures, precipitations, humidities, wind speeds — at Monticello, Paris, Milan, and scores of other locations. Now a UVA/Princeton collaboration has turned those handwritten records into an explorable and downloadable database. [h/t Erica Cavanaugh]","https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/40574
https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/41011
https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/40566
https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/40568
https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/41009",https://twitter.com/ecava12/status/1329503730706866179
2020.12.02,5,Integer sequences.,"The decades-old, frequently-updated, and downloadable On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences contains more than 338,000 lists of those things. Each has some particular significance, ranging from the famous (the Fibonacci numbers) to the intriguing (“days required to spread gossip to n people”) to the obscure (“numbers n such that 2^n + 35 is prime”) to the super-obscure. Related: This xkcd comic and its impact. [h/t Dan Brady]","https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#OEIS:_Brief_History
https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#Compressed_Versions
https://oeis.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_sequence
https://oeis.org/A000045
https://oeis.org/A007456
https://oeis.org/A056561
https://xkcd.com/2016/
https://oeis.org/A316600",https://danjbrady.com
2020.12.09,1,COVID-19 hospital capacity.,"On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services released a dataset on coronavirus-related capacity at thousands of US hospitals — information the agency previously only published as state-level metrics. The self-reported, weekly-updated dataset quantifies various aspects of capacity, such as the number of staffed ICU beds and the number of beds occupied by patients with COVID-19. “This data is tremendously complex and is the result of substantial ongoing efforts,” notes an accompanying blog post. “We opted not to have perfect be the enemy of good, so these datasets will have imperfections.” Related: An FAQ “developed in collaboration with a group of data journalists, data scientists, and healthcare system researchers who have reviewed the data.” [h/t Ryan Panchadsaram]","https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/12/07/hhs-publishes-covid-19-hospital-facility-level-data.html
https://healthdata.gov/dataset/covid-19-reported-patient-impact-and-hospital-capacity-facility
https://healthdata.gov/dataset/covid-19-reported-patient-impact-and-hospital-capacity-state
https://healthdata.gov/hhs-publishes-covid-19-hospital-facility-level-data
https://github.com/CareSet/COVID_Hospital_PUF",https://twitter.com/rypan/status/1336095555852767233
2020.12.09,2,Pandemic travel restrictions.,"The UN World Food Program has been tracking countries’ and airlines’ travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on official communications, media reports, and other sources. The country-level dataset indicates whether travelers must obtain a recent negative test and what type of quarantine or self-isolation is required. [h/t Cassidy Chansirik]",https://data.humdata.org/dataset/covid-19-global-travel-restrictions-and-airline-information,https://datainnovation.org/2020/12/documenting-global-travel-restrictions-and-airline-policies/
2020.12.09,3,Country facts.,"The CIA’s World Factbook “provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.” The details are extensive and fairly standardized. Open data–enthusiast Gerald Bauer has converted the publication into a series of JSON files. Now you know: The physical areas of five countries (Georgia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sri Lanka) are all described as “slightly larger than West Virginia.”","https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
https://github.com/geraldb
https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json",
2020.12.09,4,La Pola and her compatriots.,"During Colombia’s struggle for independence, Royalists executed scores of women by shooting squad, the most famous of whom was the seamstress and spy known as “La Pola.” Writing last year for the cultural journal of Colombia’s central bank, historian Pablo Rodríguez Jiménez presented a list of 76 women known to have suffered this fate — their names, locations, and dates of death. Colombia-based Datasketch has converted that list into a spreadsheet. [h/t Juan Pablo Marín Díaz]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policarpa_Salavarrieta
https://www.banrepcultural.org/boletin-cultural/
https://publicaciones.banrepcultural.org/index.php/boletin_cultural/article/view/20880/21278
https://www.datasketch.co/datasketch/mujeres-fusiladas-durante-la-independencia-colombiana",https://twitter.com/jpmarindiaz
2020.12.09,5,Bob Ross paintings.,"Data scientist Jared Wilber has built a dataset of all paintings in Bob Ross’s 31 seasons of “The Joy of Painting,” scraped from the searchable database at TwoInchBrush.com. For each painting, the dataset lists the title, season, episode, YouTube link, and list of colors used. For a 2014 article at FiveThirtyEight, Walt Hickey created a dataset categorizing the types of things Ross depicted in each episode. Related: “Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them,” a video from the New York Times. [h/t u/palpitations]","https://www.jwilber.me
https://github.com/jwilber/Bob_Ross_Paintings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Painting
https://www.twoinchbrush.com
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-statistical-analysis-of-the-work-of-bob-ross/
https://twitter.com/WaltHickey
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-statistical-analysis-of-the-work-of-bob-ross/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDs3o1uLEdU",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/k2wqax/i_once_found_a_dataset_of_every_paint_used_in/
2020.12.16,1,People of slavery.,"Recently launched, Enslaved.org allows the public to “explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.” Its interactive database contains 600,000+ records, with plans to expand. The collaborative, schlolar-led project also includes The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation, which “publishes original, peer-reviewed datasets about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants.” The first issue features three datasets originally published through a precursor to Enslaved.org — Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network. Those datasets focus on Louisiana slaves (1719–1820), New Orleans “Free Blacks” (1840–1860), and enslaved Africans in Maranhão, Brazil (1767–1831).","https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sweeping-new-digital-database-emphasizes-enslaved-peoples-individuality-180976513/
https://enslaved.org/
https://enslaved.org/about
https://jsdp.enslaved.org/
https://jsdp.enslaved.org/fullIssue/volume1-issue1
http://slavebiographies.org/databases.php
https://enslaved.org/projectHistory
http://slavebiographies.org/about.php
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/jsdp
https://jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticle/volume1-issue1-louisiana-slave-database
https://jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticle/volume1-issue1-free-blacks-database
https://jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticle/volume1-issue1-maranhao-inventories-slave-database",
2020.12.16,2,More PPP details.,"Thanks to a FOIA lawsuit by a group of news organizations, the US Small Business Administration has released additional data about the financial assistance distributed through its Paycheck Protection Program. Previously (DIP 2020.07.08), the SBA’s public data withheld the specific amounts for all loans (instead listing only a broad range), as well as names and addresses for loans below $150,000. The new datasets include those amounts, names, and addresses for all loans.","https://www.wsj.com/articles/sba-releases-detailed-information-on-more-small-business-borrowers-under-ppp-pandemic-relief-effort-11606874820
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-07-08-edition
https://sba.app.box.com/s/5myd1nxutoq8wxecx2562baruz774si6",
2020.12.16,3,More on travel/immigration bans.,"The COVID Border Accountability Project is tracking countries’ pandemic-related travel and immigration restrictions, on a weekly basis. The project’s team categorizes various aspects of the restrictions — whether they hinge on citizenship, halt new visa applications, et cetera — and turns them into a longitudinal dataset. Previously: The UN World Food Program’s travel-restrictions dataset (DIP 2020.12.09).","https://covidborderaccountability.org
https://covidborderaccountability.org/about.html
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/U6DJAC
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/covid-19-global-travel-restrictions-and-airline-information
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-12-09-edition",
2020.12.16,4,Third-Republic France.,"Economist Victor Gay has built a geographic dataset that traces, year by year, the administrative boundaries of France’s Third Republic, which governed from 1870 to 1940, when the Vichy Regime took power. The dataset provides annual shapefiles delineating the country’s départements, arrondissements, and cantons; as well as for its “most significant special administrative constituencies: military, judicial and penitentiary, electoral, academic, labor inspection, and ecclesiastical.”","https://sites.google.com/site/victorgayeco/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/TRF-GIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02951461",
2020.12.16,5,Cyber wargames.,"This is, “to the best of our knowledge, [...] the first dataset providing network traffic traces and corresponding event logs from a complex cyber defense exercise” — a two-day Cyber Czech event in March 2019.","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920306788
https://csirt.muni.cz/projects/cyber-czech",
2020.12.23,1,Vaccine doses.,"Our World in Data is tracking the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per country, compiling their dataset from a range of government sources, including press releases and ministers’ tweets. In addition to listing the total doses administered, the US Department of Health and Human Services is also publishing datasets that tally how many Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine doses have been allocated and shipped to each state and territory.","https://ourworldindata.org
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data/vaccinations
https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/22122020-01
https://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1339143635586207744
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations
https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/distribution/index.html
https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccine-Distribution-Allocations-by-Juris/saz5-9hgg
https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccine-Distribution-Allocations-by-Juris/b7pe-5nws",
2020.12.23,2,County-level coronavirus tests.,"The US federal government has finally begun publishing county-level data on COVID-19 test counts, positivity rates, and delays. And that’s just a slice of the information now available through the daily-updated, multi-agency Community Profile Reports, which also assign each county to a “concern category” and aggregate the metrics to the CBSA, state, and regional levels. Related: Ryan Panchadsaram’s enthusiastic Twitter thread.","https://github.com/CareSet/COVID_Community_Profile_Report_FAQ
https://beta.healthdata.gov/National/COVID-19-Community-Profile-Report/gqxm-d9w9
https://twitter.com/rypan/status/1340012957321728001",
2020.12.23,3,Social scientists testifying.,"In a paper published this spring, Mahler et al. describe their dataset of social scientists’ appearances in US congressional hearings — more than 15,000 instances in all, at more than 10,000 hearings between 1946 and 2016. For each testimony, the dataset indicates the expert’s name, discipline, title, and professional affiliations, as well as the hearing’s date, title, and committee. Economists predominate, followed by political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and then anthropologists. [h/t Deblina Mukherjee]","https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230104
https://osf.io/e3h98/",https://deblina.net/
2020.12.23,4,Permafrost.,"The European Space Agency has released new longitudinal data on the Northern Hemisphere’s permafrost — ground that remains 0°C/32°F or colder for at least two years. Through a combination of satellite detection and on-the-ground measurements, the datasets quantify the permafrost’s thickness, extent, and temperature between 1997 and 2017. [h/t Simon Proud]","https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/Long-term_permafrost_record_details_Arctic_thaw
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1f88068e86304b0fbd34456115b6606f",https://twitter.com/simon_sat/status/1339167494720937989
2020.12.23,5,Who washes meat?,"YouTuber (and former public radio reporter) Adam Ragusea recently asked his viewers to answer a detailed survey about whether (and why, and how) they wash meat before cooking it. He received more than 13,000 responses. He then made a video about what he found and published a spreadsheet of the anonymized answers.","https://www.youtube.com/user/aragusea/about
https://youtu.be/U_PMnCpaJiQ?t=742
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Nd_vh3yk8
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eygYpBJQGFd4wHH8iYsLoy3PR8PmHN0O/view",
2021.01.06,1,Megascale coronavirus surveys.,"Carnegie Mellon University’s epidemiological forecasting group and Facebook have partnered to field a large-scale coronavirus survey in the US; they’ve collected more than 15 million responses since April 2020. The University of Maryland has formed a similar partnership for an international survey, in which “a representative sample of Facebook users is invited on a daily basis to report on symptoms, social distancing behavior, mental health issues, and financial constraints”; millions have also participated. Geographically-aggregated results of the US survey can be downloaded via an online interface or Delphi’s API; the international results are also available via API. Practical example: An analysis of state-by-state mask usage, with code. [h/t Alex Reinhart]","https://delphi.cmu.edu/about/
https://delphi.cmu.edu/covidcast/surveys/
https://delphi.cmu.edu/covidcast/survey-results/
https://covidmap.umd.edu/
https://ischool.umd.edu/news/university-maryland-carnegie-mellon-and-facebook-team-forecast-coronavirus-spread
https://delphi.cmu.edu/covidcast/export/
https://cmu-delphi.github.io/delphi-epidata/api/covidcast.html
https://covidmap.umd.edu/api.html
https://delphi.cmu.edu/blog/2020/12/13/are-masks-widely-used-in-public/",https://www.refsmmat.com/
2021.01.06,2,Commodity-transportation costs.,"The UN and the World Bank have launched a new interactive map and dataset that quantify the transportation costs for international trade — country-by-country and broken down by mode of transportation (sea, air, rail, road), trading partner, and commodity. The numbers, based both on directly-reported figures and statistical modelling, include costs overall, per unit, and per unit per kilometer. The project currently covers only 2016, but has plans to expand. [h/t Jan Hoffmann]","https://unctad.org/news/why-and-how-measure-international-transport-costs
https://unctadstat.unctad.org/EN/TransportCost.html
https://unctadstat.unctad.org/wds/ReportFolders/reportFolders.aspx?IF_ActivePath=P%2C207045",https://twitter.com/JanHoffmann_gva/status/1341414753567186947
2021.01.06,3,More college sports financing.,"The College Athletics Financial Information Database, run by the privately-funded Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, details the annual sources of revenue (such as ticket sales) and expenses (such as coaches’ compensation) for hundreds of schools, based on information self-reported to the NCAA and federal government. Many of the records were obtained via freedom-of-information requests by USA Today and Syracuse University students. [h/t Craig Garthwaite et al.]","http://cafidatabase.knightcommission.org
https://www.knightcommission.org
http://cafidatabase.knightcommission.org/about-the-data
https://sports.usatoday.com/2020/07/05/methodology-for-2019-ncaa-athletic-department-revenue-database/",https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/our-work/working-papers/2020/wp-20-42.html
2021.01.06,4,Millions of computational notebooks.,"In 2017, a team of researchers downloaded and analyzed 1.25 million publicly-available Jupyter notebooks — documents that weave computational code, output, and text. They also published the notebooks and their related metadata. Inspired by that project, a team at JetBrains recently did a follow-up scan, analyzing and publishing data on nearly 10 million notebooks.","https://github.com/activityhistory/jupyter_on_github
https://jupyter.org/
https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/collection/bb6931851t
https://blog.jetbrains.com/datalore/2020/12/17/we-downloaded-10-000-000-jupyter-notebooks-from-github-this-is-what-we-learned/",
2021.01.06,5,2020 in haiku.,"Over the course of 2020, Eli Holder paid workers on Mechanical Turk to turn news headlines into 5/7/5-syllable poems. The result: 2,760 “Doom Haikus,” which you can browse on a timeline or download in bulk. For each poem, the dataset also includes the original article URL, date processed, headline, and SEO snippet. [h/t Karsten Johansson]","https://twitter.com/elibryan
https://doomhaikus.3iap.co/
https://www.kaggle.com/newshaikus/dataset",http://ksaj.inlisp.org
2021.01.13,1,Electoral attitudes.,"The Comparative National Elections Project “is a partnership among scholars who have conducted election surveys on five continents,” with a focus on understanding the factors that shape voters’ decisions. The project’s publicly-available datasets include 48 of the surveys, which use a combination of country-specific questions and shared questionnaire — asking about political news consumption, attitudes towards democracy,  interpersonal communications, and other topics. Related: The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, a similar collaboration with “a special emphasis on voting and turnout.” [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://u.osu.edu/cnep/
https://u.osu.edu/cnep/surveys/surveys-through-2012/
https://u.osu.edu/cnep/common-core-questionnaire/
https://cses.org/",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/26ff4d1932024d71b29a1195597d5e5a64367cca
2021.01.13,2,Fishing activity.,"Global Fishing Watch — initially organized as a collaboration between conservationists and Google — uses satellite imagery, ship signals, and other sources “to visualise, track and share data about global fishing activity in near real-time and for free.” The project’s public datasets (free registration required) examine various aspects of the industry, including the geography of “fishing effort” (2012–16) and transshipment between vessels. As seen in: “Why the U.K. and EU Are Fighting Over Fish” (Bloomberg). [h/t Nathan Yau]","https://globalfishingwatch.org/
https://globalfishingwatch.org/about-us/
https://globalfishingwatch.org/datasets-and-code/
https://globalfishingwatch.org/datasets-and-code/fishing-effort/
https://globalfishingwatch.org/transshipment-success/report-first-global-view-transshipment-sea/
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-brexit-eu-fisheries/",https://flowingdata.com/2020/12/21/who-catches-the-most-fish/
2021.01.13,3,Bundestag writings.,"Political scientists Corinna Kroeber and Tobias Remschel have compiled a dataset of “all written communication published by the German Bundestag between 1949 and 2017,” unifying datasets released by Germany’s parliament “in a manner easily accessible to researchers applying text analysis.” For each of the 131,835 reports, requests, bills, and other documents, the dataset provides the full text, date, author information, and more. Previously: Six million parliamentary speeches from nine countries (DIP 2020.04.29.","https://corinna-kroeber.jimdofree.com/
https://twitter.com/tremsch
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/every-single-word-a-new-data-set-including-all-parliamentary-materials-published-in-germany/34D424C406687F7446C6F32980A4FE84
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/7EJ1KI
https://www.bundestag.de/services/opendata
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-04-29-edition",
2021.01.13,4,Innovation licensing.,"Government agencies often commercialize their innovations through “technology transfer” programs, which strike collaboration and licensing agreements with outside parties. NASA provides a technology transfer API for accessing data about its patent portfolio and software catalog; the National Institutes of Health offers a similar API for querying its licensing opportunities. [h/t Tom Folkes]","https://federallabs.org/learning-center/what-is-t2
https://technology.nasa.gov/api/
https://www.ott.nih.gov/nih-ott-api",https://alexlib.info/
2021.01.13,5,Chess puzzles.,"Lichess is a free, open-source, donation-supported chess server. Its team publishes a database of the rated matches played on its platform (more than 1.7 billion so far, since 2013), which it recently used to revamp its dataset of original chess puzzles. Previously: Chess games from high-level players and tournaments (DIP 2016.02.17).","https://lichess.org/about
https://database.lichess.org/
https://lichess.org/blog/X-S6gRUAAGjNX4ki/new-puzzles-are-here
https://database.lichess.org/#puzzles
http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-17-edition",
2021.01.20,1,US demonstrations and political violence.,"US Crisis Monitor “provides the public with real-time data and analysis on political violence and demonstrations around the country, establishing an evidence base from which to identify risks, hotspots, and available resources to empower local communities in times of crisis.” The project, launched last summer as a collaboration between the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (DIP 2017.11.29) and Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative, now contains information on 20,000+ peaceful protests (the vast majority of entries), violent demonstrations, riots, and other events since April 2020. For each entry, the dataset lists the event type, date, location, groups involved, as well as a brief summary. As seen in: The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration (FiveThirtyEight).","https://acleddata.com/special-projects/us-crisis-monitor/
https://acleddata.com/2020/07/09/introducing-the-us-crisis-monitor/
https://www.acleddata.com/about-acled/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-11-29-edition
https://bridgingdivides.princeton.edu/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration/",
2021.01.20,2,Capitol siege charges.,"The Program on Extremism at George Washington University is building a “central database of court records related to the events of January 6, 2021.” In addition to linking to the government’s criminal complaints, indictments, and other documents, the researchers are publishing a spreadsheet of all people who’ve been federally charged — with names, age, gender, home state, and date charged.","https://extremism.gwu.edu/
https://extremism.gwu.edu/Capitol-Hill-Cases",
2021.01.20,3,Terms of service.,"The Office of the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs has been tracking user-agreement documents (such as terms of service and privacy policies) published by 170+ websites, apps, and other bits of software — from Airbnb and Google Analytics to The New York Times and Zillow. You can download them all and subscribe to notifications when they change. [h/t Vincent Viers]","https://disinfo.quaidorsay.fr/en
https://disinfo.quaidorsay.fr/en/cgus
https://github.com/ambanum/CGUs-versions/tree/master/Airbnb
https://github.com/ambanum/CGUs-versions/tree/master/Google%20Analytics
https://github.com/ambanum/CGUs-versions/tree/master/The%20New%20York%20Times
https://github.com/ambanum/CGUs-versions/tree/master/Zillow
https://github.com/ambanum/CGUs-versions/releases
https://github.com/ambanum/CGUs#be-notified",https://twitter.com/vincentviers/status/1349656682163556352
2021.01.20,4,India’s coal mines.,"Thanks to India’s Right to Information Act, energy researcher Sandeep Pai has compiled a dataset of the country’s 459 operational coal mines. It includes each mine’s name, location (state, district, latitude, longitude), ownership, production tonnage, and more. Related: Pai’s introductory Twitter thread.","https://twitter.com/Sandeeppaii
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2633-1357/abdbbb
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/TDEK8O
https://twitter.com/Sandeeppaii/status/1349940755805028353",
2021.01.20,5,Newsletter links.,"Winning the Internet, an experimental newsletter from The Pudding’s Russell Goldenberg, analyzes the hyperlinks found in 100+ link-heavy general-interest newsletters. Last month, Goldenberg published sixth months of the underlying data — nearly 150,000 newsletter/link/date observations in total.","https://pudding.cool/projects/newsletter/
https://russellgoldenberg.com/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/winning-the-internet",
2021.01.27,1,Tens of millions of flights.,"The OpenSky Network crowdsources air traffic data, thanks to members who collect the radio signals that aircraft periodically broadcast. The nonprofit organization has published a “COVID-19 flight dataset,” which contains metadata for the tens of millions of flights those members observed in 2019 and 2020, with plans to update the dataset until the pandemic ends. It includes each flight’s call sign, aircraft model type, origin and destination airports, time first and last seen, and more. [h/t Evgeny Pogrebnyak]","https://opensky-network.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast
https://opensky-network.org/community/blog/item/6-opensky-covid-19-flight-dataset
https://zenodo.org/record/4419082",https://twitter.com/PogrebnyakE/status/1347978426322460674
2021.01.27,2,Dot-gov characteristics.,"The US General Services Administration publishes a list of all registered .gov domains (DIP 2017.01.18). In 2011, 2014, and 2015, open-source advocate Ben Balter used software to scan each federally-managed domain “to sniff out information about [their] technology and capabilities.” For instance: Do the domains support HTTPS? Do they use Google Analytics? Earlier this month, Balter ran the scan again, “to serve as a snapshot of the state of government technology ahead of the incoming Biden administration.” You can browse and download the results.","https://github.com/GSA/data/tree/master/dotgov-domains
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-01-18-edition
https://ben.balter.com/2011/09/07/analysis-of-federal-executive-domains/
https://ben.balter.com/2014/07/07/analysis-of-federal-executive-domains-part-deux/
https://ben.balter.com/2015/05/11/third-analysis-of-federal-executive-dotgovs/
https://ben.balter.com/about/
https://ben.balter.com/2021/01/11/analysis-of-federal-dotgov-domains-pre-biden-edition/
https://ben.balter.com/2021-analysis-of-federal-dotgov-domains/",
2021.01.27,3,Corporate risk-talk.,"The Firm-Level Risk project uses “textual analysis of quarterly earnings conference calls held by more than 11,000 listed firms in 81 countries” to construct company-by-company “measures of exposure, risk, and sentiment.” The dataset goes back nearly two decades and includes sub-measures for various themes, such as tax policy, Brexit, and COVID-19. [h/t Stephan Hollander]","https://www.firmlevelrisk.com/
https://www.firmlevelrisk.com/download",https://twitter.com/StephanHollan
2021.01.27,4,Euro-polling.,"The European Opinion Polls as Open Data repository collects the results of party-preference polls in 34 countries. For each poll, it lists the polling firm and commissioners, when the fieldwork began and ended, its scope and sample size, and the topline numbers for each party. Related: Project maintainer Filip Van Laenen on “how simple things can turn out to be rather complicated.” [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://github.com/filipvanlaenen/eopaod
https://medium.com/grensesnittet/how-simple-things-quickly-become-complicated-in-software-development-9cf52233226d",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/c0f0764f9c5b8b429ba71d9ce773967e8c849325
2021.01.27,5,The da Vinci codex.,"The Codex Atlanticus “is the largest existing collection of original drawings and text by Leonardo da Vinci” — 1,119 pages assembled by the 16th–century sculptor Pompeo Leoni. Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana and The Visual Agency have created an interactive graphic that lets you explore the pages by year and subject; you can also download that metadata through the graphic’s “About the project” section. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Atlanticus
https://thevisualagency.com/about/
https://codex-atlanticus.it/",https://mailchi.mp/817fc600d094/preview-222-in-other-news-4724814
2021.02.03,1,Private prisons.,"Political scientist Anna Gunderson has assembled a longitudinal dataset of private prisons at the federal, state, and local level through 2016. Using decades of financial reports by the two largest operators, plus those by two other companies one later acquired, Gunderson’s dataset identifies each facility’s name, location, primary customer, capacity, security level, contract information, and more. Related: Last week, President Biden signed an executive order to phase out the federal use of such facilities.","https://www.annagunderson.com/home
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/why-do-states-privatize-their-prisons-the-unintended-consequences-of-inmate-litigation/AF814E16A605CA894D558AE72BEF65C9
https://www.annagunderson.com/data/private-prisons
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/26/executive-order-reforming-our-incarceration-system-to-eliminate-the-use-of-privately-operated-criminal-detention-facilities/",
2021.02.03,2,Detailed elevations.,"Among its goals, OpenTopography wants to “democratize online access to high-resolution (meter to sub-meter scale), Earth science-oriented, topography data acquired with lidar and other technologies.” The project hosts hundreds of elevation datasets from around the world, available to visualize online and to download. Related: The US Geological Survey’s 3D Elevation Program aims “to provide the first-ever national baseline of consistent high-resolution topographic elevation data” by 2023, and already publishes a range of subnational datasets. [h/t Ricardo Pereira]","https://opentopography.org/about
https://opentopography.org/
https://portal.opentopography.org/dataCatalog
https://portal.opentopography.org/datasets
https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/3dep/what-is-3dep
https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/3dep/data-tools",https://twitter.com/Olenellus/status/1354562008998440963
2021.02.03,3,Even more mortality data.,"The World Mortality Dataset contains recent “all-cause mortality” counts for 79 countries, aggregated to weekly, monthly, or quarterly totals (depending on availability). Launched last week by researchers Ariel Karlinsky and Dmitry Kobak, the project draws on the Human Mortality Database, EuroStat, and data collected by the New York Times (DIP 2020.05.27); and expands upon it by gathering data from government websites and through direct inquiries. [h/t Dror Guldin]","https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality
https://akarlinsky.github.io/
https://dkobak.github.io/
https://www.mortality.org/
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Weekly_death_statistics&stable
https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/excess-deaths
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-05-27-edition
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v1",https://www.linkedin.com/in/dror-guldin-903950a8/
2021.02.03,4,Web trackers.,"DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar watches the web’s watchers. The regularly-updated dataset currently covers 36,000+ of the most common third-party domains, and provides “detailed information about their tracking behavior, including prevalence, ownership, fingerprinting behavior, cookie behavior, privacy policy,” and more. As seen in: Blacklight, The Markup’s “real-time website privacy inspector,” which uses the dataset. [h/t Surya Mattu]","https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-tracker-radar/
https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-radar
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/how-we-built-a-real-time-privacy-inspector",https://twitter.com/suryamattu/status/1308346656899956736
2021.02.03,5,Hockey.,"The National Hockey League has an undocumented API. Technologist Drew Hynes is making sense of the dozens of endpoints, which provide data on decades of player stats, game schedules, draft picks, and more. [h/t Jemma Issroff]","https://www.kevinsidwar.com/iot/2017/7/1/the-undocumented-nhl-stats-api
https://pure-defect.com/about/
https://gitlab.com/dword4/nhlapi",https://github.com/jemmaissroff/hockey
2021.02.10,1,Hyperlocal Biden/Trump results.,"To create their “Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election,” journalists at The Upshot have gathered and standardized the ballot results for more than 100,000 precincts in dozens of states so far — representing nearly two-thirds of all votes cast. The accompanying GeoJSON dataset indicates the number of votes received by Joe Biden, by Donald Trump, and overall (including third-party and write-in candidates), joined to each precinct’s geographic boundaries. [h/t Kevin Quealy + Ryan Matsumoto]","https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html
https://github.com/TheUpshot/presidential-precinct-map-2020","https://twitter.com/KevinQ/status/1356631383393923076
https://twitter.com/ryanmatsumoto1/status/1356581507393933317"
2021.02.10,2,Subnational COVID-19 vaccinations.,"Software developer Lucas Rodés-Guirao is aggregating coronavirus vaccination numbers, over time, by administrative division — each canton in Switzerland, for example, and each province in Argentina. The project, inspired by Our World In Data’s country-level dataset (DIP 2020.12.23), currently includes 20+ countries and provides links to the sources. [h/t Olivier Lejeune]","https://lcsrg.me/
https://github.com/sociepy/covid19-vaccination-subnational
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data/vaccinations
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-12-23-edition",https://dataisthenewoil.substack.com/p/data-is-the-new-oil-04022021-update
2021.02.10,3,Historical night light.,"Researchers have harmonized two major datasets measuring the light visible on Earth at night. The first, from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, covers 1992–2013. The second, from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, covers 2012 onward. The harmonized dataset covers 1992–2018 and polishes the data by removing, for example, “noises from aurora, fires, boasts, and other temporal lights.” Related: The Colorado School of Mines’ Earth Observation Group, which “specializes in nighttime observations of lights and combustion sources worldwide.” [h/t Milos Popovic]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0510-y
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/DMSP/index.html
https://eogdata.mines.edu/dmsp/downloadV4composites.html
https://www.jpss.noaa.gov/viirs.html
https://eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/
https://figshare.com/articles/Harmonization_of_DMSP_and_VIIRS_nighttime_light_data_from_1992-2018_at_the_global_scale/9828827/2
https://payneinstitute.mines.edu/eog/",https://twitter.com/milos_agathon/status/1358832472348327936
2021.02.10,4,Public-sector employment.,"The World Bank’s Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators “is a unique new cross-national dataset on public sector employment and wages” in 130+ countries between 2000 and 2018, based on censuses and household surveys. The dataset’s measurements include the size of this workforce, its demographics, pay disparities versus the private sector, and more. Related: An introductory Twitter thread from coauthor Faisal Baig.","https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/worldwide-bureaucracy-indicators
https://twitter.com/faisalabaig/status/1356326936448917507",
2021.02.10,5,Super Bowl ads.,"Journalists at FiveThirtyEight watched 233 Super Bowl ads run by 10 frequently-advertising brands between 2000 and 2020, drawing from superbowl-ads.com’s video archive. Then they categorized each ad according to seven specific questions, which included “Was it trying to be funny?” and “Did it include animals?”","https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/super-bowl-ads/
https://superbowl-ads.com/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/superbowl-ads",
2021.02.24,1,Indian court cases.,"The Development Data Lab has gathered data on 81.2 million court cases in India’s lower judiciary between 2010 and 2018, drawn from the country’s e-Courts platform. It’s “the largest open-access dataset on judicial proceedings in the world,” says project coauthor Aditi Bhowmick. The public dataset contains each case’s state, district, court, case type, filing and decision dates, defendant and petitioner genders, legal codes, and more. It “has been fully anonymized to prevent the identification of individual judges or litigants,” but researchers can apply for more extensive access. [h/t Shruti Rajagopalan]","http://www.devdatalab.org/
http://www.devdatalab.org/judicial-bias-data
https://districts.ecourts.gov.in/
https://devdatalab.medium.com/big-data-for-justice-f53e0e14c9c9",https://twitter.com/srajagopalan/status/1358884545743978502
2021.02.24,2,"Machine learning papers, code, and datasets.","Papers with Code cross-references machine learning papers with their datasets, code, and results. The project has connected 56,000+ of those papers to specific code repositories, and assembled a meta-dataset of 3,000+ relevant datasets. The records can be downloaded in bulk or fetched via API. Related: A recent study examining 133 facial-recognition datasets created since 1976; further coverage in MIT Technology Review. Also related: Exposing.ai, which lets you “check if your Flickr photos were used to build face recognition.” [h/t Karsten Johansson]","https://paperswithcode.com/about
https://paperswithcode.com/datasets
https://github.com/paperswithcode/paperswithcode-data
https://paperswithcode.com/api/v1/docs/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00813
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/05/1017388/ai-deep-learning-facial-recognition-data-history/
https://exposing.ai/",https://ksaj.inlisp.org
2021.02.24,3,Foreign ministers.,"Hanna Bäck et al. have built a dataset of 1,000+ foreign ministers — all officials holding such a post between 1789 and the mid-2010s in “the world’s 13 former and current great powers.” It describes their stints in office and biographical details, such as their marital status, occupational experience, education level, military service, and much more. [h/t Alex Quiroz Flores]","https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article/17/2/oraa024/6111504
http://www.stanceatlund.org/foreign-minister-dataset.html",https://twitter.com/prof_quiroz/status/1354838505483079682
2021.02.24,4,Spanish pardons.,"To build El Indultómetro/The Pardonometer, the Civio Foundation has “collected, scraped and classified all the information contained in the [Official State Gazette] on pardons granted in Spain since 1996.” You can browse the 10,000+ pardons and commutations online or download the dataset, which describes the initial charges, form of relief, relevant dates, and more. Related: Civio’s (Spanish-language) methodology and reporting on the topic. [h/t Olaya Argüeso Pérez]","https://civio.es/el-indultometro/buscador-de-indultos/
https://civio.es/en/pardonometer/pardons-searcher/
https://civio.es/en/about-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolet%C3%ADn_Oficial_del_Estado
https://github.com/civio/elindultometro/blob/master/data/indultos.csv
https://civio.es/el-indultometro/metodologia/
https://civio.es/el-indultometro/",https://unavezalmes.substack.com/p/imperdonable-maradona-indultos-en
2021.02.24,5,O’Reilly animals.,"More than 1,000 illustrated animals have graced the covers of O’Reilly Media’s technical books. The publisher hosts an online “menagerie” where you can browse the pairings; it doesn’t provide downloads, but brian d foy, author of several O’Reilly books, has written a Perl tutorial on how to scrape it, and has shared the results.","https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp
https://briandfoy.github.io/
https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/1071
https://www.perl.com/article/extracting-the-list-of-o-reilly-animals/
https://gist.github.com/briandfoy/d68915eb425e1fc4932ceac5cdf2d60d",
2021.03.03,1,Police misconduct settlements.,"Reporters at FiveThirtyEight and The Marshall Project filed freedom-of-information requests to 50 US cities, asking for data on all civil lawsuits against their police departments/officers “that resulted in a monetary legal settlement” in 2010–2019 — including incident and settlement dates, plaintiff and defendant names, allegation descriptions, amounts awarded, and more. They received full or partial data from 31 of those cities, and found that total payouts exceeded $3 billion. Don’t miss: The data repository’s “words of caution,” which discourage comparisons between cities. Related: Coauthor Laura Bronner’s introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Eric Gardner]","https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/police-settlements
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-misconduct-costs-cities-millions-every-year-but-thats-where-the-accountability-ends/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/02/22/police-misconduct-costs-cities-millions-every-year-but-that-s-where-the-accountability-ends
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/police-settlements#words-of-caution
https://twitter.com/laurabronner/status/1363961281905106956",https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gardner-0531aa9/
2021.03.03,2,Congressional e-newsletters.,"For more than a decade, political scientist Lindsey Cormack’s DCinbox project has collected “every official e-newsletter sent by sitting members of the U.S. House and Senate.” You can search the corpus online and also download all the emails as a series of CSV files, grouped by month. For each of the 130,000+ mailings, the files provide the date, subject, body, and sender’s Bioguide ID. (April 2020 was the highest-volume month, with more than 2,300 messages, nearly all of them mentioning the coronavirus.)","https://www.dcinbox.com/about
https://www.lindseycormack.com/
https://www.dcinbox.com/
https://www.lindseycormack.com/dcinbox-data-downloads
https://www.congress.gov/help/field-values/member-bioguide-ids",
2021.03.03,3,California vaccine availability.,"The volunteer-driven VaccinateCA project calls “hundreds of potential [COVID-19] vaccination sites daily, asking them if they have the vaccine and if so to whom they will administer it to and how to get an appointment.” You can examine the results on their website, and also use their API to access the latest data, which includes status reports on every California county, 20+ health care providers, and thousands of potential vaccination sites. Related: “What We’ve Learned (So Far).” [h/t Simon Willison]","https://www.vaccinateca.com/
https://docs.vaccinateca.com/reference
https://blog.vaccinateca.com/what-weve-learned-so-far/",https://simonwillison.net/2021/Feb/28/vaccinateca/
2021.03.03,4,Illegal cheetah commerce.,"A team of conservationists has compiled a decade of data on illegal cheetah sales and ownership, drawing from “over 300 sources, including direct communications with field informants, veterinarians, and cheetah owners,” court records, social media, and more. The dataset covers 1,800+ cases — including both actual seizures and alleged/suspected incidents — involving 4,000+ cheetahs or cheetah parts/derivatives.","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921001323
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/84k92j4n3y",
2021.03.03,5,Soil.,"SoilGrids “uses state-of-the-art machine learning methods to map the spatial distribution of soil properties across the globe,” including organic carbon density, pH, clay content, and more. The maps use data from the World Soil Information Service, which standardizes millions of soil records. Both projects are run by the International Soil Reference and Information Centre, which also catalogs dozens of public-access soil datasets. [h/t Jonathan Whitaker]","https://soilgrids.org/
https://www.isric.org/explore/wosis
https://isric.org/
https://isric.org/explore/soil-geographic-databases",https://twitter.com/johnowhitaker/status/1318943142691962880
2021.03.10,1,Coronavirus variants.,"Outbreak.info’s mutation situation reports track the prevalence of new strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic. For each “lineage,” the reports provide data on the geography, timing, and number of sequenced viral samples that bear the strain’s signature. The project, led by biologists at Scripps Research, is one of many that draw from the genomic data collected by GISAID (DIP 2020.03.11), which also publishes its own variants dashboard. Related: The US CDC is tracking the number of variant cases reported in each state and territory. But they’re only providing cumulative counts, so USA Today has begun scraping (and backfilling) the data to maintain a historical record. [h/t Betsy Ladyzhets]","https://outbreak.info
https://outbreak.info/situation-reports
https://www.gisaid.org/collaborations/enabled-by-hcov-19-data-from-gisaid/
https://www.gisaid.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-03-11-edition/
https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant-cases.html
https://github.com/USATODAY/covid-variants/",https://coviddatadispatch.com/2021/03/07/featured-sources-march-7/
2021.03.10,2,200+ years of US property density.,"Johannes Uhl et al.’s Historical Settlement Data Compilation for the United States contains estimates, for every half decade from 1810 to 2015, of the number of building units and structures in every 250-meter-by-250-meter chunk of the (present-day) contiguous US. The researchers constructed their calculations from the Zillow Transaction and Assessment Dataset, which contains more than 400 million property records and requires researchers to apply for access. Previously: The Global Human Settlement Layer (DIP 2016.11.02). [h/t Rebecca Hersher]","https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/119/2021/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/hisdacus
https://www.zillow.com/research/ztrax/
https://ghslsys.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-11-02-edition/",https://www.npr.org/people/384067907/rebecca-hersher
2021.03.10,3,Black media.,"The Black Media Initiative, based at the CUNY’s graduate journalism school, has launched an interactive map and database of 300+ newspapers, radio stations, and other “media outlets across the U.S. that primarily serve Black communities across the diaspora.” The information includes locations, formats, publication frequencies, target audiences, ownership categories, and more. [h/t Mike Reilley]","https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/centers/center-community-media/black-media-initiative/
https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2020/11/mapping-black-media/
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8ba10e0e56974b6f81a49e59523fe5bb
https://airtable.com/shrKbdiGOaRdsSIIW/tblPDC9g46NM1n7Np",https://journaliststoolbox.substack.com/p/toolbox-newsletter-xix
2021.03.10,4,Parliamentary election designs.,"The Electoral System Design Database describes the way in which lower-house parliamentarians are chosen, covering 1,300+ such elections in 217 countries and territories since 1991. It specifies the type of system (e.g., “first-past-the-post,” “party block vote,” et cetera), the number of tiers of representation, the number of legislators directly elected, and the number of voting members. [h/t Andrew Stewart]","https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/electoral-system-design
https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/electoral-system-design-database-codebook?lang=en",https://github.com/andrewcstewart/awesome-democracy-data
2021.03.10,5,Amsterdam’s bats.,"Using a combination of human observation and automated detection, the city of Amsterdam has been mapping its bat population. Its data features more than 6,000 observations, the observation routes, bat-detection device placement and findings, and the city’s known bat abodes. [h/t Martina Zamboni]","https://maps.amsterdam.nl/vleermuizen/?LANG=en
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/open_geodata/?LANG=en&k=366
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/open_geodata/?LANG=en&k=367
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/open_geodata/?LANG=en&k=364
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/open_geodata/?LANG=en&k=365",https://smartilla.persona.co/
2021.03.17,1,Disasters.,"The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) contains “essential core data on the occurrence and effects of more than 21,000 [natural and technological] disasters in the world, from 1900 to present.” It focuses on disasters that have caused 10+ human deaths, affected 100+ people, sparked a state of emergency, and/or prompted a request for international assistance. Where known, the public dataset (registration required) indicates each disaster’s location, type, start/end dates, and estimated damages; the number of people killed, injured, made homeless, or otherwise affected; and more. Related: The Geocoded Disasters (GDIS) Dataset (registration required) provides spatial coordinates for the natural disasters in EM-DAT from 1960 to 2018.","https://www.emdat.be/
https://www.emdat.be/explanatory-notes
https://public.emdat.be/
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/pend-gdis-1960-2018
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00846-6",
2021.03.17,2,Nursing-home staffing.,"The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires nursing homes to submit detailed payroll information, which the agency converts into public-use files that summarize daily staffing levels at each facility. The files count employee and contract hours for dozens of types of staff, ranging from administrators to respiratory therapists. Related: “Maggots, Rape and Yet Five Stars: How U.S. Ratings of Nursing Homes Mislead the Public,” a recent New York Times investigation that uses the data in several ways.","https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/NursingHomeQualityInits/Staffing-Data-Submission-PBJ
https://data.cms.gov/browse?q=daily+nurse+staffing
https://data.cms.gov/Special-Programs-Initiatives-Long-Term-Care-Facili/PBJ-Public-Use-Files-Data-Documentation/ygny-gzks
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/business/nursing-homes-ratings-medicare-covid.html",
2021.03.17,3,Brazil’s vaccination registry.,"Brazil’s health ministry is publishing granular data from its COVID-19 vaccination registry, with data on more than 12 million doses administered so far. For each dose, it indicates the patient’s date of birth, sex, race, location, and eligibility group; the vaccine name, manufacturer, and lot; the date and location of vaccination; and more. [h/t Olivier Lejeune]",https://opendatasus.saude.gov.br/en/dataset/covid-19-vacinacao,https://dataisthenewoil.substack.com/p/data-is-the-new-oil-18022021-update
2021.03.17,4,Probable news quotations.,"Quotebank is “an open corpus of 178 million quotations attributed to the speakers who uttered them, extracted from 162 million English news articles published between 2008 and 2020.” Its authors used machine learning to identify the quotes and speakers, “correctly [attributing] 86.9% of quotations in our experiments.” The five most-quoted people: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Narendra Modi. [h/t Lynn Cherny]","https://zenodo.org/record/4277311
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3437963.3441760",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/
2021.03.17,5,Early British millionaires.,"Business historian Peter Scott has reconstructed a dataset of Britain’s “inter-war super-rich.” Scott started with an official (but mostly nameless) list of 438 “millionaires” (which tax authorities defined as people with annual incomes above £50,000) from 1928/29, and then cross-referenced the entries with other sources to identify 291 men and 28 women who fit the criteria. [h/t Jain Family Institute]","https://www.henley.ac.uk/people/professor-peter-scott
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.13025
https://ehs.org.uk/britains-inter-war-super-rich-the-1928-9-millionaire-list-2/",https://mailchi.mp/newsletter.jainfamilyinstitute.org/great-conspiracy
2021.03.24,1,"Mass shootings, detailed.","The Violence Project’s Mass Shooter Database contains extensive details about public mass shootings in the US and their perpetrators, weapons, and victims, with a goal of “finding pathways to prevention.” The database, funded by a National Institute of Justice grant, covers 170+ shootings between 1966 and early 2020. Examples of the variables include: the perpetrator’s employment status, known prejudices, and experience with mental illness; the victims’ relationship to the perpetrator and estimated years of life they lost; and the firearms’ make, model, and method of acquisition. Previously: Data on mass shootings from the Gun Violence Archive and Mother Jones (DIP 2015.12.09).","https://www.theviolenceproject.org/
https://www.theviolenceproject.org/mass-shooter-database/
https://www.theviolenceproject.org/methodology/
https://www.nij.gov/funding/awards/pages/award-detail.aspx?award=2018-75-CX-0023
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-12-09-edition/",
2021.03.24,2,Food-related GHG emissions.,"EDGAR-FOOD, a new dataset from European Commission researchers, provides estimates of the global food system’s greenhouse gas emissions, “consistently covering each stage of the food chain for all countries with yearly frequency for the period 1990–2015.” The dataset distinguishes between four kinds of greenhouse and eight stages: “land use/land-use change activities,” production, processing, packaging, transport, retail, consumption, and waste management. Related: Carbon Brief’s coverage of the research. [h/t Duncan Geere]","https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=EDGAR-FOOD
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00225-9
https://www.carbonbrief.org/food-systems-responsible-for-one-third-of-human-caused-emissions",https://www.duncangeere.com/
2021.03.24,3,Infrastructure spending.,"Researchers from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis have constructed a dataset of government investment in basic, social, and digital infrastructure from 1947 to 2017, using data from the agency’s National Economic Accounts. The investment amounts  are broken down by subcategory (water, sewer, power, transportation, education, public safety, healthcare, etc.) and ownership (federal, state/local, or private). [h/t Donald Schneider]","https://www.bea.gov/research/papers/2020/measuring-infrastructure-bureau-economic-analysis-national-economic-accounts
https://www.bea.gov/data/economic-accounts/national",https://twitter.com/DonFSchneider/status/1367181077316575236
2021.03.24,4,NYC’s housing lotteries.,"New York City’s affordable housing lotteries receive hundreds of applications per available unit. For an investigation into the odds, reporters for The City last year obtained and analyzed data on 426 lotteries from 2014 to 2019 (including building locations, unit sizes, monthly rents, and income thresholds), plus basic information (on income and household size) from more than 20 million lottery applications. [h/t Ann Choi]","https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/6/28/21306383/affordable-housing-lottery-chances-worst-low-income
https://github.com/thecityny/housing-lottery-data",https://twitter.com/annjychoi
2021.03.24,5,Animal lifespans.,"AnAge is “a curated database of ageing and life history in animals, including extensive longevity records.” Part of a broader project on the genetics of human ageing, the database contains 4,200+ species, from the aardvark to the ziege. Where available, it lists maximum lifespans, average gestation times, typical litter sizes, and more. [h/t Xan Gregg]","https://genomics.senescence.info/species/index.html
https://genomics.senescence.info/
https://genomics.senescence.info/species/entry.php?species=Orycteropus_afer
https://genomics.senescence.info/species/entry.php?species=Pelecus_cultratus",https://twitter.com/xangregg
2021.03.31,1,US coronavirus case details.,"Last week, the US CDC began publishing a new, geographically-specific COVID-19 “case surveillance” dataset. Each of the 22 million rows represents a (de-identified) coronavirus case, accounting for roughly 70% of the country’s current official case count. The details include (where available) the person’s county and state of residence; age, sex, race, and ethnicity; “presence of any underlying medical conditions and risk behaviors”; and whether the person was hospitalized and/or died. Read more: Betsy Ladyzhets writes at the COVID-19 Data Dispatch, “After months of no state-by-state demographic data from the federal government, we now have county-by-county demographic data. This is a pretty big deal!""","https://data.cdc.gov/Case-Surveillance/COVID-19-Case-Surveillance-Public-Use-Data-with-Ge/n8mc-b4w4
https://github.com/CDCgov/covid_case_privacy_review
https://coviddatadispatch.com/2021/03/28/new-more-local-data-from-the-cdc/",
2021.03.31,2,High-resolution population densities.,"“Using a mixture of machine learning techniques, high-resolution satellite imagery, and population data,” researchers at Facebook and Columbia University have “mapped hundreds of millions of structures distributed across vast areas and then used that to extrapolate the local population density.” The project, which began half a decade ago, now provides population density datasets covering much of the world. (China, Russia, and Canada are among the notable countries missing.) Read more: Benjamin Schmidt’s exploratory Twitter thread. Previously: The Global Human Settlement Layer (DIP 2016.11.02).","https://ai.facebook.com/blog/mapping-the-world-to-help-aid-workers-with-weakly-semi-supervised-learning
https://dataforgood.fb.com/tools/population-density-maps/
https://engineering.fb.com/2016/02/21/core-data/connecting-the-world-with-better-maps/
https://data.humdata.org/search?organization=facebook&q=%22high%20resolution%20population%20density%22
https://twitter.com/benmschmidt/status/1369718224997220362
https://ghslsys.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-11-02-edition/",
2021.03.31,3,Electoral gender quotas.,"Many countries apply gender quotas to their parliamentary elections, typically by reserving a certain number of seats for women or by regulating political parties’ candidate lists. In other instances, parties have instituted voluntary quotas. The Gender Quotas Database categorizes these rules for more than 120 nations, and provides additional details through its country profile pages.","https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/quotas
https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas
https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/database",
2021.03.31,4,EU merger decisions.,"Pauline Affeldt et al. have compiled a quarter century of merger control decisions by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition — decisions relating to 5,000+ cases and 31,000+ product/market combinations between 1990 and 2014. The dataset lists the target company, acquiring company, industry, product, outcome, decision date, and more. [h/t Anna Rita Bennato]","https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3366915
https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.670982.en/pages/research_data_center_for_business_and_organizational_data__rdc-bo.html
https://ec.europa.eu/dgs/competition/index_en.htm",https://twitter.com/AnnaRBennato/status/1367803357314813952
2021.03.31,5,Dried beans.,"Researchers at Turkey’s Selçuk University have built a computer vision program to measure and classify images of dried beans. Their dataset includes 13,611 specimens across seven varieties; for each, it reports the bean’s perimeter, axis lengths, roundness, and more. [h/t Meredith Broussard]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sel%C3%A7uk_University
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168169919311573
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Dry+Bean+Dataset",https://twitter.com/merbroussard/status/1371551820426907649
2021.04.07,1,Post offices.,"Historian Cameron Blevins has released a dataset of 166,000+ post offices operating in the US between 1639 and 2000. It includes their years of service and precise/approximate geocoordinates, “making it one of the most fine-grained and expansive datasets currently available for studying the historical geography of the United States.” The project builds on research by the late Richard W. Helbock and provides the data-foundation for Blevins’s new book, Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West, and companion website. Read more: Blevins’s introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Eric Gardner + Alex Albright]","https://www.cameronblevins.org/
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/
https://www.cameronblevins.org/paper-trails/
https://gossamernetwork.com/
https://twitter.com/historying/status/1377336343676608513","https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gardner-0531aa9/
https://scholar.harvard.edu/apalbright"
2021.04.07,2,Han Chinese names.,"The Chinese Name Database, published by social psychology grad student Han-Wu-Shuang (Bruce) Bao (包寒吴霜), “contains nationwide frequency statistics of 1,806 Chinese surnames and 2,614 Chinese characters used in given names, covering about 1.2 billion Han Chinese population (96.8% of the Han Chinese household-registered population born from 1930 to 2008 and still alive in 2008).” The statistics, obtained from China’s National Citizen Identity Information Center, also record the frequencies of given-name characters for six age cohorts, based on decade of birth. Read more: “What can we tell from the evolution of Han Chinese names?” — an explainer and analysis by Isabella Chua in Kontinentalist. [h/t Nathan Yau]","https://github.com/psychbruce/ChineseNames
https://psychbruce.github.io/
https://kontinentalist.com/stories/a-cultural-history-of-han-chinese-names-for-girls-and-boys-in-china
https://twitter.com/patcheez94
https://kontinentalist.com/about",https://flowingdata.com/2021/03/16/evolution-of-chinese-names/
2021.04.07,3,Working hours.,"For an article initially published in 2013 and since updated, Our World in Data has examined historical trends in the number of hours that people work. The data sources vary in geographic and temporal scope, with most spanning decades; they include Huberman and Minns (PDF, see Table 3), the Penn World Table, the Total Economy Database (registration required), the OECD, and more.","https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours#data-sources
https://personal.lse.ac.uk/minns/Huberman_Minns_EEH_2007.pdf
https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/
https://conference-board.org/data/economydatabase
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS",
2021.04.07,4,London’s COVID restrictions.,"London is providing an “experimental dataset” categorizing the various coronavirus-related restrictions that have affected the UK capital since March 2020. It lists the dates of 22 policy changes, including three separate lockdowns; whether schools, pubs, restaurants, and/or shops were closed; whether household mixing was banned; and more. [h/t Olivier Lejeune]",https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/covid-19-restrictions-timeseries,https://dataisthenewoil.substack.com/p/data-is-the-new-oil-01042021-update
2021.04.07,5,Fishing the Great Lakes.,"The Great Lakes Fishery Commission, whose founding was spurred by an invasion of sea lampreys, publishes several datasets relevant to the famous North American basin. Among them: “Commercial Fish Production In The Great Lakes 1867-2015,” which tallies the number of pounds caught each year by lake, jurisdiction, and species. [h/t Forest Gregg]","http://www.glfc.org/about.php
http://www.glfc.org/great-lakes-databases.php",https://twitter.com/forestgregg/status/1375444473371635714
2021.04.14,1,Global abortion rates.,"The Guttmacher Institute’s new Global Abortion Incidence Dataset gathers annual abortion statistics for more than 100 countries — for as many years between 1990 and 2018 as possible. The dataset also indicates the sources for the figures, “whether spontaneous abortions are included, whether or not the data are considered complete and the reason behind it, the marital status of the sample for studies and surveys,” and more. Previously: Pregnancies, births, and abortions by US state and age group (DIP 2020.10.28), also from Guttmacher. [h/t Cynthia Beavin]","https://osf.io/5k7fp/
https://osf.io/kthnf/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-10-28-edition/",https://twitter.com/CynthiaBeavin/status/1378008110783160320
2021.04.14,2,Central banks vs. the pandemic.,"Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements (DIP 2020.08.12) have compiled a dataset of central banks’ policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic. It covers more than 900 announcements by 39 central banks, grouped by monetary tool: interest rates, reserve policies, lending operations, foreign exchange, and asset purchases. The researchers also “provide further details relevant to each type of tool, such as the maturity and whether the instrument was new to the central bank or not.” [h/t Carlos Cantú]","https://www.bis.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-08-12-edition/
https://www.bis.org/publ/work934.htm",https://twitter.com/CarlosCantug/status/1376884559237758976
2021.04.14,3,The pandemic vs. US households.,"The Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey “is a 20-minute online survey studying how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting households across the country from a social and economic perspective,” and asks questions about food security, housing, telework, and more. It has collected more than 2 million responses since last April, with results published on a rolling basis via microdata files, statistical tables, and interactive graphics. Related: The Urban Institute has been collating and standardizing the data files. [h/t Michael Allen + Eric Gardner]","https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey/datasets.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey/data.html
https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/
https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/census-pulse-public-use-files-questionnaire-two","https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-allen-60287015b/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gardner-0531aa9/"
2021.04.14,4,News homepages.,"Since January 2019, software engineer Nick Jones has been capturing hourly screenshots of five news sites’ homepages: The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and CNN. You can browse the images online and download them from predictable URLs. Note: “This project is unaffiliated with PastPages, a similar effort that took screenshots from 2012 to 2018 from a much wider range of news websites.”","https://nrjones8.me/
https://github.com/nrjones8/website-screenshotter
https://nrjones8.github.io/news-archive-explorer/
https://github.com/nrjones8/website-screenshotter#how-to-access-screenshots
http://www.pastpages.org/",
2021.04.14,5,Rainforest soundscapes.,"As part of its “efforts to better understand the ecology of forest elephant movements, and the spatial and temporal pattern of poaching,” the Elephant Listening Project has been collecting audio 24/7 from 50 locations in the Republic of the Congo and publishing the raw recordings — ”more than 1 million hours of the sounds of birds, primates, insects, frogs, you name it. If it makes sound, we record it.”","https://elephantlisteningproject.org/
https://elephantlisteningproject.org/arus/
https://elephantlisteningproject.org/congo-soundscapes-public-database/",
2021.04.21,1,Domestic terrorism.,"The Center for Strategic and International Studies has analyzed data on 980 domestic terrorism plots and attacks in the US from 1994 through January 2021, categorizing them as “violent far-right,” “violent far-left,” “religious,” “ethnonationalist,” or “other.” (The project’s methodology provides further details.) The researchers haven’t published the full dataset, but have allowed the Washington Post to publish a large slice of it — a dozen columns for each incident, with dates, locations, type of target, and more. Based on its own research, the Post added eight more columns about the far-right attacks, which it used for a data-driven article on the topic. Previously: The Global Terrorism Database (DIP 2018.02.07).","https://www.csis.org/programs/about-us
https://www.csis.org/analysis/military-police-and-rise-terrorism-united-states
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/210412_Jones_Methodology.pdf
https://github.com/wpinvestigative/csis_domestic_terrorism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/domestic-terrorism-data/
http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-07-edition/",
2021.04.21,2,"The web, crawled.","The nonprofit Common Crawl is “dedicated to providing a copy of the internet to internet researchers, companies and individuals at no cost for the purpose of research and analysis.” Over the past decade, it has gathered and shared petabytes of data from its roughly-monthly web crawls. The most recent, completed in early March, contains 2.7 billion pages. Related: The University of Mannheim’s Web Data Commons generates structured data from the crawls, including nearly 300 million rows of information (on products, events, museums, and more) extracted from websites’ schema.org markup. [h/t Andrea Volpini]","https://commoncrawl.org/
https://commoncrawl.org/the-data/get-started/
https://commoncrawl.org/2021/03/february-march-2021-crawl-archive-now-available/
http://webdatacommons.org/
http://webdatacommons.org/structureddata/schemaorgtables/
https://schema.org/",https://twitter.com/cyberandy/status/1376540713614204930
2021.04.21,3,"COVID-19 in incarceration, by facility.","For more than a year, the New York Times collected data on ""coronavirus infections, deaths and testing for state and federal prisons; immigration detention centers; juvenile detention facilities; local, regional and reservation jails; and those in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.” On Friday, it published the case and death tolls for 2,000+ of these facilities, as of March 2021. Read more: The Times’ reporting and graphics based on the data. Previously: Weekly COVID-19 numbers for each state prison system (DIP 2020.05.06), collected by the Marshall Project and Associated Press. [h/t Libby Seline]","https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/prisons
https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/prisons/facilities.csv
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/10/us/covid-prison-outbreak.html
https://github.com/themarshallproject/COVID_prison_data
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-05-06-edition/",https://twitter.com/LibbySeline
2021.04.21,4,New York City languages.,"The Endangered Language Alliance’s Languages of New York City map highlights nearly 700 languages and dialects spoken in NYC and nearby counties. For each language, it indicates a number of significant sites where it is or has been spoken. The project’s downloadable dataset lists each site's status and neighborhood or city, plus the language’s linguistic family, countries of origin, and estimated number of global speakers. [h/t Ross Perlin]","https://elalliance.org/
https://languagemap.nyc/
https://languagemap.nyc/Data",https://twitter.com/RossPerlin/status/1382699074739187717
2021.04.21,5,CEO dismissals.,"Richard J. Gentry et al. have overseen the collection of data on 1,400+ CEO dismissals and thousands of other CEO departures from S&P 1500 companies between 1992 and 2018. Related: Claudio Fernandez-Araoz et al. have compiled data on CEO and CFO turnover between 2014 and 2018. [h/t Steve Boivie]","https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smj.3278
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VtY-_7es3JE9ymnTNYUTp9nwJW4VPpduOY0L-z1Yh9s/edit
https://zenodo.org/record/4618103
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3824812
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/FG0FOE
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ZC0AKE",https://twitter.com/steveboivie/status/1379976286462951426
2021.04.28,1,Water access points.,"Launched in 2015, the Water Point Data Exchange today describes 577,000+ specific water access points: boreholes, hand-dug wells, protected springs, rainwater harvest tanks, and more. The platform gathers information from governments and their partners in 50+ countries — mostly in Africa, but also with 10,000+ data-points each in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Haiti, and India. The records indicate the coordinates of each access point, the date checked, water availability when checked, the water source and/or transport system, and other details. [h/t Katy Sill and Adam Kariv]","https://www.unicef.org/innovation/stories/water-point-data-exchange-launched
https://www.waterpointdata.org/
https://www.waterpointdata.org/access-data/",https://csvconf.com/speakers/#katy-sill-adam-kariv
2021.04.28,2,Foreign labor requests.,"In order to hire foreign workers through the government’s H-1B, H-2A, and H-2B programs, US employers need permission from the Department of Labor. The agency collects and publishes data on each “certification” request, detailing the employer (name, location, industry, etc.), job position (title, pay, etc.), and approval status. The datasets go back more than a decade for each program and receive quarterly updates, the most recent being posted last week. Related: At BuzzFeed News, we used the data throughout our 2015/16 series investigating the H-2 program, and maintain a dataset that standardizes key fields from the raw files. [h/t George Ho]","https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/programs
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicagarrison/the-new-american-slavery-invited-to-the-us-foreign-workers-f
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicagarrison/all-you-americans-are-fired
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/the-coyote
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/the-pushovers
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/H-2-certification-data/",https://eigenfoo.xyz/
2021.04.28,3,Congressional scandals.,"In 2018, Michael G. Miller and Brian T. Hamel published a study examining how voters and donors responded to scandals embroiling members of the US House between 1980 and 2010, building on the work of Scott Basinger and others. They have since expanded the dataset, which now covers both the House and the Senate and extends through 2018, providing information on 316 legislator-scandal combinations (categorized as financial, sexual, political, or “other”) and their outcomes.","https://www.michaelgmiller.com/
https://www.brianhamel.me/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1065912918781044
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=4575902&version=1.0
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1065912912451144
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/scandal-an-interdisciplinary-approach-to-the-consequences-outcomes-and-significance-of-political-scandals/preface
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BID3QM",
2021.04.28,4,Global mail.,"For more than a century, the Universal Postal Union has collected and published statistics about the world’s postal systems. Online, you can query and export country-level data — the number of letter-boxes and permanent post offices, operating revenue, total staff, and much more — going back to 1980. Related: Jon C. Rogowski et al. have used historical UPU reports to count the number of post offices per country between 1875 and 2007. Previously: US post office locations, 1639–2000 (DIP 2021.04.07).","https://www.upu.int/en/Home
https://www.upu.int/en/Universal-Postal-Union/Activities/Research-Publications/Postal-Statistics
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12594
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/33K3EF
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-04-07-edition/",
2021.04.28,5,Le Tour.,"On its official website, the Tour de France lists riders’ results in its famed bicycle race since 1903. The site doesn’t provide downloads, but applied mathematician Thomas Camminady has scraped it to build a CSV file containing each finisher’s rank, time, team, and more.","https://www.letour.fr/en/history
https://www.camminady.org/
https://github.com/camminady/LeTourDataSet",
2021.05.05,1,Historical land use.,"The History Database of the Global Environment, a project of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, provides land use estimates that span 12,000 years — from 10,000 BCE to the near-present. The datasets include gridded, country-level, and regional estimates of cropland, pasture, grazing areas, and other typologies over time.  Related: Clio Infra gathers “worldwide data on social, economic, and institutional indicators for the past five centuries,” including estimates of cropland, livestock, metal production, and more. [h/t Cédric Scherer + u/cavedave]","https://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/index.html
https://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/landusedata/landcover/index-2.html
https://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/download/index-2.html
https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:74467
https://clio-infra.eu/","https://twitter.com/CedScherer/status/1384420013533241351
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/mv19ec/agricultural_area_used_for_farming_and_grazing/"
2021.05.05,2,Union election results.,"The US National Labor Relations Board publishes a searchable and downloadable database that details the results of thousands of union elections the agency has conducted, going back more than a decade. The records list the employer name and location, tally date and type, petitioned-for employee unit, proposed labor union(s), number of votes for and against those union(s), and more. [h/t Cory McCartan]","https://www.nlrb.gov/reports/graphs-data/recent-election-results
https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/what-we-do/conduct-elections",https://twitter.com/CoryMcCartan/status/1384012739626950656
2021.05.05,3,Peace mission mandates.,"A team led by political scientist Sara Hellmüller has categorized the “evolving mandate tasks” of all 121 United Nations peace missions between 1991 and 2020. The dataset identifies 41 kinds of tasks, which it sorts into three categories: “minimalist,” “moderate,” and “maximalist.” Minimalist tasks “reflect an approach that contents itself with absence of armed conflict,” while the maximalist approach “seeks to address root causes,” such as by supporting military reform and women’s rights. Previously: Official UN peacekeeping data and the Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations dataset (DIP 2019.11.27). [h/t Roland Paris]","https://twitter.com/SaraHellmuller
https://www.peacemissions.info/
https://www.peacemissions.info/dataset#definition
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/open-data-portal
https://www.pcr.uu.se/data/geo-pko/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-11-27-edition/",https://twitter.com/rolandparis/status/1383070123179790338
2021.05.05,4,Federal Reserve Bank directors.,"To examine diversity in the US Federal Reserve System, a team led by central bank–watchers Peter Conti-Brown and Kaleb Nygaard has compiled a biographical dataset of the nearly 2,000 people who have served as directors of the system’s twelve Reserve Banks between 1914 and 2019. The dataset expands the information available in official reports to include “race, gender, profession, education, age, time spent in position, and whether or not the directors later held a position on the FOMC.”","https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed.htm
https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/petercb/
https://kalebnygaard.com/
https://www.brookings.edu/research/diversity-within-the-federal-reserve-system/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/federal-reserve-system.htm",
2021.05.05,5,Television castaways.,"Statistician Dan Oehm has constructed a dataset describing all 40 US seasons of Survivor, providing details on every contestant, challenge winner, individual vote, episode viewership, and more. You can access the data as an R package or an Excel file. [h/t u/antirabbit]","https://twitter.com/danoehm
https://gradientdescending.com/survivor-data-from-the-tv-series-in-r/",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/mu1ww9/survivor_r_package_a_collection_of_datasets/
2021.05.12,1,Hate groups.,"For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has conducted annual censuses of US-based hate groups, which it defines as those with “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” Its 2020 review found 838 such groups — a decline from prior years, which the researchers attribute to several factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of difficult-to-track online networks, and “the continuing collapse of the Ku Klux Klan.” The center’s map of 2000–2020 findings links to annual spreadsheets that detail each group’s title, location, and ideology.","https://www.splcenter.org/
https://www.splcenter.org/20200318/frequently-asked-questions-about-hate-groups
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2021/02/01/year-hate-and-extremism-2020-hate-groups-became-more-difficult-track-amid-covid-and
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map",
2021.05.12,2,Law schools.,"To receive accreditation from the American Bar Association, law schools must submit a range of data-points about tuition, financial aid, student demographics, class sizes, employment outcomes, and more. The ABA’s disclosure site provides school-level PDF reports, as well as annual spreadsheets comparing all accredited schools since 2011. Related: “There Are Only Two Black Male Prosecutors For All Of Long Island,” a recent Gothamist article  that uses the data. [h/t Charles Lane]","https://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/accreditation/
http://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx
https://gothamist.com/news/there-are-only-two-black-male-prosecutors-all-long-island",https://twitter.com/_charleslane
2021.05.12,3,TSA screenings.,"In its FOIA reading room, the US Transportation Security Administration publishes weekly PDF files that indicate the number of people passing through its checkpoints, broken down by hour and location. IT specialist Mike Lorengo has been converting these PDFs into structured data files. Related: The TSA also publishes a table of total “traveler throughput” for each day in 2021, compared to the same weekdays in 2020 and 2019.","https://www.tsa.gov/foia/readingroom
https://github.com/mikelor
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/mx87q8/tsa_throughput_dataset_alternate_source/
https://github.com/mikelor/TsaThroughput
https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput",
2021.05.12,4,European cross-border rail.,"Drawing from company websites and communications with government railway agencies, OBC Transeuropa’s Gianluca De Feo and Lorenzo Ferrari have identified 271 passenger train routes that cross Europe’s national borders. For each route, their dataset lists its two endpoints, the countries it passes through, route type (high-speed, regional, etc.), operating company, and more. Related: “Four ways of looking at European cross-border rail links,” a follow-up article. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/About-us
https://twitter.com/GianlucaDeFeo
https://twitter.com/lorferr
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/More-and-more-trains-crossing-European-borders
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12deGLMuX3u-mUaHGlLT0-TXIGZnQ-NILCt6NRA4s0pU/edit
https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Europe/Four-ways-of-looking-at-European-cross-border-rail-links-209800",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/416-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2021.05.12,5,Edward Estlin Cummings.,"The e.e. cummings free poetry archive, launched last week by journalist Ben Welsh, “aims to republish all of the author’s work as it gradually enters the public domain.” So far, it includes more than 100 poems, available to read online and as data files that include each poem’s collection, title, first line, and full text. Read more: Welsh’s introductory Twitter thread, which highlights technical details and volunteer contributions.","https://cummings.ee/
https://palewi.re/posts/2021/05/02/ee-cummings-archive/
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://cummings.ee/downloads/
https://twitter.com/palewire/status/1389214308400173064",
2021.05.26,1,"Rainfall records, rescued.","For centuries, a network of volunteers recorded monthly measurements from thousands of rain gauges across the UK and Ireland. Those observations were trapped on paper forms known “10-year sheets” until very recently, when the UK’s Meteorological Office scanned them. But the records still weren’t in an analyzable form, so a team of climate scientists organized the Rainfall Rescue project, sending a call for help just as Britain entered its first COVID-19 lockdown. Within months, more than 16,000 volunteers had transcribed all 65,000+ pages of scans, entering millions of rain measurements from 1677–1960. Read more: A Twitter thread from organizer Ed Hawkins. [h/t Charlotte Slaymark]","https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/index.php?name=SO_d383374a-91c3-4a7b-ba96-41b81cfb9d67
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/edh/rainfall-rescue/about/team
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/edh/rainfall-rescue
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52040822
https://github.com/ed-hawkins/rainfall-rescue
https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/1392758650201120771",https://twitter.com/clayseous/status/1392805202101690368
2021.05.26,2,Job flows.,"The US Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics initiative partners with state governments to examine employment and economic mobility at “detailed levels of geography and industry and for different demographic groups.” Its downloadable and interactive datasets include quarterly job-flow metrics, which track workers’ movement between sectors, states, and metro areas; an experimental study of Army veterans’ employment outcomes; and more. [h/t Jared Shepard]","https://lehd.ces.census.gov/
https://lehd.ces.census.gov/state_partners/
https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/
https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#j2j
https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/veo_experimental.html",https://twitter.com/JaredShepard10/status/1388105970774167552
2021.05.26,3,Political institutions.,"The Inter-American Development Bank’s Database of Political Institutions 2020 provides structured information on 180+ countries’ national governments and elections going back to 1975. The topics include electoral rules, term limits, party and leader tenure, party fragmentation, the role of the military in government, competitiveness, and more. [h/t Cesi Cruz + Brian C. Keegan]","https://www.iadb.org/en
https://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/dpi2020","https://twitter.com/cesicruz/status/1379103269662859267
https://www.brianckeegan.com/about/"
2021.05.26,4,Cell stations.,"OpenCelliD bills itself as “the world’s largest open database of cell towers,” drawing from a combination of crowdsourcing, information provided by telecom firms, and a collaboration with the Mozilla Location Service. Its public datasets (registration required) indicate the latitude, longitude, radio type, and identifiers of more than 40 million GSM, CDMA, UMTS, and LTE “logical cells.” Related: An interactive map of the data (and methodology) by software developer Alper Cinar. [h/t u/cavedave]","https://www.opencellid.org/
https://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
http://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/Page_history#March_25th.2C_2016
https://location.services.mozilla.com/
https://www.opencellid.org/downloads.php
https://www.opencellid.org/stats.php
https://alpercinar.com/open-cell-id/vis.html
https://alpercinar.com/open-cell-id/
https://alpercinar.com/",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/lmuk7u/opencellid_largest_open_database_of_cell_towers/
2021.05.26,5,"The coins in 22,500 French wallets.","Between 2002 and 2011, the Euro Spatial Diffusion Observatory convinced 22,500 people in France to open their wallets and count the 300,000+ Euro coins in them. The researchers also conducted smaller surveys in Germany and Belgium. The project’s public datasets detail the coins’ values and countries of origin, plus socioeconomic details about their owners.","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921003656
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/f257j67ym6",
2021.06.02,1,Lynching victims.,"In the 1880s–1910s, the Chicago Tribune, Tuskegee University, and the NAACP each began collecting data on lynchings in the US. In the 1990s, sociologists Stewart Tolnay and E.M. Beck reverified, standardized, and extended those three collections, compiling a now-seminal dataset that described 2,800+ victims of these mob-led extrajudicial killings — the majority of whom were Black — in 10 Southern states from 1882–1930. The researchers shared a copy of that data with Project HAL, where you can download it. Meanwhile, they and collaborators have continued updating and expanding the research; you can request access to their latest datasets. In 2019, sociologists Charles Seguin and David Rigby published a dataset that aims to complement Tolnay and Beck’s by presenting information (and an interactive map) on 1,328 lynching victims in 38 additional states from 1883–1941. [h/t Geoff Hing + Lisa D. Cook]","https://soc.washington.edu/people/stewart-tolnay
https://sociology.uga.edu/directory/people/e-m-beck
http://people.uncw.edu/hinese/HAL/HAL%20Web%20Page.htm
http://lynching.csde.washington.edu/#/about
http://lynching.csde.washington.edu/#/contact
http://www.charlieseguin.com/
https://rigby.netlify.app/
https://osf.io/kr8yc/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023119841780
http://davidrigbysociology.com/lynching_dot_map","https://twitter.com/geoffhing
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01615440.2011.639289"
2021.06.02,2,Gun-dealer violations.,"“The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives inspects thousands of licensed gun dealers and manufacturers each year, but what happens in those investigations is rarely revealed to the public.” So reporters at The Trace and USA Today compiled a database of nearly 2,000 ATF inspections between July 2015 and June 2017 with violations, based on PDFs obtained through a FOIA lawsuit by the Brady gun control group. It includes dealer information, lists of violations, final dispositions, and more. Read more: “The ATF Catches Thousands of Lawbreaking Gun Dealers Every Year. It Shuts Down Very Few.” Previously: The ATF’s licensing database (DIP 2015.11.04).","https://projects.thetrace.org/inspections/methodology/
https://projects.thetrace.org/inspections/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6170066/brady-center-to-prevent-gun-violence-v-us-department-of-justice/
https://www.bradyunited.org/
https://www.thetrace.org/2021/05/atf-inspection-records-gun-stores-guide/
https://www.thetrace.org/2021/05/atf-inspection-report-gun-store-ffl-violation/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-11-04-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-11-04-edition/",
2021.06.02,3,More police misconduct complaints.,"The New York Civil Liberties Union has updated its NYPD misconduct complaint database to include “the race or ethnicity of the impacted person and officer, incident location, current employment status of the officer, and other data,” and to remove duplicates in the original records obtained from the city. Also: Philadelphia publishes monthly-updated data on police complaints from the past five years. Previously: ProPublica’s subset of the NYPD data (DIP 2020.07.29); and CPDP’s database of complaints against Chicago officers (DIP 2015.11.25). Read more: The Financial Times has compared and analyzed these cities’ datasets, finding that the 10% most-cited officers account for roughly a third of all complaints. [h/t Christine Zhang + George Ho]","https://www.nyclu.org/
https://github.com/new-york-civil-liberties-union/NYPD-Misconduct-Complaint-Database-Updated
https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/police-complaints
https://projects.propublica.org/nypd-ccrb/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-07-29-edition/
https://cpdp.co/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-11-25-edition/
https://github.com/Financial-Times/police-misconduct-complaints-analysis
https://www.ft.com/content/141182fc-7727-4af8-a555-5418fa46d09e","https://twitter.com/christinezhang
https://eigenfoo.xyz/"
2021.06.02,4,Lobbying in Britain.,"Open Access UK is a database of 70,000+ meetings between lobbyists and government ministers going back to 2012. The records have been compiled by Transparency International UK from scattered official publications; they list the date of the meeting, the lobbying organization, the minister lobbied, and a brief description of the meeting’s purpose. [h/t Gavin Freeguard]","https://openaccess.transparency.org.uk/
https://openaccess.transparency.org.uk/about.php",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/423-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2021.06.02,5,Fermentative microbes.,"The World Institute of Kimchi’s Omics Database of Fermentative Microbes provides “genome, metagenome, metataxonome, and (meta)transcriptome sequences” of bacteria and other microorganisms associated with a variety of fermented foods. You can search the sequenced microbes by taxonomy, research study, and food sampled.","https://www.wikim.re.kr/index.es?sid=a2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00895-x
https://odfm.wikim.re.kr/",
2021.06.09,1,US vaccinations over time.,"The CDC has begun publishing daily-historical data on vaccination progress in the US, going back to mid-December 2020. For the country overall, each state and territory, and a handful of other jurisdictions (e.g., the Bureau of Prisons), the dataset indicates the number of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and J&J/Janssen doses delivered, total doses administered by age group, percentages of populations fully vaccinated, and more. Less-detailed information is also available for each county over time and for national demographic trends. Related: My colleague Peter Aldhous has incorporated the CDC’s data into BuzzFeed News’ vaccination tracker.","https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccinations-in-the-United-States-County/8xkx-amqh
https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccinations-in-the-United-States-County/8xkx-amqh
https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccination-Demographics-in-the-United-St/km4m-vcsb
https://www.peteraldhous.com/
https://twitter.com/paldhous/status/1401948291093340160
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/covid-vaccine-tracker",
2021.06.09,2,Weekly gas prices.,"Every Monday, the Energy Information Administration collects data “on retail prices for regular, midgrade, and premium grades of gasoline from a sample of retail gasoline outlets across the United States using Form EIA-878, Motor Gasoline Price Survey Schedule A.” The survey informs the agency’s average gas price estimates, which are available at a national and regional level, as well as for a few selected states and cities, going back to the 1990s (though the sampling methodology changed in 2018). The EIA also collects data on diesel prices, using a separate survey.","https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/gas_proc-methods.php
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/diesel_proc-methods.php",
2021.06.09,3,COVID-19 and fiscal accountability.,"The International Budget Partnership has published an assessment of accountability in the emergency fiscal policies that 120 governments introduced between March and September 2020. The report’s downloadable data (see bottom of page) includes each policy package’s name, date introduced, and whether it was a legislative act or executive decree; ratings on various aspects of transparency, oversight, and participation; and scores on 26 specific questions. Related: The partnership’s Open Budget Survey and data explorer. [h/t Rajan Zaveri]","https://www.internationalbudget.org/
https://internationalbudget.org/covid/
https://www.internationalbudget.org/open-budget-survey/about
https://survey.internationalbudget.org",https://www.rajanzaveri.com/
2021.06.09,4,Swiss glacier thicknesses.,"“Using AIR-ETH, a new helicopter-borne ground-penetrating radar (GPR) platform,” Melchior Grab et al. “measured the ice thickness of all large and most medium-sized glaciers in the Swiss Alps during the years 2016–20. Most of these had either never or only partially been surveyed before.” The team’s latest inventory combines detailed geospatial data from this and previous surveys. Previously: The Randolph Glacier Inventory (DIP 2015.12.16).","https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/ice-thickness-distribution-of-all-swiss-glaciers-based-on-extended-groundpenetrating-radar-data-and-glaciological-modeling/CB6685222A664FD3FCE1367E2B5245D8
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/434697
http://www.glims.org/RGI/rgi50_dl.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-12-16-edition/",
2021.06.09,5,Mathematical proofs.,"ProofWiki is “an online compendium of mathematical proofs,” with 21,000+ of them and counting. (It also provides lists of notable mathematicians and a page of jokes.) Sean Welleck et al.’s NaturalProofs dataset contains a processed version of the website’s XML dump, plus data derived from other proof-containing resources.","https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Mathematician:Mathematicians
https://proofwiki.org/wiki/ProofWiki:Jokes
https://wellecks.github.io/naturalproofs/
https://github.com/wellecks/naturalproofs
https://proofwiki.org/wiki/User:Afirou/website_dump",
2021.06.16,1,Drought in the United States.,"“Maybe you’ve seen it in the media: that map of the U.S. painted with blobs of yellow, orange and red. It shows drought – but how do we know which colors go where?” US Drought Monitor, a collaboration between the University of Nebraska and two federal agencies, describes the process behind its weekly maps. Its authors, who take shifts drawing the drought-intensity boundaries, synthesize various sources of quantitative information — such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index and the Surface Water Supply Index — and local knowledge. The results can be downloaded as geospatial files, timeseries, and summary statistics. As seen in: “How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself,” from the New York Times.","https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About/WhatistheUSDM.aspx
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About/ContactUs.aspx
https://wrcc.dri.edu/wwdt/
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/id/snow/?cid=stelprdb1240689
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Data.aspx
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/11/climate/california-western-drought-map.html",
2021.06.16,2,Standardized testing trends.,"Stanford University’s Educational Opportunity Project uses restricted-access data on standardized test results to estimate trends in academic performance and learning rates in grades 3–8 across US schools, school districts, counties, states, and other geographies, and with respect to race, gender, and economic status. Last week the project released v4.1 of their public dataset, adding estimates for Native American students and Bureau of Indian Education schools. As seen in: “The Bureau of Indian Education Hasn’t Told the Public How Its Schools Are Performing. So We Did It Instead,” from ProPublica and the Arizona Republic, which compiled data for the new estimates. [h/t Otis Anderson]","https://edopportunity.org/
https://edopportunity.org/methods
https://edopportunity.org/whats-new/
https://edopportunity.org/about/
https://www.bie.edu/
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-bureau-of-indian-information-hasnt-told-the-public-how-its-schools-are-performing
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-performance-of-bureau-of-indian-education-schools",https://twitter.com/oldjacket
2021.06.16,3,Women on high courts.,"Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon et al. have assembled a dataset on the representation of women in constitutional, supreme, and highest-appellate courts around the world. It lists the number and percentage of women on those courts in 175 countries (from 1970 to 2013), and indicates the first year a woman was appointed to each court (updated through 2020). [h/t Alice J. Kang]","https://womenonhighcourts.com/researchers/
https://womenonhighcourts.com/data/",https://twitter.com/kangalicej/status/1397553926430461957
2021.06.16,4,Word origins.,"Gerard de Melo’s Etymological Wordnet provides structured data on the relationship of words to one another, mostly mined from their semi-structured descriptions on Wiktionary as of 2013. The dataset includes hundreds of thousands of word-origin associations, among other connections. As seen in: “Surprising shared word etymologies,” a recent blog post by Daniel de Haas. [h/t Michael Allen]","http://gerard.demelo.org/
http://etym.org/
https://www.wiktionary.org/
https://www.danielde.dev/blog/surprising-shared-word-etymologies/
https://www.danielde.dev/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-allen-60287015b/
2021.06.16,5,"Fox in bedroom, dog trapped in wall.","The London Fire Brigade responds to hundreds of requests to rescue animals each year. Its monthly-updated spreadsheet of such events goes back to 2009; it lists the location and type of property, the kind of animal and rescue, hours spent, a (very) brief description, and more. [h/t Soph Warnes]",https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/animal-rescue-incidents-attended-by-lfb,https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-cutting-carbon-animal-rescues-and-the-oscars-568608
2021.06.23,1,2020 election emails.,"To build the Princeton Corpus of Political Emails, researchers auto-subscribed to thousands of mailing lists run by candidates, political parties, and other groups participating in the 2020 US election cycle. They’ve received 400,000+ messages so far. Since October, you’ve been able to search the corpus online; as of last month, you can request access to v1.0 of its bulk dataset, which contains 300,000+ emails received through Election Day. For each, it provides the subject and body text, sender, office sought, and more. Previously: Congressional e-newsletters via DCinbox (DIP 2021.03.03), and political emails gathered by The Markup and by FiveThirtyEight (DIP 2020.03.04). [h/t Samantha Guss]","https://electionemails2020.org/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcgjZo-D1nNON4d90H2j0VLtTdxiHK6Y8HPJSpdRu4w5YILw/viewform
https://www.lindseycormack.com/dcinbox-data-downloads
https://www.dcinbox.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-03-03-edition/
https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-wheres-my-email
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/candidate-emails
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-03-04-edition/",http://samanthaguss.com
2021.06.23,2,Civilian harm in Yemen.,"The UN-affiliated Civilian Impact Monitoring Project conducts “real-time collection, analysis and dissemination of open source data on the civilian impact from armed violence in Yemen.” Its public datasets include the monthly incident and casualty counts and the incidents per region damaging various types of civilian infrastructure. Related: ACAPS, a humanitarian analysis group, is aggregating data on a range of “key drivers” and outcomes of the crisis (such as fuel prices, malnutrition, and internal displacement) in each district and governorate. Previously: The Yemen Data Project (DIP 2019.04.03). [h/t Sadam Al-Adwar]","https://civilianimpactmonitoring.org/
https://civilianimpactmonitoring.org/methodology
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/yemen-civilian-impact-incidents-and-civilian-casualties
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/yemen-impact-on-civilian-infrastructure
https://www.acaps.org/
https://data.humdata.org/search?q=%22Yemen%20CrisisInSight%22&sort=title_case_insensitive%20desc
https://yemendataproject.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-04-03-edition/",https://twitter.com/SadamAladwar/status/1366456457986781185
2021.06.23,3,Medical abbreviations.,"Lisa Grossman Liu et al. have developed the Medical Abbreviation and Acronym Meta-Inventory, a database that maps 104,000+ medical abbreviations and acronyms to 170,000+ different meanings. To build it, the authors standardized data from eight sources, including the Unified Medical Language System, Wikipedia, and ADAM: Another Database of Abbreviations in MEDLINE. Related: “At our urban academic medical center, acronyms constituted 30–50% of the words in a typical medicine admission note.”","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00929-4
https://github.com/lisavirginia/clinical-abbreviations/tree/master/metainventory
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00929-4/tables/2
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations
http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu/arrowsmith_uic/adam.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046418302132",
2021.06.23,4,NYC constituent inquiries.,"Many members of the New York City Council use CouncilStat to track their constituents’ requests, complaints, and other inquiries. The tool’s public dataset contains 260,000+ anonymized entries going back to 2015. It identifies each inquiry’s topic (e.g., tax preparation, citizenship, affordable housing, street resurfacing), district, and dates opened and closed. As seen in: A pre-election analysis of the requests by The City’s Ann Choi.","https://council.nyc.gov/districts/data1/
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/NYC-Council-Constituent-Services/9hzi-kbqb
https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/6/15/22536020/nyc-city-council-constituent-service
https://www.twitter.com/annjychoi",
2021.06.23,5,Forrest Gump-ology.,"StudyForrest is “a one-of-a-kind resource for studying high-level cognition in the human brain under complex, natural stimulation.” Specifically: while watching Forrest Gump. In addition to fMRI scans and eye-tracking measurements, the project’s datasets include extensive annotations of the film itself, such as the location and timing of each shot.","https://www.studyforrest.org/
https://www.studyforrest.org/data.html
https://f1000research.com/articles/5-2273/v1",
2021.06.30,1,Three decades of Medicaid prescriptions.,"US law requires state Medicaid agencies to report the quarterly number of outpatient prescriptions, total units, and reimbursement costs for each permutation of each drug they’ve covered. The federal Medicaid program’s State Drug Utilization Data makes those records — which spanned nearly 5 million rows in 2020 alone — available as state-level and national files going back to 1991. Related: The National Drug Code Directory, which “contains product listing data submitted for all finished drugs including prescription and over-the-counter drugs, approved and unapproved drugs and repackaged and relabeled drugs.” [h/t Michael Q. Maguire]","https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title19/1927.htm
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/prescription-drugs/medicaid-drug-rebate-program/index.html
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/prescription-drugs/state-drug-utilization-data/index.html
https://data.medicaid.gov/State-Drug-Utilization/State-Drug-Utilization-Data-2020/va5y-jhsv
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/national-drug-code-directory",https://twitter.com/maguiremq/status/1395775742621847558
2021.06.30,2,"Ranked-choice voting, continued.","FairVote, an organization that advocates for ranked-choice voting, has gathered the results of hundreds of elections that used those rules. The spreadsheets capture both single-winner and multi-winner elections in 26 jurisdictions between 2001 and 2021 — not yet including last week’s New York City primaries, whose results won’t be finalized until all absentee ballots are processed. Previously: ranked.vote, which provides detailed diagrams and data on a smaller number of elections (DIP 2020.05.27).","https://www.fairvote.org/about
https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lU6viuXfay323Gl6zkH5itwmrUIUo9rAzalK_ntu-ZY/edit#gid=287253823
https://www.fairvote.org/data_on_rcv#research_snapshot
https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/6/21/22544497/when-will-nyc-mayoral-primary-election-winner-be-announced
https://ranked.vote/
https://github.com/ranked-vote/reports
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-05-27-edition/",
2021.06.30,3,Police activity in 2002 Gujarat news coverage.,"More than 1,000 people died in the inter-communal violence that erupted in Gujarat, India, in early 2002. A team of political and computational scientists recently trained students to annotate 21,000+ sentences from 1,257 contemporaneous articles about the events published in the Times of India, asking them to categorize whether police officers used force, killed someone, made arrests, failed to intervene, and/or took any other action. The resulting dataset includes the raw annotations as well as final sentence- and document-level classifications. [h/t Katherine A. Keith]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12936
https://github.com/slanglab/IndiaPoliceEvents",https://kakeith.github.io/
2021.06.30,4,Android permissions.,"Developer Gautham Prakash has built a dataset of the device permissions requested by more than 1 million Android apps in the Google Play marketplace. The permissions include the ability to make calls, read the phone’s contacts, record audio, get the phone’s precise location, know what other apps are running, and dozens more.","https://gauthamp10.github.io/
https://github.com/gauthamp10/android-permissions-dataset",
2021.06.30,5,The cat’s meow.,"For a 2019 study, University of Milan researchers collected and analyzed 440 recordings of “meows emitted by cats in different contexts”: when brushed by their owners, when isolated in an unfamiliar environment, and when waiting for food. [h/t Duncan Geere]","https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/8/543/htm
https://zenodo.org/record/4008297",https://www.duncangeere.com/
2021.07.07,1,Water politics.,"Oregon State University’s International Water Events Database summarizes 7,000+ episodes from 1948 to 2008 that “concern water as a scarce or consumable resource or as a quantity to be managed,” categorizing their intensities and indicating the basins and countries involved. The Pacific Institute’s Water Conflict Chronology documents 926 events (including a few legends) between 3000 BC and 2019 that involved violence or the threat of it. Bernhauer et al.’s Water-Related Intrastate Conflict and Cooperation dataset details 10,000+ events in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Sahel between 1997 and 2009. Related: Takeshi Wada’s “Geographic Distribution of Water Conflicts Worldwide: A Comparative Analysis of Four Databases” (pdf) discusses these resources plus GDELT, a broader-scope event database.","https://transboundarywaters.science.oregonstate.edu/content/international-water-event-database
https://pacinst.org/
https://www.worldwater.org/water-conflict/
https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=5118
https://ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sdgs_wp_2020_wada_en.pdf
https://www.gdeltproject.org/data.html",
2021.07.07,2,Government regulations.,"QuantGov, an open-source project of the free-market-oriented Mercatus Center, “solves the problem of quantifying large amounts of policy text for research and comprehension by using machine learning and natural language processing.” Its RegData initiative applies this approach to government regulations over time — quantifying their length and linguistic complexity and trying to identify their relevant NAICS-classified industries. Its datasets examine rules enacted by the federal government and most US states, as well as federal and subnational regulations from Australia, Canada, and India. [h/t Aaron Staples et al.]","https://www.quantgov.org/about
https://github.com/quantgov
https://www.mercatus.org/
https://www.quantgov.org/history
https://www.census.gov/naics/
https://www.quantgov.org/download-data",https://www.thecgo.org/research/the-economic-geography-of-beer-regulations/
2021.07.07,3,Rural hospital closures.,"The North Carolina Rural Health Research Program maintains a list of rural hospital closures in the US since 2005. The dataset contains 181 entries through June 2021, each representing a complete closure or a conversion from inpatient care to other services, and indicates the hospital, number of beds, Medicare payment program, month of closure, and the location’s Rural-Urban Commuting Area classification. [h/t Betsy Ladyzhets]","https://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/programs-projects/rural-health/
https://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/programs-projects/rural-health/rural-hospital-closures/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/rural-urban-commuting-area-codes.aspx",https://coviddatadispatch.com/2021/06/20/featured-sources-june-20/
2021.07.07,4,Vertebrates’ viruses.,"VIRION is “an open atlas of the vertebrate virome” that launched in May. It represents the associations between 9,000+ viruses and 3,700+ host species, drawing from a range of sources, including USAID’s PREDICT project and the GloBI project, which organizes data about inter-species interactions. [h/t Timothée Poisot]","https://www.viralemergence.org/virion
https://twitter.com/viralemergence/status/1394270587267264518
https://github.com/viralemergence/virion#how-we-built-virion
https://healthmap.org/predict/
https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/",https://twitter.com/tpoi/status/1394633093856759808
2021.07.07,5,Andean roadkill.,"For their recent paper, “Geography of roadkills within the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot,” ecologists Pablo Medrano-Vizcaíno and Santiago Espinosa surveyed three 33-kilometer road segments dozens of times in 2014. Their publication datasets provide details about the 445 dead vertebrates they found, including one new-to-science species of snake. [h/t Christian Miles + The Economist]","https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/btp.12938
https://twitter.com/pmedranoviz
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Vv-viDsAAAAJ&hl=en
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.xwdbrv1cp","http://cjlm.ca
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/05/06/roadkill-provide-a-novel-way-to-sample-an-areas-animals"
2021.07.14,1,Refugees resettled in the US.,"Axel Dreher et al. have published person-level data on 2.5+ million refugees who arrived in the US between 1975 and 2008. The anonymized records, obtained from the National Archives and originally collected by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, indicate each refugee’s country and date of birth, marital and family status, education level and English proficiency, date of US arrival, US city of resettlement, and more. The researchers also combined these records with public reports from the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (DIP 2015.11.25) to create a geocoded dataset of annual resettlements by citizenship and destination city from 1975 to 2018. [h/t Chris Parsons]","https://www.refugeeresettlementdata.com/
https://www.refugeeresettlementdata.com/data.html
https://www.archives.gov/
https://acf.hhs.gov/orr
https://www.wrapsnet.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-11-25-edition/",https://twitter.com/ParsonsEcon/status/1409797812540252163
2021.07.14,2,Arizona migrant deaths.,"The Arizona OpenGIS Initiative for Deceased Migrants is a collaboration between Pima County’s Office of the Medical Examiner and Humane Borders, a nonprofit that maintains water stations in the Sonoran Desert. “Although each organization has a distinct mission, both are committed to the common vision of raising awareness about migrant deaths and lessening the suffering of families by helping to provide closure through the identification of the deceased and the return of remains.” The initiative’s maps and dataset provide details on 3,700+ deaths since 1990, including the deceased’s name, sex, age, and cause of death; their body’s location and condition; and the date reported. [h/t Olaya Argüeso Pérez]","https://humaneborders.info/
https://webcms.pima.gov/government/medical_examiner/
https://humaneborders.org/
https://humaneborders.org/water-stations/
https://humaneborders.info/app/map.asp",https://twitter.com/oargueso
2021.07.14,3,Canadian candidates.,"PhD candidate Semra Sevi recently compiled a dataset of 44,000+ candidates for Canadian federal office from 1867 to 2019 (and similar for Ontario provincial candidates). It lists each candidate’s name, gender, birth year, occupation, party, and incumbency status, plus the election’s date, riding, and outcome. And a new dataset from Anna Johnson et al. delves into the demographics of 4,516 Canadian federal candidates from 2008 to 2019, including their gender, age, race, Indigenous background, occupational category, and more. [h/t Marina Smailes + Erin Tolley]","https://semrasevi.com/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-political-science-revue-canadienne-de-science-politique/article/abs/who-runs-canadian-federal-and-ontario-provincial-candidates-from-1867-to-2019/2B18F0CB2DA35529340386C548750FC4
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ABFNSQ
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/MI5XQ6
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-political-science-revue-canadienne-de-science-politique/article/abs/new-dataset-on-the-demographics-of-canadian-federal-election-candidates/62FE243F387DA88718C825961AB24C10","https://twitter.com/marsmailes
https://twitter.com/e_tolley/status/1409517394893193216"
2021.07.14,4,NBER working papers.,"Since 1973, the National Bureau of Economic Research’s 1,500+ affiliated researchers have published 29,000+ (pre-peer review) articles through the organization’s working papers series. It provides structured information about each paper, using a template from the RePEc project. PhD student Ben Davies has converted those files into CSV tables and an R package listing each paper’s title, publication month, ID, and authors. [h/t Alex Albright]","https://www.nber.org/
https://www.nber.org/about-nber
https://www.nber.org/papers
https://www2.nber.org/RePEc/nbr/nberwo/
https://ideas.repec.org/t/papertemplate.html
http://repec.org/
https://bldavies.com/
https://bldavies.com/blog/introducing-nberwp/
https://github.com/bldavies/nberwp",https://scholar.harvard.edu/apalbright/home
2021.07.14,5,Lightning intensity.,"The World Wide Lightning Location Network uses radio sensors to detect the location and power of 200+ million lightning strokes per year. Access to WWLLN’s raw, detailed data costs money but earth scientists Jed O. Kaplan and Katie Hong-Kiu Lau have converted it into a few public-access gridded-globe timeseries of lightning activity from 2010 to 2020 — daily and monthly strokes per km2, and monthly stroke power. [h/t Robin Sloan]","https://wwlln.net/
http://web.hku.hk/~jkaplan/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katie-Hong-Kiu-Lau
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/3219/2021/
https://zenodo.org/record/4882792",https://www.robinsloan.com/
2021.08.11,1,COVID-era school enrollments.,"A collaboration led by Stanford University’s Big Local News has gathered (and standardized) recent enrollment figures from 33 state education departments. The resulting dataset, which spans ~70,000 public schools, can be downloaded in bulk and explored online. Most states provided data down to the grade level; some also provided student counts by gender, race, ethnicity, ELL status, homelessness, economic status, and/or disability. The timeframes vary, but include at least the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years for each state. See the documentation for details. As seen in: “The Kindergarten Exodus” (NYT), “How going remote led to dramatic drops in public school students” (EdSource), and a new academic study. [h/t Simon Willison + Cheryl Phillips]","https://biglocalnews.org
https://purl.stanford.edu/zf406jp4427
https://stanford-school-enrollment-project.datasette.io/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WRm4KZPDGL1USPaf0E1AIa7gbyeKncv04Pg_rM1N7po/edit
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/us/covid-kindergarten-enrollment.html
https://edsource.org/2021/how-going-remote-led-to-dramatic-drops-in-public-school-students/659005
https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/revealed-preferences-school-reopening-evidence-public-school-disenrollment","https://simonwillison.net/2021/Aug/8/school-enrollment/
https://twitter.com/cephillips/status/1424048330150072323"
2021.08.11,2,Eviction laws.,"The Legal Services Corporation, a nonprofit that Congress has directed to study local eviction procedures and their effects, has partnered with Temple University to compile a database of eviction laws in all US states and territories, and in a sample of 30 cities. It lists the causes for which landlords can evict tenants, the remedies available to unlawfully evicted tenants, filing fees, service requirements, and much more, with pointers to the relevant sections of each law. Previously: Eviction rates from the Eviction Lab. (DIP 2018.04.18). [h/t Morgan Stevens]","https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are
https://www.lsc.gov/initiatives/effect-state-local-laws-evictions
https://www.lsc.gov/initiatives/effect-state-local-laws-evictions/lsc-eviction-laws-database
https://evictionlab.org/map/
https://evictionlab.org/about/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-04-18-edition/",https://datainnovation.org/2021/07/curating-eviction-laws-in-the-united-states/
2021.08.11,3,Targeted mass killings.,"The Atrocity Forecasting Project has constructed (and recently updated) a dataset of targeted mass killings, which it defines as “the direct killing of noncombatant members of a group by an organized armed force or collective with the intent of destroying the group, or intimidating the group by creating a perception of imminent threat to its survival.” The dataset includes 207 such episodes from 1946 to 2020; it lists each atrocity’s timing and location, targeted groups, type of perpetrator, intent, severity, and other aspects.","https://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/research/projects/atrocity-forecasting
https://twitter.com/goldsmithbe/status/1422776719631474690
https://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/about-targeted-mass-killing-dataset",
2021.08.11,4,European politics in the news.,"Projects at the Observatory for Political Conflict and Democracy analyze newspaper articles to construct datasets about election campaigns, protest events, and public debates across a range of European countries. The projects’ codebooks describe how they select the articles — often spanning multiple decades — and categorize the people, parties, actions, and issues in them. [h/t Neil Dullaghan]","https://poldem.eui.eu/
https://poldem.eui.eu/download/
https://poldem.eui.eu/data-overview/
https://poldem.eui.eu/codebooks/",https://twitter.com/njdullaghan
2021.08.11,5,Seattle street clocks.,"In 2004, Seattle historian Rob Ketcherside began a quest to find every public clock in the city, past and present. In 2015, he gathered his findings into a dataset that identifies each clock, owner, and piece of supporting evidence, which he continues to update. Ketcherside has also compiled datasets of drive-in public markets, Seattle street renamings, and the city’s new buildings in 1890.","http://ro-ket.com/
http://ba-kground.com/clock-db-where-seattles-street-clocks-were/
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1455478
https://twitter.com/ro_ket/status/1405187161339535374
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Drive-In_Public_Markets/3427760
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Seattle_Streets_Renamed_over_time/1387714
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/New_Structures_1890_Seattle/1341924",
2021.08.18,1,US military bases and deployments.,"Michael A. Allen et al. are gathering and standardizing data on the United States military’s global presence. The project’s CSV files and R package include annual, country-level troop counts between 1950 and 2020, drawn from prior work by economist Tim Kane and from the government’s Defense Manpower Data Center. They also include a listing of US military bases abroad, primarily sourced from Base Nation, a book by political anthropologist David Vine (who, disclosure, is a cousin of mine). Related: Vine also maintains various lists of US military bases abroad since 1776 and has published a follow-up book, The United States of War. [h/t u/smurfyjenkins]","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/07388942211030885
https://github.com/meflynn/troopdata
https://github.com/meflynn/troopdata/tree/master/data-raw
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/troopdata/index.html
https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/global-us-troop-deployment-1950-2003
https://www.hoover.org/profiles/timothy-kane
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/dwp_reports.jsp
https://www.basenation.us/
https://www.davidvine.net/
https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/auislandora:94927
https://www.davidvine.net/unitedstatesofwar.html",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/otir90/dataset_us_overseas_military_deployments_19502020/
2021.08.18,2,Louisiana deaths behind bars.,"Incarceration Transparency, a project undertaken by law students and faculty at Loyola University New Orleans, has compiled data on more than 830 deaths in Louisiana jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers, primarily between 2015 and 2019, based on 130+ public records requests. The information includes each decedent’s name, age, sex, race, and trial status; the date, facility, and cause of death; and other factors. Read more: The New Yorker’s recent profile of the project and the professor leading it. Previously: Deaths in US jails, via Reuters (DIP 2020.10.21).","https://www.incarcerationtransparency.org/
https://www.incarcerationtransparency.org/?page_id=1425
https://www.incarcerationtransparency.org/?page_id=3837
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/a-fight-to-expose-the-hidden-human-costs-of-incarceration
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-graphic/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-10-21-edition/",
2021.08.18,3,A/B headline tests.,"The Upworthy Research Archive describes 32,000+ headline-testing experiments conducted in 2013–15 by Upworthy, the online publication that popularized a once-ubiquitous style of headline. The dataset, contributed by the publication to a team of academics, is split into three tranches for use in different phases of research. In total, it covers 150,000+ headline-plus-image permutations; for each, it provides the headline, an image identifier, the number of viewers assigned to see it, the number who clicked, and other details.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00934-7
https://www.upworthy.com/
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/20/533529538/upworthy-was-one-of-the-hottest-sites-ever-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next
https://osf.io/jd64p/
https://natematias.medium.com/announcing-the-upworthy-research-archive-c9b11087ddeb
https://upworthy.natematias.com/
https://upworthy.natematias.com/about-the-archive",
2021.08.18,4,The Magazine of Early American Datasets.,"MEAD, as the publication acronymizes itself, “provides sweet, intoxicating data for your investigations of early North America and the Atlantic World.” The initiative, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, hosts a few dozen datasets on a range of topics; many focus on Pennsylvania and on slavery, while other subjects include George Washington’s shipping invoices and the 19th century children’s book industry. [h/t Noah Veltman]","https://repository.upenn.edu/mead/
http://commonplace.online/article/constructing-the-magazine-of-early-american-datasets-mead-an-invitation-to-share-and-use-data-about-early-america/
https://repository.upenn.edu/mead/25/
https://repository.upenn.edu/mead/28/",https://noahveltman.com/
2021.08.18,5,Shows within shows.,"Nestflix, a new website by designer/developer Lynn Fisher, catalogs more than 400 fictional films and TV shows that appear within actual films and TV shows. For instance: 30 Rock’s The Rural Juror and Home Alone’s Angels with Filthy Souls. The project is open-source; the data files for each item include the title, a description, a quotation, the parent show/film, and more.","https://nestflix.fun/
https://lynnandtonic.com/
https://nestflix.fun/the-rural-juror/
https://nestflix.fun/angels-with-filthy-souls/
https://github.com/lynnandtonic/nestflix.fun
https://github.com/lynnandtonic/nestflix.fun/tree/main/src/data",
2021.08.25,1,Legislator stock trades.,"US Congress members and candidates must report all stock purchases and sales exceeding $1,000, as well as those of their spouses and dependent children. Those records are technically available through the House’s and Senate’s financial disclosure portals, but neither provides bulk data. Software engineer Tim Carabat’s Senate Stock Watcher and House Stock Watcher websites fill that gap by making the transactions available to browse, query, and download. In the case of the House, where reports are still provided as PDFs, Carabat also coordinates the manual transcription of those files.","https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/PublicDisclosure/FinancialDisclosure
https://efdsearch.senate.gov/
https://twitter.com/tcarambat
https://senatestockwatcher.com/
https://housestockwatcher.com/
https://contributor.housestockwatcher.com/",
2021.08.25,2,National revenues.,"UNU-WIDER’s Government Revenue Dataset “aims to present a complete picture of government revenue and tax trends over time.” The project, updated this month, currently covers 196 countries and goes back, in most cases, to the early 1980s. It draws on data from OECD and IMF reports and includes dozens of variables, such as total revenue, natural resource taxes, and foreign grants received. Previously: The OECD’s Global Revenue Statistics Database (DIP 2018.08.01). [h/t Lisa Chauvet & Marin Ferry + Erik Feiring]","https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/government-revenue-dataset
https://www.wider.unu.edu/about-grd
https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/government-revenue-dataset-2021-source-selection
https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/global-revenue-statistics-database.htm
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-08-01-edition/","https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-020-00788-4
https://twitter.com/ErikFeiring/status/1428442876237815816"
2021.08.25,3,Africa building outlines.,"Open Buildings, a project led by Google Research’s Ghana office, has published a dataset of 516 million building footprints in Africa, estimated from satellite imagery. The dataset, which you can explore online and download as CSVs, spans roughly 64% of the continent. It describes each estimated footprint’s coordinates, shape, and area, plus the detection algorithm’s degree of confidence. Previously: Footprints of buildings in the US (DIP 2018.07.18), and in Canada and New Zealand (DIP 2019.09.25).","https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/
https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/mapping-africas-buildings-with.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12283
https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-07-18-edition/
https://github.com/Microsoft/CanadianBuildingFootprints
https://medium.com/on-location/an-open-building-outlines-dataset-for-new-zealand-eef8b558ef7a
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-09-25-edition/",
2021.08.25,4,AI patents.,"The US Patent and Trademark Office has built a series of machine-learning models to identify patents that involve AI technologies, such as natural language processing or computer vision. Its Artificial Intelligence Patent Dataset, released in June, focuses on eight of these technologies and provides predictions of their presence (or absence) in 13.2 million granted patents and patent applications since 1976, finding hits in 11% of the documents. [h/t Nicholas Rada]","https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3866793
https://www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/economic-research/research-datasets/artificial-intelligence-patent-dataset",https://twitter.com/nicholas_rada/status/1408440086639702025
2021.08.25,5,Formula One.,"The Ergast Developer API provides seven decades of Formula One racing results, with details on each season, race, and result since 1950, each lap time since 1996, each pit stop since 2012, and more. In addition to querying the API, you can also explore the data online and download it in full. As seen in: FiveThirtyEight’s “Who’s The Best Formula One Driver Of All Time?” [h/t Eric Gardner + Cameron Yick + David Ortiz]","https://ergast.com/mrd/
https://ergast.com/mrd/query/
https://ergast.com/mrd/db/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/formula-one-racing/","https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gardner-0531aa9/
https://twitter.com/hydrosquall
https://github.com/davidor/formula1-lap-charts"
2021.09.01,1,Attacks against aid workers.,"The Aid Worker Security Database is “a global compilation of reports on major security incidents involving deliberate acts of violence affecting aid workers,” with more than 3,200 records since 1997. Researchers gather, evaluate, and categorize information from official reports, partnerships with humanitarian agencies, news media, and other sources. For each incident, the database indicates its date and location; the number of workers killed, wounded, or kidnapped; their general affiliations; the type of attacker and means of attack; a brief description; and more. [h/t The Costs of War Project]","https://aidworkersecurity.org/
https://aidworkersecurity.org/incidents",https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures
2021.09.01,2,Fact-checks.,"ClaimReview is an open standard for adding structured information to fact-check articles, such as the specific claim reviewed, where it appeared, the fact-checking organization, and the reviewer’s rating. The schema has been adopted by a range of big-name publishers, including the Washington Post, PolitiFact, and Univision, as well as smaller outlets around the world. The structured-data website Data Commons hosts a feed of 29,000+ ClaimReview-tagged fact-checks, as well as a curated subset.","https://www.claimreviewproject.com/
https://schema.org/ClaimReview
https://datacommons.org/
https://www.datacommons.org/factcheck/download",
2021.09.01,3,Offshore wind turbines.,"Ting Zhang et al. have trained an algorithm to identify wind turbines in coastal satellite imagery, and have used it to build a dataset listing the location and construction month of 6,924 turbines offshore of 14 countries between 2015 and 2019. To test the algorithm’s accuracy, the researchers compared its results to other sources, including the US Wind Turbine Database (DIP 2018.04.25), the UK’s Renewable Energy Planning Database, the European Marine Observation and Data Network, and Open Power System Data (DIP 2019.08.14).","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00982-z
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Global_offshore_wind_farm_dataset/13280252/5
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-04-25-edition/
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract
https://www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/search-results.php?dataname=Wind+Farms+%28Polygons%29
https://data.open-power-system-data.org/renewable_power_plants/2020-08-25
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-08-14-edition/",
2021.09.01,4,Worker strikes in China.,"China Labour Bulletin, founded in 1994 as a monthly newsletter, is a Hong Kong–based organization  “that supports and actively engages with the workers’ movement in China.” Its map and dataset of worker strikes and protests provides details on 13,000+ events since 2011, including their location, date, and description; industry categories and ownership types; employee demands; and authorities’ response. [h/t The China Data Lab]","https://clb.org.hk/
https://clb.org.hk/content/about-us-0
https://maps.clb.org.hk/",https://chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/resources/
2021.09.01,5,Creative Twitter bots.,"The website Botwiki “was created in July 2015 by Stefan Bohacek with the goal of preserving examples of interesting and creative online bots” and providing tutorials for building them. Bohacek has curated a dataset of 70+ popular examples running on Twitter, drawn from Botwiki and from Tully Hansen’s Omnibots list. Among them: @year_progress, @nyt_first_said, and @tiny_star_field.","https://botwiki.org/
https://botwiki.org/author/stefan/
https://www.kaggle.com/fourtonfish/popular-twitter-bots
https://tullyhansen.com/
https://twitter.com/i/lists/120837264
https://twitter.com/year_progress
https://twitter.com/nyt_first_said
https://twitter.com/tiny_star_field",
2021.09.08,1,Persons of interest.,"OpenSanctions, an open-source project that launched its website last week, is “an international database of persons and companies of political, criminal, or economic interest.” It combines and standardizes data from 20+ sources, such as the US Treasury’s sanctions lists (DIP 2018.02.21), Interpol’s Red Notices, members of EU parliament, and the CIA’s index of world leaders. The project uses a detailed schema to represent the particulars of each entity, including aliases, known cryptocurrency wallets, aircraft registrations, sanction dates, and more. You can download the data with those detailed representations or in simpler formats. [h/t Friedrich Lindenberg]","https://opensanctions.org/
https://github.com/pudo/opensanctions
https://twitter.com/open_sanctions/status/1432977327282171904
https://opensanctions.org/datasets/
https://opensanctions.org/datasets/us_ofac_sdn/
https://opensanctions.org/datasets/us_ofac_cons/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-21-edition/
https://opensanctions.org/datasets/interpol_red_notices/
https://opensanctions.org/datasets/eu_meps/
https://opensanctions.org/datasets/us_cia_world_leaders/
https://opensanctions.org/reference/
https://opensanctions.org/docs/usage/",https://twitter.com/pudo/status/1433017697244225540
2021.09.08,2,Alternative fueling.,"The US Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ summer update to its National Transportation Atlas Database adds a dataset on “alternative fuel corridors” — stretches of highway with a sufficient frequency of fueling stations. (Electric vehicle corridors must, for instance, have charging stations at least every 50 miles.) The release covers electric, hydrogen, propane, compressed natural gas, and liquefied natural gas infrastructure, and complements a prior dataset of 56,000+ such stations. Related: The Department of Energy’s maps and datasets of alternative fueling stations and corridors. [h/t Morgan Stevens]","https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/national-transportation-atlas-database-summer-2021-adds-alternative-fuel-corridors-dataset
https://www.bts.gov/ntad
https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/alternative-fuel-corridors/explore
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/alternative_fuel_corridors/
https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/alternative-fueling-stations-1/explore
https://afdc.energy.gov/stations/
https://afdc.energy.gov/corridors",https://datainnovation.org/2021/08/tracking-alternative-fueling-facilities-across-the-united-states/
2021.09.08,3,India’s political parties.,"The Trivedi Centre for Political Data has published a dataset of “all parties that have contested national and state elections in India since 1962,” with an eye toward unifying the information across name changes. For each legislative level and state, the dataset indicates each party’s first and last year contesting elections, number of seats won, number of female and Scheduled Caste/Tribe candidates fielded, and more. [h/t Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa + Gilles Verniers]","https://tcpd.ashoka.edu.in/
https://tcpd.ashoka.edu.in/political-parties-of-india/
https://github.com/tcpd/ppi/blob/main/17Aug2021TCPDPPI_1_0.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_Castes_and_Scheduled_Tribes","https://twitter.com/vijdankawoosa/status/1431642431590567944
https://twitter.com/gilkumar/status/1431210872945328146"
2021.09.08,4,Software licenses.,"The ScanCode LicenseDB provides information about 1,700+ software licenses, ranging from the common (e.g., MIT License) to the idiosyncratic (SQLite Blessing) to the obscure (Ubuntu Font License). The records, which are part of a broader license-detection toolkit, list each license’s core phrasing, general category, custodian, relevant URLs, and other details. [h/t Philippe Ombredanne]","https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/
https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/mit.html
https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/blessing.html
https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/ubuntu-font-1.0.html
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/licenses
https://www.aboutcode.org/projects/scancode.html
https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/help.html",https://github.com/pombredanne
2021.09.08,5,UK parliamentary ejections.,"A UK House of Commons Library research briefing in July included a spreadsheet of “MPs who have left the Chamber voluntarily, been asked to withdraw, or who have been suspended,” along with the date, reason, and suspension period. Another briefing, published the same day, “attempts to capture all instances where an apology has been made on the floor of the House of Commons since 1979.” [h/t Andi Fugard]","https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn02430/
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn03169/",https://twitter.com/InductiveStep/status/1419001122799423490
2021.09.22,1,K-12 learning arrangements.,"The COVID-19 School Data Hub, which launched last week, is “a central database for educators, researchers, and policymakers to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped students’ modes of learning in 2020-21.” The project’s team, led by economist Emily Oster, has gathered data on learning models (in-person, virtual, or hybrid) used by public schools and districts at various points in time, their masking policies, and reported COVID-19 cases. The datasets can be downloaded in bulk or by state. The coverage and granularity vary by topic and state; the project’s documentation describes the collection methods and availability.","https://www.covidschooldatahub.com
https://emilyoster.substack.com/p/special-edition-today-covid-19-school
https://emilyoster.net/
https://www.covidschooldatahub.com/for_researchers
https://www.covidschooldatahub.com/explore_by_state
https://www.covidschooldatahub.com/methods",
2021.09.22,2,Rushing waters.,"The US Geological Survey’s National Water Information System provides data on the “occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of surface and underground waters” around the country. The surface water measurements — mainly streamflow and gage height — come from tens of thousands of monitoring sites. (Here’s a site near Baton Rouge before and after hurricanes Ida and Nicholas.) There’s an API for accessing the records, including daily summaries and real-time measurements. Previously: NOAA’s water-level data (DIP 2016.03.23). [h/t Michael Allen]","https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/sw
https://help.waterdata.usgs.gov/tutorials/surface-water-data/how-do-i-interpret-gage-height-and-streamflow-values
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/07378000/#parameterCode=00065&startDT=2021-08-26&endDT=2021-09-21
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_c06a0dba-159b-11ec-9f44-7769e5bab072.html
https://waterservices.usgs.gov/
https://waterservices.usgs.gov/rest/DV-Service.html
https://waterservices.usgs.gov/rest/IV-Service.html
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/nwlon.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-03-23-edition/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-allen-60287015b/
2021.09.22,3,Voluntary union recognition.,"Civic technologist Forest Gregg has begun filing FOIA requests to the National Labor Relations Board to collect newly-available data on employers’ voluntary recognition of employee unions, drawn from agency’s relevant notification form. The records so far include 70+ recognitions in late 2020 and early 2021, plus nearly 1,000 from a prior reporting program between 2007 and 2009; they list the employer, union, case number, relevant dates, and more. Previously: Union election results (DIP 2021.05.05).","https://twitter.com/forestgregg
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/voluntary-recognitions-january-1-june-30-2021-116304/
https://github.com/labordata/nlrb-voluntary-recognitions
https://www.nlrb.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/node-195/5581_7-20.pdf
https://flatgithub.com/labordata/nlrb-voluntary-recognitions/blob/main/voluntary_recognitions.csv?sort=Date%20VR%20Request%20Received%2Cdesc
https://www.nlrb.gov/reports/graphs-data/recent-election-results
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-05-05-edition/",
2021.09.22,4,Four decades of Spanish elections.,"The Spanish Electoral Archive, published this summer, provides detailed results of all municipal, regional, general, and European Parliament elections in Spain since the country’s transition to democracy in the late 1970s. The project’s datasets standardize records from various official sources that, in many cases, drill down to the level of individual ballot boxes.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00975-y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democracy
http://sea.uv.es/gipeyop/sea.html
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/SEA",
2021.09.22,5,Hidden clue here will be!,"Data scientist George Ho has compiled a dataset of 589,000+ clues to cryptic crosswords, “collected from various blogs and publicly available digital archives.” The collection, released earlier this month, is available to download and also explore online. (For example.) Its “datasheet” describes the motivation, collection process, composition, and more.","https://www.eigenfoo.xyz/
https://cryptics.eigenfoo.xyz/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword
https://github.com/eigenfoo/cryptics/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
https://cryptics.eigenfoo.xyz/clues/clues
https://cryptics.eigenfoo.xyz/clues/clues?_sort=rowid&clue__contains=%21&answer__exact=CRYPTIC
https://cryptics.eigenfoo.xyz/datasheet",
2021.09.29,1,State vaccine mandates.,"The Immunization Action Coalition is a not-for-profit organization that “works to increase immunization rates and prevent disease by creating and distributing educational materials for healthcare professionals and the public.” Its resources include a series of HTML tables that categorize states’ school and childcare immunization mandates for more than a dozen diseases, such as hepatitis A, polio, and rotavirus. The tables, although not downloadable, can be easily pasted into spreadsheet programs. The Kaiser Family Foundation, meanwhile, is compiling data on state vaccine mandates specific to COVID-19. [h/t Minami Funakoshi]","https://www.immunize.org/aboutus/
https://www.immunize.org/laws/
https://www.immunize.org/laws/hepa.asp
https://www.immunize.org/laws/polio.asp
https://www.immunize.org/laws/rotavirus.asp
https://www.kff.org/about-us/
https://www.kff.org/report-section/state-covid-19-data-and-policy-actions-policy-actions/#vaccines",https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/BIDEN/zgpombrajpd/index.html
2021.09.29,2,Incarceration by county.,"For an analysis and graphics that examine changes in incarceration rates over time, reporters at the Marshall Project have published a dataset indicating the number of adults in each US county who were living in correctional facilities at the time of the Decennial Census in 2000, 2010, and 2020. Those counts, per the Census Bureau’s methodology, include a broad range of facilities, such as state prisons, military jails, halfway houses, and immigration detention centers.","https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/09/20/there-are-fewer-people-behind-bars-now-than-10-years-ago-will-it-last
https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/adults-in-correctional-facilities-from-decennial-census",
2021.09.29,3,South Carolina jail deaths.,"For an investigation into inmate deaths in South Carolina, Lucas Smolcic Larson has compiled a dataset “that aims to fill a void left by inconsistent government tracking” of these incidents. It details 253 deaths between 2009 and mid-2021, and draws from a range of sources, including official forms, jail death data compiled by Reuters (DIP 2020.10.21) and the Huffington Post, local media reports, and more. Previously: Louisiana deaths behind bars (DIP 2021.08.18).","https://www.islandpacket.com/news/state/south-carolina/article252332068.html
https://twitter.com/Lucasgsl6
https://github.com/islandpacket/SCjaildeaths
https://github.com/islandpacket/SCjaildeaths#data-sources
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-graphic/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-10-21-edition/
https://data.huffingtonpost.com/2016/jail-deaths
https://www.incarcerationtransparency.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-08-18-edition/",
2021.09.29,4,Sea world.,"Marine Regions, a project managed by the Flanders Marine Institute, provides names and geographic coordinates for 62,000+ sea-related places, areas, and boundaries. These include exclusive economic zones, the high seas, “internal waters,” World Marine Heritage Sites and more, drawn from a wide range of sources. You can also search and explore the maritime boundaries online.","https://www.marineregions.org/
https://www.vliz.be/en
https://www.marineregions.org/content.php
https://www.marineregions.org/downloads.php
https://www.marineregions.org/sources.php#heritage
https://www.marineregions.org/sources.php
https://www.marineregions.org/eezsearch.php
https://www.marineregions.org/eezmapper.php",
2021.09.29,5,Dancing.,"The AIST Dance Video Database, from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, “is a shared database containing original street dance videos with copyright-cleared dance music.” It forms the basis of Google Research’s AIST++ Dance Motion Dataset, which provides detailed annotations of 10 million images from the videos, plus “1,408 sequences of 3D human dance motion,” some of which explore online. [h/t Robin Sloan]","https://aistdancedb.ongaaccel.jp/
https://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/about_aist/
https://google.github.io/aistplusplus_dataset/factsfigures.html
https://google.github.io/aistplusplus_dataset/index.html
https://google.github.io/aistplusplus_dataset/visualizer/index.html",https://www.robinsloan.com/
2021.10.06,1,Reservoir levels.,"The US Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency formed in 1902, is today “the nation’s largest wholesale water supplier, operating 338 reservoirs with a total storage capacity of 140 million acre-feet.” Its Reclamation Information Sharing Environment (RISE) launched publicly last year, providing data on reservoir levels, water quality, hydropower generation, habitat monitoring, and more. You can browse the data catalog, explore its time series — for instance daily water levels at Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir, going back to 1935 — and query its API. As seen in: “The Southwest’s most important river is drying up” (CNN).","https://www.usbr.gov/main/about/mission.html
https://data.usbr.gov/
https://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsroomold/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=72624
https://data.usbr.gov/catalog
https://data.usbr.gov/time-series/search?v=1
https://data.usbr.gov/catalog/4370/item/6123
https://data.usbr.gov/rise-api
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/08/us/colorado-river-water-shortage/",
2021.10.06,2,Stolpersteine.,"German artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine are concrete-and-brass “stumbling stones,” each inscribed with the name of someone killed or persecuted by the Nazi regime, placed into pavement where the person last freely lived or worked. Since the mid-1990s, Demnig has installed more than 75,000 of the stones, often with the help of local groups. Stolpersteine coordinators in Berlin provide a map and downloadable list of 8,500+ installations in the city. Other resources include a searchable database of 6,000+ Stolpersteine in Hamburg and Stolpersteine.app’s map of 10,000+ installations in the Netherlands and Belgium. [h/t Basile Simon + Jennifer Evans + Helmut Smith]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter_Demnig
http://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/home/
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/18/stumbling-stones-a-different-vision-of-holocaust-remembrance
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-75000th-stolperstein-for-holocaust-victims-laid/a-51827506
https://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/en/project/koordinierungsstelle
https://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/en/finding-stolpersteine
https://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?MAIN_ID=7
https://stolpersteine.app/en/stolpersteine-app/
https://stolpersteine.app/en/stolpersteine/","https://basilesimon.fr/blog/stolpersteine-maps/
https://twitter.com/JenniferVEvans/status/1431304581376626688
https://twitter.com/SmithHelmut/status/1431307756565405696"
2021.10.06,3,Parallel texts.,"The OPUS project gathers and converts texts that are freely available in multiple languages, providing various interfaces for querying and downloading side-by-side translations. The dozens of sources include “parallel corpora” — bodies of text whose translations have already been aligned with one another, typically sentence by sentence — such as the United Nations Parallel Corpus, as well as those OPUS has tried to align automatically with software. [h/t u:peerlessdeepak]","https://opus.nlpl.eu/
https://opus.nlpl.eu/trac/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_text
https://conferences.unite.un.org/uncorpus",https://pinboard.in/u:peerlessdeepak
2021.10.06,4,Undersea internet cables.,"TeleGeography’s Submarine Cable Map lets you search and browse nearly 500 active and planned undersea internet cables, the longest of which spans 39,000 kilometers and connects four continents. The map’s information, which can also be downloaded, indicates each cable’s length, landing points, completion year, owners, and suppliers. [h/t Soph Warnes]","https://www2.telegeography.com/
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
https://www2.telegeography.com/submarine-cable-faqs-frequently-asked-questions
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/seamewe-3
https://github.com/telegeography/www.submarinecablemap.com#how-can-i-download-the-dataset",https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-beef-brexit-and-bivariate-choropleths-772476
2021.10.06,5,The _____ bone’s connected to the _____ bone.,"Data scientist Clay Heaton’s graph model of the human skeleton links all 206 adult human bones to their anatomical neighbors. The dataset also maps each bone to its general region, such as “Left Foot” or “Right Ear.” [h/t Lynn Cherny]","https://twitter.com/clayheaton
https://github.com/clayheaton/human-skeleton-graph-data-model",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/
2021.10.13,1,Abortion policies.,"The World Health Organization’s Global Abortion Policies Database is “designed to strengthen global efforts to eliminate unsafe abortion by producing an interactive open-access database and repository of current abortion laws, policies, and national standards and guidelines.” The project uses an extensive questionnaire to categorize dozens of regulatory factors for each country; the findings can be queried online, or downloaded as a spreadsheet. The Center for Reproductive Rights’ World Abortion Laws Map groups countries into five categories of restrictiveness, and also indicates the types of laws in effect. The map’s data is available as a JSON file. As seen in: “How abortion laws in the U.S. compare to those in other countries” (Washington Post). [h/t Nathan Yau]","https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/
https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/data/questionnaire.pdf
https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/countries/
https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/data/survey.xlsx
https://maps.reproductiverights.org/worldabortionlaws
https://maps.reproductiverights.org/ajax/wal-map
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/us-abortion-laws-worldwide/",https://flowingdata.com/2021/10/07/comparing-abortion-limits-in-the-u-s-against-other-countries/
2021.10.13,2,Hourly weather.,"NOAA’s Integrated Surface Database, launched two decades ago, combines point-in-time weather observations from 100+ sources, collected at 35,000+ stations around the world, 14,000+ of which are still active. The measurements can include “wind speed and direction, wind gust, temperature, dew point, cloud data, sea level pressure, altimeter setting, station pressure, present weather, visibility, precipitation amounts for various time periods, snow depth” and more. Related: An Observable notebook for previewing and downloading data from ISDLite, NOAA’s simpler version of the larger database. [h/t Ian Johnson]","https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/integrated-surface-database
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/noaa-weather-data-by-major-u-s-city",https://twitter.com/enjalot
2021.10.13,3,Deployment votes.,"The Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database gathers information about national parliaments and legislatures voting on the deployment or withdrawal of military forces. It lists the date, name, and chamber of each vote; the mission name and area of deployment; the number of members voting in favor, against, and abstaining; and other details. The collaborative project’s latest release includes 1,000+ votes in 21 countries from 1990 to 2019, plus 5,500+ counts disaggregated by political party.","http://deploymentvotewatch.eu/
http://deploymentvotewatch.eu/?page_id=8
http://deploymentvotewatch.eu/?page_id=2",
2021.10.13,4,Mask diplomacy.,"Political scientists Diego Telias and Francisco Urdinez have collected and mapped data on 530+ donations of face masks, respirators, COVID-19 tests, and other pandemic-related supplies from entities in China and Taiwan to 33 countries Latin America and the Caribbean in early 2020. The dataset indicates the donor, recipient, date, and equipment types, amounts, and estimated value. Read more: Telias and Urdinez’s preprint analyzing the data.","https://twitter.com/diegotelias
https://www.furdinez.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/EIAXSE
https://estudiosasiaticos.uc.cl/humanidades-digitales/mask-diplomacy-v-1-0
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francisco-Urdinez/publication/344035590_China%E2%80%99s_Foreign_Aid_Political_Drivers_Lessons_from_a_Novel_Dataset_of_Mask_Diplomacy_in_Latin_America_During_the_COVID-19_Pandemic/links/607df952907dcf667baf42fe/Chinas-Foreign-Aid-Political-Drivers-Lessons-from-a-Novel-Dataset-of-Mask-Diplomacy-in-Latin-America-During-the-COVID-19-Pandemic.pdfa",
2021.10.13,5,Bird food.,"Allen H. Hurlbert et al.’s Avian Diet Database contains “73,075 quantitative diet data records for 759 primarily North American bird species, providing standardized information not just on the diet itself, but on the context for that diet information including the year, season, location, and habitat type of each study.” You can explore it online, download it, and access it as an R package.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-01049-9
https://aviandiet.unc.edu/
https://github.com/hurlbertlab/dietdatabase
https://github.com/ahhurlbert/aviandietdb",
2021.10.20,1,Judicial financial disclosures.,"US federal judges must file annual reports disclosing their investments, external income, and other potential conflicts of interest. The filings are technically available to the public, but onerous to access. So the Free Law Project undertook an effort to obtain and parse as many of them as possible, ultimately creating a database of 250,000+ pages of disclosures, which you can search online or via an API, including “complete coverage of every judge, justice, and magistrate between 2011 and 2018.” Read more: “131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest,” the first article in an ongoing series by the WSJ, which had early access to the database. [h/t Tom Folkes]","https://free.law/2021/09/28/announcing-federal-financial-disclosures
https://free.law/
https://github.com/freelawproject/disclosure-extractor
https://www.courtlistener.com/coverage/financial-disclosures/
https://free.law/2021/10/15/financial-disclosures-now-available-to-all-on-courtlistener
https://www.courtlistener.com/financial-disclosures/
https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest-info/#financialdisclosure-endpoint
https://www.wsj.com/articles/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest-11632834421
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Awsj.com+%22Hidden+Interests%22&t=h_&iar=news&ia=news",https://acure.info/
2021.10.20,2,Wildlife death and illness reports.,"WHISPers, hosted by the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, is a “repository for sharing basic information about historic and ongoing wildlife mortality (death) and/or morbidity (illness) events,” with contributions from “hundreds of natural resource managers and stakeholders across the U.S. and beyond.” Wisconsin officials, for instance, reported that a bald eagle died of lead poisoning in Adams County this April. You can search WHISPers by date range, county, species, diagnosis, and more — up to 500 events at a time, exportable as CSV files. [h/t Terra R. Kelly et al.]","https://whispers.usgs.gov/home
https://whispers.usgs.gov/event/201296",https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0974
2021.10.20,3,A decade of news articles.,"For their analysis of investigative publishing trends, Eray Turkel et al. gathered nearly 6 million articles published by 50 outlets (mostly local newspapers) in the 2010s, drawn from the pay-to-access NewsBank service. The study’s public dataset includes each article’s title, date, byline, and word and sentence count, plus various linguistic metrics calculated by the researchers. Related: To examine the online news economy, the Stanford-based team is seeking volunteers to have certain web-browsing tracked. [h/t Shosh Vasserman]","https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/what-analysis-6-million-articles-reveals-about-state-us-newspapers
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/30/e2105155118
https://www.newsbank.com/about-newsbank
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/HSZ2QL
https://rally.mozilla.org/current-studies/beyond-the-paywall/index.html",https://twitter.com/shoshievass
2021.10.20,4,More parliamentary speech.,"PhD candidate Daniel Braby’s parlCymru and parlScot provide the text of 5 and 20+ years of spoken contributions to the Welsh and Scottish parliaments, respectively, plus speaker and circumstance metadata. German publication Dekoder’s Daniel Marcus has gathered 385,000+ transcripts from 25+ years of speech in Russia’s State Duma, powering an interactive chart of word frequencies. Previously: Spoken contributions to nine other parliaments (DIP 2020.04.29). [h/t Fabrice Deprez]","https://twitter.com/dbrby
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VILSR8
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/EQ9WBE
https://www.dekoder.org/
https://danilamorkovkin.blog/
https://www.discuss-data.net/dataset/fb52dac2-66e3-47a3-86c5-b2a3dadf41bf/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Duma
https://duma.dekoder.org/de
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-04-29-edition",https://twitter.com/fabrice_deprez
2021.10.20,5,Halloween candy.,"For FiveThirtyEight’s “Ultimate Halloween Candy Power Ranking” (2017), Walt Hickey had readers vote on head-to-head matchups among 85 confections. The project’s dataset includes each candy’s winning percentage, various categorizations (e.g., Does it contain chocolate?), relative cost, and sugariness. [h/t Eric Gardner]","https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/the-ultimate-halloween-candy-power-ranking/
https://walthickey.com/
http://walthickey.com/2017/10/18/whats-the-best-halloween-candy/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/candy-power-ranking",https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gardner-0531aa9/
2021.11.03,1,Internet shutdowns.,"A coalition organized by Access Now, a nonprofit that “defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world,” has been gathering data on intentional internet shutdowns. It has identified 155 shutdowns in 2020 and 50 in January–May 2021, based on information from a range of sources, including news reports and other trackers, such as the India-focused internetshutdowns.in. The datasets indicate the type of shutdown, start and end dates, geographic scope, who ordered it, public justifications, affected networks, and more. As seen in: “Internet shutdowns have become a weapon of repressive regimes” (The Economist).","https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton-faq/
https://www.accessnow.org/about-us/
https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton/
https://internetshutdowns.in/
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/15/internet-shutdowns-have-become-a-weapon-of-repressive-regimes",
2021.11.03,2,Concealed carry licenses.,"To construct his Concealed Carry Weapons License Database, sociologist Trent Steidley spent “over a year collecting data from 28 states using public records requests and cleaning into a state and county-year format.” The published files include the raw data, cleaned data, and documentation. The details vary by state, but can include the number of licenses held, issued, denied, revoked, and/or suspended, among other statuses; in some instances, the numbers are also disaggregated by demographic. For most states, the records stretch back to the early 2000s, some even earlier.","https://socsteidley.com/2021/10/13/introducing-the-concealed-carry-weapons-license-database/
https://socsteidley.com/
https://twitter.com/socsteidley/status/1448489666605240322
https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/149062/version/V1/view?path=/openicpsr/149062/fcr:versions/V1&type=project",
2021.11.03,3,Amazon search results.,"A recent Markup investigation “found that Amazon places products from its house brands and products exclusive to the site ahead of those from competitors — even competitors with higher customer ratings and more sales, judging from the volume of reviews.” Reporters Adrianne Jeffries and Leon Yin published their methodology, as well as the underlying code and data, which includes product-placement information relating 12,000+ search queries, details about 157,000+ products, raw HTML, and more.","https://themarkup.org/amazons-advantage/2021/10/14/amazon-puts-its-own-brands-first-above-better-rated-products
https://adriannejeffries.com/
https://www.leonyin.org/
https://themarkup.org/amazons-advantage/2021/10/14/how-we-analyzed-amazons-treatment-of-its-brands-in-search-results
https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-amazon-brands",
2021.11.03,4,FOIA reading rooms.,"Data librarian Lisa DeLuca has compiled a spreadsheet of 300+ Freedom of Information Act libraries, the online reading rooms where federal agencies must post certain records, including those that “are likely to become the subject of subsequent requests for substantially the same records.” DeLuca’s spreadsheet, originally published in 2019 and updated last week, lists the agency’s name, its parent agency, and the portal’s name and URL. [h/t Mago Torres]","https://twitter.com/ldeluca1101
https://library.shu.edu/FOIA-Libraries
https://www.justice.gov/oip/foia-guide-2004-edition-foia-reading-rooms
https://works.bepress.com/lisa_deluca/40/
https://twitter.com/ldeluca1101/status/1453776389941960708",https://twitter.com/magiccia
2021.11.03,5,Spiders.,"The World Spider Catalog is “the first fully searchable online database covering spider taxonomy,” with a bulk dataset that lists 49,000+ species, their geographic distributions, and author-year citations. Stano Pekár et al.’s World Spider Trait database collates “individual measurements, observations, or composite characteristics,” such as body length, web diameter, and number of egg sacs produced.","https://wsc.nmbe.ch/
https://wsc.nmbe.ch/dataresources
https://wsc.nmbe.ch/statistics/
https://academic.oup.com/database/article/doi/10.1093/database/baab064/6397506
https://spidertraits.sci.muni.cz/
https://spidertraits.sci.muni.cz/about",
2021.11.10,1,Toxic pollution.,"Last week, ProPublica published what it’s calling “the most detailed map of cancer-causing industrial air pollution in the U.S.,” along with an investigation based on the map’s revelations. In a methodology article, reporters explain how they analyzed billions of rows of data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model, which “takes a variety of inputs, including emissions data, weather modeling, and facility specific information, and puts out estimated concentrations of toxic chemicals in the air around industrial facilities.” The EPA publishes the model’s output as bulk downloads, in an online dashboard, and in other formats. Related: The model incorporates information from the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory, which publishes self-reported emissions data from certain mandated industrial facilities.","https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-created-the-most-detailed-map-ever-of-cancer-causing-industrial-air-pollution
https://www.epa.gov/rsei
https://www.epa.gov/rsei/ways-get-rsei-results
https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program
https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/find-understand-and-use-tri
https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/tri-threshold-screening-tool",
2021.11.10,2,Campsite reservations.,"The US government’s Recreation Information Database “represents an authoritative source of information and services for millions of visitors to federal lands, historic sites, museums, and other attractions/resources.” It provides bulk data and an API describing recreational areas, campgrounds, campsites, permit entrances, scheduled tours, and more. You can also download detailed historical data on individual campsite and tour reservations going back to 2006. As seen in: “The Camping Crunch,” published by the Center for Western Priorities, and accompanying methodology. [h/t @mtmagog]","https://ridb.recreation.gov/
https://ridb.recreation.gov/download
https://ridb.recreation.gov/docs
https://westernpriorities.org/the-camping-crunch/
https://westernpriorities.org/the-camping-crunch-data-and-methodology/",https://twitter.com/mtmagog/status/1454194628341616641
2021.11.10,3,Time zones.,"The Time Zone Database, used extensively by major operating systems and programming languages, “contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe.” Its files include detailed notes on sourcing and are “updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and daylight-saving rules.” Read more: “Exploring 120 years of timezones,” by Colin Eberhardt. [h/t Lon Riesberg]","https://www.iana.org/time-zones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
https://blog.scottlogic.com/2021/09/14/120-years-timezone.html
https://colineberhardt.github.io/",https://news.dataelixir.com/t/t-1872322AA740A2372540EF23F30FEDED
2021.11.10,4,NFTs.,"A team developing open-source tools for monitoring cryptocurrency activity has built a dataset of 7 million transactions of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum blockchain. The dataset covers April to late September 2021, spans 9,000 NFT projects, and records each transaction’s sender, receiver, value, timestamp, and location in the blockchain. Read more: The team’s analysis. [h/t Ibrahim Ahmed]","https://github.com/bugout-dev/moonstream
https://www.kaggle.com/simiotic/ethereum-nfts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum
https://github.com/bugout-dev/moonstream/blob/main/datasets/nfts/papers/ethereum-nfts.pdf",https://twitter.com/atbeme/status/1451361968460238851
2021.11.10,5,Damn fine coffees.,"Earlier this year, data visualist Judit Bekker live-blogged her effort to catalog and visualize every coffee consumed in all three seasons of Twin Peaks. Bekker’s dataset indicates the episode, timestamp, scene, location, circumstances of 258 coffee-drinkings, plus who drank them. [h/t Soph Warnes]","https://juditbekker.com/
https://juditbekker.com/2021/05/04/live-blogging-a-new-project/
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/judit.bekker/viz/TheCoffeesofTwinPeaks/TheCoffeesofTwinPeaks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks
https://data.world/judkacag/the-coffees-of-twin-peaks",https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-internal-migration-voting-restrictions-and-sand-604455
2021.11.17,1,Carbon credits.,"The Voluntary Registry Offsets Database, a collaboration between the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project and Carbon Direct, “contains all carbon offset projects, credit issuances, and credit retirements listed globally by four major voluntary offset project registries,” accounting for “almost all of the world’s voluntary market offsets.” Updated in September with data through early May 2021, the database covers 5,000+ projects and 1.2 billion credits issued. Each credit purportedly offsets a metric tonne of CO2 emissions, but the Berkeley team is skeptical: “Research performed by us and others has found that many, if not most, offset credits traded on the market today do not represent real emissions reductions.” Related: The World Bank’s database of carbon pricing initiatives.","https://gspp.berkeley.edu/faculty-and-impact/centers/cepp/projects/berkeley-carbon-trading-project/offsets-database
https://gspp.berkeley.edu/faculty-and-impact/centers/cepp/projects/berkeley-carbon-trading-project
https://carbon-direct.com/
https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/map_data",
2021.11.17,2,Foodborne pathogens.,"In an explainer article accompanying a recent food-safety investigation, ProPublica reporter Irena Hwang describes using her training in bioinformatics to analyze salmonella DNA data collected by the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s Pathogen Detection initiative, which aggregates genomic sequences from bacteria “originating in food, environmental sources, and patients.” The initiative has published such data for nearly 1 million samples of dozens of species. Related: ProPublica’s Chicken Checker lookup tool, based on the results of Department of Agriculture microbiological sampling conducted at processing plants.","https://www.propublica.org/article/how-propublica-used-genomic-sequencing-data-to-track-an-ongoing-salmonella-outbreak
https://www.propublica.org/article/salmonella-chicken-usda-food-safety
https://www.propublica.org/people/irena-hwang
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/faq/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/pathogens_help/#data-retrieval
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/organisms/
https://projects.propublica.org/chicken/
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/science-data/data-sets-visualizations/laboratory-sampling-data",
2021.11.17,3,Violence against environmental defenders.,"Tierra de Resistentes is a “crossborder journalistic effort to investigate episodes of violence against leaders and communities in Latin America who have devoted their lives to defending the environment.” The collaboration’s database details 2,400+ such attacks, mostly focusing on the years 2009–2019. For each attack, it provides information about the person, organization, or community attacked, the type of violence, the resource defended, case status, and more. [h/t Juan Pablo Marín Díaz]","https://tierraderesistentes.com/en/
https://tierraderesistentes.com/es/datos/",https://www.datasketch.co/newsletter/data-journalism/issue-6-cop26-climate-change-and-biodiversity/
2021.11.17,4,Mineral production.,"The US Geological Survey’s National Minerals Information Center keeps tabs on “minerals and materials essential to the U.S. economy, the national security, and protection of the environment.” Its published datasets include annual statistics on mineral production by state, by country, and by commodity. [h/t Brian C. Keegan]","https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/state-minerals-statistics-and-information
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/international-minerals-statistics-and-information
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/commodity-statistics-and-information",https://www.brianckeegan.com/about/
2021.11.17,5,Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours.,"Data artist Nicholas Rougeux has digitally recreated Scottish painter Patrick Syme’s 1821 guidebook to German mineralogist Abraham Werner’s color system. For each of the 110 colors, such as Saffron Yellow and Veinous Blood Red, a corresponding spreadsheet contains its name, hex code, description, and more. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.c82.net/
https://www.c82.net/werner/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Syme
https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012743312
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Gottlob_Werner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%27s_Nomenclature_of_Colours
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10w7UebIDqN6ChEpBwLDQmAgVZZhLtKvnrLeNnBjJmsc/edit",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/444-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2021.12.01,1,Language from 100 million academic articles.,"The General Index, a new project from Carl Malamud’s Public Resource, contains detailed linguistic data derived from 107,233,728 academic journal articles. The index’s main table contains all one-to-five-word sequences found in each article, and their frequencies — more than 355 billion “n-grams” in total. A second table identifies nearly 20 billion keywords auto-extracted from the corpus, and a third table lists the authors, title, publication date, and DOI associated with each article. Read more: “The plan to mine the world’s research papers” (Nature, July 2019) and “Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online” (Nature, October 2021). [h/t webmaven]","https://archive.org/details/GeneralIndex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud
https://public.resource.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram
https://pypi.org/project/yake/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02142-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29008367
2021.12.01,2,Personal income.,"The US Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its latest county-level estimates of personal income, which now cover 1969–2020. The per-capita numbers are also available by metropolitan statistical area, as well as disaggregated by income “component” (wages/salaries, income from assets, etc.) and industry. You can download the data and also explore it through interactive tables and maps. As seen in: “From Wealthy Enclaves to Asset Deserts,” a map and report by the Economic Innovation Group.","https://www.bea.gov/news/2021/personal-income-county-and-metropolitan-area-2020
https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income-county-metro-and-other-areas
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/metro-micro/about.html
https://apps.bea.gov/regional/downloadzip.cfm
https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=70&step=1&acrdn=6
https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=99&step=1&acrdn=7
https://inclusivewealth.eig.org/wealthmap/
https://eig.org/about-us",
2021.12.01,3,Banking-crisis interventions.,"Economists Andrew Metrick and Paul Schmelzing have compiled a database of 800+ banking crises spanning the years 1257 to 2019, plus 1,800+ government attempts to mitigate them. For each crisis, the database provides the starting year, relevant country or region, a brief description, and more. It also describes the interventions, lists their dates, classifies them into 20 categories (asset guarantees, market liquidity assistance, etc.), and links them to sources and prior literature.","https://faculty.som.yale.edu/andrewmetrick/
https://www.pfschmelzing.me/
https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research-centers/centers-initiatives/program-on-financial-stability/metrick-schmelzing-paper-and-database",
2021.12.01,4,Europe’s primary forests.,"Francesco Maria Sabatini et al. have combined information from dozens of sources to develop “the most comprehensive dataset” of Europe’s “primary forests” — those “where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest management.” The dataset, which includes 18,411 patches across 33 countries, describes their names, locations, level of “naturalness,” dominant tree species, and more. Previously: EU-Forest (DIP 2017.01.25).","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00988-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00988-7/tables/4
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/European_Primary_Forest_Database/13194095/2
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2016123
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-01-25-edition/",
2021.12.01,5,“Early worm gets the worm.”,"Designer and “diehard Office superfan” Will Chase rewatched the US version of the sitcom with one goal in mind: to document every misquote, malapropism, mispronunciation, and other verbal flub by Steve Carell’s character Michael Scott. He found more than 200.","https://www.williamrchase.com/
https://buttondown.email/willchase/archive/a-new-datavizstreaming-project-all-about-the/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13U09FgnxeW9UyCg7Xwffxj06W47ikUZJng16ukF9mQs/edit#gid=0",
2021.12.08,1,Citizenship laws.,"The Global Citizenship Observatory’s new Citizenship Law Dataset “outlines, in a systematic way, 28 ways in which citizenship can be acquired and 15 ways in which citizenship can be lost.” Launched last week and building on the observatory’s previous work, it covers the laws in effect in 190 countries in January 2020. For each mode of acquisition or loss in each jurisdiction, the dataset points to the legal citations, specifies the type of procedure (discretionary, automatic, etc.), and describes the relevant conditions (for instance, wedlock requirements for citizenship-by-descent). Previously: Dual citizenship policies (DIP 2019.01.09). [h/t Yajna Govind]","https://globalcit.eu/
https://globalcit.eu/databases/globalcit-citizenship-law-dataset/
https://twitter.com/GlobalCIT_EUI/status/1466362913019596803
https://globalcit.eu/a-new-globalcit-citizenship-law-dataset-what-why-and-how/
https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/dual-cit-database/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-01-09-edition/",https://twitter.com/GovindYajna/status/1465668160426754050
2021.12.08,2,Overturned Supreme Court decisions.,"The Library of Congress’s Constitution Annotated project is a “comprehensive, government-sanctioned record of the interpretations of the Constitution,” intended for a wide audience and in publication for more than 100 years. Its resources include a table of Supreme Court Decisions overruled by subsequent decisions, with the names and years of the initial and overruling cases, and another of laws held unconstitutional. Read more: The methodologies for both tables. As seen in: “How often are Supreme Court decisions overturned?” (Quartz).","https://constitution.congress.gov/
https://constitution.congress.gov/about/constitution-annotated/
https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overruled/
https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/unconstitutional-laws/
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/appx-1/ALDE_00000679/
https://qz.com/2098152/how-often-are-supreme-court-decisions-overturned/",
2021.12.08,3,Birds at the feeder.,"Project FeederWatch is a “November-April survey of birds that visit backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America.” Tens of thousands of volunteers record the number and species of birds at each feeder, plus information about the surrounding environment. The results can be explored online and downloaded in bulk. As seen in: “Which birds are the biggest jerks at the feeder?” (Washington Post), which uses additional behavioral data collected by the volunteers; and a related Twitter thread. [h/t John Templon]","https://feederwatch.org/
https://feederwatch.org/pfw/participants
https://feederwatch.org/about/detailed-instructions/
https://feederwatch.org/explore/
https://feederwatch.org/explore/raw-dataset-requests/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/28/bird-feeder-pecking-order/
https://feederwatch.org/about/detailed-instructions/#record-behavior-interactions
https://twitter.com/EliotITMiller/status/1465126217133219841",https://twitter.com/jtemplon
2021.12.08,4,Pandemic-era alcohol policies.,"The US Alcohol Policy Information System has categorized the alcohol-related regulations that each state (and DC) has enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they’ve changed over time. The dataset covers January 2020 to mid-September 2021; it examines restrictions on bar and restaurant capacity, serving alcohol without food, alcohol delivery, and more.","https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/about-apis
https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/resource/covid-19/98",
2021.12.08,5,A map of our moon.,"A USGS astrogeology lab has built a 1:5,000,000-scale map of Earth’s moon, the “chief purpose” of which is “to summarize the current state of lunar geologic knowledge.” It marks thousands of geologic boundaries, plus “surface features” such as crater rims, “fissures, grabens, scarps, mare wrinkle ridges” and more. [h/t Wendy Shijia]","https://www.usgs.gov/centers/astrogeology-science-center/science/mrctr-gis-lab?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Geology/Unified_Geologic_Map_of_the_Moon_GIS_v2",https://twitter.com/ShijiaWendy/status/1458242744673996807
2021.12.15,1,Faster-turnaround mortality data.,"Last week, the CDC began publishing provisional US mortality statistics for 2018 to the near-present. The data are based on death certificates and can be queried by location, timing, demographics, and causes of death. They’re similar to the CDC’s non-provisional statistics for earlier years, but “with a lag of just a few weeks” instead of more than a year, writes the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s Betsy Ladyzhets. Read more: “Researchers say the US is undercounting COVID deaths. Now we have a tool to figure out why,” an article by Ladyzhets and other members of Documenting COVID-19, who are hosting a webinar about the data today.","https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html
https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/mcd-provisional.html
https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd.html
https://coviddatadispatch.com/2021/12/12/new-cdc-mortality-data-real-time-public-health-surveillance-at-a-highly-granular-level/
https://coviddatadispatch.com/
https://betsyladyzhets.com/
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2021/dec/09/the-cdc-just-released-new-data-on-deaths-in-the-us/
https://documentingcovid19.io/about
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PxEsCSn9SeqkFn-xQu37DA",
2021.12.15,2,Zero-day exploits.,"Researchers at Google’s Project Zero study “zero-day” vulnerabilities — software flaws discovered by hackers before they can be fixed. Since 2019, the team has published a spreadsheet of known zero-day exploits “in the wild.” The spreadsheet’s 200 entries go back to 2014 and note the software product, its vendor, the flaw’s type and description, date discovered, date patched, and more. Previously: The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list (DIP 2018.12.12). [h/t Patrick Howell O’Neill + Bruce Schneier]","https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/about-project-zero.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_(computing)
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/0day.html
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lkNJ0uQwbeC1ZTRrxdtuPLCIl7mlUreoKfSIgajnSyY/view#gid=0
https://cve.mitre.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-12-12-edition/","https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/23/1036140/2021-record-zero-day-hacks-reasons/
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/09/the-proliferation-of-zero-days.html"
2021.12.15,3,Reproductive assistance in the EU.,"Reporters at Civio have collected data on the access to, and availability of financial aid for, in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination in 43 European countries, noting limits based on age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other factors. Read more: “More than half of European countries prohibit access to assisted reproduction for lesbians and almost a third do so for single women.” Related: Civio’s visualization code in Observable notebooks. [h/t Olaya Argüeso Pérez + Mike Freeman]","https://civio.es/en/about-us/
https://datos.civio.es/dataset/acceso-a-la-reproduccion-asistida-en-europa/
https://datos.civio.es/dataset/reproduccion-asistida-que-costea-la-sanidad-publica-en-europa/
https://civio.es/medicamentalia/2021/11/02/ART-EU-access/
https://observablehq.com/collection/@civio/619-art-eu","https://unavezalmes.substack.com/p/agricultura-intensiva-madres-vetadas
https://twitter.com/mf_viz"
2021.12.15,4,Country leaders’ birthplaces.,"Axel Dreher et al.’s Political Leaders’ Affiliation Database lists the birthplaces and ethnicities of 1,109 leaders of 177 countries between 1989 and 2020. The birthplaces are described at several levels of administrative detail and are ascribed a latitude, longitude, and an indication of those coordinates’ precision. The ethnicities are drawn from external, linked sources. [h/t Simon Heß]","http://www.axel-dreher.de/Spouses.pdf
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2FYUS575",https://twitter.com/simonhhess/status/1448388780294090756
2021.12.15,5,1 million Bandcamp sales.,"Components’ Andrew Thompson has published a dataset of 1,000,000 sales on the music platform Bandcamp during a few weeks in late 2020. For each sale, it includes the item’s description, price, and type; the buyer’s country; a timestamp; and more. It’s a slice of the data used in “The Chaos Bazaar: An analysis of Bandcamp sales, 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2020.”","https://components.one/
https://twitter.com/asthompson
https://components.one/datasets/bandcamp-sales
https://bandcamp.com/
https://components.one/posts/bandcamp-the-chaos-bazaar",
2021.12.22,1,Tobacco habits.,"Every few years since 1992, the National Cancer Institute has sponsored the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, administered by the US Census Bureau. In addition to extensive demographic information, the supplement asks about historical tobacco usage (“Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?”), preferences (“Do you usually smoke menthol or non-menthol cigarettes?”), purchasing habits, e-cigarettes, and much more. Anonymized responses and documentation are available for all survey waves through 2018–19. Previously: The CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (DIP 2016.09.14). [h/t Christian Gunadi et al. + Kevin Lewis]","https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/
https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/tcrb/tus-cps
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/about/supplemental-surveys.html
https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/tcrb/tus-cps/questionnaires-data
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-09-14-edition/","https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34644338/
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/unhealthy-lifestyles"
2021.12.22,2,Working hours.,"Political scientist Magnus Bergli Rasmussen has compiled data on the regulation of laborers’ total work hours in nearly every country since 1789, available as a Stata file. For each year and territory, the dataset indicates whether such laws existed, the “normal” number of contractually-obligated weekly hours, the maximum number of hours allowed, and increases in pay for overtime. Read more: “The Great Standardization: Working Hours Around the World,” in which Rasmussen describes the dataset’s construction.","https://www.magnusbrasmussen.com/
https://twitter.com/RasmussenMagnus/status/1465629029982158848
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ie1zvkr7iht2i1j/public_workingtimedata.dta?dl=0
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356063579_The_Great_Standardization_Working_Hours_around_the_World",
2021.12.22,3,COVID-19 in European prisons.,"A collaboration coordinated by Deutsche Welle and the European Data Journalism Network has gathered data on the pandemic’s impact on prisoners and prison staff in dozens of European countries, including the number of COVID-19 tests, cases, and deaths over time. The data also note the types of preventative measures and vaccine policies in place. Previously: US prison COVID-19 data from the Marshall Project and AP (DIP 2020.05.06) and the New York Times (DIP 2021.04.21). [h/t Lorenzo Ferrari]","https://www.dw.com/en/data/t-43091100
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/How-Europe-s-prisons-have-fared-in-the-Covid-19-pandemic
https://github.com/dw-data/covid-prisons
https://www.dw.com/en/covid-how-europes-prisons-have-fared-in-the-pandemic/a-60006262
https://github.com/themarshallproject/COVID_prison_data
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-05-06-edition/
https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/prisons
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-04-21-edition/",https://twitter.com/lorferr
2021.12.22,4,California water wells.,"Domestic wells in the San Joaquin Valley “are drying up at an alarming pace” amid “a frenzy of new well construction and heavy agricultural pumping,” according to a Los Angeles Times article last week. Data reporter Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee’s analysis provides the quantitative backbone, drawing on three state datasets: well completion reports and periodic groundwater level measurements, both of which go back more than a century, and household water supply shortage reports since 2013.","https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-farms-water-wells-drought/
https://twitter.com/lamarr_lemee
https://github.com/datadesk/groundwater-analysis
https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/well-completion-reports
https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/periodic-groundwater-level-measurements
https://data.ca.gov/dataset/household-water-supply-shortage-reporting-system-data",
2021.12.22,5,Toothbrushing.,"Zawar Hussain et al. recorded data from 120 electric and manual toothbrushing sessions, using sensors attached to the brush handle and brusher’s wrist. Each session’s data files trace the sensors’ positions over time and indicate the brush type, participant’s gender, age, and handedness, and more.","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921005321
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/hx5kkkbr3j/",
2021.12.29,1,Local mortality and the 1918 pandemic.,"Martin Eiermann, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, et al. have conducted an analysis of deaths before, during, and after the 1918 influenza pandemic, drawing on “data from multiple sources, including digitized mortality records for 70 U.S. cities, linked census records that establish urban residency status across multiple censuses” and newspaper accounts of non-pharmaceutical interventions. The team’s published files includes a dataset that, for each city-and-year, lists the mortality rate overall, for white vs. non-white residents, and due to flu/pneumonia; a range of demographic variables; the timing of certain interventions; and more.","https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zf6wy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-pharmaceutical_intervention_(epidemiology)
https://osf.io/njghd/",
2021.12.29,2,Religious congregations.,"The Association of Religion Data Archives, founded in 1997, “strives to democratize access to the best data on religion.” Among its resources are four waves of the National Congregations Study, a Duke University–based survey that asks US religious establishments about their denominational affiliation, buildings of worship, congregants, staffing, educational offerings, and more. Representatives from 5,300+ Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, and other congregations participated in the latest wave, conducted in 2018–19. [h/t Patricia Homan and Amy Burdette + Kevin Lewis]","https://www.thearda.com/
https://www.thearda.com/Archive/browse.asp
https://www.thearda.com/Archive/NCS.asp
https://sites.duke.edu/ncsweb/
https://sites.duke.edu/ncsweb/methodology/","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122421996686
https://nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/worship"
2021.12.29,3,COVID-era news layoffs.,"“At least 6,154 news organization workers, which includes both editorial and non-editorial staffers, were laid off beginning March 2020 through August 2021,” according to a new report from the Tow Center’s Gabby Miller. An interactive tracker provides a map and downloadable table of the layoffs and other cutbacks, listing each outlet’s name, medium, owner, and location; the cutback’s date, description, and category (layoffs, pay cuts, etc.); and source links. Related: The Washington Post Magazine’s Lost Local News issue.","https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/more-than-6150-news-workers-laid-off.php
https://towcenter.columbia.edu/
https://twitter.com/__gabbymiller
https://www.cjr.org/widescreen/covid-cutback-tracker.php
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2021/local-news-deserts-expanding/",
2021.12.29,4,Leaders’ economic persuasions.,"Political scientist Bastian Herre’s new Global Leader Ideology dataset “provides unprecedented coverage of chief executives’ [economic] ideologies across time and space,” classifying their approaches as leftist, centrist, rightist, or non-ideological in 182 countries, from 1945 to 2020. Read more: Herre’s introductory paper and Twitter thread.","https://www.bastianherre.com/
https://github.com/bastianherre/global-leader-ideologies
https://bb1fa620-fff9-4aa7-b146-7f71c3bf5bae.filesusr.com/ugd/654001_8c377a64fecb46cd84f76ee5d69c9edb.pdf
https://twitter.com/bbherre/status/1473681744964501522",
2021.12.29,5,Root traits.,"Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Fine-Root Ecology Database categorizes the root characteristics of 4,500+ plant species, as observed and published in scientific literature. The hundreds of types of traits relate to vessel density, root angles, lifespan, macronutrients, microbial symbionts, and more.","https://roots.ornl.gov/
https://roots.ornl.gov/traits/map
https://roots.ornl.gov/plant-species
https://roots.ornl.gov/data-sources
https://roots.ornl.gov/data-inventory",
2022.01.05,1,Civil asset forfeiture.,"“Most states and the federal government have laws allowing police and prosecutors to seize and permanently keep Americans’ cash, cars, homes and other property suspected of being involved in a crime — without regard to the owners’ guilt or innocence,” the nonprofit law firm Institute for Justice writes in its third edition of Policing for Profit, published in 2020. The report gathers and analyzes datasets on property seized in dozens of states through this practice of civil asset forfeiture, and on the spending of forfeiture funds. It also examines seizures from the federal Consolidated Asset Tracking System, detailed public extracts of which the Department of Justice updates quarterly. As seen in: “Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do” (The Why Axis, 2021), and “Stop and Seize” (Washington Post, 2014).","https://ij.org/about-us/
https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/
https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/policing-for-profit-data/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/major-information-systems-consolidated-asset-tracking-system
https://www.justice.gov/afp/freedom-information-act
https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff-from-people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/",
2022.01.05,2,Joint military exercises.,"Jordan Bernhardt’s Joint Military Exercises Dataset describes 5,000+ such operations undertaken between 1977 and 2016, drawn from historical news reports. The dataset lists each exercise’s name, location, when it began and ended, the countries that participated, activities involved, and more. Related: Brandon J. Kinne’s Defense Cooperation Agreement Dataset, a “comprehensive, human-coded dataset” covering bilateral defense treaties between 1980 and 2010.","https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/HXQFHU
https://www.brandonkinne.com/
https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/defense-cooperation-agreement-dataset",
2022.01.05,3,Medical drug names.,"To build their International Drug Dictionary, Mohammad A. Khaleel et al. collected trade names and ingredient names “from open access websites belonging to official drug regulatory agencies, official healthcare systems, or recognized scientific bodies from 44 countries around the world,” among other sources. Each of the 450,000+ entries maps a name to standardized ingredient information from the National Library of Medicine’s RxNorm database.","https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/9nmgzttxhm/1
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921009768
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/index.html",
2022.01.05,4,Foundation shades.,"For “The Naked Truth,” a Pudding article published last year with Ofunne Amaka, Amber Thomas scraped information about 6,800+ foundation shades from the websites of two major cosmetics retailers. The project’s datasets identify each product’s name, description, URL, and the predominant RGB/HSL color value in its swatch image.","https://pudding.cool/2021/03/foundation-names/
https://ofunneamaka.com/about-ofunneamaka/
https://amber.rbind.io/
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/foundation-names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV",
2022.01.05,5,Honey bees.,"Since the 1980s, the US Department of Agriculture has conducted an annual Bee and Honey Inquiry Survey, which generates estimates of “the number of colonies producing honey, yield per colony, honey production, average price, price by color class and value as well as honey stocks at the state and national levels.” Since 2016, it has also published annual reports that examine the gain and loss of colonies, including losses due to colony collapse disorder.","https://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Bee_and_Honey/
https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/hd76s004z?locale=en
https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/rn301137d?locale=en
https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/br/ccd/index/",
2022.01.12,1,Slaveholders in Congress.,"At least “1,715 members of Congress were enslavers at some point in their adult lives,” according to a Washington Post investigation published Monday. Reporter Julie Zauzmer Weil began her research with a list of every person who ever served in the House or Senate, filtered it to those born before 1840, and then consulted their biographies, Census records, and other historical documents. The Post’s public dataset, the first of its kind, lists the congressmen from that era, their dates of birth, positions held in Congress, states served, dates served, and whether the Post determined they were slaveholders. For 677 of the congressmen, the Post “couldn’t reach a conclusion” and is seeking assistance from readers.","https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/
https://twitter.com/juliezweil
https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators
https://bioguide.congress.gov/
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/submit-congress-enslaved-database/",
2022.01.12,2,Pension plans.,"Public Plans Data, a collaboration led by Boston College professor Alicia H. Munnell, gathers extensive information about the retirement plans that state and local governments offer their employees, drawn from those plans’ annual financial reports. The project maintains a range of datasets, including two decades of participation and financial figures for 200+ plans that account for “95 percent of public pension membership and assets nationwide,” their investments, early payout options, and more. It also provides interactive tools and an API.","https://publicplansdata.org/
https://publicplansdata.org/about/our-research
https://publicplansdata.org/about/bios/munnell/
https://publicplansdata.org/resources/download-avs-cafrs/
https://publicplansdata.org/public-plans-database/download-full-data-set/
https://publicplansdata.org/resources/interactive-tools/
https://publicplansdata.org/public-plans-database/api/",
2022.01.12,3,Journal editors.,"For his Open Editors project, Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher scrapes the websites of scholarly journals, extracting the names, affiliations, and roles of their listed editors and board members. The project’s dataset contains half a million associations between editors and 6,000+ scholarly journals from 22 publishers (17 mainstream and 5 “predatory”). Read more: Nishikawa-Pacher et al.’s introductory working paper. And: “Why researchers created a database of half a million journal editors” (Nature Index, 2021).","https://openeditors.ooir.org/
https://twitter.com/andrepacher
https://github.com/andreaspacher/openeditors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jvzq7/
https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/researchers-created-database-half-million-journal-open-editors",
2022.01.12,4,Radio on the internet.,"Radio-browser.info is “a community driven effort (like wikipedia) with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible.” The 29,000+ stations span 200+ countries and 280+ languages. You can explore them on a map, through an API, and via bulk database snapshots. [h/t jlkuester7]","https://www.radio-browser.info/
https://www.radio-browser.info/countries
https://www.radio-browser.info/languages
https://www.radio-browser.info/map
https://api.radio-browser.info/
https://backups.radio-browser.info/",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728030
2022.01.12,5,Chocolate bar reviews.,"The Manhattan Chocolate Society’s Brady Brelinski has reviewed 2,500+ bars of craft chocolate since 2006, and compiles his findings into a copy-paste-able table that lists each bar’s manufacturer, bean origin, percent cocoa, ingredients, review notes, and numerical rating. Related: Craft chocolate makers in the US and Canada, also compiled by Brelinski. [h/t Andrew Maranhão]","http://flavorsofcacao.com/mcs_index.html
http://flavorsofcacao.com/contact.html
http://flavorsofcacao.com/review_guide.html
http://flavorsofcacao.com/chocolate_database.html
http://flavorsofcacao.com/usa_craft_makers.html
http://flavorsofcacao.com/canadian_craft_makers.html",https://www.kaggle.com/andrewmvd/chocolate-ratings
2022.01.19,1,More political emails.,"Derek Willis, a journalism lecturer with an expertise in political data, has published a searchable, downloadable database of 100,000+ email messages received in recent years by an address he created for this purpose, and “which I routinely plug into forms I find on candidate and committee sites.” The database, which Willis plans to update weekly, lists each message’s timestamp, sender, subject line, and body. Previously: The Princeton Corpus of Political Emails (DIP 2021.06.23), the Markup’s collection of 5,000+ campaign emails (DIP 2020.03.04, and DCInbox’s congressional e-newsletter collection (DIP 2021.03.03). [h/t jcberk]","https://twitter.com/derekwillis
https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/derek-willis
https://createsend.com/t/t-97F63A7D578A8F0B2540EF23F30FEDED
https://political-emails.herokuapp.com/
https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1480657382703312901
https://electionemails2020.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-06-23-edition/
https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-wheres-my-email
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-03-04-edition/
https://www.dcinbox.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-03-03-edition/",https://pinboard.in/u:jcberk
2022.01.19,2,Foreign commerce interventions.,"The Global Trade Alert, launched in 2009, “provides timely information on state interventions taken since November 2008 that are likely to affect foreign commerce,” such as new subsidies, export quotas, import tariffs, or anti-dumping laws. Its downloadable dataset describes 33,000+ interventions, listing their types, implementing jurisdictions, affected jurisdictions, affected products, and more. The project, affiliated with the University of St. Gallen, has also started tracking interventions that affect digital commerce. [h/t Simon Evenett and Johannes Fritz]","https://www.globaltradealert.org/
https://www.globaltradealert.org/about
https://www.globaltradealert.org/data_extraction
https://www.unisg.ch/en/wissen/newsroom/aktuell/rssnews/forschung-lehre/2020/november/stgallen-endowment-for-prosperity-through-trade-26november2020
https://www.globaltradealert.org/digital_policy",https://voxeu.org/article/subsidies-and-market-access-new-data-and-findings-global-trade-alert
2022.01.19,3,Commuting zones.,"Decades ago, the USDA Economic Research Service developed a methodology to group the nation’s counties into hundreds of “commuting zones,” based on the Census’s journey to work data. Those groupings are available from the agency (for 1980, 1990, and 2000), and from researchers at Penn State (for those years plus 2010). More recently, Facebook/Meta has developed its own methodology for estimating commuting zones, using location data collected from its users. The project’s public dataset spans the world and specifies the zones not as sets of counties but as detailed, custom boundaries.","https://www.ers.usda.gov/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuting_zone
https://www.census.gov/topics/employment/commuting.html
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commuting-zones-and-labor-market-areas/
https://sites.psu.edu/psucz/
https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/commuting-zones
https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/docs/methodology-commuting-zones
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/commuting-zones",
2022.01.19,4,Tech support scams.,"From 2018 to 2021, the now-shuttered PopupDB Project collected information about tech support scams and their deceptive browser popups. Its maintainers have since released two final downloads: a “light” dataset that lists the URLs and web hosts of 11,000+ such popups, and a “full” database that includes screenshots and source code. [h/t NeeP]","https://github.com/choozn/PopupDB-Data/
http://web.archive.org/web/20210307114123/https://popupdb.org/
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-spot-avoid-and-report-tech-support-scams
https://github.com/choozn/PopupDB-Data/tree/main/databases
https://popupdb.org/downloads",https://twitter.com/NeePscambaiting/status/1415040785515491329
2022.01.19,5,Wordle words.,"You might have heard of Wordle. The game’s 2,315 possible answers and 12,972 permitted guesses are not an enormous secret, being embedded in its viewable source code. The Riddler’s Zach Wissner-Gross, for instance, has extracted those word lists into two spreadsheets.","https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wordle-has-turned-fans-of-word-games-into-argumentative-strategy-nerds-11641831311
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/11/wordle-creator-overwhelmed-by-global-success-of-hit-puzzle
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/how-wordle-went-viral-strategy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/13/wordle-perfect-pandemic-game-together/
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-riddler/
https://twitter.com/xaqwg
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-the-riddler-met-wordle/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-M0RIVVZqbeh0mZacdAsJyBrLuEmhKUhNaVAI-7pr2Y/edit#gid=0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KR5lsyI60J1Ek6YgJRU2hKsk4iAOWvlPLUWjAZ6m8sg/edit#gid=0",
2022.01.26,1,Redistricting.,"US decennial redistricting is well underway, with redrawn legislative maps approved in the majority of states. FiveThirtyEight, Politico, and The Washington Post have all built graphics tracking the process and its likely effects on Congress. The Redistricting Data Hub, a project of the Fair Representation in Redistricting Initiative, has been gathering states’ proposed and approved maps (e.g., California’s, from its commission), as well other datasets useful for analyzing the changes. All About Redistricting, a resource founded by Loyola Law School’s Justin Levitt, also publishes state mapping data, as well as a downloadable table describing who controls each state’s redistricting process.","https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/redistricting-tracker-map/
https://redistrictingdatahub.org/
https://redistrictingdatahub.org/about/about-us/#whoweare
https://redistrictingdatahub.org/dataset/2021-california-congressional-districts-approved-plan/
https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/final_maps
https://redistrictingdatahub.org/data/about-our-data/
https://redistricting.lls.edu/
https://redistricting.lls.edu/about/my-work/
https://redistricting.lls.edu/mapdownload/?sortby=-updated&page=1
https://redistricting.lls.edu/national-overview/?colorby=Institution&level=Congress&cycle=2020",
2022.01.26,2,SARS-CoV-2 in local sewage.,"Biobot Analytics, a wastewater epidemiology company, has been partnering with local governments to monitor sewage for traces of coronavirus. Their public dashboard and downloadable data provide weekly estimates of the number of SARS-CoV-2 genome copies per milliliter of wastewater — at a national and regional level, and for 31 of the participating communities (some with data more recent than others). Read more: “In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge” (The New York Times). [h/t Dave Pell]","https://biobot.io/
https://biobot.io/data/
https://github.com/biobotanalytics/covid19-wastewater-data
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/health/covid-omicron-wastewater-sewage.html",https://mailchi.mp/davenetics/bz8u3c8oic
2022.01.26,3,Collective bargaining.,"The US Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s stated mission “is to preserve and promote labor-management peace and cooperation.” It also publishes spreadsheets of data submitted through its Form F-7, which employers and unions must file when they can’t agree on modifying or ending a collectively bargained contract. The spreadsheets, which go back to 2015, list the employer and union’s name and location, their industry, the size of the bargaining unit, and a few other details. Previously: Union elections (DIP 2021.05.05) and voluntary recognition (DIP 2021.09.22). [h/t Dan Bauman]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Mediation_and_Conciliation_Service_(United_States)
https://www.fmcs.gov/aboutus/
https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/documents-and-data/#tab-d3d7f5344cef9bab4d3
https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/forms-applications/notice-of-bargaining-f-7/
https://www.nlrb.gov/reports/graphs-data/recent-election-results
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-05-05-edition/
https://github.com/labordata/nlrb-voluntary-recognitions
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-09-22-edition/",https://twitter.com/danbauman77
2022.01.26,4,European gas storage.,"The industry group Gas Infrastructure Europe publishes data on daily fuel storage levels at its members’ facilities. For each facility, and aggregated to the provider and country level, the data indicate the amount of fuel in storage, the percent capacity that represents, fuel added and withdrawn, and more. As seen in: “Earlier Than Ever, European Gas Storage Is Half-Empty” (Bloomberg). [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]","https://www.gie.eu/
https://agsi.gie.eu/
https://agsi.gie.eu/#/faq
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-13/gazprom-tweets-about-european-gas-shortages-it-may-be-creating",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-18-2022/
2022.01.26,5,Whaling.,"WhalingHistory.org, a collaboration between the Mystic Seaport Museum and the New Bedford Whaling Museum, revolves around a series of interconnected databases. They include every known American whaling voyage between the 1700s and 1920s, entries from 1,381 of their logbooks, and some of their crew lists, plus records from British and French voyages. [h/t u/cavedave]","https://whalinghistory.org/
https://mysticseaport.org/
https://whalingmuseum.org/
https://whalinghistory.org/databases/
https://whalinghistory.org/av/voyages/
https://whalinghistory.org/av/logs/aowl/
https://whalinghistory.org/av/crew/",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/ma66az/whaling_history_data/
2022.02.02,1,Abortion facility distances.,"Caitlin Knowles Myers, an economist with a focus on reproductive policy, has compiled a dataset that calculates — for every county in the contiguous US, every month between January 2009 and June 2021 — the distance you would have to travel to the nearest abortion facility. Researchers can also request access to Myers’s underlying database of the facilities themselves. As described in her working paper, “Measuring the Burden: The Effect of Travel Distance on Abortions and Births,” Myers gathered the information from a range of sources, including state licensing databases, facility websites, and Planned Parenthood directories. As seen in: “Abortions could require 200-mile trips if Roe is overturned” (Axios). [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]","https://cmyers.middcreate.net/
https://cmyers.middcreate.net/scholarship/
https://osf.io/8dg7r/
https://osf.io/tj4ud/
https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/14556
https://www.axios.com/distance-abortion-roe-supreme-court-texas-17ae0d8c-7882-408c-b6f9-bf6ece0f22a2.html",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-7-2021/
2022.02.02,2,Chinese technology companies abroad.,"Mapping China’s Tech Giants, a project relaunched by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute last year, examines the overseas expansion of 27 major Chinese technology companies, from Alibaba to ZTE. The project’s dataset includes 3,900+ entries, each describing and locating an operation or connection abroad. They’re grouped into a couple dozen categories, such as commercial partnerships, overseas offices, data centers, 5G relationships, training, and donations. [h/t Samantha Hoffman]","https://chinatechmap.aspi.org.au/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Strategic_Policy_Institute
https://chinatechmap.aspi.org.au/#/data/",https://twitter.com/He_Shumei/status/1402114458793635844
2022.02.02,3,House committee witnesses.,"Political scientists Lauren C. Bell and J.D. Rackey have compiled a spreadsheet of 435,000+ people testifying before the US House of Representatives from 1971 to 2016. They began with a text file scraped from a ProQuest database, provided by the authors of a dataset that focused on social scientists’ testimony (DIP 2020.12.23). Then, they determined each witness’s first and last name; type of organization; the committee, date, title, and summary of the relevant hearing; and more. [h/t Derek Willis]","https://www.rmc.edu/departments/political-science/faculty/lauren-bell
https://jdrackey.com/
https://www.rmc.edu/departments/political-science/faculty/lauren-bell/dataset-information
https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/ProQuest-Congressional-Hearings-Digital-Collection/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230104
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-12-23-edition/",https://twitter.com/derekwillis
2022.02.02,4,Immigrant populations in 1900.,"The 1900 US Census’s public report includes a table counting the foreign-born residents of each state and territory — overall and disaggregated into a few dozen origins, which range from subdivisions of countries (Poland is split into “Austrian,” “German,” “Russian,” and “unknown” columns) to entire continents (“Africa”). It’s officially available as a low-resolution PDF. Reporters at Stacker, however, recently transcribed it into a CSV file for easier use. [h/t Emilia Ruzicka]","https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/decennial-publications.1900.html
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1900/volume-1/volume-1-p13.pdf
https://stacker.com/
https://github.com/stacker-media/data/tree/main/1900-census-immigrant-state
https://github.com/stacker-media/data/blob/main/1900-census-immigrant-state/1900-census-immigrant-pop-state.csv",https://emiliaruzicka.com
2022.02.02,5,Borrowed words.,"The World Loanword Database, a project from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, examines how languages have borrowed words from each other. For 41 historical and contemporary languages, it lists 1,000–2,500 words, experts’ judgment of whether they were borrowed, from what language, and other etymological details. Previously: The World Atlas of Language Structures (DIP 2016.01.06). [h/t blopeur]","https://wold.clld.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Evolutionary_Anthropology
https://wold.clld.org/terms
https://wals.info/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-01-06-edition/",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29867638
2022.02.09,1,People affected by Trump’s travel ban.,"On January 27, 2017, then–President Trump issued an executive order suspending entry to the United States by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries. For a recent, year-long HuffPost investigation, reporter Rowaida Abdelaziz led a team that collected and categorized the stories of 874 people affected by the travel ban, such as those who separated from a parent or child. An anonymized spreadsheet indicates the types of loss each person experienced, their nationalities, and other relevant details. Related: Between September 2019 and January 2021, the State Department published monthly, cumulative statistics about visa applications affected by later versions of the travel ban, but only as PDF reports. [h/t David Vine]","https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump%27s_immigration_executive_order_issued_January_27,_2017
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-travel-ban-muslims-changed-lives_n_61e86498e4b01f707dabbdcd
https://twitter.com/Rowaida_Abdel
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11w02tTBHguxfQljb2--fN-c3kEaiSpHhnpW6CYkBgQY/edit#gid=135755090
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/presidential-proclamation-archive/presidential-proclamation9645.html?wcmmode=disabled",http://www.davidvine.net/
2022.02.09,2,Erasmus exchanges.,"The European Union publishes data on the movement of students, staff, and trainees through its Erasmus+ exchange program. The most recent dataset covers academic years 2014–15 through 2019–20, detailing the international transfer of millions of participants. Each row lists a combination of variables and the number of participants who matched that description. The variables include the field of education, participant gender and nationality, duration of the exchange, sending and receiving cities and organizations, and more. As seen in: Erasmus a dos velocidades (El Confidencial). [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]","https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&catalog=eac&query=erasmus&page=1&sort=issued%2Bdesc,%20relevance%2Bdesc,%20title.en%2Basc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme
https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/erasmus-mobility-statistics-2014-2019-v2?locale=en
https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/europa/2021-12-28/erasmus-dos-velocidades-programa-ue-desigualdad_3348913/",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-4-2022/
2022.02.09,3,National climate funds.,"Boston University’s Rishikesh Ram Bhandary has constructed an inventory of national funds for financing action on climate change. The dataset, which you can download or browse interactively, currently covers 46 funds in 39 developing countries. It lists each fund’s title, year established, source of funding, host entity, scope, and more.","https://www.bu.edu/gdp/profile/rishikesh-ram-bhandary/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2027223
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/National_climate_funds_a_new_dataset_on_national_financing_vehicles_for_climate_change/18865640
https://www.bu.edu/gdp/national-climate-funds-tracker/",
2022.02.09,4,Sites that support HTTPS.,"DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption project provides a big text file that lists every website that the company knows supports HTTPS, the internet encryption protocol. The list contains 31+ million entries, updated via a web crawler. Related: Last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation began incorporating the data into its HTTPS Everywhere browser extension. (It has since announced plans to retire the decade-in-service extension, now that “HTTPS is truly just about everywhere.”) [h/t Giulio Magnifico]","https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-smarter-encryption/
https://github.com/duckduckgo/smarter-encryption
https://www.eff.org/about
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/https-everywhere-now-uses-duckduckgos-smarter-encryption
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywhere",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821333
2022.02.09,5,Board games.,"BoardGameGeek users have submitted millions of ratings over the past two decades, judging tens of thousands of games. The website provides an API that lets you search for games and retrieve detailed information about their attributes and ratings. As seen in: “Diving into BoardGameGeek,” by Jesse van Elteren, who crawled the API to compile a dataset of 19 million ratings from 410,000+ users. [h/t Jordan Isip]","https://boardgamegeek.com/
https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/ratings
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/designing-the-best-board-game-on-the-planet/
https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame/
https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/BGG_XML_API2
https://jvanelteren.github.io/blog/2022/01/19/boardgames.html
https://jvanelteren.github.io/blog/
https://www.kaggle.com/jvanelteren/boardgamegeek-reviews",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040739
2022.03.09,1,Refugees fleeing Ukraine.,"The UN’s refugee agency last week launched a data portal tracking the arrival of refugees from Ukraine in other countries. The daily-updated maps, charts, and structured data provide counts and estimates of arrivals by date, by receiving country, and overall. Related: The UN’s Refugee Population Statistics Database, which “contains information about forcibly displaced populations spanning more than 70 years of statistical activities.”","https://www.unhcr.org/news/announc/2022/3/621f5e334/launch-unhcr-data-portal-ukraine-refugee-situation.html
https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine
https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics-uat/",
2022.03.09,2,International crises.,"The International Crisis Behavior Project, initiated in 1975, collects detailed data about interstate military-security crises such as the Mukden Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. The project’s datasets and online catalog, now in their 14th version, have come to cover 487 crises between 1918 and 2017. The dozens of variables include the start and end dates, type of triggering event, centrality of violence, use of mediation, type of outcome, and more. Related: The International Crisis Behavior Events project, developed by a separate group of researchers, has translated the sub-events within ICB’s summaries into structured data. [h/t Lynn Cherny]","https://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/
https://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/project-info/
http://www.icb.umd.edu/dataviewer/?crisno=39
http://www.icb.umd.edu/dataviewer/?crisno=196
http://www.icb.umd.edu/dataviewer/?crisno=471
https://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/data-collections/
http://www.icb.umd.edu/dataviewer/
https://www.crisisevents.org/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07081",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas
2022.03.09,3,Foreign ministry statements.,"The FOCUSdata project, led by New Jersey City University’s National Security Studies Department, has compiled English-language statements and articles from the foreign ministries and state media in Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran. Many of the collections span more than a decade, and typically extend to 2019 or 2020. The project also presents interactive charts showing estimated sentiment trends and topic frequencies. [h/t Graig Klein + Juste Codjo]","https://focusdataproject.com/
https://www.njcu.edu/academics/schools-colleges/college-professional-studies/departments/professional-security-studies
https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article/18/2/orac002/6527272
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/focusdataproject","https://twitter.com/GraigKlein/status/1493617381712834564
https://twitter.com/J_Codjo/status/1493627145645703172"
2022.03.09,4,Prison COVID policies.,"Between April 2020 and April 2021, researchers at the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project gathered 3,500+ policy announcements from federal and state prison agencies in the US. Their Prison Policy Index spreadsheet, published earlier this year, describes the announcements they gathered through April 2021. It indicates the state, date publicized, and date collected, and provides an archival link, a short summary, and a series of columns classifying the policies announced.","https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/
https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/policy-index
https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/prison-policy-index",
2022.03.09,5,Medieval prices.,"The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank, an effort that dates back to the 1980s, contains six datasets relating to currency exchanges, prices, wages, and textile production in Europe “circa 800-1815 C.E.” The records, which have been compiled from prior publications (such as a statistical compendium of grain sales in Cologne), can be queried online or downloaded in bulk. [h/t Vlad Zavidovych + Mirko Lorenz]","https://memdb.libraries.rutgers.edu/
https://memdb.libraries.rutgers.edu/metz-prices
https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA8150","https://medium.com/@zavidovych/what-we-can-learn-by-looking-at-prices-and-wages-in-medieval-england-8dc207cfd20a
https://blog.datawrapper.de/medieval-prices-wages/"
2022.03.16,1,European energy imports/exports.,"The EU’s Eurostat office publishes a range of statistical datasets on energy usage and economics, including annual imports and exports of petroleum, natural gas, and coal between European countries and their trading partners. Related: The Energy Information Administration tracks US imports and exports of petroleum, natural gas, and coal. As seen in: How Europe is dependent on Russian gas (New Statesman) and Why the Toughest Sanctions on Russia Are the Hardest for Europe to Wield (New York Times). Previously: European gas storage (DIP 2022.01.26), state-owned oil companies (DIP 2019.05.01), and global and gas infrastructure (DIP 2018.06.06). [h/t Lisa Charlotte Muth]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostat
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg.nrg_quant.nrg_quanta.nrg_t.nrg_ti&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg.nrg_quant.nrg_quanta.nrg_t.nrg_te&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925
https://www.eia.gov/
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/data.php#imports
https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/data.php#imports
https://www.eia.gov/coal/data.php#imports
https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-day/2022/02/how-europe-is-dependent-on-russian-gas
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/business/economy/russia-europe-sanctions-gas-oil.html
https://agsi.gie.eu/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-01-26-edition/
https://www.nationaloilcompanydata.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-05-01-edition/
https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/global-oil-gas-features-database
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-06-06-edition/",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-march-1-2022/
2022.03.16,2,Ukraine border crossing sites.,"The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Ukraine has combined information from multiple sources to create a geospatial dataset of the country’s international border crossings with Moldova (11 crossings listed), Poland (8), Hungary (5), Romania (4), and Slovakia (2). It provides each crossing’s latitude, longitude, border country, and name in both Ukrainian and English. The associated metadata indicates an “expected update frequency” of weekly.","https://www.unocha.org/ukraine
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ukraine-border-crossings",
2022.03.16,3,Conspiracy theory language.,"Alessandro Miani et al. have built a dataset to study the language of conspiracy theories. Starting with a set of phrases associated with major conspiracy theories (e.g., those surrounding Princess Diana’s death), the authors searched online for sources that mentioned them often, ultimately selecting 150 websites — both mainstream and conspiracy-laden — that met their criteria. Then, in mid-2020, they collected 72,000+ topical articles from those sites. For each article, the project includes its text, lexical features, and metadata. [h/t Gwern Branwen]","https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-021-01698-z
https://osf.io/snpcg/",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/rzufy9/loco_the_88millionword_language_of_conspiracy/
2022.03.16,4,ISS photo locations.,"In 2013, Nathan Bergey crawled NASA’s website of International Space Station imagery, creating a dataset that listed the mission, roll, frame, latitude, and longitude of each of the million-plus photographs ever taken from the habitable satellite. Related: NASA itself also provides tools for searching, browsing, and mapping ISS imagery. [h/t Sasha Trubetskoy]","https://natronics.org/
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
https://natronics.github.io/ISS-photo-locations/
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-Lightcycle.pl?results=Latest_ISS_Imagery
https://issearthserv.jsc.nasa.gov/i4.html",https://twitter.com/sasha_trub/status/1466961926441914372
2022.03.16,5,Software sunsets.,"The website endoflife.date tracks “end of life” dates and “support lifecycles” for roughly 100 software products — languages, frameworks, operating systems, and more. It indicates, for example, that Python 3.10 appeared in October 2021 and will lose security support in October 2026. You can access the project’s machine-readable data through its GitHub repository and API.","https://endoflife.date/
https://endoflife.date/python
https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/tree/master/products
https://endoflife.date/docs/api",
2022.03.23,1,HealthCare.gov plans.,"A series of datasets from the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services describes all the plans available through the government’s health insurance marketplace. The information resembles that available through HealthCare.gov, but is provided as structured, downloadable files. The datasets describe the costs, benefits, networks, service areas, and other aspects of 27,000+ plans offered by hundreds insurers in 2022, plus similar data for each year since 2014. [h/t Qiang Liu et al. + Kevin Lewis]","https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Data-Resources/marketplace-puf
https://www.healthcare.gov/","https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3966751
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/healing-powers"
2022.03.23,2,Political apologies.,"The Political Apologies Database, part of a broader research project on the theme,  is “an inventory of political apologies offered by states or state representatives to a collective for human rights violations that happened in the recent or distant past.” The current version describes 300+ apologies offered between 1947 and 2021, indicating the countries and officials who offered them, the countries and groups that received them, classifications of the apologized-for violations, and other context. Read more: “Examining the ‘age of apology,’” a study summarizing the researchers’ findings. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://www.politicalapologies.com/?page_id=74
https://www.politicalapologies.com/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00223433211024696
https://www.politicalapologies.com/?page_id=234",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/177cde6b811e08867e24c00f42ea8a58112d04f0
2022.03.23,3,Border changes.,"The CShapes 2.0 dataset “maps the borders and capitals of independent states and dependent territories from 1886 to 2019,” and includes the specific dates of each change. It’s available in a range of formats and as an interactive graphic. Read more: Guy Schvitz et al. describe the dataset’s creation and how it compares to others. Related: Steven V. Miller’s Territorial Change dataset, which “records all peaceful and violent changes of territory from 1816-2018.” [h/t Mojmír Polák + Scott F. Abramson et al.]","https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/
https://cshapes.ethz.ch/
https://icr.ethz.ch/publications/cshapes-2/
http://svmiller.com/
https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/territorial-change","https://twitter.com/Pmojmir/status/1481577831582736384
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/historical-border-changes-state-building-and-contemporary-trust-in-europe/363B969350A764C68914A48276B44252"
2022.03.23,4,PISA results and responses.,"Through tests and questionnaires, the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment examines the math, science, and reading proficiency, learning environments, and attitudes of hundreds of thousands 15-year-olds in dozens of countries around the world. Its public datasets include students’ results and responses from seven assessment waves, dating from 2000 to 2018. As seen in: “Sex differences in adolescents’ occupational aspirations: Variations across time and place,” a study using 2018 PISA data. [h/t Xan Gregg]","https://www.oecd.org/pisa/
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/pisa-participants.htm
https://www.oecd.org/pisa/data/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261438",https://twitter.com/xangregg
2022.03.23,5,Born-digital artworks.,"In 1999, the new-media-art nonprofit Rhizome launched ArtBase, “an archive of born-digital artworks.” Last year, it relaunched the project as a linked data resource, allowing you run complex and detailed queries across the collection’s 2,200+ entries.","https://rhizome.org/
https://artbase.rhizome.org/
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/apr/26/the-artbase-relaunches-welcome-to-linked-open-data/
https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/About#Linked_Open_Data
https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Query",
2022.03.30,1,WHO outbreak alerts.,"The World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News provides “information on confirmed acute public health events or potential events of concern,” with reports issued when those events meet certain criteria. Colin J. Carlson et al. have assembled a dataset of all 2,700+ reports published between January 1996 and December 2019; it includes report metadata (date and headline, for example), as well as variables drawn from the descriptive text, such as the diseases discussed, countries affected, case counts, whether the report implicates mass gatherings, and more.","https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272790v1
https://github.com/cghss/dons",
2022.03.30,2,Census tract urbanization.,"Studies of US urbanization often examine census tracts, but those boundaries have changed over time and are relatively new in many parts of the country. To aid longitudinal analyses, Scott N. Markley et al. have taken 2010’s tract boundaries and used several techniques to estimate the number of housing units within them every decade from 1940 to 2010, plus 2019. The dataset also estimates each tract’s “urbanization year,” when it surpassed 200 units per square mile. Read more: An introductory Twitter thread. Related: The Longitudinal Tract Data Base, which also provides historical estimates of housing units (and other Census variables) matched to 2010 tracts, going back to 1970.","https://twitter.com/snmarkley/status/1502268920593592321
https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/tracts_and_block_numbering_areas.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01184-x
https://osf.io/fzv5e/
https://twitter.com/snmarkley/status/1502234165521092610
https://s4.ad.brown.edu/Projects/Diversity/Researcher/Bridging.htm",
2022.03.30,3,Local digital news.,"Project Oasis, which aims to “map and showcase the growing number of locally focused digital news publications in the U.S. and Canada,” has collected data on 700+ such organizations. Its downloadable, browsable dataset describes their ownership, tax status, years in operation, communities served, and other characteristics. A parallel effort is underway in Europe, with plans to publish a final report in early 2023. [h/t Hacks/Hackers]","https://www.projectnewsoasis.com/
https://www.projectnewsoasis.com/publications
https://www.sembramedia.org/projectoasis/",https://mailchi.mp/hackshackers/nicar-is-back
2022.03.30,4,Research organizations.,"The Research Organization Registry is “a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world.” Earlier this month, the project published its first “independent” release, expanding on data seeded from a prior initiative. It contains the names, location, contact information, and other structured information for 100,000+ organizations.","https://ror.org/
https://zenodo.org/record/6347575
https://ror.org/blog/2022-03-17-2022-first-independent-release/
https://www.digital-science.com/press-release/grid-passes-torch-to-ror/
https://ror.readme.io/docs/ror-data-structure",
2022.03.30,5,Teenagers on TV.,"In search of “a better understanding of the age differences between teen characters in TV shows and the actors who portray them,” Amber Thomas last year manually compiled data on 240+ characters in 33 series that premiered between 2000 and 2021. For each character, Thomas’s dataset lists their name, fictional age/grade, gender, and love interests, as well as the actor’s name and birth date.","https://amber.rbind.io/
https://data.world/amberthomas/age-of-characters-and-actors-in-teen-tv-shows",
2022.04.06,1,COVID-19 therapeutics.,"The US Department of Health & Human Services’ COVID-19 Therapeutics Locator tracks which pharmacies, hospitals, and other facilities have received government-procured COVID-19 drugs, and how much they have left. The therapeutics include one preventative antibody combination (Evusheld) and several treatments (bebtelovimab, molnupiravir, Paxlovid, and, until its distribution was recently paused, sotrovimab). The underlying dataset contains 39,000+ entries, one for each facility-therapeutic combination; they list the facility’s name and location, the drug, the number of courses available, and the time of the last update. As seen in: Rob Relyea’s locators with current and historical data. [h/t Betsy Ladyzhets]","https://covid-19-therapeutics-locator-dhhs.hub.arcgis.com/
https://aspr.hhs.gov/COVID-19/Therapeutics/Products/Evusheld/Pages/default.aspx
https://aspr.hhs.gov/COVID-19/Therapeutics/Products/Bebtelovimab/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/investigation-MCM/molnupiravir/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/investigation-MCM/Paxlovid/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/investigation-MCM/Sotrovimab/Pages/default.aspx
https://healthdata.gov/Health/COVID-19-Public-Therapeutic-Locator/rxn6-qnx8/
https://github.com/rrelyea
https://rrelyea.github.io/",https://coviddatadispatch.com/2022/02/20/featured-sources-february-20/
2022.04.06,2,The 1950 Census.,"After 72 years of mandated confidentiality, the US government on Friday released “over 165 terabytes” of microfilm digitized from the 1950 decennial Census. You can search the scans, which include millions of population schedules (the sheets that contain the details recorded about each household and resident), plus maps and descriptions of the survey’s enumeration districts. You can also download the raw images and metadata files. [h/t Eric Gardner + Michael E. Ruane]","https://1950census.archives.gov/
https://1950census.archives.gov/search/
https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1950/faqs
https://1950census.archives.gov/howto/finding-aids.html
https://www.archives.gov/developer/1950-census","https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gardner-0531aa9/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/30/census-data-1950-secret-unveiled/"
2022.04.06,3,Electric vehicle registrations.,"The US Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center hosts dozens of vehicle-related datasets, including the number of electric vehicle registrations in each state in 2020, hybrid sales by model from 1999 to 2019, and a database of manufacturers’ offerings. As seen in: “U.S. Has a Blueprint to Electrify Its Country Roads” (Bloomberg Opinion). Previously: Alt-fuel stations (DIP 2021.09.08). [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]","https://afdc.energy.gov/data/categories/vehicles--2
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10962
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10301
https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/search/
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-22/u-s-has-a-blueprint-to-electrify-its-country-roads-for-evs
https://afdc.energy.gov/stations/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-09-08-edition/",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-25-2022/
2022.04.06,4,Military alliances.,"The Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions project, based at Rice University, examines “the content of military alliance agreements signed by all countries of the world between 1815 and 2018.” Its dataset covers 760+ alliances, their various phases, and membership, with variables speaking to the formation, duration, obligations, and other aspects of the arrangements. [h/t Ashley Leeds]","http://www.atopdata.org/
http://www.atopdata.org/data.html",https://twitter.com/BAshleyLeeds/status/1336317522518347776
2022.04.06,5,White sharks.,"A collaboration led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium has published a dataset of location, pressure, light, and temperature measurements gathered from trackers attached to dozens of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) that researchers tagged off the coast of Southern California. The project ran from 2001 to 2020, when its “present and future status was adversely affected” by pandemic-related budget cuts. [h/t Sharon Machlis]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01235-3
https://portal.atn.ioos.us/#metadata/6e2ba85c-2f61-4bc5-8c2b-34d6734155ed/project",https://twitter.com/sharon000
2022.04.13,1,Constitutions.,"The Comparative Constitutions Project, a nonprofit originally launched at the University of Illinois in 2005, “produces comprehensive data about the world’s constitutions.” Its downloadable datasets cover both chronology (years of creation, amendment, dissolution, and other events from 1789 to 2019) and characteristics (hundreds of variables on topics ranging from citizenship and electoral oversight to whether the text discusses a national flag or motto). A sibling site, Constitute, provides annotated text of all national constitutions currently in force, as well as Linked Data files and an API. As seen in: André Borges’s dataset tracking presidential powers in 79 democracies with elected presidents. [h/t Florian Hollenbach]","https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/
https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/about-ccp/
https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/download-data/
https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/chronology/
https://www.constituteproject.org/
https://constituteproject.org/constitutions?lang=en&status=in_force
https://www.constituteproject.org/content/data?lang=en
https://andreborges.org/
https://andreborges.org/datasets/",https://twitter.com/fhollenbach/status/1489532506093334529
2022.04.13,2,EU asylum.,"The European Union requires members to submit a range of asylum-related figures to Eurostat, which it then compiles into standardized datasets. These include monthly and annual counts of asylum applications submitted, pending, withdrawn, processed under the EU’s “accelerated procedure,” and filed by unaccompanied minors, disaggregated by age, sex, and citizenship. As seen in: “Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees with an asylum system that averages more than 15 months of delay,” published by Civio.es, with data and an Observable notebook. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/migr_asyapp_esms.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostat
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/popul?lang=en&subtheme=migr.migr_asy
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/Is-the-EU-s-asylum-system-ready-to-welcome-Ukrainian-refugees
https://datos.civio.es/dataset/meses-de-retraso-en-la-resolucion-de-solicitudes-de-asilo-en-la-ue/
https://observablehq.com/@civio/682-backlog-in-asylum-applications-in-the-european-union-as",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/463-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2022.04.13,3,Critical infrastructure density.,"Sadhana Nirandjan et al. have developed “a first-of-its-kind globally harmonized spatial dataset” representing the density of critical infrastructure, built with OpenStreetMap data (and noting its limitations). The researchers selected 39 kinds of structures (railways, landfills, pharmacies, etc.), grouped into seven categories: education, energy, health, telecommunication, transportation, waste, and water. Then they calculated those categories’ concentrations at 0.10°- and 0.25°-grid resolutions. Previously: US infrastructure, from the Department of Homeland Security (DIP 2016.03.02). [h/t Arthur Turrell]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01218-4
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01218-4#Sec16
https://github.com/snirandjan/CISI
https://zenodo.org/record/4957647
https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-03-02-edition/",http://aeturrell.com/
2022.04.13,4,Brazilian news outlets.,"Atlas da Notícia (⎘English homepage) aims to catalog Brazil’s print, online, television, and radio news outlets. Created by the Instituto para o Desenvolvimento do Jornalismo and Volt Data Lab, the dataset’s 14,000+ entries list each outlet’s name, medium, distribution frequency, municipality, state, open/closed status, and (in some cases) approximate staff size. [h/t Marcelo Fontoura + Sérgio Spagnuolo]","https://www.atlas.jor.br/
https://www.atlas.jor.br/en/
https://www.projor.org.br/en
https://voltdata.info/en/
https://www.atlas.jor.br/dados/app/","https://twitter.com/mdafontoura
https://twitter.com/sergiospagnuolo"
2022.04.13,5,Carnivore diets.,"Owen Middleton et al.’s CarniDIET 1.0 provides “data on the diet compositions for 103 species of terrestrial, carnivorous mammals from (mostly) peer-reviewed scientific papers.” Each of its 29,000+ rows represents a “diet record,” describing a component of the species’ consumption, for a particular population, geography, and study. [h/t finphil]","https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13296
https://github.com/osmiddleton/CarniDIET-Database",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637450
2022.04.20,1,Rare diseases.,"Orphanet, established in 1997 by the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, “aims to provide high-quality information on rare diseases,” defined as those affecting no more than 1 in 2,000 people in Europe. You can search the diseases, relevant drugs, patient organizations, and other resources. The affiliated Orphdata provides public downloads and an API for certain data, including disease prevalence, symptoms, and genetic links. Related: Orphanet and the European Bioinformatics Institute have developed a structured vocabulary defining relevant terms and their relations to one another. [h/t Simona Gamba et al. + Kevin Lewis]","https://www.orpha.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inserm
https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Disease_Search_List.php?lng=EN
https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Disease.php?lng=EN
https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Drugs.php?lng=EN
https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/SupportGroup.php?lng=EN
http://www.orphadata.org
https://github.com/Orphanet/Orphadata_aggregated
https://api.orphadata.com/
http://www.orphadata.org/cgi-bin/epidemio.html
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/ordo","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629621001077
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/careful"
2022.04.20,2,Solar panels.,"The Berkeley Lab’s Tracking the Sun project examines US trends in residential and small non-residential solar panel installations. Its latest report describes more than 2 million such projects, based on records provided by state governments, utility companies, and other organizations. It features an interactive dashboard, summary tables, and a public dataset that lists each installation’s location, capacity, price, cost rebated, owner type, installer, physical orientation, component details, and other characteristics. A companion report and dataset examine utility-scale solar plants. [h/t Ed Vine]","https://www.lbl.gov/about/
https://emp.lbl.gov/tracking-the-sun
https://emp.lbl.gov/tracking-sun-tool
https://emp.lbl.gov/utility-scale-solar",https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347
2022.04.20,3,Electoral interventions.,"Political scientist Dov H. Levin’s Partisan Electoral Intervention by the Great Powers dataset describes 117 attempts by the US and Russia/USSR to influence foreign elections between 1946 and 2000, drawing on congressional investigations, declassified histories, academic publications, and other sources. For each election, it indicates the intervening nation(s), whether their acts were overt or covert, whether they involved campaign funding, and more. Related: Lucan A. Way and Adam E. Casey’s dataset of Russian electoral interventions from 1991 to 2017. [h/t @Idl3]","https://www.dovhlevin.com/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0738894216661190
https://www.dovhlevin.com/datasets
https://politics.utoronto.ca/faculty/profile/95/
https://adamecasey.com/
https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP/BYRQQS
https://www.ponarseurasia.org/russian-foreign-election-interventions-since-1991/",https://twitter.com/Idl3/status/1508112516009926656
2022.04.20,4,Open source security.,GitHub recently open-sourced its database of open source–related security advisories. Now the public can download its full contents and contribute additions and improvements. The database uses a standardized schema that Google staff introduced last year and that other major services have adopted; the osv.dev project aggregates their reports. [h/t Grey Baker],"https://github.blog/2022-02-22-github-advisory-database-now-open-to-community-contributions/
https://github.com/advisories
https://github.com/github/advisory-database
https://ossf.github.io/osv-schema/
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/06/announcing-unified-vulnerability-schema.html
https://github.com/ossf/osv-schema#open-source-vulnerability-schema
https://osv.dev/",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480862
2022.04.20,5,Spider news.,"Stefano Mammola et al. have “compiled an expert-curated global database on the online newspaper coverage of human-spider encounters” from 2010 to 2020, spanning 5,300+ articles from 81 countries. The database provides the location of each encounter, plus information about the “presence of photographs of spiders and bites, number and type of errors, consultation of experts, and a subjective assessment of sensationalism.” Read more: “The global spread of (mis)information on spiders,” by the researchers.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01197-6
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Global_Spider_News_Database/14822301
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1383492/v1",
2022.04.27,1,Earmarks.,"The US government’s spending bill for FY 2022, enacted last month, heralded the return of earmarks, which were banned for a decade. This time around, Congress is publishing a set of documents that describe legislators’ specific funding requests — but as sideways PDFs instead of structured data. So the Bipartisan Policy Center has converted the PDFs into a spreadsheet listing the 4,975 approved earmarks within them. Bloomberg Government has also compiled and shared a similar spreadsheet. Both files list each earmarked project’s name, recipient, state, and price tag, as well as the legislator(s) who made the request and the subcommittee that approved it; BPC’s file additionally includes the location, agency, agency-account, and legislators’ Bioguide IDs. [h/t First Branch Forecast]","https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2471
https://www.axios.com/congressional-earmarks-new-constraints-44b0551d-bdfc-4e1e-b465-e1d2962c90b7.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark_(politics)
https://appropriations.house.gov/transparency/fiscal-year-2022
https://twitter.com/danielschuman/status/1511322851932000260
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/congressionally-directed-spending-fy2022-dataset/
https://about.bgov.com/news/colleges-cops-airports-among-earmark-winners-in-2022-funding/
https://www.congress.gov/help/field-values/member-bioguide-ids",https://firstbranchforecast.com/2022/04/11/first-branch-forecast-for-april-11-2022-fox-on-stocks/
2022.04.27,2,Intermediate care facilities.,"In the US, intermediate care facilities provide residential, long-term care to people whose intellectual or developmental disabilities require active treatment and continuous supervision. On Monday, colleagues at BuzzFeed News published an investigation into one of the largest ICF owners, supplemented by an analysis of inspection data gathered through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ QCOR portal. (Disclosure: I helped to write an initial version of the data-collection code.) The records, available in bulk for the first time, enumerate surveys conducted between 2010 and 2021, the facilities examined, and the types of deficiencies inspectors found. [h/t John Templon]","https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/CertificationandComplianc/ICFIID
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/kkr-brightspring-disability-private-equity-abuse
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2022-04-icf-analysis
https://qcor.cms.gov/
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2022-04-icf-analysis/tree/main/data/qcor
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2022-04-icf-analysis#survey-data",https://twitter.com/jtemplon/status/1518551383833731072
2022.04.27,3,"More county-level, COVID-related mortality data.","The CDC provides provisional, county-level mortality data for 2018 to the near-present (DIP 2021.12.15), but requires you to build specific, targeted queries. So researchers at Documenting COVID-19 used the agency’s WONDER API to gather key stats for every county, such as breakdowns of deaths among causes the CDC says are commonly comorbid with COVID-19, and have shared them in a downloadable repository. [h/t Betsy Ladyzhets + Juan Francisco Saldarriaga]","https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-12-15-edition/
https://documentingcovid19.io/
https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/WONDER-API.html
https://github.com/MuckRock/uncounted_data/tree/main/data/race_ethnicity_and_cause_breakdowns
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2022/apr/04/muckrock-and-the-documenting-covid-19-project/
https://github.com/MuckRock/uncounted_data","https://betsyladyzhets.com/
https://www.juanfrans.com/"
2022.04.27,4,Alpine snow.,"Michael Matiu et al. (2021) compiled a dataset of daily snowfall and snow depths at 2,000+ measurement stations in the European Alps, spanning the years 1970 to 2019. They gathered records from open data portals and through requests to authorities in five countries, standardized them into a consistent format, and filled in gaps where possible. [h/t Olivier Lejeune]","https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/1343/2021/
https://zenodo.org/record/5109574",https://dataisthenewoil.substack.com/p/data-is-the-new-oil-04032021-update
2022.04.27,5,The meta-Dataverse.,"The Dataverse project is an open-source platform for data sharing. (This newsletter has linked to dozens of Dataverse-hosted datasets, mostly on the original Harvard Dataverse.) It offers an API for fetching metadata on each known installation and the datasets within them, which project member Julian Gautier has been using to assemble and update bulk snapshots.","https://dataverse.org/
https://dataverse.org/about
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/
https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/index.html
https://dataverse.org/metrics
https://scholar.harvard.edu/juliangautier/home
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DCDKZQ",
2022.05.04,1,Wastewater treatment plants.,"The HydroWASTE dataset, developed by McGill University geographers and engineers, describes 58,000+ wastewater treatment plants around the world and links them to downstream river networks. Compiled from national and regional sources, HydroWASTE lists each facility’s name, country, status, estimated or official population served, geocoordinates, estimated discharge location, level of treatment, volume of discharge, and more. The US accounts for the most entries, with 14,000+, followed by Germany, Italy, France, and Brazil. [h/t Michael F. Meyer + Noemi Vergopolan]","https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/HydroWASTE_version_1_0/14847786/1
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/559/2022/
https://www.hydrosheds.org/hydroatlas","https://twitter.com/mishafredmeyer/status/1499422901380038656
https://twitter.com/NVergopolan/status/1499765836189356033"
2022.05.04,2,"COVID and wastewater, continued.","Earlier this year, DIP featured wastewater sampling data from Biobot Analytics, which partners with local governments to monitor SARS-CoV-2 in sewage. Since then, the CDC has launched and expanded a wastewater surveillance module within its COVID data tracker, displaying historically-relative virus concentrations from hundreds of sampling sites that participate in the agency’s National Wastewater Surveillance System; you can also download the data in bulk. Read more: Betsy Ladyzhets, who runs the COVID-19 Data Dispatch (the source of most of the links above), recently examined the state of wastewater monitoring for FiveThirtyEight and interviewed a Twin Cities scientist about it. Also: “The Role of Wastewater Data in Pandemic Management,” a report from The Rockefeller Foundation and partners.","https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-01-26-edition/
https://github.com/biobotanalytics/covid19-wastewater-data
https://coviddatadispatch.com/2022/02/06/the-cdc-is-finally-publishing-wastewater-data-but-only-ten-states-are-well-represented/
https://coviddatadispatch.com/2022/02/06/the-cdc-is-finally-publishing-wastewater-data-but-only-ten-states-are-well-represented/
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#wastewater-surveillance
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/surveillance/wastewater-surveillance/wastewater-surveillance.html
https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/NWSS-Public-SARS-CoV-2-Wastewater-Data/2ew6-ywp6
https://betsyladyzhets.com/
https://coviddatadispatch.com/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-national-fight-against-covid-19-isnt-ready-to-go-to-the-sewers/
https://coviddatadispatch.com/2022/04/24/how-one-wastewater-plant-became-a-leading-covid-19-forecasting-source/
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/report/the-role-of-wastewater-data-in-pandemic-management/",
2022.05.04,3,Regulatory agencies.,"GlobalReg, a research group at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, studies “the spread of independent regulatory agencies worldwide.” Among its publications: a dataset of 799 such agencies, spanning 100+ countries and 17 sectors. It lists each agency’s name, country, and sector as of 2010; groups each into one of six typological “clusters”; and scores them on political independence, public accountability, managerial autonomy, and regulatory capabilities.","https://www.globalreg.info/
https://www.ibei.org/en/the-institution_25976
https://www.globalreg.info/who-we-are.html
https://www.globalreg.info/institutional-features-of-regulatory-agencies.html",
2022.05.04,4,NC corporate landlords.,"At least 40,000 single-family homes in North Carolina are owned by only roughly 20 investment corporations, according to a new investigation by The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer. In some neighborhoods, the companies own one-fifth of all such homes. To reach these findings, reporters used manual research and machine learning to compile a now-public dataset of the companies, their subsidiaries, and the parcels they control. The parcel file draws substantially on data from OneMap, a state initiative to standardize county property records. [h/t Tyler Dukes]","https://www.newsobserver.com/topics/security_for_sale
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/topics/security_for_sale
https://github.com/mcclatchy-southeast/security_for_sale
https://www.nconemap.gov/pages/parcels",https://twitter.com/mtdukes/status/1520735400897265666
2022.05.04,5,Bats in caves.,"Krizler C. Tanalgo et al.’s DarkCideS “is by far the largest database for cave-dwelling bats,” providing “geographical location, ecological status, species traits, and parasites and hyperparasites for 679 bat species,” plus 6,700+ observation records from 2,000+ caves in 40+ countries. Read more: An introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Renata Muylaert + Colin J. Carlson]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01234-4
https://darkcides.org/
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Metadata_for_DarkCideS_1_0_a_global_database_for_bats_in_karsts_and_caves/16413405
https://twitter.com/tkrizler/status/1511341433856606212","https://twitter.com/MuyRe/status/1511450863659020288
https://twitter.com/wormmaps/status/1511492549768355844"
2022.05.11,1,Drugs for rare diseases.,"The US Orphan Drug Act of 1983 provided incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop treatments for rare diseases. The Food and Drug Administration reviews applications for treatments seeking this “orphan” status, decides whether to designate them as such, and maintains a database of all 6,000+ designations since 1983. The database lists each treatment’s generic name, trade name (if any), “sponsor” company, designated use(s), date(s) of designation, and whether/when the FDA approved it for sale. Previously: Rare disease data from Orphanet (DIP 2022.04.20) and the FDA’s “Orange Book” of drug approvals (DIP 2017.03.08). [h/t Simona Gamba et al. + Kevin Lewis]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Drug_Act_of_1983
https://www.fda.gov/industry/orphan-products-development-events/story-behind-orphan-drug-act
https://www.fda.gov/patients/rare-diseases-fda
https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/office-clinical-policy-and-programs/office-orphan-products-development
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/opdlisting/oopd/
https://www.orpha.net/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-04-20-edition/
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/approved-drug-products-therapeutic-equivalence-evaluations-orange-book
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-03-08-edition/","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629621001077
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/careful"
2022.05.11,2,LGBTQI+ elected officials.,"The Queer Politics at Princeton research program has assembled an international map and database of 1,000+ officials elected since the 1970s “who publicly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, gender-non-conforming, queer or intersex.” The project focuses on candidates elected to national, state, and mayoral offices. Entries indicate each official’s name, country, party affiliation, level of government, position held, year first elected, sexual and gender identity, whether they were out when first elected, the year they came out, and more. [h/t Tom Smith]","https://queerpolitics.princeton.edu/
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/04/25/new-scholarly-database-publicly-identifying-lgbtqi-elected-officials-across-globe
https://queerpolitics.princeton.edu/data",https://twitter.com/TomSmit18350119/status/1518631589072318465
2022.05.11,3,Tornadoes.,"Although the primary mission of the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center is forward-looking, the center also provides historical maps, charts, and datasets. Among them: the Severe Weather Database, which contains all tornado reports for the contiguous US from 1950 to 2020, plus major hail storms and “damaging wind” events since 1955. It lists each incident’s date, starting and ending locations, intensity, injury count, fatality count, property loss, and more. [h/t Kaylan Patel + Luke LeBel]","https://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/aboutus.html
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/","https://twitter.com/WxPatel/status/1523049198836346880
https://twitter.com/LebelLuke/status/1523055110758281218"
2022.05.11,4,Mask-wearing on NYC transit.,"Since June 2020, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has surveyed mask usage in a sample of subways and at its busiest bus stops. The results, available to view and download, indicate the number of people observed (nearly 5 million so far) during each biweekly survey cycle and the percentages of them found to be wearing a mask correctly, incorrectly, or not at all. [h/t Kevin Duggan + Betsy Ladyzhets]","https://new.mta.info/safety-and-security/nyct-mask-compliance
https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/MTA-Subway-and-Bus-Mask-Compliance-Statistics-Begi/ijxr-nffj","https://www.amny.com/transit/subway-mask-slip-new-low-despite-mandate/
https://coviddatadispatch.com/2022/04/03/sources-and-updates-april-3/"
2022.05.11,5,Milwaukee house styles.,"Milwaukee’s Master Property File, first assembled in 1975, “contains more than 90 elements of data describing each of the approximately 160,000 properties in the city.” The elements include each home’s city-assessed architectural style — Tudor, for instance, or Cape Cod, or bungalow. As seen in: This story-map by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, based on an analysis by John D. Johnson. [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]","https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/mprop
https://www.jsonline.com/in-depth/news/local/2022/03/31/milwaukee-home-styles-architecture-reveal-citys-history-bungalows-craftsman-duplex/6835671001/
https://github.com/jdjohn215/milwaukee-house-styles
https://johndjohnson.info/",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-april-5-2022/
2022.05.18,1,Religion and government.,"To compile the Government Religious Preference dataset, researchers scrutinized primary documents and secondary sources “for information on the existence, origination, change, or discontinuation of a law or policy directed toward” any of 30 religious denominations in 200+ countries. Then they assessed the degree to which those policies reflected institutional favor or disfavor across 28 variables, themselves grouped into “five broad components of state-religion”: official status, financial support, regulatory burdens, religious education, and free exercise. The project provides individual and composite scores for each country-year-denomination, from as early as 1800 through 2015. Related: Country-level religious demographics, from the same principal investigators. [h/t Ariel Zellman and Davis Brown]","https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/GRPCOMP.asp
https://www.thearda.com/archive/files/codebooks/origCB/GRP%202.0%20Codebook.pdf
https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/GRPOFFCL.asp
https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/GRPFINSP.asp
https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/GRPREG.asp
https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/GRPRELED.asp
https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/GRPFREE.asp
https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/RCSDEM2.asp",https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IWXIDL
2022.05.18,2,Municipal pandemic responses.,"The National League of Cities’ Local Action Tracker describes itself as “the most complete collection of municipal responses to COVID-19.” It contains information about 4,800+ policies undertaken or planned in roughly 800 US cities between February 2020 and February 2022, listing each response’s date, policy area (e.g., housing, utilities, vaccinations), type of action (e.g., ordinance, emergency declaration), a brief description, and more. [h/t Joshua Pine]","https://www.nlc.org/about/
https://www.nlc.org/resource/covid-19-local-action-tracker/",https://nightingaledvs.com/telling-the-story-of-urban-innovation-and-pandemic-response-with-data/
2022.05.18,3,Open data governance.,"To develop the Global Data Barometer, a network of local experts and regional organizations evaluated “the state of data for public good” in 109 countries between May 2019 and May 2021. The project’s initial results, released last week as a report and downloadable dataset, reflect 60,000+ of their observations, which focused on data governance and capabilities, plus the availability and use of data on specific topics, such as public finance, climate action, and company ownership. [h/t cat cortes]","https://globaldatabarometer.org/
https://globaldatabarometer.org/the-global-data-barometer-report-first-edition/
https://globaldatabarometer.org/open-data/
https://globaldatabarometer.org/module/governance/
https://globaldatabarometer.org/module/capabilities/
https://globaldatabarometer.org/research/countries-and-themes/
https://globaldatabarometer.org/module/public-finance/
https://globaldatabarometer.org/module/climate/
https://globaldatabarometer.org/module/company/",https://www.catc0r.com/
2022.05.18,4,Europe prison populations.,"The Council of Europe publishes annual statistical reports on prison populations and facilities, based on surveys sent to its member states. The council publishes most of the data only in the report PDFs, but does provide HTML tables of country-level inmate counts and facility capacity from 2018 to 2022. As seen in: A Civio.es-led analysis of pretrial detention rates, for which reporters extracted (and have shared) the numbers of untried and unsentenced prisoners in early 2021. [h/t Olaya Argüeso Pérez]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe
https://wp.unil.ch/space/space-i/annual-reports/
https://wp.unil.ch/space/space-i/prison-stock-on-1-january/
https://wp.unil.ch/space/space-i/prison-stock-on-1-january/prison-stock-on-1-january-2018/
https://wp.unil.ch/space/space-i/prison-stock-on-1-january/prison-stock-on-1st-january-2022/
https://civio.es/2022/05/10/use-and-abuse-of-preventive-detention-in-the-european-union/
https://datos.civio.es/dataset/porcentaje-de-personas-en-prision-provisional-en-2020/",https://twitter.com/oargueso
2022.05.18,5,Banknote people.,"The visual essay “Who’s in Your Wallet?” examines the famous faces that appear on 38 countries’ paper money. To do that, Alejandra Arevalo and Eric Hausken built a dataset describing 279 person-banknote combinations. It lists the banknote’s currency and value, plus the person’s name, gender, profession, year first on the bill, year deceased, and more. Related: Wikipedia’s lists of people on banknotes and on coins.","https://pudding.cool/2022/04/banknotes/
https://alejandra-arevalo.com/
https://twitter.com/EricHausken
https://github.com/the-pudding/banknotes/tree/master/src/data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_banknotes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_coins",
2022.05.25,1,Supercomputers.,"Since 1993, a team of researchers has regularly assessed the most powerful computers in the world. The resulting TOP500 lists are published twice a year, in June and November, using a performance benchmark developed by team member Jack Dongarra, who became a Turing Award laureate this year. Downloadable versions indicate each supercomputer’s name, rank, location, manufacturer, year built, power consumption, technical specifications, and more. As seen in: “The race to build the fastest supercomputer,” by Datawrapper’s Edurne Morillo, who recommends visiting Barcelona’s MareNostrum, which ranked 74th on the latest list and is housed in a former chapel.","https://www.top500.org/project/authors/
https://www.top500.org/
https://www.top500.org/project/linpack/
https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/march/turing-award-2021
https://blog.datawrapper.de/the-race-to-build-the-fastest-supercomputer/
https://twitter.com/EdurneMG
https://www.bsc.es/marenostrum/marenostrum
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2021/11/",
2022.05.25,2,Infrastructure permitting.,"The US government’s Federal Infrastructure Permitting Dashboard tracks the “environmental review and authorization processes for large or complex infrastructure projects,” particularly those funded by the Department of Transportation and those participating in a voluntary review-coordination effort known as FAST-41. The dashboard’s full dataset describes 12,000+ milestones relating to nearly 1,000 projects, roughly half of which have been completed. Online, you can search across projects and browse their characteristics and timetables.","https://www.permits.performance.gov/
https://www.permits.performance.gov/about
https://www.epa.gov/sustainability/fast-41-coordination
https://data.permits.performance.gov/Permitting-Project/Permitting-Dashboard-Full-Dataset/mcm3-xbid
https://www.permits.performance.gov/projects",
2022.05.25,3,European election results.,"Dominik Schraff et al. have built EU-NED, a dataset that harmonizes European election results at a subnational level, providing party vote totals for 31 countries’ NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 geographic units. The dataset covers 1990 to 2020 and uses party identifiers from PartyFacts (DIP 2019.01.16), making it easier to link the records to other projects. [h/t Christian Breuer]","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13540688221083553
https://eu-ned.com/
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/background
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IQRYP5
https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-01-16-edition/",https://twitter.com/chris_breu/status/1524486517103734786
2022.05.25,4,Moreno and Jennings’ sociograms.,"In the 1930s, Jacob Moreno and Helen Hall Jennings created a series of “sociograms” representing the seating preferences of grade-school classmates.  These graphics “are frequently considered as the first examples of social network analysis and visualization,” according to historian and network analysis practitioner Martin Grandjean, who has translated them into simple data files. [h/t Christian Miles + Jer Thorp]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_L._Moreno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hall_Jennings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociogram
http://www.martingrandjean.ch/social-network-analysis-visualization-morenos-sociograms-revisited/
http://www.martingrandjean.ch/
https://github.com/grandjeanmartin/sociograms","https://sourcetarget.email/editions/41/
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/living-in-data"
2022.05.25,5,Art Garfunkel’s library.,"The legendary folk singer’s official website includes a catalog of “every book Art has read since 1968.” It lists each book’s title, author, year published, month/year read, page count, and whether it was one of the musician’s favorites. Recently, AI engineer Corey Christensen converted the HTML pages into a downloadable dataset.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Garfunkel
https://www.artgarfunkel.com/
https://www.artgarfunkel.com/library.html
https://www.artgarfunkel.com/books.html
https://www.kaggle.com/chrico03
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/chrico03/art-garfunkels-library",
2022.06.01,1,"School shootings, continued.","The K-12 School Shooting Database, housed at the Naval Postgraduate School, “documents each and every instance a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time, day of the week.” It describes 2,000+ incidents from 1970 to the present and links them to information regarding 3,000+ victims killed and wounded, 2,200+ shooters, and 2,000+ weapons. Related: A few years ago, CNN compiled a dataset of 180 school shootings from 2009 to 2018, focusing on incidents where at least one person was shot. Previously: Data on school shootings from The Washington Post (DIP 2018.04.25), and on mass shootings from The Violence Project, Gun Violence Archive, and Mother Jones (DIP 2021.03.24, DIP 2015.12.09). [h/t Michael A. Rice + Sam Petulla]","https://www.chds.us/ssdb/
https://www.chds.us/ssdb/about/
https://www.chds.us/ssdb/methods/
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/07/us/ten-years-of-school-shootings-trnd/
https://github.com/cnnlabs/cnn-school-shooting-data
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-school-shootings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/school-shootings-database/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-04-25-edition/
https://www.theviolenceproject.org/mass-shooter-database/
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-03-24-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-12-09-edition/",https://twitter.com/spetulla
2022.06.01,2,"Congress, consolidated.","CongressData, published last month by political scientists at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, “compiles information about all US congressional districts,” the legislators representing them, and those legislators’ policymaking behavior (such as committee memberships and number of bills sponsored). The dataset spans 1789-2021, although many of the variables (such those derived from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey) are only available for more recent years. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://congress.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/
https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1527287170515410945
https://ippsr.msu.edu/about-ippsr
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IPPSR/congressData/main/congress_codebook_1.pdf",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/c32e833d777b5f2ffd1a9056abcb87632df13834
2022.06.01,3,Wind and solar power.,"The Global Energy Monitor’s Global Wind Power Tracker is “a worldwide dataset of utility-scale wind facilities,” focusing on those with planned or installed capacities of at least 10 megawatts. It provides each facility’s name, location, status, capacity, installation type, owner, and other details. The project launched last week alongside a sibling dataset, the Global Solar Power Tracker. They join a growing collection of trackers from the organization, including those examining coal infrastructure, steel plants, and oil and gas resources. [h/t Nathaniel Hoffman]","https://globalenergymonitor.org/about/our-story/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-wind-power-tracker/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/press-release/new-trackers-showing-country-by-country-build-out-of-utility-scale-solar-and-wind/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-solar-power-tracker/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/about/our-story/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-tracker/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-steel-plant-tracker/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-oil-gas-extraction-tracker/",https://twitter.com/paleomedia
2022.06.01,4,Olympic accounting.,"Martin Müller et al. have compiled a dataset of the costs and revenues of three recurring “mega-events”: the Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and FIFA Men’s World Cup. For each event between 1964 and 2018, it indicates the number of athletes, number of accredited media, venue costs, organization costs, ticketing revenue, broadcast revenue, and sponsorship revenue.","https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3873972
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mega-events;jsessionid=ac44ac785d9741f492283c74df49
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/F0MNC9",
2022.06.01,5,“What Middletown Read.”,"Thanks to the discovery of “a collection of dusty ledgers” in 2003, researchers have built a database of (nearly) every checkout from Muncie, Indiana’s public library from November 1891 to December 1902. The project, a collaboration between the library and Ball State University, takes its name from a famous sociological study that pseudonymized Muncie as Middletown. Previously: Seattle Public Library checkouts since 2005 (DIP 2017.03.01). [h/t Matt Brown]","https://lib.bsu.edu/wmr/about.php
https://lib.bsu.edu/wmr/index.php
https://www.bsu.edu/Academics/CentersandInstitutes/Middletown.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown_studies
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2016/oct/18/view-from-middletown-us-muncie-america
https://shelftalkblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/for-the-love-of-data-an-open-data-release/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-03-01-edition/",https://twitter.com/mattbrown_econ
2022.06.08,1,Six decades of House primaries.,"In 2014, Stephen Pettigrew, Karen Owen, and Emily Wanless published a dataset of all Democratic and Republican primary election results for the US House of Representatives between 1956 and 2010. It indicates each election’s year, state, redistricting status, primary system (open, closed, semi-open, multiparty), and more. The dataset also lists each candidate’s name, gender, prior office, and votes received. In 2020, Michael G. Miller and Nicki Camberg published a follow-up dataset, adding coverage for 2012 through 2018. It uses the same variable names and structure as the earlier dataset, so that the two files can be easily combined.","https://www.stephenpettigrew.com/
https://www.westga.edu/profile.php?emp_id=91943
https://www.augie.edu/academics/majors-and-programs/government-and-international-affairs/political-science/faculty
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/26448
https://www.michaelgmiller.com/
https://twitter.com/nickicamberg
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CXVMSY",
2022.06.08,2,Where college grads go.,"Johnathan Conzelmann et al. have created a dataset that estimates the geographic distribution of recent graduates from 2,600 US colleges and universities, calculated from information on the schools’ official LinkedIn landing pages. For each institution, the dataset indicates the proportions of alumni in each of the 278 specific US locations in LinkedIn’s geographic lexicon and cross-references them with government-defined metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas. Read more: An introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Sharon Machlis]","https://www.nber.org/papers/w30088
https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/170381/version/V3/view
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_core-based_statistical_areas
https://twitter.com/JohnConz/status/1531633773103677448",https://twitter.com/sharon000
2022.06.08,3,Hong Kong political prisoners.,"The Hong Kong Democracy Council, a US-based advocacy group, last month published the first version of its Hong Kong Political Prisoners Database, which contains information about 1,000+ protesters, opposition leaders, and national security law defendants incarcerated since the city’s pro-democracy mass protests in mid-2019. It lists each defendant’s age, arrest date, arrest location, conviction date, convicted offenses, sentencing date, sentence length, and other details. An accompanying report describes the database’s context and methodology. [h/t Samuel Bickett]","https://hkdc.us/about/
https://hkdc.us/political-prisoners-latest-update/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_national_security_law
https://hkdc.us/political-prisoners-research-report/",https://twitter.com/SamuelBickett/status/1528756196089507840
2022.06.08,4,Mercenaries.,"Ulrich Petersohn et al.’s Commercial Military Actor Database examines “the market for force” in 72 countries from 1980 to 2016. It contains information, primarily sourced from news reports, on thousands of contractual relationships between providers (mercenaries and private military/security companies) and their clients (governments, opposition groups, NGOs, and transnational corporations). The contracted work ranges “from combat services and support services (e.g., communication, maintenance), to logistics, security, consultancy, training, and reconstruction.”","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220027211072528
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/TOFZ09",
2022.06.08,5,Roman amphitheaters.,"Sebastian Heath, a professor of computational humanities and Roman archaeology, has constructed a dataset of 260+ amphitheaters in the Roman Empire. It provides the structures’ known names, coordinates, orientations, and capacities, among other characteristics, and links the entries to external data sources.","https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/faculty/isaw-faculty/sebastian-heath
https://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/20-13/
https://github.com/roman-amphitheaters/roman-amphitheaters",
2022.06.15,1,Consumer prices.,"The US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ widely-cited Consumer Price Index measures “the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.” In addition to overall averages, the index provides decades of detailed data on monthly price changes for hundreds of sub-baskets, ranging from broad groupings (e.g., apparel, housing, education) to narrower categories (e.g., frozen vegetables, window coverings, veterinarian services). [h/t Mike Reilley]","https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/data.htm
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/index-publication-level.htm",https://journaliststoolbox.substack.com/p/journalists-toolbox-business-part-ca8
2022.06.15,2,Incarceration and redistricting.,"The US Census counts prisoners as residing where they are incarcerated. In 2010, however, New York passed a law requiring the state to adjust these figures for redistricting purposes, reassigning people in state and federal prisons to their pre-incarceration addresses. Those adjusted counts, down to the Census block level, are available for 2010 and 2020. A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative and VOCAL-NY cross-references the 2020 data with the original Census numbers to determine state prison incarceration rates for each county, city, ZIP code, and other geographies. PPI says it plans to issue similar reports for other states that have enacted comparable reforms. [h/t Mike Wessler]","https://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/NYS_A9710-D.html
https://latfor.state.ny.us/data/?sec=2010amendpop
https://latfor.state.ny.us/data/?sec=2020amendpop
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ny/2020/report.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/about.html
https://vocal-ny.org/about-us/
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ny/2020/report.html#appendix
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ny/2020/county.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ny/2020/city.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ny/2020/zipcode.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/
https://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2021/10/26/state_count/",https://www.prisonpolicy.org/staff.html#wessler
2022.06.15,3,Drug combinations.,"Guy Shtar et al.’s Continuous Drug Combination Database identifies 17,000+ unique medical drug combinations that have generated clinical interest, “curated automatically” from ClinicalTrials.gov (DIP 2018.05.09), the FDA’s Orange Book (DIP 2017.03.08), and international patent records. The automated approach allows the database to be “continuously updated,” with new versions published weekly.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01360-z
https://icc.ise.bgu.ac.il/medical_ai/CDCDB/
https://clinicaltrials.gov/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-05-09-edition/
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/approved-drug-products-therapeutic-equivalence-evaluations-orange-book
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-03-08-edition/",
2022.06.15,4,Airplane laser incidents.,"“Aiming a laser at an aircraft is a serious safety risk and violates federal law,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which encourages flight staff and the public to submit reports of such incidents. The agency publishes annual spreadsheets of each reported incident since 2010, listing the date and time, flight number, aircraft model, altitude, local airport, laser color, and an injury indicator.","https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/lasers
https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/safety/report/laserinfo/
https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/lasers/laws",
2022.06.15,5,European royal families.,"In “A Network of Thrones,” economists Seth G. Benzell and Kevin Cooke describe building a dataset that links “European royal kinship networks, monarchies, and wars to study the effect of family ties on conflict” between 1495 and 1918. The kinship records come from Brian Tompsett’s Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, which covers “almost every ruling house in the western world.” Related: Andrej Kokkonen et al. have compiled a dataset of “royal offspring, siblings, and paternal uncles and aunts” for 27 European monarchies from 1000 to 1799. Previously: European monarchs (DIP 2019.06.19). [h/t Phenomenal World + Kevin Lewis]","https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180521
https://www.sethgbenzell.com/
http://kmcooke.weebly.com/
https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/117045/version/V2/view
https://www.hull.ac.uk/staff-directory/brian-tompsett
http://web.archive.org/web/20120505084622/http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/715065
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/M2E5OI
https://thebackend.dev/monarchs/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-06-19-edition/","https://www.phenomenalworld.org/sources/inextinguishable-fire/
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/course-of-human-events"
2022.06.22,1,Monkeypox cases.,"Global.health, a data-sharing initiative launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, has compiled a dataset of 2,500+ confirmed cases from this year’s monkeypox outbreak. Drawing from government and media sources, the dataset lists each case’s country and publicly known characteristics, such as the patient’s gender, age range, date of confirmation, and/or symptoms. As seen in: Charts and maps from the Global.health team and from Our World In Data.","https://global.health/
https://global.health/about/
https://github.com/globaldothealth/monkeypox
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON385
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CEBhao3rMe-qtCbAgJTn5ZKQMRFWeAeaiXFpBY3gbHE/edit#gid=0
https://www.monkeypox.global.health/
https://ourworldindata.org/monkeypox",
2022.06.22,2,Ukraine air raid alerts.,"Volodymyr Agafonkin, a Kyiv-based software engineer, has been scraping and charting the emergency notifications published through Air Alert Ukraine, a Telegram channel. The notifications serve as a digital counterpart to the sirens that warn residents of potentially-imminent Russian air attacks. Agafonkin’s dataset indicates the starting and ending times of 8,000+ alerts for 240 locations since March 15. Read more: An interview with Agafonkin in How To Read This Chart, a Washington Post newsletter.","https://agafonkin.com/
https://observablehq.com/@mourner/sirens
https://t.me/air_alert_ua
https://observablehq.com/@mourner/sirens#data
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?s=62addaedcfe8a21601b1353a
https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/how-to-read-this-chart/",
2022.06.22,3,Central bank interest rates.,"The Bank for International Settlements maintains a longitudinal dataset of policy interest rates, which central banks adjust to influence inflation and other aspects of the economy. The dataset, which includes both official policy rates and analogous precursors, covers three dozen countries plus the European Central Bank. The records span decades, going as far back as 1946 for Denmark, India, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK; 1954 for the US; 1960 for Canada; and 1976 for Australia.","https://www.bis.org/about/index.htm
https://www.bis.org/statistics/cbpol.htm
https://www.focus-economics.com/economic-indicator/policy-interest-rate",
2022.06.22,4,Inclusive crossword names.,"In a post for The New York Times’ Gameplay section, psychology professor Erica Hsiung Wojcik describes her motivations for creating the Expanded Crossword Name Database, “a free and regularly updated list of names, places and things that represent groups, identities and people often excluded from crossword grids,” with a particular focus on “names of women, non-binary, trans, and/or people of color.” It contains 2,400+ potential entries — from AALIYAH to ZORANEALEHURSTON — that correspond to 900+ distinct proper nouns, each briefly described in the project’s main spreadsheet. [h/t George Ho]","https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/crosswords/wojcik-diverse-crossword-puzzles.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/crosswords/introducing-gameplay.html
https://twitter.com/ewojcik
https://sites.google.com/view/expandedcrosswordnamedatabase/home
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fc6thrwFTPKwP0PlBTvzKjfiGlnM37JXLPaR8_In3fw/edit#gid=578940851",https://www.georgeho.org/
2022.06.22,5,NYC tree plantings.,"New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation publishes a map and dataset of recent and likely-upcoming street tree plantings. The information includes each location’s coordinates, nearest street address, ZIP code, city council district, and borough, as well as the dates of completed plantings. Previously: Every street tree in NYC (DIP 2016.11.16). [h/t Soph Warnes]","https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/street-tree-planting/locations
https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-11-16-edition/",https://twitter.com/sophiewarnes
2022.06.29,1,State abortion laws.,"The Guttmacher Institute, a “research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights,” maintains a table summarizing each US state’s abortion laws. It examines key aspects of the legal landscape — such as gestational age limits, mandated counseling, and whether an abortion must be performed by a licensed physician — and links to topic-specific tables with additional detail. A separate table categorizes, as of June 1, the policy implications in each state of overturning Roe v. Wade.  Previously: Guttmacher’s state-level statistics on pregnancy, birth, and abortion (DIP 2020.10.28) and Global Abortion Incidence Dataset (DIP 2021.04.14), the World Health Organization’s Global Abortion Policies Database (DIP 2021.10.13), and Caitlin Knowles Myers’s dataset of abortion facility distances (DIP 2022.02.02).","https://www.guttmacher.org/about
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/overview-abortion-laws
https://www.guttmacher.org/united-states/abortion/state-policies-abortion
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-policy-absence-roe
https://osf.io/kthnf/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-10-28-edition/
https://osf.io/5k7fp/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-04-14-edition/
https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-10-13-edition/
https://osf.io/8dg7r/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-02-02-edition/",
2022.06.29,2,Diaspora voting policies.,"If you don’t live in your country of citizenship, can you still vote there? Nathan Allen et al.’s Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset examines 20+ characteristics of 195 countries’ policies from 1950 to 2020. The dataset’s variables relate to dual citizenship, voter registration, mail-in ballots, and more. Read more: An introductory Twitter thread from coauthor Elizabeth Iams Wellman. [h/t Rabbia Tariq]","https://www.evrrdataset.com/team
https://www.evrrdataset.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DIJQ3H
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=6337042
https://twitter.com/bethiamswellman/status/1539264747643756546",https://twitter.com/rabbiatariq11/status/1539347240090755076
2022.06.29,3,Automated driving crashes.,"Last June, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a directive requiring manufacturers and fleet operators to report certain crashes involving either advanced driver assistance or higher-level “automated driving systems.” Earlier this month, the agency published its first release of crash report data, which it says “will be updated on a monthly basis.” The files describe each report and include information about the car, location, circumstances, and injury level. [h/t Faiz Siddiqui et al.]","https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting
https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/driver-assistance-technologies
https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/initial-data-release-advanced-vehicle-technologies
https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting",https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/15/tesla-autopilot-crashes/
2022.06.29,4,Bay Area rents.,"In 2018, economist Kate Pennington used the Wayback Machine to collect data on two decades of Craigslist posts advertising housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. The results span 200,000+ listings between 2000 and 2018, from which Pennington extracted each post’s date, price, bedroom count, location, and more. Previously: Twentieth-century San Francisco rents from the city’s Housing Study DataBook and transcribed from newspaper listings (DIP 2016.05.25). [h/t Alex Albright]","https://www.katepennington.org/
https://archive.org/web/
https://www.katepennington.org/clmethod
https://www.katepennington.org/data
https://sfrb.org/san-francisco-housing-study-databook
https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employment-construction-and-cost-of-san.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-05-25-edition/",https://www.albrightalex.com/
2022.06.29,5,Dendrochronology.,"The Vernacular Architecture Group’s Dendrochronology Database “provides the tree-ring dates for over 4500 buildings in the United Kingdom, ranging from cathedrals to cottages and barns.” Each entry lists a date range, dating method, location, building type, and descriptive notes.","https://www.vag.org.uk/
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/vag_dendro/index.cfm
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/vag_dendro/overview.cfm",
2022.07.06,1,Banned and challenged books.,"A recent report from PEN America identified 1,500+ decisions, made between July 2021 and March 2022, to ban books from classrooms and school libraries. A spreadsheet accompanying the report lists each decision’s date, type, state, and school district, as well as each banned book’s title, authors, illustrators, and translators. Related: Independent researcher Tasslyn Magnusson, in partnership with EveryLibrary, maintains a spreadsheet of both book bans and book challenges, with 3,000+ entries since the 2021–22 school year. [h/t Gary Price]","https://pen.org/press-release/report-1586-school-book-bans-and-restrictions-in-86-school-districts-across-26-states/
https://pen.org/banned-in-the-usa/
https://pen.org/about-us/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hTs_PB7KuTMBtNMESFEGuK-0abzhNxVv4tgpI5-iKe8/edit#gid=1623346099
https://twitter.com/TasslynM
https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/book_censorship_database_magnusson
https://www.everylibrary.org/about-everylibrary
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LqhGcvFDdT4izvoXRrz95BTDUzLr7M3IHf-2HGKhX7I/edit#gid=1604785798",https://www.infodocket.com/2022/06/16/everylibrary-launches-banned-book-store-internets-most-comprehensive-store-of-banned-books/
2022.07.06,2,Mass expulsions.,"Political scientist Meghan M. Garrity’s Government-Sponsored Mass Expulsion dataset focuses on “policies in which governments systematically remove ethnic, racial, religious or national groups, en masse.” Using a combination of archival research and secondary sources, Garrity documents 139 such events, estimated to have expelled more than 30 million people between 1900 and 2020. For each expulsion, the dataset provides “information on the expelling country, onset, duration, region, scale, category of persons expelled, and frequency.” To download it, visit the Journal of Peace Research’s replication data portal and search for “mass expulsion.”","https://www.meghanmgarrity.com/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433211068633
https://www.prio.org/journals/jpr/replicationdata",
2022.07.06,3,European air traffic.,"Eurocontrol, the main organization coordinating Europe’s air traffic management, publishes an “aviation intelligence portal” with a range of industry metrics, including traffic reports that count the daily number of flights by country, by airport, and by operator. The portal also offers bulk datasets on topics such as airport traffic, flight efficiency, estimated CO2 emissions, and more. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.eurocontrol.int/about-us
https://ansperformance.eu/
https://ansperformance.eu/traffic/
https://www.eurocontrol.int/Economics/DailyTrafficVariation-States.html
https://www.eurocontrol.int/Economics/DailyTrafficVariation-Airports.html
https://www.eurocontrol.int/Economics/DailyTrafficVariation-AOs.html
https://ansperformance.eu/data/
https://ansperformance.eu/reference/dataset/airport-traffic/
https://ansperformance.eu/reference/dataset/horizontal-flight-efficiency/
https://ansperformance.eu/reference/dataset/emissions/",https://twitter.com/puntofisso
2022.07.06,4,Shakespeare.,"The Folger Shakespeare “brings you the complete works of the world’s greatest playwright, edited for modern readers.” Its digital editions of the Bard’s plays and poems are available to read online and to download in various file formats. It also provides an API, with endpoints for synopses, roles, monologues, word frequencies, and more. [h/t Cameron Armstrong]","https://shakespeare.folger.edu/about-the-folger-shakespeare/
https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/
https://shakespeare.folger.edu/download/
https://shakespeare.folger.edu/the-folger-shakespeare-api/
https://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/api",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31906490
2022.07.06,5,Saturday Night Live.,"Joel Navaroli’s snlarchives.net aims to catalog and cross-reference every episode, cast member, host, character, sketch, impression, and other aspects of Saturday Night Live’s 47-and-counting seasons. An open-source project by Hendrik Hilleckes and Colin Morris scrapes much of that information into structured data files. As seen in: Morris’s 2017 analysis of gender representation in SNL sketches.","https://twitter.com/snlmedia
http://www.snlarchives.net/
https://github.com/hhllcks/snldb
https://www.hhllcks.de/
https://colinmorris.github.io/
https://github.com/hhllcks/snldb/tree/master/output
https://colinmorris.github.io/blog/snl-sketch-gender",
2022.07.13,1,Heat metrics.,"When you talk about outdoor heat, you’re likely referring to “dry-bulb” temperatures, measured by a thermometer shielded from the sun and moisture. But other factors also contribute to the physiological experience of hot weather. To that end, Keith R. Spangler et al. have created a dataset containing daily estimates of the wet-bulb globe temperature, Universal Thermal Climate Index, heat index, humidex, and other heat metrics for every county in the contiguous United States from 2000 through 2020. That first metric, for instance, was “originally developed in the 1950s to establish epidemiologically relevant thermal thresholds to prevent heat-related illnesses at US military training camps,” and takes humidity, solar radiation, and wind speed into account.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01405-3
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19419836
https://www.weather.gov/tsa/wbgt
http://www.utci.org/
https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/seasonal-weather-hazards/warm-season-weather-hazards.html#toc7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01405-3/tables/4",
2022.07.13,2,Technology adoption.,"Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn’s Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology dataset, published in 2009, compiles statistics “on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800.” Examples include the number of telegrams sent, television sets in use, knee replacement surgeries performed, and metric tons of freight carried on railways. Last month, Charles Kenny and George Yang published a dataset and accompanying working paper that updates those numbers and expands the technologies covered. [h/t Ranil Dissanayake]","https://www.dcomin.host.dartmouth.edu/
https://www.barthobijn.net/
https://www.nber.org/papers/w15319
https://data.nber.org/data-appendix/w15319/
https://www.cgdev.org/expert/charles-kenny
https://www.cgdev.org/staff/george-yang
https://www.cgdev.org/publication/technology-and-development-exploration-data",https://twitter.com/scepticalranil/status/1534953212326854657
2022.07.13,3,Legal language.,"Peter Henderson et al.’s Pile of Law is “a 256GB (and growing) dataset of open-source English-language legal and administrative data, covering court opinions, contracts, administrative rules, and legislative records.” Its texts come from CourtListener (DIP 2016.04.13), the Constitute Project (DIP 2022.04.13), the European Court of Human Rights’ published opinions, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s collection of credit card agreements, and many other sources. [h/t Lynn Cherny]","https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00220
https://huggingface.co/datasets/pile-of-law/pile-of-law
https://www.courtlistener.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-04-13-edition/
https://www.constituteproject.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-04-13-edition/
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng
https://archive.org/details/ECHR-ACL2019
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/credit-cards/agreements/",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas
2022.07.13,4,Digital payments in India.,"PhonePe, a digital payments company serving India, publishes quarterly aggregated data on users and transactions. The statistics, which go back to 2018 and power an interactive map, are available on a national, state, and district level. User counts are provided as totals, as well as grouped by device brand. Transactions are measured by count and total value, with the counts also disaggregated into a few categories.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhonePe
https://github.com/PhonePe/pulse
https://www.phonepe.com/pulse/explore/",
2022.07.13,5,Early movie theaters in Oregon.,"The Oregon Theater Project, developed as part of a cinema studies course, “aims to document the history of moviegoing in Oregon – why people went to the movies, where people watched them, and what people thought about them,” with a current focus on the silent film era. Its directory of 200+ theaters is available to download and explore online.","https://oregontheaterproject.uoregon.edu/
https://oregontheaterproject.uoregon.edu/about-project
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/FGOUZ3
https://oregontheaterproject.uoregon.edu/theaters",
2022.07.20,1,New voting laws.,"The Voting Rights Lab has been tracking 2,000+ laws proposed in US state legislatures since 2021. The tracker focuses on “12 major issue areas relating to voter access and representation,” such as early voting, same-day registration, and ID requirements. It lists each bill’s state, number, author, date introduced, current status, and issue areas, plus a summary and the lab’s “assessment of whether the legislation is likely to improve or interfere with voter access or the administration of elections.” As seen in: “Has Your State Made It Harder To Vote?” (FiveThirtyEight) Related: States Newsroom’s Kira Lerner has compiled a spreadsheet of 120 new election-related criminal penalties, based partly on the tracker’s data.","https://votingrightslab.org/
https://tracker.votingrightslab.org/pending/search
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/voting-restrictions-by-state/
https://statesnewsroom.com/about/
https://twitter.com/kira_lerner/status/1547630451140882434
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/criminalizing-vote-gop-led-states-enacted-102-new-election-penalties-after-2020
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wtN6RpLW_-g1gBYwWd5HaYiL6MtmG_nwC6kpIhzickU/edit#gid=0",
2022.07.20,2,Notable people.,"“A new strand of literature aims at building the most comprehensive and accurate database of notable individuals,” observe Morgane Laouenan et al., who contribute a “cross-verified database of 2.29 million individuals” mined from Wikidata and the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish editions of Wikipedia. For each person, the dataset provides their birth and death dates, gender, citizenship, occupations, and other details. Previously: The MIT-based Pantheon dataset (DIP 2016.02.03), also based on Wikipedia and since updated. [h/t Philip Jung]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4
https://data.sciencespo.fr/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.21410/7E4/RDAG3O
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201575
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-02-03-edition/
https://pantheon.world/data/faq",https://twitter.com/makro_philip/status/1536286496101105666
2022.07.20,3,Budget apportionments.,"Congress, through a process called appropriations, chooses how much money goes to each US federal agency and program. But the Office of Management and Budget, through a process called apportionment, ultimately sets the rules for spending those funds, “typically limit[ing] the obligations [an agency] may incur for specified time periods, programs, activities, projects, objects, or any combination thereof.” Those binding decisions have generally not been available to the public — until last week, when OMB launched a database of apportionments for FY 2022, per a requirement in Congress’s 2022 spending bill. [h/t Caitlin Emma]","https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/s120.pdf
https://twitter.com/cerin/status/1387815656717012992
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3537156-federal-government-getting-ready-to-open-its-books-and-show-us-the-receipts/
https://budget.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairs-yarmuth-and-delauro-achieve-historic-progress-transparency-executive
https://apportionment-public.max.gov/",https://twitter.com/caitlinzemma/status/1547267038590238722
2022.07.20,4,Digital trade provisions.,"Mira Burri et al.’s TAPED dataset, which “seeks to comprehensively trace developments in the area of digital trade governance,” categorizes 100+ relevant aspects of 300+ preferential trade agreements signed since 2000. The dataset indicates, for instance, that the Peru-Australia Free Trade Agreement contains binding agreements on personal data protection, nonbinding language on cybersecurity, and no provisions regarding net neutrality.","https://digitaltradelaw.ch/taped/
https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-law/professorships/burri-mira/research/taped/
https://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/IPE/Preferential_Trade_Agreement
https://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/in-force/pafta/Pages/peru-australia-fta",
2022.07.20,5,The World Cup.,"Josh Fjelstul’s World Cup Database, published this month, provides “extensively cleaned and cross-validated” information about each of the 21 FIFA World Cup tournaments played so far. Its 27 tables contain “approximately 1.1 million data points” regarding the teams that participated, their players and managers, the referees, match outcomes, goals, penalties, and more.","http://www.joshuafjelstul.com/
https://github.com/jfjelstul/worldcup
https://twitter.com/joshfjelstul/status/1546471056642375680",
2022.07.27,1,Wildfires around the world.,"The Global Wildfire Information System, expanding on the work of European Forest Fire Information System, uses satellite data to provide weekly and annual estimates of the number of fires and area burned in 200+ countries. Its bulk data indicates monthly burned hectares by country, sub-country unit, and land type from 2002 to 2019, as well as the boundaries of individual fires from 2001 to 2020. It also publishes gridded spatial data relating to fire danger forecasts, active fires, emissions, and more. As seen in: El Diario’s analysis of forest fires in Spain. [h/t Olaya Argüeso Pérez]","https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/gwis.statistics/
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/country.profile/downloads
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/applications/data-and-services
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/peor-ano-superficie-quemada-30-anos-evolucionan-incendios-activos-espana-julio-26_1_9189252.html",https://twitter.com/oargueso
2022.07.27,2,Hospital price lists.,"Since January 2021, the US government has required hospitals to publish machine-readable files listing the standard charges for all items and services they provide. But there’s no standard format for these price lists (also known as “chargemasters”), no official central repository of them, and compliance has been lacking. Seeing those problems, the versioned-data platform DoltHub earlier this year ran a paid crowdsourcing campaign that pulled nearly 300 million prices from the published lists of roughly 1,800 hospitals into a single database. Related: Thanks to an earlier price transparency rule, California posts chargemasters for hundreds of hospitals, with records going back to 2011.","https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency
https://www.patientrightsadvocate.org/semi-annual-compliance-report-2022
https://www.dolthub.com/
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-04-22-hospital-price-transparency-retrospective/
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-07-01-hospitals-compliance/
https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/hospital-price-transparency-v3
https://hcai.ca.gov/data-and-reports/cost-transparency/hospital-chargemasters/
https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/chargemasters",
2022.07.27,3,Monkeypox strains.,"Nextstrain, “an open-source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data,” has begun analyzing genetic sequences from hundreds of monkeypox virus samples, the vast majority from infections in the past few months. The project provides metadata on each sample, including the date, country, variant, and mutation metrics, as well as detailed sequencing data from NCBI Virus. Previously: Coronavirus variant data from outbreak.info (DIP 2021.03.10). [h/t Karsten Johansson]","https://nextstrain.org/
https://nextstrain.org/monkeypox/hmpxv1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType_s=Nucleotide&VirusLineage_ss=Monkeypox%20virus,%20taxid:10244
https://outbreak.info/situation-reports
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-03-10-edition/",https://ksaj.inlisp.org
2022.07.27,4,Startup factories.,"Venture studios are firms that build and launch startups. Jim Moran’s Venture Studio Index tracks 260+ of them, plus 1,200+ of the startups they’ve launched. The dataset, “collected manually by a team of researchers familiar with venture capital and the technology startup ecosystem,” includes founding years, locations, employee counts, relevant URLs, and more.","https://twitter.com/jdmoran
https://www.venturestudioindex.com/p/the-venture-studio-index
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgDu8rJaVCvbzDW49u74vEIPdRH8ElJUVoiqt1O6LVc/edit#gid=499262177
https://www.venturestudioindex.com/p/data-methodology-and-limitations",
2022.07.27,5,Shark bites.,"Madeline Riley et al. describe the Australian Shark-Incident Database, which contains details about 1,100+ shark bites (and attempted shark bites) between 1791 and early 2022, gathered by the Taronga Conservation Society using “questionnaires provided to shark-bite victims or witnesses, media reports,” and information from state agencies. Read more: “New dataset shows shark bites in Australia are increasing and researchers want to know why” (The Guardian).","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01453-9
https://zenodo.org/record/6672829
https://github.com/cjabradshaw/AustralianSharkIncidentDatabase
https://www.taronga.org.au/about
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2022/jul/07/new-dataset-shows-shark-attacks-in-australia-are-increasing-and-researchers-want-to-know-why",
2022.08.03,1,Employee benefit plans.,"US companies that offer their employees a retirement plan, such as a pension or 401(k), must report the particulars of those plans through Form 5500 — a creation of the IRS, Department of Labor, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Employers offering health plans, vacation, or other welfare benefits to 100+ workers must typically report those, too. The Department of Labor publishes datasets with details from all Form 5500 submissions going back to 1999, as well as a search tool that goes back to 2010. Related: Through a FOIA request, Dan Bauman has obtained decades of metadata on 80,000+ “top hat” statements, which concern plans “providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees.” [h/t Vincent Cocula]","https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/employers-and-advisers/plan-administration-and-compliance/reporting-and-filing/form-5500
https://www.pbgc.gov/
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/public-disclosure/foia/form-5500-datasets
https://www.efast.dol.gov/5500search/
https://dan-bauman.com/
https://github.com/danbauman77/tophat
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/EBSA/about-ebsa/about-us/erisa-advisory-council/2020-examining-top-hat-plan-participation-and-reporting.pdf",https://www.quora.com/401-k-Is-there-a-database-of-401k-information-that-is-publicly-available/answer/Vincent-Cocula
2022.08.03,2,European cropland.,"Maja Schneider et al.’s EuroCrops project combines “all publicly available self-declared crop reporting datasets from countries of the European Union.” So far, that universe corresponds to the entirety or parts of 16 countries. The project’s datasets include various attributes from the original data files, geographic coordinates for each agricultural parcel, and each parcel’s primary crop type, which the authors have standardized using a taxonomy they devised.","https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08151
https://github.com/maja601/EuroCrops",
2022.08.03,3,Christianity in China.,"The China Historical Christian Database, a project based at Boston University’s School of Theology, spans the years 1550 to 1950. Launched last week, it provides “tools to discover where every Christian church, school, hospital, orphanage, publishing house, and the like were located in China,” plus “who worked inside those buildings, both foreign and Chinese.” The database, available to download and explore online, describes 33,000+ people, 7,000+ organizations, the relationships between those entities, and more.","https://chcdatabase.com/
https://www.bu.edu/cgcm/2022/07/19/11962/
https://github.com/chcdatabase/data
https://data.chcdatabase.com/map
https://chcdatabase.github.io/data-documentation/",
2022.08.03,4,Data governance ratings.,"A new report from George Washington University’s Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub rates 68 countries on their approaches to data governance. It scores each country on 26 indicators across 6 categories — for instance, whether it has a personal data protection law, publishes an open data portal, and/or says it adheres to the OECD AI Principles. Previously: The Global Data Barometer (DIP 2022.05.18). [h/t Susan Ariel Aaronson]","https://datagovhub.letsnod.com/
https://datagovhub.elliott.gwu.edu/
https://oecd.ai/en/ai-principles
https://globaldatabarometer.org
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-05-18-edition/",https://twitter.com/AaronsonSusan
2022.08.03,5,Diplomatic gifts.,"Federal employees are not supposed to accept major gifts from foreign governments. But exceptions occur, such as “when it appears that to refuse the gift would likely cause offense or embarrassment,” and agencies must annually report those exceptions in the Federal Register. In 2020, Alex Cookson fetched and parsed those reports, yielding information (donor name and country, recipient name and agency, gift description and value) on 8,300+ gifts from 1999 to 2018. Previously: Congressional “gift travel” (DIP 2016.04.27).","https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7342
https://www.alexcookson.com/about/
https://www.alexcookson.com/post/what-can-we-learn-from-diplomatic-gifts/
https://github.com/tacookson/data/tree/master/us-government-gifts
https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/PublicDisclosure/GiftTravelFilings
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-04-27-edition/",
2022.08.10,1,Young adult migration.,"Researchers at Harvard University and the Census Bureau have linked federal tax filings, Census records, and other government data to track the migration patterns of young US residents. Specifically, for each person born in the US between 1984 and 1992, the researchers compared where they lived at age 16 to where they lived at age 26. The project’s public dataset counts the approximate number who moved to/from each pair of commuting zones — overall and disaggregated by race/ethnicity and parental income level. Read more: A reporting recipe from Brent Jones and Eric Schmid, who analyzed the data for St. Louis Public Radio.","https://migrationpatterns.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-01-19-edition/
https://source.opennews.org/articles/story-recipe-census-migration-data-young-adults/
https://bjones.net/
https://www.ericdschmid.com/
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/economy-business/2022-07-25/new-census-bureau-study-confirms-what-we-already-knew-st-louisans-dont-move-away",
2022.08.10,2,Social capital.,"Using data on billions of Facebook connections and group memberships, Raj Chetty et al.’s Social Capital Atlas calculates three metrics for US counties, ZIP codes, high schools, and colleges: economic connectedness (friendships between low-income and high-income users), cohesiveness (how often users’ friends are also friends with one another), and civic engagement (membership in volunteer groups). Read more: The Upshot explores and explains the project’s findings. Previously: Measurements of social connectedness (DIP 2020.09.30) and economic mobility (DIP 2019.06.12), from some of the same researchers. [h/t Johannes Stroebel]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04996-4
https://socialcapital.org/
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/social-capital-atlas
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/01/upshot/rich-poor-friendships.html
https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/social-connectedness-index
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-09-30-edition/
https://opportunityinsights.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-06-12-edition/",https://twitter.com/stroebel_econ
2022.08.10,3,CPUs and GPUs.,"Yifan Sun et al., seeking to test Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling, “have collected data for all CPU and GPU products (to our best knowledge) that have been released by Intel, AMD [...], and NVIDIA since January 1st, 2000.” The authors’ dataset and charting tool, describing 4,800+ processors through early 2021, uses information gathered from TechPowerUp, WikiChip, and company websites. They identify each product’s vendor, release date, transistor count, base frequency, and other details. [h/t matt_d]","https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11313
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
https://chip-dataset.vercel.app/
https://www.techpowerup.com/
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/WikiChip",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32124613
2022.08.10,4,Trade in post-unification Italy.,"The Lost Highway project, a collaboration between researchers at four Italian universities, aims “to test a number of broad historical conjectures about the long term shortcomings of the Italian development path by collecting as much quantitative evidence as possible.” Their Bankit-FTV database provides annual import and export totals for 1862 to 1939, by product and trading partner, with 6,000+ product descriptions standardized into approximately 600 commodity groupings. [h/t Francesco Piccinelli Casagrande]","https://lost-highway.unisi.it/project/aims-and-purposes
https://lost-highway.unisi.it/units
https://lost-highway.unisi.it/data
https://docenti-deps.unisi.it/michelangelovasta/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Legend-FTV-Bankit.pdf",https://danumbers.substack.com/
2022.08.10,5,"“Tea, Earl Grey, hot.”","Combing the full transcripts of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Benett Axtell and Cosmin Munteanu found more than 1,000 lines of dialogue between the show’s characters and the starship Enterprise’s computer. Their dataset of these interactions lists each line’s phrasing, character, interaction type, stage directions, and more. [h/t Christian A. Gebhard + Sara Stoudt + Tidy Tuesday]","https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~baxtell/
https://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~mcosmin/
https://www.speechinteraction.org/TNG/index.html","https://jollydata.blog/posts/2021-08-22-tea-earl-grey-hot-tidytuesday-2021-week-34/
https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/issues/346
https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2021/2021-08-17"
2022.08.17,1,Recessions and expansions.,"The US has no official definition of a recession, but many observers look to the non-governmental National Bureau of Economic Research, whose Business Cycle Dating Committee tries to determine “the dates of peaks and troughs that frame economic recessions and expansions.” The committee publishes a table and data files listing those dates for dozens of cycles since the mid-1800s. But be prepared to wait: “Our determination of the trough date in April 2020 occurred 15 months after that date, in July 2021. Earlier determinations took between 4 and 21 months.” [h/t USAFacts]","https://www.nber.org/about-nber
https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating
https://www.nber.org/research/data/us-business-cycle-expansions-and-contractions
https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating/business-cycle-dating-procedure-frequently-asked-questions",https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-a-recession-what-have-recessions-looked-like-in-the-past/
2022.08.17,2,Consumer finances.,"Every three years since 1983, the US Federal Reserve has conducted its Survey of Consumer Finances, which asks a sample of families detailed questions about their income, savings, assets, pensions, loans, credit lines, demographics, and more. “No other study for the country collects comparable information,” according to the Fed. The most recent edition interviewed 5,783 families between May 2019 and April 2020. Related: Moritz Kuhn et al. (data available here) have merged results from the modern survey with those from an earlier incarnation conducted from 1948 to 1977. As seen in: “Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020” (Ellora Derenoncourt et al.). [h/t Sharon Machlis]","https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/aboutscf.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2020-bulletin-changes-in-us-family-finances-from-2016-to-2019.htm
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/institute-working-papers/income-and-wealth-inequality-in-america-1949-2016
https://www.moritzschularick.com/academic/datasets-and-codes/
https://economics.princeton.edu/working-papers/wealth-of-two-nations-the-u-s-racial-wealth-gap-1860-2020/",https://twitter.com/sharon000
2022.08.17,3,Pro-government militias.,"Sabine Carey et al.’s Pro-Government Militias Database focuses on armed, organized groups that align themselves with a government but are not part of its official security forces. The latest version, published earlier this year and browsable online, provides a wide range of structured information about  504 such groups active between 1981 and 2014, including their purpose, membership, targets, government links, material support, and more.","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680211062772
https://www.sabinecarey.com/militias-data
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/YK8L4I
https://militiasdb.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/militias-public",
2022.08.17,4,Pollinationships.,"Nicholas Balfour et al.’s Database of Pollinator Interactions “documents British pollinator-plant associations,” bringing together records from “disparate publications currently scattered throughout the scientific literature” (and other sources) into a queryable depository. Its 100,000+ entries document 320,000+ interactions observed between 1,800+ insect species and 1,200+ plant species, some published as early as 1895. [h/t Tyler Knight]","https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3801
https://www.dopi.org.uk/
https://staff.sussex.ac.uk/news/article/58399-new-online-resource-can-help-users-bee-friendly-when-it-comes-to-planting-for-pollinators
https://www.dopi.org.uk/search",https://www.reddit.com/user/tk-data
2022.08.17,5,Atomic gardening.,"The Mutant Variety Database, jointly maintained by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, tracks the metaphorical and literal fruits of atomic gardening, a decades-old practice also known as radiation breeding. The database’s 3,400+ entries indicate each known variety’s crop type, species, targeted characteristics, mutation development method, country, registration year, and more. [h/t Lee Wilkins]","https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/mvd/SitePages/Home.aspx
https://www.fao.org/agriculture/fao-iaea-nuclear-techniques/en/
https://www.atomicgardening.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/science/28crop.html
https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/mvd/SitePages/Search.aspx",https://theprepared.org/newsletter-archive/2022-08-01
2022.08.24,1,Beneficial owners.,"Open Ownership, a nonprofit aiming to improve “transparency over who owns and controls companies,” works directly with countries to implement reforms and has developed a standard format for publishing such information. It also runs the Open Ownership Register, a database identifying the beneficial owners of 8.4 million companies so far, drawn primarily from records published by Denmark, Slovakia, the UK, and Ukraine. You can search, download, and query those records, which include the companies’ names, addresses, and other details, as well as the owners’ names, nationalities, and interests in those companies. [h/t Datasketch]","https://www.openownership.org/
https://www.openownership.org/en/about/what-we-do/
https://www.openownership.org/en/map/
https://standard.openownership.org/
https://register.openownership.org/
https://standard.openownership.org/en/latest/primer/whatisbo.html
https://twitter.com/OpenOwnership/status/1552975083811004416
https://register.openownership.org/data_sources
https://register.openownership.org/download
https://bods-data.openownership.org/source/register",https://www.datasketch.co/newsletter/open-government/issue-17-beneficial-ownership-and-censored-journalism/
2022.08.24,2,Administrative boundaries.,"The geoBoundaries project, maintained by the William & Mary geoLab and volunteer contributors since 2017, calls itself “the world’s largest open, free and research-ready database of political administrative boundaries.” It provides an API and downloadable datasets of those boundaries at up to six levels per country, ranging from the entire nation to progressively smaller entities — outlining, for instance, approximately 650,000 villages in India and 2,900 Portuguese freguesias. Previously: The Database of Global Administrative Areas (DIP 2019.07.17) and national borders from 1886 to 2019 (DIP 2022.03.23).","https://www.geoboundaries.org/
https://geolab.wm.edu/
https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/graphs/contributors
https://www.geoboundaries.org/api.html
https://www.geoboundaries.org/index.html#getdata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freguesia
https://gadm.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-07-17-edition/
https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-03-23-edition/",
2022.08.24,3,Legislative limits on teaching.,"A PEN America report released last week examines recent developments in “educational gag orders,” which it defines as “state legislative efforts to restrict teaching about topics such as race, gender, American history, and LGBTQ+ identities in K–12 and higher education.” The study follows an initial report published in November 2021 and is supplemented by a weekly-updated spreadsheet that describes and tracks successful, failed, and pending bills since January 2021. [h/t Gary Price]","https://pen.org/report/Americas-censored-classrooms/
https://pen.org/report/educational-gag-orders/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tj5WQVBmB6SQg-zP_M8uZsQQGH09TxmBY73v23zpyr0/edit#gid=1505554870",https://www.infodocket.com/2022/08/17/report-educational-gag-order-proposals-spike-by-250-in-2022-pen-america-finds-announcing-the-2022-core-forum-keynote-speakers-and-more-news-headlines/
2022.08.24,4,Census tract population changes.,"Researchers at the University of Tennessee have built a dataset and interactive map comparing each US Census tract’s population in 2020 versus 2010. Because the Census Bureau routinely adds and modifies tracts between decennial surveys, the team used geographic “crosswalk” files from the National Historic Geographic Information System to make the comparisons. [h/t Tim Kuhn]","https://tnsdc.utk.edu/2022/05/16/new-interactive-map-details-population-change-across-us-last-decade/
https://myutk.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=dfb01c34015d4e149dcbbf3fbbdfc88b
https://myutk.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/sidebar/index.html?appid=b6cf315a28aa4089873ee3442d4a2597
https://www.nhgis.org/geographic-crosswalks
https://tnsdc.utk.edu/2022/05/16/producing-maps-of-detailed-population-change-between-2010-and-2020/",https://haslam.utk.edu/experts/timothy-kuhn
2022.08.24,5,Bryan’s whistle-stop tour.,"In 1896, Democratic Party presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan took four key campaign trips via rail, giving speeches in hundreds of cities along the way. The Railroads and the Making of Modern America project, based at the University of Nebraska, has compiled a table of those itineraries; it lists each event’s date and location and links to many of the speeches. As seen in: “Do Local Campaign Visits by a Populist Politician Matter in Elections?” (Johannes Buggle and Stephanos Vlachos).","https://railroads.unl.edu/views/item/bryan_speech
https://railroads.unl.edu/
https://railroads.unl.edu/topics/bryanTriplog1896.php?trip=all
https://broadstreet.blog/2022/07/15/do-local-campaign-visits-by-a-populist-politician-matter-in-elections/
http://www.johannesbuggle.com/
http://www.stephanosvlachos.com/",
2022.08.31,1,Billion-dollar disasters.,"As “the Nation’s Scorekeeper in terms of addressing severe weather and climate events in their historical perspective,” the US National Centers for Environmental Information maintains an inventory of the most costly such disasters in the US — those that have caused at least $1 billion in estimated direct losses. The quarterly-updated dataset contains more than 330 severe storms, floods, droughts, wildfires, freezes, and other extreme events since 1980. You can download, filter, and sort the list (by disaster type, start/end dates, inflation-adjusted cost, and total deaths), as well as map, chart, and summarize it. [h/t Gary Price]","https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/events
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/mapping
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/summary-stats",https://www.infodocket.com/2022/07/27/research-resources-noaa-releases-a-comprehensive-update-to-billion-dollar-disasters-mapping-tool/
2022.08.31,2,Business formations.,"To compile its Business Formation Statistics, the US Census Bureau analyzes several sources, including every application to the IRS for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) and those applicants’ first payroll tax filings. This allows the Bureau to provide monthly counts of business applications and formations by business type, industrial sector, and state. They also publish weekly datasets of application counts by state and an annual dataset that drills down to individual counties; both, however, lack business formation counts and other details found only in the monthly files. [h/t John C. Haltiwanger]","https://www.census.gov/econ/bfs/index.html
https://www.census.gov/econ/bfs/methodology.html
https://www.census.gov/econ/bfs/about_the_data.html
https://www.census.gov/econ/bfs/about_the_data.html",https://www.nber.org/papers/w28912
2022.08.31,3,Attempted repairs.,"The Open Repair Alliance, “an international group of organisations committed to working towards a world where electrical and electronic products are more durable and easier to repair,” is developing an open standard for sharing data about those repairs. So far, they’ve gathered 62,000+ records from five partners. Each entry represents a repair session: its date and country, the product’s brand and category, the repair status, a description of the problem, barriers to repair, and more.","https://openrepair.org/
https://openrepair.org/open-data/open-standard/
https://openrepair.org/open-data/downloads/
https://standard.openrepair.org/standard.html#product-category-values",
2022.08.31,4,Luftwaffe locations.,"Data scientist Sam Weiss has constructed a dataset tracking the World War II movements of the Luftwaffe, Nazi Germany’s air force. The information, scraped and geocoded from the Luftwaffe-history website ww2.dk, includes monthly locations and aggregate statistics (total size, additions, losses) by aircraft type and unit. Read more: A blog post and Twitter thread from Weiss.","https://scweiss.blogspot.com/
https://github.com/samcarlos/luftwaffe_locations
https://ww2.dk/
https://scweiss.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-high-altitude-overview-of-european.html
https://twitter.com/boaty__mc/status/1562218213093412864",
2022.08.31,5,Fern phylogenetics.,"Joel H. Nitta et al.’s Fern Tree of Life uses “a mostly automated, reproducible, open pipeline” to convert fern DNA sequences from the National Institutes of Health’s GenBank into an interactive, browsable, and downloadable evolutionary tree. It currently covers 5,500+ species, from Abacopteris aspera to Zealandia vieillardii. [h/t Santiago Ramírez Barahona]","https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.31.486640v3.full
https://fernphy.github.io/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
https://fernphy.github.io/viewer.html
https://fernphy.shinyapps.io/ftol_explorer/
https://fernphy.github.io/downloads.html
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1405236-Abacopteris-aspera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_vieillardii",https://twitter.com/LabSpiritu/status/1562444771041619969
2022.09.07,1,LGBTQ+ rights.,"Equaldex tracks LGBTQ+ rights around the world, categorizing the liberties and restrictions that relate to more than a dozen issues, such as same-sex marriage, blood donation, military service, employment discrimination, and the right to change one’s legal gender. The collaboratively-edited database provides an API to retrieve those categorizations and contextual notes by country and/or US state. The project also keeps tabs on developments that alter those rights and public opinion polling. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.equaldex.com/
https://www.equaldex.com/help
https://equaldex.stoplight.io/docs/equaldex/YXBpOjE1NjI0OTIw-equaldex-json-api
https://equaldex.stoplight.io/docs/equaldex/b3A6MTU2MjQ5MjE-get-lgtbq-rights-by-region-id
https://www.equaldex.com/timeline
https://www.equaldex.com/surveys",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/430-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2022.09.07,2,Five decades of US public opinion.,"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the General Social Survey, which calls itself “the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States.” It combines a “standard core of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions” with shorter-lived modules on topics such as religion, gun control, and mental health. You can explore the results online and also download the thoroughly documented, anonymized microdata. Related: The International Social Survey Program, co-founded by the GSS team.","https://gss.norc.org/pages/GSS50.aspx
https://gss.norc.org/
https://gss.norc.org/About-The-GSS
https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/
https://gss.norc.org/get-the-data
https://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation
https://issp.org/",
2022.09.07,3,Most buildings in Spain.,"The Spanish government’s cadastral service provides geospatial data on every parcel, address, and building for “the entire territory under its jurisdiction (the entire national territory except the Basque Country and Navarre).” The records, available to download programmatically, include each building’s year of construction, total floor area, number of dwellings, and more. As seen in: “Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically” (El Diario, original in Spanish), and associated Twitter thread. [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]","https://www.sedecatastro.gob.es/
https://www.sedecatastro.gob.es/Accesos/SECAccDescargaDatos.aspx
https://www.catastro.minhap.es/webinspire/index_eng.html
https://especiales.eldiario.es/spain-lives-in-flats/
https://especiales.eldiario.es/espana-vive-en-pisos/
https://twitter.com/raulsanchezglez/status/1443469518307799044",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-18-2022/
2022.09.07,4,Battles and sieges.,"Charles Miller and K. Shuvo Bakar’s Historical Conflict Event Dataset covers 8,800+ military clashes spanning thousands of years, from Egypt’s capture of Megiddo c. 1468 BC to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The authors draw primarily from Tony Jaques’s Dictionary of Battles and Sieges, which they augment with additional research and sources. The resulting spreadsheet provides each event’s name, year, relevant war, narrative, participant list, location, and more. [h/t Micah Zenko]","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027221119085
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/6ZFC0V
https://www.britannica.com/place/Megiddo
https://www.issueoutcomes.com.au/about.html
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9393993W/Dictionary_of_Battles_and_Sieges
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=6434093&version=1.0",https://twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/1559381053705445376
2022.09.07,5,Even more street trees.,"Dakota E. McCoy et al. have built a dataset of 5,000,000+ urban trees, gathered and harmonized from 63 US cities’ inventories. The level of detail differs by city, but can include the tree’s species, date planted, location, height, trunk diameter, condition, and more. The authors also provide a range of summary statistics for each city. Previously: Street trees in DIP 2020.11.18, DIP 2018.08.08, and DIP 2016.11.16. [h/t Clayton Page Aldern]","https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.18.484862v1.full
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.2jm63xsrf
https://github.com/ReallyMcCoy/CityTreesProject
https://github.com/ReallyMcCoy/CityTreesProject/blob/main/DataS2_Tree_Data_Summary_By_City_REV1.csv
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-11-18-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-08-08-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-11-16-edition/",https://twitter.com/compatibilism/status/1562907507160645632
2022.09.14,1,Congress gets an official API.,"The United States’ legislative branch now has an official API, the Library of Congress announced last week. It provides structured data on legislators, bills, bill summaries, amendments, committee reports, appointee nominations, international treaties, and more. To use the service, you’ll need to sign up for a free API key. Read more: Some context from the Congressional Data Coalition. Related: The Government Publishing Office’s bulk data on bills and bill summaries (DIP 2020.08.26) and ProPublica’s Congress API. [h/t Jackie Kazil]","https://api.congress.gov/
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/09/introducing-the-congress-gov-api/
https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/
https://api.congress.gov/sign-up/
https://congressionaldata.org/library-of-congress-launches-congress-gov-api/
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-08-26-edition/
https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiekazil/
2022.09.14,2,Voter ID laws.,"As part of his PhD research, Tom Barton has constructed a dataset of voter identification requirements around the world. For each country and US state, the dataset indicates the type of identification needed to vote (a photo ID, non-photo ID, or just basic personal details), how many forms of identification the voter must provide, and more. Related: A detailed examination of US voter ID laws from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Previously: Recent US voting legislation tracked by the Voting Rights Lab (DIP 2022.07.20).","https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/thomas-barton(8a862a25-f335-4c52-9986-6c094b613b55).html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00344893.2022.2113117
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/RU2F9A
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx
https://tracker.votingrightslab.org/pending/search
https://votingrightslab.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-07-20-edition/",
2022.09.14,3,Local internet speeds.,"If you’ve tried measuring your internet speed, you might have used Ookla’s testing service. The company releases a series of quarterly datasets that summarize the test results, aggregated into geospatial tiles. (The tile sizes vary by latitude but measure roughly 2,000 feet by 2,000 feet at the equator.) For each tile, the datasets list the number of tests performed and devices tested, plus the average download speed, upload speed, and latency. As seen in: “Europe’s internet speeds are faster than ever, but not for everyone” (EDJNet) and associated dashboard. Previously: Internet speeds from the Measurement Lab (DIP 2019.05.22). [h/t Federico Caruso]","https://www.ookla.com/
https://www.speedtest.net/
https://www.ookla.com/ookla-for-good/open-data
https://github.com/teamookla/ookla-open-data
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/Europe-s-internet-speeds-are-faster-than-ever-but-not-for-everyone
https://datavis.europeandatajournalism.eu/obct/connectivity/
https://www.measurementlab.net/data/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-05-22-edition/",https://twitter.com/_federicocaruso
2022.09.14,4,Art sales and ownership.,"The Getty Provenance Index contains more than 2.3 million historical records relating to the sale and ownership of artworks, searchable online by artist, owner, auction house, date, and other characteristics. As part of an ongoing project to remodel the index, the Getty Research Institute has also published a subset of the records as open data. The largest of those datasets describes more than 1 million sales in Europe from the 1600s to 1945. [h/t Richard E. Spear] [Correction, 2022-09-14: The original version of this item referred to “eight European countries,” incorrectly implying that Scandinavia is a country.]","https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/charts.html
https://piprod.getty.edu/starweb/pi/servlet.starweb?path=pi/pi.web
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/provenance_remodel/index.html
https://www.getty.edu/research/
https://github.com/thegetty/provenance-index-csv
https://github.com/thegetty/provenance-index-csv/tree/main/sales_catalogs",https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780271079462-008/html
2022.09.14,5,Space weather.,"NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center keeps tabs on a variety of phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections, geomagnetic storms, and solar flares. The agency’s reports and datasets include three-day forecasts, sunspot predictions, solar wind observations, and more. The agency also provides dashboards for several audiences, such as the aviation community, emergency management, and “space weather enthusiasts.” [h/t oblib]","https://www.spaceweather.gov/
https://www.spaceweather.gov/phenomena
https://www.spaceweather.gov/phenomena/coronal-mass-ejections
https://www.spaceweather.gov/phenomena/geomagnetic-storms
https://www.spaceweather.gov/phenomena/solar-flares-radio-blackouts
https://www.spaceweather.gov/products-and-data
https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/3-day-forecast
https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/predicted-sunspot-number-and-radio-flux
https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/real-time-solar-wind
https://www.spaceweather.gov/content/data-access
https://www.spaceweather.gov/dashboards
https://www.spaceweather.gov/communities/aviation-community-dashboard
https://www.spaceweather.gov/communities/emergency-management
https://www.spaceweather.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707051
2022.09.21,1,Labor turnover.,"The US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey estimates the number of jobs that people quit, how many people were fired or laid off, the number of new hires, and the current number of open positions. Those estimates, based on data gathered from a sample of businesses across the country, are available to download and query by state, industry, and business size. They include most types of workers, regardless of whether they’re full-time or part-time, permanent or seasonal, salaried or hourly.","https://www.bls.gov/jlt/
https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/jlt/data.htm
https://www.bls.gov/jlt/data.htm
https://www.bls.gov/jlt/jltdef.htm",
2022.09.21,2,Biodiversity trends.,"Maria Dornelas et al.’s BioTIME project has collected and standardized data from hundreds of studies examining ecological communities over time. You can browse and search the studies by year, taxa, species, and biome. You can also download the full dataset, which provides information about each study (biome, start/end years, number of species tallied, and much more) and each sample collected (date, location, species, abundance, and biomass). As seen in: “Economic Production and Biodiversity in the United States,” by Yuanning Liang et al.","https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.12729
https://biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk/
https://biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk/download.php
https://biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk/downloadFull.php
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qy76a/",
2022.09.21,3,Probabilistic predictions.,"Metaculus is a forecasting platform whose community has registered more than 1 million predictions on questions such as “Will a major nuclear power plant in Germany be operational on June 1, 2023?” The website’s API provides data on questions posed, user rankings, and other aspects of the platform. For each question, you can see its phrasing, date posed, creator, prediction type, the distribution of predictions, and more. Related: Zoltar, a forecast archive assembled by Nicholas G. Reich et al. Previously: FiveThirtyEight’s assessment of its own predictions (DIP 2019.04.10).","https://www.metaculus.com/about/
https://twitter.com/fianxu/status/1569537658103431168
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/10004/german-nuclear-power/
https://www.metaculus.com/api2/
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/
https://www.metaculus.com/rankings/
https://zoltardata.com/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00839-5
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-04-10-edition/",
2022.09.21,4,Working artists.,"The National Endowment for the Arts regularly produces statistical profiles of the arts in the United States. The latest, “Artists in the Workforce: National and State Estimates for 2015-2019,” is tabulated from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. It provides employment and earning estimates by artistic occupation and demographic. Additional tabulations, including for the country’s 25 largest metro areas, are available through the National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture. [h/t Gary Price]","https://www.arts.gov/about
https://www.arts.gov/impact/research/arts-data-profile-series
https://www.arts.gov/impact/research/arts-data-profile-series/adp-31
https://www.arts.gov/impact/research/arts-data-profile-series/adp-31/data-tables
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NADAC/studies/38389/summary
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/NADAC/index.html",https://www.infodocket.com/2022/08/31/new-data-alert-labor-force-estimates-for-artist-occupations/
2022.09.21,5,Atari emails.,"A couple of decades ago, Jed Margolin posted a cache of electronic mail messages from his time as a video game hardware engineer at Atari (and Atari Games, a successor company). In 2017, with Margolin’s permission, Vikram Oberoi scraped the 4,000+ emails and built atariemailarchive.org, which groups the messages into threads, categories, and a list of favorites. The project also includes a database file containing each message’s sender, recipients, timestamp, subject, body, and Oberoi’s thread grouping. Related: “How I made atariemailarchive.org.”","https://www.jmargolin.com/
https://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm
https://twitter.com/voberoi
https://atariemailarchive.org/
https://atariemailarchive.org/all-threads
https://atariemailarchive.org/categories
https://atariemailarchive.org/top-threads
https://github.com/voberoi/atariemailarchive-data
https://vikramoberoi.com/how-i-made-atariemailarchive-org/",
2022.09.28,1,FDA inspections.,"The US Food and Drug Administration’s inspections dashboard lists 264,000+ assessments of facilities (primarily those manufacturing food, drugs, and other FDA-regulated products) and 227,000+ problems the inspectors found. The fields include the facility owner, location, product type, inspection completion date, and outcomes. The records, which go back to fiscal year 2009, can be bulk-downloaded from the dashboard and queried via an API. They come with certain caveats; they exclude, for instance, “inspections waiting for a final enforcement action” and those conducted by state (rather than federal) inspectors. Related: More compliance-related data dashboards from the FDA.","https://datadashboard.fda.gov/ora/cd/inspections.htm
https://datadashboard.fda.gov/ora/api/index.htm
https://datadashboard.fda.gov/ora/cd/index.htm",
2022.09.28,2,Academic citations.,"Since 2017, the Initiative for Open Citations has urged academic publishers to share their papers’ reference lists as open data. Last month, the group announced it had hit a major milestone: Of the 61 million papers that have references and are indexed by DOI-registrar Crossref, “100% [...] have made their citations openly available.” You can access the data through Crossref’s API and in bulk through OpenCitations. Read more: “Citation data are now open, but that’s far from enough” (Nature). Previously: Wikipedia citations (DIP 2018.05.23), biomedical citations (DIP 2019.10.23), and legal citations (DIP 2020.07.15). [h/t Data Science Community Newsletter]","https://i4oc.org/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21800
https://twitter.com/i4oc_org/status/1560274192620085251
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02926-y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
https://www.crossref.org/
https://www.crossref.org/documentation/retrieve-metadata/rest-api/
https://opencitations.net/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02915-1
https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/what-are-the-ten-most-cited-sources-on-wikipedia-lets-ask-the-data-34071478785a
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-05-23-edition/
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000385
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-10-23-edition/
https://case.law/download/citation_graph/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-07-15-edition/",https://mailchi.mp/f1a7e5522f4b/dscn-251-academic-inequality-in-3-parts-inequality-on-the-planet-humans-vs-the-rest
2022.09.28,3,Old and New Testament locations.,"OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding project “(1) comprehensively identifies the possible modern locations of every place mentioned in the Bible as precisely as possible, (2) expresses a data-backed confidence level in each identification, and (3) links to open data to fit into a broader data ecosystem.” You can browse by book, chapter, and location, as well as download the full dataset. Read more: The project’s author explains the backstory and methodology. [h/t Avi Levin]","https://www.openbible.info/
https://www.openbible.info/geo/
https://github.com/openbibleinfo/Bible-Geocoding-Data
https://www.openbible.info/blog/2021/11/rethinking-the-bible-atlas/",https://twitter.com/Arithmomaniac
2022.09.28,4,University endowments.,"Earlier this month, the National Association of College and University Business Officers released the latest of its annual studies of college and university endowments in the US and Canada. For 700+ institutions, the study’s public tables indicate their total enrollment, endowment market value, previous year’s value, and more. A page of historical datasets includes a spreadsheet listing many endowments’ sizes going back to the mid-1970s. [h/t Factle]","https://www.nacubo.org/About/Who-We-Are
https://www.nacubo.org/Research/2021/NACUBO-TIAA-Study-of-Endowments
https://www.nacubo.org/Research/2021/Public-NTSE-Tables
https://www.nacubo.org/research/2021/historic%20endowment%20study%20data",https://app.openaxis.com/visualizations/3698
2022.09.28,5,Tech products promoted.,"For “The Gamer and the Nihilist,” an essay in Components, Andrew Thompson and collaborators created a dataset of 76,000+ tech products on Product Hunt, a popular social network for launching and promoting such things. The dataset includes the name, description, launch date, upvote count, and other details for every product from 2014 to 2021 in the platform’s sitemap. (“Based on experience, not every product that appears on Product Hunt seems to appear on the sitemap,” the authors caution.)","https://components.one/posts/gamer-and-nihilist-product-hunt
https://components.one/
https://twitter.com/asthompson
https://components.one/datasets/product-hunt-products
https://www.producthunt.com/about
https://www.sitemaps.org/index.html",
2022.10.05,1,Grid emissions.,"Ember, an “energy think tank that uses data-driven insights to shift the world from coal to clean electricity,” has begun  compiling annual and monthly statistics on electricity demand, generation, and estimated greenhouse gas emissions by country, standardized from national and international sources. The annual estimates span two decades and 200+ countries and territories; the monthly dataset provides somewhat less coverage. Both can also be explored online. Related: Singularity’s Open Grid Emissions initiative estimates the hourly grid emissions of balancing authorities and power plants in the US, currently for 2019 and 2020. Previously: Other energy-related datasets. [h/t Philippe Quirion]","https://ember-climate.org/
https://twitter.com/nicolasfulghum/status/1572974235932364800
https://ember-climate.org/data-catalogue/yearly-electricity-data/
https://ember-climate.org/data-catalogue/monthly-electricity-data/
https://ember-climate.org/data/data-explorer/
https://singularity.energy/
https://singularity.energy/open-grid-emissions
https://medium.com/singularity-energy/validating-real-time-electricity-emissions-rates-with-an-hourly-historical-benchmark-a9990a2c9049
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=27152
https://www.data-is-plural.com/collections/energy",https://twitter.com/pquirion1/status/1572997074207006720
2022.10.05,2,Chain and indie restaurants.,"Xiaofan Liang and Clio Andris of Georgia Tech’s Friendly Cities Lab have published a map and dataset examining the “chainness” of 700,000+ US restaurants. Starting with records provided by a marketing-data company, the researchers standardized the restaurants’ names, counted their frequencies, and classified them as chains (those with more than five outlets) or not. The dataset also lists each restaurant’s cuisine and location. As seen in: Andrew Van Dam’s exploration of the data for his new-ish Washington Post column, Department of Data.","https://www.xiaofanliang.com/
https://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/clio-andris
https://friendlycities.gatech.edu/team/
https://friendlycities-gatech.github.io/chainness/
https://github.com/friendlycities-gatech/chainness
https://leadsdeposit.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/29/chain-restaurant-capitals/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/29/dept-of-data/",
2022.10.05,3,Wildfire smoke pollution.,"Marissa L. Childs et al. have developed a “machine learning model of daily wildfire-driven PM2.5 concentrations using a combination of ground, satellite, and reanalysis data sources that are easy to update.” (PM2.5 refers to particulate matter 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller.) The researchers then used that model to generate daily smoke PM2.5 estimates for each county, Census tract, and 10-kilometer-grid tile in the contiguous US, for 2006–2020. Read more: Coverage and maps in the New York Times. [h/t George LeVines]","https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02934
https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basics
https://github.com/echolab-stanford/daily-10km-smokePM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/22/climate/wildfire-smoke-pollution.html",https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgelevines
2022.10.05,4,Federal audits.,"Nonprofits, state/local governments, and other noncommercial entities expending $750,000+ of federal funds in a year are required to undergo a standardized audit of their financials and compliance. The US Federal Audit Clearinghouse maintains a public database of those audits; it offers bulk downloads of the report data (about the auditee, auditor, findings, and more), as well a tool to search and access individual reports. [h/t Big Local News]","https://facweb.census.gov/Resources.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Audit
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/fac.html
https://facdissem.census.gov/PublicDataDownloads.aspx
https://facdissem.census.gov/Main.aspx",https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2022/09/28/introducing-audit-watch.html
2022.10.05,5,A decade of tasks.,"Between April 2009 and February 2019, software engineer Renzo Borgatti set 17,000+ daily tasks for himself. He completed slightly less than half of them. He labeled them with tags such as “@meeting”, “@talk”, and “@clojure”. He estimated how many “pomodoros” each would take, and how many they really did. We know this because Borgatti allowed Derek M. Jones to publish a partially-redacted dataset of his tracked tasks. Previously: One software company’s task estimates (DIP 2019.04.24), also published by Jones.","https://twitter.com/reborg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
https://shape-of-code.com/
https://shape-of-code.com/2019/12/15/the-renzo-pomodoro-dataset/
https://github.com/Derek-Jones/renzo-pomodoro
https://github.com/Derek-Jones/SiP_dataset
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-04-24-edition/",
2022.10.12,1,Work-related injury counts.,"The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires many (but not all) businesses to track employees’ work-related injuries and illnesses. Larger companies and those in high-risk industries must electronically submit annual counts to the agency. Thanks to freedom-of-information lawsuits by Reveal and Public Citizen, OSHA began to publish business-level data from those electronic submissions in 2020. The records, which go back to 2016, include each business’s name, location, industry, employee count, and employee hours worked, plus their reported number of deaths, injuries, skin disorders, respiratory conditions, poisonings, hearing loss, and other illnesses.","https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping
https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/presentations/exempttable
https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/forms
https://www.osha.gov/injuryreporting/
https://revealnews.org/blog/federal-judge-sides-with-reveal-ruling-injury-and-illness-data-is-public/
https://www.citizen.org/litigation/public-citizen-foundation-v-department-of-labor-osha-form-300a-records/
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osha/osha20200904
https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data",
2022.10.12,2,US hydrography.,"The National Hydrography Dataset, maintained by the US Geological Survey, “represents the water drainage network of the United States with features such as rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, coastline, dams, and streamgages.” You can download the NHD geospatial files by hydrologic unit or state, or for the entire nation. Related: A dataset of waterfalls and rapids in the contiguous US, linked to the NHD and sourced partly from Bryan Swan and Dean Goss’s World Waterfall Database. [h/t Malcolm Tunnell + Christopher Ingraham]","https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset
https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/access-national-hydrography-products
https://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc.html
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5e8d2b5982cee42d13466001
https://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/about
https://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/","https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/pcc3qr/comment/hahumk7/
https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/map-every-waterfall-in-the-lower"
2022.10.12,3,Rebel leaders.,"Benjamin Acosta et al.’s Rebel Organization Leaders Database “provides a wide range of biographical information on all top rebel, insurgent, and terrorist leaders who were active in civil wars between 1980 and 2011.” It includes each leader’s name, gender, education, religion, languages spoken, number of children, years in role, country fought against, cause of death, and much more. The database covers 425 individuals fighting against 80+ countries; the project also features written profiles for a sample of them.","https://www.rebelleaders.org/publications-research
https://www.rebelleaders.org/
https://www.rebelleaders.org/download
https://www.rebelleaders.org/leader-profile-examples",
2022.10.12,4,File formats.,"The US National Archives’ Digital Preservation Framework describes the agency’s risk assessments and recommended preservation plans for 600+ file formats. The framework’s documentation places each format into one of 16 categories, such as “digital audio,” “spreadsheets,” “navigational charts,” and “software and code.” In August, the agency added “linked open data” representations of the plans for each format. [h/t Elizabeth England]","https://www.archives.gov/preservation/digital-preservation/risk
https://github.com/usnationalarchives/digital-preservation/tree/master/Digital_Preservation_Risk_Matrix
https://github.com/usnationalarchives/digital-preservation/tree/master/Digital_Preservation_Plan_Spreadsheet
https://github.com/usnationalarchives/digital-preservation
https://www.archives.gov/preservation/digital-preservation/linked-data
https://www.archives.gov/preservation/digital-preservation/linked-data/browse",https://twitter.com/eengland__/status/1562819377204195328
2022.10.12,5,Wine economics.,"Researchers at the University of Adelaide’s Wine Economics Research Centre have compiled several longitudinal datasets. One, for example, quantifies the total area devoted to growing each grape variety in each country, 1960–2016. Another compiles various market statistics (e.g., national wine production, imports, exports) going back to 1835. Related: The International Organisation of Vine and Wine maintains a database of global and national statistics going back to 1995. As seen in: Jack Zhao’s exploration of the Adelaide data.","https://economics.adelaide.edu.au/wine-economics/
https://economics.adelaide.edu.au/wine-economics/databases
https://economics.adelaide.edu.au/wine-economics/databases#database-of-regional-national-and-global-winegrape-bearing-areas-by-variety-1960-to-2016
https://economics.adelaide.edu.au/wine-economics/databases#annual-database-of-global-wine-markets-1835-to-2019
https://www.oiv.int/
https://www.oiv.int/en/statistiques/recherche
https://blog.smallmultiples.com.au/2020/12/09/the-origins-and-production-of-wine-grapes/",
2022.10.19,1,Carbon pricing.,"In a paper published last month, Geoffroy Dolphin and Qinrui Xiahou describe their World Carbon Pricing Database. For each country (as well as each US state and certain other subnational jurisdictions), the database indicates the price per metric ton of CO2 equivalent associated with any carbon taxes and cap-and-trade mechanisms in place, for each year going back to 1990. It lists these prices for each combination of type of fuel and sectoral classification. Previously: The Voluntary Registry Offsets Database and the World Bank’s database of carbon pricing initiatives (DIP 2021.11.17).","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01659-x
http://geoffroydolphin.eu/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/qinrui-xiahou-13a211110/a
https://github.com/g-dolphin/WorldCarbonPricingDatabase
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/apr/27/co2e-global-warming-potential
https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/
https://gspp.berkeley.edu/faculty-and-impact/centers/cepp/projects/berkeley-carbon-trading-project/offsets-database
https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/map_data
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-11-17-edition/",
2022.10.19,2,UNICEF’s operations.,"The United Nations Children’s Fund is a signatory to the International Aid Transparency Initiative and, as such, publishes detailed data files describing its programs and activities around the world. The files are organized by country, updated monthly, and follow the initiative’s prescribed XML structure. They list each program’s name, organizations involved, locations, dates, budgets, spending, results, and more. You can also use UNICEF’s transparency portal to explore the data by program focus and country. [h/t Alexa Ighodaro]","https://iatistandard.org/en/
https://www.iatiregistry.org/publisher/unicef
https://iatistandard.org/en/iati-standard/203/activity-standard/
https://open.unicef.org/
https://open.unicef.org/index.php/program-fund-goal",https://twitter.com/Alexa_Ighodaro/status/1530147268791238660
2022.10.19,3,Community-moderated tweets.,"Twitter recently expanded its Birdwatch pilot program, which allows certain users to anonymously “identify Tweets they believe are misleading, write notes that provide context to the Tweet, and rate the quality of other contributors’ notes.” The company provides data on all submitted notes, ratings of notes, and note status histories, though it requires you to be logged-in and US-based to download the files. As seen in: “COVID misinfo is the biggest challenge for Twitter’s Birdwatch program, data shows,” from The Verge’s Corin Faife, who has published an interactive, downloadable table of the notes.","https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/6/23390761/twitter-birdwatch-community-moderation-expansion-misinformation-qanon
https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/
https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/signing-up/
https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/overview/
https://twitter.com/i/birdwatch/download-data
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/10/23393021/twitter-birdwatch-covid-misinformation-data-analysis-misinformation-fact-check
https://twitter.com/corintxt
https://theverge-bird-watch.herokuapp.com/Birdwatch/Birdwatch_Notes
https://theverge-bird-watch.herokuapp.com/Birdwatch",
2022.10.19,4,UK museums.,"The Mapping Museums project has assembled a searchable, browsable, and downloadable dataset of 4,000+ museums active in the United Kingdom between 1960 and 2020. It includes museums dedicated to art, war, local history, transport, drinks, and many other subjects. The records, collected and refined from a range of sources, indicate each museum’s name, location, size (small, medium, large, huge), topic, year opened/closed, accreditation, type of governance, and more.","https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/home
https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/search
https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/browseproperties
https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/data
https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/sources",
2022.10.19,5,Cattle brands.,"Kansas ranchers must register their cattle-branding symbols with the state’s agriculture department. For decades, the department published books listing all the registered brands, indexed using a custom coding system. Mason Youngblood et al. have assembled a dataset of 90,000+ such entries from the 1990, 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 books. Related: “Kansas Moves Cattle Brand Registration to the Cloud” (GovTech). [h/t Felix Riede + Dugald Foster]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_branding
https://cdm16884.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/search/searchterm/A53-8-B817-part/order/dated/ad/asc
https://psyarxiv.com/h5t7b/
https://github.com/masonyoungblood/cattle_brand_data
https://www.govtech.com/computing/kansas-moves-cattle-brand-registration-to-the-cloud.html","https://twitter.com/ARCHAEOfelix/status/1573592198238666752
https://twitter.com/DugaldFoster/status/1574436942112079874"
2022.10.26,1,Strategic petroleum.,"The US Energy Information Administration maintains a dataset tracking the monthly volume of the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, measured in the thousands of barrels. The figures go back to 1977, the year the first crude oil was delivered to the reserve, but lag by a couple of months; the end-of-August volume is scheduled for publication on October 31. Read more: The Department of Energy’s history of reserve releases. Previously: Petroleum Supply Monthly reports (DIP 2017.08.16) and weekly gas prices (DIP 2021.06.09), both also published by the EIA. [h/t u/CountBayesie]","https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCSSTUS1&f=M
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/strategic-petroleum-reserve
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/spr-quick-facts
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/history-spr-releases
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/monthly/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-08-16-edition/
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-06-09-edition/",https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/xyxfgh/us_strategic_petroleum_reserves_percent_change_oc/
2022.10.26,2,Internet service offers.,"For an investigation into speed disparities in internet service offers, published last week at The Markup, reporters Leon Yin and Aaron Sankin examined more than 1 million address-specific offers across dozens of US cities. To support the findings, they’ve shared the raw data gathered from ISPs’ websites, as well as tabular files that summarize each offer and attach the contextual variables used for the analysis. (Disclosure: I served, and am credited, as a “Data Coach” for this project.)","https://themarkup.org/still-loading/2022/10/19/dollars-to-megabits-you-may-be-paying-400-times-as-much-as-your-neighbor-for-internet-service
https://themarkup.org/show-your-work/2022/10/19/how-we-uncovered-disparities-in-internet-deals
https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-isp",
2022.10.26,3,Boston’s first women voters.,"The City of Boston’s Mary Eliza Project has been compiling a dataset of women who registered to vote in 1920, the year the 19th Amendment granted them that right. The dataset, transcribed from the original registration books, “is updated periodically as additional voter registers are transcribed.” It contains 6,000+ entries so far, each listing a voter’s name, registration date, ward, precinct, address, age, country of birth, occupation, husband’s information, and more. [h/t Julie Rosier]","https://www.boston.gov/departments/archives-and-records-management/mary-eliza-project-boston-women-voters-1920
https://www.boston.gov/departments/archives-and-records-management/mary-eliza-project-boston-women-voters-1920
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/1920-women-s-voter-register
https://www.boston.gov/news/mary-eliza-project-ward-8-voter-records-now-available",https://twitter.com/redthreadtweets/status/1577008369227157504
2022.10.26,4,Euro-area securities.,"The European Central Bank collects detailed records concerning the financial instruments issued and held by organizations and individuals under its jurisdiction. Its quarterly-updated Securities Holdings Statistics dataset, available through the ECB’s data warehouse, aggregates the latter by investor type (bank, non-bank company, pension fund, household, et cetera), investor country of residence, issuer country, type of financial instrument, and more. [h/t Martijn Boermans et al.]","https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/financial_markets_and_interest_rates/securities/html/index.en.html
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/financial_markets_and_interest_rates/securities/html/index.en.html#holdings
https://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/browseSelection.do?node=9700835
https://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/browseExplanation.do?node=9700835",https://www.suerf.org/suer-policy-brief/53201/country-biases-in-equity-portfolios-are-less-pronounced-and-less-irrational-than-one-might-think
2022.10.26,5,Gargantuan gourds.,"At BigPumpkins.com, you can find annual “weigh-off” results from 100+ local competitions affiliated with the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth, an international standards-setting organization. Although pumpkins represent the titular attraction, the site also publishes results for the squash, long gourd, watermelon, tomato, field pumpkin, bushel gourd, and marrow competition classes. HTML tables list each specimen’s weight, grower, location, weigh-off site, and lineage. [h/t Julia Silge + Tidy Tuesday].","http://www.bigpumpkins.com/
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=132
https://gpc1.org/","https://juliasilge.com/blog/giant-pumpkins/
https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2021/2021-10-19"
2022.11.02,1,Nuclear stockpiles.,"As of early 2022, a total of nine countries possessed approximately 12,700 nuclear warheads, according to estimates from the Federation of American Scientists. Although “the exact number of nuclear weapons in each country’s possession is a closely held national secret,” the researchers say that “publicly available information, careful analysis of historical records, and occasional leaks” make the estimates possible, albeit “with significant uncertainty.” The report includes each country’s current warhead count and subtotals by status, as well as annual totals for each country since 1945. As seen in: Our World In Data. Previously: Nuclear capabilities (DIP 2016.02.24) and explosions (DIP 2016.03.23). [h/t u/jcceagle]","https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/
https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-weapons
http://www.matthewfuhrmann.com/datasets.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-02-24-edition/
https://github.com/data-is-plural/nuclear-explosions
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-03-23-edition/",https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/y3o00f/oc_the_global_stockpile_of_nuclear_weapons/
2022.11.02,2,Decades of river widths.,"Dongmei Feng et al. have applied an algorithmic approach to calculating the widths of the world’s largest rivers over time. Their dataset contains more than 1 billion measurements of 2.7 million fluvial cross-sections (focusing on those wider than 90 meters), based on 1.2 million satellite images captured between 1984 and 2020. Previously: Free-flowing rivers (DIP 2019.07.24) and US hydrography (DIP 2022.10.12). [h/t Colin Gleason]","https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021WR031712
https://zenodo.org/record/6425657#.Y2AxIILMI-Q
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1111-9
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-07-24-edition/
https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-10-12-edition/",https://twitter.com/TheGeogrineer/status/1579857845759397894
2022.11.02,3,Flood insurance changes.,"FEMA recently revamped its method of pricing US flood insurance, aiming for “rates that are actuarily sound, equitable, easier to understand and better reflect a property’s flood risk.” A series of datasets and dashboards from the agency summarize the expected changes in premiums, which began taking effect last year. They count the number of policies for which monthly payments were projected to increase/decrease by a given amount, bucketed into ten-dollar increments, for each state, county, and ZIP code. As seen in: “How have flood insurance premiums changed?” (USAFacts).","https://www.fema.gov/flood-insurance/risk-rating
https://www.fema.gov/flood-insurance/risk-rating/profiles
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-flood-insurance-premiums-changed/",
2022.11.02,4,The weight of the web.,"Researchers at the HTTP Archive, a project of the Internet Archive, “periodically crawl the top sites on the web and record detailed information about fetched resources, used web platform APIs and features, and execution traces of each page.” They make the raw data available via Google BigQuery, and also publish aggregate data tracking metrics such as loading speed and page weight (measured in kilobytes transferred). As seen in: “Why web pages can have a size problem” (Datawrapper).","https://httparchive.org/
https://archive.org/
https://github.com/HTTPArchive/httparchive.org/blob/main/docs/gettingstarted_bigquery.md
https://httparchive.org/reports
https://httparchive.org/reports/loading-speed
https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight
https://blog.datawrapper.de/why-web-pages-can-have-a-size-problem/",
2022.11.02,5,Swiss apartment layouts.,"Swiss Dwellings “contains detailed data on over 42,500 apartments (250,000 rooms) in ~3,100 buildings including their geometries, room typology as well as their visual, acoustical, topological and daylight characteristics,” collected by Archilyse AG, a company that analyzes building plans. The details include the placement of rooms, features (e.g., sinks and bathtubs), walls, windows, doors, and more. [h/t Matthias Standfest + India in Pixels]","https://zenodo.org/record/7215005
https://www.archilyse.com/","https://twitter.com/MStandfest/status/1583745625341894656
https://twitter.com/indiainpixels/status/1578502689851592704"
2022.11.09,1,Income patterns.,"The Global Repository of Income Dynamics is a new “open-access international database that provides a wealth of micro statistics on income inequality and income dynamics.” It was constructed by an international team of economists using longitudinal administrative data and “designed from ground up with a focus on comparability across countries.” The project’s data access tool provides stats ranging from the widely-understood (e.g., share of income going to the top 1%) to the more specialized (e.g., kurtosis coefficients of various income-change distributions). It currently covers 13 countries (although access to the UK’s data is listed as “coming soon”), with timespans that typically stretch from the 1980s or 1990s to the mid/late-2010s.","https://www.grid-database.org/
https://twitter.com/fatihguvenen/status/1576960664534683648
https://www.grid-database.org/documentation
https://www.grid-database.org/team
https://data.grid-database.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis",
2022.11.09,2,Mine safety.,"The Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration “develops and enforces safety and health rules for all U.S. mines regardless of size, number of employees, commodity mined, or method of extraction.” Its Mine Data Retrieval System provides a search interface and downloads of records collected through this oversight role, including detailed information about individual accidents since January 2000, civil penalties, coal dust samples, mine owner and operator histories, employment and production levels, and more.","https://www.msha.gov/
https://www.msha.gov/mine-data-retrieval-system",
2022.11.09,3,Still’s freedom-seekers.,"William Still, a Philadelphia-based abolitionist and key leader of the Underground Railroad, kept records of the freedom-seekers he helped to escape the South, details of which he recounted in his 1872 magnum opus. In the early 2000s, the late James A. McGowan compiled those descriptions into a spreadsheet listing each runaway’s name, gender, age, date of escape, enslaver’s name, and more. William C. Kashatus’ 2021 biography of Still draws on McGowan’s efforts and other records to construct a listing of 995 runaways whom Still assisted, which historian Nick Sacco has converted into a spreadsheet. [h/t Eric Gardner]","http://stillfamily.library.temple.edu/stillfamily/exhibits/show/william-still
https://archive.org/details/undergroundrailr00stil/page/n7/mode/2up
http://web.archive.org/web/20160420195346/http://guides.temple.edu/c.php?g=77805&p=515005
https://www.historylive.net/
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268200367/william-still/
https://pastexplore.wordpress.com/about/
https://twitter.com/NickSacco55/status/1587582014974304261
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kwiUt3mO9ke96lgV9IoE9D3aq29MVgMC/edit",https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gardner-0531aa9/
2022.11.09,4,Sierra snowpack.,"For decades, UC Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Lab has been collecting daily temperature, snowfall, snowpack, and related measurements at its field station near Donner Pass. Until recently, the records were available only upon request. That changed last year, when the lab published a fully-public dataset of the daily measurements for October 1970 to September 2019.","https://cssl.berkeley.edu/
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/snowpack-data
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.6078%2FD1941T",
2022.11.09,5,The turkey industry.,"The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service publishes monthly and annual reports estimating the number of turkeys incubating, raised, slaughtered, and in cold storage, based on surveys and food-safety inspections. The reports contain semi-structured data tables, while more-structured data can be fetched through the agency’s Quick Stats tool and API. [h/t Emily Stewart + Walt Hickey]","https://www.nass.usda.gov/
https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/k643b117x?locale=en
https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/0g354f23n?locale=en
https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/3197xm04j?locale=en
https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/pg15bd892?locale=en
https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/
https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/api/","https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22770592/2021-thanksgiving-turkey-shortage-prices
https://numlock.substack.com/p/numlock-news-november-11-2021-bees"
2022.11.16,1,Big emitters.,"Climate TRACE, a nonprofit coalition launched in 2020, uses satellite imagery, sector-specific datasets, and other sources to estimate greenhouse gas emissions in detail. Their most recent inventory, released last week, highlights 70,000+ individual sites that “represent the top known sources of emissions in the power sector, oil and gas production and refining, shipping, aviation, mining, waste, agriculture, road transportation, and the production of steel, cement, and aluminum.” You can download the data, explore sector- and country-level estimates, and browse a map of the sites. Read more: Coverage in the New York Times. [h/t Ian Johnson]","https://climatetrace.org/
https://climatetrace.org/our-story
https://climatetrace.org/public/upload/files/62f50cfb415f6.pdf?v=1667641844
https://climatetrace.org/news/more-than-70000-of-the-highest-emitting-greenhouse-gas
https://climatetrace.org/downloads
https://climatetrace.org/inventory
https://climatetrace.org/map
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/climate/climate-change-emissions-satellites.html",https://enjalot.github.io/
2022.11.16,2,Disease outbreaks.,"Juan Armando Torres Munguía et al. have built a dataset of infectious disease outbreaks, based on information extracted from the World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News alerts (DIP 2022.03.30) and its coronavirus dashboard. The authors have clustered the outbreaks by disease (classified by ICD-10 and ICD-11 codes), country, and year. Excluding the COVID-19 pandemic, this leads to 1,500+ total combinations between January 1996 and March 2022, spanning 60+ diseases and 200+ countries/territories. [h/t Konstantin M. Wacker]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01797-2
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_global_dataset_of_pandemic-_and_epidemic-prone_disease_outbreaks/17207183/2
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-03-30-edition/
https://covid19.who.int/
https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en
https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en",https://twitter.com/KM_Wacker/status/1590766979501420544
2022.11.16,3,Permissively-licensed code.,"The Stack, a new dataset from the BigCode project, “contains over 3TB of permissively-licensed source code files covering 30 programming languages crawled from GitHub.” Those terabytes hold more than 300 million files extracted from repositories whose licenses place “minimal restrictions on how the software can be copied, modified, and redistributed.” The dataset provides the contents of each file along with its repository name, path, size, programming language, detected licenses, and several high-level metrics. Read more: An introductory Twitter thread and preprint paper. [h/t Karsten Johansson]","https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack
https://www.bigcode-project.org/
https://twitter.com/BigCodeProject/status/1585631176353796097
https://ml4code.github.io/publications/kocetkov2022stack/",https://ksaj.inlisp.org
2022.11.16,4,Impact craters.,"The Earth Impact Database, maintained by the University of New Brunswick’s Planetary and Space Science Centre, catalogs nearly 200 impact craters caused by meteorites that have crashed into the planet. It presents the name, location, diameter, estimated age, geology, and other features of the craters, as well as photographs and bibliographies. Related: Cody Winchester has scraped the crater characteristics into CSV and GeoJSON files.","http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/New%20website_05-2018/Index.html
http://www.passc.net/AboutUs/index.html
http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/New%20website_05-2018/IntrotoImpacts.html
https://codywinchester.com/
https://github.com/cjwinchester/earth-impact-data",
2022.11.16,5,Tinned fish.,"Rainbow Tomatoes Garden is a farm in East Greenville, Pennsylvania, that also happens to run an online store selling “the largest selection of tinned seafood in the world.” Curator-owner Dan Waber publishes a spreadsheet of the store’s 630+ offerings, listing each product’s name, type of seafood, brand, country of origin, tin size, and price; whether it’s organic, certified kosher, smoked, boneless, and/or skinless; and more. [h/t George Ho]","https://rainbowtomatoesgarden.com/
https://rainbowtomatoesgarden.com/index.php/product-category/conservas/
https://rainbowtomatoesgarden.com/index.php/product/ten-tins-to-try-and-why-by-dan-waber/
https://phillygrub.blog/2022/06/18/tomatoes-and-tinned-fish/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zjfwXVsGPfWw4ag3EHkT6ismDZhj8dlFwwahD7SG7gQ/edit
https://rainbowtomatoesgarden.com/index.php/choosing-a-tin/",https://www.georgeho.org/
2022.11.23,1,Presidential pardons.,"The US Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney reviews all federal clemency requests and advises the president on such matters. The office provides a search tool and spreadsheet with the names, case statuses, and decision dates for all 76,000+ pardon and commutation requests since 1989. It also publishes a series of tables, with varying structure, listing the people who received clemency from each president since Richard Nixon. Those tables additionally include recipients who did not submit formal requests and, for more recent presidents, details about the recipients’ offenses and sentences. Another page contains clemency statistics for each year and president since William McKinley.","https://www.justice.gov/pardon
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/search-clemency-case-status-since-1989
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-recipients
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-statistics",
2022.11.23,2,Radioactive waste.,"Through its Nuclear Fuel Data Survey, the US Energy Information Administration “collects data on spent nuclear fuel from all utilities that operate commercial nuclear reactors and from all others that possess irradiated fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.” The agency’s latest release, published last year with data through 2017, includes several basic tables. One tallies the annual amount of nuclear fuel discharged and stored at commercial sites since 1968, measured by assembly count and metric tons of uranium. As seen in: “As nuclear waste piles up, scientists seek the best long-term storage solutions” (Chemical & Engineering News, 2020).","https://www.eia.gov/Survey/#gc-859
https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/spent_fuel/
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=47796
https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/spent_fuel/ussnftab3.php
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/fuel-assembly-fuel-bundle-fuel-element.html
https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/nuclear-waste-pilesscientists-seek-best/98/i12",
2022.11.23,3,Songs of the world.,"In a paper published this month, researchers describe the Global Jukebox — an interactive map and compilation of datasets focused on traditional songs from around the world. The project traces its history back to initial prototypes in the 1980s by Alan Lomax, a musicologist who collected many of the recordings. The core dataset, called Cantometrics, encodes “37 aspects of musical style for 5,776 traditional songs from 1,026 societies.” Others include, for example, datasets of song instruments and phrasing patterns. [h/t Pat Savage]","https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275469
https://theglobaljukebox.org/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275469#pone-0275469-t001
https://www.culturalequity.org/alan-lomax/about-alan
https://github.com/theglobaljukebox/cantometrics
https://github.com/theglobaljukebox
https://github.com/theglobaljukebox/instruments
https://github.com/theglobaljukebox/minutage",https://twitter.com/PatrickESavage/status/1587914982028906496
2022.11.23,4,Semiconductor logistics.,"The Emerging Technology Observatory, a new initiative based at Georgetown University, aims to provide a “public platform for high-quality, actionable data resources on the global emerging technology landscape.” Their Advanced Semiconductor Supply Chain Dataset, which you can download and explore online, contains “manually compiled, high-level information about the tools, materials, processes, countries, and firms involved in the production of advanced logic chips.” [h/t Zach Arnold]","https://eto.tech/
https://eto.tech/blog/introducing-emerging-technology-observatory/
https://eto.tech/dataset-docs/chipexplorer/
https://github.com/georgetown-cset/eto-supply-chain/tree/main/data
https://chipexplorer.eto.tech/",https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/zachary-arnold/
2022.11.23,5,“Every Star Trek ever.”,"The dataset: Flourish Klink’s compilation of every official Star Trek book, audiobook, comic, episode, movie, and more. “My continuing mission: To consume every piece of Star Trek content ever made!” Previously: Star Trek computer-talk (DIP 2022.08.10) and a Star Trek API (DIP 2018.11.07). [h/t Lisa Cee]","https://www.airtable.com/universe/expsZ6vRPGwedtNfq/every-star-trek-book-ever?explore=true
https://www.flourishklink.com/
https://www.airtable.com/universe/expsZ6vRPGwedtNfq/every-star-trek-book-ever
https://www.speechinteraction.org/TNG/index.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-08-10-edition/
http://stapi.co/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-11-07-edition/",https://twitter.com/LisaCee14/status/1589410428060565504
2022.11.30,1,Pills.,"From its launch in 2009 until its retirement last year, the National Library of Medicine’s Pillbox project collected and created 8,600+ photographs of medical pills. The images, which are still available to download, are accompanied by a dataset that provides information on 83,000+ pills’ shape, size, color, markings, dosage, and other characteristics derived from drug labels. Related: The library’s DailyMed service provides frequently-updated images and data from 140,000+ labels submitted to the FDA for drugs and other regulated products. As seen in: Jon Keegan’s Pillbox overview in Beautiful Public Data. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://web.archive.org/web/20201021105954/https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja20/ja20_pillbox_discontinue.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20201021105954/https://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/pill_image.html
https://datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov/Drugs-and-Chemicals/Pillbox-retired-January-28-2021-/crzr-uvwg
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/spl-resources.cfm
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about-dailymed.cfm
https://mastodon.social/@jonkeegan
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-pillbox-database/
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/492-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2022.11.30,2,Per-pupil spending.,"The National Education Resource Database on Schools (“NERD$”) describes itself as the “first-ever national dataset of public K-12 spending by school.” Its researchers, based at Georgetown University, aggregate and standardize the expenditure disclosures that the Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to publish. You can explore and download the data they’ve processed for fiscal year 2019, including spending totals, enrollment counts, and normalized figures that facilitate cross-state comparisons. For 2020–22, you can access “the raw files we obtain from states while our team conducts validation checks and norms the data.” As seen in: “How much money do states spend on education?” (USAFacts). [h/t Douglas Hummel-Price]","https://edunomicslab.org/nerds/
https://edunomicslab.org/2018/03/28/interstate-financial-reporting/
https://www.ed.gov/ESSA/
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-money-do-states-spend-on-education/",https://twitter.com/DataDHP/status/1564333211261476864
2022.11.30,3,Travelers’ coronavirus variants.,"In the past year, the CDC’s Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance program has collected 60,000+ voluntary nasal swabs from people disembarking international flights at four major US airports. The agency uses the samples as an “early warning system” to detect emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and publishes weekly metrics that include participation counts, positivity rates (per pooled sample), and variant distributions. Read more: An interview with two private-industry experts working on the program, by the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s Betsy Ladyzhets.","https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/travel-genomic-surveillance
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#traveler-genomic-surveillance
https://coviddatadispatch.com/2022/11/06/how-testing-international-travelers-helps-the-cdc-keep-tabs-on-new-variants/
https://coviddatadispatch.com/
https://betsyladyzhets.com/",
2022.11.30,4,Indonesia earthquake intensities.,"Gempa Nusantara, a database compiled by Stacey S. Martin et al., uses historical documents to catalog 7,300+ “macroseismic effects” of 1,200 earthquakes near Indonesia during a four-century span, from 1546 to 1950. It provides summaries of the local reports and categorizes the effects according to the European Macroseismic Scale, which focuses on the intensity of ground-shaking and potential impacts on buildings and terrain.","https://github.com/7point1/GempaNusantara
https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220047
https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/seismic-hazard-and-risk-dynamics/data-products-services/ems-98-european-macroseismic-scale/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_macroseismic_scale",
2022.11.30,5,More roadkill.,"Florian Heigl et al. have compiled a pair of datasets containing 15,000+ reports of vertebrate roadkill from 2014 to 2020, submitted by 900+ people through a phone app. The datasets differ in identification confidence, but both provide locations, dates, and taxonomic classifications. Although the records span 40+ countries, the majority come from Austria, where the project is now focused. Previously: Andean roadkill (DIP 2021.07.07).","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01599-6
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d0d5ef85-71b2-4da6-b6f6-c1c3d60987d3
https://zenodo.org/record/5878813
https://roadkill.at/en
https://roadkill.at/en/about/faqsen
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.xwdbrv1cp
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-07-07-edition/",
2022.12.07,1,Work stoppages.,"The US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Work Stoppages program collects and publishes data on “major work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers lasting one full shift or longer.” The program’s main dataset lists each major strike or lockout since 1993, the organizations involved, employer industry and ownership type, start and end dates, number of workers participating, and total worker-days idle. Its annual dataset counts the number of major stoppages, workers involved, and worker-days idle for each year since 1947. Related: The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service used to publish data on all stoppages that its mediators entered into its case system (regardless of number of workers involved), but stopped doing so in late 2020. Forest Gregg has rescued and standardized the archived records. [h/t Chartr]","https://www.bls.gov/wsp/home.htm
https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/wsp/data.htm
https://www.bls.gov/web/wkstp/monthly-listing.htm
https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/wsp/concepts.htm
https://www.bls.gov/web/wkstp/annual-listing.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20210105232710/https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/documents-and-data/#tab-490260b30b23e527b80
https://mastodon.social/@fgregg
https://github.com/labordata/fmcs-work-stoppage",https://read.chartr.co/newsletters/2022/11/25/plowing-on
2022.12.07,2,Avian flu detections.,"The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has been tracking local cases of avian influenza detected this year in commercial and backyard flocks, as well as in wild birds and in mammals. For each infected flock, the agency’s public data indicate the flock’s state, county, producer type, number of birds affected, and confirmation date. The mammal and wild bird data indicate the state, county, date detected, flu strain, and species. Read more: “More Than 52 Million Birds in the U.S. Are Dead Because of Avian Flu” (Smithsonian Magazine). [h/t Ed Vine]","https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/2022-hpai
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-wild-birds
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-mammals
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-than-52-million-birds-dead-because-of-avian-flu-in-us-180981215/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347
2022.12.07,3,Social media suppression.,"Researchers at Surfshark have been monitoring government-imposed social media shutdowns and restrictions, drawing on reports from NetBlocks, AccessNow (DIP 2021.11.03), news publications, and other sources. The project’s spreadsheet highlights each case from 2015 to the present; it lists the country, start/end date, particular services affected (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.), and observed connections to political events (e.g., elections, protests, other turmoil). [h/t Agneska Sablovskaja]","https://surfshark.com/about-us
https://surfshark.com/research/internet-censorship/social-media
https://netblocks.org/
https://www.accessnow.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-11-03-edition/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/122netE-cbusPi00GzXqfSvKPjFDxW_9LKeVfPqWyv04/edit#gid=1765756421",https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnesab/
2022.12.07,4,Literature prizewinners.,"Claire Grossman et al. have compiled a dataset of “the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genre between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over.” The 7,100+ entries, shared through the Post45 Data Collective, relate to 50 awards and fellowships, plus the Library of Congress’s poet laureateship. Each entry indicates the prize name, institution, type, genre, year, and dollar amount, plus the winner/judge name, gender, and educational affiliations. [h/t Melanie Walsh]","https://www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-to-be-a-writer/
https://view.data.post45.org/mlpwinners
https://data.post45.org/",https://twitter.com/mellymeldubs/status/1599793416019513344
2022.12.07,5,Video games.,"Developer Vladimir Belyaev has constructed a dataset representing “all games available” on Steam, the massively popular video game platform and store. It indicates each game’s name, price, developer, languages, genre categories, ratings from third-party websites, and more. [h/t Saul Pwanson]","https://github.com/leinstay
https://github.com/leinstay/steamdb
https://store.steampowered.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(service)",https://www.saul.pw/
2022.12.14,1,Flu trends.,"The CDC’s Influenza Division collaborates with state and local health departments, hospitals, laboratories, and other partners to keep tabs on flu trends. Its Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report tracks case counts, positivity rates, strain distribution, and other metrics that you can explore and download through an interactive dashboard. The records go back to the 1997–98 flu season and are available at a national, regional, and state level. Read more: “The US has never recorded this many positive flu tests in one week” (Vox). [h/t Jay Arthur]","https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluviewinteractive.htm
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html
https://www.vox.com/2022/12/6/23494948/flu-influenza-rsv-covid-vaccine-chart-tripledemic-tridemic",https://www.qimacros.com/lean-six-sigma-blog/category/improvement-insights/
2022.12.14,2,University enrollments.,"Elizabeth Buckner’s Global Longitudinal University Enrollment Dataset “compiles and estimates institution-level enrollment data on universities worldwide from 1950 to 2020” at five-year intervals — 17,000+ institutions in all, across 180+ countries. In addition to enrollment figures, the dataset “includes a number of other useful variables on institutional characteristics, merged from various sources, including sector (i.e., public/private), founding year, and whether the institution is PhD granting or not.” It also forms the basis of an accompanying, country-level dataset.","https://elizabethbuckner.com/
https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/15729
https://borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP3/P0D1KE&version=1.0
https://borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP3/AJGTC9",
2022.12.14,3,Jewish texts.,"Sefaria, a nonprofit co-founded a decade ago by author Joshua Foer and engineer Brett Lockspeiser, is “assembling a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation.” Those texts include the Torah itself, plus rabbinic scholarship, legal works, prayer books, historical dictionaries, and more. In all, the project contains more than 300 million words and has generated 3 million intertextual links between them. The initiative provides its data via an API and bulk download, and its code is open-source. Read more: “The quest to put the Talmud online” (Washington Post, 2018). [h/t Avi Levin]","https://www.sefaria.org/
https://www.sefaria.org/about
https://joshuafoer.com/
https://brettlockspeiser.com/
https://www.sefaria.org/texts
https://www.sefaria.org/metrics
https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Project/wiki/API-Documentation
https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Export
https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Project
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2018/09/18/quest-put-talmud-online/",https://twitter.com/Arithmomaniac
2022.12.14,4,Women’s college basketball rosters.,"Students in Derek Willis’s “Sports Data Analysis & Visualization” course at the University of Maryland’s journalism school have assembled data on 13,000+ players on women’s college basketball teams, sourced from 900+ rosters for the 2022–23 NCAA season. Their main dataset lists each player’s name, team, position, jersey number, height, year, hometown, high school, and more.","https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/derek-willis
https://app.testudo.umd.edu/soc/202208/JOUR/JOUR479X
https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1600946516272861185
https://github.com/Sports-Roster-Data/womens-college-basketball",
2022.12.14,5,Mastodon membership.,"The open-source website instances.social tracks 16,000+ servers running Mastodon, the most prominent of the decentralized social networks seen as alternatives to Twitter. It collects each server’s domain, name, description, user count, status count, and more. Since late November, Simon Willison has been creating a longitudinal record of the site’s directory and charting the overall trend.","https://github.com/TheKinrar/instances
https://instances.social/
https://joinmastodon.org/
https://simonwillison.net/
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/20/tracking-mastodon/
https://observablehq.com/@simonw/mastodon-users-and-statuses-over-time",
2022.12.21,1,Inmate call costs.,"In its latest “State of Phone Justice” report, the Prison Policy Initiative has compiled data on the price of inmate phone calls “for almost every jail and prison in the country.” One table lists each jail’s name, state, type, average daily population, telecom company, and the per-minute cost of in-state and out-of-state calls in 2021. As the report’s methodology explains, those figures are based on forms that telecom providers must submit to the Federal Communications Commission, with “additional corrections and updates based on our research.” Additional tables examine phone rates in state prisons over time (supplemented by previous collection efforts), state averages for local jails, and more. [h/t Mike Wessler]","https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/state_of_phone_justice_2022.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/state_of_phone_justice_2022.html#appendices
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/appendices2022_3.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/state_of_phone_justice_2022.html#methodology
https://www.fcc.gov/general/ics-data-collections
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/appendices2022_1.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/appendices2022_5.html",https://www.prisonpolicy.org/staff.html#wessler
2022.12.21,2,State-authorized sports betting.,"Legal Sports Report, a gambling industry publication, has been tracking the amount of money legally wagered on sports in each US state, the amount kept by sportsbooks, and how much the government collected in taxes or revenue-sharing. Monthly figures, drawn from linked official sources, are available as HTML tables for more than two dozen states. The site also tracks state legislation on sports betting. As seen in: “How an Arizona Lobbying Frenzy Helped Sports App Bookies Write Their Own Rules” (Bloomberg). [h/t Veronika Halamková]","https://www.legalsportsreport.com/
https://www.legalsportsreport.com/sports-betting/revenue/
https://www.legalsportsreport.com/sportsbetting-bill-tracker/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-02/how-a-lobbying-frenzy-helped-sports-betting-apps-write-their-own-rules",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-6-2022/
2022.12.21,3,Drone registrations.,"Through a FOIA request to the Federal Aviation Administration, Ben Welsh has obtained data on all “small unmanned aircraft” (popularly known as drones) actively registered with the agency through 2021 — nearly 900,000 registrations in all. The spreadsheets, provided separately for commercial and recreational registrations, list each drone’s type and model, Remote ID capability, and registration date, plus the registrant’s city, state, and postcode. Related: Welsh, a journalist and newly-licensed  commercial drone pilot, has filed many data FOIA requests, including one that pried loose the FAA’s drone accident database (released, alas, as a PDF). [h/t MuckRock]","https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/database-of-14-cfr-part-48-registered-drones-132943/
https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/register_drone
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/small-unmanned-aircraft-systems-uas-regulations-part-107
https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_flyers
https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id/drone_pilots
https://www.reddit.com/r/drones/comments/xprv3n/comment/iq5ggqq/
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?user=7842&sort=date_submitted&order=desc
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/database-of-suas-drone-accident-reports-132824/
https://www.reddit.com/r/drones/comments/z1xtmq/faa_drone_accident_report_database_released_via/",https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=74862d74361490eca930f4384&id=3c6d3a8554
2022.12.21,4,Folklore motifs.,"Decades ago, anthropologist Yuri Berezkin began systematically assembling what would later become the Electronic Analytical Catalogue of Folklore and Mythological Motifs, which identifies thousands of recurring narrative elements and their presence within nearly 1,000 societies’ stories. In a paper published last year, Stelios Michalopoulos and Melanie Meng Xue describe the resource, analyze it, and share a database snapshot from October 2019.","https://www.helsinki.fi/assets/drupal/2022-12/rmn_10_2015.pdf?page=58
https://www.kunstkamera.ru/en/research/academic_board/yuri_e_berezkin
https://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/berezkin/
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/136/4/1993/6124640
https://sites.google.com/site/steliosecon/
https://www.melaniexue.net/
https://broadstreet.blog/2021/05/14/folklore-a-window-into-the-past/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IXOHKB",
2022.12.21,5,Ski trails.,"Contributors to skimap.org have posted 16,000+ maps of ski trails across the world. You can programmatically access the (mostly image-based) maps as well as data on individual regions and ski areas. OpenSkiMap, meanwhile, combines that information with OpenStreetMap records to provide an interactive map (and structured data) of ski areas, lifts, and runs. [h/t Luz K. Molina]","https://skimap.org/
https://skimap.org/Regions/view
https://skimap.org/pages/Developers
https://openskimap.org/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
https://openskimap.org/?about",https://databayou.com/ski/resorts.html
2023.01.04,1,Prison-banned books.,"The Marshall Project is building a database of books banned from state prisons, based on official lists that reporters requested from each state’s correctional agency. The browsable and downloadable database includes roughly 50,000 entries from 18 states so far, with plans for expansion. The fields include the book’s title, author, date banned, and reason for banning, although availability varies by state. (Disclosure: I did some contract work for this project, extracting data from PDFs.) Read more: “Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the System,” by Marshall Project reporter Keri Blakinger. Previously: School-banned books (DIP 2022.07.06).","https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/12/21/prison-banned-books-list-find-your-state
https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/prison-banned-books
https://www.jsvine.com/consulting/pdf-data-extraction/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/12/21/prison-banned-books-new-york-florida-censorship
https://pen.org/banned-in-the-usa/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-07-06-edition/",
2023.01.04,2,Severe weather warnings.,"Among its many services, the Iowa Environmental Mesonet provides a range of National Weather Service data interfaces and downloads, including current and historical severe weather warnings, watches, and advisories. Coverage for tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, and marine warnings goes back to 1986; in more recent decades, the data include dozens of additional phenomena, such as freezing fog, high surf, dense smoke, and excessive heat. The records indicate each alert’s geospatial boundaries, time of issuance and expiration, forecast office, status, and more.","https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/nws/
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/gis/watchwarn.phtml
https://github.com/akrherz/pyIEM/blob/d7afb8de354775e922cb8ce3d8f865871e78f179/src/pyiem/nws/vtec.py#L43
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/info/datasets/vtec.html",
2023.01.04,3,Congregations and adherents.,"A successor to the federal government’s Census of Religious Bodies (1890–1936), the US Religion Census is now conducted every 10 years by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. The researchers approach “formal denominations and religious groups,” from which they collect “data on the number of congregations, members, adherents, and attendees” at a county level. Results for the 2021 study, available as spreadsheets and maps, include responses from 370+ faith groups. Previously: The National Congregations Study (DIP 2021.12.29). [h/t Adam Porter]","https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/about-census
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2010/01/26/a-brief-history-of-religion-and-the-u-s-census/
https://www.usreligioncensus.org/
http://www.asarb.org/
https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/methods
https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/data_collected
https://www.usreligioncensus.org/node/1639
https://sites.duke.edu/ncsweb/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-12-29-edition/",https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/zh4358/but_where_do_folks_actually_attend_church_oc/
2023.01.04,4,UAE art establishments.,"As part of her doctoral research into the role of women in the United Arab Emirates’ art scene, Eve Grinstead has compiled three tables of relevant data, listing 99 galleries, nine fairs, and eight auction houses in the country. Each row includes the establishment’s name, date founded, specialty, owners/founders, city (or Dubai neighborhood), and Grinstead’s notes.","https://ihmc.ens.psl.eu/-GRINSTEAD-Eve-.html?lang=en
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/SWDKKK",
2023.01.04,5,One billionaire’s donations.,"Last month, billionaire MacKenzie Scott unveiled a website for her philanthropic efforts. It features a downloadable table that lists 1,600+ donations doled out since 2019, with each gift’s year, amount (replaced with “disclosure delayed for benefit of recipient” for 28% of entries), and recipient organization. Read more: “MacKenzie Scott reveals details of her $14bn in donations to 1,600 non-profits” (The Guardian). [h/t The Morning News]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Scott
https://yieldgiving.com/
https://yieldgiving.com/gifts/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/15/mackenzie-scott-billionaire-donations-non-profits",https://themorningnews.org/post/saturday-headlines-keep-your-twin-up
2023.01.11,1,Automobile recalls.,"In the US, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration oversees all recalls of vehicles, tires, child safety seats, and other auto equipment. Through the agency’s recall portal, you can search by vehicle identification number, make, model, and year; for other types of recalls, you can search by brand and model. The agency also provides a dataset of all 26,000+ recalls since 1966. It lists the recall type, manufacturer’s name, component, number of units potentially affected, and date the manufacturer notified NHTSA, plus descriptions of the problem, recall action, and remedy. [h/t Chartr]","https://www.nhtsa.gov/
https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number
https://datahub.transportation.gov/Automobiles/Recalls-Data/6axg-epim",https://read.chartr.co/newsletters/2022/11/23/total-recalls
2023.01.11,2,Small-business loans.,"The US Small Business Administration publishes loan-level data from two of its major lending programs, known as 7(a) and 504, going back to the early 1990s. The records, updated quarterly, indicate each loan’s amount, term, interest rate, approval date, and current status; borrower type, name, and location; bank name and location; and more. As seen in: The Black Wealth Data Center’s business ownership indicators. Previously: SBA data on loans provided through the pandemic-instigated Paycheck Protection Program (DIP 2020.07.08).","https://data.sba.gov/dataset/7-a-504-foia
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/7a-loans
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/504-loans
https://blackwealthdata.org/
https://blackwealthdata.org/explore/business
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program/ppp-data
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-07-08-edition/",
2023.01.11,3,European Parliamentarians.,"Political scientist Eugenio Salvati has created a dataset of all European Parliament members who’ve held office for at least one month since 1979, the EU legislative body’s first year of direct elections. For each five-year cycle, Salvati’s spreadsheets list each member’s name, country, gender, parliament role, EP political group, local political party, previous political experience, and more. Entries for the 2019–2024 cohort also indicate committee membership. Previously: LobbyFacts.eu (DIP 2017.08.02).","https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eugenio-Salvati
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14789299221135239
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/V2FJEF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_European_Parliament
https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-08-02-edition/",
2023.01.11,4,"Star light, star bright.","A variable star is one whose brightness appears (from Earth) to vary over time. The American Association of Variable Star Observers, founded in 1911, maintains a database of “tens of millions variable star observations going back over one hundred years,” making it “the largest and most comprehensive digital variable star database of its kind in the world.” You can download star details from the association’s star index, and also download any given star’s set of observations. [h/t Peter Corless]","https://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/senior/astrophysics/variable_types.html
https://www.aavso.org/
https://www.aavso.org/aavso-international-database-aid
https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php
https://www.aavso.org/data-download",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29802393
2023.01.11,5,NYC pizza slices.,"“Starting in 2014, I logged every slice of pizza I ate in New York City on the Instagram account NYC Slice,” writes reporter Liam Quigley, who has published a map, price chart, searchable table, and spreadsheet of the first 464 slices. The data include each slice’s date, location, style, and price. “I did not rate the slices to avoid controversy and bribes. The biggest thing I have noticed is the decline in the amount of sauce put on slices.”","https://www.instagram.com/nycslice/
https://elkue.com/
https://elkue.com/nyc-slice/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EY3oi9ttxybG0A0Obtwey6BFu7QLqdHe02JApijgztg/edit",
2023.01.18,1,Unreturned remains.,"“The remains of more than 110,000 Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Natives’ ancestors are still held by museums, universities and federal agencies,” according to The Repatriation Project, a ProPublica investigative series launched last week. The project’s interactive database provides more detailed figures — such as counts by institution, tribe, and geography. It builds upon National Park Service databases that track institutional compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, including each institution’s self-reported counts of human remains and funerary objects not yet made available for return and compliance updates published in the Federal Register. Event: ProPublica is hosting a webinar at 4pm US Eastern today.","https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-human-remains
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-repatriation-project
https://projects.propublica.org/repatriation-nagpra-database/
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/databases.htm
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/index.htm
https://grantsdev.cr.nps.gov/NagpraPublic/Home/Inventory
https://grantsdev.cr.nps.gov/NagpraPublic/Home/Notice
https://www.propublica.org/events/repatriation
https://time.is/compare/4pm_18_Jan_2023_in_New_York",
2023.01.18,2,Money in UK politics.,"The Westminster Accounts, a recent collaboration between Sky News and Tortoise Media, examines the flow of money through UK politics. It does so by combining data from three key sources: the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, Electoral Commission records of donations to parties, and the Register of All-Party Parliamentary Groups. You can search and explore the results through the collaboration’s interactive database. They haven’t published a downloadable version yet, but Simon Willison has extracted one. Read more: The project’s methodology.","https://news.sky.com/story/the-westminster-accounts-12786091
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/01/08/letting-the-light-in/
https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/registers-of-interests/register-of-members-financial-interests/
http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Search/Donations
https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/registers-of-interests/register-of-all-party-party-parliamentary-groups/
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/westminster-accounts-explore/
https://news.sky.com/story/westminster-accounts-search-for-your-mp-or-enter-your-full-postcode-12771627
https://til.simonwillison.net/shot-scraper/scraping-flourish
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/01/08/the-westminster-accounts-methodology/",
2023.01.18,3,Brazilian biodiversity.,"Flora e Funga do Brasil, a project led by the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute, aims to collect “morphological descriptions, identification keys and illustrations for all species of plants, algae and fungi known to the country.” With the help of hundreds of scientists, the project currently covers 50,000+ species. A downloadable dataset links each species’ various names and synonyms, geographic distribution, reference citations, and more. [h/t Grist Labs]","https://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ConsultaPublicaUC.do#CondicaoTaxonCP
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tax.12640
https://ipt.jbrj.gov.br/jbrj/resource?r=lista_especies_flora_brasil",https://www.getgrist.com/blog/relational-spreadsheets-protect-brazil-plants-conservation/
2023.01.18,4,Government open-source policies.,"Researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies have compiled a dataset of 660+ government policies regarding open-source software proposed at the national level since 1999. The dataset indicates each proposed policy’s country, year, title, issuing authority, stated objective, status, and more. The countries with the largest number of entries: Argentina, the US, and South Korea. [h/t Kevin Xu]","https://www.csis.org/programs/about-us
https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program/government-open-source-software-policies
https://github.com/github/government-open-source-policies
https://github.com/github/government-open-source-policies/tree/main/data
https://github.github.io/government-open-source-policies/",https://github.com/khxu
2023.01.18,5,Food coloring.,"Arlie L. Lehmkuhler et al. have used high-performance liquid chromatography to assemble a dataset measuring the levels of “FD&C” color additives (e.g., Yellow 5 and Red 40) in foods and drinks popular with children, such as breakfast cereals and fruit-flavored soft drinks. The results, organized by product category, include product- and dye-specific measurements, but do not name the particular products or brands.","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340922010095
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_liquid_chromatography
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/7rpwxrphws/1
https://www.fda.gov/industry/color-additive-inventories/summary-color-additives-use-united-states-foods-drugs-cosmetics-and-medical-devices#table1B",
2023.01.25,1,More recalls.,"DIP 2023.01.11 featured vehicle recall data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Other US federal agencies publishing recall data include the Food and Drug Administration, whose dataset contains 81,000+ entries related to food, drugs, medical devices, and related products going back to 2012; the Consumer Product Safety Commission, whose database spans 8,500+ recalls since 1973; and the Coast Guard, whose listing of 1,600+ boat recalls is not downloadable but seems possible to scrape. [Update, 2023-02-01: Reader Michael Nolan took up the boat-recall challenge; here’s the dataset he extracted.] Also: Vehicle recall data from Canadian and UK regulators. Previously: International medical device recalls from ICIJ’s Implant Files (DIP 2019.04.17).","https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-01-11-edition/
https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls
https://datadashboard.fda.gov/ora/cd/recalls.htm
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls
https://uscgboating.org/content/recalls.php
https://m-nolan.github.io/
https://github.com/m-nolan/USCG_Boat_Recalls
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/1ec92326-47ef-4110-b7ca-959fab03f96d
https://www.check-vehicle-recalls.service.gov.uk/recall-type/vehicle/make
https://medicaldevices.icij.org/p/about
https://medicaldevices.icij.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-04-17-edition/",
2023.01.25,2,Jazz solos.,"The Jazzomat Research Project, hosted at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, aims “to investigate the creative processes underlying jazz solo improvisations with the help of statistical and computational methods.” The project’s main database contains transcriptions and analyses of 450+ solos by John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and dozens of other artists. The downloadable version includes each “event” in each solo: its pitch, loudness, time of onset, duration, and more. As seen in: “What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery” (NPR). [h/t Juan Pablo Marín Díaz]","https://jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de/
https://www.hfm-weimar.de/en/start
https://jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de/dbformat/dboverview.html
https://jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de/dbformat/dbcontent.html
https://jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de/download/download.html
https://jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de/dbformat/dbformat.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/18/1139783203/what-makes-songs-swing-physicists-unravel-jazz-mystery",https://twitter.com/jpmarindiaz
2023.01.25,3,Overdose-related “Good Samaritan” laws.,"Shane W. Reader et al. have compiled data on US state laws that “prevent or mitigate criminal consequences for activities pertaining to controlled substances for persons who call 911 to report a drug overdose.” Their dataset spans April 2007 to June 2022 and covers all 50 states, plus DC. The details include the types of people protected (e.g., the person overdosing, the caller, self-reporters), the kinds of protection conferred (e.g., with regard to arrests, charges, sentencing), the types of violations protected, and more.","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0955395922003127
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/r65b6hrdhm/2",
2023.01.25,4,Upcoming weather.,"Alexander Rey’s Pirate Weather aims to be a “drop in replacement” for DarkSky’s weather forecast API, which is shutting down. It pulls data from several NOAA forecast models in order to provide minute-level, hourly, and daily predictions of temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, and more. Note: The API is free to use but is limited to 20,000 calls per month. Related: Pirate Weather powers Merry Sky, a website built by Guillaume Carbonneau. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://alexanderrey.ca/
https://pirateweather.net/
https://darksky.net/dev
https://blog.darksky.net/dark-sky-has-a-new-home/
https://docs.pirateweather.net/en/latest/#data-sources
https://merrysky.net/
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/tech/article/dwight-silverman-dark-sky-merry-sky-17728129.php
https://github.com/guillaume",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/501-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2023.01.25,5,Cats on the move.,"Between 2013 and 2017, Roland Kays et al. convinced hundreds of volunteers in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand to strap GPS sensors on their pet cats. The aforelinked datasets include each cat’s characteristics (such as age, sex, neuter status, hunting habits) and timestamped GPS pings. Related: CatTracker.org, the homepage for the US branch of the project, features a cat-track browser. Previously: Cat meows (DIP 2021.06.30). [h/t Rika Fujiwara + Soph Warnes]","https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12563
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.885
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.882
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.876
https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.879
https://cattracker.org/
https://cattracker.org/tracks/
https://zenodo.org/record/4008297#.Y86t4uLMI-Q
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-06-30-edition/","https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/rika.fujiwara/viz/CatsTripGPStrackingdataofdomesticcatsintheUS/board
https://fairwarning.substack.com/p/fair-warning-why-not-have-bar-charts"
2023.02.01,1,Women’s well-being.,"Camille Belmin et al.’s LivWell dataset presents “a set of key indicators on women’s socio-economic status, health and well-being, access to basic services and demographic outcomes” in 447 regions of 52 countries from 1990 to 2019. The indicators include, for example, rates of home ownership, educational attainment, and domestic violence; they’re based primarily on data from the Demographic and Health Surveys Program, a USAID-funded initiative that, since 1984, “has provided technical assistance to more than 400 surveys in over 90 countries, advancing global understanding of health and population trends in developing countries.” Read more: An introductory Twitter thread from Belmin.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01824-2
https://zenodo.org/record/7277104
https://dhsprogram.com/data/
https://dhsprogram.com/
https://dhsprogram.com/Who-We-Are/About-Us.cfm
https://twitter.com/BelminCamille/status/1597948618220384256",
2023.02.01,2,Radiation-contaminated waste.,"The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates the disposal of “low-level” radioactive waste — “items that have become contaminated with radioactive material or have become radioactive through exposure to neutron radiation,” such as protective equipment and cleaning supplies. The NRC provides annual statistics (facility, volume, and total curies) for the country’s four active disposal sites. The Department of Energy’s Manifest Information Management System provides more detailed figures, with breakdowns by month, state of origin, waste classification, isotope, and more. Previously: Data from the Nuclear Fuel Data Survey (DIP 2022.11.23).","https://www.nrc.gov/waste/llw-disposal.html
https://www.nrc.gov/waste/low-level-waste.html
https://www.nrc.gov/waste/llw-disposal/licensing/statistics.html
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/curie-ci.html
https://www.nrc.gov/waste/llw-disposal/licensing/locations.html
https://mims.doe.gov/Default.aspx
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/waste-classification-classes-of-waste.html
https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/spent_fuel/
https://www.eia.gov/Survey/#gc-859
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-11-23-edition/",
2023.02.01,3,Novel dialogue.,"Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla et al.’s Project Dialogism Novel Corpus contains every quotation from 22 novels, plus who speaks each line, who they’re addressing, the characters they mention, and more. With 35,000+ quotations, the corpus “is by an order of magnitude the largest dataset of annotated quotations for literary texts in English.” Jane Austen is the most-represented author (five novels), followed by E.M. Forster (two). The researchers have also published a document that they “hope will help standardize future annotation work in this domain.”","https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05836
https://github.com/Priya22/project-dialogism-novel-corpus
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eBsX2rjdLBkmA-kWB_jHCxC1nmbzinH04WUg9PeN_2A/edit",
2023.02.01,4,Browser capabilities.,"Alexis Deveria’s caniuse.com indicates which versions of which web browsers support various web technologies, such as CSS’s grid layout, the WebP image format, and the Image Capture API. The project’s dataset covers 530+ technologies and 19 browsers (6 desktop, 13 mobile). It also provides estimates of the percentage of all users whose browsers support a given technology. [h/t Simon Willison]","https://a.deveria.com/
https://caniuse.com/
https://caniuse.com/css-grid
https://caniuse.com/webp
https://caniuse.com/imagecapture
https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse",https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/109733835468757632
2023.02.01,5,More English football.,"Josh Fjelstul’s English Football Database “is a comprehensive database of football matches played in the Premier League and the English Football League from the inaugural season of the Football League (1888-89) through the most recent season (2021-22).” It records each season, team, match, and the standings table at the end of each season. Previously: James P. Curley’s English soccer dataset (DIP 2016.05.04), since expanded to leagues in a dozen more countries. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","http://www.joshuafjelstul.com/
https://github.com/jfjelstul/englishfootball
http://curleylab.psych.columbia.edu/curley.html
https://github.com/jalapic/engsoccerdata
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-05-04-edition/",http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
2023.02.08,1,"African American biographies, 1508–1865.","The African American National Biography, first printed in 2008 and expanded to a twelve-volume second edition in 2013, is “the most extensive African American biographical encyclopedia ever compiled, including the widest range of historically significant black individuals possible.” Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the print volumes feature nearly 5,000 entries, with additional biographies published in an online collection (subscription required). Executive editor Steven J. Niven has created a dataset describing the 1,300+ people in the encyclopedia born before the US abolition of slavery. It includes their names, dates and places of birth, occupations, whether they were ever enslaved and/or freed before abolition, how they obtained freedom, and much more.","https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/AANB
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/african-american-national-biography-9780199920778
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Brooks_Higginbotham
https://oxfordaasc.com/page/about
https://oxfordaasc.com/page/subscribe#personal-subscriptions
https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/steven-j-niven
https://jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticle/volume1-issue2-african-american-national-biography/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/FIEYGJ",
2023.02.08,2,Foreign direct investment.,"Among its many activities, the Bureau of Economic Analysis collects data on US-owned businesses’ direct investments abroad and those by foreign-owned businesses in the US. The agency provides statistics based on that data, aggregated by industry and country. The metrics, available as spreadsheets and interactive tables, include cumulative investments, overall transaction flows, foreign affiliates’ employee counts, and more. As seen in: “Why are US companies investing more abroad?” (USAFacts).","https://www.bea.gov/
https://www.bea.gov/surveys/diasurv
https://www.bea.gov/surveys/fdiusurv
https://www.bea.gov/itable/direct-investment-multinational-enterprises
https://www.bea.gov/international/direct-investment-and-multinational-enterprises-comprehensive-data
https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/?ReqID=2&step=1
https://usafacts.org/articles/why-are-us-companies-investing-more-abroad/",
2023.02.08,3,India’s high-court judges.,"Know Your High Court Judges, a multi-institution collaboration, has compiled biographical and professional data on all 1,700+ judges appointed to India’s high courts (each state and union territory’s top appellate court) between late 1993 and mid-2021. The details, based on a range of official sources, include each judge’s name, gender, date and place of birth, dates of appointment and retirement, courts served, prior experience, and more. [h/t Apoorv Anand via csv,conf,v7]","https://justicehub.in/initiatives/khoj-india
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_courts_of_India
https://justicehub.in/dataset/khoj-india/resource/fa59eb2e-04a5-461f-94e3-1367f67c3a8c","https://github.com/apoorv74
https://csvconf.com/speakers/"
2023.02.08,4,US aquifers.,"Merhawi GebreEgziabher et al., seeing several shortcomings of the US Geological Survey’s aquifer location data for “locally relevant” research, decided to build the United States Aquifer Database. It delineates the boundaries, constructed “after reviewing hundreds of primary literature sources,” of 440 aquifer systems in the contiguous US — from the Abbotsford-Sumas Aquifer straddling the Washington-Canada border to the Biscayne Aquifer in southern Florida. Read more: A visual tour of twelve aquifers.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29678-7
https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/principal-aquifers-united-states
https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/d2260651b51044d0b5cb2d293d21af08/
https://ucsb.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/nearby/index.html?appid=2a238e4ed2434d21b3b53c861a064d8f
https://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wsd/plan_protect_sustain/groundwater/aquifers/absumas.html
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/caribbean-florida-water-science-center-%28cfwsc%29/science/mapping-water-levels-biscayne
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a91f061759e64e44af38daf6cefa4259",
2023.02.08,5,Prognosticating groundhogs.,"Paul Craig’s Groundhog-Day.com calls itself “the leading data source for North America’s prognosticating groundhogs and their yearly predictions.” Its structured data lists the names, descriptions, locations, and prediction histories for 74 real and “alternative” groundhogs, the latter of which include Lucy the Lobster and Dover Doug, a human in a groundhog suit.","https://pcraig3.ca/
https://groundhog-day.com/
https://groundhog-day.com/about
https://groundhog-day.com/api
https://groundhog-day.com/groundhogs
https://groundhog-day.com/groundhogs/lucy-the-lobster
https://groundhog-day.com/groundhogs/dover-doug",
2023.02.15,1,Fair market rents.,"Every year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development recalculates what it calls “fair market rents” for every county in the US and for individual ZIP codes in metropolitan counties. The results, which factor into various housing subsidy programs, represent the 40th percentile cost of monthly rent and (basic) utilities for “recent movers” in “standard quality” units, adjusted for the number of bedrooms. HUD’s annual spreadsheets go back to the early 2000s; you can also browse the estimates online and query them via an API. As seen in: “Where are rents rising post COVID-19?” (USAFacts).","https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/smallarea/index.html
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/24/888.113
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/dataset/fmr-api.html
https://usafacts.org/articles/where-are-rents-rising-post-covid-19/",
2023.02.15,2,Humanitarian groups.,"“Based on clear and reproducible criteria,” Clara Egger and Doris Schopper have compiled the Humanitarian Organizations Dataset, which describes 2,500+ groups active in the sector. It includes the organizations’ founding years, structures, countries headquartered, regional scopes, types of activities, targets for assistance, and more. You can also explore a version of the dataset online. Related: The Global Database of Humanitarian Organisations, from Humanitarian Outcomes, “a team of specialist consultants providing research and policy advice for humanitarian aid agencies and donor governments.”","https://claramarieegger.wordpress.com/
http://www.ge2p2.org/people/2018/10/12/doris-schopper-md-dph
https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/66/2/sqac009/6564592
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/52GFWC
https://humanitarianencyclopedia.org/community/organizations
https://www.humanitarianoutcomes.org/projects/gdho
https://www.humanitarianoutcomes.org/about",
2023.02.15,3,Diplomatic visits.,"The US Department of State’s Office of the Historian maintains a dataset and online directory of every visit by a foreign leader from 1874 to 2020. The details include each visit’s starting and ending date, the visitor’s name, their country, and a brief description. The office publishes similar data on the travels of US presidents and secretaries of state. Related: Matt Malis and Alastair Smith have expanded the data for 1946–2019, adding fields that indicate the type of visit, whether it involved a presidential meeting, the names of agreements signed, and more. Previously: Diplomatic gifts (DIP 2022.08.03).","https://history.state.gov/
https://github.com/HistoryAtState/visits
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/visits
https://github.com/HistoryAtState/travels
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels
https://mattmalis.github.io/
https://wp.nyu.edu/alastairsmith/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/2ZNR5R
https://github.com/tacookson/data/tree/master/us-government-gifts
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-08-03-edition/",
2023.02.15,4,Bog bodies.,"Roy van Beek et al. “present the first large-scale overview of well-dated human remains from northern European mires, based on a database of 266 sites and more than 1000 bog mummies, bog skeletons and disarticulated/partial skeletal remains.” The database, which can be found in the study’s supplementary materials tab, indicates the bog bodies’ location, year found, preservation level, sex, estimated age, assumed cause of death, and much more. [h/t Miriam Posner + Robin Sloan]","https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/bogs-bones-and-bodies-the-deposition-of-human-remains-in-northern-european-mires-9000-bcad-1900/B90A16A211894CB87906A7BCFC0B2FC7
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/bogs-bones-and-bodies-the-deposition-of-human-remains-in-northern-european-mires-9000-bcad-1900/B90A16A211894CB87906A7BCFC0B2FC7#supplementary-materials","https://dair-community.social/@miriamkp/109785940080210793
https://www.robinsloan.com/"
2023.02.15,5,Open Data Day events.,"Open Data Day(s), scheduled for March 4–10 this year, “is an annual celebration of open data all over the world.” The Open Knowledge Foundation, which helps to coordinate the locally-organized gatherings, hosts a searchable list of registered events, plus datasets of each year’s events since 2014.","https://opendataday.org/
https://okfn.org/
https://blog.okfn.org/2023/02/07/open-data-days-2023-will-take-place-from-4th-to-10th-march/
https://opendataday.org/events/2023/
https://github.com/okfn/opendataday/tree/master/Datasets",
2023.02.22,1,Facilities handling hazardous chemicals.,"The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Management Program rule requires facilities that handle “extremely hazardous substances” to tell the government, at least every five years, about those substances, their safety plans, their recent accident history, and more. Through a FOIA request to the EPA, the Data Liberation Project (which, disclosure, I run) obtained a copy of the agency’s database of these filings (minus some parts the government deems non-disclosable), containing submissions by 21,000+ facilities from early 1999 to February 2022. You can now access that data, in various formats, along with documentation guiding you through it.","https://www.epa.gov/rmp/risk-management-program-rmp-rule-overview
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/about/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jrLXtv0knnACiPXJ1ZRFXR1GaPWCHJWWjin4rsthFbQ/edit",
2023.02.22,2,Animal Welfare Act inspections.,"The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service checks whether animal dealers, exhibitors, research facilities, and transporters are complying with the care standards set by the Animal Welfare Act. The agency provides public access to the inspection reports but no bulk data on them. So, in a collaboration between Big Local News and the Data Liberation Project (same disclosure as above), Ben Welsh and I wrote code to fetch the 80,000+ (and counting) inspections going back to 2014, parse their PDFs, and make the data more accessible. The information includes each inspection’s date, type, licensee, violation counts, species inspected, and more.","https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/home/
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalwelfare/awa/ct_awa_program_information
https://efile.aphis.usda.gov/PublicSearchTool/s/inspection-reports
https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2023/02/21/usda-animal-inspection-database.html
https://biglocalnews.org/content/about/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/aphis-inspection-reports/blob/main/METHODOLOGY.md
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/aphis-inspection-reports",
2023.02.22,3,Daily European gas imports.,"Researchers at Bruegel are tracking daily and weekly natural gas imports to Europe, using data from the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas’s transparency portal. Alongside the imports, which they’re aggregating by source (e.g., Russia, Norway, Algeria) and by route (e.g., Nord Stream, TurkStream), the researchers are also tracking gas storage levels, using data from Gas Infrastructure Europe (DIP 2022.01.26). Previously: Eurostat’s data on annual European energy imports and exports (DIP 2022.03.16).","https://www.bruegel.org/bruegel-european-think-tank-specialises-economics
https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports
https://www.entsog.eu/
https://transparency.entsog.eu/
https://agsi.gie.eu/
https://www.gie.eu/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-01-26-edition/
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg.nrg_quant.nrg_quanta.nrg_t.nrg_ti&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg.nrg_quant.nrg_quanta.nrg_t.nrg_te&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-03-16-edition/",
2023.02.22,4,Unclaimed estates.,"The UK government’s Bona Vacantia division publishes a dataset of unclaimed estates — inheritances that nobody has claimed yet to inherit. The entries indicate the deceased person’s name, aliases, date/place of birth and death, marital status, and more. Related: California provides a dataset of unclaimed property, such as “lost or forgotten” bank accounts, insurance benefits, and stock holdings.","https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bona-vacantia
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/unclaimed-estates-list
https://sco.ca.gov/upd_download_property_records.html
https://sco.ca.gov/upd_msg.html",
2023.02.22,5,"Data journalists, surveyed.","The European Journalism Center’s DataJournalism.com has published a dataset of 1,800+ anonymized responses to its second annual State of Data Journalism Survey, including 50+ entries each from the US, UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, India, and Nigeria, plus double-digit counts from dozens of other countries. The questions touch on demographics, employment, training, skills, the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. [h/t Simona Bisiani]","https://ejc.net/
https://datajournalism.com/
https://github.com/ejcnet/stateofdatajournalism2022
https://datajournalism.com/survey/2022/",https://twitter.com/BisianiSimona
2023.03.01,1,Congressional votes and ideology.,"The Voteview project “allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history,” and places those votes in the context of ideology estimates along a liberal-to-conservative spectrum. The core estimates come from DW-NOMINATE, a method developed by the project’s directors emeritus, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal. Voteview’s bulk data includes ideology estimates for every member of the House and Senate since 1789, every vote taken in either chamber, and every member’s position on those votes. [h/t Philip Bump]","https://voteview.com/
https://voteview.com/about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_(scaling_method)
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/83232/
https://voteview.com/data
https://voteview.com/articles/data_help_members
https://voteview.com/articles/data_help_rollcalls
https://voteview.com/articles/data_help_votes",https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?s=63f0e8661b79c61f879a5b01
2023.03.01,2,EPA-regulated facilities.,"The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Facility Registry System “provides Internet access to a single source of comprehensive information about facilities, sites or places subject to environmental regulations or of environmental interest.” It includes each entity’s name, type, location, industry, regulatory programs, and more. That information, which spans millions of facilities, is “subjected to rigorous verification and data management quality assurance procedures.” The records also provide facilities’ ID numbers from other EPA systems, such as the agency’s Risk Management Program database featured in last week’s edition. [h/t Michael Allen]","https://www.epa.gov/frs
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-02-22-edition/",https://carts.lsu.edu/about/staff/1
2023.03.01,3,Programming languages.,"PLDB is a database that describes several thousand programming languages, file formats, communications protocols, and other related concepts. Its downloads, available in several formats, provide information on the languages’ years announced, technical features, creators, countries and communities of origin, relevant books and URLs, popularity metrics, and more. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","https://pldb.com/
https://pldb.com/pages/about.html
https://pldb.com/docs/csv.html
https://github.com/breck7/pldb
https://pldb.com/lists/features.html",http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
2023.03.01,4,20th-century occupations.,"Between 1939 and 1991, the US government published several iterations of the now-discontinued Dictionary of Occupational Titles, a precursor to the O*NET database (DIP 2017.09.27). The dictionaries included job descriptions, classification codes, and cross-references, but are mostly available only as scans.  So Shahad Althobaiti et al. organized the manual transcription of five major editions into structured text files. A random sample of 1939’s titles: punch-press operator, seam dampener, base brander, box pleater, and necktie finisher.","https://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/DOT/REFERENCES/DOTINTRO.HTM
https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-09-27-edition/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07073
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DQW8IP",
2023.03.01,5,"Thump, thump, coconut.","“Traditionally,” in the Philippines, “coconuts are classified into their maturity levels manually,” June Anne Caladcad and Eduardo Piedad Jr. write. “Traders often use their fingernails, knuckles, or the blunt end of the knife to tap the coconuts before assessing the sounds produced.” The authors and their colleagues have developed hardware and software to emulate that process, and used it to collect acoustic signal data from 129 premature, mature, and overmature coconuts, each mechanically knocked on each of its three ridges.","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923000549
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168169919324767
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/hxh8kd3snj",
2023.03.08,1,"Government contracting data, cataloged.","The nonprofit Open Contracting Partnership has launched a registry of government procurement datasets that use its Open Contracting Data Standard (featured in DIP 2020.02.26). The registry contains 100+ entries so far, across 50+ countries — from Argentina’s national roads authority and the city of Buenos Aires to Zambia’s Public Procurement Authority. You can filter the listings by dataset recency, update frequency, and the data types included (parties, awards, documents, amendments, et cetera). [h/t Georg Neumann]","https://www.open-contracting.org/about/
https://www.open-contracting.org/2023/02/23/a-new-registry-for-open-contracting-data/
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/
https://www.open-contracting.org/data-standard/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-02-26-edition/
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/18
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/17
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/3
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/search/
https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/schema/reference/#release-structure",https://twitter.com/georg_neu
2023.03.08,2,Debt-to-income ratios.,"The US Federal Reserve generates quarterly statistics estimating the median ratio of household debt to income in each state, county, and metro area. The published maps and datasets, which go back to 1999, don’t include precise figures, but rather place each geographic unit into one of ten ranges. The income calculations come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the debt estimates (which do not include student loans) come from the New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel, “an anonymized 5 percent random sample of Americans with credit files at the credit reporting bureau Equifax.” As seen in: “Debt and Inequality” (American Inequality).","https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/household_debt/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/household-debt-to-income-ratios-in-the-enhanced-financial-accounts-20180109.html
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr479
https://americaninequality.substack.com/p/debt-and-inequality
https://www.americaninequality.io/",
2023.03.08,3,Changes of address.,"In the “Frequently Requested Records” section of its online FOIA library, the US Postal Service provides datasets counting how many individuals, families, and businesses have registered for the agency’s change-of-address service, by month and ZIP code. The datasets tally the moves originating from a given ZIP code separately from those destined for it, although moves within the same ZIP code are counted on both sides of the ledger. Related: The companies to which USPS sells mover-level data. [h/t Tim Henderson]","https://about.usps.com/who/legal/foia/library.htm
https://postalpro.usps.com/ncoalink/Full_Service_Provider_Licensees",https://twitter.com/TimHendersonSL/status/1632119186540441603
2023.03.08,4,Decades of UK prices.,"In January 2023, the UK’s Office for National Statistics collected 139,000+ price quotes from thousands of stores and across hundreds of products, from “A4 PRINTER PAPER (500 REAM)” to “YORKSHIRE PUDDING FROZEN”. The agency has collected this kind of price-quote data for decades, using it to calculate inflation and price indices. Economist Richard Davies has aggregated the data going back to 1988 and standardized it, correcting misrecorded prices, offsetting measurement changes, among other efforts described in a 2021 working paper.","https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/datasets/consumerpriceindicescpiandretailpricesindexrpiitemindicesandpricequotes
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/adhocs/007392consumerpriceinflationpricequotes1988to1996
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices
https://richarddavies.io/about
https://richarddavies.io/research/prices
https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/occasional/op055.pdf",
2023.03.08,5,Shows cut short.,"IsItCutShort.com provides a searchable list of television shows that were canceled (e.g., Knight Rider), ended on a cliffhanger (The Sopranos), or both (Rubicon). The database provides each series’s title, cliffhanger and cancellation status, IMDB identifier, and occasional extra notes. A handful of the 130+ entries fit another category: shows that “ended without a cliffhanger, but more show content exists outside the show itself.” [h/t Dan Brady]","https://www.isitcutshort.com/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083437/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141842/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389371/
https://github.com/xdpirate/isitcutshort.com",https://danjbrady.com
2023.03.15,1,"Bank financials, 1976–present.","The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s National Information Center “provides comprehensive financial and structure information on banks and other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest.” Its datasets include quarterly financial statements for bank holding companies, going back to 2016, plus detailed attributes of all active banks, 150,000+ banks closed since the mid-1930s (including Silicon Valley Bank), and 160,000+ bank branches. The agency also provides bank financials in the form of “call reports” going back to 2001. Earlier call reports, going back to 1976, are available from the Chicago Fed. Related: The FDIC’s list of failed banks since October 2000. [h/t Sergio Correia]","https://www.ffiec.gov/default.htm
https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/Home/About
https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/FinancialReport/FinancialDataDownload
https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/Help/InstitutionTypes#bhcs
https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/FinancialReport/DataDownload
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_Bank
https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/PWS/DownloadBulkData.aspx
https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/HelpFileContainers/FAQ.aspx
https://www.fdic.gov/resources/bankers/accounting/reports-of-condition-and-income/
https://www.chicagofed.org/banking/financial-institution-reports/commercial-bank-data
https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/failed-bank-list/",http://scorreia.com/
2023.03.15,2,"Bank financials, 1867–1904.","Federal Reserve economists Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck have compiled a dataset of “annual national bank balance sheets for more than 7,000 unique national banks, covering the years 1867 to 1904.” They did so by “combining optical character recognition (OCR) techniques with modern layout separation techniques,” which allowed them to extract information from scans of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s annual reports to Congress. The data include asset and liability subtotals, receivership dates, city-level variables, and more. Related: Correia and Luck describe their methodology in a recent paper and open-access preprint.","http://scorreia.com/
https://sites.google.com/site/stephanluck/
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/03/insights-from-newly-digitized-banking-data-1867-1904/
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/banking_research/balance-sheet-national-bank
https://www.occ.treas.gov/
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/annual-report-comptroller-currency-56?browse=1860s
http://scorreia.com/data/call-reports.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014498322000535
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00052",
2023.03.15,3,"Policies, categorized.","The Comparative Agendas Project “assembles and codes information on the policy processes of governments from around the world,” categorizing them into 20+ topics (e.g., “Civil Rights”) and 200+ subtopics (e.g., “Handicap Discrimination”). It “actively monitors thirty different data series,” which you can download and explore online, “all coded by this same predictable, reliable coding system.” Previously: CAP categorizations for a decade of NYT front-page stories (DIP 2018.04.25). [h/t E.J. Fagan]","https://www.comparativeagendas.net/pages/About
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/pages/master-codebook
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/datasets_codebooks
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/tool
http://www.amber-boydstun.com/supplementary-information-for-making-the-news.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-04-25-edition/",https://www.ejfagan.com/
2023.03.15,4,Irrigation by county and crop.,"P. J. Ruess et al. have developed annual, county-level estimates of irrigation water use for 20 crop groups between 2008 and 2020. The calculations draw on water use data from the US Geological Survey, as well as high-resolution data on crop locations, climate, and more. They generate estimates for surface water withdrawals, groundwater withdrawals, and nonrenewable groundwater depletion, making the findings “the first national-scale assessment of irrigation by crop, water source, and year.” [h/t Mike Stucka]","https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022WR032804
https://databank.illinois.edu/datasets/IDB-4607538
https://water.usgs.gov/watuse/data/index.html
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/groundwater-decline-and-depletion",https://twitter.com/MikeStucka
2023.03.15,5,The market for X-Men.,"Anderson Evans’s Mutant Moneyball project uses comic book market data to explore the financial value of individual X-Men characters. The project’s dataset provides decade-by-decade statistics for 26 members of the team, drawn from sales histories and pricing guides, as well as a matrix indicating the issues in which each character appeared.","https://andersonevans.me/
https://rallyrd.com/mutant-moneyball-a-data-driven-ultimate-x-men/
https://github.com/EliCash82/mutantmoneyball
https://github.com/EliCash82/mutantmoneyball/blob/main/MutantMoneyballOpenData.csv
https://github.com/EliCash82/mutantmoneyball/blob/main/MutantMoneyballAppearanceData.csv",
2023.03.22,1,Civilian harm in Ukraine.,"Researchers at Bellingcat and contributors to its Global Authentication Project have assembled a map and dataset of 1,000+ incidents “that have resulted in potential civilian impact or harm since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.” They include incidents “where rockets or missiles struck civilian areas,” “where attacks have resulted in the destruction of civilian infrastructure,” and/or where visual evidence depicts civilian injuries or “immobile civilian bodies.” The information, collected from public sources and vetted by Bellingcat, includes each incident’s date, location, description, sources, type of area affected, and type of weapon system (if known). [h/t Philip Bump]","https://www.bellingcat.com/about/
https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/bellingcat-uses-open-source-information-to-expose-wrongdoing
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/02/24/russias-assault-on-daily-life-in-ukraine/
https://ukraine.bellingcat.com/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/03/17/hospitals-bombed-and-apartments-destroyed-mapping-incidents-of-civilian-harm-in-ukraine/",https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?s=63fa229e1b79c61f87a893e0
2023.03.22,2,Aid for Ukraine.,"Christoph Trebesch et al.’s Ukraine Support Tracker “lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war.” The 1,400+ entries in the tracker’s dataset include contributions and commitments from 40 governments, plus several European Union institutions. (It does not include aid from NGOs and other non-state entities.) Each entry indicates the country, announcement date, type of aid, total value, description, sources, and more. The tracker’s next update is scheduled for March 29.","https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/kiel-working-papers/2022/the-ukraine-support-tracker-which-countries-help-ukraine-and-how-17204/
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/data-sets/ukraine-support-tracker-data-17410/",
2023.03.22,3,Municipal incorporations.,"Christopher B. Goodman, a professor of public administration, has consulted a range of state-level sources to compile a dataset listing the year of incorporation for 18,000+ municipalities in the United States. The dataset, which covers nearly 96% of all active municipalities, also provides each place’s name, state, coordinates, canonical ID in the Census, and more. Read more: In a Twitter thread, Goodman explains why he undertook the effort and shares a couple of visualizations. [h/t Maggie Lee]","https://cgoodman.com/
https://github.com/cbgoodman/muni-incorporation
https://twitter.com/cbgoodman/status/1631705180201943040",http://maggielee.net/
2023.03.22,4,Political podcasts.,"The Popular Political Podcast Dataset, developed by the Brookings Institution’s Valerie Wirtschafter and Chris Meserole, covers 50,000+ episodes from 100+ “prominent political podcast series” — the latter based on Apple Podcasts’ popularity rankings and its “You Might Also Like” recommendations. Updated daily and explorable online, the dataset provides each episode’s name, description, air date, and URL, plus the series name, partisan leaning, and Apple Podcasts category.","https://politicalpodcastproject.shinyapps.io/dataset/
https://www.brookings.edu/author/valerie-wirtschafter/
https://www.brookings.edu/experts/chris-meserole/",
2023.03.22,5,Stop signs.,"The City of Los Angeles publishes the location and orientation of 50,000+ local stop signs (plus a few yield signs). Other cities offering similar datasets include Houston, San Francisco, Detroit, Topeka, Menlo Park, and London, Ontario. Related: OpenStreetMap’s dataset features nearly 1.4 million stop signs located across the world. [h/t Matt Stiles]","https://geohub.lacity.org/datasets/lahub::stop-and-yield-signs/about
https://geohub.houstontx.gov/datasets/625faeaffe924a0c968f216bf3c321fc_1/about
https://data.sfgov.org/Transportation/Stop-Signs/4542-gpa3
https://data.detroitmi.gov/datasets/detroitmi::traffic-sign-locations/about
https://data.topeka.org/datasets/Topeka::topeka-stop-signs/about
https://data.menlopark.org/datasets/MenloPark::stop-signs/about
https://opendata.london.ca/datasets/51b53a163cf64681a057c397208637d6_5/about
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dstop
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/highway%3Dstop#map",https://twitter.com/stiles/status/1627044761172602881
2023.03.29,1,Local public meetings.,"LocalView, developed by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko, “is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.” In a recent paper, the authors describe how they built the dataset, which is based on 130,000+ YouTube-hosted videos of such meetings in 1,000+ US cities and counties, covering the years 2006 to 2022. The dataset lists each meeting’s date, jurisdiction, and government body (e.g., municipal council, school board, etc.), plus the video’s ID, title, channel, transcript, and more. [h/t Chris Goodman]","https://localview.net/
https://soubhikbarari.com/
https://tylersimko.com/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02044-y
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NJTBEM",https://twitter.com/cbgoodman/status/1636070353930682374
2023.03.29,2,Health workers.,"The World Health Organization’s Global Health Workforce Statistics database presents annual, national estimates of the number of medical doctors, nursing and midwifery professionals, community health workers, and several other types of health personnel. The estimates come from the WHO’s National Health Workforce Accounts system, national censuses, labor force surveys, and other sources. For medical doctors, the estimates span nearly 200 countries, with the majority having estimates as recent as 2020 or 2021. Twenty countries’ estimates go back to the 1960s (and, for Spain, all the way back to 1952). [h/t Datasketch]","https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/health-workforce
https://www.who.int/activities/improving-health-workforce-data-and-evidence",https://www.datasketch.co/newsletter/data-journalism/issue-23-everything-is-getting-more-expensive/
2023.03.29,3,Kremlin posts.,"Giorgio Comai’s “text as data & data in the text” project “aims at facilitating structured analysis of on-line contents related to conflicts in the post-Soviet space by providing easier access to relevant datasets and tools.” Those datasets include the URL, title, text, date, and other metadata of all posts published on the Kremlin’s English-language website since the year 2000; on the Kremlin’s Russian-language website; and by Zavtra since late 1996. Previously: Foreign ministry statements (DIP 2022.03.09). [h/t EDJNet]","https://giorgiocomai.eu/
https://tadadit.xyz/about/about.html
https://tadadit.xyz/
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/kremlin.ru_en/
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/kremlin.ru_ru/
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/zavtra.ru_ru/
https://focusdataproject.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-03-09-edition/",https://mailchi.mp/4370094fc2e6/rtkppffzok-13646506
2023.03.29,4,Carbon capture projects.,"The National Energy Technology Laboratory maintains a map and dataset of carbon capture and storage projects “active, proposed, and terminated” in 30+ countries since the 1970s. The latest version of the dataset includes 400+ entries, slightly more than are on the map. It lists each project’s name, company, location, date, type, scope, magnitude, status, technology, cost, summary, and other details. As seen in: “What is carbon capture and storage? Where is it happening in the US?” (USAFacts).","https://netl.doe.gov/about/mission-overview
https://netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-storage/worldwide-ccs-database
https://netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-storage/faqs/carbon-storage-faqs
https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-carbon-capture-and-storage-where-is-it-happening-in-the-us/",
2023.03.29,5,Milan drinking fountains.,"Milan’s government publishes a dataset of 600+ local vedovelle, the distinctive (green, cast iron, dragon-headed) drinking fountains that dot the city. The dataset provides each fountain’s coordinates, municipal zone, and neighborhood. As seen in: “Tutto sulle fontanelle di Milano,” with a map of the locations, by Il Post’s Isaia Invernizzi.","https://dati.comune.milano.it/it/dataset/ds502_fontanelle-nel-comune-di-milano
https://memorialdrinkingfountains.wordpress.com/2019/03/30/vedovelle-fountains/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalities_of_Milan
https://www.ilpost.it/2022/06/27/fontanelle-vedovelle-milano/
https://twitter.com/easyinve",
2023.04.05,1,Treasury transactions.,"The US Treasury’s Daily Treasury Statement dataset paints a near-real-time picture of the federal government’s purse. The eight tables provide data on “operating cash balance, deposits and withdrawals of cash, public debt transactions, federal tax deposits, income tax refunds issued,” and more. The table of deposits and withdrawals, for example, indicates the total value (rounded to the nearest $1 million) of transactions each day, by type and category (e.g., “Economic Recovery Programs,” “Defense Vendor Payments,” etc.). The records, available to download in bulk or via API, go back to October 2005. As seen in: “Can a billionaire die without anyone noticing? The mystery behind a remarkable $7 billion tax payment.” (Tim Fernholz, Quartz). [h/t Walt Hickey]","https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/daily-treasury-statement/operating-cash-balance
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/api-documentation/
https://qz.com/can-a-billionaire-die-without-anyone-noticing-1850268606
https://timfernholz.com/about",https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-march-28-2023-crocs
2023.04.05,2,European buildings.,"EUBUCCO is a “database of individual building footprints for 200+ million buildings across the 27 European Union countries and Switzerland, together with three main attributes – building type, height and construction year – included for respectively 45%, 74%, 24% of the buildings.” The researchers, who describe their methodology in a recent paper, collected and standardized the information from 50 open government datasets and OpenStreetMap. They then “perform[ed] extensive validation analyses to assess the quality, consistency and completeness of the data in every country.” You can browse the data online, download it, and access the underlying code.","https://eubucco.com/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02040-2
https://eubucco.com/data/map
https://eubucco.com/data/
https://github.com/ai4up/eubucco",
2023.04.05,3,911 service areas.,"Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) are, essentially, the call centers to which 911 calls are routed. A while ago, the US government hired a contractor to compile a dataset of the service area boundaries for each of the country’s PSAPs, “the geographic area within which a 911 call placed using a landline is answered at the associated PSAP.” Although some of that information has likely changed since the dataset’s publication in 2009, the records may still be useful for certain purposes. Related: The FCC’s 911 Master PSAP Registry, which doesn’t include service boundaries but does provide the name, state, county, and ID of 6,000+ primary PSAPs, plus 2,700+ PSAPs listed as “secondary,” “duplicate,” or “orphaned.” [h/t Maddy Varner + Mike Thompson]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_safety_answering_point
https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/geoplatform::psap-911-service-area-boundaries/explore
https://www.fcc.gov/general/9-1-1-master-psap-registry","https://maddy.zone/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-thompson-871773a/"
2023.04.05,4,Lists of medical codes.,"OpenCodelists is “an open platform for creating and sharing codelists of clinical terms and drugs,” built by the University of Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team. The platform supports several coding systems, including ICD-10 and SNOWMED CT. The lists can refer to groups of symptoms, diagnoses, medications, and more. Public lists note their creators and coding system; you can view each list’s codes online, or download them as a CSV. [h/t Ben Goldacre]","https://www.opencodelists.org/
https://www.opensafely.org/
https://www.opencodelists.org/docs/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOMED_CT",https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1393173321378844675
2023.04.05,5,Midwestern mollusks.,"The Illinois Natural History Survey’s mollusk collection contains 500,000+ specimens, cataloged into 90,000+ lots, some gathered more than a century ago. “The collection is strong in freshwater mussels (Unionoida), freshwater and terrestrial snails from the Midwestern U.S. and cone shells (Conoidea),” as well as “freshwater bivalves and gastropods from the Southeastern U.S., Central, and South America.” For each lot, the collection’s dataset lists the genus, species, number of specimens, date and location collected, and more. Related: INHS’s other collections. [h/t Meredith Broussard]","https://inhs.illinois.edu/about/about-inhs/
https://mollusk.inhs.illinois.edu/
https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=49
https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php",https://meredithbroussard.com/
2023.04.12,1,Jail rosters.,"The NYU Public Safety Lab’s Jail Data Initiative has built a fleet of web scrapers to gather and process daily roster data from 1,000+ US city and county jails. The project’s aggregate metrics include the number of people in these jails each day, the daily numbers of people newly incarcerated and released, and how long people have been held (among those released). You can filter and download these counts by age, gender, and race. Profiles of individual jails also list the most common charges and the overall demographics of people held there. The time frames available vary by jail, but mostly begin in 2020 or 2021. You can also apply for access to person-level records. [h/t Adam Vine + Orion Taylor]","https://publicsafetylab.org/
https://jaildatainitiative.org/
https://jaildatainitiative.org/documentation/architecture
https://jaildatainitiative.org/documentation/scrapers
https://jaildatainitiative.org/documentation/about
https://jaildatainitiative.org/dashboards/population
https://jaildatainitiative.org/profile
https://jaildatainitiative.org/dua","https://twitter.com/cagefreerepair
https://twitter.com/orionjtaylor/status/1637878248230076417"
2023.04.12,2,Sanctions enforcement.,"Political scientists Bryan R. Early and Keith A. Preble have assembled a dataset of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanctions-related penalties, settlements, and findings of violation since 2003. To do so, they combed through the agency’s mostly-PDF-based archive of these enforcement actions. Each of the dataset’s 1,000+ entries indicates the action date, type, and monetary amount; entity name, type, location, and sector; the specific sanctions programs violated; and more. Previously: OFAC’s sanctions lists (DIP 2018.02.21) and OpenSanctions (DIP 2021.09.08).","https://sites.google.com/site/bryanrearly/home
https://poliscikeith.com/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2020.1722850
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/TIFRTT
https://ofac.treasury.gov/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=6988628&version=5.1
https://ofac.treasury.gov/civil-penalties-and-enforcement-information
https://ofac.treasury.gov/other-ofac-sanctions-lists
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-21-edition/
https://opensanctions.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-09-08-edition/",
2023.04.12,3,Border surveillance.,"The Electronic Frontier Foundation has constructed a map and dataset of 340+ Customs and Border Protection surveillance towers along the US-Mexico border. “Compiled using public records, satellite imagery, road trips, and even exploration in virtual reality,” the dataset indicates each tower’s location, name, type, and vendor; it also links to sources and satellite imagery. Separate entries list potential future towers proposed by CBP and automated license plate readers at CBP checkpoints. [h/t Corin Faife]","https://www.eff.org/about
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/cbp-expanding-its-surveillance-tower-program-us-mexico-border-and-were-mapping-it
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1bxUGeOT6vVXu0jFQhDLxgktLFLVOKsI&ll=29.681163559249427,-107.321836295&z=5
https://www.eff.org/document/us-mexico-border-surveillance-data
https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr",https://twitter.com/corintxt
2023.04.12,4,Flash flooding in urban England.,"ClimateNode’s Helen Jackson has created a dataset and series of interactive maps of recent summertime flash flooding in urban England. To construct the dataset, Jackson “analysed approximately 17,400 articles about flooding from around 300 newspaper websites,” and then used natural language processing to “extract the names of streets, buildings and other places affected” — some 2,800+ locations in all, corresponding to 56 flooding events since 2010. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.climatenode.org/index.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-jackson-28926285/
https://www.climatenode.org/maps/about_UFF_maps.html
https://www.climatenode.org/maps/UFFEdoc.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/511-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2023.04.12,5,Dutch textile shipments.,"The Dutch Textile Trade Project “aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by examining data drawn from trade records alongside samples of textiles and visual culture depicting textiles in use.” The 22,000+ entries in the project’s main dataset each represent a shipment from one port to another; they indicate the textile type, quantity, and value, shipment date, supplier, and more. [h/t Dan Bouk]","https://dutchtextiletrade.org/
https://dutchtextiletrade.org/data/",https://www.shroudedincloaksofboringness.com/democracysdata/
2023.04.19,1,Municipal zoning rules.,"Matt Mleczko and Matthew Desmond, of Princeton’s Eviction Lab (DIP 2018.04.18), have developed a method for extracting structured information from the text of local zoning regulations. Their National Zoning and Land Use Database covers 2,600+ cities, towns, and other municipalities — a sample drawn from the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index’s prior, survey-based research. The database includes dozens of indicators, such as whether the rules specify annual limits on several types of permits, allow any accessory dwelling units, require various review-board approvals, impose parking space minimums, and more. These factors then feed into the authors’ Zoning Restrictiveness Index, which they calculate at a municipal and metro-area level.","https://mattmleczko.scholar.princeton.edu/
https://matthewdesmond.scholar.princeton.edu/
https://evictionlab.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-04-18-edition/
https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/2YGAQ9JE5S6PYXHVTBZG/full
https://github.com/mtmleczko/nzlud
https://real-faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/gyourko/land-use-survey/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_suite
https://evictionlab.org/zoning-restrictiveness-index/",
2023.04.19,2,AI incidents.,"The AI Incident Database “is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems.” The open-source project is “managed in a participatory manner,” with a board of directors, submissions from the public, and a team of reviewers guided by a set of definitions and decision criteria. So far, it has cataloged 500+ incidents and 2,500+ reports, which you can search and filter by entity, category, date, and other facets. You can also download full snapshots of the database.  [h/t Sasha Anderson]","https://incidentdatabase.ai/
https://github.com/responsible-ai-collaborative/aiid
https://incidentdatabase.ai/about/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/editors-guide/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/apps/discover/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/entities/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/taxonomies/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/research/snapshots/",https://twitter.com/sashananderson
2023.04.19,3,State bill trajectories.,"Political scientist Alex Garlick has published a dataset categorizing bills’ trajectories in state legislatures. It follows each proposed law’s journey along 23 possible steps, which range from “First Reading (first chamber)” to “Bill enacted.” The dataset spans more than 1 million bills tracked by OpenStates (DIP 2020.09.30), with full coverage for all 50 states for 2011–18 and partial coverage for some earlier and later years. Read more: “Bicameralism Hinges on Legislative Professionalism,” Garlick and Adam R. Brown’s recent paper (and preprint) using this data.","https://www.alexgarlick.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/8PTHXT
https://openstates.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-09-30-edition/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lsq.12422
https://adambrown.info/
https://adambrown.info/docs/research/brown-garlick-2023-bicameralism.pdf",
2023.04.19,4,Rare-earth mining.,"Shuang-Liang Liu et al. have compiled a dataset of 146 mining projects targeting rare-earth elements, which serve as “critical raw materials in many low-carbon technologies.” The dataset lists each project’s name, company, location, status, deposit type, estimated tonnage of deposits, element composition, and other details sourced from “company annual reports and public presentations, government reports, and papers in various scientific journals.”","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169136823001439
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169136823001439#s0060
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element",
2023.04.19,5,“Pirate radio” enforcement.,"The Federal Communications Commission publishes a dashboard and dataset of its “pirate radio” enforcement actions, part of the agency’s crackdown against the “unauthorized transmission of radio frequency signals on the frequencies in or adjacent to the FM and AM radio bands.” The 38 entries list the entity targeted, state/territory, radio frequency, enforcement type, date issued, and penalty amount. They go back to early 2020, when Congress passed the PIRATE Act. Related: Congressional acronym abuse, 1973-2013. [h/t Jon Keegan]","https://www.fcc.gov/pirate-database
https://opendata.fcc.gov/stories/s/wgq8-eb5c
https://opendata.fcc.gov/Pirate-Radio-Enforcement/Pirate-Radio-Broadcasting-Database/xqgr-24et
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-first-pirate-act-fines-totaling-more-2-million
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/583
https://noahveltman.com/acronyms/",https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/
2023.04.26,1,Drinking water violations.,"Through the Safe Drinking Water Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency sets baseline standards for the country’s ~150,000 public water systems. Although enforcement is mostly delegated to the states and territories, all monitoring, violation, and enforcement data is reported to the EPA and stored in its Safe Drinking Water Information System. The agency provides bulk downloads of the data, going back decades, plus a search tool and dashboard. As seen in: “Which cities have health issues with their drinking water?” (USAFacts). Related: Sara Hughes et al.’s Municipal Drinking Water Database, which connects information about 2,000+ municipal water systems to local demographic, government, climate, and political indicators. [h/t Greg Pierce]","https://www.epa.gov/sdwa
https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/information-about-public-water-systems
https://echo.epa.gov/help/sdwa-faqs
https://www.epa.gov/enviro/sdwis-overview
https://echo.epa.gov/tools/data-downloads#dwdownloads
https://echo.epa.gov/tools/data-downloads/sdwa-download-summary
https://www.epa.gov/enviro/sdwis-search
https://echo.epa.gov/trends/comparative-maps-dashboards/drinking-water-dashboard?state=National
https://usafacts.org/articles/which-cities-have-health-issues-with-their-drinking-water/
https://journals.plos.org/water/article?id=10.1371/journal.pwat.0000081
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DFB6NG",https://twitter.com/gregspierce/status/1636090987738206208
2023.04.26,2,Childcare prices.,"The National Database of Childcare Prices, launched in January by the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau, “is the most comprehensive federal source of childcare prices at the county level.” For each county and year from 2008 to 2018, the dataset provides estimates of the median and 75th-percentile weekly cost, disaggregated by provider type and child age. The estimates are calculated from the market surveys the federal Child Care and Development Fund requires participating states to conduct. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/featured-childcare
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/wb/wb20230124
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WB/media/NationalDatabaseofChildcarePricesTechnicalGuideFinal.pdf
https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/equal-access-and-market-rate-surveys",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/062d1fc66219f9f954ed66592d2633477a40c264
2023.04.26,3,Kinship terms.,"Kinbank is a browseable and downloadable database of family-tree nomenclature for 1,000+ spoken languages, across 100+ types of relationships. Examples include ahätatum (Akkadian for one’s younger sister), yerudê (Galibi Carib for one’s husband’s brother’s wife), and ɗan’ùbā (Hausa for one’s paternal half-brother). As the project’s team describes in a recent paper, they’ve collected these “kinship terminologies” mostly from secondary sources, which “ranged from ethnographies and grammars, to simpler descriptions like wordlists”; those sources “are primarily in Roman script […] and can contain transcription inconsistencies across languages.”","http://www.kinbank.net/
https://github.com/kinbank/kinbank
http://www.kinbank.net/languages/
http://www.kinbank.net/languages/akka1240/
http://www.kinbank.net/languages/gali1262/
http://www.kinbank.net/languages/haus1257/
https://excd.org/research-activities/kinbank/
https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157986/",
2023.04.26,4,Art history allocations.,"For her undergraduate thesis, “Quantifying Art Historical Narratives,” Holland Stam measured the amount of space (in text and in images) devoted to each artwork and artist in 25 editions of two major art history textbooks: Gardner’s Art Through the Ages and Janson’s History of Art. Stam’s thesis repository includes the measurement data, which also indicates each artist’s nationality, gender, race, and ethnicity. Related: An R package for the data. As seen in: “Resampling to understand gender in #TidyTuesday art history data,” a post and screencast by Julia Silge.","https://github.com/hollandstam1/thesis/blob/main/_book/Quantifying-Art-Historical-Narratives.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner%27s_Art_Through_the_Ages
https://www.worldcat.org/title/373059219
https://github.com/hollandstam1/thesis
https://github.com/hollandstam1/thesis/tree/main/raw-data
https://saralemus7.github.io/arthistory/
https://juliasilge.com/blog/art-history/
https://juliasilge.com/",
2023.04.26,5,The Morrow Plots.,"The University of Illinois’ Morrow Plots, established in 1876, “are the oldest experimental crop field in America and the second oldest in the world.” An interdisciplinary team has compiled, cleaned, and standardized the experiment’s archival records (such as this notebook). For each year and plot, their dataset lists the crop, date of planting, treatment plan, amount of various substances applied, yield per acre, and more.","https://aces.illinois.edu/research/history/morrow-plots
https://aces.illinois.edu/news/oldest-us-agricultural-plots-go-digital-130-years-data-now-online
https://github.com/SandiCal/morrow-plots-public
https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/259e2e70-3ed0-0138-717e-02d0d7bfd6e4-3
https://databank.illinois.edu/datasets/IDB-7865141",
2023.05.10,1,Prison demographics.,"In a recent paper in Nature, Brennan Klein et al. describe how they “manually assembled and validated a dataset covering all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to both quantify the widening racial disparity observed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and uncover its plausible causes.” Their Dataset on Incarcerated Populations provides the monthly number (or interpolated estimates) of people, by race/ethnicity, in each prison system. The dataset goes back at least to 2010 for most states; for 18 states, it also includes admission/release counts. Related: The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ annual data on prison demographics, which provide state-level counts by sex but not race/ethnicity. Previously: The Vera Institute’s Incarceration Trends Dataset (DIP 2019.01.02) and NYU Public Safety Lab’s Jail Data Initiative (DIP 2023.04.12). [h/t Shawn Musgrave]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05980-2
https://github.com/jkbren/incarcerated-populations-data
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05980-2#MOESM1
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/list?series_filter=Prisoners
https://github.com/vera-institute/incarceration-trends
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-01-02-edition/
https://jaildatainitiative.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-04-12-edition/",https://twitter.com/ShawnMusgrave/status/1648729222817382401
2023.05.10,2,More AI incidents.,"The AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Incidents and Controversies  initiative, founded by Charlie Pownall in 2019, maintains a repository of such events, as well as related systems (e.g., GPT-4) and datasets (e.g., Labeled Faces in the Wild). The project’s spreadsheet features 1,000+ entries, each listing a title, type, year, country, sector, operator, purpose, and more — and linking to more detailed descriptions on AIAAIC’s website. Previously: The AI Incident Database (DIP 2023.04.19).","https://www.aiaaic.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliepownall/
https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/aiaaic-repository-governance
https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/about-the-aiaaic-repository
https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-and-algorithmic-incidents-and-controversies/gpt-4-large-language-model
https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-and-algorithmic-incidents-and-controversies/labeled-faces-in-the-wild-lfw-dataset
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bn55B4xz21-_Rgdr8BBb2lt0n_4rzLGxFADMlVW0PYI/edit
https://incidentdatabase.ai/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-04-19-edition/",
2023.05.10,3,Blocked rail crossings.,"“As rail profits soar, blocked crossings force kids to crawl under trains to get to school,” a recent investigation by ProPublica and InvestigateTV has found. In addition to on-the-ground reporting, photos, and video, the article cites the Federal Railroad Administration’s database of blocked crossing complaints. The database’s ~70,000 reports, going back to December 2019, each list a crossing ID, street, city, state, railroad, reported incident date, duration, reason, impacts, and additional comments. Related: The FRA’s database of all rail crossings. [h/t Tom Hughes]","https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern
https://www.propublica.org/
https://www.investigatetv.com/
https://www.fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings/incidents
https://www.fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings/
https://railroads.dot.gov/safety-data/crossing-and-inventory-data/crossing-inventory-lookup
https://railroads.dot.gov/crossing-and-inventory-data/grade-crossing-inventory/highwayrail-crossing-database-files",https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmh176/
2023.05.10,4,Grammatical phenomena.,"Grambank, the result of a collaboration involving 100+ linguists, examines a range of grammatical phenomena, “from word order to verbal tense, nominal plurals, and many other well-studied comparative linguistic variables.” The project’s dataset, available to download and explore online, spans 195 such features across 2,400+ languages and dialects. For instance, here’s the page for feature GB030, which asks, “Is there a gender distinction in independent 3rd person pronouns?” [h/t Robin Sloan]","https://grambank.clld.org/
https://www.mpg.de/20186271/0418-evan-grambank-shows-the-diversity-of-the-world-s-languages-150495-x
https://grambank.clld.org/contributors
https://github.com/grambank/grambank
https://grambank.clld.org/parameters
https://grambank.clld.org/languages
https://grambank.clld.org/parameters/GB030#2/21.0/152.1",https://www.robinsloan.com/
2023.05.10,5,Planetary nomenclature.,"The International Astronomical Union’s Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature “provides a unique system of official names for planetary surface features, natural satellites, dwarf planets, and planetary rings for the benefit of the international science community, educators, and the general public.” You can browse, search, and  the download the data, as well as view images of their locations. As seen in: Cinzia Bongino’s The Names on the Moon. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","http://www.iau.org/
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/AdvancedSearch
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/GIS_Downloads
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Images
https://www.cinziabongino.com/
https://www.behance.net/gallery/168652141/The-Names-on-the-Moon",https://buttondown.email/duncangeere/archive/a-lot-of-light-a-little-refreshing/
2023.05.17,1,Controlled substances lost and stolen.,"In response to a Data Liberation Project Freedom of Information Act request, the US Drug Enforcement Administration last week sent me data counting the thefts and other losses of controlled substances and “listed chemicals” that regulated entities have reported to the agency. The DEA provided the records as two spreadsheet files, which I’ve also converted into tidy CSVs. They indicate the number of incidents by state, type of business (pharmacy, importer, distributor, etc.), and type of loss (burglary, hijacking, natural disaster, etc.), plus the total quantities stolen/lost. Read more: Yesterday’s Data Liberation Project newsletter, featuring some numbers that caught my eye.","https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/chem_prog/34chems.htm
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/tree/main/data/raw
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/tree/main/data/tidy
https://buttondown.email/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-8/",
2023.05.17,2,International case law.,"“The quantitative analysis of international legal data is still in its infancy, a situation which is exacerbated by the lack of high-quality open access data sets,” writes Seán Fobbe in a 2022 paper in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. To this end, Fobbe’s “present[s] the first two of a new series” of such resources, “covering one hundred years of case law of the primary judicial organs of the United Nations and the League of Nations.” The datasets — for the Permanent Court of International Justice (covering 1922–1940) and for the International Court of Justice (1947–present) — include case metadata, linguistic metrics, and the full text (in English and French) of the courts’ opinions, orders, and other key documents.","https://seanfobbe.com/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.12313
https://zenodo.org/record/7051934
https://zenodo.org/record/7876286",
2023.05.17,3,ICE database misconduct.,"“Since 2016, hundreds of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have faced internal investigations into abuse of confidential law enforcement databases and agency computers,” Dhruv Mehrotra reports in Wired, based on disciplinary database records Mehrotra obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. ICE provided 414 rows of records. Each represents an alleged misconduct incident and provides a summary, date of occurrence, date reported, location, several categorizations, case resolution, and more. Wired has also added a column identifying the database in question, based on the summary. [h/t Andrew Couts + Sebastian Lammers]","https://www.wired.com/story/ice-agent-database-abuse-records/
https://airtable.com/shrodU77cgvD2e8dc/tblwELYkSA0fNXgKF","https://mastodon.social/@couts/110213868275915332
https://vis.social/@seblammers"
2023.05.17,4,"Weighted, inflation-adjusted exchange rates.","A country’s real effective exchange rate is its average exchange rate with its trading partners, weighted by trade volume and adjusted for inflation. Economist Zsolt Darvas maintains a dataset that estimates these rates for 178 countries and the eurozone, by month and year. The project, which updates a dataset and methodology Darvas first published in 2012, uses data from international organizations, national statistics offices, and central banks.","https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reer.asp
https://www.bruegel.org/people/zsolt-darvas
https://www.bruegel.org/publications/datasets/real-effective-exchange-rates-for-178-countries-a-new-database
https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/timely-measurement-real-effective-exchange-rates
https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/real-effective-exchange-rates-178-countries-new-database",
2023.05.17,5,Collective nouns.,"Daniel E. Meyers has consulted dozens of sources to compile The Collective Noun Catalog, which presents an inundation of 7,300+ such constructs, such as a pulse of cardiologists and a warren of wombats. The project’s spreadsheet lists each collective noun’s subject, category, notes, and primary sources — some of which date to the 1400s.","https://sites.miamioh.edu/meyersde/
https://sites.miamioh.edu/meyersde/the-collective-noun-catalog/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xCYrcJYhZVHNaF2J5oIgiFsROF--ZDzl68VFS8HzNUQ/edit",
2023.05.24,1,Aviation accident investigations.,"Through its Case Analysis and Reporting Online service, the National Transportation Safety Board provides information about all US civil aviation accident investigations since 1983; another NTSB tool includes earlier cases, going back to 1963. The agency also provides bulk data downloads, covering the full span. Those files link each investigated event to details regarding the aircraft involved, engines, crew, injuries/fatalities, narratives, findings, and more. Related: In February, the agency launched an interactive dashboard summarizing accidents from 2012 to 2021. [h/t Gary Price]","https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/landing-page
https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQuery.aspx
https://data.ntsb.gov/avdata
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20230215.aspx
https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/GeneralAviationDashboard.aspx",https://www.infodocket.com/2023/02/17/new-research-resource-ntsb-releases-data-visualization-tool-for-general-aviation-accidents/
2023.05.24,2,The top of BuzzFeed News.,"You’ve likely heard: BuzzFeed Inc. has shut down BuzzFeed News, where I worked from 2014 to early 2022. In July 2018, the newsroom launched its own website, BuzzFeedNews.com, distinct from BuzzFeed.com. The top of the new homepage featured a “Trending” strip, with links to a handful of editor-selected articles. A few months later, I wrote a computer script to save the text, URL, and position of each link on the strip. My personal server ran that script every five minutes (with occasional interruptions) until the newsroom’s final day of operation on May 5. Here’s what it saw. Read more: “The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News,” as told by many of my wonderful former colleagues.","https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1828972/000182897223000062/bzfd-20230420.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/
https://github.com/jsvine/buzzfeed-news-trending-strip/blob/main/misc/trending-strip-screenshot.png
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/buzzfeed-news/
https://github.com/jsvine/buzzfeed-news-trending-strip/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/buzzfeed-news-oral-history-2012-2023",
2023.05.24,3,Forty years of financial reforms.,"A decade-plus ago, a team of IMF economists published “A New Database of Financial Reforms,” recording changes to financial policy in 91 economies from 1973 to 2005. They did so “along seven different dimensions: credit controls and reserve requirements, interest rate controls, entry barriers, state ownership, policies on securities markets, banking regulations, and restrictions on the capital account.” Last year, Sawa Omori, a political scientist who assisted with that project, introduced a revised and updated version, expanding the coverage to 100 economies, extending it through 2013, and refining the seven original dimensions into 20 subdimensions.","https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/A-New-Database-of-Financial-Reforms-22485
https://sawaomori.jpn.org/
https://academic.oup.com/jfr/article/8/2/230/6627259
https://sawaomori.jpn.org/data/",
2023.05.24,4,Parking reforms.,"The Parking Reform Network, a US-based nonprofit that aims “to discourage the building of too much parking supply,” has compiled a map and dataset of ~1,400 relevant local mandates. They focus on policies that reduce or eliminate minimum parking requirements for new developments, or set maximums. For each mandate, the dataset provides a summary and indicates its location, status, category, geographic scope, affected land use, and more. Related: Parking lots in the central areas of 50+ cities, as mapped by the organization. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","https://parkingreform.org/
https://parkingreform.org/what-is-parking-reform/
https://parkingreform.org/resources/mandates-map/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking_minimums_and_maximums
https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/",http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
2023.05.24,5,Protected European ham.,"In the world of food and wine, geographical indications protect traditional local producers against imitators — Champagne being a famous example. To explore the relationship between protected region size and product price, Gero Laurenz Höhn et al. have collected the prices of protected and non-protected European ham from dozens of supermarket websites. The 22 protected varieties in the dataset (such as Italy’s Prosciutto di Parma and Spain’s Jamón de Trevélez) come from nine countries. Related: eAmbrosia, the EU’s downloadable register of protected indications.","https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-and-protection/protecting-eu-creations-inventions-and-designs/geographical-indications_en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2023.2187365
https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34894/RX0QIN
https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/geographical-indications-and-quality-schemes/geographical-indications-food-and-drink/prosciutto-di-parma-pdo_en
https://www.tmdn.org/giview/gi/EUGI00000013467
https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/food-safety-and-quality/certification/quality-labels/geographical-indications-register/",
2023.05.31,1,Correctional control.,"The Prison Policy Initiative’s Punishment Beyond Prisons report cross-references data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and several other sources to count or estimate the number of people under eight forms of “correctional control” in each state and DC: federal prisons, state prisons, local jails, Indian Country jails, youth confinement, involuntary commitment, parole, and probation — approximately 5.5 million people in total. Related: The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, one of the report’s sources, provides a tool to tabulate youth confinement counts by sex, age, race, status, offense, and facility characteristics. [h/t Mike Wessler]","https://www.prisonpolicy.org/
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/correctionalcontrol2023.html
https://bjs.ojp.gov/
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/correctionalcontrol2023.html#methodology
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/correctionalcontrol2023_data_appendix.html
https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/research-and-statistics/research-projects/Census-of-Juveniles-in-Residential-Placement/overview
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezacjrp/",https://www.prisonpolicy.org/staff.html#wessler
2023.05.31,2,Local business.,"Despite the name, the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns datasets cover a range of geographic units, including states, congressional districts, metro areas, counties, and ZIP codes. Generated from the Bureau’s confidential Business Register, they provide the number of establishments and (noise-infused) employee counts and payroll figures, disaggregated by industry code. Last month, the Bureau released the data for 2021. Historical availability varies; the Bureau directly provides data for counties back to 1986, and for ZIP codes back to 1994, for example. Fabian Eckert and colleagues, meanwhile, have converted two older archives of the records into comparable data, spanning 1946 to 1974 and 1975 onward.","https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/data/datasets.html
https://www.census.gov/econ/overview/mu0600.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/technical-documentation/methodology.html#par_textimage_245304869
https://www.census.gov/naics/
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/2021-county-business-patterns.html
https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2021/econ/cbp/2021-cbp.html
https://www.fpeckert.me/
https://www.fpeckert.me/elmmss/
https://www.fpeckert.me/cbp/",
2023.05.31,3,Crowd accidents.,"Claudio Feliciani et al. have compiled a dataset of 281 crowd accidents from 1900 to 2019, based on “a comprehensive investigation of the press and media reports.” The researchers focus on accidents with at least one fatality or ten injuries “caused by a collective crowd motion which could have been potentially prevented by employing a different design or through a proper crowd management.” The dataset lists each accident’s date, country, coordinates, gathering type (sport, religious, political, etc.), fatality and injury counts, crowd size, and sources. The deadliest accident included, by far, is the 2015 Mina stampede. [h/t Neil Martin]","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753523001169
https://zenodo.org/record/7523480
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mina_stampede",https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-overseas-hot-areas-deadly-crowd.html
2023.05.31,4,Antarctic geology.,"Antarctica’s surface is mostly ice, but there’s also lots of rock. In a recent paper, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s GeoMAP team describes building the “first detailed geological map dataset covering all of Antarctica,” assembled and refined from 589 sources. The dataset, which you can download or explore as an interactive map, uses 99,000+ polygons to describe the rock-scape, associating each unit with a name (or group name), rock type, lithology, geologic period, and more.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02152-9
https://www.scar.org/
https://www.scar.org/science/former-groups/geomap/
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.951482
https://data.gns.cri.nz/ata_geomap/index.html?content=/mapservice/Content/antarctica/Download.html
https://data.gns.cri.nz/ata_geomap/index.html?map=Antarctic_v2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithology
https://geomap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/",
2023.05.31,5,NYC sidewalk scaffolding.,"New York City’s Department of Buildings publishes a map and dataset of active permits for “sidewalk sheds,” the ubiquitous, temporary structures (often colloquially called scaffolding) meant to shield pedestrians from falling debris. Each of the ~9,000 entries indicates the permit address, date issued, material, linear feet, age, and more. The oldest shed has had a permit for more than 17 years. Read more: An introduction to the sheds and several visualizations of the data, by BetaNYC’s Zhi Keng He. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/sidewalk-shed-map.html
https://www.nyc.gov/site/buildings/safety/sidewalk-sheds.page
https://observablehq.com/@betanyc/what-are-sidewalk-sheds
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhi-keng-he-870072156",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/512-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2023.06.07,1,Pesticide use.,"As part of its National Water-Quality Assessment Project, the US Geological Survey publishes maps and datasets that estimate local pesticide usage, based on “proprietary surveys of farm operations.” The datasets provide high/low estimates (measured in kilograms) by county, chemical, and year, as well as by crop group for each state. The most recent “preliminary” figures refer to 2019, with the next release not scheduled until “late 2024.” Read more: “Move to change how U.S. tracks pesticide use sparks protest,” an article by Virginia Gewin in Science, reporting on the pushback against USGS’s decision “to reduce the number of chemicals it tracks and to release updates less frequently.” [h/t Walt Hickey]","https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/national-water-quality-assessment-nawqa
https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/
https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/about.php
https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0907/
https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/county-level/
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6081ae7cd34e8564d6866222
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6081a924d34e8564d68661a1
https://www.science.org/content/article/move-change-how-u-s-tracks-pesticide-use-sparks-protests
https://www.virginiagewin.com/",https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-june-1-2023-coconuts
2023.06.07,2,Commercial space launches.,"The Federal Aviation Administration regulates the United States’ commercial space transportation industry. The agency publishes HTML tables listing operator licenses, permits for experimental operations, licensed launches, and more. The 552 launches listed go back to 1989; each row indicates the date, payload, vehicle name, company, and site’s state (or “Pacific Ocean”). Related: The FAA’s map and descriptions of the country’s commercial spaceports. [h/t Chartr]","https://www.faa.gov/space
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/licenses/
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/launches/?type=Permitted
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/launches/
https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/images/ast/AST-Spaceport-Map_Sept2022.jpg
https://www.faa.gov/space/spaceports_by_state
https://www.faa.gov/space/office_spaceports",https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/2023-05-22
2023.06.07,3,Firearm suicide rates.,"A recent paper (published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine) and dataset by Megan Kang and Elizabeth Rasich “extends an existing proxy for household gun ownership rates — the rate of firearm suicide divided by suicide (FSS) — from 1949 to 2020, including new coverage for the 1949 to 1972 period.” For each state and year, the dataset provides the count and population-adjusted rate of suicides, firearm suicides, homicides, and firearm homicides, among other figures. The first 30 years of firearm suicide/homicide counts had to be transcribed from scanned National Center for Health Statistics reports; later figures come from the CDC’s WONDER and WISQARS systems.","https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4453698
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(23)00205-2/fulltext
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/QVYDUD
https://www.megankang.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-rasich-087b1a144/
https://wonder.cdc.gov/
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html",
2023.06.07,4,Harvard’s library holdings.,"Harvard Library, “the oldest library system in the United States and the world’s largest academic library,” provides several ways to access detailed metadata about its holdings, including its LibraryCloud API and bulk downloads. The millions of items described include not only books, but also “journals, scores, databases, sound recordings, films and video, images, maps,” and more.  Previously: Metadata from the Library of Congress (DIP 2017.05.24).","https://library.harvard.edu/visit-about/about-harvard-library
https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/harvard-library-apis-datasets
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/display/LibraryStaffDoc/LibraryCloud
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/I8L0ZZ
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/Y5WUTU
https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-068/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-05-24-edition/",
2023.06.07,5,Ransomware negotiations.,"Negotiations between ransomware victims and their attackers “are usually not shared widely, limiting the understanding of the process,” writes journalist Valéry Marchive, whose repository of chat transcripts “aims at changing that, in a respectful manner for the victims of cyberattacks: chats are anonymized as long as the victim hasn’t been publicly disclosed, either by the attackers or in the media.” [h/t Duncan Geere]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
https://github.com/Casualtek
https://github.com/Casualtek/Ransomchats",https://www.duncangeere.com/
2023.06.14,1,Canadian wildfires.,"The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System monitors wildfires and fire-conducive conditions across the country. It publishes daily maps of its Fire Weather Index, satellite-detected hotspots, and fire intensity predictions, among other analyses. Its Canadian National Fire Database provides the perimeters, dates, sizes, and other metadata for tens of thousands of fires, spanning decades. In the agency’s datamart, you can find additional downloads of tabular and geospatial data, including burned-area statistics, active fires, and current conditions. Related: The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre’s dashboard of active fires. Previously: The Global Wildfire Information System (DIP 2022.07.27). [h/t Michael Nolan]","https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/home
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fw?type=fwi
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?type=tri
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fb
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart/metadata/nbac
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart/metadata/activefires
https://www.ciffc.ca/
https://ciffc.net/
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-07-27-edition/",https://m-nolan.github.io/
2023.06.14,2,Climate finance.,"“Rich nations say they’re spending billions to fight climate change” in developing countries, notes a recent Reuters investigation, which found some of this climate finance going to “questionable” projects, “including a coal plant, a hotel and chocolate shops.” To help find those examples, Reuters teamed up with Big Local News to extract “43,844 records [from the] Fifth, Fourth, and Third Biennial reports that developed countries submitted to the U.N. Climate Change secretariat.” Each of the records represents a reported contribution, listing the recipient country/region, program funded, funding amount, sector, status, and more. Read more: “How you can use climate finance data we collected for local stories around the globe” (Big Local News).","https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-finance/
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-CHANGE/FINANCE/gdvzqlyjqpw/
https://biglocalnews.org/content/about/
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dx902xg3463/README_bln_reuters_climate_finance.pdf
https://unfccc.int/BR5
https://unfccc.int/BR4
https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/transparency-and-reporting/reporting-and-review-under-the-convention/national-communications-and-biennial-reports-annex-i-parties/biennial-report-submissions/third-biennial-reports-annex-i
https://purl.stanford.edu/dx902xg3463
https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2023/06/01/climate-finance-story-recipe.html",
2023.06.14,3,Pennsylvania competency cases.,"Earlier this year, Spotlight PA and the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism published an investigation into Pennsylvania’s competency system, which is “supposed to protect people with mental health issues from prosecution if they cannot understand the legal system and cannot aid in their own defense.” The team has also published the data it received from the state’s court administrators, with information about 697 cases that involved competency proceedings between 2018 to mid-2022. The records, available for 23 counties, indicate each case’s court, filing date, charges, disposition, sentencing, attorneys, plus the type and timing of 1,400+ competency-related docket filings. [h/t Matt Dempsey]","https://www.spotlightpa.org/
https://pinjnews.org/
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/03/pa-mental-illness-jail-incompetent-treatment/
https://github.com/spotlightpa/competency-data-2023/",https://twitter.com/mizzousundevil
2023.06.14,4,Ad-targeting labels.,"The Markup has obtained, analyzed, and published a spreadsheet of 650,000+ ad-targetable “audience segments” (described by labels such as “Depression Propensity - Reach Tier 2”) and their data suppliers. The spreadsheet — flagged to The Markup by privacy researcher Wolfie Christl — was, until recently, linked from the website of a Microsoft-owned ad platform. “The Markup found thousands of rows in the file that indicate sensitive audience groupings,” including those related to medical issues, race/ethnicity, political activity, addiction, and more. [h/t Sharon Machlis]","https://themarkup.org/
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you
https://github.com/the-markup/xandr-audience-segments
https://wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en",https://fosstodon.org/@smach
2023.06.14,5,Food defect thresholds.,"“How many rat hairs in your macaroni before the FDA considers it adulterated?” asks Cody Winchester, who has found the answer in the Food and Drug Administration’s Food Defect Levels Handbook. That guide’s “action levels” table lists 180 criteria for 111 commodities, indicating the “maximum levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods for human use that present no health hazard.” Winchester has converted the table into a JSON file. The answer: An “average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples.”","https://codywinchester.com/
https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
https://github.com/cjwinchester/fda-food-defect-action-levels",
2023.06.28,1,Rape kit backlogs.,"The actual number of unanalyzed sexual assault kits in the United States is unknown. But last year “at least 25,000 untested rape kits sat in law enforcement agencies and crime labs across the country,” according to rape kit backlog data compiled by USAFacts, based on responses by 30 states and DC to public records requests. Elizabeth “Betsy” Kim, who led the project, has published the raw records the agencies and labs provided, as well as her correspondence with them. The core data indicate the number of kits in each backlog each year between 2018 and 2022; the backlog definition (in number of days) the state used in the data they provided; and, of the kits received by crime labs in 2022, how many were tested within 30 days.","https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/untested-evidence-sexual-assault-cases
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-rape-kits-are-awaiting-testing-in-the-us-see-the-data-by-state/
https://usafacts.org/articles/detailed-methodology-rape-kit-backlog-data/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbkim/
https://github.com/elizabethbkim/rape-kits-data",
2023.06.28,2,Global income deciles.,"Kanishka B. Narayan et al. “present a consistent dataset of income distributions across 190 countries from 1958 to 2015 measured in terms of net income.” Where net income statistics were unavailable, the authors imputed the deciles from consumption data or the country’s Gini coefficient. Their paper also provides a comparison of their dataset to the United Nations University’s World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2016.06.01), the Luxembourg Income Study Database, and the World Bank’s PovcalNet (now the Poverty and Inequality Platform). Also previously: The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (DIP 2022.11.09) and Frederick Solt’s Standardized World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2019.12.04).","https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2023-137/
https://databank.worldbank.org/metadataglossary/gender-statistics/series/SI.POV.GINI
https://zenodo.org/record/7093997
https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/wiid-%E2%80%93-world-income-inequality-database
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-06-01-edition/
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/lis-database/
http://web.archive.org/web/20220426042531/http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/home.aspx
http://web.archive.org/web/20220501080610/https://pip.worldbank.org/
https://www.grid-database.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-11-09-edition/
https://fsolt.org/
https://fsolt.org/swiid/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-12-04-edition/",
2023.06.28,3,US fire statistics.,"The US National Interagency Fire Center “is home to the national fire management programs of each federal fire agency, along with partners,” such as the National Weather Service. It provides a range of aggregate statistics as HTML tables, including firefighting suppression costs by year, the number and size of human-caused wildfires by year and geography, similar counts for lightning-caused fires, and prescribed fires by year and agency. Reader Michael Nolan has converted the prescribed fire tables, which cover 1998 to 2019, into CSV files. Previously: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (DIP 2017.10.11).","https://www.nifc.gov/
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/suppression-costs
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/human-caused
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/lightning-caused
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/prescribed-fire
https://m-nolan.github.io/
https://github.com/m-nolan/NIFC-prescribed-burns/
https://www.mtbs.gov/project-overview
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-10-11-edition/",
2023.06.28,4,Species introduced to the Antarctic.,"“From the earliest expeditions to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Islands, humans have intentionally and accidentally introduced non-native species to the region,” write Rachel I. Leihy et al., who have assembled a dataset of “introduced and invasive alien species” documented in the region. The dataset identifies 3,000+ location-species combinations, providing their “establishment, eradication status, dates of introduction, habitat, and evidence of impact,” plus reference citations.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02113-2
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Introduced_and_invasive_alien_species_of_Antarctica_and_the_Southern_Ocean_Islands/22056647",
2023.06.28,5,Swedish air traffic control.,"Jens Nilsson and Jonas Unger’s Swedish Civil Air Traffic Control dataset contains 13 non-contiguous weeks of “flight plans, clearances from air traffic control, surveillance data and trajectory prediction data,” corresponding to 167,000+ scheduled commercial flights in 2017. The records come from two control centers, in Malmö and Stockholm.","https://liu.se/en/employee/jenni29
https://liu.se/en/employee/jonun48
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/8yn985bwz5/1
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923003591",
2023.07.12,1,US military interventions.,"For the Military Intervention Project, Sidita Kushi and Monica Duffy Toft have constructed a dataset of “all instances of US military intervention from 1776 until 2019, alongside key drivers and consequences of these interventions.” The 392 cases include wars, occupations, major troop deployments, humanitarian assistance, and other military actions abroad. The dataset categorizes their objectives, use of force, and outcomes; indicates their location, foreign states involved, starting/ending year, and human costs; and provides many additional variables. Its sources include government publications, media reports, other datasets (such as the International Military Intervention and Military Intervention by Powerful States projects), and more. [h/t David Vine]","https://sites.tufts.edu/css/mip-research/
https://www.siditakushi.com/
https://sites.tufts.edu/css/people/about/monica-duffy-toft/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027221117546
https://sites.tufts.edu/css/mip-research/mip-dataset/
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/21282
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/15519",https://www.davidvine.net/
2023.07.12,2,The latest White House visitors.,"In May 2021, the Biden-Harris administration began releasing its logs of visitors to the White House. The records now include 500,000+ entries from January 2021 to March 2023, featuring 350,000+ distinct names and indicating the visit’s timing, visitee, meeting location, and more. Caveat: “However, a Bloomberg News analysis of the data found duplications, anomalies and missing names,” write Eric Fan and Josh Wingrove. “For example, the records […] show just five visits from Nancy Pelosi when she was House Speaker, despite at least 20 known instances when she was there.” Previously: Official logs from the Obama-Biden White House, plus ProPublica’s and Politico’s attempts to compile them for Trump-Pence (DIP 2017.11.29).","https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/2021/05/07/biden-harris-administration-reinstates-visitor-log-policy-will-be-first-administration-to-post-records-from-first-full-year-in-office/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/disclosures/visitor-logs/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-26/biden-re-opens-white-house-visitor-logs-but-some-names-are-missing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/goodgovernment/tools/visitor-records
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex
https://www.politico.com/interactives/databases/trump-white-house-visitor-logs-and-records/index.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-11-29-edition/",
2023.07.12,3,NY prison employee misconduct.,"For a series of articles (co-published with the New York Times) investigating abuse by prison guards in New York State, The Marshall Project obtained and analyzed data representing 12 years of Department of Corrections and Community Supervision employee disciplinary notices. The newsroom is publishing those records, which they’ve converted from two PDFs into tabular data, along with additional context and caveats. The records contain ~6,000 (non-redacted) notices; they indicate the employee name, title, facility, union, type of misconduct, case disposition, description, and penalty, among other details.","https://www.themarshallproject.org/tag/when-guards-abuse-prisoners
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/nyregion/ny-prison-guards-brutality-fired.html
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/19/new-york-prison-officer-abuse-how-we-investigated
https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/new-york-prison-employee-discipline-data",
2023.07.12,4,Australian mine production.,"“No […] study has ever compiled a national mine production data set which includes basic mining data such as ore processed, grades, extracted products (e.g., metals, concentrates, saleable ore) and waste rock,” writes Gavin M. Mudd, whose new dataset aims to do exactly that for Australia from 1799 to 2021. It contains mine-by-mine metrics, as well as annual production by state and element/mineral.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02275-z
https://rmit.figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_Comprehensive_Dataset_for_Australian_Mine_Production_1799_to_2021/22724081/2",
2023.07.12,5,“The global human day.”,"By harmonizing “data collected by national statistics agencies, international organizations, and researchers from over 140 countries,” William Fajzel et al. have “assemble[d] a complete estimate of what humans are doing, averaged over time and across the entire population, to provide [what] we refer to as the global human day.” Their published data include global and national estimates for 24 subcategories, such as sleep (~9 hours) and childcare (~17 minutes).","https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2219564120
https://zenodo.org/record/8040631",
2023.07.26,1,Natural resources revenue.,"To extract minerals, coal, oil, or gas from US federal land, Native American land, or the Outer Continental Shelf, companies must pay various royalties, rents, and bonuses to the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, which then distributes those payments — amounting to billions of dollars per year — to the federal government, local governments, tribes, and individuals. Through its data portal, the agency provides annual and monthly breakdowns of revenue, disbursements, and production, which you can download, query, and visually explore. Related: The Bureau of Land Management also provides “data that include the numbers of BLM-administered oil and gas leases, applications for permit to drill, and oil and gas wells” on federal land. As seen in: “How much oil and gas comes from federal territory?” (USAFacts).","https://www.boem.gov/environment/outer-continental-shelf
https://onrr.gov/about
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/downloads
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/query-data
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/explore
https://www.blm.gov/about
https://www.blm.gov/programs-energy-and-minerals-oil-and-gas-oil-and-gas-statistics
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-oil-and-gas-comes-from-federal-territory/",
2023.07.26,2,Gender and diplomacy.,"Birgitta Niklasson and Ann Towns’s GenDip dataset “maps the extent to which states appoint men, women and other diplomats to different kinds of bilateral ambassador postings.” The data cover 200+ countries and 10 specific years between 1968 and 2021. For each diplomat and year, the dataset indicates their sending country, receiving country, type of diplomatic title (e.g., ambassador, minister, etc.), and gender, which is “based on titles (e.g. Mr/Mrs, prince/princess, baron/baroness, etc.), pronouns used when referring to the diplomat, or the recognition of names as either female or male.” The team has also produced a series of visualizations based on the data.","https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/birgittaniklasson
https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/anntowns
https://www.gu.se/en/gendip/the-gendip-dataset-on-gender-and-diplomatic-representation
https://www.gu.se/en/gendip/the-gendip-dataset-on-gender-and-diplomatic-representation/visualization-tools",
2023.07.26,3,Millions of PDFs.,"As part of its SafeDocs project, DARPA has compiled a corpus of “nearly 8 million PDFs gathered from across the web in July/August of 2021.” To create it, the authors began with the URLs of PDF files identified by Common Crawl (DIP 2021.04.21), fetched their complete contents, and recorded metadata about each file and where it was found. “At the time of its creation, this is the largest single corpus of real-world (extant) PDFs that is publicly available,” they write.","https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-06-14
https://www.darpa.mil/program/safe-documents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
https://digitalcorpora.org/corpora/file-corpora/cc-main-2021-31-pdf-untruncated/
https://commoncrawl.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-04-21-edition/",
2023.07.26,4,Iberian orcas.,"The website orcas.pt publishes monthly, downloadable maps indicating the date, time, and location of orca sightings and attacks off the coasts of Portugal and Spain. Run by Rui Alves as a personal project, the project gathers its data through a network of local sailors. Related: The Cruising Association, in collaboration with Grupo de Trabajo Orca Atlántica, publishes maps and detailed reports of orca interactions, including “uneventful passages.” [h/t Soph Warnes]","https://www.orcas.pt/
https://www.orcas.pt/maps
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/the-orca-uprising-whales-are-ramming-boats-but-are-they-inspired-by-revenge-grief-or-memory
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/group-of-orcas-attack-and-sink-vessels-off-iberian-peninsula
https://www.theca.org.uk/
https://www.orcaiberica.org/
https://www.theca.org.uk/orcas/reports
https://www.theca.org.uk/orcas",https://fairwarning.substack.com/
2023.07.26,5,"Comedians, challenged.","At TaskMaster.Info, Karl Craven is “obsessively documenting the international Taskmaster franchise,” which began as a British game show on which comedians compete to win challenges such as watermelon speed-eating and high-fiving strangers. Reddit user Alohamori has used the site and other sources to create a “ridiculously comprehensive” database of that information, enabling queries such as the fastest-completed tasks, tasks awarding zero points, and episodes ending in ties. Bonus link: Taskmaster’s official YouTube channel.","https://taskmaster.info/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kandrewcraven/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskmaster_(TV_series)
https://taskmaster.info/task.php?id=2
https://taskmaster.info/task.php?id=8
https://www.reddit.com/user/Alohamori/
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/sources
https://www.reddit.com/r/taskmaster/comments/13zb9nl/i_put_together_a_ridiculously_comprehensive/
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/taskmaster
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/taskmaster/measurements?_sort=measurement&objective.target__exact=least&measurement__notnull=1&objective.unit__exact=time
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/taskmaster/tasks?points=0
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/taskmaster/episode_scores?rank=1%3D&_sort_desc=episode
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5C7yaO3RVuOgwP8JVAujQ",
2023.08.02,1,Nursing home inspections.,"A couple of weeks ago, ProPublica launched a major update to its Nursing Home Inspect database, originally published in 2012 (and briefly mentioned in DIP 2016.07.06). The new version “includes more data, new views that summarize problems, and advanced search features.” As an accompanying guide explains, the database now “covers nearly 400,000 deficiencies from over 90,000 reports at over 15,000 homes.” The project links to its source data, including the federal government’s list of Medicare-certified nursing homes and the date, regulation, scope/severity, and narrative text of all deficiencies. Tip: The Seattle Times provides guidance for downloading those deficiency records. Later today: ProPublica is hosting a webinar about the updated database.","https://www.propublica.org/article/here-whats-new-in-nursing-home-inspect-database
https://projects.propublica.org/nursing-homes/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-07-06-edition/
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-use-updated-nursing-home-inspect
https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py
https://github.com/seattletimes/nursing_homes_staffing_20200925#deficiency-data
https://www.propublica.org/events/how-to-use-propublicas-updated-nursing-home-inspect-database",
2023.08.02,2,Local ideology.,"“Little is known about the American public’s policy preferences at the level of Congressional districts, state legislative districts, and local municipalities,” Chris Tausanovitch and Christopher Warshaw wrote in the Journal of Politics a decade ago. To address the issue, the researchers applied Bayesian statistical methods to large public-opinion surveys to generate numeric “ideal point” (left-vs-right) estimates at many geographic levels. Through their American Ideology Project, they have since updated these estimates, including most recently with data through 2021. Previously: Ideology estimates for state legislators (DIP 2020.01.01), updated in April 2023, and members of Congress (DIP 2023.03.01). [h/t Mike Stucka]","https://ctausanovitch.com/
http://www.chriswarshaw.com/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1017/s0022381613000042?seq=1
https://americanideologyproject.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/americanideologyproject
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BQKU4M
https://americanlegislatures.wordpress.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-01-01-edition/
https://americanlegislatures.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/april-2023-update-to-shor-mccarty-state-legislatures-data/
https://voteview.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-03-01-edition/",https://twitter.com/MikeStucka
2023.08.02,3,COVID-19 in deer.,"Aijing Feng et al. “collected 8,830 respiratory samples from free-ranging white-tailed deer across Washington, D.C. and 26 states in the United States between November 2021 and April 2022.” The researchers sequenced the COVID-19 genomes from 391 of the samples that tested positive for the virus, finding that the infections “originated from at least 109 independent spillovers from humans, which resulted in 39 cases of subsequent local deer-to-deer transmission and three cases of potential spillover from white-tailed deer back to humans.” The study’s public spreadsheets include data about each sequenced sample (collection date, state, virus lineage, etc.), each spillover event, and more. [h/t Tyler Dedrick]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x#Sec28",http://www.tmdedrick.com/
2023.08.02,4,Colombian public-sector algorithms.,"Juan David Gutiérrez et al. have compiled a spreadsheet listing 113 automated decision systems (“sistemas de decisión automatizada”) in the Colombian public sector. Each entry lists the system’s name, government entity, level of government (national, department, municipal), sector, description, objectives, data used, various categorizations, and much more. The project also includes a spreadsheet of the 300+ sources used in the compilation.","https://juangutierrez.co/2023/06/07/nueva-base-de-datos-caracteriza-113-algoritmos-utilizados-el-sector-publico-colombiano-para-orientar-o-tomar-decisiones/
https://research-data.urosario.edu.co/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34848/YN1CRT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_Colombia",
2023.08.02,5,Forageable fruit.,"The Falling Fruit project “is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets.” It provides a map — “not the first of its kind, but [aspiring] to be the world’s most comprehensive” — and downloadable dataset of 1.5 million locations of edible plants in public, although not strictly fruit. The entries come from user contributions, as well as imports of community maps and tree inventories. [h/t Susie Cambria]","https://fallingfruit.org/
https://fallingfruit.org/about
https://fallingfruit.org/data
https://fallingfruit.org/changes
https://fallingfruit.org/datasets",https://twitter.com/susiecambria
2023.08.09,1,Much mapping material.,"The Overture Maps Foundation has released its first datasets, which include 59 million “points of interest” (landmarks, businesses, parks, etc.), 785 million building outlines, road network data, and administrative boundaries. The initiative, which is steered by several giant tech companies, “could help third-party developers use maps that don’t rely on Google and Apple,” The Verge’s Emma Roth writes. The datasets draw on a range of sources, including the project’s member-companies, OpenStreetMap, and USGS’s 3D Elevation Program. Read more: “Exploring the Overture Maps places data using DuckDB, sqlite-utils and Datasette,” by Simon Willison, who considers the data release “a really big deal.” [h/t Avi Levin]","https://overturemaps.org/
https://overturemaps.org/overture-maps-foundation-releases-first-world-wide-open-map-dataset/
https://overturemaps.org/download/overture-july-alpha-release-notes/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808274/meta-microsoft-amazon-overture-open-source-mapping
https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program
https://til.simonwillison.net/overture-maps/overture-maps-parquet
https://simonwillison.net/",https://twitter.com/Arithmomaniac
2023.08.09,2,Sweeteners.,"The US Department of Agriculture’s Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables provide “summary statistics on sugar, sugarbeets, sugarcane, corn sweeteners (dextrose, glucose, and high-fructose corn syrup), and honey.” Compiled by the agency’s Economic Research Service from a range of national, international, and industry sources, the statistics are provided as regularly-updated spreadsheets, many of which go back multiple decades. They estimate global and country-level production, supply, distribution, and prices, as well as US imports and consumption. [h/t Sam Larson]","https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables.aspx
https://www.ers.usda.gov/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables/documentation/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/shlarson/
2023.08.09,3,Federal Reserve communications.,"Agam Shah et al. have compiled a corpus of key communications by the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee, which “controls the three tools of monetary policy — open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements.” Gathered from the Fed’s website, the corpus includes all meeting minutes and speeches from 1996 to mid-October 2022, and all press conferences from April 2011 to mid-October 2022. The published records include the raw text and metadata of each communication, as well as datasets filtered to key sentences. Previously: Federal Reserve Bank directors (DIP 2021.05.05) and Fed forecasts (DIP 2018.02.07).","https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4447632
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish/tree/main/data/raw_data
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish/tree/main/data/master_files
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish/tree/main/data/filtered_data
https://www.brookings.edu/research/diversity-within-the-federal-reserve-system/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-05-05-edition/
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-data/real-time-data-research/greenbook
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-07-edition/",
2023.08.09,4,English families.,"The Families of England project, led by economic historians Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins, aims “to reconstruct the economic and social position, and the demography, of a representative set of English families” over time. A recent paper by Clark includes a public version of the dataset, which “details the family connections of 422,374 people with rarer surnames in England for births from 1600 to 2022.” The dataset, based in part on genealogies from the Guild of One-Name Studies, indicates (where available) each person’s years of birth, marriage, and death, plus indicators of literacy, sex, occupational status, and more. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","http://neilcummins.com/foe.html
https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/
http://neilcummins.com/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300926120
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300926120#data-availability
https://one-name.org/about-the-guild/",http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
2023.08.09,5,Winning numbers.,"New York State’s Gaming Commission publishes various lottery-related datasets, including the winning numbers for many national and state lotteries, such as Powerball (since 2010), Mega Millions (since 2002), and Pick 10 (since 1987). New York isn’t alone; the Colorado Lottery, for instance, also publishes downloadable drawing histories. Their Powerball results go back to August 2001 and include the jackpot values, unavailable from New York. As seen in: “The jackpot is a lie,” by Zach Seward.","https://data.ny.gov/browse?limitTo=datasets&tags=new+york+lottery&sortBy=most_accessed&utf8=%E2%9C%93
https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Lottery-Powerball-Winning-Numbers-Beginning-2010/d6yy-54nr
https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Lottery-Mega-Millions-Winning-Numbers-Beginning-20/5xaw-6ayf
https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Lottery-Pick-10-Winning-Numbers-Beginning-1987/bycu-cw7c
https://www.coloradolottery.com/en/player-tools/winning-history/
https://www.zachseward.com/the-jackpot-is-a-lie/
https://www.zachseward.com/",
2023.08.23,1,International cancer statistics.,"The World Health Organization’s Global Cancer Observatory provides interfaces to a range of studies and statistics. Its Cancer Today portal features tables, charts, and maps of “incidence, mortality and prevalence for year 2020 in 185 countries or territories for 36 cancer types by sex and age group.” Those figures come from the latest GLOBOCAN estimates, calculated by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer based on data from national and regional registries. Note: “Caution must be exercised when interpreting these estimates, given the limited quality and coverage of cancer data worldwide at present, particularly in low- and middle-income countries,” the researchers warn. Previously: Statistics from the American Cancer Society (DIP 2016.01.27).","https://gco.iarc.fr/
https://gco.iarc.fr/projects
https://gco.iarc.fr/today/home
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21660
https://www.iarc.who.int/
https://gco.iarc.fr/today/about
https://cancerstatisticscenter.cancer.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-01-27-edition/",
2023.08.23,2,SSVF satisfaction surveys.,"The Veterans Administration’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families program aims to “to promote housing stability among very low-income Veteran families who reside in or are transitioning to permanent housing.” The VA outsources those services to a network of 200+ selected nonprofits, which it grants hundreds of millions of dollars per year. When a veteran exits a grantee’s program, they’re invited to complete a satisfaction survey. The Data Liberation Project (which, disclosure, I run) filed a FOIA request for the survey data, and received three spreadsheets in return (among other documents), detailing nearly 40,000 anonymized responses from fiscal years 2016–20 and 2022.","https://www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf/index.html
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unanFEUnBDVBMK9pmpb0EVvRlpB-jtRC6gwlXSN-If4/edit",
2023.08.23,3,Katherine Dunham.,"Dunham’s Data, a project led by Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench, “explores the kinds of questions and problems that make the analysis and visualization of data meaningful for dance history, through the case study of 20th century African American choreographer Katherine Dunham” (1909–2006). Drawing on materials “held by seven archives across the United States,” the team has built three core datasets, accompanied by essays, visualizations, and code repositories. They “document the daily itinerary of Dunham’s touring and travel from the 1930s-60s; the over 300 dancers, drummers, and singers who appeared with her; and the shifting configurations of the nearly 300 repertory entities they performed.” [h/t Selena Chau]","https://dunhamsdata.org/
https://www.kateelswit.org/
https://dance.osu.edu/people/bench.9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunham
https://dunhamsdata.org/portfolio/datasets
https://dunhamsdata.org/index.php/portfolio/essays
https://dunhamsdata.org/index.php/portfolio/visualizations
https://dunhamsdata.org/blog/code-tutorial-release",https://www.linkedin.com/in/selenachau/
2023.08.23,4,Singaporean wages.,"Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower released its 2022 wage tables last month. The tables list the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of basic and gross wages for more than 300 occupations by industry, plus median wages by worker sex, by worker age, and by establishment size. As seen in: The Straits Times’ benchmarking tool and DIP reader Joses Ho’s interactive chart of Singapore’s gender wage gaps.","https://stats.mom.gov.sg/Pages/Occupational-Wages-Tables2022.aspx
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2023/07/salary-guide-2023/index.html
https://www.josesho.com/
https://observablehq.com/@josesho/singapore-gender-wage-gap-2022",
2023.08.23,5,Scotland’s Common Good.,"Scotland’s Common Good Act, passed in 1491, creates a legal distinction for historical property owned by local authorities — often land and buildings, but also “moveable assets” such as paintings, chains of office, and furniture. CommonGood.scot, launched in April by investigative journalism cooperative The Ferret, presents a searchable, browsable, and downloadable dataset of 2,900+ of these common good assets, compiled largely through freedom of information requests. [h/t Chris H]","https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aosp/1491/19/introduction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_collar
https://commongood.scot/
https://commongood.scot/launching-commongood-scot/
https://theferret.scot/about-us/
https://commongood.scot/search/
https://commongood.scot/map/
https://commongood.scot/data/
https://commongood.scot/faqs-common-good-funds/",
2023.09.06,1,Eponymic streets.,"Mapping Diversity, created by the European Data Journalism Network, “is a platform for discovering key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe, and to spark a debate about who is missing from our urban spaces.” The interactive analysis of 145,000+ streets in 30 major European cities launched in March, accompanied by spreadsheets calculating city-level statistics and listing all the streets named after women. Last month the team released its full dataset, which provides information for every street examined, plus data for six more cities. Each row indicates a street’s country, city, and name; whether it’s named after anyone; and, if so, the person’s name, gender, and various attributes from Wikidata, such as occupation and date of birth. Previously: Las Calles de las Mujeres (DIP 2019.05.29).","https://mappingdiversity.eu/
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_dataset/street-names-in-european-cities/
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news/mapping-diversity-full-dataset-release/
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xBc8EcR2jR2senxMpgIRFE0jafMn23sM
https://www.wikidata.org/
https://geochicasosm.github.io/lascallesdelasmujeres/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-05-29-edition/",
2023.09.06,2,Doctors in practice.,"The Physician and Physician Practice Research Database, published by the US government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, harmonizes data on medical practices from 13 participating states. The public-use files provide each practice’s ZIP code, number of physicians, most common specialty, organizational NPI, and other characteristics. They also provide statistical aggregates at the 3-digit ZIP code level, such as the number of physicians accepting Medicare and/or Medicaid, average claims per month, and more. [h/t Gary Price]","https://www.ahrq.gov/data/innovations/3p-rd.html
https://www.ahrq.gov/
https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/NationalProvIdentStand",https://www.infodocket.com/2023/03/28/upcoming-event-u-s-repository-network-action-plan-update-now-available-detailed-agenda-and-updated-schedule-now-available-for-spring-2023-depository-library-council-dlc-virtual-meeting-more-n/
2023.09.06,3,Intra-state ceasefires.,"Govinda Clayton et al.’s  Civil Conflict Ceasefire Dataset “covers all ceasefires in civil conflict between 1989 and 2020, including multilateral, bilateral and unilateral arrangements, ranging from verbal arrangements to detailed written agreements.” The dataset’s 2,200+ ceasefires span 109 conflicts in 66 countries, largely based on news articles discussing the agreements. A team of reviewers manually coded each instance, indicating its type and stated purpose; sides participating; dates declared, entered effect, and ended; and more. Previously: The PA-X Peace Agreements Database (DIP 2018.02.28).","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220027221129183
https://ceasefireproject.org/download/
https://www.peaceagreements.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-28-edition/",
2023.09.06,4,Metabolisms.,"Drawing on 20+ published sources, Tori M. Hoehler et al. have compiled a dataset of 10,000+ measurements of metabolic rates of mammals, fish, birds, insects, tree saplings, bacteria, and other living organisms. The dataset includes several types of metabolic rates (primarily basal, field, and maximum), and a mix of individual-organism and species-average measurements.","https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303764120
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303764120#supplementary-materials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate",
2023.09.06,5,"Vox populi, except not.","The Onion runs a regular feature called “American Voices,” which presents fake quotes from fake people responding to not-fake events in the news. Cody Winchester has built a spreadsheet listing the headlines, descriptions, and dates for 7,000+ of these features since August 1996; the 23,000+ quotes in them; and the names, occupations, and (almost always recycled) photos of the fictional personae purportedly quoted.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion
https://www.theonion.com/opinion/american-voices
https://codywinchester.com/
https://codywinchester.com/the-onion-american-voices/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kPvF9_zZ375JKr0ATguQwUMXYDYi23HBkzu3uLUw_R8/edit",
2023.09.13,1,"Political contributions, enhanced.","Political scientist Adam Bonica’s Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME) gathers “500 million itemized political contributions made by individuals and organizations to local, state, and federal elections covering from 1979 to 2020.” The project, which received a major update last month, “is intended to make data on campaign finance and elections (1) more centralized and accessible, (2) easier to work with, and (3) more versatile […].” It assigns each contributor a unique identifier, geocodes their stated addresses, quantifies their ideological orientation, and more. The raw data come from several sources, including the Federal Election Commission and OpenSecrets. Related: MoneyInPolitics.wtf, a collaborative project that aims to be “America’s most comprehensive dictionary of campaign finance jargon.” [h/t Isadora Borges Monroy]","https://web.stanford.edu/~bonica/
https://data.stanford.edu/dime
https://listserv.wustl.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=1702A&L=POLMETH&D=0&H=N&P=6749708
https://www.fec.gov/data/
https://www.opensecrets.org/
https://moneyinpolitics.wtf/
https://moneyinpolitics.wtf/about/",https://twitter.com/1sadoraB
2023.09.13,2,Historical newspaper articles.,"Melissa Dell et al.’s American Stories dataset contains the text of ~400 million newspaper articles, extracted from ~20 million public-domain scans in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America project (DIP 2017.08.16). To construct the dataset, the authors built “a novel deep learning pipeline that incorporates layout detection, legibility classification, custom OCR, and the association of article texts spanning multiple bounding boxes.” For each article, the dataset provides the newspaper name, edition number, date of publication (largely in the 1800s–1920s), page number, headline, byline, and article text. Previously: The LOC’s Newspaper Navigator dataset (DIP 2020.10.07), which extracts visual content from the Chronicling America scans. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477
https://huggingface.co/datasets/dell-research-harvard/AmericanStories
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-08-16-edition/
https://github.com/dell-research-harvard/AmericanStories
https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-10-07-edition/",http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
2023.09.13,3,Prigozhin audio messages.,"Giorgio Comai has collected and auto-transcribed hundreds of audio messages from Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, which were posted “on his official Telegram channel - the press service of his holding company” from late 2022 through June 2023. For each transcribed segment within each message, the resulting datasets (one in Russian and one auto-translated into English) include the message ID, time posted, segment timestamp, and segment text. [h/t Federico Caruso]","https://giorgiocomai.eu/
https://tadadit.xyz/posts/2023-08-telegram_prigozhin/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/prigozhin_audio_files/",https://twitter.com/_federicocaruso
2023.09.13,4,The “Unknome.”,"The human genome has been sequenced, but what do all those genes do? João J. Rocha et al.’s Unknome database assigns a “knownness” score to “all protein clusters that contain at least 1 protein from humans or any of 11 model organisms.” The score is based on the density of annotations in the Gene Ontology knowledgebase, which bills itself as “the world’s largest source of information on the functions of genes.” The clustering comes from another downloadable database, PANTHER, which contains “comprehensive information about the evolution of protein-coding gene families.”","https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002222
https://unknome.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/
https://geneontology.org/
https://pantherdb.org/",
2023.09.13,5,License plate designs.,"Beautiful Public Data’s Jon Keegan scraped the websites of every US state’s (and DC’s) motor vehicle agency to assemble a dataset of 8,291 license plate designs. The dataset provides each design’s name, state, and image. Read more: Keegan’s exploration of the data, which includes a searchable table. Previously: Vanity plates requested in California (DIP 2020.01.29) and New York (DIP 2015.10.21).","https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/
https://jonkeegan.com/
https://github.com/jonkeegan/us-license-plates
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/all-of-the-license-plates-in-the-united-states/
https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-01-29-edition/
https://github.com/datanews/license-plates
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-10-21-edition/",
2023.09.20,1,US facility GHG emissions.,"The EPA’s Facility Level Information on Greenhouse Gases Tool “gives you access to greenhouse gas data reported to EPA by large emitters, facilities that inject CO2 underground, and suppliers of products that result in GHG emissions when used in the United States.” The information comes from the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which also provides bulk data downloads. Per the EPA: “Approximately 8,000 facilities are required to report their emissions annually, and the reported data are made available to the public in October of each year.” The data, which go back to 2010, indicate the facility type, emissions reported, measurement methods, types of fuel used, and much more. Previously: Climate TRACE’s estimates of the world’s largest GHG emitters (DIP 2022.11.16). [h/t Terin V. Mayer]","https://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do#/facility/
https://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting
https://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/data-sets
https://ccdsupport.com/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=93290546
https://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ghgrp-methodology-and-verification
https://ccdsupport.com/confluence/display/ghgp/Detailed+Description+of+Data+for+Certain+Sources+and+Processes
https://climatetrace.org/
https://climatetrace.org/news/more-than-70000-of-the-highest-emitting-greenhouse-gas
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-11-16-edition/",https://terinvmayer.com/
2023.09.20,2,Net migration estimates.,"Using national and subnational data on birth rates, death rates, and population counts, Venla Niva et al. have constructed a dataset of estimated net migration for each part of the world, each year between 2000 and 2019. The estimates are available as gridded data (with ~10km resolution) and at three levels of administrative units: national, provincial, and communal. (For the US, the latter two levels correspond to states and counties, respectively.) The researchers have also published an interactive map of the estimates for each administrative unit.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01689-4
https://zenodo.org/record/7997134
https://wdrg.aalto.fi/global-net-migration-explorer/",
2023.09.20,3,Gubernatorial approval.,"Political scientist Matthew M. Singer’s State Executive Approval Database contains the results of 10,000+ gubernatorial approval polls, spanning all 50 states and going back decades. The database, which builds on earlier efforts by Thad Beyle et al., lists each poll’s date, state, governor, pollster, sample size, sample type, ratings scale, percentage of positive/negative responses, and more. Previously: The Executive Approval Project (DIP 2019.10.16), which Singer co-directs.","https://polisci.uconn.edu/person/matthew-singer/
https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/QHHQEF
https://jmj313.web.lehigh.edu/node/6
http://www.executiveapproval.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-10-16-edition/
http://www.executiveapproval.org/contributors/",
2023.09.20,4,DOI drones.,"Through a FOIA request to the US Department of the Interior, journalist Ben Welsh has obtained and published the agency’s drone roster. For each of the 850+ remote-controlled aircraft, the dataset lists the agency bureau and office, drone manufacturer, model, cost, serial number, and more. The FOIA request also unearthed spreadsheets listing specific drone flights and multi-flight deployments. Previously: Drone registration data (DIP 2022.12.21), also obtained by Welsh via FOIA.","https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/list-of-all-department-of-interior-owned-unmanned-aircraft-systems-137451/
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/110966893650258876
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q2yLaIJWEgofIJc8XS9oAdgSrW0_zPMYF04jAI9edVM/edit
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/list-of-all-department-of-interior-owned-unmanned-aircraft-systems-137451/#files
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/database-of-14-cfr-part-48-registered-drones-132943/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-12-21-edition/",
2023.09.20,5,Bug shots.,"Zahra Gharaee et al.’s BIOSCAN-1M Insect Dataset contains one million microscope photographs of bugs, each taxonomically classified by experts and supplemented with raw DNA sequences and genetic “barcode” identifiers. The dataset, part of the broader BIOSCAN initiative, includes 8,300+ species across 3,400+ genera; the specimens were primarily collected in Costa Rica, Canada, and South Africa, using tent-like traps. Previously: Bug splats (DIP 2020.03.04). [h/t Robin Sloan]","https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10455
https://biodiversitygenomics.net/1M_insects/
http://www.boldsystems.org/
https://ibol.org/bioscan/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaise_trap
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gq73493
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-03-04-edition/",https://www.robinsloan.com/
2023.09.27,1,"Censuses, linked.","The Census Tree, developed by Kasey Buckles et al., “is the largest-ever database of record links among the historical U.S. censuses, with over 700 million links for people living in the United States between 1850 and 1940.” By the team’s estimates, the dataset “includes over 70% of the possible links that could be made for men, and over 60% of possible links for women.” To build it, the researchers began with genealogy records from FamilySearch.org, developed a machine learning algorithm to identify additional links, and incorporated data from other census-linking projects. Each Census Tree row connects an individual’s IPUMS identifier in one decade’s census to their identifier in another. Per the project’s instructions, you’ll need to download the Census data itself from IPUMS.","https://www.censustree.org/
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31671
https://www.censustree.org/our-team
https://sites.google.com/nd.edu/censustreefaq
https://www.censustree.org/methodology
https://www.familysearch.org/
https://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/variables/HISTID
https://www.censustree.org/quickstart
https://usa.ipums.org/usa/full_count.shtml",
2023.09.27,2,Fracking fluids.,"Since launching in 2011, FracFocus has become the largest registry of hydraulic fracturing chemical disclosures in the US. The database, available to explore online and download in bulk, contains 210,000+ such disclosures from fracking operators; it details the location, timing, and water volume of each fracking job, plus the names and amounts of chemicals used. The project is managed by the Ground Water Protection Council, “a nonprofit 501(c)6 organization whose members consist of state ground water regulatory agencies”. As seen in: The latest installment of the New York Times’ Uncharted Water series.","https://www.fracfocus.org/learn/about-fracfocus
https://fracfocus.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking
https://fracfocus.org/data-download
https://fracfocus.org/about-us
https://www.gwpc.org/overview/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/25/climate/fracking-oil-gas-wells-water.html
https://www.nytimes.com/series/uncharted-waters",
2023.09.27,3,Europopulism.,"The PopuList, constructed by Matthijs Rooduijn et al., “offers academics and journalists an overview of populist, far-left and far-right parties in Europe from 1989 until 2022.” Version 3.0 of the dataset, released last month, lists each party’s country, local/English names, presence in parliament, and identifiers in the Party Facts (DIP 2019.01.16) and ParlGov (DIP 2018.09.19) databases. It also indicates whether the project’s comparativists and country experts classified the party (outright or “borderline”) as populist, far-right, far-left, and/or euroskeptic, and for which time periods.","https://popu-list.org/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/populist-a-database-of-populist-farleft-and-farright-parties-using-expertinformed-qualitative-comparative-classification-eiqcc/EBF60489A0E1E3D91A6FE066C7ABA2CA
https://osf.io/2ewkq/
https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-01-16-edition/
https://www.parlgov.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-09-19-edition/
https://popu-list.org/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroscepticism",
2023.09.27,4,GitHub metrics.,"GitHub’s new Innovation Graph datasets present a range of quarterly metrics on the code-sharing site, aggregated by “economy” — a concept similar to “country” but slightly broader. (Antarctica is an “economy” in the data, for example.) The datasets count the number of developers based in each economy, their repositories and code pushes, most-used programming languages, and more. As noted in the project’s datasheet, the locations are based on IP addresses, so VPN usage may distort the results. Previously: More-granular GitHub activity via the GH Archive (DIP 2018.02.21). [h/t Kevin Xu]","https://innovationgraph.github.com/
https://github.com/github/innovationgraph
https://github.com/git-guides/git-push
https://github.com/github/innovationgraph/blob/main/docs/datasheet.md
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN_service
https://www.gharchive.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-21-edition/",https://github.com/khxu
2023.09.27,5,Ancient places.,"Pleiades, “a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places,” has collected data on 40,000+ settlements, roads, rivers, monuments, and many other types of landmarks. It also describes the relationships between them — linking, for instance, the Parthenon to the Acropolis and the Acropolis to Athens. Related: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. Previously: Roman amphitheaters (DIP 2022.06.08) and the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DIP 2020.06.24). [h/t Avi Levin]","https://pleiades.stoa.org/
https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads
https://pleiades.stoa.org/home
https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/place-types
https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/relationship-types
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/168254096
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638356144
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579885
https://orbis.stanford.edu/
https://github.com/roman-amphitheaters/roman-amphitheaters
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-06-08-edition/
https://darmc.harvard.edu/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-06-24-edition/",https://twitter.com/Arithmomaniac
2023.10.11,1,US income distributions.,"The Income Distributions and Dynamics in America project combines confidential Census Bureau records and IRS tax forms to generate detailed, downloadable statistics regarding “income percentiles, shares, growth rates, persistence, and more for many U.S. demographic groups at national and state levels.” The statistics, which cover 1998 through 2019, are the result of a research partnership between the Minneapolis Fed’s Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute and the Census Bureau. The project’s interactive tools let you track individual and household income percentiles by year, state, race/ethnicity, sex, US/foreign-born status, and age group. Previously: Global income deciles from Kanishka B. Narayan et al. (DIP 2023.06.28). [h/t Alex Albright]","https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/income-distributions-and-dynamics-in-america
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2023/understanding-incomes-in-america
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/income-distributions-and-dynamics-in-america/data-center
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/income-distributions-and-dynamics-in-america/chart-and-map-toolkit
https://zenodo.org/record/7093997
https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2023-137/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-06-28-edition/",https://www.albrightalex.com/
2023.10.11,2,Education reform.,"The World Education Reform Database describes 10,000+ education policy changes reported by 180+ countries to international organizations, among other sources. The project, led by education policy scholars Patricia Bromley and Rie Kijima, focuses on “systemic reforms that envision a supra-school administrative level and aim to impact the wider education system, rather than small projects that target individual schools.” The database lists each reform’s country, year, name, and summary. Although some of the reforms in the database were introduced hundreds of years ago, the vast majority occurred in the last 50 years.","https://werd.stanford.edu/
https://werd.stanford.edu/our-team
http://www.patriciabromley.com/
https://www.riekijima.com/
https://werd.stanford.edu/database
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/C0TWXM",
2023.10.11,3,Kia/Hyundai thefts.,"“Cities around the U.S. are facing a staggering new normal when it comes to stolen cars,” writes Motherboard reporter Aaron Gordon, who has been digging into the boom in thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles, millions of which lack “engine immobilizers, a basic anti-theft device that is legally mandated in Canada and Europe.” Gordon has requested car theft data from more than 100 cities, and received it from 43 so far. He’s updating a spreadsheet that lists each city’s number of thefts each month, plus the number/percentage that were Kias or Hyundais. Related: Earlier this year, USAFacts obtained and published similar data from 23 US cities.","https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaq9z/us-cities-have-a-staggering-problem-of-kia-and-hyundai-thefts-this-data-shows-it
https://aaronwgordon.com/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5b8d/what-its-like-to-own-the-cars-that-became-a-viral-sensation-to-steal
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-6614t_Ata5k7oESrm-HAdF1uOe8aPGRaQECl44GYeE/edit#gid=0
https://usafacts.org/data-projects/car-thefts",
2023.10.11,4,Michigan air permit violations.,"For local news organization Planet Detroit, freelance journalist Shelby Jouppi has built a daily-updating dashboard of air quality permit violations cited by Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. The dataset lists 1,500+ violation notices since 2018; for each, it provides the notice date and findings, facility name and location, and more. To construct it, Jouppi had to scrape individual notice PDFs from the department’s website and then extract the information from those documents. Read more: “Southwest Detroit steel slag processor receives 12th air quality permit violation for fallout since 2018,” an article by Jouppi based on the data.","https://planetdetroit.org/
https://shelbyjouppi.com/
https://planet-detroit.github.io/air-permit-violation-dashboard/
https://www.michigan.gov/egle/about/organization/air-quality/air-permits
https://github.com/Planet-Detroit/air-permit-violation-dashboard/
https://shelbyjouppi.com/egle-air-database/
https://planetdetroit.org/2023/09/southwest-detroit-steel-slag-processor-edward-c-levy-receives-12th-air-quality-permit-violation-for-fallout-since-2018/",
2023.10.11,5,Dog genomes.,"The Dog10K project aims “to coordinate the global effort on genome sequencing in dogs and build a comprehensive resource for the canine community.” In a recent Genome Biology article, the team shared data and findings from 1987 individual animals — “1611 dogs (321 breeds), 309 village dogs, 63 wolves, and four coyotes.” The records include raw sequence data and variation analysis results. [h/t Kim Nguyen]","http://www.dog10kgenomes.org/dog10k/index.html
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-023-03023-7
http://www.dog10kgenomes.org/dog10k/consortium.html
https://zenodo.org/record/8084059
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-023-03023-7#availability-of-data-and-materials",https://kimhnguyen.com/
2023.10.25,1,Court-debt jailings.,"“In the absence of a clear picture of debt imprisonment,” Stanford’s Computational Policy Lab and Big Local News “set out in 2018 on a first-of-its-kind data integration effort to answer the most basic question of all: how many people are being jailed for unpaid court debts?” To do so, the team submitted “hundreds of public records requests with county jails”; last month, their Debtors’ Prisons Project published standardized, anonymized versions of data received from 100 counties (primarily in Texas and Wisconsin), “totalling more than 4 million individual jail booking records,” plus warrant data from Oklahoma and Delaware. The datasets indicate (where available) each arrestee’s race, ethnicity, sex, age, state, ZIP code, booking date, release date, and release type, as well as each charge’s description, severity, and whether it represents a “failure to pay.” Read more: The team’s tutorial for analyzing the data.","https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2023/09/14/debt-impisonment.html
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0290397
https://policylab.stanford.edu/projects/uncovering-debtors-prisons.html
https://policylab.stanford.edu/debtors-prisons/
https://policylab.stanford.edu/debtors-prisons/data/
https://policylab.stanford.edu/debtors-prisons/tutorial/",
2023.10.25,2,Runway incursions.,"The Federal Aviation Administration maintains a database of runway incursions, which it defines as “any occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle, or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take-off of aircraft.” It currently contains 30,000+ entries, spanning October 2001 through July 2023; each lists an incursion’s date, category, location, severity, aircraft types, and weather conditions. You can export those elements as a CSV file, but the exports lack the online database’s event narratives. As seen in: “Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known” and “How a Series of Air Traffic Control Lapses Nearly Killed 131 People,” by the NYT’s Sydney Ember and Emily Steel. [h/t Alan Levenson]","https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:28:::NO:::
https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:32:::NO::P32_REGION_VAR:3
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/21/business/airline-safety-close-calls.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5Ew.J67z.HKYk1WsCZ6Pg
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/business/air-traffic-control-austin-airport-fedex-southwest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5Ew.O4gS.lkIKxyZn1K2P
https://www.nytimes.com/by/sydney-ember
https://www.nytimes.com/by/emily-steel",
2023.10.25,3,Goldin records.,"Claudia Goldin, who was awarded 2023’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, maintains a faculty webpage with some of the data she’s created, digitized, and/or improved. They include records from the 1915 Iowa State Census (“the first census in the United States to include information on education and income”), rosters of eleven US orchestras from the 1930s to 1990s, compulsory education and child labor state laws during the early 1900s, appendix tables for a 1975 paper estimating the economic costs of the US Civil War, and more.","https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/home
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/summary/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences
https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages/data
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/28501
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/economiccosts_data_1975.pdf
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/goldin_economiccost.pdf",
2023.10.25,4,Postal code ecology.,"David Willinger et al. have used two major satellite data sources — the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer — to create ecolo-zip, “a novel geospatial dataset that provides a granular-yet-global, parsimonious-yet-rich ecological characterization of over 1.5 million postal codes across 94 countries and regions.” Those characterizations include “physical topography (elevation, mountainousness, distance to sea), vegetation (normalized difference vegetation index), and climate (surface temperature).”","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02579-0
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/index.html
https://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://osf.io/wcjad/",
2023.10.25,5,Beautiful spreadsheets.,"The team behind infographics powerhouse Information is Beautiful maintains a catalog of the data used in 130+ of their projects, going back to 2009. The entries links to spreadsheet tables that present original research as well as numbers drawn more directly from academic studies, government reports, Wikipedia, and other sources. Recent topics include plastic waste, large language models, and Marvel movies.","https://informationisbeautiful.net/about/team
https://informationisbeautiful.net/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/data/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-problem-with-plastics-and-recycling-bioplastics-microplastics-ocean-waste/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-rise-of-generative-ai-large-language-models-llms-like-chatgpt/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/which-is-the-best-performing-marvel-movie/",
2023.11.01,1,Opioid settlements.,"OpioidSettlementTracker.com, run by lawyer Christine Minhee, asks: “Will opioid settlements be spent in ways that bolster the public health response to drug use?” Minhee has compiled a series of spreadsheets to help answer that question. They track the status and reported values of settlements between 14 companies (opioid manufacturers, distributors, and others) and US states (plus DC and Puerto Rico), states’ plans for spending those settlements, and their promises to publicly report such spending. Read more: “$50 Billion in Opioid Settlement Cash Is on the Way. We’re Tracking How It’s Spent,” a KFF Health News article using Minhee’s data, part of a broader project on the topic.","https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/
https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/about
https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/globalsettlementtracker/#statuses
https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/settlementspending#plans
https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/publicreporting/#promises
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-drugmakers-settlement-funds-50-billion-dollars-khn-investigation-payback/
https://kffhealthnews.org/opioid-settlements/",
2023.11.01,2,Financial offshoring.,"The Atlas of the Offshore World — “a new effort by the EU Tax Observatory,” a research group based at the Paris School of Economics — aims “to inform the global debate around international tax evasion and avoidance.” Its four main datasets provide country-level estimates of international profit shifting, offshore financial wealth, offshore real estate ownership, and 50+ years of effective tax rates. Read more: The team’s “Global Tax Evasion Report 2024” and “The History Behind the Atlas of the Offshore World.” [h/t Matt Collin]","https://atlas-offshore.world/
https://www.taxobservatory.eu/
https://atlas-offshore.world/download-data/
https://atlas-offshore.world/dataset/global-profit
https://atlas-offshore.world/dataset/offshore-financial
https://atlas-offshore.world/dataset/offshore-real-estate
https://atlas-offshore.world/dataset/effective-tax
https://www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/global-tax-evasion-report-2024/
https://www.taxobservatory.eu/the-history-behind-the-atlas-of-the-offshore-world/",https://sites.google.com/view/mattcollin/home
2023.11.01,3,Minority-serving colleges.,"The MSI Data Project provides a dashboard and dataset focused on colleges and universities that qualify federally as minority-serving institutions either through their mission (e.g., HBCUs) or through enrollment. The project examines institutions’ funding status, location, student body, and degree granting for 2017–2021. It draws on records from the Department of Education’s “eligibility matrices” for each MSI designation and the agency’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). As seen in: “Beyond the Rankings: The College Welcome Guide,” by The Hechinger Report’s Fazil Khan, incorporating data from both IPEDS and the MSI Data Project. [h/t Sarah Butrymowicz]","https://www.msidata.org/
https://www.msidata.org/data
https://www.msidata.org/publications
https://www.msidata.org/msis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/idues/eligibility.html
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/
https://hechingerreport.org/beyond-the-rankings-the-college-welcome-guide/
https://hechingerreport.org/author/fazil-khan/",https://hechingerreport.org/author/sarah-butrymowicz/
2023.11.01,4,Childcare inspections.,"“Across 41 states, one in ten licensed daycare facilities is overdue for an inspection,” according to an analysis by USAFacts, which gathered inspection-timing data for 148,000 facilities. The analysis’s downloadable datasets indicate the number of facilities overdue (versus on-time or unknown) in each state and county, as well as the distribution of days-since-last-inspection in each state. Most of the inspection data had to be programmatically collected from state portals, according to Amber Thomas, except for California, which publishes bulk data (including inspection dates) about all childcare facilities.","https://usafacts.org/data-projects/childcare-inspections
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amberrthomas_are-states-meeting-their-childcare-inspection-activity-7120861735833518080-V-6s/
https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/carefacilitysearch/DownloadData",
2023.11.01,5,Two Zurich buses.,"Fabio Widmer et al.’s ZTBus dataset provides detailed data from 1,409 “driving missions” of two electric public transit buses in Zurich, Switzerland. Each mission typically represents a full day’s operation. The records, which span early 2019 to late 2022, include “time series that represent the power demand, propulsion system, odometry, global position, ambient temperature, door openings, number of passengers, and the dispatch patterns within the public transportation network of the two vehicles.”","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02600-6
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/626723",
2023.11.15,1,Trans rights.,"Myles Williamson’s Trans Rights Indicator Project “provides insight into the legal situations transgender people faced in 173 countries from 2000 to 2021.” The project’s dataset is “the only public dataset covering trans rights with wide spatial and temporal coverage (to my knowledge),” Williamson writes. For each country-year combination, it “includes 14 indicators that capture the presence or absence of laws related to criminalization, legal gender recognition, and anti-discrimination protections.” For instance: Does the country require a psychological diagnosis before someone can change their gender on identity documents?","https://www.myleswilliamson.net/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/global-analysis-of-transgender-rights-introducing-the-trans-rights-indicator-project-trip/3C143E501E0824C8F9F0C40925965F43
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/FXXLTS
https://www.myleswilliamson.net/trip-data",
2023.11.15,2,Home schooling.,"The Washington Post has gathered data on home-school enrollment figures in dozens of US states and 6,700+ school districts over the past six academic years. Post reporters, with help from students at American University, “trawled state websites, contacted education officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and submitted multiple public records requests” to build the dataset, released last week. Each entry indicates the state/district, school year, and the number of students registered for home schooling. Read more: The Post’s analysis, which “reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the onset of the pandemic has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions […].” [h/t Meghan Hoyer]","https://github.com/washingtonpost/data_home_schooling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/11/09/tracking-home-schooling-an-expansive-data-set-exclusively-washington-post/
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data_home_schooling/blob/main/home_school_data_dictionary.csv
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/homeschooling-growth-data-by-district/",https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/meghan-hoyer/
2023.11.15,3,Migrant arrivals in Italy.,"The Dati Bene Comune campaign’s latest initiative, Liberiamoli tutti! (Let’s free them all!), aims to improve the availability of Italian government data. Its first project has been to convert the interior ministry’s statistics on migrant arrivals from PDF reports into spreadsheets. The extracted information includes daily counts of sea arrivals, twice-monthly totals by nationality, and the number of people in reception centers by center type and Italian region. A nice shout-out: Liberiamoli tutti! says it’s inspired by Data Is Plural’s sibling, The Data Liberation Project.","https://www.datibenecomune.it/about-us/
https://datibenecomune.substack.com/p/il-numero-zero
http://www.libertaciviliimmigrazione.dlci.interno.gov.it/it/documentazione/statistica/cruscotto-statistico-giornaliero
https://github.com/ondata/liberiamoli-tutti/blob/main/sbarchi-migranti/dati/README.md
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dNlByw2cMoqGorp4zPN6OULtG_jVRCe5xpl0YdKJxFE/edit#gid=1693395128
https://help.unhcr.org/italy/asylum-italy/reception/
https://open.substack.com/pub/datibenecomune/p/il-numero-zero?selection=39d56eb6-7897-43a1-bdbd-884de1382040
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/",
2023.11.15,4,Toxic wastewater spills.,"For a recent Inside Climate News investigation, Martha Pskowski and Peter Aldhous wrangled data on 10,000+ wastewater spills reported by oil and gas companies to the Texas government between 2013 and 2022. These “spill logs” — obtained through public records requests, then cleaned and standardized by the journalists — correspond to more than 148 million gallons of “produced water,” a byproduct of drilling and fracking. The data indicate each spill’s date, location, facility, operator, type of operation, volume of wastewater released, volume recovered, and much more.","https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31102023/oil-gas-companies-spill-wastewater-in-texas/
https://insideclimatenews.org/profile/martha-pskowski/
https://peteraldhous.com/
https://github.com/InsideClimateNews/2023-10-tx-produced-water-spills
https://insideclimatenews.github.io/2023-10-tx-produced-water-spills/tx-spills-central.html",
2023.11.15,5,Coffee tasting.,"Last month, British YouTuber (and former World Barista Champion) James Hoffman virtually hosted the Great American Coffee Taste Test, during which thousands of people simultaneously blind-tasted the same four coffees. Hoffman has published a video summarizing the results, as well as a spreadsheet of anonymized survey responses from 4,000+ participants. It includes tasters’ demographics, general coffee drinking habits and preferences, assessments of the four coffees, and more. [h/t Dan Brady]","https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ
https://www.jameshoffmann.co.uk/work#/coffee-competitions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hoffmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fN_z4-EcOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMOOQfeloH0
https://bit.ly/gacttCSV+",
2023.11.22,1,Food access.,"The USDA’s Food Access Research Atlas estimates how far people have to travel to buy healthy groceries. For any given Census tract, the project’s interactive map and downloadable data indicate the number of residents living within 0.5, 1, 10, and 20 miles of “the nearest supermarket, supercenter, or large grocery store.” They provide similar counts for each tract’s low-income residents, children, seniors, people without vehicle access, SNAP recipients, and by race/ethnicity. The most recent update uses 2019 data; prior versions are available for 2015 and 2010. Related: The distances are based partly on the USDA’s database of SNAP-authorized retailers. [h/t Sayli Benadikar]","https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/go-to-the-atlas/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/download-the-data/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2021/june/updated-food-access-research-atlas-now-maps-changes-in-low-income-and-low-supermarket-access-areas-in-2019/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/documentation/
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator",https://saylibenadikar.github.io/about.html
2023.11.22,2,Strategic ecology.,"The National Ecological Observatory Network operates 81 study sites across the US, strategically selected to represent a diversity of “vegetation, landforms, and ecosystem dynamics.” Examples include Caribou Creek in Alaska, Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland in Texas, and Guanica Forest in Puerto Rico. The network’s data portal provides downloads and an API for 160+ datasets, such as site elevations, downed wood log surveys, soil microbe compositions, and fish DNA sequences. Related: Ben G. Weinstein et al. recently used the network’s remote sensing data to generate a dataset estimating the location, size, likely species, and status of 100 million individual trees at 24 of the sites. [h/t Sharon Machlis]","https://www.neonscience.org/
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/explore-field-sites
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/about-field-sites
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/cari
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/clbj
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/guan
https://www.neonscience.org/data
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/explore
https://data.neonscience.org/data-api/
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP3.30024.001
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10010.001
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10081.001
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.20105.001
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.25.563626v1
https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2023/11/13/data-on-100-million-individual-trees-in-the-national-ecological-observatory-network/
https://github.com/weecology/DeepTreeAttention/tree/species_release
https://zenodo.org/records/10067302",https://fosstodon.org/@smach@masto.machlis.com
2023.11.22,3,Australian law.,"In a recent blog post, Umar Butler describes the process of building the Open Australian Legal Corpus, “from months-long negotiations with governments to reverse engineering ancient web technologies to hacking together a multitude of different solutions for extracting text from documents.” The corpus, “the largest open database of Australian law,” lists the text, type, jurisdiction, source, citation, and URL of 220,000+ documents. It includes “every in force statute and regulation in the Commonwealth, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Norfolk Island, in addition to thousands of bills and hundreds of thousands of court and tribunal decisions.” [h/t Susie Cambria]","https://umarbutler.com/how-i-built-the-largest-open-database-of-australian-law/
https://umarbutler.com/
https://huggingface.co/datasets/umarbutler/open-australian-legal-corpus",https://www.facebook.com/susiecambria/
2023.11.22,4,Electricity-balancing incentives.,"Jim Moran’s VPP Data tracks programs in the US that incentivize homeowners (and others) to participate in virtual power plants — collections of internet-connected batteries and other “distributed energy resources” that utilities can use to balance supply and demand. The project’s main spreadsheet tracks 120+ programs and their variations, spanning 20+ states and Puerto Rico. Each entry lists the program name, date announced, status, state, utility, sector, VPP platform, market aggregator, devices covered, monetary incentives, and more.","https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdmoran/
https://www.vppdata.com/p/vpp-data
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/articles/doe-releases-new-report-pathways-commercial-liftoff-virtual-power-plants
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y8epdlr_7npoJBwKd5A3CDpxoYaYY1xI38btHpOn2tw/edit#gid=0",
2023.11.22,5,Moon dents.,"The Lunar Crater Database, compiled by Stuart Robbins, provides the location and dimensions of 1.3 million lunar impact craters. The catalog, “manually identified and measured” from lunar orbiter imagery, is “approximately complete for all craters larger than about 1–2 km in diameter.” Related: Craters on Venus, Ganymede, and Callisto, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Previously: A 1:5,000,000-scale map of Earth’s moon (DIP 2021.12.08). [h/t Allen Downey]","https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Research/Craters/lunar_crater_database_robbins_2018
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005592
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/scientific-databases/
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/about/
https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Geology/Unified_Geologic_Map_of_the_Moon_GIS_v2
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-12-08-edition/",https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2022/10/03/the-long-tail-of-disaster/
2023.11.29,1,Political violence and protests.,"The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project “collects real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world.” First featured in DIP six years ago, ACLED has since expanded substantially. Most notably, its datasets are no longer limited to Africa and Asia; they now cover all countries and territories. The project has updated its event types — battles, “explosions/remote violence,” violence against civilians, riots, protests, and “strategic developments” — and added sub-categories. It has also developed topical subsets, such political violence targeting women and violence against local officials and administrators.","https://acleddata.com/about-acled/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-11-29-edition/
https://acleddata.com/about-acled/#history
https://acleddata.com/curated-data-files/
https://acleddata.com/2019/03/14/acled-introduces-new-event-types-and-sub-event-types/
https://acleddata.com/political-violence-targeting-women/
https://acleddata.com/2023/06/22/special-issue-violence-against-local-officials/",
2023.11.29,2,Seafloor depths.,"The International Hydrographic Organization’s Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry, established in 1990, hosts dozens of terabytes of “oceanic depth soundings acquired with multibeam and singlebeam sonars by hydrographic, oceanographic and industry vessels during surveys or while on passage.” It also provides access to depth data crowdsourced from mariners, who agree to attach logging devices to their ships’ echosounders. Read more: “Can a map of the ocean floor be crowdsourced?” by ocean journalist Laura Trethewey for the BBC. Previously: The Arctic seafloor (DIP 2020.07.22) from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, another IHO project. [h/t Walt Hickey]","https://iho.int/
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/iho/
https://iho.int/en/crowdsourced-bathymetry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_sounding
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230929-can-a-map-of-the-ocean-floor-be-crowdsourced
https://lauratrethewey.ca/
https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/arctic_ocean/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-07-22-edition/
https://www.gebco.net/about_us/overview/",https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-october-3-2023-taco
2023.11.29,3,How we pay.,"The Survey and Diary of Consumer Payment Choice, run annually by a collaboration of Federal Reserve Banks, “aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the payment behavior of US consumers.” The survey component inquires about demographics, habits, and preferences, including respondents’ use of different payment methods (cash, check, credit card, debit card, mobile payments, et cetera). The diary component asks participants to record their account balances and every transaction they made during a three-day period. The most recent iteration features responses from 4,700+ people in October 2022; the data downloads include summary tables and anonymized microdata. [h/t Chartr]","https://www.atlantafed.org/banking-and-payments/consumer-payments/survey-and-diary-of-consumer-payment-choice
https://www.atlantafed.org/banking-and-payments/consumer-payments/survey-and-diary-of-consumer-payment-choice/2022-survey-and-diary
https://www.atlantafed.org/banking-and-payments/consumer-payments/survey-and-diary-of-consumer-payment-choice/2022-survey-and-diary#Tab3",https://read.chartr.co/newsletters/2023/11/5/cash-stuff
2023.11.29,4,Legal cannabis sales.,"Colorado’s Department of Revenue publishes a range of data about the state’s legal marijuana industry, including spreadsheets of monthly sales totals and taxes collected by county and medical/retail status. Other states that have legalized recreational marijuana and publish downloadable, machine-readable sales data include California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Those with data in PDFs include Arizona, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. [h/t Cody Winchester]","https://cdor.colorado.gov/data-and-reports/marijuana-data
https://cdor.colorado.gov/data-and-reports/marijuana-data/marijuana-sales-reports
https://cdor.colorado.gov/data-and-reports/marijuana-data/marijuana-tax-reports
https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/catalog.htm?subcategory=Cannabis%20Taxes
https://data.ct.gov/Health-and-Human-Services/Cannabis-Retail-Sales-by-Week-Ending/ucaf-96h6
https://cannabis.illinois.gov/research-and-data/sales-figures.html
https://www.maine.gov/revenue/taxes/tax-policy-office/sales-tax-reports
https://masscannabiscontrol.com/open-data/data-catalog/
https://crop.rld.nm.gov/data-catalog.html
https://www.oregon.gov/olcc/marijuana/pages/marijuana-market-data.aspx
https://lcb.wa.gov/records/frequently-requested-lists
https://azdor.gov/reports-statistics-and-legal-research/marijuana-tax-collection
https://mmcc.maryland.gov/Pages/Data-and-Reports.aspx
https://www.michigan.gov/cra/resources/cannabis-regulatory-agency-licensing-reports/cannabis-regulatory-agency-statistical-report
https://mtrevenue.gov/cannabis-sales-reports/
https://www.nj.gov/cannabis/resources/reports-stats-info/
https://dbr.ri.gov/office-cannabis-regulation/data",https://github.com/cjwinchester/co-weed-sales-data
2023.11.29,5,Romance book covers.,"“What does a happily ever after look like?” asks Alice Liang, whose visual essay in The Pudding examines the covers of 1,400+ books featured in Publishers Weekly’s announcements for the genre. Liang’s spreadsheet provides each book’s title, author, publisher, publication date, announcement year/season, ISBN, cover image, and several assessments of the cover: whether its style is photorealistic or illustrated, whether it features someone partially undressed, and whether it depicts at least one person of color.","https://aliceyliang.com/
https://pudding.cool/2023/10/romance-covers/
https://observablehq.com/@aliceyliang/what-does-a-happily-ever-after-look-like-extension
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/index.html
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rxz5IFE16bA9pPAY5_B5LhitvPDIlYrlMwp7fmszwOA/edit#gid=0",
2023.12.06,1,Nuclear weapon systems.,"The Council on Strategic Risks’s Nuclear Weapon Systems Project aims “to document every type of nuclear weapon system ever deployed” by China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US — the five “nuclear weapon states” per the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The project’s core dataset, launched last week, currently covers 250+ such systems. For each, it provides the system’s name, country, type (gravity bomb, torpedo, ICBM, etc.), military branches in charge of deployment, “mission” (tactical, strategic, or hybrid), years introduced and retired, replacement system, and more. Previously: Nuclear stockpiles (DIP 2022.11.02), nuclear explosions (DIP 2016.03.23), and uranium/plutonium facilities (DIP 2016.02.24).","https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/about/mission-and-vision/
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/nolan/nuclear-systems-project/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oaRJKHwF9p48tPGHBJw5tB13YgsllLm4MAHOpT6tSpg/edit#gid=804863401
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/2023/11/29/introducing-the-nuclear-weapon-systems-project/
https://fas.org/initiative/status-world-nuclear-forces/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-11-02-edition/
https://github.com/data-is-plural/nuclear-explosions
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-03-23-edition/
http://www.matthewfuhrmann.com/datasets.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-02-24-edition/",
2023.12.06,2,Social media platform policies.,"The Platform Governance Archive “collects and curates policies of major social media platforms in a long-term perspective.” The initial version of the archive used the Wayback Machine retrospectively to collect policies published 2005–2021 by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube. The new version, part of a re-launch this year, uses web-scraping to track 18 platforms’ policies daily. Related: The new version is a collaboration with the Open Terms Archive, an evolution of work by France’s Ambassador for Digital Affairs to track terms of service, featured in DIP 2021.01.20.","https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/
https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/data/dataset-pga-v1-historical-dataset/
https://web.archive.org/
https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/data/dataset-pga-v2-ongoing-collection/
https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/2023/re-launch-of-platform-governance-archive-pga-with-new-dataset-access-options-website-and-data-paper/
https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/pga-versions
https://opentermsarchive.org/
https://disinfo.quaidorsay.fr/en/our-work
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-01-20-edition/",
2023.12.06,3,EU court cases.,"The IUROPA Project’s CJEU Database “is the most complete collection of research-ready data about the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and European Union (EU) law.” Developed from several official sources by Stein Arne Brekke et al., the database provides tables of all cases (45,000+), parties (85,000+), proceedings (47,000+), decisions (50,000+), citations (1,000,000+), judges (270+), and more from the court’s inception in 1952 through 2022. That first table, for instance, lists each case’s name, ID, sub-court, year, judgment status, appeal status, and additional details. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://www.iuropa.pol.gu.se/about
https://www.iuropa.pol.gu.se/cjeu-database
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-and-courts/article/cjeu-database-platform-decisions-and-decisionmakers/69151433D88FD163B9CC997296CEE540
https://www.iuropa.pol.gu.se/cjeu-database/cjeu-database-platform",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/062d1fc66219f9f954ed66592d2633477a40c264
2023.12.06,4,The Fed’s “dot plots.”,"Four times a year, the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee publishes its “Summary of Economic Projections” reports. Those reports contain a chart that’s come to be known as the Fed’s “dot plot,” which tallies the committee members’ forecasts of the year-end federal funds interest rate for this and subsequent years. Upon noticing “no simple, easy-to-access data file” of the chart’s information, journalist Ben Welsh wrote a scraper to create such a file, currently covering 2018–present. Previously: Federal Reserve communications collected by Agam Shah et al. (DIP 2023.08.09).","https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm
https://www.britannica.com/money/what-is-the-fed-dot-plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/111099055527649500
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://github.com/palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper
https://github.com/palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper/blob/main/data/dotplot.csv
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4447632
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-08-09-edition/",
2023.12.06,5,Many coin flips.,"“Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process,” write František Bartoš et al., introducing an experiment in which “a group of 48 people (i.e., all but three of the co-authors) tossed coins of 46 different currencies × denominations and obtained a total number of 350,757 coin flips.” The authors have published the raw results, images of each coin, and videos of the flips. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153
https://osf.io/pxu6r/",http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
2023.12.13,1,NYC shelter counts.,"Every night, tens of thousands of people stay in New York City homeless shelters, which are managed by a half-dozen city agencies. Earlier this year, thanks to a 2022 law, the city began publishing monthly statistics on shelter population counts and average lengths of stay, broken down by agency, program, and family composition. One agency, the Department of Homeless Services, publishes some structured daily data, but shares its most comprehensive daily counts as a nightly-overwritten PDF. So Patrick Spauster and Adrian Nesta have built a data pipeline to scrape, archive, and standardize these datasets, and have partnered with City Limits to revamp the publication’s shelter population tracker. In October, more than 143,000 people slept in the city’s shelters, the highest monthly count on record.","https://citylimits.org/2023/07/24/as-homeless-population-booms-nyc-steps-closer-to-an-accurate-shelter-census/
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Local-Law-79-2022-Temporary-Housing-Assistance-Usa/jiwc-ncpi
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/DHS-Daily-Report/k46n-sa2m
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dhs/downloads/pdf/dailyreport.pdf
https://patrickspauster.com/
https://justanesta.com/
https://github.com/anesta95/nyc_shelter_count
https://citylimits.org/2023/12/07/tracking-nycs-record-high-homeless-shelter-population/
https://citylimits.org/nyc-shelter-count/",
2023.12.13,2,US solar facilities.,"The United States Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database, released last month, maps and describes 3,600+ solar power facilities with capacities of at least 1 megawatt. The project, a collaboration between the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and US Geological Survey, includes an online viewer, downloadable database, and API (with example usage). The data indicate each facility’s boundary and centroid coordinates, state, county, and site type, plus data extracted from EIA Form 860, such as capacity, axis type, tilt angle, and more. Related: A map and dataset of Illinois solar installations, large and small, compiled by volunteers at Chi Hack Night. Previously: The Global Energy Monitor’s Global Solar Power Tracker (DIP 2022.06.01). [h/t Kate Martin + Derek Eder]","https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/viewer/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/data/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/api-doc/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/assets/data/uspvdbApiNotebook.html
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/
https://ilsolarmap.com/
https://github.com/chihacknight/il-solar-map/tree/main/data/v2/final
https://ilsolarmap.com/about.html
https://chihacknight.org/about
https://globalenergymonitor.org/about/our-story/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-solar-power-tracker/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-06-01-edition/","https://www.threads.net/@katereports
https://mastodon.garden/@derekeder/111087577677957994"
2023.12.13,3,State supreme court justices.,"David A. Hughes et al., building on prior work, have calculated ideology scores (on a conservative-liberal continuum) for 1,600+ state supreme court justices from 1970 to 2019. For each justice and year, the dataset provides the justice’s state, last name, political affiliation, the authors’ ideology score estimates, and ideology scores produced by two other research teams. Previously: Ideology estimates for state legislators (DIP 2020.01.01), members of Congress (DIP 2023.03.01), and local populations (DIP 2023.08.02).","https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/state-politics-and-policy-quarterly/article/abs/updating-pajid-scores-for-state-supreme-court-justices-19702019/7EEE00DC60CB4D0F883B7E5BECDE116F
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-3816.00018
https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/M6U77I
https://americanlegislatures.wordpress.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-01-01-edition/
https://voteview.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-03-01-edition/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/americanideologyproject
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-08-02-edition/",
2023.12.13,4,Antimicrobial peptides.,"In a recent journal article, the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Guangshun Wang discusses the history and future of the Antimicrobial Peptide Database, which his lab launched more than 20 years ago. The database now catalogs 3,500+ such molecules, which play an important role in the innate immune system. You can search the peptides by name, structural and functional properties, source organism, and other criteria, and can download their amino acid sequences.","https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pro.4778
https://www.unmc.edu/pathology/faculty/bios/wang.html
https://aps.unmc.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_peptides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system
https://aps.unmc.edu/database
https://aps.unmc.edu/about
https://aps.unmc.edu/downloads",
2023.12.13,5,Finland transport.,"The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency’s public datasets span a range of topics, including the radio spectrum, mobile networks, cybersecurity, registered vehicles, ships, aircraft, and more. It also publishes downloadable statistics unavailable from many other countries, such as passenger cars’ inspection failure rates by make, model, and year and driving exam results. [h/t Stagnant]","https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/
https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/datatraficom/open-data
https://trafi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/TraFi/
https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/statistics/statistics-inspections
https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/statistics/statistics-driving-and-theory-tests",https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38471254
2023.12.20,1,Dengue.,"OpenDengue, a new project based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, “aims to build and maintain a database of dengue case counts for every dengue-affected country worldwide since 1990 or earlier.” (According to a 2013 study cited by the WHO, the virus causes an estimated 96 million symptomatic infections per year.) Drawing from a range of sources, the team has collected weekly, monthly, and/or annual national counts from 100+ countries so far and welcomes contributions. For each count, the project’s datasets indicate what was being counted: suspected cases, confirmed cases, probable cases, or a combination. For several dozen countries, the data also contain sub-national counts — including for 5,000+ municipalities in Brazil and all 70+ Thai provinces. [h/t Sarah Newey]","https://opendengue.org/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12060
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue
https://opendengue.org/overview.html
https://opendengue.org/contribute.html
https://opendengue.org/data.html",https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/dengue-dashboard-climate-change-mosquitoes-dieases-viruses/
2023.12.20,2,Workforce training providers.,"The Workforce Almanac, launched last month by the Harvard-based Project on Workforce, maps “almost 17,000 providers of workforce training, which we have defined as short-term (lasting less than two years), post-high school training opportunities in which learners gain work-relevant skills to help them find a job.” The dataset lists each organization’s name, address, city, state, coordinates, and various categorizations. To build it, the team merged and cleaned data from four sources: the Department of Labor’s Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Database System (RAPIDS) and TrainingProviderResults.gov, IRS nonprofit registrations, and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).","https://www.workforcealmanac.com/
https://www.pw.hks.harvard.edu/post/workforce-almanac-launch
https://www.pw.hks.harvard.edu/
https://www.workforcealmanac.com/explore
https://workforcealmanac.com/methodology
https://www.apprenticeship.gov/data-and-statistics
https://www.trainingproviderresults.gov
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organizations-business-master-file-extract-eo-bmf
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/",
2023.12.20,3,Antarctic ice sheets.,"The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s Bedmap Data Portal provides access to “ice bed, surface and thickness point data from all Antarctic geophysical campaigns since the 1950s.” In an accompanying paper, Alice C. Frémand et al. describe the process they undertook to standardize decades of ice-survey data and to publish the outputs based on “findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable” (FAIR) data principles. In all, the records contain “82 million data points collected as part of 277 campaigns,” spanning three generations of data. Previously: Antarctic geology (DIP 2023.05.31).","https://scar.org/
https://bedmap.scar.org/
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/2695/2023/essd-15-2695-2023.html
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/2695/2023/#section5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02152-9
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-05-31-edition/",
2023.12.20,4,Finance ministers.,"Brenna Armstrong et al. have compiled a dataset of 2,900+ people who served as a national finance minister or equivalent position between 1972 and 2017. For each of their 3,200+ tenures, the dataset lists the minister’s name, country, year-month started/ended, gender, whether the minister received an advanced economics education, and whether they’d be considered a technocrat — i.e., someone who had policy expertise but hadn’t held elective office. [h/t Phenomenal World]","https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/financial-crises-and-the-selection-and-survival-of-women-finance-ministers/BE5E829CA0838FAEF05B7B7C15E22B32
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IAEUVB",https://www.phenomenalworld.org/sources/1-32-meter-square/
2023.12.20,5,Netflix viewership.,"In late 2021, Netflix began publishing downloadable datasets of the 10 most popular movies and TV shows each week, overall and by country. Last week the company published a new data report, which lists all 18,000+ titles viewed for 50,000+ hours on the platform in the first half of 2023. The report, which Netflix says it will publish twice a year, indicates each title’s name, release date, approximate hours viewed, and whether it was available globally. [h/t Avi Levin + Saul Pwanson]","https://variety.com/vip/netflixs-new-top-10-lists-project-the-illusion-of-transparency-1235113186/
https://top10.netflix.com/
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-a-netflix-engagement-report","https://twitter.com/Arithmomaniac
https://www.saul.pw/"
2024.01.17,1,RSV.,"The US CDC’s Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network collects data on hospital admissions due to lab-confirmed RSV at acute-care facilities in 58 counties, across 12 states. The CDC uses the data to estimate weekly hospitalization rates — overall as well as by age group, race/ethnicity, and sex. Those rates, which go back to 2016–17 for adults and 2018–19 for minors, are available via an interactive dashboard and downloadable dataset. Related: The network is part of a broader system that also monitors influenza and COVID-19 hospitalizations. Also: The European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary, launched in October by the European CDC and World Health Organization, features weekly data tables and epidemiological summaries.","https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/research/rsv-net/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/research/rsv-net/dashboard.html
https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/Weekly-Rates-of-Laboratory-Confirmed-RSV-Hospitali/29hc-w46k/about_data
https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/resp-net/dashboard.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/influenza-hospitalization-surveillance.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covid-net/purpose-methods.html
https://erviss.org/
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/ecdc-and-who-launch-new-surveillance-tool-respiratory-viruses-improve-early-detection",
2024.01.17,2,Subnational economic output.,"Leonie Wenz et al.’s Database of Sub-national Economic Output (DOSE) provides “harmonised data on reported economic output from 1,661 sub-national regions across 83 countries from 1960 to 2020.”  Those regions include, for instance, Turkey’s 81 provinces, Japan’s 47 prefectures, and Kenya’s 47 counties. For each year, the dataset indicates the monetary value of the region’s total economic output, and often also subtotals for the agricultural, manufacturing, and services sectors. While previous projects have used interpolation to estimate similar figures, DOSE avoids that approach, instead assembling its data only from “statistical agencies, yearbooks and academic literature.”","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02323-8
https://zenodo.org/records/7573249
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02323-8/tables/1",
2024.01.17,3,Environmental treaties.,"Ronald B. Mitchell’s International Environmental Agreements Database Project tracks 4,000+ such arrangements, defined as “an intergovernmental document intended as legally binding with a primary stated purpose of preventing or managing human impacts on natural resources.” Examples include the Indus Water Treaty (1960) and Convention on Nuclear Safety (1994). The project’s datasets characterize each agreement (e.g., its name, signature date, type, subject) and 100,000+ “membership actions” by participating countries. The project also tracks various “non-agreements,” such as memoranda of understanding. [h/t Jean-Frédéric Morin et al.]","https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/
https://iea.uoregon.edu/
https://iea.uoregon.edu/iea-project-contents
https://iea.uoregon.edu/international-environmental-agreements-ieas-defined
https://iea.uoregon.edu/treaty/198
https://iea.uoregon.edu/treaty/3197
https://iea.uoregon.edu/ieadb-and-related-datasets",https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-023-09495-3
2024.01.17,4,Chicago’s “menu money.”,"Chicago’s 50 wards can each receive up to $1.5 million annually to spend on infrastructure projects such as street lighting, sidewalk repair, art murals, and park improvements. Each ward’s city council representative typically decides how to spend this so-called “menu money,” although some let residents allocate a portion. The city publishes menu money spending reports, but only as PDFs. So data researcher Jake J. Smith has programmatically converted twelve years of those PDFs (2012–2023) into a spreadsheet containing 28,000 line items. Each entry indicates the year, ward, line item’s cost, category, program, and description (often the location of the project).","https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/8/3/23819111/chicago-vote-tax-money-spent-wards-participatory-budgeting-democracy-solutions-project
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/obm/provdrs/cap_improve/svcs/aldermanic-menu-program.html
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/obm/provdrs/cap_improve/svcs/cip-archive.html
https://jakejeromesmith.wordpress.com/
https://github.com/jakejsmith/ChicagoMenuMoney
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MZpUnD8bXceRw-P3fiTZtH7KtSunNaEYa-xpapWw1Ho/edit
https://github.com/jakejsmith/ChicagoMenuMoney/blob/main/data-dictionary.md",
2024.01.17,5,Star Trek chairs.,"Ex Astris Scientia, run by Bernd Schneider since 1998, contains much of what you might expect from a Star Trek fan site, such as episode summaries, starship catalogs, and an extensive encyclopedia. But it also publishes some more esoteric inventories, such as HTML tables of commercially available chairs and lamps that have appeared on screen. [h/t Duncan Geere]","https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/introduction.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/index-episodes.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/index-starships.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/treknology.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/chairs-trek.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/lighting-trek.htm",https://www.duncangeere.com/
2024.01.24,1,Police data metadata.,"The Police Data Accessibility Project is compiling a meta-dataset of police records: where to find them online, what time period they cover, how often they’re updated, and other characteristics. The searchable, downloadable dataset includes links to 1,700+ resources, such as traffic stop datasets, crime maps, use-of-force reports, contract and policy listings, and many other types of records, across hundreds of agencies. The team also maintains a dataset of 23,000+ criminal legal agencies. Related: The Vera Institute of Justice’s Police Data Transparency Index, which scored 90+ local police agencies across 10 categories of data transparency; its methodology page links to a more detailed, downloadable spreadsheet.","https://pdap.io/
https://pdap.io/data
https://data-sources.pdap.io/
https://airtable.com/app473MWXVJVaD7Es/shrUAtA8qYasEaepI/tblx8XaKnFTphWNQM
https://airtable.com/app473MWXVJVaD7Es/shr43ihbyM8DDkKx4/tblpnd3ei5SlibcCX
https://www.vera.org/
https://policetransparency.vera.org/
https://policetransparency.vera.org/#/Methodology",
2024.01.24,2,Historical fishing intensity.,"Yannick Rousseau et al. have generated a series of datasets estimating annual fishing effort from 1950 to 2017 by country, year, gear type, vessel length, sector (industrial, artisanal motorized, and artisanal unmotorized), and category of species targeted. The datasets provide “information on number of vessels, engine power, gross tonnage, and nominal effort,” a metric that multiplies the engine power by the number of days at sea. Their sources include “a range of publicly available sources, governmental reports, and grey literature”. Related: Co-author Reg A. Watson’s Global Fisheries Landings dataset, which estimates “commercial, small-scale, illegal and unreported fisheries catch,” also since 1950. Previously: Global Fishing Watch’s fishing effort datasets, based on vessel tracking signals (DIP 2021.01.13).","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02824-6
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1241a51d-c8c2-4432-aa68-3d2bae142794
https://ecomarres.com/?page_id=24
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5c4590d3-a45a-4d37-bf8b-ecd145cb356d
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201739
https://globalfishingwatch.org/
https://globalfishingwatch.org/dataset-and-code-fishing-effort/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-01-13-edition/",
2024.01.24,3,"Medicaid offices, geocoded.","Paul R. Shafer et al. have created a dataset of 3,000+ Medicaid offices in the US, identified via state and county government websites. The team of Boston University researchers, who focused on “public-facing Medicaid offices providing enrollment support,” have provided each office’s agency name, state, city, and address, and latitude/longitude coordinates (primarily sourced via the US Census Bureau’s geocoder).","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924000416
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/AVRHMI
https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/",
2024.01.24,4,Seine water quality.,"Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris has been trying to decontaminate the Seine river to swimmable levels. But the city’s efforts appear to be falling short, according to government water testing data obtained, published, and analyzed by Mathieu Lehot-Couette, a reporter at Franceinfo.fr. The records include results from periodic samples taken at 14 points along the river, which Lehot-Couette has standardized into a spreadsheet of 1,400+ measurements of E. coli and enterococci between 2015 and 2023.","https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/08/can-paris-clean-seine-for-next-year-2024-olympics
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/paris-2024/enquete-franceinfo-paris-2024-pollution-trop-elevee-normes-non-respectees-ce-que-revelent-les-analyses-de-la-qualite-de-l-eau-de-la-seine_6173826.html
https://mastodon.zaclys.com/@math_lehot
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/paris-2024-on-vous-explique-comment-franceinfo-a-analyse-les-donnees-sur-la-qualite-de-l-eau-de-la-seine_6252078.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterococcus",
2024.01.24,5,Human heights.,"Economic historians Jörg Baten and Matthias Blum have assembled a dataset on average male heights by decade and country. The estimates, derived from hundreds of scholarly and statistical sources, stretch back several centuries and span 140+ countries. A related resource page also provides individual-level data compiled by Baten and others, such as the heights of 1,000+ 19th-century Bavarian military conscripts. [h/t Karsten Johansson]","https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/fakultaeten/wirtschafts-und-sozialwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/faecher/fachbereich-wirtschaftswissenschaft/wirtschaftswissenschaft/lehrstuehle/economics/economic-history/chair/prof-dr-joerg-baten/
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/queens-business-school/people/academic-staff/AllAcademicStaffProfiles/Blum.html
https://clio-infra.eu/Indicators/Height.html
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/fakultaeten/wirtschafts-und-sozialwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/faecher/fachbereich-wirtschaftswissenschaft/wirtschaftswissenschaft/lehrstuehle/volkswirtschaftslehre/wirtschaftsgeschichte/forschung/data-hub-height/",https://ksaj.inlisp.org
2024.01.31,1,Groundwater levels.,"To assess global trends in groundwater levels, Scott Jasechko et al. have analyzed data from ~170,000 monitoring wells in 40+ countries. The researchers’ public datasets include annual groundwater levels “in all cases for which we have received permission from a database manager to post data,” amounting to more than 4 million measurements (59% of the total). The published records also include the boundaries of 1,600+ aquifer systems, “manually delineated […] using maps and descriptions from 1,236 local and regional studies.” The study’s supplementary documentation describes each data source and method of access. Read more: Coverage in the New York Times, with detailed maps of Iran and Spain, and in Wired. [h/t Patrick Tanguay]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06879-8
https://zenodo.org/records/10003697
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06879-8#Sec18
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/climate/global-groundwater-aquifer-levels.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk0.0eOL.gThq9lynWGrN
https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-essential-aquifers-are-in-deep-trouble/",https://sentiers.media/when-talk-about-future-polyfuturism-downward-spiral-technology-no-295/
2024.01.31,2,Military surplus.,"Through its Excess Defense Articles program, the US military offers free and reduced-price equipment to foreign governments. The Department of Defense publishes a spreadsheet of the program’s authorizations and transfers, last updated in mid–2020 and going back to 2010. Each of the 4,100+ entries lists the foreign country, item description, transfer status, status date, whether it was a sale or grant, quantities (requested, allocated, accepted, rejected, delivered), “current” value, and acquisition value. Items range in size and significance, from vinyl tape (55 rolls authorized for transfer to Iraq in 2016) to Abrams tanks (including 178 provided to Morocco in 2018). [h/t David Vine]","https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RS20428.html
https://www.dsca.mil/programs/excess-defense-articles-eda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams",http://www.davidvine.net/
2024.01.31,3,Study abroad.,"Open Doors, an Institute of International Education initiative funded by the State Department, “is the only long-standing, comprehensive information resource on international students and scholars in the United States and on U.S. students studying abroad for academic credit.” Its annual reports provide aggregate statistics by country, field of study, and/or institution. For example: NYU hosted more international students (~25,000) than any other US university in the 2022–23 school year, followed by Northeastern (~21,000) and Columbia (~19,000); Italy, the UK, and Spain were the most popular destinations for US students in 2021–22. Related: The State Department’s statistics on non-immigrant visas, including student visas. Previously: Data on Europe’s Erasmus exchanges (DIP 2022.02.09). [h/t Kate Miller]","https://opendoorsdata.org/
https://www.iie.org/
https://opendoorsdata.org/about/
https://opendoorsdata.org/annual-release/
https://opendoorsdata.org/annual-release/international-students/
https://opendoorsdata.org/annual-release/u-s-study-abroad/
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/nonimmigrant-visa-statistics.html
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-student-immigrants-come-to-the-us-and-what-countries-do-they-come-from/
https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&catalog=eac&query=erasmus&page=1&sort=issued+desc,%20relevance+desc,%20title.en+asc
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-02-09-edition/",https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/kate.miller2285/viz/U_S_StudyAbroad200001-202021_16953356812420/Dashboard1
2024.01.31,4,Dot-gov metadata.,"Father-son duo Luke and Elias Fretwell are grading government websites’ metadata. Starting with a dataset of 1,300+ federal domains maintained by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Fretwells have tested whether each homepage’s source code includes a <title> tag, certain Open Graph markers, and other key HTML metadata, which “can have a significant impact on how citizens experience government digital services.” The results, presented online in the form of report cards, can also be downloaded.","https://www.governing.com/policy/a-young-civic-hacker-explores-the-possibilities-of-public-data
https://gov-metadata.civichackingagency.org/
https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data
https://www.cisa.gov/
https://ogp.me/
https://github.com/civichackingagency/gov-metadata?tab=readme-ov-file#metadata
https://govfresh.com/thoughts/metadata-open-graph-government-websites
https://github.com/civichackingagency/gov-metadata/blob/main/data.csv",
2024.01.31,5,Taylor’s colors.,"Last year, Reddit user swiftdata1989 published a spreadsheet and visualization of the colors mentioned in Taylor Swift’s albums. Each spreadsheet row lists the album, song, specific color (e.g., “scarlet”), closest generic color (e.g., red), number of times mentioned, and clarifying notes. Previously: Colors from the World Color Survey (DIP 2017.08.23), Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (DIP 2021.11.17), and Bob Ross paintings (DIP 2020.12.09).","https://www.reddit.com/user/swiftdata1989/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tweEvxe5UtIMhLldGFGxkW-AGIDwkSvwkWCUZhABqjk/edit#gid=0
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/12u0ncx/oc_every_time_a_color_is_mentioned_on_a_taylor/
https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/data.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-08-23-edition/
https://www.c82.net/werner/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-11-17-edition/
https://github.com/jwilber/Bob_Ross_Paintings
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-12-09-edition/",
2024.02.07,1,Local election results.,"Justin de Benedictis-Kessner et al. have compiled a dataset of 77,000+ (distinct) candidates across 57,000+ US elections for mayor, city council, school board, county executive, county legislature, sheriff, and prosecutor. It is, they write, “the most comprehensive publicly-available source of information on local elections across the entire country.” It includes “most medium and large cities and counties” and spans 1989 to 2021. The authors combined data from pre-existing databases, state election websites, and newspaper archives. They also “worked with a team of research assistants who coded results from thousands of local elections based on city and county websites.” For each candidacy, the core table indicates the election’s jurisdiction, office, and timing, plus the candidate’s name, incumbency status, party, estimated demographics, votes won, and more.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02792-x
https://osf.io/mv5e6/
https://osf.io/tbwzd",
2024.02.07,2,Mid-century anti-Black killings.,"The Burnham-Nobles Archive at the Northeastern University School of Law is “dedicated to identifying, classifying, and providing factual information and documentation about anti-Black killings in the mid-century South.” The current version focuses on 11 southern states during 1930–1954. Developed by political scientist Melissa Nobles and law professor Margaret Burnham, the long-running project has gathered 12,000+ news articles, death certificates, federal agency records, and other sources. It documents 900+ incidents and 950+ victims, as well as alleged perpetrators and judicial outcomes. The archive provides an interactive map, record search (including by person, incident, and document), and downloads. Previously: Beck/Tolnay and Seguin/Rigby’s data on lynching victims (DIP 2021.06.02). [h/t Jasmine Mithani]","https://crrjarchive.org/
https://crrjarchive.org/scope
https://polisci.mit.edu/people/melissa-nobles
https://law.northeastern.edu/faculty/burnham/
https://crrjarchive.org/archive
https://crrjarchive.org/sources
https://crrjarchive.org/map
https://crrjarchive.org/catalog
https://crrjarchive.org/catalog?f%5Binternal_resource_tesim%5D%5B%5D=person
https://crrjarchive.org/catalog?f%5Binternal_resource_tesim%5D%5B%5D=incident
https://crrjarchive.org/catalog?f%5Binternal_resource_tesim%5D%5B%5D=document
https://crrjarchive.org/data_download
https://people.uncw.edu/hinese/HAL/HAL%20Web%20Page.htm
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023119841780
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-06-02-edition/",https://jmithani.com/
2024.02.07,3,US travel behavior.,"Fielded every five to eight years since 1968, the Federal Highway Administration’s National Household Travel Survey “is the authoritative source on the travel behavior of the American public.” The questionnaire asks respondents to inventory all of their household’s trips taken during a 24-hour period. The most recent survey, for 2022, includes ~31,000 trips by ~17,000 people in ~8,000 households. It indicates each trip’s duration, vehicle details, motivation, parking costs, traveler demographics, and much more. The FHA provides downloads of the anonymized data, as well as user guides and technical notes. As seen in: “The school bus is disappearing. Welcome to the era of the school pickup line,” by the Washington Post’s Andrew Van Dam.","https://nhts.ornl.gov/
https://nhts.ornl.gov/downloads
https://nhts.ornl.gov/documentation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/02/school-bus-era-ends/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/andrew-van-dam/",
2024.02.07,4,Space X-rays.,"eROSITA is a wide-field X-ray telescope “capable of delivering deep, sharp images over very large areas of the sky,” helping researchers “to study the large-scale structure of the universe.” The telescope launched into orbit in 2019 as a collaboration between Russia and Germany, with data rights split between the countries. In February 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s Max Planck Institute suspended eROSITA’s operations. Data processing continued, however, and last week the institute published its first data release. It contains the first six months of results for the hemisphere assigned to Germany, and is “the largest X-ray catalogue ever published.”","https://erosita.mpe.mpg.de/
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/03/aa39313-20/aa39313-20.html
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7856215/news20220303
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7989698/news20240131
https://erosita.mpe.mpg.de/dr1/index.html",
2024.02.07,5,Amateur archaeological finds.,"The British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme “records archaeological finds discovered by the public,” assisted by a network of national and local partners. Its database contains 1.1 million records describing 1.7 million objects. “All have been found by everyday people by chance, most through metal detecting.” The most common finds: coins (~500,000 records), buckles (~58,000), and brooches (~52,000). Search results are available in JSON, XML, and other structured formats. [h/t Maev Kennedy + Walt Hickey]","https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/national/treasure-and-portable-antiquities-scheme
https://finds.org.uk/database
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objectType/COIN
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objectType/BUCKLE
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objectType/BROOCH
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results","https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/01/23/striking-gold-2022-was-a-record-year-for-treasure-and-antiquities-finds-with-more-than-50000-items-reported
https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-january-24-2024-atomic"
2024.02.14,1,State trust lands.,"“State trust lands just might be one of the best-kept public secrets in America,” according to Grist, which published a data-driven investigation on the topic last week. These lands — expropriated from Indigenous nations and managed by state governments for profit — “exist in 21 Western and Midwestern states, totaling more than 500 million surface and subsurface acres.” Grist’s inquiry focuses on those benefiting land-grant universities, the subject of a related High Country News investigation (DIP 2020.06.24). Using state property records and Forest Service data digitized from historical cession maps, Grist identified “more than 8.2 million acres of state trust parcels taken from 123 tribes, bands, and communities” that fund 14 such institutions. Their public data describe these 41,000+ pieces of land: each parcel’s size and location, rights type, land use, benefiting university, associated tribes, and cession details. [h/t Rachel Glickhouse]","https://grist.org/updates/grist-publishes-new-land-grant-investigation-with-public-data/
https://grist.org/project/indigenous/land-grant-universities-indigenous-lands-fossil-fuels/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university
https://www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-06-24-edition/
https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php
https://www.loc.gov/collections/century-of-lawmaking/articles-and-essays/century-presentations/indian-land-cessions/
https://grist.org/technology/how-we-investigated-land-grant-university-system/
https://grist.org/indigenous/how-to-conduct-your-own-reporting-research-state-trust-lands/",https://twitter.com/Riogringa
2024.02.14,2,Household composition.,"Juan Galeano et al.’s CORESIDENCE database provides 146 indicators of household arrangements in 156 countries and ~4,000 regions, spanning the years 1964 to 2021. The indicators range in specificity, from average household size to, e.g., the average number of non-relatives in 3-person households. They also include gender breakdowns, such as the proportion of 5-person households among female-headed households. The metrics are calculated using “global-scale individual microdata from four main repositories and national household surveys, encompassing over 150 million individual records representing more than 98% of the world’s population.”","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-02964-3
https://zenodo.org/records/8142652",
2024.02.14,3,"Comics, deconstructed.","The Tilburg University–based Visual Language Lab, led by comics scholar Neil Cohn, studies “all aspects of visual language, from the structure of individual drawings, emoji, or cartoons, to how we make meaning out of sequences of images like in comics.” The lab’s Visual Language Research Corpus provides detailed annotations of tens of thousands of panels in 300+ comic books and graphic novels (plus every Calvin & Hobbes strip). The dataset’s sources include material from multiple continents, time periods, and genres. The annotations examine “attentional framing structure and filmic shot scale, the situational changes across panels, page layouts, multimodality, visual morphology, and path structure,” among other characteristics. [h/t Cameron Yick]","https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/
https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/neilcohn
https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/vlrc
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-023-09673-0
https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34894/LWMZ7G",https://twitter.com/hydrosquall
2024.02.14,4,Nursing home prices.,"Between December 2020 and March 2022, SeniorLiving.org researchers “attempted to contact 7,221 US senior facilities by telephone to obtain availability and service pricing.” The team got at least some pricing data for 3,000+ of the facilities. The results, available from SeniorLiving’s data portal, provide information about each provider, the team’s call attempts, and the average monthly price for five types of housing and care: skilled nursing with a private room, skilled nursing with a shared room, assisted living, independent living, and care tailored for people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Related: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Skilled Nursing Facility Cost Report datasets, which contain annual metrics on finances, staffing, and care provided. [h/t Corie Wagner]","https://www.seniorliving.org/research/open-data-project/
https://data.cms.gov/provider-compliance/cost-report/skilled-nursing-facility-cost-report",https://www.linkedin.com/in/corie-colliton-wagner/
2024.02.14,5,Twisty roads.,"Curvature uses OpenStreetMap data to map the world’s curviest roads. Built by motorcyclist and software developer Adam Franco, the open-source project “works by looking at the geometry of every road segment and adding up how much length of the road is sharp corners, broad sweeping curves, and straight areas.” Franco also provides a more detailed explanation, as well as data files scoring each road and curve segment. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://roadcurvature.com/
https://www.openstreetmap.org
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data
https://roadcurvature.com/map/
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a34610356/adam-franco-curvature-fun-roads/
https://www.adamfranco.com/
https://github.com/adamfranco/curvature
https://roadcurvature.com/how-it-works/
https://kml.roadcurvature.com/",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/551-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2024.02.21,1,Self-driving stats.,"Companies wanting to test or deploy self-driving cars on California’s public roads must receive a permit from the state DMV’s Autonomous Vehicles Program. As part of the requirements, these companies must “submit annual reports to share how often their vehicles disengaged from autonomous mode during tests (whether because of technology failure or situations requiring the test driver/operator to take manual control of the vehicle to operate safely).” These disengagement reports indicate each vehicle’s company, permit number, VIN, monthly miles driven, and annual disengagements — including vehicles with none. And for each disengagement, the reports list the vehicle, date, disengagement initiator (vehicle, test driver, remote operator, or passenger), type of location, and a brief summary. [h/t Chartr]","https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/autonomous-vehicles/
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/autonomous-vehicles/disengagement-reports/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number",https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/2023-11-12
2024.02.21,2,US wetlands.,"The National Wetlands Inventory, maintained by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, provides interactive maps and bulk data containing “geospatially referenced information on the status, extent, characteristics and functions of wetland, riparian, deepwater, and related aquatic habitats.” With contributions from 160+ organizations, coordinated through a dedicated national standard, the inventory represents “more than 35 million wetland and deepwater features,” and continues to receive updates. As seen in: DIP reader Simon Greenhill and coauthors’ paper, dataset, explainer video, and map using machine learning to predict wetland and river protections under the Clean Water Act.","https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/wetlands-mapper
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/wetlands-data
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/wetlands-mapping
https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/data-standards
https://simondgreenhill.github.io/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi3794
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.z34tmpgm7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkhz5gVUo2w
https://simondgreenhill.github.io/wotus-map/",
2024.02.21,3,SF overdose deaths.,"Last year, 813 people died from accidental drug overdoses in San Francisco, according to the latest figures from the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. That’s the highest annual total on record, per the San Francisco Chronicle’s overdose data tracker, which combines data from the medical examiner’s reports with information from other city agencies, such as overdose reversals by EMS responders administering naloxone and calls handled by the Street Overdose Response Team. As seen in: The Chronicle data team’s latest newsletter.","https://www.sf.gov/resource/2020/ocme-accidental-overdose-reports
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/san-francisco-drug-overdose-deaths/
https://github.com/sfchronicle/sf-od-tracker-data
https://www.sf.gov/data/reducing-fatal-and-non-fatal-overdoses-tenderloin
https://www.sf.gov/street-overdose-response-team
https://link.sfchronicle.com/view/6418a59d2d2faafd080b5ee9kf7kn.2e/907eff80",
2024.02.21,4,Spain’s political primaries.,"Oscar Barberà et al. have compiled a dataset of the outcomes of 361 primary contests in Spain since 1991, “based on information provided by political parties at the time of the event through their websites, press releases, and journalistic reports.” It includes primaries to determine candidates for regional, national, and EU elections, as well as for party leadership. For each contest, it lists the party, territory, year, type of post, number of competitors, turnout, incumbent’s outcome, winner’s percentage, and more.","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924000842
https://zenodo.org/records/10066112",
2024.02.21,5,Scott’s SMS spam.,"In late September 2022, Scott Lee Chua began preserving every SMS he received, motivated by the recent passage of the Philippine SIM Registration Act. By early February 2024, he’d amassed 3,324 messages, which he has grouped into five categories and charted: spam (13% of all messages), one-time passwords (12%), marketing (10%), government notices (1%), and “messages I both expect and welcome” (63%). He’s also published a partially-redacted dataset of each message’s time received, time read, sender, text, and category.","https://scottleechua.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Registration_Act
https://spamofthetimes.com/
https://github.com/scottleechua/data/tree/main/spam-and-marketing-sms",
2024.02.28,1,Climate funding.,"To develop its “Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2023” report, the Climate Policy Initiative gathered data on grants, loans, equity and other types of “primary financing in real economy sectors that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience.” The report, published in November, identified ~$1.3 trillion in such financing globally in 2021–2022. A spreadsheet provided alongside it indicates the estimated amount by year, region, sector, focus on mitigation vs. adaptation, type of financial instrument, funder sector (public vs. private), and funder type (development bank, corporation, institutional investors, etc.). Reports from earlier years include downloadable data for 2019–2020 and 2017–2018. Previously: National climate funds (DIP 2022.02.09) and climate finance projects (DIP 2023.06.14).","https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/global-landscape-of-climate-finance-2023/
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/resources/publications/
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/global-landscape-of-climate-finance-a-decade-of-data/
https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/updated-view-on-the-global-landscape-of-climate-finance-2019/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2027223
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-02-09-edition/
https://purl.stanford.edu/dx902xg3463
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-06-14-edition/",
2024.02.28,2,Federal laws since 1789.,"Political scientist and “recovering lawyer” Brian Libgober has compiled a “comprehensive dataset of U.S. federal laws,” covering 49,000+ legislative enactments from 1789 to 2022. Such a dataset has been elusive, Libgober notes, in part “because such laws have been enacted over hundreds of years, resulting in a complicated patchwork of documents published in numerous and inconsistent formats.” His solution combines three key sources: “the oldest meta data for the U.S. Statutes at Large disseminated via HeinOnline, similar and more recent meta data through the Governmental Printing Office, and finally the last six years of law-making as described by the National Archives’ website.” The dataset lists each law’s title, legislative session, date of passage, source/citation identifiers, and more.","https://brianlibgober.com/
https://osf.io/qa289
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02758-z",
2024.02.28,3,TSA complaint counts.,"The Transportation Security Administration publishes semi-regular reports on the complaints it receives, aggregated by month, airport, category, and subcategory. Unfortunately, the agency only publishes those reports as PDFs, rather than structured data files. So volunteers and I at the Data Liberation Project have built a data pipeline to convert those PDFs into tidy CSV files, currently covering complaints to TSA at 440+ airports (and additional complaints not specifying any airport) from January 2015 to January 2024. Read more: The Data Liberation Project’s latest newsletter dispatch.","https://www.tsa.gov/foia/readingroom
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/tsa-complaint-counts
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/tsa-complaint-counts/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#data-guidance
https://buttondown.email/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-13/",
2024.02.28,4,High-school financial education.,"In a recent paper, economists Allison Oldham Luedtke and Carly Urban introduce a dataset of 19,000+ high-school classes that teach financial literacy, manually collected from thousands of online course catalogs. Each row provides details about the school (e.g., name, location, enrollment) and course, including its title, description, duration, requirement status, and whether financial literacy was the main focus or smaller component. An auxiliary dataset indicates, annually for 1970–2024, which states required such coursework for high school graduation.","https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-financial-literacy-and-wellbeing/article/high-school-financial-education-courses-in-the-united-states-what-is-the-importance-of-setting-state-policies/ABD577136362C0289884C41676341271
https://sites.google.com/stolaf.edu/aoluedtke/home/
https://www.carlyurban.com/
https://osf.io/ksah9/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-financial-literacy-and-wellbeing/article/high-school-financial-education-courses-in-the-united-states-what-is-the-importance-of-setting-state-policies/ABD577136362C0289884C41676341271#s2-3",
2024.02.28,5,Trash interceptors.,"Mr. Trash Wheel is one of four “semi-autonomous trash interceptors” pulling garbage out of the Baltimore Harbor. The partnership behind the effort publishes spreadsheets of each contraption’s collection history. For each dumpster filled since May 2014, they list the date, weight and volume of trash, and estimated number of plastic bottles, cigarette butts, and other types of items extracted. [h/t Cody Winchester]","https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/
https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/meet-the-trash-wheels/
https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/technology/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b8Lbe-z3PNb3H8nSsSjrwK2B0ReAblL2/edit#gid=1143432795",https://codywinchester.com/
2024.03.06,1,Global military spending.,"How much money has each country spent, each year, on its military? Different datasets have different answers, cover different timeframes, and use different methodologies. Miriam Barnum et al.’s Global Military Spending Dataset attempts to bring them together. By uniting “76 variables from 9 dataset collection projects,” the authors write, “we provide the most comprehensive and complete set of published datasets on military spending ever assembled.” Each of the variables represents one source/methodology, and each observation is a country-year. “Disagreement on the actual expenditure value for a given country-year is common, even between datasets produced by the same project,” they find. Previously: The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Military Expenditure Database (DIP 2017.03.29), one of the sources.","https://osf.io/pkxt8
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DHMZOW
https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-03-29-edition/",
2024.03.06,2,Fatal police pursuits.,"Reporters at the San Francisco Chronicle have compiled a national dataset of 3,300+ deaths in police car chases in 2017–2022. To build it, they used information from the federal government’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (DIP 2016.08.31), research organizations, news reports, lawsuits, and public records requests. For each death, the dataset indicates the person’s name, age, gender, race, and connection to the pursuit (driver, passenger, bystander, officer). It also includes the incident’s date, location, reason given for the pursuit, and main law enforcement agency involved. Read more: “Fast and Fatal,” the Chronicle’s investigation based on the dataset. [h/t Susie Neilson]","https://github.com/sfchronicle/police_pursuits
https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/police-chases-methodology-18685158.php
https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-08-31-edition/
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-chases-database/?hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3Byb2plY3RzLzIwMjQvcG9saWNlLWNoYXNlcy1kYXRhYmFzZS8%3D&time=MTcwOTEzNDk3Mzc4OA%3D%3D",https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/susie-neilson/
2024.03.06,3,Price-fixing cartels.,"Industrial economist John M. Connor has constructed the Private International Cartels dataset, “which the author believes to be the largest collection of legal-economic information on contemporary price-fixing cartels.” It spans three decades (1990–2019) and covers 1,500+ suspected or convicted cartels, including 1,100+ that “have been deemed guilty of price fixing by one or more antitrust authority.” It also links those cartels to tens of thousands of companies and to 2,000+ individuals indicted or punished for their involvement. The dataset’s variables include information about cartel geography, industry, market share, overcharges, penalties, and much more.","https://www.concurrences.com/en/auteur/John-M-Connor
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3682189
https://purr.purdue.edu/publications/2732/2",
2024.03.06,4,Real-time airport disruptions.,"The Federal Aviation Administration’s National Airspace System Status dashboard provides real-time listings of delays and closures at US airports. For each disruption, it indicates the type of problem, reason, current average delay times, and more. A minimal API linked from the site provides the information as an XML-formatted file. Read more: Ruihai Youngblood describes his experience helping to redesign the dashboard. [h/t Jason Scott]","https://nasstatus.faa.gov/
https://nasstatus.faa.gov/api/airport-status-information
https://www.ruihaiyoungblood.com/faa.html",https://bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com/post/3k2l2eesr2h2w
2024.03.06,5,Pinball machines.,"The Open Pinball Database provides a searchable inventory and API of ~2,000 pinball machines and 120+ manufacturers. Details include each machine’s name, manufacture date, mechanism type, display type, player count, and more. Related: Pinball Map’s crowdsourced global map and API of the locations of installed pinball machines. [h/t Jeremy Herrman + technophiliac]","https://opdb.org/
https://opdb.org/api
https://opdb.org/machines
https://opdb.org/manufacturers
https://pinballmap.com/
https://pinballmap.com/map
https://pinballmap.com/api/v1/docs","https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39233602
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230244"
2024.03.13,1,Humanitarian emergency mapping.,"The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) provides a range of services to UN agencies and the general public, including downloadable maps, data, and analyses produced “in response to humanitarian emergencies related to disasters, complex emergencies and conflict situations.” Those currently available include assessments of flood impacts in Libya, landslides in the Republic of the Congo, and building damage in the Gaza Strip. The latter identifies structures that satellite imagery suggests have been damaged; the data indicate each building’s location and damage level, plus an assessment confidence and notes. Assessments for prior humanitarian emergencies can be found by adjusting the listing page’s filters, and also via UNOSAT’s contributions to the Humanitarian Data Exchange. [h/t Allison Martell]","https://unosat.org/
https://unosat.org/services/
https://unosat.org/products/
https://unosat.org/products/3800
https://unosat.org/products/3798
https://unosat.org/products/3793
https://unosat.org/products/
https://data.humdata.org/organization/unosat",https://schedules.ire.org/nicar-2024/index.html#1138
2024.03.13,2,Materials and their properties.,"The Materials Project, led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, “is a multi-institution, multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials” with the “ultimate goal” being “to drastically reduce the time needed to invent new materials.” Its online explorer and API currently provide information about 150,000+ materials. You can search by component elements, formula, thermodynamics, structural properties, magnetism, elasticity, and many other characteristics.","https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/about/people
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/about
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/materials
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/api",
2024.03.13,3,EU infringements.,"The European Commission publishes a searchable and downloadable database of all its decisions regarding national infringements of EU regulations, decisions, and directives. It currently contains 58,000+ decisions in 24,000+ cases, going back to the late 1980s. (To download the full database, conduct a blank search and then click the “Export to Excel” link.) Each entry lists a decision type and date, case identifier, country, policy area, and more. Recent examples include the Commission’s decisions to refer Ireland to court for failing to protect its peat bogs and Italy for noncompliance with a wastewater treatment directive. [h/t Maximilian Haag et al.]","https://ec.europa.eu/atwork/applying-eu-law/infringements-proceedings/infringement_decisions/
https://commission.europa.eu/law/application-eu-law/implementing-eu-law_en
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1232
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1234",https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rego.12580
2024.03.13,4,NYC council members.,"Maximum New York has published a biographical dataset of people elected to the New York City Council. For each member since 1998 (plus some before that), it lists their name, district, borough, political party, date of birth, undergraduate/graduate universities and fields of study, whether they ever served on a community board, prior employer, and more. Related: DataMade’s Chicago Councilmatic lists all members, bills, votes, and meetings, and is also available as structured data. [h/t Vikram Oberoi + Forest Gregg]","https://www.maximumnewyork.com/about
https://www.maximumnewyork.com/p/city-council-data-project
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11kMfI0iY4CSYrrwoUSM1oERm_bOYtbZI379N1wX3QO4/edit
https://datamade.us/
https://chicago.councilmatic.org/
https://puddle.datamade.us/
https://puddle.bunkum.us/chicago_council","https://www.vikramoberoi.com/
https://mastodon.social/@fgregg"
2024.03.13,5,Counting fish.,"The University of Washington’s Columbia Basin Research provides (among other data) daily, species-level counts of adult salmon and trout passing through more than a dozen sites in the Pacific Northwest. CalFish publishes fish counts and population estimates for the Upper Sacramento River Basin, which “contains much of California’s salmon and steelhead populations.” Similar resources include those available from Alaska, Oregon, and the Yakama Nation. [h/t Dan Brady]","https://www.cbr.washington.edu/
https://www.cbr.washington.edu/dart
https://www.cbr.washington.edu/dart/query/adult_daily
https://www.cbr.washington.edu/dart/metadata/adult
https://www.calfish.org/AboutCalFish/AboutCalFish.aspx
https://www.calfish.org/ProgramsData/ConservationandManagement/CentralValleyMonitoring/CDFWUpperSacRiverBasinSalmonidMonitoring.aspx
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/FishCounts/
https://myodfw.com/fish-counts-major-dams-and-fish-traps
https://yakamafish-nsn.gov/fish-data",
2024.03.20,1,Human trafficking.,"The Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative’s Global Synthetic Dataset uses differential privacy techniques to represent “over 206,000 victims and survivors of trafficking identified across 190 countries and territories from 2002 to 2022.” The approach, developed in partnership with Microsoft Research, converts anonymized case records into “a new dataset in which records do not correspond to actual individuals, but which preserves the structure and statistics (i.e., utility) of the original data.” Each row indicates a (synthetic) individual’s gender, age group, citizenship, country of exploitation, duration of reported trafficking, traffickers’ means of control, types of exploitation, and the year the collaborative’s partners registered the case. Related: The collaborative’s Global Victim-Perpetrator Synthetic Dataset, which takes a similar approach to relationships between victims and perpetrators. [h/t Mariana Moreira + Lorraine Wong]","https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/page/about
https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/page/global-synthetic-dataset
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/data-contributors
https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/global-victim-perpetrator-synthetic-dataset","https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-t-moreira/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorrainewongmw/"
2024.03.20,2,Real-world vehicle emissions.,"On Monday, the European Commission published its first report analyzing the real-world CO2 emissions of cars and vans, based on fuel consumption monitoring devices that the EU now requires. The report uses data received from 600,000+ vehicles. That sample is available to download, along with metrics aggregated by manufacturer and fuel type: average fuel consumption, emissions, and comparisons to standardized test results. Related: Data on millions of EU car registrations (and van registrations), including each vehicle’s fuel economy and emissions ratings. Previously: FuelEconomy.gov (DIP 2017.04.12), with data on decades of car models. [h/t Jan Willem Tulp + Xan Gregg]","https://climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-voice/news/first-commission-report-real-world-co2-emissions-cars-and-vans-using-data-board-fuel-consumption-2024-03-18_en
https://climate-energy.eea.europa.eu/topics/transport/real-world-emissions/intro
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/datahub/datahubitem-view/1c1ffad2-34c3-471b-bd69-dd013cdd7b80
https://climate-energy.eea.europa.eu/topics/transport/real-world-emissions/data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Harmonised_Light_Vehicles_Test_Procedure
https://co2cars.apps.eea.europa.eu/
https://co2vans.apps.eea.europa.eu/
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-04-12-edition/
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml","https://tulpinteractive.com/
https://rawdatastudies.com/"
2024.03.20,3,State legislators.,"Nicholas Carnes and Eric Hansen’s 2023-4 State Legislators Dataset features “biographical information about state lawmakers who held office in 2023 and 2024 compiled from legislative and campaign websites and other online sources.” The dataset spans all 50 states and includes 7,300+ lawmakers. “The project’s principal aim was to record the current or most recent main occupation (outside of elected office) held by each member,” the authors write, “but the dataset also includes information about a wide range of characteristics including race, gender, and education.” A version for 2021–22 is also available. Previously: State legislator financial disclosures (DIP 2017.12.13) and ideology scores (DIP 2020.01.01). [h/t Derek Willis]","https://people.duke.edu/~nwc8/index.html
https://ehansen4.sites.luc.edu/
https://people.duke.edu/~nwc8/stateleg.html
https://people.duke.edu/~nwc8/stateleg.html
https://github.com/PublicI/state-lawmakers-disclosures
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-12-13-edition/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/bshor
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-01-01-edition/",https://thescoop.org/
2024.03.20,4,Meta Oversight Board decisions.,"Meta’s independent Oversight Board reviews a selection of the company’s content-moderation decisions and has the power to overturn them. The board publishes its rulings online, as does Meta itself; neither, however, provides a download link. But Information Is Beautiful has compiled a spreadsheet of the board’s 80+ decisions through early February, supporting a visualization of the cases’ topics and outcomes over time. [h/t Data Science Community Newsletter]","https://oversightboard.com/
https://oversightboard.com/decision/
https://transparency.fb.com/oversight/oversight-board-cases/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kz7nYnfTM3al6dIJgqYwR4DMPal5d37vKPOBAqD3mRY/edit#gid=655704690
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/facebook-meta-oversight-board-decisions-major-rulings/",https://mailchi.mp/academicdatascience/dscn-289?e=10da2781dd
2024.03.20,5,Aviation waypoints.,"For his recent exploration of the FAA’s aviation maps, Beautiful Public Data’s Jon Keegan has turned the agency’s list of 67,000+ navigation waypoints into a downloadable dataset. “Often these waypoint names will reflect the culture, food or sports teams of the city they are near,” Keegan writes. “Off the coast of New England, there is LBSTA and WHALE. Boston’s sports legacy gave us BOSOX, BRUWN, CELTS, PATSS, FENWY, ORRRR and BORQE. Salem has WITCH, and Plymouth has PLGRM.”","https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/faa-aviation-maps/
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/
https://www.threads.net/@jonkeeganstories
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/loc_id_search/fixes_waypoints/
https://github.com/jonkeegan/faa-navigation-waypoints
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=ME&keyword=LBSTA
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=WHALE
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=BOSOX
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=BRUWN
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=CELTS
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=PATSS
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=FENWY
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=ORRRR
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=BORQE
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=WITCH
https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/services/ajv5/fix_search.jsp?selectType=state&selectName=MA&keyword=PLGRM",
2024.03.20,1,Institutional investments.,"If you’re an institutional investor with US operations and managing at least $100 million in publicly traded securities, the Securities and Exchange Commission requires you to file Form 13F each quarter. (The biggest filers — such as Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street — have trillions of dollars invested.) These filings, available to download going back to mid-2013, detail each investor’s long positions for each security: their number of shares, market value, security type, issuer name, CUSIP code, and more. As seen in: Michigan teenager Anonyo Noor’s wallstreetlocal.com, which aggregates the data, matches it to additional information, and provides a search interface.","https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/form-13f-reports-filed-institutional-investment
https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/form-13f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUSIP
https://github.com/leftmove
https://www.wallstreetlocal.com/
https://github.com/leftmove/wallstreetlocal",
2024.03.20,2,"Human development, indexed.","Perhaps the best-known metric of its kind, the United Nations’ Human Development Index combines statistics on life expectancy, income per capita, and years of schooling into a single number for each country-year. The UN provides downloads and an API for all annual HDI ratings and sub-components for 1990 to 2022. Those resources also feature data from related indices, such as the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, Gender Development Index, and Gender Inequality Index. [h/t Michael A. Rice]","https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/documentation-and-downloads
https://api.hdrdata.org/swagger/index.html
https://hdr.undp.org/inequality-adjusted-human-development-index#/indicies/IHDI
https://hdr.undp.org/gender-development-index#/indicies/GDI
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/thematic-composite-indices/gender-inequality-index#/indicies/GII",
2024.03.20,3,Extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh.,"Between 2009 and 2022, “Bangladesh’s security forces killed at least 2,597 people in apparent extrajudicial executions, custodial torture, and by firing bullets at protesters,” according to Nazmul Ahasan’s analysis for Netra News, building on data “compiled by Bangladeshi human rights defenders and collated by the Australia-based Capital Punishment Justice Project.” Ahasan and colleagues “independently verified more than 98% of the cases in the dataset using press reports and subsequently updated any incomplete data.” The records are available as a table in the article and as a JSON file. Each entry includes the victim’s name (if known), incident date, description, location, agencies involved, purported justification, and news source. As seen in: The 2024 Sigma Awards.","https://nazmulahasan.com/
https://interactive.netra.news/extrajudicial-killings-bangladesh/
https://www.cpjp.org.au/resources/bangladesh
https://interactive.netra.news/extrajudicial-killings-bangladesh/data.json
https://www.sigmaawards.org/meet-the-winners-of-the-sigmas-2024-for-data-journalism/",
2024.03.20,4,Agri-environmental policies.,"David Wuepper et al. have constructed a dataset of 6,000+ policies between 1960 and 2022 “at the intersection of agriculture and the environment, implemented not only by national entities but also by subnational and supranational entities, covering different instruments (for example, regulations, frameworks, payment programmes) and topics,” such as the US Safe Drinking Water Act, the Bavarian Forestry Law, and Tanzania’s 2009 Wildlife Conservation Act. Each entry lists the policy’s country, title, type, keywords, year implemented, description, and other details.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-00945-8
https://zenodo.org/records/10842614
https://www.epa.gov/sdwa
https://www.fao.org/faolex/results/details/en/c/LEX-FAOC072608/
https://www.fao.org/faolex/results/details/en/c/LEX-FAOC097858/",
2024.03.20,5,Rolling Stone’s album rankings.,"A new visual essay from The Pudding compares Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” lists from 2003, 2012, and 2020. A methodology note says the project began with a spreadsheet by Chris Eckert and eventually led the authors to develop a dataset of their own. Theirs lists every album in the rankings — its name, genre, release year, 2003/2012/2020 rank, the artist’s name, birth year, gender, and more — plus each year’s voters. [h/t Jason Kottke]","https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QguM-JM3LAJuZlnmY8aN0MutBJrZAzDs3aWZWTtF1WU/edit#gid=0
https://twitter.com/kennybloggins/status/1308568487888064518
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_Tdnm7S1oo8R9UNtdCVIY7bYASmf_cvMynOJTpKuHA/edit",https://kottke.org/24/03/0044194-from-the-pudding-a-visual
2024.04.03,1,Power outages.,"Christa Brelsford et al. have compiled a county-level estimates of the number of US customers experiencing power outages at 15-minute intervals from 2014 to 2023. The records come from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s restricted-access Environment for Analysis of Geo-Located Energy Information, a “platform created to monitor electric utility customer outages from data gathered from public sources.” The data’s coverage has increased over time; by 2022, it represented 92% of customers in the 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. “The remaining 8% of customers belong to utilities which do not report outage information publicly in near-real time in a format that is currently accessible to EAGLE-I parsers,” the authors write. “These are most typically small, rural, municipal utilities which lack robust information technology infrastructure.”","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03095-5
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_Environment_for_Analysis_of_Geo-Located_Energy_Information_s_Recorded_Electricity_Outages_2014-2022/24237376
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory
https://www.energy.gov/oe/articles/doe-announces-transition-eagle-i-oak-ridge-national-laboratory-ornl-taking-advantage",
2024.04.03,2,European Parliament activity.,"Parltrack keeps tabs on 4,000+ active and prior members of the European Parliament, 23,000+ policy dossiers, 39,000+ votes, and much more. The project, launched in 2011, scrapes data from various official websites and links it together — so that you can see, for example, any given member’s dossiers, committee roles, and activities such as plenary speeches and proposed legislative amendments. Its bulk datasets are updated daily and include details beyond what the online interfaces offer. [h/t Stefan Marsiske]","https://parltrack.org/
https://parltrack.org/mep/118859/Roberta%20METSOLA#/dossiers
https://parltrack.org/mep/125106/Johan%20VAN%20OVERTVELDT#/committees
https://parltrack.org/mep/96864/David%20Maria%20SASSOLI#/activities
https://parltrack.eu/dumps",https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/1102#issuecomment-1974961493
2024.04.03,3,Candid animals.,"The Labeled Information Library of Alexandria data repository is “intended as a resource for both machine learning (ML) researchers and those that want to harness ML for biology and conservation.” Its datasets include millions of images, mostly captured by motion-triggered cameras. Its North American Camera Trap Images dataset, for instance, “contains 3.7M camera trap images from five locations across the United States, with labels for 28 animal categories, primarily at the species level.” Read more: “Machine learning to classify animal species in camera trap images: Applications in ecology.” [h/t Corin Faife]","https://lila.science/
https://lila.science/datasets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_trap
https://lila.science/datasets/nacti
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13120",https://corinfaife.co/
2024.04.03,4,LLM data provenance.,"The Data Provenance Initiative “is a multi-disciplinary volunteer effort to improve transparency, documentation, and responsible use of training datasets for AI.” Its first release, the Data Provenance Collection, catalogs dozens of corpora used for fine-tuning large language models, as well as their component datasets’ names, task categories, known sources, licensing, various text metrics, and more. Related: Yang Liu et al.’s “Datasets for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey,” accompanied by semi-structured descriptions of hundreds of training and evaluation datasets. [h/t u/cavedave]","https://www.dataprovenance.org/
https://github.com/Data-Provenance-Initiative/Data-Provenance-Collection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16787
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuning_(deep_learning)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18041
https://github.com/lmmlzn/Awesome-LLMs-Datasets",https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/1b34189/datasets_for_large_language_models_a/
2024.04.03,5,Deaths in plague-era London.,"Death by Numbers, also known as the Bills of Mortality Project, aims to transcribe ~8,000 official weekly tallies of deaths in London published in the 1600s and 1700s. Initially focused on plague deaths, the reports expanded to “dozens of other causes of death, such as childbirth, measles, syphilis, and suicide, ensuring their continued publication for decades after the final outbreak of plague in England.” The project’s data are available to browse online, to download, and via API. [h/t Derek M. Jones + Cody Winchester]","https://deathbynumbers.org/
https://deathbynumbers.org/about/
https://datascribe.tech/casestudies/DataScribe_BillsOfMortality_CaseStudy.pdf
https://deathbynumbers.org/database/
https://deathbynumbers.org/data/
https://deathbynumbers.org/api/","http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
https://codywinchester.com/"
2024.04.10,1,Opioid settlement payouts.,"KFF Health News has been following the slew of legal settlements by companies accused of exacerbating the opioid crisis. Last week, they published an interactive and downloadable database of payouts to state and local governments so far (and expected in the future) from the largest national settlement, “a $26 billion deal with four companies that will be paid out over nearly two decades.” The data, gathered from the court-appointed firm administering the settlement, include overall numbers for 48 states and DC, plus locality-level data for 35 states. (Los Angeles County, for instance, received $47 million in 2022 and 2023, with another $210 million expected in years to come.) Learn more: A webinar scheduled for tomorrow, in which reporter Aneri Pattani “will discuss the data and how it can help you launch into coverage of the historic opioid settlement story.”","https://kffhealthnews.org/opioid-settlements/
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlement-payouts-state-county-city-tracker/
https://kffhealthnews.org/download-the-data-opioid-settlement-payouts/
https://www.nationalopioidofficialsettlement.com/Home/StateAllocationAmounts
https://kff-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErduqrqjosHNRXNTNnY6jfmiPTUamwtkRo%20/#/registration
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7183116733463855104/",
2024.04.10,2,Groundwater wells.,"Despite the infrastructural importance of groundwater wells, “a unified database collecting and standardizing information on the characteristics and locations of these wells across the United States has been lacking,” Chung-Yi Lin et al. write. “To bridge this gap, we have created a comprehensive database of groundwater well records collected from state and federal agencies.” Their United States Groundwater Well Database contains ~14 million records, each indicating a well equipped for monitoring or extracting water. Where available, each row lists the well’s coordinates, county, aquifer, watershed, depth, capacity, water use category, water potability, and more. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03186-3
https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/8b02895f02c14dd1a749bcc5584a5c55/",http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
2024.04.10,3,Work-injury laws.,"Nate Breznau and Felix Lanver’s Global Work-Injury Policy Database tracks the history of work-injury laws (also known as workers’ compensation laws) in 186 “independent nation states.” For each, the database lists the year of its first such law, the year a law first provided insurance for work-related injuries, the type of program it established, and more. It also incorporates data on current laws’ coverage and payment rates from Kenneth Nelson et al.’s Social Insurance Entitlements dataset.","https://sites.google.com/site/nbreznau/
https://www.socium.uni-bremen.de/about-the-socium/members/felix-lanver/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IVKYIE
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijsw.12418
https://www.su.se/social-policy-indicators-database/data?open-collapse-boxes=ccbd-socialinsuranceentitlementsdatasetsied",
2024.04.10,4,Colonial empire timelines.,"The Colonial Dates Dataset, compiled by political scientist Bastian Becker, “aggregates information on the reach and duration of European colonial empires from renowned secondary sources.” Producing the dataset from its four main sources “is largely automated, relying on predefined coding rules.” The dataset indicates the first and last years each contemporary country was colonized, disaggregated by eight colonizing countries (Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain). [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/T9SDEW
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/apvqm
https://www.beckerbastian.net/",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/db18d4f1be51741c169e6452a9bca38520dde682
2024.04.10,5,Things flung spaceward.,"The UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs maintains an Online Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, based on a similarly-named register, itself mandated by a similarly-named convention, which went into force in 1976. Presented as an HTML table, the index lists 17,000+ satellites, spacecraft, probes, and other objects’ names, launching countries, statuses, launch dates, and more. As seen in: Our World In Data’s chart of the annual number of objects launched. [h/t Chartr]","https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/index.html
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/osoindex/search-ng.jspx
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/spaceobjectregister/index.html
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/registration-convention.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Convention
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space",https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/2024-03-22
2024.04.17,1,Unregulated water contaminants.,"Through the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, the Environmental Protection Agency “collect[s] data for contaminants that are suspected to be present in drinking water and do not have health-based standards set under the Safe Drinking Water Act.” The current version of the rule requires public water systems to test for lithium and 29 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS. (Prior iterations, which go back to the early 2000s, have tested for other contaminants.) The EPA publishes the data collected, with the most detailed files listing each sample, its public water system, facility, sampling point, sample date, contaminant tested, concentration detected, and more. Related: Last week, the EPA finalized its first-ever limits for PFAS in drinking water. [h/t Lisa Sorg]","https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/learn-about-unregulated-contaminant-monitoring-rule
https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/fifth-unregulated-contaminant-monitoring-rule
https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained
https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/occurrence-data-unregulated-contaminant-monitoring-rule
https://apnews.com/article/forever-chemicals-pfas-pollution-epa-drinking-water-1c8804288413a73bb7b99fc866c8fa51",https://ncnewsline.com/author/lisa-sorg/
2024.04.17,2,Border crossings.,"Michael R. Kenwick et al.’s Border Crossings of the World dataset “explores state authority spatially by collecting information about infrastructure built where highways cross internationally recognized borders.” Using satellite imagery, the team’s researchers identified the locations of gates, official buildings, and split-lane inspection facilities annually from the 1990s onward. An accompanying dataset calculates a “border orientation” score that summarizes the “extent to which the State is committed to the spatial display of capacities to control the terms of penetration of its national borders.” [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00223433221145582
https://mkenwick.com/datameasurement/#borders
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/RRV0JZ",https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/c46f0ae069a2ccdd28d47ec17c254c80c3babcbe
2024.04.17,3,Earthquakes felt.,"The US Geological Survey’s Did You Feel It? initiative allows members of the public to report their ground-shaking experiences. The agency’s web pages for individual earthquakes — such as this page for the April 5 tremor that rattled NYC — feature downloadable geographic and longitudinal data that USGS has aggregated from the reports. The agency also publishes a map of annual intensities. Tip: This search lists earthquakes in 2024 that received at least 1,000 reports. [h/t Philip Bump]","https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/tellus
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkww7puZ_I
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/dyfi/intensity
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/background.php
https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9310990e7ce84e3b8567109616b0944d
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-88.15623,-155.39063&extent=88.14489,515.39063&range=search&timeZone=utc&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22starttime%22:%222024-01-01%2000:00:00%22,%22endtime%22:%222024-12-31%2023:59:59%22,%22minfelt%22:1000,%22orderby%22:%22time%22%7D%7D",https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?s=661155ac1761ef08c051a621
2024.04.17,4,Automated decision-making in government.,"The UK nonprofit Public Law Project last year launched the Tracking Automated Government Register, which describes automated systems that government agencies there use “to make or inform decisions on a range of sensitive policy areas, including how people are policed, what benefits they receive, and their immigration status.” It currently lists 55 systems, their names, purposes, agencies in charge, policy areas, transparency level, potential unequal impacts, and more. Last week, Western University’s Joanna Redden and colleagues launched a version for Canada, listing 303 systems.","https://publiclawproject.org.uk/what-we-do/
https://publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/the-tracking-automated-government-register/
https://trackautomatedgovernment.shinyapps.io/register/
https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/joanna_redden.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-used-ai-1.7170307
https://tagcanada.shinyapps.io/register/",
2024.04.17,5,Aerial obstacles.,"The Federal Aviation Administration’s Obstacles Team “investigates and evaluates existing obstacles that may be hazardous to safe flight navigation,” such as tall buildings, windmills, water tanks, utility poles, amusement parks, monuments, blimps, and other structures. Its Daily Digital Obstacle File contains 580,000+ entries, which it says provides full coverage of the US and partial coverage of Canada, Mexico, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. It lists each obstacle’s type, country, state, city, coordinates, height, type of lighting, and more. [h/t Michael Allen]","https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/obst_data/
https://clui.org/projects/lighter-air-exploring-landscape-helium/tethered-aerostats-usa/cudjoe-key-tars
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/DailyDOF/",https://carts.lsu.edu/about/staff/1
2024.04.24,1,Public procurement.,"The Global Public Procurement Dataset provides standardized data on 72 million government contracts in 42 countries. The dataset, constructed from official sources by the Budapest-based Government Transparency Institute, represents $17 trillion in total procurement. It begins in the 2000s for most of the countries and concludes in 2021. For each contract, it provides information about the tender (title, procedure type, product code, publication date, award date, final price, currency, etc.), government buyer, bidders’ names and locations, and more. The downloadable files are split into two repositories. The US, Italy, Brazil, Poland, and Colombia have the most contracts represented. Previously: The Open Contracting Partnership’s data registry (DIP 2023.03.08) and data standard (DIP 2020.02.26).","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924003810
https://www.govtransparency.eu/
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/fwzpywbhgw/3
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/w9mzf4vswh/3
https://www.open-contracting.org/
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-03-08-edition/
https://www.open-contracting.org/data-standard/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-02-26-edition/",
2024.04.24,2,Chain locations and more.,"All The Places is “a growing set of web scrapers designed to output consistent geodata about as many places of business in the world as possible.” During its latest weekly run, the project’s 2,400+ open-source scrapers collected data on nearly 5 million locations. They include postal collection boxes, ATMs, various fast food chains and chain stores, gas stations, and more. The results are available on an interactive map, to download in bulk, and by location type. Related: Journalist Matt Stiles maintains a collection of US-focused scrapers gathering the locations of dozens of chain stores and restaurants, with Python notebooks for each scraper. [h/t Forest Gregg + Sharon Machlis]","https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/
https://github.com/alltheplaces/alltheplaces
https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/map/
https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/builds
https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/spiders
https://mattstiles.me/
https://github.com/stiles/locations/","https://mastodon.social/@fgregg
https://masto.machlis.com/@smach"
2024.04.24,3,Wholesale electricity markets.,"The US Energy Information Administration recently launched a Wholesale Electricity Market Portal, providing visualizations and downloads of market data from regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs) — the country’s electric-grid coordinating entities. The data include “day-ahead” electricity prices, real-time prices, actual/forecasted load and demand, fuel mix by time, and local temperatures. Learn more: A 30-minute introductory video from the EIA.","https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61804
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesalemarkets/index.php
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesalemarkets/data.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_transmission_organization_(North_America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8YH-338fXU",
2024.04.24,4,Food-system indicators.,"The Food Systems Countdown Initiative produces “annual publications to measure, assess, and track the performance of global food systems toward 2030 and the conclusion of the Sustainable Development Goals.” As part of that work, its Food Systems Dashboard incorporates 275 metrics from dozens of sources about countries’ food availability, affordability, supply chains, safety, and related topics. Examples include protein supply per capita, number of supermarkets per capita, trans fat regulations, and food safety poll results. [h/t Jan Willem Tulp]","https://www.foodcountdown.org/
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/information/data-sources-and-methodology
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/indicators/food-environments/food-availability/average-protein-supply-3-year-average/map
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/indicators/food-environments/vendor-properties/supermarkets-per-100000-population/map
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/indicators/food-supply-chains/processing-and-packaging/mandatory-removal-of-trans-fats-in-food-products/map
https://www.foodsystemsdashboard.org/indicators/food-environments/food-safety/percent-who-believe-the-government-does-a-good-job-ensuring-food-safety/map",https://tulpinteractive.com/
2024.04.24,5,Three-dimensional natural history.,"At MorphoSource, you can “find, view, and download 3D data representing the world’s natural history, cultural heritage, and scientific collections.” The service hosts 82,000+ 3D models you can view online; roughly half can be downloaded without prior approval. As described in a recent BioScience article, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s openVertebrate project used MorphoSource to share 3D models and volumetric CT scans of 10,000+ amphibian, reptile, fish, bird, and mammal specimens. [h/t Duncan Geere]","https://www.morphosource.org/
https://www.morphosource.org/catalog/media?f%5Bhuman_readable_media_type_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Mesh&locale=en
https://www.morphosource.org/catalog/media?f%5Bhuman_readable_media_type_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Mesh&f.publication_status=Open+Download&locale=en
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/74/3/169/7615104
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Museum_of_Natural_History
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/overt/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-ct-scanned-thousands-of-natural-history-specimens-which-you-can-access-for-free/
https://www.morphosource.org/projects/000368762",https://www.duncangeere.com/
2024.05.01,1,Prison commissary prices.,"Through a series of public records requests, reporters at The Appeal have constructed the “first national database of prison commissary lists,” based on documents provided by 46 states. The database contains three tables. The first links to, and provides metadata about, each list. The second summarizes each state’s prices for two dozen types of products — such as ramen, toothpaste, and rosary beads — across three categories: food, personal care/hygiene, and religious items. The third table provides 2,200+ commissary-specific prices for those products. Read more: “Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated,” by reporters Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey. [h/t JQ Whitcomb]","https://theappeal.org/
https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-commissary-database-methodology/
https://theappeal.org/commissary-database/
https://github.com/the-appeal/commissary-data/
https://github.com/the-appeal/commissary-data/blob/main/data/commissary-lists-20240417.csv
https://github.com/the-appeal/commissary-data/blob/main/data/commissary-summaries-20240417.csv
https://github.com/the-appeal/commissary-data/blob/main/data/commissary-prices-20240417.csv
https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/
https://theappeal.org/authors/elizabeth-weill-greenberg/
https://theappeal.org/authors/ethan-corey/",https://jqwhitcomb.com/
2024.05.01,2,Historical markers.,"Launched in 2006, the Historical Marker Database “is an illustrated searchable online catalog of historical information viewed through the filter of […] permanent outdoor markers, monuments, and plaques.” The crowdsourced project has documented 195,000+ markers in the US, plus thousands more in Canada, Mexico, the UK, and elsewhere. You can browse them by location and by topic, and download data corresponding to each collection. You can also search by person, keyword, historical date, and other attributes. As seen in: “Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong,” by NPR’s Laura Sullivan and Nick McMillan, with associated data analysis. [h/t Walt Hickey]","https://www.hmdb.org/about.asp
https://www.hmdb.org/
https://www.hmdb.org/faq.asp
https://www.hmdb.org/geolists.asp
https://www.hmdb.org/categories.asp
https://www.hmdb.org/search.asp
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/21/1244899635/civil-war-confederate-statue-markers-sign-history
https://www.npr.org/people/4624985/laura-sullivan
https://www.npr.org/people/1083208720/nick-mcmillan
https://github.com/NPR-investigations/off-the-mark",https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-april-22-2024-ghosts
2024.05.01,3,Biological numbers.,"BioNumbers wants “you to find in one minute any useful molecular biology number that can be important for your research.” As its creators Ron Milo et al. described in 2010, those numbers “range from cell sizes to metabolite concentrations, from reaction rates to generation times, from genome sizes to the number of mitochondria in a cell.” You can search, browse, and download more than 14,000 entries. Each includes a number and/or range, units and method of measurement, relevant organism, and source. For instance: The diameter of an e. coli cell is 1-1.1 micrometers, the lifespan of a human red blood cell is 70-140 days, and a chicken’s genome has 1.05 billion base pairs.","https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/search.aspx
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2808940/
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/browse.aspx
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/resources.aspx
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=100002&ver=12&trm=100002&org=
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=112478&ver=0&trm=red+blood+cell&org=a
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=100282&ver=6&trm=genome&org=",
2024.05.01,4,Openly-licensed video transcripts.,"The YouTube-Commons dataset, built by a French startup, contains 15 million original and auto-translated audio transcripts from 2 million Creative Commons–licensed YouTube videos, sourced from 400,000+ channels. The dataset indicates each video’s YouTube ID, title, channel, and date, as well as each transcript’s original language, translated language, word count, and character count. Translations are available primarily in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. [h/t Data Machina]","https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/YouTube-Commons
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/",https://datamachina.substack.com/p/data-machina-250
2024.05.01,5,Agatha Christie’s bibliography.,"Nicole Mark has compiled a dataset of Agatha Christie’s published stories, covering 75 novels, 154 short stories, and 22 short story collections. The spreadsheets provide each work’s title and the character-based series to which it belongs (e.g., Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, etc.). The novel and collection entries also indicate their year of initial publication, while the short-story entries list the collections that included them.","https://www.nicoledesignsdata.net/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A8ZRe5KLLAllhT31pCzke4j5qAPqeMKf0jYgyJXcoPs/edit#gid=0",
2024.05.08,1,US greenhouse gas accounting.,"The Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, published annually by the EPA, “provides a comprehensive accounting of total greenhouse gas emissions for all man-made sources in the United States,” as well as the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere attributable to “land use, land-use change, and forestry.” The reports contain a slew of data tables. Those in the latest edition, which covers 1990 through 2022, include total emissions by year and economic sector; transportation-related emissions by vehicle type and gas emitted; removals by land-use category; and more. Previously: EPA’s facility-level emissions data (DIP 2023.09.20). [h/t Ben Young et al.]","https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/us-greenhouse-gas-inventory-report-archive
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks-1990-2022
https://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do#/facility/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-09-20-edition/",https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924001446
2024.05.08,2,Emergency room visits.,"The CDC’s National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, conducted annually since 1992, is based on patient records from a strategic sample of emergency department visits in “noninstitutional general and short-stay hospitals”. Its public, anonymized data indicate the patient’s time of arrival, length of wait, and length of visit; the their demographic information, vital signs, and reasons for visiting; the hospital’s diagnoses, medications given, tests and procedures conducted; and much more. The most recent release includes 16,000+ visits that occurred in 2021. As seen in: “Grabbing the NHAMCS emergency room data in python,” a blog post by Andrew P. Wheeler.","https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/about_ahcd.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/datasets_documentation_related.htm
https://andrewpwheeler.com/2024/03/30/grabbing-the-nhamcs-emergency-room-data-in-python/
https://andrewpwheeler.com/about/",
2024.05.08,3,Global entrepreneurship.,"The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, active since 1999, considers itself “the world’s foremost study of entrepreneurship.” A collaboration between Babson College and the London Business School, the project publishes national and response-level data from two main surveys. The Adult Population Survey, answered over the years by millions of respondents around the world, examines “the characteristics, motivations and ambitions of individuals starting businesses, as well as social attitudes towards entrepreneurship.” The National Expert Survey, meanwhile, assesses factors such as access to financing, physical infrastructure, and government support.","https://www.gemconsortium.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babson_College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Business_School
https://www.gemconsortium.org/data
https://www.gemconsortium.org/data/sets?id=aps
https://www.gemconsortium.org/data/sets?id=nes
https://www.gemconsortium.org/wiki/1154",
2024.05.08,4,Video gaming layoffs.,"Game Industry Layoffs, run by @dekaf, lists known staffing cuts at video game studios, publishers, and related companies. Each entry provides the company’s name, type, parent company (for subsidiaries), layoff date, estimated number of employees laid off, and source link. In 2023, the site tallied 10,000+ employees affected by 170+ layoffs; in 2024 so far, the employee count is already nearly that high, spread across ~100 layoffs.  As seen in: “Visualizing Games Industry Layoffs,” by Ben Oldenburg. [h/t Vivien Serve]","https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/
https://twitter.com/dekaf
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Misc/About+%26+Contact
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2023
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2024
https://observablehq.com/@benoldenburg/visualizing-games-industry-layoffs
https://oldenburg.design",https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-march-26-2024/
2024.05.08,5,Poisonous book bindings.,"As recently as the 1800s, green pigments containing arsenic were in fairly wide use. The Arsenical Books Database — part of the Winterthur Museum and the University of Delaware’s Poison Book Project — has identified hundreds of examples of 19th-century books that used these colorants in their covers and other binding components. The database lists each book’s title, author, imprint, publication year, arsenical material, testing method, and owner. [h/t Tom Merritt Smith]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_Green
https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/arsenical-books-database/
https://www.winterthur.org/
https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/",https://tmerrittsmith.github.io/
2024.05.15,1,Unaccompanied migrant children.,"The New York Times’ Hannah Dreier was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last week for a “series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States—and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it.” That reporting, Dreier has noted, was partly driven by data she obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services via a FOIA request and lawsuit. The dataset, published in December along with visualizations, describes the placement of 550,000+ unaccompanied migrant children with local sponsors between January 2015 and May 2023: each child’s country of origin, gender, date of entry, and date of release to a sponsor, plus the sponsor’s ZIP code and relationship to the child. Read more: “The data pointed to spots I never would have thought of: Flandreau, South Dakota; Parksley, Virginia; Bozeman, Montana,” Dreier says.","https://www.hannahdreier.com/
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/hannah-dreier-new-york-times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/insider/searching-for-the-faces-of-child-migrant-labor.html
https://github.com/nytimes/hhs-child-migrant-data
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/28/us/migrants-children-data.html
https://journalistsresource.org/media/migrant-children-labor-abuse-goldmith/",
2024.05.15,2,Greenhouse gas giants.,"Carbon Majors, run by the UK-based InfluenceMap, “is a database of historical production data from 122 of the world’s largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers.” It attributes to these producers 1,421 metric gigatons of CO2-equivalent emissions from 1854 through 2022. Launched last month, the database provides downloads at several levels of granularity. The least granular version indicates the emissions calculated for each entity-year combination. The most granular version breaks those emissions down by commodity produced, quantity of commodity produced, emitting activity, and reporting entity.","https://carbonmajors.org/
https://influencemap.org/
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary:Carbon_dioxide_equivalent
https://carbonmajors.org/briefing/The-Carbon-Majors-Database-26913
https://carbonmajors.org/Downloads",
2024.05.15,3,1 million ChatGPT conversations.,"The WildChat Dataset, constructed by Wenting Zhao et al., “is a corpus of 1 million real-world user-ChatGPT interactions, characterized by a wide range of languages and a diversity of user prompts.” The researchers, primarily affiliated with Cornell and the Allen Institute for AI, built it “by offering free access to ChatGPT and GPT-4 in exchange for consensual chat history collection.” Each of the 1 million rows in the dataset represents a conversation and provides its text, main language, timestamp of its conclusion, underlying model used, moderation results, inferred country, and more. [h/t Data Machina]","https://wildchat.allen.ai/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01470
https://allenai.org/
https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/WildChat-1M",https://datamachina.substack.com/p/data-machina-251-aed
2024.05.15,4,England sewage discharge.,"The UK’s Environment Agency collects data from utility companies regarding sewage-discharging storm overflows in England. The records, available for 2020–2023, list every reported overflow event, its timing and location, number of detected discharges, discharge points, and much more. Related: Wales overflow data are available from other sources. As seen in: Maps from The Rivers Trust, Surfers Against Sewage, and The Guardian. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo + James Cheshire + Hugh Graham]","https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/21e15f12-0df8-4bfc-b763-45226c16a8ac
https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/about-us/ofwat-and-the-environment/pollution-and-water-quality/storm-overflows-explainer/
https://corporate.dwrcymru.com/en/community/environment/event-duration-monitoring
https://www.hdcymru.co.uk/regulatory-library/regulatory-library/
https://theriverstrust.org/sewage-map
https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/sewage-pollution-alerts/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/mar/27/englands-sewage-crisis-how-polluted-is-your-local-river-and-which-regions-are-worst-hit","https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/558-quantum-of-sollazzo/
https://nightingaledvs.com/sewage-alerts-the-long-history-of-using-maps-to-hold-water-companies-to-account/
https://twitter.com/hughagraham/status/1454025196940181504"
2024.05.15,5,Los Angeles street trees.,"Journalist Matt Stiles has been using public records requests and official portals to compile data on 1.6 million street trees in 40+ Los Angeles County municipalities. The information varies by city but generally includes the tree’s coordinates and species, often also with measurements such as height and trunk diameter. Previously: Street trees in DIP 2022.09.07, DIP 2020.11.18, DIP 2018.08.08, and DIP 2016.11.16.","https://mattstiles.me/
https://github.com/stiles/la-trees
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-09-07-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-11-18-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-08-08-edition/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-11-16-edition/",
2024.05.22,1,Federal court dockets.,"Journalist Matt Clark has compiled a database of more than 350 million docket entries across more than 13 million cases in 180+ federal courts — including the majority of district, appellate, and bankruptcy courts. The records, which Clark collected through the RSS feeds that many federal courts provide, span 2013 to the near-present. Clark’s downloadable database provides information about each docket entry (time filed, entry number, description, and URL), case (number, name, type, and URL), and court. Although the database does not include the docketed documents themselves, they can be retrieved via PACER and the free RECAP archive, among other sources.","https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-clark-3324896/
https://archive.org/details/federal-court-dockets
https://pacer.uscourts.gov/help/faqs/how-can-i-receive-case-alerts-using-rss-feed
https://archive.org/download/federal-court-dockets
https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/how-to-read-a-docket-latest/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACER_(law)
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/
https://law.gwu.libguides.com/dockets",
2024.05.22,2,Amazon purchases.,"The MIT Media Lab’s Alex Berke et al. have compiled “a first-of-its-kind dataset containing detailed purchase histories from 5027 U.S. Amazon.com consumers, spanning 2018 through 2022, with more than 1.8 million purchases […] crowdsourced through an online survey and shared with participants’ informed consent.” The published data include “order date, product code, title, price, quantity, and shipping address state,” and are “linked to survey data with information about participants’ demographics, lifestyle, and health.” The researchers found that a stratified subsample of the data demonstrated “expected seasonal trends and strong relationships to other public datasets.” [h/t Data Science Community Newsletter]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03329-6
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13172
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/YGLYDY
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03329-6#Sec13",https://mailchi.mp/academicdatascience/dscn-17378990
2024.05.22,3,Security Council resolutions.,"Seán Fobbe et al.’s Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council “collects and presents for the first time in human and machine-readable form all resolutions, drafts, and meeting records of the UN Security Council, including detailed metadata, as published by the UN Digital Library and revised by the authors.” It covers all 2,700+ resolutions from the council’s founding in 1946 through early 2024. In addition to providing the texts all six official UN languages, the dataset includes each resolution’s title, date, council votes, related meeting number, meeting transcript, keywords, countries of focus, and more. An auxiliary dataset represents the corpus’s internal citations as a directed graph. [h/t Sharon Machlis]","https://www.seanfobbe.com/posts/2024-05-06_new-dataset-corpus-of-resolutions-un-security-council/
https://zenodo.org/records/11212056
https://digitallibrary.un.org/
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/resolutions-0
https://www.seanfobbe.com/posts/2024-05-14_complete-citation-network-un-security-council-published/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_graph",https://masto.machlis.com/@smach
2024.05.22,4,Satellite-aided rescues.,"NOAA’s Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) program is part of an international collaboration to locate distress beacons activated (manually or automatically) by mariners, aviators, and wilderness explorers. The agency publishes annual maps of SARSAT-enabled rescues, along with data for the most recent year-plus. NOAA has also provided Data Is Plural with data for 2016–2022. The maps and data files contain each rescue’s date, category, description, beacon type, coordinates, and number of people saved. [h/t Dan Brady]","https://www.noaa.gov/
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/cospas-sarsat-system-overview/
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/emergency-406-beacons/
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/sarsat-us-rescues/
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9383e21a28f24135912aeecb0d2524bd
https://github.com/data-is-plural/sarsat-historical-rescues",
2024.05.22,5,France and Italy’s protected wines.,"Sebastian Candiago et al. have assembled a dataset of 5,400+ Italian and French wines granted Protected Designation of Origin status, restricting their production to specific geographies and methods. For each wine, the dataset lists its name, country, designated area, color, category, grape varieties used, maximum allowed yields, registration date, and more. Previously: Protected European ham and the EU’s register of protected indications (DIP 2023.05.24).","https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924003779
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Quality_wines_in_Italy_and_France_a_dataset_of_protected_designation_of_origin_specifications/25393261
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_designation_of_origin
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2023.2187365
https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/eambrosia/geographical-indications-register/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-05-24-edition/",
2024.06.12,1,Interest group positions.,"Galen Hall et al. have compiled a dataset of “over 13 million policy positions stated by tens of thousands of interest groups and individuals on bills in 17 state legislatures  over the past 25 years.” The authors collected and standardized the data, which span 1997 to 2022, from lobbying and testimony disclosures. For each of those positions, the dataset indicates the relevant bill, client or individual represented, representative name, position phrase (for, against, monitoring, undecided, etc.), the date the position was reported, and more. It also provides details about each bill from Legiscan and the National Conference of State Legislatures, as well as client-industry categorizations from FollowTheMoney.org.","https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/state-politics-and-policy-quarterly/article/chorus-a-new-dataset-of-state-interest-group-policy-positions-in-the-united-states/6827DC9EC72301016894F265777C0078
https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/RPU1QP
https://github.com/galenphall/chorus_data/blob/main/CODEBOOK.md
https://legiscan.com/datasets
https://www.ncsl.org/
https://www.followthemoney.org/",
2024.06.12,2,State tax revenues.,"How much money do US states collect through different types of taxes? The Census Bureau’s Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue provides these figures every three months, going back decades. The categories include taxes on property, income, general sales, sales of specific products (such as tobacco, alcohol, gas, and gambling), licenses, and more. For several years now, the agency has also published monthly data for a subset of those taxes. As seen in: “Which states make the most from sports betting? What about lotteries?” by the Washington Post’s Andrew Van Dam. Previously: The Census’s Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances (DIP 2020.11.18).","https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/qtax.html
https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products/selected-monthly-state-sales-tax-collections.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/07/sports-betting-lottery-state-budgets/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/andrew-van-dam/
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/gov-finances.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-11-18-edition/",
2024.06.12,3,NYC shelter exits.,"A 2022 law requires New York City to report the monthly number of individuals and families exiting the city’s shelter system. Unfortunately, the city publishes those reports only as PDFs and without a historical archive. Patrick Spauster has built a pipeline to download and preserve the reports, and to turn them into structured data. For each month since May 2023, each row indicates the number of exits for a particular city agency, family/person category, and destination type. The latter includes various kinds of permanent housing, transitional housing, medical facilities, as well as “unknown.” Read more: Spauster’s analysis of the data for City Limits. Previously: NYC shelter counts (DIP 2023.12.13).","https://patrickspauster.com/
https://github.com/pspauster/shelter-exits
https://github.com/pspauster/shelter-exits/tree/master/temporary_housing_reports
https://github.com/pspauster/shelter-exits/tree/master/data
https://citylimits.org/2024/05/14/exit-unknown-where-do-people-go-after-leaving-nyc-homeless-shelters/
https://github.com/anesta95/nyc_shelter_count
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-12-13-edition/",
2024.06.12,4,English women’s football.,"The English Women’s Football Database “covers all matches played since the 2011 season for the highest division (the Women’s Super League) and since the 2014 season for the second-highest division (the Women’s Championship).” The project, built by Rob Clapp, lists the date, teams, score, attendance, division, tier, and season of each match, as well as each season’s final standings. Previously: Josh Fjelstul’s English Football Database (DIP 2023.02.01), which Clapp cites as inspiration.","https://github.com/probjects/ewf-database
https://x.com/rob_clapp
http://www.joshuafjelstul.com/
https://github.com/jfjelstul/englishfootball
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-02-01-edition/",
2024.06.12,5,Sudoku solves.,"In the spirit of introspection, Sudoku enthusiast Vivek Rao has conducted a detailed analysis of his cell-by-cell performance on 100 puzzles from the New York Times’ daily offerings. The underlying data, collected via a custom browser extension that Rao built, indicates the order and timing of every cell he filled.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
https://vivrao9.github.io/
https://vivrao9.github.io/nyt-sudoku/
https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/sudoku
https://github.com/vivrao9/nyt-sudoku/blob/master/data-collection/doks_performance.csv",
2024.06.26,1,Supreme gifts.,"Fix the Court is a nonprofit that “advocates for non-ideological ‘fixes’ that would make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more open and more accountable to the American people.” Earlier this month, they published a series of spreadsheets tallying 500+ gifts accepted by the Supreme Court’s justices since 2000, with an estimated total value of $4.76 million. The findings “are largely based on last year’s groundbreaking work by ProPublica and includes data from stories in the New York Times, L.A. Times, the congressional record, annual disclosures,” and Fix the Court’s own work. The data indicate each gift’s year, recipient, description, giver, value, and the source of information. Previously: The Free Law Project’s database of federal judges’ financial disclosures (DIP 2021.10.20). Related: ProPublica’s interactive database of the current justices’ disclosures.","https://fixthecourt.com/about-us/
https://fixthecourt.com/2024/06/a-staggering-tally-supreme-court-justices-accepted-hundreds-of-gifts-worth-millions-of-dollars/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14l25NLvBOd9sk4mArK4k7dtV0MUwxr5GBuLHL5Sp8lo/edit
https://free.law/
https://free.law/2021/10/15/financial-disclosures-now-available-to-all-on-courtlistener
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-10-20-edition/
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/",
2024.06.26,2,Internet politics.,"The Digital Society Project, founded in 2018 as a collaboration with the Varieties of Democracy initiative (DIP 2019.04.24), “aims to answer some of the most important questions surrounding interactions between the internet and politics.” To do so, they conduct surveys of experts and ask them questions such as: “How often does the government shut down domestic access to the Internet?” and “How often do domestic elites use social media to organize offline political action of any kind?” The survey’s downloadable datasets cover 170+ countries and provide aggregate metrics for each question. [h/t Donata Columbro]","https://digitalsocietyproject.org/
https://www.v-dem.net/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-04-24-edition/
https://digitalsocietyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSP-Codebook-v6.pdf
https://digitalsocietyproject.org/data/",https://www.tispiegoildato.it/p/le-raccomandazioni-algoritmiche-delle
2024.06.26,3,Federal rural investment.,"The Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development agency runs dozens of financial assistance programs to support housing, business, community facilities, telecommunications, and other developments in less populated areas of the United States. The agency’s data gateway, launched last year, provides dashboards and downloads tracking these loans, loan guarantees, and grants going back to fiscal year 2012. At their most granular, the data describe each investment’s type, amount, program, sector, ZIP code, city, state, and more. [h/t James Barham]","https://www.rd.usda.gov/
https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services
https://www.rd.usda.gov/rural-data-gateway
https://www.rd.usda.gov/newsroom/news-release/usda-launches-rural-data-gateway-strengthen-partnerships-and-expand-access-resources-people-rural-1
https://www.rd.usda.gov/rural-data-gateway/rural-investments
https://www.rd.usda.gov/rural-data-gateway/rural-investments/data
https://www.rd.usda.gov/media/file/download/opendatadashboard-dictionarypdf",
2024.06.26,4,Fish-spawning areas.,"Kimberly L. Oremus et al. have constructed a geospatial dataset that indicates the spawning locations and timing for 1,000+ saltwater fish in 2,900+ marine regions around the world. The authors primarily sourced — and then geocoded — the records from FishBase (an initiative providing data on the habitats, body shapes, and other characteristics of 35,000+ fish species) and the database of Science and Conservation of Fish Aggregations (a nonprofit that focuses on massive reproductive gatherings of fish).","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03348-3
https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/home.php
https://www.scrfa.org/database/
https://www.scrfa.org/about/what-is-scfra/",
2024.06.26,5,Broadway attendance.,"The Broadway League’s Internet Broadway Database lets you search the famed industry’s theaters, shows, casts and staff, awards, and more. It also publishes charts and structured tables of weekly attendance and ticket revenue, additionally available for individual shows. The League itself also publishes show-level statistics. [h/t Millie Giles]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broadway_League
https://www.ibdb.com/
https://www.ibdb.com/theatres/
https://www.ibdb.com/shows/
https://www.ibdb.com/cast-staff/
https://www.ibdb.com/awards/
https://www.ibdb.com/statistics/
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/stereophonic-538690#Statistics
https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/grosses-broadway-nyc/",https://sherwood.news/culture/broadway-attendance-nears-pre-pandemic-levels/
2024.07.03,1,Historical newswire articles.,"Emily Silcock et al. have created Newswire, a dataset of 2.7 million newswire articles published in the US between 1878 and 1977. To build it, they extracted 138 million articles from scans of newspapers’ front pages and then used machine learning to group those coming “from the same underlying newswire source article, in the presence of significant abridgement and noise.” For each detected newswire item, the dataset lists the newspapers that carried it, dates published, the text of a representative version, its extracted byline, dispatch location, people mentioned in the text, general topic, and more. Previously: American Stories (DIP 2023.09.13), a dataset of historical newspaper articles — also from Melissa Dell’s research group. [h/t Robin Sloan]","https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09490
https://huggingface.co/datasets/dell-research-harvard/newswire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-09-13-edition/
https://huggingface.co/datasets/dell-research-harvard/AmericanStories
https://dell-research-harvard.github.io/",https://www.robinsloan.com/
2024.07.03,2,Death penalty status by country.,"The Comparative Death Penalty Database, compiled by Carsten Anckar and Thomas Denk, tracks the status of capital punishment in 206 independent countries annually from 1800 to 2022. It places each observation into one of five categories, indicating whether the death penalty is: (a) fully abolished, (b) abolished “for ordinary crimes only,” (c) abolished for “for ordinary crimes only but where at least one execution has occurred in the last 10 years,” (d) de facto abolished, or (e) still in use. Previously: The Death Penalty Information Center’s database of US executions (DIP 2019.05.15); data on death sentences from The Intercept (DIP 2019.12.11) and from Brandon L. Garrett (DIP 2018.08.01).","https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LI3WYK
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41304-024-00491-8
https://research.abo.fi/en/persons/carsten-anckar
https://www.oru.se/english/employee/thomas_denk
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/database/executions
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-05-15-edition/
https://github.com/theintercept/the-condemned-data
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-12-11-edition/
https://endofitsrope.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-08-01-edition/",
2024.07.03,3,Beach replenishment.,"The Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University maintains a database of 2,500+ beach-replenishing efforts since the 1920s. The project is “a 25-year research and data collection effort that, to the best of our knowledge, represents the most comprehensive compilation of beach nourishment history in the United States.” For each sand-adding “episode,” the dataset indicates its location, year completed, sand volume, length of shoreline treated, total cost, primary type of funding source (private, federal, state, etc.), and justification (shore protection, navigation, emergency dune construction, etc.). As seen in: “Sand Dollars,” by CBS News Investigations.","https://psds.wcu.edu/
https://beachnourishment.wcu.edu/
https://beachnourishment.wcu.edu/about
https://beachnourishment.wcu.edu/glossary
https://www.cbsnews.com/beach-nourishment/",
2024.07.03,4,Hurricane forecast accuracy.,"The National Hurricane Center says it “receives frequent inquiries on the accuracy and skill of its forecasts and of the computer models available to it.” To help answer those questions, the agency publishes a series of regularly-updated verification reports, as well as a database quantifying its forecast errors. For each official projection since 1970, the database compares each storm’s predicted location and wind speed to those attributes’ ultimate values. As seen in: “The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts,” a study by Renato Molina and Ivan Rudik.","https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/index.shtml
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/verify7.shtml
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/verify2.shtml
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/sqtjr
https://renatomolinah.com/
https://ivanrudik.com/",
2024.07.03,5,UK film stats.,"The British Film Institute publishes a variety of statistical reports, including spreadsheets of weekend box office figures. Those spreadsheets cover each weekend’s 15 highest-grossing films, all UK-originated films, and other newly-released films; they list each film’s title, country of origin, distributor, cinema count, weekend gross, total gross to date, and more. [h/t Gina Acosta Gutiérrez]","https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights
https://www.bfi.org.uk/industry-data-insights/weekend-box-office-figures",https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ginacostag_data-python-datascience-activity-7207721010815483904-XIc6/
2024.07.10,1,Federal inmate complaints.,"The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Administrative Remedy Program “allow[s] an inmate to seek formal review of an issue relating to any aspect of his/her own confinement.” In October 2022, the Data Liberation Project (which, disclosure, I run) filed a FOIA request seeking records from the agency database that tracks those complaints. In response, BOP last month provided data on 1.78 million complaint and appeal submissions filed from January 2000 through late May 2024, spanning nearly 1 million distinct cases. The records, published yesterday with the help of volunteers, indicate when each filing was received, its relevant case number, complaint subject, facility where the issue occurred, case status, status update date, reasons for rejection/closure, and other details.","https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/1330_018.pdf
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints/
https://buttondown.email/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-16/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTuyUFNqS9tex4_s4PgmhF8RTvTb-uFMN5ElDjjVHTM/edit",
2024.07.10,2,Corporate AI activity.,"The Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset, from Georgetown University’s Emerging Technology Observatory, provides “a diverse range of indicators of AI-related activity for hundreds of companies worldwide, from startups to multinationals.” For each of the 670+ companies included, the dataset counts the number of AI-related research articles published by its employees (disaggregated by topic), AI-related patents filed (by application area and use-case), and workforce (overall and those estimated to be AI-involved). It also lists each company’s main location, sector, growth stage, and description, as well as aliases, stock listings, and identifiers in several external data sources. See also: An interactive version of the database. [h/t Zach Arnold]","https://eto.tech/dataset-docs/private-sector-ai-indicators/
https://eto.tech/
https://zenodo.org/records/12520760
https://parat.eto.tech/",https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/zachary-arnold/
2024.07.10,3,East Asia building outlines.,"Recent years have seen the development of ambitious datasets that provide the outlines of buildings by the millions. For instance, from the archives: buildings in the US (DIP 2018.07.18), Africa (DIP 2021.08.25), and Canada and New Zealand (DIP 2019.09.25). In the Journal of Remote Sensing, however, Qian Shi et al. note a relative lack of such data for buildings in East Asia, which the authors attribute “to the more complex distribution of buildings and the scarcity of auxiliary data”. As an antidote, they’ve generated a dataset that outlines more than 280 million buildings in 2,800+ cities across China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Mongolia.","https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-07-18-edition/
https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-08-25-edition/
https://github.com/Microsoft/CanadianBuildingFootprints
https://medium.com/on-location/an-open-building-outlines-dataset-for-new-zealand-eef8b558ef7a
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-09-25-edition/
https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/remotesensing.0138
https://zenodo.org/records/8174931",
2024.07.10,4,US coral reefs.,"The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program collects scientific and socioeconomic/attitude survey data related to the coral reefs offshore of the continental United States, Hawaii, and US territories. It provides the data through public visualizations as well as download tools and raw files. The scientific data include species-level coral cover, colony density, bleaching prevalence, and disease rates; fish populations; water alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon levels; and more. [h/t Gary Price]","https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
https://ncrmp-visualization-tool-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/
https://ncrmp.coralreef.noaa.gov/pages/Data%20Download
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/data_atlantic.html
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/data_pacific.html
https://ncrmp.coralreef.noaa.gov/pages/ncrmp-data",https://www.infodocket.com/2023/11/26/science-noaa-unveils-new-data-visualization-tool-for-exploring-coral-reef-data/
2024.07.10,5,Ancient shipwrecks.,"The Summary Geodatabase of Shipwrecks 1500BCE-1500CE merges two catalogs of ancient wrecks: one from the Oxford Roman Economy Project and one from Harvard’s Mapping Past Societies project. Building on scholarly research by Toby Parker, Julia Strauss, and others, the combined effort includes 1,900+ known wrecks, listing (where known) their coordinates, depth, estimated time period when wrecked, year discovered, cargo, and more.","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11fk5YeQ4eFOnYSBNpUdHp4TP42gJ7wY5/edit?gid=970169931#gid=970169931
https://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/shipwrecks_database/
https://darmc.harvard.edu/data-availability
https://doi.org/10.2307/300882
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1349806/",
2024.07.24,1,"News homepages, archived.","Since launching in March 2022, homepages.news has archived millions of screenshots, performance audits, robots.txt files, accessibility trees, and hyperlink lists from the homepages of 1,100+ news sites. The open-source project, run by journalist Ben Welsh, provides bulk data for each of those assets. The screenshots themselves are stored on the Internet Archive; you can also view the latest screenshots from all the sites on one page. To date, the publications span 32 countries and 17 languages. Related: Welsh and volunteer Alex Garcia are using the robots.txt data to track which sites block OpenAI, Google AI, and Common Crawl — findings that have been cited widely.","https://homepages.news/
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/status-report.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/sources.html
https://github.com/palewire/news-homepages/
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/extracts.html
https://archive.org/details/news-homepages
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/latest.html
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/countries.html
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/languages.html
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/111046697091347911
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/extracts.html#robotstxt-sample-csv
https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/openai-gptbot-robotstxt.html
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/can-journalism-survive-ai/
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-many-news-websites-block-ai-crawlers
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/111663536216388030",
2024.07.24,2,Human rights scores.,"The CIRIGHTS project aims “to create numerical measures for every internationally recognized human right for all countries of the world.” The team has developed a detailed guide to scoring each government’s record on dozens of such rights, such as freedom of religion, women’s political rights, freedom from extrajudicial killings, the right to a fair trial, and “reasonable limits” on working hours. For each year from 1981 to 2021, the project’s scorers have rated each country on each right, generally on a three-point scale, based on information in the US State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Amnesty International’s annual reports, and similar sources. The resulting dataset includes those scores, as well as several summary metrics.","https://cirights.com/
https://cirights.com/learn-about-the-cirights-project/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4625036
https://cirights.com/rights-we-score/
https://www.state.gov/reports-bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/annual-report-archive/",
2024.07.24,3,Commercial zones.,"Byeonghwa Jeong et al. have constructed a dataset estimating the geographic boundaries of 23,000+ commercial zones in 69 metro areas in the US and Canada. To build it, they used data on retail and office locations from OpenStreetMap, and on job density from the US Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program (DIP 2021.05.26) and Statistics Canada. For each detected commercial zone, the dataset provides its outline, total area, a score of its relative concentration (on which the zone comprising most of Manhattan scored the highest), its MSA, and the street at its centroid.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03275-3
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Commercial_Boundary/24654309/4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03275-3/tables/1
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-05-26-edition/
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dt-td/Index-eng.cfm?APATH=3&FL=A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area",
2024.07.24,4,National park species.,"The National Park Service’s NPSpecies portal “documents our knowledge about the occurrence and status of species” on the agency’s lands. For each NPS-managed area, you can download a list of the species, their scientific and common names, occurrence status (present, probably present, unconfirmed), nativeness, conservation status, and more. Related: Noting that “many of the observations in NPSpecies remain unverified and the lists are often outdated,” Benjamin J. LaFrance et al. have created an updated dataset for amphibian species, which they checked against other sources and verified with regional experts.","https://irma.nps.gov/NPSpecies/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02836-2
https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2301647",
2024.07.24,5,Australia shipwrecks.,"The Western Australia Museum hosts a range of datasets, including details concerning 1,600+ local shipwrecks and 30,000+ artifacts recovered from them. The shipwreck dataset lists each ship’s builder, construction materials, owner, cargo, wreck location, date wrecked, known deaths, date found, and more. Previously: Ancient shipwrecks (DIP 2024.07.10). [h/t Kristin Milton]","https://data.museum.wa.gov.au/
https://data.museum.wa.gov.au/search/type/dataset
https://data.museum.wa.gov.au/dataset/maritime-archaeology
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11fk5YeQ4eFOnYSBNpUdHp4TP42gJ7wY5/edit?gid=970169931#gid=970169931
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2024-07-10-edition/",http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-milton-8480389
2024.07.31,1,Ballots cast.,"“Electronic records of actual ballots cast (cast vote records) are available to the public in some jurisdictions,” Shiro Kuriwaki et al. write. “However, they have been released in a variety of formats and have not been independently evaluated.” So the researchers have constructed a standardized dataset representing 40.7 million (anonymous) ballots in the November 2020 general election, spanning 352 counties across 20 states. Each of the 160 million rows corresponds to a voter’s choice in a particular race and indicates the precinct, legislative district, office in question, candidate selected, and candidate’s party. The initial release, which the authors use to analyze ticket-splitting patterns, covers votes for president, Senate, House, governor, and state legislature. [h/t Derek Willis]","https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=10404813&version=1.0
https://github.com/kuriwaki/cvr_harvard-mit_scripts
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/PQQ3KV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-ticket_voting
https://x.com/shirokuriwaki/status/1816213954194202733",https://thescoop.org/
2024.07.31,2,Hurricane evacuation orders.,"Harsh Anand et al.’s Hurricane Evacuation Order Database “is a comprehensive and standardized database of evacuation orders issued by state and local government officials in response to the hurricanes that impacted the United States between 2014 and 2023.” To build it, the authors combed through government websites, official social media, news reports, and other sources. The database covers 27 storms and several types of announcements: state-of-emergency declarations, mandatory evacuations, voluntary evacuations, and the lifting of those orders. For each announcement, the database indicates the order type, date/time announced, date/time effective, counties affected, and evacuation area.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03100-x
https://www.hurrevacorder.info/",
2024.07.31,3,"Scholarship, networked.","OpenAlex, “a free and open catalog of the global research system,” has compiled data on more than 250 million scholarly works — and has linked those works to structured information about their authors, institutions, publishers, funders, topics. The data are available to search online, to download in bulk, and via API. As seen in: Aliakbar Akbaritabar et al.’s “Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020” and Philippe Mongeon et al.’s dataset of scholars’ Twitter/X usernames.","https://openalex.org/
https://docs.openalex.org/
https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/authors
https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/institutions
https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/publishers
https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/funders
https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/topics
https://docs.openalex.org/download-all-data/openalex-snapshot
https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/api-overview
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03655-9
https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/4/2/314/115151/An-open-data-set-of-scholars-on-Twitter
https://zenodo.org/records/10905839",
2024.07.31,4,People surveyed since 1979.,"The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ NLSY79 survey has interviewed the same people dozens of times since 1979. It began with a “nationally representative sample of 12,686 young men and women”; more than four decades later, 6,000+ interviewees are still responding to the project’s biennial inquiries. The survey asks about a range of topics, including education, employment, health, dating, marriage, children, attitudes, and substance abuse. Public-use data are available to download and through the agency’s NLS Investigator tool. Related: The agency’s other national longitudinal surveys. [h/t Prashant Bharadwaj et al.]","https://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy79.htm
https://www.nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy79/intro-to-the-sample/retention-reasons-noninterview
https://www.nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy79/topical-guide
https://www.bls.gov/nls/getting-started/accessing-data.htm
https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/home
https://www.bls.gov/nls/",https://www.nber.org/papers/w32562
2024.07.31,5,Wait Wait.,"Linh Pham considers himself “the unofficial scorekeeper” of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, NPR’s weekly quiz show. Since 2007, he’s been maintaining a structured database that describes Wait Wait’s episodes, venues, hosts, guests, panelists, and more. Pham provides the data via API, and also publishes charts and automated reports, such this list of panelists who won their debut appearances. [h/t Cody Winchester]","https://blog.linh.social/about/
https://waitwait.npr.org/
https://stats.wwdt.me/site-history
https://stats.wwdt.me/
https://stats.wwdt.me/shows/
https://stats.wwdt.me/locations/
https://stats.wwdt.me/hosts/
https://stats.wwdt.me/guests/
https://stats.wwdt.me/panelists/
https://api.wwdt.me/v2.0/docs
https://graphs.wwdt.me/
https://reports.wwdt.me/
https://reports.wwdt.me/panelists/first-appearance-wins",https://codywinchester.com/
2024.08.07,1,State/local government employment.,"Every year, the Census Bureau sends its Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll to all 50 state governments and 90,000+ local governments, requesting employee counts and payroll totals. The survey’s public datasets provide those figures for each government unit, broken down by several dozen “functional categories” (such as “Highways”, “Financial Administration”, and “Hospitals”). As seen in: The Marshall Project’s guide to using the data to examine declines in prison staffing, part of the organization’s new Investigate This! initiative; they’ve also aggregated the raw records into a spreadsheet of annual state totals. [h/t David Eads]","https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/apes.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/apes/technical-documentation/methodology/annual/2023.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/apes/data/datasetstables.html
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/07/25/how-to-investigate-the-trend-of-declining-prison-staff-and-deteriorating-conditions-behind-bars
https://www.themarshallproject.org/investigate-this
https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/census-labor-data-release",https://www.themarshallproject.org/staff/david-eads
2024.08.07,2,Railroad incidents.,"Since last August, the Federal Railroad Administration has been rolling out a new portal for its safety data. Through it, you can find datasets on incidents and accidents involving railroad equipment, incidents at grade crossings, and reported injuries and illnesses, as well as dashboards and reports on related topics. The grade crossing dataset, for instance, lists 246,000+ incidents since 1975; it indicates each incident’s date, railroad, crossing identifier, nearest station, number of injuries, vehicle and train speeds, and much more. Previously: Blocked rail crossings (DIP 2023.05.10).","https://railroads.dot.gov/
https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/FRA-Safety-Data/dakf-i7zd
https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Railroad-Equipment-Accident-Incident-Source-Data-F/aqxq-n5hy/about_data
https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Highway-Rail-Grade-Crossing-Accident-Incident-Sour/icqf-xf4w/about_data
https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Injury-Illness-Summary-Operational-Source-Data-For/unww-uhxd/about_data
https://www.fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings/incidents
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-05-10-edition/",
2024.08.07,3,Ireland’s gender pay gaps.,"Ireland’s Gender Pay Gap Information Act requires certain-sized companies to report their differences pay for men versus women. “While plans are in place to create a central portal (similar to that in the UK) to collate this information, such a database does not exist yet,” writes Jennifer Keane, who has built PayGap.ie to fill the void. For each company and year, the project’s database lists the metrics the Act requires — mean and median hourly pay gaps, percentages of men and women paid bonuses, proportion of employees in each pay quartile for each gender, among others — plus a link to the company’s public report.","https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/29606-what-is-the-gender-pay-gap-information-act-2021/
http://www.jenniferkeane.ie/
https://paygap.ie/
https://paygap.ie/downloads",
2024.08.07,4,Weather balloons.,"When a weather balloon rises into the atmosphere, it carries a radiosonde to record the temperature, pressure, wind speed, humidity, and other measurements. NOAA’s Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive “consists of radiosonde and pilot balloon observations from more than 2,800 globally distributed stations,” some dating back to the early 1900s. SondeHub, meanwhile, tracks hundreds of weather balloons a day in real-time, thanks to a community-run network of 1,400+ receiver stations. You can browse the flight paths and detailed measurements online, and access the data via download and API. [h/t Michael Allen]","https://www.weather.gov/chs/upperair
https://www.weather.gov/upperair/factsheet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosonde
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-balloon/integrated-global-radiosonde-archive
https://sondehub.org
https://github.com/projecthorus/sondehub-infra/wiki
https://github.com/projecthorus/sondehub-tracker/wiki/SondeHub-Tracker-User-Guide
https://github.com/projecthorus/sondehub-infra/wiki/Amazon-Open-Data
https://github.com/projecthorus/sondehub-infra/wiki/API-(Beta)",https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-allen-60287015b/
2024.08.07,5,Art auction sales.,"Kangsan Lee et al. have compiled a dataset of “34,200 auction sales records, including images, artists’ attributes, and market information, encompassing 590 living contemporary artists spanning 17 years (1996 to 2012) across 23 countries.” It includes the artist’s name, nationality, and birth year; the artwork’s name, year, medium, and dimensions; the auction date, house, initial estimates, and final sale price; and more. The sales information comes from Blouin, which the researchers “cross-check[ed] with publicly available auction house data at the time, such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s.”","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60957-z
https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Buying_a_Work_of_Art_or_an_Artist_Exploring_the_Impact_of_Visual_and_Social_Features_on_Art_Prices/24746268
https://www.blouinartsalesindex.com/",
2024.08.14,1,The Freedman’s Bank.,"The Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company was chartered by Congress in 1865, toward the end of the Civil War, to provide banking services to formerly enslaved Americans. “Though the bank achieved some early successes, it failed catastrophically in 1874, destroying the savings of a broad swath of newly freed black citizens,” write Malcolm Wardlaw and Virginia Traweek, who have constructed several datasets based on handwritten records preserved by the federal government. One dataset lists 5,000+ transactions from 500+ accounts’ “passbooks”, indicating the account holder, city, transaction type, date, and amount. Another lists 40,000+ accounts’ final balances at the time of the bank’s failure. Read more: Wardlaw and Traweek’s studies analyzing the records.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman%27s_Savings_Bank
https://www.malcolmwardlaw.info/
https://www.virginiatraweek.com/
https://freedmansbank.uga.edu/
https://freedmansbank.uga.edu/project/passbooks/
https://freedmansbank.uga.edu/project/dividendrecord/
https://freedmansbank.uga.edu/#publications",
2024.08.14,2,Recreational boating accidents.,"In the US, recreational boaters must notify state authorities soon after any incident involving a death, serious injury, disappearance, or substantial damage. The authorities relay those notifications to the Coast Guard, which stores them in its centralized Boating Accident Report Database. The Data Liberation Project (which, customary disclosure, I run) filed a FOIA request for the database and, earlier this week, published the records it received. The data describe 58,000+ boating accidents, 78,000+ vessels, 8,900+ deaths, and 36,000+ injuries from 2009 to 2023, although a few states and territories withheld their incidents from disclosure. Read more: The Data Liberation Project’s introductory documentation.","https://uscgboating.org/recreational-boaters/accident-reporting.php
https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsuscgpia-011-boating-accident-report-database-bard
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/
https://buttondown.com/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-17/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lk0dnACzcj3Yo6DAjZbGKf_zFYkymor5IDwNxypnZpc/edit",
2024.08.14,3,Western water rights.,"Matthew D. Lisk et al. have compiled and standardized a dataset of water rights records — key documents in the allocation of the scarce resource — in the Western United States. Drawing on raw data collected from 11 states, the harmonized dataset “provides consistent unique identifiers for each spatial unit of water management across the domain, unique identifiers for each water right record, and a consistent categorization scheme that puts each water right record into one of 7 broad use categories.” Those categories: irrigation, domestic, livestock, fish, industrial, environmental, and other. The authors have also published a set of shapefiles outlining each water management area’s boundaries.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03434-6
https://data.msdlive.org/records/dfkx0-hew78
https://data.msdlive.org/records/8y9nq-bdt52
https://data.msdlive.org/records/h79e1-k3h91
https://data.msdlive.org/records/v5ree-qj344",
2024.08.14,4,Real-time UK voter registrations.,"The UK government’s voter registration statistics dashboard updates hundreds of times per day. It provides downloadable data on the number of online applications in each five-minute interval in the past 24 hours and daily counts broken down by online vs. paper applications, age group, elector type, and nation. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance
https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/live_usage
https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/applications_breakdown
https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/applications_by_age_group
https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/applications_by_type
https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/applications_by_nation",https://buttondown.com/puntofisso/archive/569-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2024.08.14,5,Watching grass grow.,"The Jornada Experimental Range, run by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, “is one of the longest serving laboratories focused on rangelands and drylands in the world.” Located north of Las Cruces, N.M., the site has operating since the 1910s. A few years ago, Erica Christensen et al. published a dataset of grass and shrub growth within 122 one-meter-by-one-meter squares on the range from 1915 to 2016, containing roughly 200,000 observations.","https://jornada.nmsu.edu/
https://jornada.nmsu.edu/about
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3530
https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-jrn.210351004.2",
2024.08.21,1,H-1B lotteries.,"A recent Bloomberg News investigation into the US government’s annual H-1B lottery, a key step in allocating the country’s skilled-worker visas, finds that “thousands of companies got an unfair advantage by helping themselves to extra lottery tickets.” To reach those conclusions, the team “obtained data on all H-1B lottery registrations, selections, and petitions for fiscal years 2021 through 2024 after bringing a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security under the Freedom of Information Act.” They’ve shared the records, which indicate each registration’s employer, as well as the proposed beneficiary’s gender, nationality, and birth year. For registrations that led to visa petitions, the data include additional details, such as the worksite, salary, job title, and beneficiary’s field of study. [h/t Eric Fan]","https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-h1b-visa-lottery-system/
https://github.com/BloombergGraphics/2024-h1b-immigration-data",https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericfan24_every-year-a-random-drawing-determines-which-activity-7224534067688427520-QyqO/
2024.08.21,2,Multinational corporations.,"The Multinational Enterprise Information Platform, a collaboration between the OECD and the UN Statistics Division, provides publicly sourced data on the 500 multinational corporations with the largest market capitalization. Its “Global Register” dataset examines the companies’ structure, listing each subsidiary’s name, parent company, address, alternative names, and various unique identifiers. The “Digital Register” dataset lists all known web domains controlled by each company and assessments of those domains’ popularity. The platform’s “Media Monitor” feature, although not downloadable, links to news articles and other webpages mentioning the companies. [h/t Annie Burns-Pieper]","https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/oecd-unsd-multinational-enterprise-information-platform.html
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/business-stat/mne-platform/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Statistics_Division
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/the-oecd-unsd-multinational-enterprise-information-platform_b7d90a06-en.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization",https://www.linkedin.com/posts/annieburnspieper_corporatetransparency-opendata-financialcrime-activity-7224812619063324673-0HZZ/
2024.08.21,3,California residential water supply.,"Marie-Philine Gross et al.’s dataset of residential water demand and supply in California includes the monthly volumes of water produced/sold by 404 of the state’s water suppliers, covering 2013–2021. The researchers extracted, standardized, and cleaned the data from the state’s mandatory annual reports, which collect thousands of data points from each supplier. They also added contextual information, such as climatic data (monthly local precipitation, temperature, and drought severity) and each supplier’s hydrologic region.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03474-y
https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/4ec7019fe63944bf87d40d2cdfa0d686/
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/ear.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_drought_index
https://cww.water.ca.gov/regionscale",
2024.08.21,4,UK grantmakers.,"The UK Grantmaking initiative “is a unique cross-sector collaboration between” several major organizations in the field. Their downloadable dataset provides information about 12,000+ trusts, foundations, charities, and other grantmakers for financial year 2022-23, based on records from government regulators. The dataset lists each organization’s name, government-assigned ID, location, category, registration date, income, spending totals, net assets, and more. Previously: UK grants via 360Giving (DIP 2018.12.05). [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/
https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/partners/
https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/report/2024/methodology-data/#Full%20data
https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/report/2024-06/methodology-data/
https://grantnav.threesixtygiving.org/datasets/
https://www.threesixtygiving.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-12-05-edition/",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/569-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2024.08.21,5,Olympic medalists.,"The European Data Journalism Network’s Giorgio Comai has used Wikipedia and Wikidata to create a series of datasets listing the name, birth date, sex, and birthplace of Summer Olympic medalists. Comai has mapped the birthplace coordinates and, for Europe-born medalists, linked them to their NUTS regions. The project focuses on the 2024 and 2020 Summer Olympics but also provides provisional data for other recent iterations. [h/t Federico Caruso]","https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/
https://giorgiocomai.eu/
https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/
https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/2024/medalists_map.html
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/statistical-units/territorial-units-statistics
https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/2024/
https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/2020/",https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/about/
2024.09.11,1,Health and nutrition.,"Since 1999, CDC has been continuously fielding its National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, interviewing and testing approximately 5,000 people in 15 different counties each year. The survey combines “demographic, socioeconomic, dietary, and health-related questions” with an “examination component” involving “medical, dental, and physiological measurements, as well as laboratory tests administered by highly trained medical personnel.” Its public-access data files provide anonymized, respondent-level records and are currently available for surveys conducted through March 2020. As seen in: Catherine McDonough et al.’s dataset and interactive dashboard “exploring factors associated with prediabetes and diabetes mellitus among youth in the United States.”","https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/about_nhanes.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.htm
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/default.aspx
https://publichealth.jmir.org/2024/1/e53330
https://zenodo.org/records/10382740
https://rstudio-connect.hpc.mssm.edu/POND/",
2024.09.11,2,Monthly crime trends.,"The Real-Time Crime Index, launched last week by a team of crime-data analysts, presents a “sample of reported crime data from hundreds of law enforcement agencies nationwide which mimics national crime trends with as little lag and the most accuracy possible.” Framed as a supplement to the FBI’s slow-to-update official statistics, the project provides monthly and rolling 12-month totals of reported crimes (using the FBI’s UCR Part I offense categories) for the nation, individual cities, and by city population size. You can download the data and see the sources for each of the 300+ local agencies in the national sample. Read more: “The Real-Time Crime Index Shows Declining Crime in 2024,” from project co-leader Jeff Asher’s newsletter.","https://realtimecrimeindex.com/
https://jasher.substack.com/p/the-real-time-crime-index-is-live
https://www.ahdatalytics.com/about-us/
https://realtimecrimeindex.com/how-does-this-work/
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/offense-definitions
https://realtimecrimeindex.com/data/
https://ah-datalytics.github.io/rtci/list/list.html
https://jasher.substack.com/p/the-real-time-crime-index-shows-declining
https://jasher.substack.com/",
2024.09.11,3,Source code.,"Software Heritage, a nonprofit initiative collaborating with UNESCO, maintains “the largest public collection of source code in existence”: an archive tracking 20 billion source files and 4 billion code-commits from 317 million projects from a range of public software hosts (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, npm, et cetera). Its Graph Dataset, which provides access to the archive’s content and internal relationships, is available via bulk downloads and APIs. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","https://www.softwareheritage.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230722080603/https://en.unesco.org/softwareheritage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO
https://www.softwareheritage.org/faq/
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
https://github.com/
https://gitlab.com/
https://bitbucket.org/
https://www.npmjs.com/
https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-dataset/graph/index.html#swh-graph-dataset
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ctizzjwytj4sk#overview
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/#endpoint-index",https://shape-of-code.com/2024/06/02/obtaining-source-code-for-training-llms/
2024.09.11,4,Italian tax-to-charity allocations.,"Italy’s “five per thousand” program allows taxpayers to allocate 0.5% of their income tax to certain nonprofits, research institutions, and other social-benefit organizations. The country’s Ministry of Economy and Finance has published information about 2022’s beneficiaries, but initially did so only via PDFs. Earlier this year, the Liberiamoli tutti! initiative converted those PDFs into structured data that list each recipient organization’s name, tax ID, category, region, province, and municipality, number of taxpayers choosing it, and amount of money allocated. The ministry has since added structured files of its own.","https://www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/portale/elenco-complessivo-degli-enti-ammessi-in-una-o-piu-categorie-di-beneficiari
https://web.archive.org/web/20240605153105/https://www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/portale/elenco-complessivo-degli-enti-ammessi-in-una-o-piu-categorie-di-beneficiari
https://datibenecomune.substack.com/p/liberiamoli-tutti-numero-4
https://datibenecomune.substack.com/p/il-numero-zero
https://github.com/ondata/liberiamoli-tutti/tree/main/cinque_per_mille/dati",
2024.09.11,5,Snakes.,"SnakeDB — created by Sascha Steinhoff “after [he] accidentally stepped into a snake in South-East Asia” — provides downloadable data on the maximum size, fang position, pupil shape, mode of reproduction, and toxicity of thousands of species, drawn from a broad range of sources. As seen in: Oleksandra Oskyrko et al.’s ReptTraits database.","https://snakedb.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sascha-steinhoff/
https://snakedb.org/pages/about-snakedb.php
https://snakedb.org/pages/size-max.php
https://snakedb.org/pages/dentition-species.php
https://snakedb.org/pages/pupil-species.php
https://snakedb.org/pages/reproduction-species.php
https://snakedb.org/pages/ld50.php
https://snakedb.org/pages/ref-library.php
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03079-5
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/ReptTraits_a_comprehensive_database_of_ecological_traits_in_reptiles/24572683",
2024.09.18,1,Landslides.,"The US Geological Survey has released a new map of landslide susceptibility, indicating the specific areas of the country (at 90-meter resolution) that are at greatest risk of slides. The map and county-level metrics are also available as structured data. To calculate the susceptibilities, Benjamin B. Mirus et al. combined data from the agency’s 3D Elevation Program and a national landslide inventory that they updated. The latter provides the location (as a single point or more detailed boundary), timing, number of fatalities, and confidence level for 610,000+ landslides (or evidence of them) in the US since the early 1900s. The researchers also consulted data from state landslide inventories published by Idaho, Maine, North Dakota, and West Virginia.","https://www.usgs.gov/tools/us-landslide-inventory-and-susceptibility-map
https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ae120962f459434b8c904b456c82669d
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/65ccea5bd34ef4b119cb3bac
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024AV001214
https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/61f326dfd34e622189b93308
https://www.idahogeology.org/product/DD-10
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/hazards/landslides/inland/index.shtml
https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/landslides/
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2021AM/webprogram/Paper370833.html
https://wvu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=cb01c47cfa884309b4f38dcd7542f805",
2024.09.18,2,Long-run economic growth.,"The Maddison Project Database, based on the work of Angus Maddison (1926-2010), “provides information on comparative economic growth and income levels over the very long run.” Its latest release includes historical per-capita GDP estimates for 169 countries, in many cases spanning several centuries. In all, the database contains 21,000+ such estimates and another 17,000+ population estimates, drawn from hundreds of sources. Previously: The Penn World Table (DIP 2016.08.17) — “income, output, input and productivity” estimates now “covering 183 countries between 1950 and 2019” — and the Long-Term Productivity Database (DIP 2020.04.08).","https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joes.12618
https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/original-maddison
https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2023
https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-08-17-edition/
http://longtermproductivity.com/about.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-04-08-edition/",
2024.09.18,3,Alcohol consumption.,"The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s latest consumption surveillance report, published earlier this year, uses sales and shipment data to measure annual alcohol intake by beverage type (beer, wine, spirits) and state. The report and corresponding data file estimate the likely total and per-capita volumes (of the beverages and of their ethanol content) consumed each year from the 1970s through 2022. Related: Additional surveillance reports and the CDC’s list of surveys gathering data on alcohol use. [h/t Millie Giles]","https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance-reports/surveillance121
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/sites/default/files/pcyr1970-2022.txt
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance-reports
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/about-data/surveillance-surveys/index.html",https://sherwood.news/business/pernod-ricard-selling-wine-business-americans-drinking-more-spirits/
2024.09.18,4,Art words.,"The Getty Vocabularies, published by the Getty Research Institute, “contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, art conservation, and bibliographic materials.” They provide definitions, relationships, translations, and disambiguations for a broad range of terms and entities. Their Art & Architecture Thesaurus, for example, describes 57,000+ generic concepts (e.g., lithography), while others focus on artist names, cultural objects, and geographies. The records are available several ways, including bulk downloads. [h/t Lynn Cherny]","https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/index.html
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/faq.html
https://www.getty.edu/research/
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/index.html
https://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=lithography&logic=AND&note=&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300053271
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/cona/index.html
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/obtain/index.html
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/obtain/download.html",https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas
2024.09.18,5,Messi’s moves.,"StatsBomb, a soccer/football-data company, publishes a subset of its detailed, in-play data for free. Among the offerings: Every touch, pass, dribble, and shot from Lionel Messi’s 17 seasons playing for Barcelona in La Liga. Related: Carlos Menezes’s tool for visualizing StatsBomb event data files. Read more: Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution, by Ryan O’Hanlon. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://statsbomb.com/
https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data
https://statsbomb.com/what-we-do/hub/free-data/
https://statsbomb.com/news/statsbomb-release-free-messi-data-all-seasons-from-2004-05-2020-21-now-available/
https://www.carlos-menezes.com/
https://statsbomb-3d-viz.vercel.app/
https://www.ryanohanlon.com/net-gains-out-october-18
https://www.ryanohanlon.com/bio-contact",https://buttondown.com/puntofisso/archive/573-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2024.09.25,1,NYC evictions.,"New York City’s government publishes a dataset listing evictions “pending, scheduled and executed” since 2017, updated daily. The data are “compiled from the majority of New York City Marshals,” who are mayor-appointed officers tasked with enforcing civil court cases. Each of the 97,000+ rows indicates the eviction court case number, address, property type, eviction type, execution date, and marshal. Related: The city also publishes data on marshals’ annual eviction revenues. Also related: nycdb points to, and helps download, a range of NYC housing–related datasets. As seen in: “Spiking Evictions Renew Calls to Reform NYC Marshals System,” by Patrick Spauster for City Limits.","https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Evictions/6z8x-wfk4/about_data
https://www.nyc.gov/site/doi/offices/nyc-marshals.page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Marshal
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/City-Marshals-Revenue/7ewi-9cdf/about_data
https://github.com/nycdb/nycdb
https://citylimits.org/2024/08/26/spiking-evictions-renew-calls-to-reform-nyc-marshals-system/
https://patrickspauster.com/",
2024.09.25,2,Open-source weather APIs.,"Open-Meteo, an open-source project built on data from national weather services, offers a range of weather and climate APIs that are free for non-commercial use. They include weather forecasts (temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind speed, etc.), daily historical weather since 1940, climate change model outputs, marine wave forecasts, air quality assessments, and more. The project also provides bulk downloads of the underlying data and self-hosting instructions. As seen in: Jan Kühn’s Historical Meteo Graphs. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://open-meteo.com/
https://github.com/open-meteo/open-meteo
https://open-meteo.com/en/about
https://open-meteo.com/en/features#available-apis
https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing
https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/
https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/historical-weather-api
https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/climate-api
https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/marine-weather-api
https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/air-quality-api
https://github.com/open-meteo/open-data
https://github.com/open-meteo/open-meteo/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md
https://yotka.org/
https://yotka.org/meteo-hist",https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/532-quantum-of-sollazzo/
2024.09.25,3,Tree canopies.,"The High Resolution Canopy Height Maps dataset, released in April by Meta and the World Resources Institute, estimates “tree canopy height at a 1-meter resolution, allowing the detection of single trees at a global scale.” It is available to explore online and download, and was constructed by applying machine learning techniques to satellite imagery and LiDAR data. The estimates use satellite imagery mostly from 2018–2020, and “when newer imagery is available, the publicly shared model can be used to detect change in canopy heights.” [h/t Ben Hur Pintor]","https://github.com/facebookresearch/HighResCanopyHeight
https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/04/22/using-artificial-intelligence-to-map-the-earths-forests/
https://www.wri.org/about
https://meta-forest-monitoring-okw37.projects.earthengine.app/view/canopyheight
https://registry.opendata.aws/dataforgood-fb-forests/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003442572300439X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar",https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benhur07b_bnhr-meta-data-ugcPost-7189501844841291777-7cGt
2024.09.25,4,Canadian mines.,"Economist Clara Dallaire-Fortier has compiled a dataset of “mine-level estimates for the Canadian mining industry with a persistent annual coverage between 1950 and 2022,” based partly on historical government maps. For each of the 947 mines identified, the dataset indicates its name, location, mining companies, dates open/closed, and commodities produced. Previously: Australian mine production, 1799–2021 (DIP 2023.07.12).","https://sites.google.com/view/claradallaire-fortier/home
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03116-3
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Principal_Productive_Mines_of_Canada/23740071
https://research-repository.rmit.edu.au/articles/dataset/A_Comprehensive_Dataset_for_Australian_Mine_Production_1799_to_2021/22724081/2
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-07-12-edition/",
2024.09.25,5,James Beard honorees.,"Cody Winchester has constructed a dataset of James Beard Foundation Award semifinalists, nominees, and winners since 1991, sourced from the foundation’s award-search page. For each honoree, the dataset provides their name, year, category, subcategory, and award status, plus additional category-specific variables (such as publisher for the book awards, and location for restaurant and chef awards).","https://codywinchester.com/
https://github.com/cjwinchester/james-beard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beard_Foundation_Award
https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search",
2024.10.09,1,Disability claims processing.,"The Social Security Administration publishes monthly and annual datasets tracking each state agency’s progress processing disability claims. The datasets, which go back to October 2000, count the number of initial claims received, pending, determined, and approved by each agency during each period, as well as similar breakdowns for denial reconsiderations and continuing disability reviews. The administration’s extensive catalog of public datasets also includes several that measure the waiting involved, such as monthly average initial claim processing times, average wait times for reconsiderations, and wait times for administrative hearings. As seen in: “Wait times for Social Security disability benefit decisions reach new high” (USAFacts).","https://www.ssa.gov/disability/data/ssa-sa-mowl.htm
https://www.ssa.gov/disability/data/ssa-sa-fywl.htm
https://www.ssa.gov/disability/determination.htm
https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-cdrs-ussi.htm
https://www.ssa.gov/open/data/
https://www.ssa.gov/open/data/Combined-Disability-Processing-Time.html
https://www.ssa.gov/open/data/disability_reconsideration_average_processing_time.html
https://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/01_NetStat_Report.html
https://usafacts.org/data-projects/disability-benefit-wait-time",
2024.10.09,2,Evapotranspiration.,"With the goal of “filling the biggest data gap in water management,” the OpenET project uses satellite imagery, weather data, and other sources to estimate the volume of evapotranspiration — “the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere” — at a 30-meter resolution across 17 states in the western US. The results are available to explore via an online map of annual cumulative evapotranspiration (2019–2024), as monthly datasets via Earth Engine, and through an API. [h/t Mira Rojanasakul]","https://etdata.org/
https://etdata.org/methodologies/
https://etdata.org/faq/
https://explore.etdata.org/
https://openet.gitbook.io/docs/additional-resources/data-archives
https://openet.gitbook.io/docs",https://schedules.ire.org/nicar-2024/index.html#1050
2024.10.09,3,Fuel forecasts.,"The US Energy Information Administration’s monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook provides forecasts and recent trends of energy supply, consumption, prices, and inventory. It covers a range of commodities and electricity sources, such as crude oil, coal, natural gas, gasoline, renewables, and nuclear. Starting with its September 2024 report, the outlooks have also begun to include more detailed data on biofuels, available in Table 4d of its structured datasets.","https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63384
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data/browser/#/?v=11
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data.php",
2024.10.09,4,Trash balloons.,"Since May of this year, North Korea has floated thousands of trash-carrying balloons into South Korea. A team from the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Beyond Parallel project has mapped 160+ known balloon landing locations, based on public sources. The map’s downloadable data indicates the each landing’s date, associated “wave,” coordinates, location name, and province. As seen in: Reuters’ visually immersive article on the topic. [h/t Soph Warnes]","https://www.csis.org/
https://beyondparallel.csis.org/about/
https://beyondparallel.csis.org/map-of-north-koreas-garbage-filled-balloons/
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/NORTHKOREA-SOUTHKOREA/TRASH/klvynygmjpg/",https://fairwarning.substack.com/p/vienna-where-worlds-collided
2024.10.09,5,Anglo-Saxons on record.,"The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England project “aims to provide structured information relating to all the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the late eleventh century.” Built over (relatively less) time by several teams at UK universities, PASE is “based on a systematic examination of the available written sources for the period, including chronicles, saints’ Lives, charters, libri vitae, inscriptions, Domesday Book and coins.” The Domesday-focused portion of the project features a downloadable table of 17,000+ landholders from that manuscript, listing their name (where known), gender, description, value of holdings, and linking to details about those holdings. [h/t Derek M. Jones]","https://pase.ac.uk/
https://pase.ac.uk/about/introduction/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book
https://pase.ac.uk/domesday/",http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
2024.10.23,1,SBA disaster loans.,"“Following a declared disaster,” the US Small Business Administration offers “disaster assistance in the form of low-interest, long-term disaster loans for damages not covered by insurance or other recoveries to businesses of all sizes, private nonprofit organizations, as well as homeowners and renters.” The SBA publishes anonymized data about each such loan in fiscal years 2000 to 2022, drawn directly from its Disaster Credit Management System. The records provide the relevant disaster declaration IDs, property type, ZIP code, city, county, state, verified losses (in real estate and in “content”), and approved loan amounts. Previously: SBA datasets the Paycheck Protection Program (DIP 2020.07.08) and the administration’s 7(a) and 504 loan programs (DIP 2023.01.11). [h/t Benjamin L. Collier et al.]","https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/disaster-assistance
https://data.sba.gov/dataset/disaster-loan-data
https://www.sba.gov/document/report-disaster-credit-management-system-20
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program/ppp-data
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-07-08-edition/
https://data.sba.gov/dataset/7-a-504-foia
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-01-11-edition/",https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2024/2024-16
2024.10.23,2,US buildings.,"“Leveraging high performance computing, remote sensing, geographic data science, machine learning, and computer vision,” Hsiuhan Lexie Yang et al., researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have “partnered with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to build a baseline structure inventory covering the US and its territories to support disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.” The dataset and interactive map trace the outlines of 125 million buildings and, in many cases, contain the building’s address, occupancy class, usage type, height, elevation, and other attributes. They also provide information about the imagery used to identify the structure.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03219-x
https://gis-fema.hub.arcgis.com/pages/usa-structures
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03219-x/tables/2",
2024.10.23,3,The cost of sustenance.,"The UN World Food Programme’s Fill the Nutrient Gap initiative conducted a series of analyses in 2015 through 2021 to “calculate the costs of energy-sufficient and nutrient-adequate diets and the percentage of households that were unable to afford each diet.” In a recent paper, Zuzanna Turowska et al. describe the analyses’ methodology and share their results as a dataset. For each of the 37 countries analyzed, the dataset contains one row per geographic unit, timeframe, and type of household member; each row provides the cost and unaffordability estimates for that category.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Programme
https://www.wfp.org/publications/fill-nutrient-gap
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000609",
2024.10.23,4,German election results.,"GERDA, a new project by Vincent Heddesheimer et al., “provides a comprehensive dataset of local, state, and federal election results in Germany.” The results go back to 1953 for federal elections, to 1990 for local elections, and to 1996 for state elections. The files indicate each geographic unit’s number of eligible voters, actual voters, valid votes, invalid votes, and vote shares by party. The authors have also created “geographically harmonized datasets that account for changes in municipal boundaries and mail-in voting districts.”","http://www.german-elections.com/
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/q28ex",
2024.10.23,5,Synths.,"Iftah Gabbai is building a dataset of “hardware synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines” produced since 1896,  “compiled through a mix of automated and manual processes, combined with extensive research.” For each of the 2,300+ devices identified, the dataset indicates its name, brand, release year, years in production, device type (synth, sampler, et cetera), form factor, architecture, synth engine used, number of keys, key type, oscillator count, and more. Learn more: Gabbai’s introductory video. [h/t Stefan Bohacek]","https://linktr.ee/iftah.gabbai
https://github.com/iftah-og/Synthesizers-1896-2024
https://github.com/iftah-og/Synthesizers-1896-2024/blob/main/Synths_1896_2024_EDA.ipynb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omj405hkOt0",https://stefanbohacek.com/
2024.11.13,1,Tariffs.,"The United States International Trade Commission maintains annual datasets of US import tariffs going back to 1997. The datasets include each impacted product’s eight-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule code, a brief description, the duty rate, rate type, effective and ending dates, and more. The commission also publishes a tariff search tool and data on upcoming tariff rates. More globally, the World Trade Organization provides tools to query and download data about its members’ tariffs, as well as databases of regional trade agreements and preferential trade agreements. Previously: Trade policy intervention data from Global Trade Alert (DIP 2022.01.19).","https://www.usitc.gov/
https://dataweb.usitc.gov/tariff/annual
https://hts.usitc.gov/
https://dataweb.usitc.gov/assets/content/annual-tariffs/td-fields.pdf
https://dataweb.usitc.gov/tariff/database
https://dataweb.usitc.gov/tariff/rates-future
https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tariffs_e/tariff_data_e.htm
https://rtais.wto.org/UI/PublicMaintainRTAHome.aspx
https://ptadb.wto.org/
https://www.globaltradealert.org/data_extraction
https://www.globaltradealert.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-01-19-edition/",
2024.11.13,2,Climate summit attendees.,"Daria Blinova et al. have built a dataset of 310,000+ attendees of United Nations climate summits. The data, largely compiled from PDFs of attendance rosters, include each attendee’s year and meeting attended, name, job title, affiliation, delegation, delegation type (party, observer state, intergovernmental organization, NGO), gender, and more. In all, the attendees span 27,000+ delegations across three decades of COP and predecessor summits. Read more: “This Is 29 Years of International Climate Summits, Visualized,” by The New York Times’ Mira Rojanasakul.","https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03978-7
https://github.com/bagozzib/UNFCCC-Attendance-Data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/13/climate/cop-climate-summit-attendance.html
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mira-rojanasakul",
2024.11.13,3,Substance abuse treatment.,"The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Treatment Episode Data Set records admissions to, and discharges from, substance abuse centers in the US. The public-use datasets, which span several decades, are based on records collected by state agencies. They include each patient’s demographic information, state, metro/micro area, referral source, treatment type, substances used, frequency of use, age at first use, number of previous treatment episodes, among other details. Related: The administration’s National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, “an annual census of treatment facilities.” [h/t Conor Lennon et al.]","https://www.samhsa.gov/
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/teds-treatment-episode-data-set
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/teds/datafiles
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/n-ssats-national-survey-substance-abuse-treatment-services",https://www.nber.org/papers/w33077
2024.11.13,4,Waves.,"The Coastal Data Information Program, launched in the 1970s by a research group at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, “is an extensive network for monitoring waves and beaches along the coastlines of the United States.” The program provides a map of its stations, a table of recent observations, a catalog of real-time and historical wave measurements, and an extreme wave tracker. As seen in: Dion Häfner et al.’s “FOWD: A Free Ocean Wave Dataset for Data Mining and Machine Learning.”","https://cdip.ucsd.edu/
https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/about/
https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/deployment/station_view/
https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/stn_table/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uz_xIAVD2M6WeqQQ_x7ycoM3iKENO38S4Bmn6SasHtY/edit
https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/extreme/
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/38/7/JTECH-D-20-0185.1.xml",
2024.11.13,5,NYC marathon finishers.,"New York Road Runners publishes a searchable database of all races it has organized since 1970 — the year of NYC’s first marathon — and all finishers of those races. Data Is Plural reader Joe Hovde has scraped the results of the 2024 marathon into a downloadable spreadsheet. Each row represents one of the 55,000+ finishers and provides their name, bib number, age, gender, city, state, country, time ran, and place finished. Read more: “Marcelo & Karolina, the Fastest Names in the NYC Marathon,” by Hovde.","https://www.nyrr.org/
https://results.nyrr.org/races
https://www.nyrr.org/tcsnycmarathon/getinspired/marathonhistory
https://www.residualthoughts.com/about/
https://results.nyrr.org/event/M2024/finishers
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O_zxndHKhKMIfJ9e7_M5L7b4F3S__d1nVnUS8iZn8yE/edit
https://residualthoughts.substack.com/p/marcelo-and-karolina-the-fastest",
2024.12.04,1,100 million places.,"Foursquare has released an open dataset describing more than 100 million points of interest across 200+ countries. For each place, the dataset includes its name, address, latitude/longitude, date entered, date updated, date marked closed, telephone number, website, email address, and relevant categories. Among the many possible labels: casino, comedy club, 300+ kinds of restaurants (e.g., deli, diner, Korean BBQ, “mac and cheese joint”), and 100+ types of retailers (e.g., candy store, used car dealership, shopping mall). Learn more: Some initial explorations from Tim Wallace and from Simon Willison. Previously: The Overture Maps Foundation’s datasets (DIP 2023.08.09), including information about 53 million places. [h/t Derek M. Jones + Sharon Machlis + Giuseppe Sollazzo]","https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-source-places-a-new-foundational-dataset-for-the-geospatial-community/
https://opensource.foursquare.com/os-places/
https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/categories
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPost-7265867829252386817-iAMl/
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source-places/
https://overturemaps.org/
https://overturemaps.org/download/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-08-09-edition/
https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/places/","http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
https://masto.machlis.com/@smach
https://puntofisso.net/"
2024.12.04,2,Education policies around the world.,"Adrián del Río et al. “introduce a global dataset on education policies and systems across modern history,” with “measures on compulsory education, ideological guidance and content of education, governmental intervention and level of education centralization, and teacher training.” The dataset covers 157 countries annually from 1789 to 2020. The questions answered by the team’s evaluators include, for example, “How many years of schooling are required by compulsory education?”, “Are there any national laws in place that ban specific subjects or topics in school?”, and “Which entities operate secondary schools?”","https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00104140241252075
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/MNM5Q5",
2024.12.04,3,China leaders’ foreign visits.,"Yu Wang and Randall W. Stone’s China Visits dataset records 400+ visits by China’s presidents and premiers to 100+ countries between 1998 and early 2020. To compile it, the authors consulted official reports, web search results, and relevant Wikipedia pages. For each visit, the dataset indicates its starting and ending date, Chinese leader, foreign country, broader meeting (e.g., those of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and source URL.","https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-022-09459-z
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-022-09459-z#Sec23
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation",
2024.12.04,4,Nanosatellites.,"Space systems engineer Erik Kulu’s Nanosats Database tracks 4,000+ nanosatellites that have been launched into space, are planned for future launch, or have had their launches cancelled. The data for each satellite include its mission name and description, launching organization and country, mass/unit size, launch date, and status. Additional tables provide lists of CubeSat companies, launch providers, costs, and more. [h/t Ahmad Assem]","https://erikkulu.com/
https://www.nanosats.eu/
https://www.nanosats.eu/cubesat
https://www.nanosats.eu/database
https://www.nanosats.eu/companies
https://www.nanosats.eu/tables#launch-providers
https://www.nanosats.eu/tables#costs",https://www.miun.se/Personal/a/ahmadassem/
2024.12.04,5,Pixar films.,"Software engineer Eric Leung built and maintains a dataset and R package providing structured information about every Pixar film — from 1995’s Toy Story to 2024’s Inside Out 2. It lists each film’s creators (storywriters, screenwriters, directors, composers, and producers), budget, box-office earnings, aggregate critic ratings, Oscar nominations and wins, and more. [h/t Josh Laurito]","https://erictleung.com/
https://github.com/erictleung/pixarfilms
https://erictleung.com/pixarfilms/
https://erictleung.com/pixarfilms/reference/index.html",https://nycdata.substack.com/p/nyc-data-331-new-mta-data-buy-vs
2024.12.11,1,Quits and layoffs.,"Minneapolis Fed–affiliated economists Kathrin Ellieroth and Amanda Michaud have constructed a new dataset on monthly quits and layoffs. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) microdata going back to 1978, the dataset estimates the proportions of employees who, after quitting or being laid off, transition to unemployment versus exiting the labor market. In a recent article, Ellieroth and Michaud note that “CPS data offer a perspective not seen in the most-often-used series on quits and layoffs, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS),” featured in DIP 2022.09.21. “Whereas the JOLTS tracks what happens to a job, the CPS tracks what happens to people.” Analyzing it, they found “that increases in unemployment are typically not due to increases in layoffs; rather, they happen because laid-off workers are less likely to quickly find a new job, more likely to stay in the labor force, and thus more likely to join a growing pool of unemployed people hunting for work.” [h/t Alex Albright]","https://sites.google.com/site/kathrinellieroth
https://ammichau.github.io/
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/institute-working-papers/quits-layoffs-and-labor-supply
https://sites.google.com/qlmonthly.com/home
https://www.bls.gov/cps/
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2024/where-is-the-us-labor-market-heading-interpreting-the-mixed-signals
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-09-21-edition/",https://www.albrightalex.com/
2024.12.11,2,Food safety alerts.,"Data journalist Adrian Nesta is building a automated pipeline to collect and standardize data on food safety recalls and alerts from two US federal agencies — the FDA and the USDA. For each alert, the standardized dataset indicates the notice’s title, ID, URL, and time posted, as well as the product description, company name, brand name, recall type, recall reason, impacted states, risk level, and more.","https://justanesta.com/
https://github.com/anesta95/food_safety_recalls
https://github.com/anesta95/food_safety_recalls?tab=readme-ov-file#data-details
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls
https://github.com/anesta95/food_safety_recalls/blob/main/clean_data/food_safety_recalls.json
https://github.com/anesta95/food_safety_recalls?tab=readme-ov-file#data-dictionary",
2024.12.11,3,Crop rotations.,"The Department of Agriculture’s Crop Sequence Boundaries initiative algorithmically analyzes satellite imagery to create “estimates of field boundaries, crop acreage, and crop rotations across the contiguous United States.” The results are available via an interactive map and downloads for eight-year time frames. The underlying code is open-source and can be used to generate datasets for custom time frames. Previously: The USDA’s CropScape tool and Cropland Data Layer (DIP 2019.03.06). [h/t Forest Gregg]","https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Crop-Sequence-Boundaries/
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Crop-Sequence-Boundaries/Viewer/index.php
https://github.com/USDA-REE-NASS/crop-sequence-boundaries
https://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/SARS1a.php
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-03-06-edition/",https://bsky.app/profile/bunkum.us
2024.12.11,4,Serbian political party funds.,"The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia’s Party Funds database “tracks all reported incomes and expenses of 40 political parties and citizens’ groups in Serbia over the past nine years.” The records, based on financial disclosure reports, can be browsed online, searched, and downloaded. They indicate revenues, overhead costs, ad spending, salary expenditures, and more. The data specifies each line item’s year, amount, purpose, and other context-dependent details. [h/t Teodora Ćurčić]","https://www.cins.rs/en/
https://www.cins.rs/en/party-funds-database-sns-the-financially-strongest-political-party-in-serbia/
https://www.cins.rs/baze-podataka/stranacka-kasa-2024/
https://www.cins.rs/baze-podataka/stranacka-kasa-2024/pretrazi-bazu/",https://www.linkedin.com/in/teodora-%C4%87ur%C4%8Di%C4%87-27a93884/
2024.12.11,5,A long-running ultramarathon.,"The Comrades Marathon, first run in 1921, is considered “the oldest and largest ultramarathon in the world.” The route stretches 80+ kilometers between Durban and Pietermaritzburg, flipping annually between “up” and “down” directions. In 2019, Kyle Stratton scraped the official website to construct a dataset of all 445,000+ finishers (year, name, country, club, category, finishing time, medal received) through that year. Related: The Association of Road Racing Statisticians’ lists of longest-running marathons and ultramarathons, last updated in 2017. As seen in: Antony Unwin’s Getting (more out of) Graphics.","https://www.comrades.com/
https://www.comrades.com/about/comrades-museum
https://www.kaggle.com/suugaku
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/suugaku/comrades-marathon-results
https://arrs.run/
https://arrs.run/LongRunM.htm
https://arrs.run/LongRunUM.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Unwin
https://bookdown.org/aatcosada/GmooG-book2/secComM.html",
2025.01.08,1,Overdose demographics.,"Since mid-2024, reporters at the Baltimore Banner have been publishing a series examining the city’s overdose crisis — reporting supported by The New York Times’ Local Investigations Fellowship and Stanford’s Big Local News. Last month the team partnered with The Upshot and a range of local news organizations to examine a stark phenomenon: In dozens of US counties, “Black men born between 1951 and 1970 have died of overdose at exceptionally high rates for decades.” They’ve published the supporting data, which list overdose death counts and rates by year, county, race/ethnicity, sex, and age group. The data, based on restricted-use records from the CDC, cover the years 1989 to 2022 for “the 408 U.S. counties that had 200 or more overdose deaths between 2018 and 2022”. [h/t Cheryl Phillips + Kimi Yoshino]","https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/specials/overdose-crisis/
https://www.nytco.com/careers/local-investigations-fellowship/
https://biglocalnews.org/content/about/
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/banner-pr/new-york-times-big-local-news-opioid-crisis-partnership-2ONBVC5UHVATDAW6GKG5V55WZE/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/upshot/black-men-overdose-deaths.html
https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2024/12/20/overdose-cohorts.html
https://purl.stanford.edu/cx567kr8730
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cx567kr8730/Senior_Overdoses_Project_README.pdf","https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-local-journalism-collaboration-tells-story-black-men-phillips-ryroc/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kimi-yoshino-241164_the-banner-is-sharing-data-about-us-overdoses-activity-7277040654952611840-8RS4/"
2025.01.08,2,Opioid settlement spending.,"KFF Health News, working with researchers at Johns Hopkins and Shatterproof, has published “a first-of-its kind database” tracking how states and local governments are using the billions of dollars received via opioid settlements in recent years. The database, drawing from “dozens of interviews, thousands of pages of documents, an array of public records requests, and outreach to all 50 states,” represents “the most comprehensive resource to date tracking some of the largest public health settlements in American history.” For each state, it indicates the total funds received in 2022-23, amount committed or spent in various categories (e.g., prevention, treatment, recovery), amount set aside, and amount “untrackable via public reports.” It also catalogs 7,000+ specific spending decisions: funder, destination, purpose, and amount. Previously: Opioid settlement payouts (DIP 2024.04.10). [h/t Aneri Pattani]","https://opioidprinciples.jhsph.edu/
http://www.shatterproof.org/
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlement-funds-detailed-database-state-county-city-spending/
https://kffhealthnews.org/download-the-data-opioid-settlement-expenditures/
https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/opioid-settlement-expenditures-methodology-121124.pdf
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlement-payouts-state-county-city-tracker/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2024-04-10-edition/",https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aneri-pattani-4aab328a_how-are-states-spending-opioid-settlement-activity-7274419712388657152-JwWa
2025.01.08,3,AI governance documents.,"The Emerging Technology Observatory’s AGORA “is a living collection of AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the United States and around the world.” The dataset, available to download and explore online, provides the full text, metadata (e.g., jurisdiction, title, relevant dates), summaries, and thematic tags for 600+ documents. The project currently “skews toward U.S. law and policy” but is aiming “to broaden coverage of U.S. state documents […] and to broaden coverage of Chinese central government documents and major corporate commitments.”","https://eto.tech/
https://eto.tech/dataset-docs/agora-dataset/
https://zenodo.org/records/14499135
https://agora.eto.tech/
https://eto.tech/dataset-docs/agora-dataset/#scope",
2025.01.08,4,NEA writing fellowships.,"A team led by English professor Alexander Manshel has compiled a dataset of every recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts’ fellowship for creative writing, “from the organization’s founding in 1965 to 2024, including information about those writers’ demographics, education, and geography.” The dataset, which lists 3,700+ recipients, is based on the NEA’s own directory and a 2006 report, as well as “author biographies and websites, institutional websites, interviews, encyclopedias, literary criticism, and literary journalism.” [h/t Melanie Walsh + Derek Willis]","https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/alexander-manshel
https://data.post45.org/posts/nea-creative-writing-fellowships/
https://www.arts.gov/grants/creative-writing-fellowships
https://www.arts.gov/grants/recent-grants/literature-fellowships
https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA_lit.pdf","https://melaniewalsh.org/
https://thescoop.org/"
2025.01.08,5,ISS telemetry.,"The International Space Station beams home a wide range of measurements: cabin temperature, solar array angles, spacesuit power supply, wastewater tank capacity, oxygen production rate, and much more. NASA, in collaboration with Lightstreamer, provides a feed of these measurements. A team developing a live 3D model of the station has also published a couple of dashboards of the realtime data, historical data going back to 2018, and a data dictionary. [h/t ajdud + AIorNot]","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
https://blog.lightstreamer.com/2014/02/how-nasa-is-using-lightstreamer.html
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20130013825
https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lightstreamer-example-ISSLive-client-javascript
https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic
https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/
https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/dashboard.html
https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic/issues/213#issuecomment-761708613
https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic/blob/main/Telemetry/ISS_Public_Telemetry.xlsx","https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42505454
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506213"