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1,100 | 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 | null | 0.255744 | 0.155238 | 2,344 | 9,424 | 17 | 17 | Historical Data Projects | false |
1,101 | 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 | null | 0.213999 | -0.225934 | 1,574 | 6,349 | 62 | -1 | Government Financial Data | false |
1,102 | 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). | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://covidborderaccountability.org\nhttps://covidborderaccountability.org/about.html\nhttps://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/U6DJAC\nhttps://data.humdata.org/dataset/covid-19-global-travel-restrictions-and-airline-information\nhttps://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-12-09-edition" | null | -0.111316 | -0.590587 | 860 | 3,384 | 14 | -1 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,103 | 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 | null | -0.088556 | 0.26277 | 2,589 | 10,298 | 43 | -1 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
1,104 | 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 | null | 0.528928 | -0.113926 | 1,840 | 7,265 | 41 | 41 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
1,105 | 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. | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://ourworldindata.org\nhttps://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations\nhttps://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data/vaccinations\nhttps://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/22122020-01\nhttps://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1339143635586207744\nhttps://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations\nhttps://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/distribution/index.html\nhttps://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccine-Distribution-Allocations-by-Juris/saz5-9hgg\nhttps://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/COVID-19-Vaccine-Distribution-Allocations-by-Juris/b7pe-5nws" | null | -0.331229 | -0.703798 | 597 | 2,346 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,106 | 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 | null | -0.276764 | -0.770424 | 471 | 1,838 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,107 | 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/ | 0.754723 | -0.333012 | 1,400 | 5,488 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,108 | 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 | -0.605142 | 0.905694 | 3,852 | 15,513 | 34 | 34 | Geospatial and Environmental Data | false |
1,109 | 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 | null | 0.488364 | 0.583185 | 3,247 | 13,023 | 76 | 76 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
1,110 | 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/ | -0.194187 | -0.517642 | 985 | 3,891 | 14 | 14 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,111 | 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 | -0.196181 | 0.123915 | 2,265 | 9,139 | 53 | -1 | Housing Market Data | false |
1,112 | 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 | 0.126084 | -0.274083 | 1,508 | 5,960 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,113 | 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/ | null | 0.564044 | 0.383916 | 2,866 | 11,364 | 70 | 70 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
1,114 | 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 | 0.724211 | 0.290118 | 2,679 | 10,606 | 57 | 57 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,115 | 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 | 0.843601 | -0.419972 | 1,210 | 4,853 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,116 | 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/ | -0.382733 | 0.796143 | 3,667 | 14,631 | 4 | -1 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
1,117 | 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 | null | 0.765514 | -0.349663 | 1,336 | 5,360 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,118 | 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/ | 0.318205 | 0.690708 | 3,498 | 13,908 | 79 | -1 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
1,119 | 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 | null | 0.329381 | 0.585159 | 3,242 | 13,013 | 79 | 79 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
1,120 | 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/ | null | 0.40607 | -0.659601 | 684 | 2,777 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,121 | 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 | null | 0.298549 | -0.770815 | 489 | 1,875 | 10 | 10 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,122 | 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 | 0.633392 | -0.015139 | 2,036 | 8,168 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,123 | 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 | null | -0.480557 | 0.392059 | 2,832 | 11,425 | 37 | -1 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,124 | 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 | null | 0.702556 | 0.267159 | 2,614 | 10,476 | 57 | 57 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,125 | 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] | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://opensky-network.org\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast\nhttps://opensky-network.org/community/blog/item/6-opensky-covid-19-flight-dataset\nhttps://zenodo.org/record/4419082" | https://twitter.com/PogrebnyakE/status/1347978426322460674 | -0.683575 | -0.079603 | 1,866 | 7,444 | 39 | 39 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
1,126 | 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/ | null | 0.672551 | -0.001867 | 2,037 | 8,171 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,127 | 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 | 0.303908 | -0.067385 | 1,897 | 7,635 | 61 | -1 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
1,128 | 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 | 0.848757 | -0.406807 | 1,211 | 4,854 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,129 | 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 | 0.424304 | 0.479 | 3,053 | 12,123 | 77 | -1 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
1,130 | 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/ | null | 0.011646 | -0.985827 | 32 | 64 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,131 | 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 | -0.429441 | 0.467103 | 2,962 | 11,940 | 20 | -1 | Forest and Land Data | false |
1,132 | 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/ | -0.15433 | -0.704138 | 603 | 2,358 | 15 | -1 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
1,133 | 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 | 0.655738 | 0.025804 | 2,100 | 8,425 | 74 | -1 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,134 | 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 | 0.337236 | 0.572703 | 3,242 | 12,885 | 79 | -1 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
1,135 | 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 | 0.96669 | -0.205303 | 1,662 | 6,525 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,136 | 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 | -0.271073 | -0.746887 | 535 | 2,094 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,137 | 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 | -0.582129 | 0.853992 | 3,789 | 15,130 | 32 | 32 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
1,138 | 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 | null | -0.006305 | -0.082601 | 1,887 | 7,487 | 60 | -1 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,139 | 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 | null | 0.801791 | 0.120672 | 2,297 | 9,203 | 58 | -1 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
1,140 | 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 | 0.791203 | -0.612123 | 825 | 3,186 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
1,141 | 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 | 0.642382 | 0.331692 | 2,740 | 10,985 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,142 | 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 | 0.623338 | -0.330639 | 1,395 | 5,479 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,143 | 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 | 0.599038 | -0.493563 | 1,075 | 4,198 | 30 | -1 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,144 | 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 | null | 0.584511 | 0.53218 | 3,186 | 12,645 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
1,145 | 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/ | 0.113778 | -0.783085 | 419 | 1,735 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,146 | 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 | null | 0.808774 | -0.073026 | 1,913 | 7,667 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,147 | 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/ | -0.323091 | -0.717382 | 597 | 2,347 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,148 | 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 | null | -0.155621 | 0.834498 | 3,739 | 15,030 | 2 | -1 | Animal Data Collections | false |
1,149 | 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 | -0.394337 | 0.495205 | 3,027 | 12,198 | 20 | -1 | Forest and Land Data | false |
1,150 | 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] | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://outbreak.info\nhttps://outbreak.info/situation-reports\nhttps://www.gisaid.org/collaborations/enabled-by-hcov-19-data-from-gisaid/\nhttps://www.gisaid.org/\nhttps://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-03-11-edition/\nhttps://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant-cases.html\nhttps://github.com/USATODAY/covid-variants/" | https://coviddatadispatch.com/2021/03/07/featured-sources-march-7/ | -0.358234 | -0.764493 | 468 | 1,961 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,151 | 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 | -0.216703 | 0.156169 | 2,329 | 9,394 | 53 | -1 | Housing Market Data | false |
1,152 | 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 | 0.46402 | -0.021032 | 2,030 | 8,029 | 41 | 41 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
1,153 | 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 | 0.876141 | -0.369361 | 1,340 | 5,240 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,154 | 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/ | -0.14348 | 0.778299 | 3,611 | 14,518 | 2 | 2 | Animal Data Collections | false |
1,155 | 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 | null | -0.772905 | 0.820398 | 3,719 | 14,862 | 29 | 29 | Disaster and Flood Data | false |
1,156 | 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 | null | -0.386802 | -0.428741 | 1,171 | 4,647 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
1,157 | 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 | -0.310869 | -0.696306 | 598 | 2,476 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,158 | 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/ | 0.76804 | 0.396517 | 2,872 | 11,505 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
1,159 | 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 | 0.105125 | 0.102469 | 2,275 | 9,030 | 60 | -1 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,160 | 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/ | null | 0.299136 | -0.785461 | 425 | 1,747 | 10 | 10 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,161 | 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/ | -0.322662 | 0.494875 | 3,029 | 12,203 | 36 | -1 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
1,162 | 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 | -0.035608 | -0.100731 | 1,822 | 7,357 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,163 | 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 | -0.352839 | 0.001639 | 2,068 | 8,233 | 48 | 48 | New York City Housing Data | false |
1,164 | 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 | -0.138269 | 0.947063 | 3,995 | 15,927 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,165 | 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/ | null | -0.278887 | -0.778452 | 471 | 1,838 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,166 | 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/ | null | -0.279365 | 0.276304 | 2,583 | 10,414 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,167 | 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 | null | 0.854372 | -0.38179 | 1,275 | 5,110 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,168 | 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 | 0.466519 | -0.327323 | 1,390 | 5,597 | 27 | -1 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
1,169 | 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 | -0.034048 | 0.691687 | 3,486 | 13,885 | 13 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
1,170 | 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 | -0.010299 | 0.269377 | 2,591 | 10,431 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,171 | 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/ | 0.328139 | 0.405221 | 2,858 | 11,477 | 73 | -1 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
1,172 | 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 | null | -0.111731 | -0.16287 | 1,692 | 6,840 | 63 | 63 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
1,173 | 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 | -0.226071 | -0.539123 | 920 | 3,761 | 14 | -1 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,174 | 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 | -0.341169 | 0.824851 | 3,733 | 14,890 | 4 | 4 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
1,175 | 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 | -0.037538 | -0.49 | 1,054 | 4,157 | 19 | 19 | Migration and Policy Data | false |
1,176 | 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 | 0.062183 | -0.050596 | 1,953 | 7,747 | 60 | -1 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,177 | 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/ | -0.192359 | -0.236124 | 1,561 | 6,195 | 65 | -1 | Labor and Employment Surveys | false |
1,178 | 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/ | null | 0.693272 | 0.157096 | 2,422 | 9,580 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,179 | 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/ | null | -0.066769 | 0.935833 | 3,933 | 15,803 | 3 | -1 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,180 | 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/ | null | 0.41691 | -0.69445 | 621 | 2,522 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,181 | 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 | 0.582703 | 0.130382 | 2,354 | 9,317 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,182 | 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 | -0.060755 | -0.919018 | 158 | 700 | 7 | -1 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,183 | 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 | -0.405208 | 0.184543 | 2,387 | 9,638 | 51 | 51 | Surveillance and Mapping Data | false |
1,184 | 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 | 0.404603 | -0.3643 | 1,324 | 5,209 | 27 | -1 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
1,185 | 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 | -0.68547 | 0.656662 | 3,402 | 13,588 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,186 | 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/ | -0.230013 | -0.352871 | 1,304 | 5,297 | 66 | 66 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
1,187 | 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 | null | 0.857878 | -0.304667 | 1,467 | 5,750 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,188 | 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/ | null | -0.123068 | 0.003281 | 2,076 | 8,248 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
1,189 | 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 | null | 0.38777 | 0.417078 | 2,924 | 11,608 | 73 | 73 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
1,190 | 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/ | -0.262795 | 0.500073 | 3,095 | 12,335 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
1,191 | 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 | -0.156768 | -0.383218 | 1,242 | 5,045 | 66 | -1 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
1,192 | 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 | 0.479209 | -0.552421 | 943 | 3,678 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,193 | 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 | null | 0.202772 | -0.064164 | 1,894 | 7,628 | 62 | -1 | Government Financial Data | false |
1,194 | 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/ | 0.553499 | 0.615539 | 3,313 | 13,283 | 76 | 76 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
1,195 | 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 | null | 0.365512 | -0.751035 | 491 | 2,007 | 10 | -1 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,196 | 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 | 0.14465 | -0.32388 | 1,380 | 5,577 | 69 | -1 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,197 | 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 | null | -0.621856 | -0.125223 | 1,740 | 7,064 | 38 | -1 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
1,198 | 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/ | -0.588856 | 0.043989 | 2,125 | 8,474 | 50 | -1 | Urban Transit Data | false |
1,199 | 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 | null | 0.718111 | 0.337173 | 2,742 | 10,989 | 57 | 57 | Historical News Datasets | false |
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