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1,200 | 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 | -0.683953 | 0.898567 | 3,850 | 15,508 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
1,201 | 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 | -0.169406 | -0.127718 | 1,754 | 7,093 | 59 | 59 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
1,202 | 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/ | 0.764031 | -0.359808 | 1,336 | 5,232 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,203 | 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/ | -0.344969 | 0.388036 | 2,836 | 11,305 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,204 | 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 | null | 0.171915 | 0.259596 | 2,597 | 10,315 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,205 | 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 | 0.282908 | -0.785191 | 425 | 1,746 | 10 | 10 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,206 | 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/ | null | 0.049377 | -0.714453 | 609 | 2,371 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,207 | 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/ | 0.121293 | -0.799254 | 419 | 1,607 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,208 | 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/ | 0.45312 | -0.090472 | 1,902 | 7,516 | 41 | -1 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
1,209 | 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/ | null | 0.038373 | 0.830142 | 3,745 | 15,042 | 0 | 0 | Biological Databases and Analysis | false |
1,210 | 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 | null | -0.343474 | -0.686149 | 661 | 2,602 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,211 | 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 | null | -0.951278 | 0.389318 | 2,817 | 11,267 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,212 | 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/ | 0.18352 | -0.191056 | 1,637 | 6,603 | 62 | 62 | Government Financial Data | false |
1,213 | 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/ | null | -0.51263 | 0.889139 | 3,855 | 15,391 | 32 | -1 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
1,214 | 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 | null | 0.661518 | 0.37657 | 2,869 | 11,370 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
1,215 | 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 | null | -0.661564 | 0.749468 | 3,530 | 14,229 | 25 | -1 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,216 | 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 | 0.075216 | -0.369409 | 1,314 | 5,188 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,217 | 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 | 0.80204 | -0.550637 | 953 | 3,699 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
1,218 | 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/ | 0.807739 | 0.459979 | 3,001 | 12,019 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
1,219 | 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 | -0.093584 | 0.7958 | 3,677 | 14,650 | 2 | 2 | Animal Data Collections | false |
1,220 | 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 | 0.809968 | -0.017137 | 2,041 | 8,051 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
1,221 | 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 | 0.396941 | -0.679712 | 684 | 2,649 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,222 | 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 | null | 0.629631 | 0.447469 | 2,996 | 11,880 | 72 | 72 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
1,223 | 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 | null | -0.380141 | 0.030464 | 2,067 | 8,359 | 48 | 48 | New York City Housing Data | false |
1,224 | 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 | null | 0.518882 | 0.564383 | 3,248 | 12,897 | 76 | -1 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
1,225 | 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 | -0.516047 | -0.515872 | 975 | 3,870 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
1,226 | 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/ | null | 0.982778 | -0.220945 | 1,599 | 6,398 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,227 | 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/ | 0.262987 | -0.84964 | 296 | 1,232 | 10 | -1 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,228 | 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 | null | 0.409053 | 0.043856 | 2,157 | 8,538 | 55 | -1 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
1,229 | 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/ | 0.04179 | 0.902163 | 3,873 | 15,554 | 0 | 0 | Biological Databases and Analysis | false |
1,230 | 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 | null | -0.698664 | 0.662901 | 3,401 | 13,587 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,231 | 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/ | 0.34897 | -0.176408 | 1,707 | 6,742 | 61 | -1 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
1,232 | 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/ | -0.345752 | -0.618647 | 788 | 3,113 | 16 | -1 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,233 | 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 | -0.122236 | 0.948615 | 3,996 | 15,928 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,234 | 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 | -0.16608 | 0.910436 | 3,930 | 15,669 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,235 | 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 | -0.002526 | -0.507837 | 991 | 4,031 | 19 | 19 | Migration and Policy Data | false |
1,236 | 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 | -0.080412 | -0.690667 | 605 | 2,490 | 5 | -1 | Migration and Detention Data | false |
1,237 | 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 | 0.923781 | -0.311832 | 1,469 | 5,755 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,238 | 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 | 0.558349 | 0.267564 | 2,609 | 10,467 | 75 | 75 | Open Research Datasets | false |
1,239 | 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/ | -0.857481 | 0.623552 | 3,268 | 13,193 | 24 | -1 | Wildfire Data and Monitoring | false |
1,240 | 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] | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://biglocalnews.org\nhttps://purl.stanford.edu/zf406jp4427\nhttps://stanford-school-enrollment-project.datasette.io/\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1WRm4KZPDGL1USPaf0E1AIa7gbyeKncv04Pg_rM1N7po/edit\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/us/covid-kindergarten-enrollment.html\nhttps://edsource.org/2021/how-going-remote-led-to-dramatic-drops-in-public-school-students/659005\nhttps://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 | 0.040377 | -0.349766 | 1,313 | 5,314 | 69 | -1 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,241 | 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/ | -0.312341 | 0.043772 | 2,134 | 8,492 | 48 | -1 | New York City Housing Data | false |
1,242 | 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 | null | 0.372483 | -0.763813 | 491 | 2,007 | 10 | 10 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,243 | 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 | 0.725784 | -0.43032 | 1,207 | 4,718 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,244 | 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 | null | 0.047843 | 0.317825 | 2,721 | 10,819 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,245 | 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/ | 0.386992 | -0.549166 | 940 | 3,672 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,246 | 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/ | null | 0.071436 | -0.980665 | 34 | 196 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,247 | 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 | null | 0.710527 | 0.289547 | 2,678 | 10,605 | 57 | 57 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,248 | 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/ | 0.267725 | 0.348099 | 2,792 | 11,089 | 46 | -1 | Digital Historical Data | false |
1,249 | 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 | null | 0.615727 | 0.790386 | 3,699 | 14,695 | 40 | -1 | Media Franchise APIs | false |
1,250 | 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/ | null | 0.686771 | -0.156108 | 1,781 | 7,019 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,251 | 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 | 0.08296 | -0.026126 | 2,018 | 8,005 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,252 | 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/ | null | -0.353387 | 0.357929 | 2,772 | 11,049 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,253 | 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 | 0.381123 | 0.174814 | 2,412 | 9,688 | 55 | -1 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
1,254 | 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 | 0.415032 | 0.44989 | 2,989 | 11,866 | 73 | 73 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
1,255 | 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 | 0.334787 | -0.600587 | 810 | 3,285 | 11 | 11 | Protest and Violence Data | false |
1,256 | 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 | null | 0.666792 | -0.081344 | 1,909 | 7,530 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,257 | 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/ | null | -0.836195 | 0.578455 | 3,205 | 12,938 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,258 | 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/ | 0.183723 | -0.406113 | 1,253 | 4,939 | 18 | 18 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
1,259 | 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 | null | 0.716026 | 0.211661 | 2,486 | 9,965 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,260 | 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 | 0.465632 | -0.023909 | 2,030 | 8,029 | 41 | 41 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
1,261 | 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/ | -0.902591 | 0.379691 | 2,819 | 11,270 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,262 | 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 | 0.934828 | -0.322369 | 1,405 | 5,627 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,263 | 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 | 0.580306 | 0.153044 | 2,354 | 9,445 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,264 | 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 | 0.706878 | -0.403544 | 1,270 | 4,973 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,265 | 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. | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.covidschooldatahub.com\nhttps://emilyoster.substack.com/p/special-edition-today-covid-19-school\nhttps://emilyoster.net/\nhttps://www.covidschooldatahub.com/for_researchers\nhttps://www.covidschooldatahub.com/explore_by_state\nhttps://www.covidschooldatahub.com/methods" | null | -0.129201 | -0.549758 | 923 | 3,639 | 14 | 14 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,266 | 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/ | -0.67933 | 0.697883 | 3,466 | 13,844 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,267 | 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/ | null | -0.134765 | -0.40753 | 1,179 | 4,791 | 66 | -1 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
1,268 | 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 | null | 0.918884 | -0.364892 | 1,341 | 5,242 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,269 | 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 | null | 0.700033 | 0.383884 | 2,870 | 11,372 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
1,270 | 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 | -0.301674 | -0.687232 | 662 | 2,604 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,271 | 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 | null | 0.009135 | -0.973434 | 32 | 192 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,272 | 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/ | null | 0.09681 | -0.969474 | 35 | 198 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,273 | 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 | null | -0.539506 | 0.658763 | 3,406 | 13,597 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
1,274 | 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/ | 0.378984 | 0.777213 | 3,628 | 14,552 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
1,275 | 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/ | null | -0.68287 | 0.607862 | 3,274 | 13,076 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,276 | 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 | 0.141142 | 0.484739 | 3,044 | 12,233 | 44 | -1 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
1,277 | 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 | 0.774354 | 0.516543 | 3,128 | 12,529 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
1,278 | 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 | -0.576142 | 0.707572 | 3,469 | 13,979 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
1,279 | 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/ | -0.086806 | 0.611957 | 3,293 | 13,242 | 13 | 13 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
1,280 | 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/ | -0.018424 | -0.474646 | 1,055 | 4,286 | 19 | 19 | Migration and Policy Data | false |
1,281 | 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 | -0.686548 | 0.882928 | 3,850 | 15,380 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
1,282 | 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 | null | 0.866449 | -0.403293 | 1,275 | 4,983 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,283 | 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 | null | -0.269032 | -0.672819 | 663 | 2,606 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,284 | 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 | null | -0.181612 | 0.922722 | 3,930 | 15,796 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,285 | 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/ | 0.718101 | -0.641501 | 758 | 2,925 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
1,286 | 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 | -0.209404 | 0.799949 | 3,673 | 14,770 | 2 | -1 | Animal Data Collections | false |
1,287 | 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 | 0.680988 | 0.25429 | 2,613 | 10,347 | 57 | 57 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,288 | 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 | 0.784642 | -0.320002 | 1,401 | 5,618 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,289 | 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/ | 0.478838 | 0.509979 | 3,119 | 12,382 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
1,290 | 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 | null | 0.535611 | -0.104525 | 1,841 | 7,394 | 41 | 41 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
1,291 | 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 | null | 0.08566 | -0.724239 | 546 | 2,245 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,292 | 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 | null | 0.571964 | 0.257756 | 2,610 | 10,340 | 75 | 75 | Open Research Datasets | false |
1,293 | 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 | 0.560227 | -0.162423 | 1,713 | 6,883 | 41 | -1 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
1,294 | 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 | null | -0.173659 | 0.917395 | 3,930 | 15,668 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,295 | 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 | null | -0.734512 | 0.382323 | 2,824 | 11,280 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
1,296 | 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 | -0.455241 | 0.525142 | 3,089 | 12,450 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
1,297 | 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 | -0.012406 | 0.175271 | 2,399 | 9,663 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,298 | 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 | 0.519084 | 0.02615 | 2,096 | 8,417 | 74 | -1 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,299 | 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 | 0.490134 | 0.605377 | 3,311 | 13,151 | 76 | 76 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
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