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1
Carbon credits.
The Voluntary Registry Offsets Database, a collaboration between the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project and Carbon Direct, “contains all carbon offset projects, credit issuances, and credit retirements listed globally by four major voluntary offset project registries,” accounting for “almost all of the world’s voluntary market offsets.” Updated in September with data through early May 2021, the database covers 5,000+ projects and 1.2 billion credits issued. Each credit purportedly offsets a metric tonne of CO2 emissions, but the Berkeley team is skeptical: “Research performed by us and others has found that many, if not most, offset credits traded on the market today do not represent real emissions reductions.” Related: The World Bank’s database of carbon pricing initiatives.
https://gspp.berkeley.edu/faculty-and-impact/centers/cepp/projects/berkeley-carbon-trading-project/offsets-database https://gspp.berkeley.edu/faculty-and-impact/centers/cepp/projects/berkeley-carbon-trading-project https://carbon-direct.com/ https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/map_data
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Climate Data and Emissions
false
1,301
2021.11.17
2
Foodborne pathogens.
In an explainer article accompanying a recent food-safety investigation, ProPublica reporter Irena Hwang describes using her training in bioinformatics to analyze salmonella DNA data collected by the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s Pathogen Detection initiative, which aggregates genomic sequences from bacteria “originating in food, environmental sources, and patients.” The initiative has published such data for nearly 1 million samples of dozens of species. Related: ProPublica’s Chicken Checker lookup tool, based on the results of Department of Agriculture microbiological sampling conducted at processing plants.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-propublica-used-genomic-sequencing-data-to-track-an-ongoing-salmonella-outbreak https://www.propublica.org/article/salmonella-chicken-usda-food-safety https://www.propublica.org/people/irena-hwang https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/faq/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/pathogens_help/#data-retrieval https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/organisms/ https://projects.propublica.org/chicken/ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/science-data/data-sets-visualizations/laboratory-sampling-data
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Biological Databases and Analysis
false
1,302
2021.11.17
3
Violence against environmental defenders.
Tierra de Resistentes is a “crossborder journalistic effort to investigate episodes of violence against leaders and communities in Latin America who have devoted their lives to defending the environment.” The collaboration’s database details 2,400+ such attacks, mostly focusing on the years 2009–2019. For each attack, it provides information about the person, organization, or community attacked, the type of violence, the resource defended, case status, and more. [h/t Juan Pablo Marín Díaz]
https://tierraderesistentes.com/en/ https://tierraderesistentes.com/es/datos/
https://www.datasketch.co/newsletter/data-journalism/issue-6-cop26-climate-change-and-biodiversity/
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Conflict Data and Analysis
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1,303
2021.11.17
4
Mineral production.
The US Geological Survey’s National Minerals Information Center keeps tabs on “minerals and materials essential to the U.S. economy, the national security, and protection of the environment.” Its published datasets include annual statistics on mineral production by state, by country, and by commodity. [h/t Brian C. Keegan]
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/state-minerals-statistics-and-information https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/international-minerals-statistics-and-information https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/commodity-statistics-and-information
https://www.brianckeegan.com/about/
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Climate Data and Emissions
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2021.11.17
5
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours.
Data artist Nicholas Rougeux has digitally recreated Scottish painter Patrick Syme’s 1821 guidebook to German mineralogist Abraham Werner’s color system. For each of the 110 colors, such as Saffron Yellow and Veinous Blood Red, a corresponding spreadsheet contains its name, hex code, description, and more. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
https://www.c82.net/ https://www.c82.net/werner/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Syme https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125012743312 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Gottlob_Werner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%27s_Nomenclature_of_Colours https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10w7UebIDqN6ChEpBwLDQmAgVZZhLtKvnrLeNnBjJmsc/edit
https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/444-quantum-of-sollazzo/
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Open Data Art Projects
false
1,305
2021.12.01
1
Language from 100 million academic articles.
The General Index, a new project from Carl Malamud’s Public Resource, contains detailed linguistic data derived from 107,233,728 academic journal articles. The index’s main table contains all one-to-five-word sequences found in each article, and their frequencies — more than 355 billion “n-grams” in total. A second table identifies nearly 20 billion keywords auto-extracted from the corpus, and a third table lists the authors, title, publication date, and DOI associated with each article. Read more: “The plan to mine the world’s research papers” (Nature, July 2019) and “Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online” (Nature, October 2021). [h/t webmaven]
https://archive.org/details/GeneralIndex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud https://public.resource.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram https://pypi.org/project/yake/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02142-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29008367
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Research Data and Datasets
false
1,306
2021.12.01
2
Personal income.
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its latest county-level estimates of personal income, which now cover 1969–2020. The per-capita numbers are also available by metropolitan statistical area, as well as disaggregated by income “component” (wages/salaries, income from assets, etc.) and industry. You can download the data and also explore it through interactive tables and maps. As seen in: “From Wealthy Enclaves to Asset Deserts,” a map and report by the Economic Innovation Group.
https://www.bea.gov/news/2021/personal-income-county-and-metropolitan-area-2020 https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income-county-metro-and-other-areas https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/metro-micro/about.html https://apps.bea.gov/regional/downloadzip.cfm https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=70&step=1&acrdn=6 https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=99&step=1&acrdn=7 https://inclusivewealth.eig.org/wealthmap/ https://eig.org/about-us
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-1
Economic Statistics Reports
false
1,307
2021.12.01
3
Banking-crisis interventions.
Economists Andrew Metrick and Paul Schmelzing have compiled a database of 800+ banking crises spanning the years 1257 to 2019, plus 1,800+ government attempts to mitigate them. For each crisis, the database provides the starting year, relevant country or region, a brief description, and more. It also describes the interventions, lists their dates, classifies them into 20 categories (asset guarantees, market liquidity assistance, etc.), and links them to sources and prior literature.
https://faculty.som.yale.edu/andrewmetrick/ https://www.pfschmelzing.me/ https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research-centers/centers-initiatives/program-on-financial-stability/metrick-schmelzing-paper-and-database
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International Economic Databases
false
1,308
2021.12.01
4
Europe’s primary forests.
Francesco Maria Sabatini et al. have combined information from dozens of sources to develop “the most comprehensive dataset” of Europe’s “primary forests” — those “where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest management.” The dataset, which includes 18,411 patches across 33 countries, describes their names, locations, level of “naturalness,” dominant tree species, and more. Previously: EU-Forest (DIP 2017.01.25).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00988-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00988-7/tables/4 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/European_Primary_Forest_Database/13194095/2 https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2016123 https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-01-25-edition/
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Forest and Land Data
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2021.12.01
5
“Early worm gets the worm.”
Designer and “diehard Office superfan” Will Chase rewatched the US version of the sitcom with one goal in mind: to document every misquote, malapropism, mispronunciation, and other verbal flub by Steve Carell’s character Michael Scott. He found more than 200.
https://www.williamrchase.com/ https://buttondown.email/willchase/archive/a-new-datavizstreaming-project-all-about-the/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13U09FgnxeW9UyCg7Xwffxj06W47ikUZJng16ukF9mQs/edit#gid=0
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Film Data and Analysis
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2021.12.08
1
Citizenship laws.
The Global Citizenship Observatory’s new Citizenship Law Dataset “outlines, in a systematic way, 28 ways in which citizenship can be acquired and 15 ways in which citizenship can be lost.” Launched last week and building on the observatory’s previous work, it covers the laws in effect in 190 countries in January 2020. For each mode of acquisition or loss in each jurisdiction, the dataset points to the legal citations, specifies the type of procedure (discretionary, automatic, etc.), and describes the relevant conditions (for instance, wedlock requirements for citizenship-by-descent). Previously: Dual citizenship policies (DIP 2019.01.09). [h/t Yajna Govind]
https://globalcit.eu/ https://globalcit.eu/databases/globalcit-citizenship-law-dataset/ https://twitter.com/GlobalCIT_EUI/status/1466362913019596803 https://globalcit.eu/a-new-globalcit-citizenship-law-dataset-what-why-and-how/ https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/dual-cit-database/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-01-09-edition/
https://twitter.com/GovindYajna/status/1465668160426754050
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Political Dataset Collections
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2021.12.08
2
Overturned Supreme Court decisions.
The Library of Congress’s Constitution Annotated project is a “comprehensive, government-sanctioned record of the interpretations of the Constitution,” intended for a wide audience and in publication for more than 100 years. Its resources include a table of Supreme Court Decisions overruled by subsequent decisions, with the names and years of the initial and overruling cases, and another of laws held unconstitutional. Read more: The methodologies for both tables. As seen in: “How often are Supreme Court decisions overturned?” (Quartz).
https://constitution.congress.gov/ https://constitution.congress.gov/about/constitution-annotated/ https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overruled/ https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/unconstitutional-laws/ https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/appx-1/ALDE_00000679/ https://qz.com/2098152/how-often-are-supreme-court-decisions-overturned/
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Legal Data Collections
false
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2021.12.08
3
Birds at the feeder.
Project FeederWatch is a “November-April survey of birds that visit backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America.” Tens of thousands of volunteers record the number and species of birds at each feeder, plus information about the surrounding environment. The results can be explored online and downloaded in bulk. As seen in: “Which birds are the biggest jerks at the feeder?” (Washington Post), which uses additional behavioral data collected by the volunteers; and a related Twitter thread. [h/t John Templon]
https://feederwatch.org/ https://feederwatch.org/pfw/participants https://feederwatch.org/about/detailed-instructions/ https://feederwatch.org/explore/ https://feederwatch.org/explore/raw-dataset-requests/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/28/bird-feeder-pecking-order/ https://feederwatch.org/about/detailed-instructions/#record-behavior-interactions https://twitter.com/EliotITMiller/status/1465126217133219841
https://twitter.com/jtemplon
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Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
false
1,313
2021.12.08
4
Pandemic-era alcohol policies.
The US Alcohol Policy Information System has categorized the alcohol-related regulations that each state (and DC) has enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they’ve changed over time. The dataset covers January 2020 to mid-September 2021; it examines restrictions on bar and restaurant capacity, serving alcohol without food, alcohol delivery, and more.
https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/about-apis https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/resource/covid-19/98
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Occupational and Workforce Data
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1,314
2021.12.08
5
A map of our moon.
A USGS astrogeology lab has built a 1:5,000,000-scale map of Earth’s moon, the “chief purpose” of which is “to summarize the current state of lunar geologic knowledge.” It marks thousands of geologic boundaries, plus “surface features” such as crater rims, “fissures, grabens, scarps, mare wrinkle ridges” and more. [h/t Wendy Shijia]
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/astrogeology-science-center/science/mrctr-gis-lab?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Geology/Unified_Geologic_Map_of_the_Moon_GIS_v2
https://twitter.com/ShijiaWendy/status/1458242744673996807
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Geospatial Data and Monitoring
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1,315
2021.12.15
1
Faster-turnaround mortality data.
Last week, the CDC began publishing provisional US mortality statistics for 2018 to the near-present. The data are based on death certificates and can be queried by location, timing, demographics, and causes of death. They’re similar to the CDC’s non-provisional statistics for earlier years, but “with a lag of just a few weeks” instead of more than a year, writes the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s Betsy Ladyzhets. Read more: “Researchers say the US is undercounting COVID deaths. Now we have a tool to figure out why,” an article by Ladyzhets and other members of Documenting COVID-19, who are hosting a webinar about the data today.
https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/mcd-provisional.html https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd.html https://coviddatadispatch.com/2021/12/12/new-cdc-mortality-data-real-time-public-health-surveillance-at-a-highly-granular-level/ https://coviddatadispatch.com/ https://betsyladyzhets.com/ https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2021/dec/09/the-cdc-just-released-new-data-on-deaths-in-the-us/ https://documentingcovid19.io/about https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PxEsCSn9SeqkFn-xQu37DA
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Mortality Data and Analysis
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1,316
2021.12.15
2
Zero-day exploits.
Researchers at Google’s Project Zero study “zero-day” vulnerabilities — software flaws discovered by hackers before they can be fixed. Since 2019, the team has published a spreadsheet of known zero-day exploits “in the wild.” The spreadsheet’s 200 entries go back to 2014 and note the software product, its vendor, the flaw’s type and description, date discovered, date patched, and more. Previously: The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list (DIP 2018.12.12). [h/t Patrick Howell O’Neill + Bruce Schneier]
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/about-project-zero.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_(computing) https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/0day.html https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lkNJ0uQwbeC1ZTRrxdtuPLCIl7mlUreoKfSIgajnSyY/view#gid=0 https://cve.mitre.org/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-12-12-edition/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/23/1036140/2021-record-zero-day-hacks-reasons/ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/09/the-proliferation-of-zero-days.html
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Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities
false
1,317
2021.12.15
3
Reproductive assistance in the EU.
Reporters at Civio have collected data on the access to, and availability of financial aid for, in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination in 43 European countries, noting limits based on age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other factors. Read more: “More than half of European countries prohibit access to assisted reproduction for lesbians and almost a third do so for single women.” Related: Civio’s visualization code in Observable notebooks. [h/t Olaya Argüeso Pérez + Mike Freeman]
https://civio.es/en/about-us/ https://datos.civio.es/dataset/acceso-a-la-reproduccion-asistida-en-europa/ https://datos.civio.es/dataset/reproduccion-asistida-que-costea-la-sanidad-publica-en-europa/ https://civio.es/medicamentalia/2021/11/02/ART-EU-access/ https://observablehq.com/collection/@civio/619-art-eu
https://unavezalmes.substack.com/p/agricultura-intensiva-madres-vetadas https://twitter.com/mf_viz
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-1
Migration and Policy Data
false
1,318
2021.12.15
4
Country leaders’ birthplaces.
Axel Dreher et al.’s Political Leaders’ Affiliation Database lists the birthplaces and ethnicities of 1,109 leaders of 177 countries between 1989 and 2020. The birthplaces are described at several levels of administrative detail and are ascribed a latitude, longitude, and an indication of those coordinates’ precision. The ethnicities are drawn from external, linked sources. [h/t Simon Heß]
http://www.axel-dreher.de/Spouses.pdf https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2FYUS575
https://twitter.com/simonhhess/status/1448388780294090756
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2021.12.15
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1 million Bandcamp sales.
Components’ Andrew Thompson has published a dataset of 1,000,000 sales on the music platform Bandcamp during a few weeks in late 2020. For each sale, it includes the item’s description, price, and type; the buyer’s country; a timestamp; and more. It’s a slice of the data used in “The Chaos Bazaar: An analysis of Bandcamp sales, 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2020.”
https://components.one/ https://twitter.com/asthompson https://components.one/datasets/bandcamp-sales https://bandcamp.com/ https://components.one/posts/bandcamp-the-chaos-bazaar
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Music and Performance Databases
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2021.12.22
1
Tobacco habits.
Every few years since 1992, the National Cancer Institute has sponsored the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, administered by the US Census Bureau. In addition to extensive demographic information, the supplement asks about historical tobacco usage (“Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?”), preferences (“Do you usually smoke menthol or non-menthol cigarettes?”), purchasing habits, e-cigarettes, and much more. Anonymized responses and documentation are available for all survey waves through 2018–19. Previously: The CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (DIP 2016.09.14). [h/t Christian Gunadi et al. + Kevin Lewis]
https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/ https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/tcrb/tus-cps https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/about/supplemental-surveys.html https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/tcrb/tus-cps/questionnaires-data http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-09-14-edition/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34644338/ https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/unhealthy-lifestyles
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Occupational and Workforce Data
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2021.12.22
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Working hours.
Political scientist Magnus Bergli Rasmussen has compiled data on the regulation of laborers’ total work hours in nearly every country since 1789, available as a Stata file. For each year and territory, the dataset indicates whether such laws existed, the “normal” number of contractually-obligated weekly hours, the maximum number of hours allowed, and increases in pay for overtime. Read more: “The Great Standardization: Working Hours Around the World,” in which Rasmussen describes the dataset’s construction.
https://www.magnusbrasmussen.com/ https://twitter.com/RasmussenMagnus/status/1465629029982158848 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ie1zvkr7iht2i1j/public_workingtimedata.dta?dl=0 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356063579_The_Great_Standardization_Working_Hours_around_the_World
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Economic and Demographic Studies
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1,322
2021.12.22
3
COVID-19 in European prisons.
A collaboration coordinated by Deutsche Welle and the European Data Journalism Network has gathered data on the pandemic’s impact on prisoners and prison staff in dozens of European countries, including the number of COVID-19 tests, cases, and deaths over time. The data also note the types of preventative measures and vaccine policies in place. Previously: US prison COVID-19 data from the Marshall Project and AP (DIP 2020.05.06) and the New York Times (DIP 2021.04.21). [h/t Lorenzo Ferrari]
https://www.dw.com/en/data/t-43091100 https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/How-Europe-s-prisons-have-fared-in-the-Covid-19-pandemic https://github.com/dw-data/covid-prisons https://www.dw.com/en/covid-how-europes-prisons-have-fared-in-the-pandemic/a-60006262 https://github.com/themarshallproject/COVID_prison_data https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-05-06-edition/ https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/prisons https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-04-21-edition/
https://twitter.com/lorferr
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Incarceration Data and Research
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2021.12.22
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California water wells.
Domestic wells in the San Joaquin Valley “are drying up at an alarming pace” amid “a frenzy of new well construction and heavy agricultural pumping,” according to a Los Angeles Times article last week. Data reporter Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee’s analysis provides the quantitative backbone, drawing on three state datasets: well completion reports and periodic groundwater level measurements, both of which go back more than a century, and household water supply shortage reports since 2013.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-farms-water-wells-drought/ https://twitter.com/lamarr_lemee https://github.com/datadesk/groundwater-analysis https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/well-completion-reports https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/periodic-groundwater-level-measurements https://data.ca.gov/dataset/household-water-supply-shortage-reporting-system-data
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Water Resources Data
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2021.12.22
5
Toothbrushing.
Zawar Hussain et al. recorded data from 120 electric and manual toothbrushing sessions, using sensors attached to the brush handle and brusher’s wrist. Each session’s data files trace the sensors’ positions over time and indicate the brush type, participant’s gender, age, and handedness, and more.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921005321 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/hx5kkkbr3j/
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Diverse Data Collections
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2021.12.29
1
Local mortality and the 1918 pandemic.
Martin Eiermann, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, et al. have conducted an analysis of deaths before, during, and after the 1918 influenza pandemic, drawing on “data from multiple sources, including digitized mortality records for 70 U.S. cities, linked census records that establish urban residency status across multiple censuses” and newspaper accounts of non-pharmaceutical interventions. The team’s published files includes a dataset that, for each city-and-year, lists the mortality rate overall, for white vs. non-white residents, and due to flu/pneumonia; a range of demographic variables; the timing of certain interventions; and more.
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zf6wy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-pharmaceutical_intervention_(epidemiology) https://osf.io/njghd/
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2021.12.29
2
Religious congregations.
The Association of Religion Data Archives, founded in 1997, “strives to democratize access to the best data on religion.” Among its resources are four waves of the National Congregations Study, a Duke University–based survey that asks US religious establishments about their denominational affiliation, buildings of worship, congregants, staffing, educational offerings, and more. Representatives from 5,300+ Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, and other congregations participated in the latest wave, conducted in 2018–19. [h/t Patricia Homan and Amy Burdette + Kevin Lewis]
https://www.thearda.com/ https://www.thearda.com/Archive/browse.asp https://www.thearda.com/Archive/NCS.asp https://sites.duke.edu/ncsweb/ https://sites.duke.edu/ncsweb/methodology/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122421996686 https://nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/worship
0.000506
-0.325873
1,376
5,568
69
-1
Education Data and Analysis
false
1,327
2021.12.29
3
COVID-era news layoffs.
“At least 6,154 news organization workers, which includes both editorial and non-editorial staffers, were laid off beginning March 2020 through August 2021,” according to a new report from the Tow Center’s Gabby Miller. An interactive tracker provides a map and downloadable table of the layoffs and other cutbacks, listing each outlet’s name, medium, owner, and location; the cutback’s date, description, and category (layoffs, pay cuts, etc.); and source links. Related: The Washington Post Magazine’s Lost Local News issue.
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/more-than-6150-news-workers-laid-off.php https://towcenter.columbia.edu/ https://twitter.com/__gabbymiller https://www.cjr.org/widescreen/covid-cutback-tracker.php https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2021/local-news-deserts-expanding/
null
0.039412
-0.376572
1,249
5,058
69
-1
Education Data and Analysis
false
1,328
2021.12.29
4
Leaders’ economic persuasions.
Political scientist Bastian Herre’s new Global Leader Ideology dataset “provides unprecedented coverage of chief executives’ [economic] ideologies across time and space,” classifying their approaches as leftist, centrist, rightist, or non-ideological in 182 countries, from 1945 to 2020. Read more: Herre’s introductory paper and Twitter thread.
https://www.bastianherre.com/ https://github.com/bastianherre/global-leader-ideologies https://bb1fa620-fff9-4aa7-b146-7f71c3bf5bae.filesusr.com/ugd/654001_8c377a64fecb46cd84f76ee5d69c9edb.pdf https://twitter.com/bbherre/status/1473681744964501522
null
0.611048
-0.376303
1,267
5,095
30
30
Political Dataset Collections
false
1,329
2021.12.29
5
Root traits.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Fine-Root Ecology Database categorizes the root characteristics of 4,500+ plant species, as observed and published in scientific literature. The hundreds of types of traits relate to vessel density, root angles, lifespan, macronutrients, microbial symbionts, and more.
https://roots.ornl.gov/ https://roots.ornl.gov/traits/map https://roots.ornl.gov/plant-species https://roots.ornl.gov/data-sources https://roots.ornl.gov/data-inventory
null
-0.189975
0.912389
3,929
15,667
3
3
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
false
1,330
2022.01.05
1
Civil asset forfeiture.
“Most states and the federal government have laws allowing police and prosecutors to seize and permanently keep Americans’ cash, cars, homes and other property suspected of being involved in a crime — without regard to the owners’ guilt or innocence,” the nonprofit law firm Institute for Justice writes in its third edition of Policing for Profit, published in 2020. The report gathers and analyzes datasets on property seized in dozens of states through this practice of civil asset forfeiture, and on the spending of forfeiture funds. It also examines seizures from the federal Consolidated Asset Tracking System, detailed public extracts of which the Department of Justice updates quarterly. As seen in: “Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do” (The Why Axis, 2021), and “Stop and Seize” (Washington Post, 2014).
https://ij.org/about-us/ https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/ https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/policing-for-profit-data/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States https://www.justice.gov/jmd/major-information-systems-consolidated-asset-tracking-system https://www.justice.gov/afp/freedom-information-act https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff-from-people https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/
null
0.127733
-0.773184
484
1,864
8
8
Police Accountability Data
false
1,331
2022.01.05
2
Joint military exercises.
Jordan Bernhardt’s Joint Military Exercises Dataset describes 5,000+ such operations undertaken between 1977 and 2016, drawn from historical news reports. The dataset lists each exercise’s name, location, when it began and ended, the countries that participated, activities involved, and more. Related: Brandon J. Kinne’s Defense Cooperation Agreement Dataset, a “comprehensive, human-coded dataset” covering bilateral defense treaties between 1980 and 2010.
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/HXQFHU https://www.brandonkinne.com/ https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/defense-cooperation-agreement-dataset
null
0.458552
-0.567226
878
3,549
12
12
Conflict Data and Analysis
false
1,332
2022.01.05
3
Medical drug names.
To build their International Drug Dictionary, Mohammad A. Khaleel et al. collected trade names and ingredient names “from open access websites belonging to official drug regulatory agencies, official healthcare systems, or recognized scientific bodies from 44 countries around the world,” among other sources. Each of the 450,000+ entries maps a name to standardized ingredient information from the National Library of Medicine’s RxNorm database.
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/9nmgzttxhm/1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921009768 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/index.html
null
-0.541625
-0.448714
1,102
4,509
45
45
Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
1,333
2022.01.05
4
Foundation shades.
For “The Naked Truth,” a Pudding article published last year with Ofunne Amaka, Amber Thomas scraped information about 6,800+ foundation shades from the websites of two major cosmetics retailers. The project’s datasets identify each product’s name, description, URL, and the predominant RGB/HSL color value in its swatch image.
https://pudding.cool/2021/03/foundation-names/ https://ofunneamaka.com/about-ofunneamaka/ https://amber.rbind.io/ https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/foundation-names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV
null
0.629454
0.23794
2,548
10,216
57
-1
Historical News Datasets
false
1,334
2022.01.05
5
Honey bees.
Since the 1980s, the US Department of Agriculture has conducted an annual Bee and Honey Inquiry Survey, which generates estimates of “the number of colonies producing honey, yield per colony, honey production, average price, price by color class and value as well as honey stocks at the state and national levels.” Since 2016, it has also published annual reports that examine the gain and loss of colonies, including losses due to colony collapse disorder.
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Bee_and_Honey/ https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/hd76s004z?locale=en https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/rn301137d?locale=en https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/br/ccd/index/
null
-0.240154
0.557778
3,160
12,720
36
36
Agricultural Data and Analysis
false
1,335
2022.01.12
1
Slaveholders in Congress.
At least “1,715 members of Congress were enslavers at some point in their adult lives,” according to a Washington Post investigation published Monday. Reporter Julie Zauzmer Weil began her research with a list of every person who ever served in the House or Senate, filtered it to those born before 1840, and then consulted their biographies, Census records, and other historical documents. The Post’s public dataset, the first of its kind, lists the congressmen from that era, their dates of birth, positions held in Congress, states served, dates served, and whether the Post determined they were slaveholders. For 677 of the congressmen, the Post “couldn’t reach a conclusion” and is seeking assistance from readers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/ https://twitter.com/juliezweil https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators https://bioguide.congress.gov/ https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/submit-congress-enslaved-database/
null
0.271117
0.13391
2,344
9,297
17
17
Historical Data Projects
false
1,336
2022.01.12
2
Pension plans.
Public Plans Data, a collaboration led by Boston College professor Alicia H. Munnell, gathers extensive information about the retirement plans that state and local governments offer their employees, drawn from those plans’ annual financial reports. The project maintains a range of datasets, including two decades of participation and financial figures for 200+ plans that account for “95 percent of public pension membership and assets nationwide,” their investments, early payout options, and more. It also provides interactive tools and an API.
https://publicplansdata.org/ https://publicplansdata.org/about/our-research https://publicplansdata.org/about/bios/munnell/ https://publicplansdata.org/resources/download-avs-cafrs/ https://publicplansdata.org/public-plans-database/download-full-data-set/ https://publicplansdata.org/resources/interactive-tools/ https://publicplansdata.org/public-plans-database/api/
null
-0.113626
-0.205716
1,628
6,456
63
63
Economic and Demographic Studies
false
1,337
2022.01.12
3
Journal editors.
For his Open Editors project, Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher scrapes the websites of scholarly journals, extracting the names, affiliations, and roles of their listed editors and board members. The project’s dataset contains half a million associations between editors and 6,000+ scholarly journals from 22 publishers (17 mainstream and 5 “predatory”). Read more: Nishikawa-Pacher et al.’s introductory working paper. And: “Why researchers created a database of half a million journal editors” (Nature Index, 2021).
https://openeditors.ooir.org/ https://twitter.com/andrepacher https://github.com/andreaspacher/openeditors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jvzq7/ https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/researchers-created-database-half-million-journal-open-editors
null
0.585328
0.299213
2,674
10,725
75
-1
Open Research Datasets
false
1,338
2022.01.12
4
Radio on the internet.
Radio-browser.info is “a community driven effort (like wikipedia) with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible.” The 29,000+ stations span 200+ countries and 280+ languages. You can explore them on a map, through an API, and via bulk database snapshots. [h/t jlkuester7]
https://www.radio-browser.info/ https://www.radio-browser.info/countries https://www.radio-browser.info/languages https://www.radio-browser.info/map https://api.radio-browser.info/ https://backups.radio-browser.info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728030
0.508854
0.009764
2,096
8,288
41
-1
Datasets on Social Issues
false
1,339
2022.01.12
5
Chocolate bar reviews.
The Manhattan Chocolate Society’s Brady Brelinski has reviewed 2,500+ bars of craft chocolate since 2006, and compiles his findings into a copy-paste-able table that lists each bar’s manufacturer, bean origin, percent cocoa, ingredients, review notes, and numerical rating. Related: Craft chocolate makers in the US and Canada, also compiled by Brelinski. [h/t Andrew Maranhão]
http://flavorsofcacao.com/mcs_index.html http://flavorsofcacao.com/contact.html http://flavorsofcacao.com/review_guide.html http://flavorsofcacao.com/chocolate_database.html http://flavorsofcacao.com/usa_craft_makers.html http://flavorsofcacao.com/canadian_craft_makers.html
https://www.kaggle.com/andrewmvd/chocolate-ratings
0.445739
0.501738
3,118
12,380
77
77
Diverse Data Collections
false
1,340
2022.01.19
1
More political emails.
Derek Willis, a journalism lecturer with an expertise in political data, has published a searchable, downloadable database of 100,000+ email messages received in recent years by an address he created for this purpose, and “which I routinely plug into forms I find on candidate and committee sites.” The database, which Willis plans to update weekly, lists each message’s timestamp, sender, subject line, and body. Previously: The Princeton Corpus of Political Emails (DIP 2021.06.23), the Markup’s collection of 5,000+ campaign emails (DIP 2020.03.04, and DCInbox’s congressional e-newsletter collection (DIP 2021.03.03). [h/t jcberk]
https://twitter.com/derekwillis https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/derek-willis https://createsend.com/t/t-97F63A7D578A8F0B2540EF23F30FEDED https://political-emails.herokuapp.com/ https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1480657382703312901 https://electionemails2020.org/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-06-23-edition/ https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-wheres-my-email https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-03-04-edition/ https://www.dcinbox.com/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-03-03-edition/
https://pinboard.in/u:jcberk
0.836814
-0.049021
1,978
7,797
58
-1
Political Data and Analysis
false
1,341
2022.01.19
2
Foreign commerce interventions.
The Global Trade Alert, launched in 2009, “provides timely information on state interventions taken since November 2008 that are likely to affect foreign commerce,” such as new subsidies, export quotas, import tariffs, or anti-dumping laws. Its downloadable dataset describes 33,000+ interventions, listing their types, implementing jurisdictions, affected jurisdictions, affected products, and more. The project, affiliated with the University of St. Gallen, has also started tracking interventions that affect digital commerce. [h/t Simon Evenett and Johannes Fritz]
https://www.globaltradealert.org/ https://www.globaltradealert.org/about https://www.globaltradealert.org/data_extraction https://www.unisg.ch/en/wissen/newsroom/aktuell/rssnews/forschung-lehre/2020/november/stgallen-endowment-for-prosperity-through-trade-26november2020 https://www.globaltradealert.org/digital_policy
https://voxeu.org/article/subsidies-and-market-access-new-data-and-findings-global-trade-alert
0.353829
-0.139462
1,771
7,126
61
61
Government Financial Datasets
false
1,342
2022.01.19
3
Commuting zones.
Decades ago, the USDA Economic Research Service developed a methodology to group the nation’s counties into hundreds of “commuting zones,” based on the Census’s journey to work data. Those groupings are available from the agency (for 1980, 1990, and 2000), and from researchers at Penn State (for those years plus 2010). More recently, Facebook/Meta has developed its own methodology for estimating commuting zones, using location data collected from its users. The project’s public dataset spans the world and specifies the zones not as sets of counties but as detailed, custom boundaries.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuting_zone https://www.census.gov/topics/employment/commuting.html https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commuting-zones-and-labor-market-areas/ https://sites.psu.edu/psucz/ https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/commuting-zones https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/docs/methodology-commuting-zones https://data.humdata.org/dataset/commuting-zones
null
-0.27905
0.137902
2,327
9,262
53
-1
Housing Market Data
false
1,343
2022.01.19
4
Tech support scams.
From 2018 to 2021, the now-shuttered PopupDB Project collected information about tech support scams and their deceptive browser popups. Its maintainers have since released two final downloads: a “light” dataset that lists the URLs and web hosts of 11,000+ such popups, and a “full” database that includes screenshots and source code. [h/t NeeP]
https://github.com/choozn/PopupDB-Data/ http://web.archive.org/web/20210307114123/https://popupdb.org/ https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-spot-avoid-and-report-tech-support-scams https://github.com/choozn/PopupDB-Data/tree/main/databases https://popupdb.org/downloads
https://twitter.com/NeePscambaiting/status/1415040785515491329
0.663294
0.111707
2,293
9,194
58
58
Political Data and Analysis
false
1,344
2022.01.19
5
Wordle words.
You might have heard of Wordle. The game’s 2,315 possible answers and 12,972 permitted guesses are not an enormous secret, being embedded in its viewable source code. The Riddler’s Zach Wissner-Gross, for instance, has extracted those word lists into two spreadsheets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/wordle-has-turned-fans-of-word-games-into-argumentative-strategy-nerds-11641831311 https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/11/wordle-creator-overwhelmed-by-global-success-of-hit-puzzle https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/how-wordle-went-viral-strategy https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/13/wordle-perfect-pandemic-game-together/ https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-riddler/ https://twitter.com/xaqwg https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-the-riddler-met-wordle/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-M0RIVVZqbeh0mZacdAsJyBrLuEmhKUhNaVAI-7pr2Y/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KR5lsyI60J1Ek6YgJRU2hKsk4iAOWvlPLUWjAZ6m8sg/edit#gid=0
null
0.71666
0.415005
2,934
11,629
71
71
Datasets and Corpora
false
1,345
2022.01.26
1
Redistricting.
US decennial redistricting is well underway, with redrawn legislative maps approved in the majority of states. FiveThirtyEight, Politico, and The Washington Post have all built graphics tracking the process and its likely effects on Congress. The Redistricting Data Hub, a project of the Fair Representation in Redistricting Initiative, has been gathering states’ proposed and approved maps (e.g., California’s, from its commission), as well other datasets useful for analyzing the changes. All About Redistricting, a resource founded by Loyola Law School’s Justin Levitt, also publishes state mapping data, as well as a downloadable table describing who controls each state’s redistricting process.
https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/ https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/congressional-redistricting-maps-by-state-and-district/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/redistricting-tracker-map/ https://redistrictingdatahub.org/ https://redistrictingdatahub.org/about/about-us/#whoweare https://redistrictingdatahub.org/dataset/2021-california-congressional-districts-approved-plan/ https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/final_maps https://redistrictingdatahub.org/data/about-our-data/ https://redistricting.lls.edu/ https://redistricting.lls.edu/about/my-work/ https://redistricting.lls.edu/mapdownload/?sortby=-updated&page=1 https://redistricting.lls.edu/national-overview/?colorby=Institution&level=Congress&cycle=2020
null
0.863242
-0.248975
1,595
6,263
31
31
Political Data Datasets
false
1,346
2022.01.26
2
SARS-CoV-2 in local sewage.
Biobot Analytics, a wastewater epidemiology company, has been partnering with local governments to monitor sewage for traces of coronavirus. Their public dashboard and downloadable data provide weekly estimates of the number of SARS-CoV-2 genome copies per milliliter of wastewater — at a national and regional level, and for 31 of the participating communities (some with data more recent than others). Read more: “In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge” (The New York Times). [h/t Dave Pell]
https://biobot.io/ https://biobot.io/data/ https://github.com/biobotanalytics/covid19-wastewater-data https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/health/covid-omicron-wastewater-sewage.html
https://mailchi.mp/davenetics/bz8u3c8oic
-0.398765
-0.709866
595
2,342
16
-1
Public Health Datasets
false
1,347
2022.01.26
3
Collective bargaining.
The US Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s stated mission “is to preserve and promote labor-management peace and cooperation.” It also publishes spreadsheets of data submitted through its Form F-7, which employers and unions must file when they can’t agree on modifying or ending a collectively bargained contract. The spreadsheets, which go back to 2015, list the employer and union’s name and location, their industry, the size of the bargaining unit, and a few other details. Previously: Union elections (DIP 2021.05.05) and voluntary recognition (DIP 2021.09.22). [h/t Dan Bauman]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Mediation_and_Conciliation_Service_(United_States) https://www.fmcs.gov/aboutus/ https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/documents-and-data/#tab-d3d7f5344cef9bab4d3 https://www.fmcs.gov/resources/forms-applications/notice-of-bargaining-f-7/ https://www.nlrb.gov/reports/graphs-data/recent-election-results https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-05-05-edition/ https://github.com/labordata/nlrb-voluntary-recognitions https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-09-22-edition/
https://twitter.com/danbauman77
-0.136838
-0.402092
1,243
4,919
66
-1
Occupational and Workforce Data
false
1,348
2022.01.26
4
European gas storage.
The industry group Gas Infrastructure Europe publishes data on daily fuel storage levels at its members’ facilities. For each facility, and aggregated to the provider and country level, the data indicate the amount of fuel in storage, the percent capacity that represents, fuel added and withdrawn, and more. As seen in: “Earlier Than Ever, European Gas Storage Is Half-Empty” (Bloomberg). [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]
https://www.gie.eu/ https://agsi.gie.eu/ https://agsi.gie.eu/#/faq https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-13/gazprom-tweets-about-european-gas-shortages-it-may-be-creating
https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-18-2022/
-0.877301
0.366695
2,755
11,143
22
22
Energy Data Resources
false
1,349
2022.01.26
5
Whaling.
WhalingHistory.org, a collaboration between the Mystic Seaport Museum and the New Bedford Whaling Museum, revolves around a series of interconnected databases. They include every known American whaling voyage between the 1700s and 1920s, entries from 1,381 of their logbooks, and some of their crew lists, plus records from British and French voyages. [h/t u/cavedave]
https://whalinghistory.org/ https://mysticseaport.org/ https://whalingmuseum.org/ https://whalinghistory.org/databases/ https://whalinghistory.org/av/voyages/ https://whalinghistory.org/av/logs/aowl/ https://whalinghistory.org/av/crew/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/ma66az/whaling_history_data/
-0.020126
0.549001
3,167
12,734
13
13
Diverse Research Datasets
false
1,350
2022.02.02
1
Abortion facility distances.
Caitlin Knowles Myers, an economist with a focus on reproductive policy, has compiled a dataset that calculates — for every county in the contiguous US, every month between January 2009 and June 2021 — the distance you would have to travel to the nearest abortion facility. Researchers can also request access to Myers’s underlying database of the facilities themselves. As described in her working paper, “Measuring the Burden: The Effect of Travel Distance on Abortions and Births,” Myers gathered the information from a range of sources, including state licensing databases, facility websites, and Planned Parenthood directories. As seen in: “Abortions could require 200-mile trips if Roe is overturned” (Axios). [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]
https://cmyers.middcreate.net/ https://cmyers.middcreate.net/scholarship/ https://osf.io/8dg7r/ https://osf.io/tj4ud/ https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/14556 https://www.axios.com/distance-abortion-roe-supreme-court-texas-17ae0d8c-7882-408c-b6f9-bf6ece0f22a2.html
https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-7-2021/
-0.055535
-0.495816
1,054
4,156
19
19
Migration and Policy Data
false
1,351
2022.02.02
2
Chinese technology companies abroad.
Mapping China’s Tech Giants, a project relaunched by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute last year, examines the overseas expansion of 27 major Chinese technology companies, from Alibaba to ZTE. The project’s dataset includes 3,900+ entries, each describing and locating an operation or connection abroad. They’re grouped into a couple dozen categories, such as commercial partnerships, overseas offices, data centers, 5G relationships, training, and donations. [h/t Samantha Hoffman]
https://chinatechmap.aspi.org.au/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Strategic_Policy_Institute https://chinatechmap.aspi.org.au/#/data/
https://twitter.com/He_Shumei/status/1402114458793635844
0.325401
-0.089829
1,898
7,508
61
-1
Government Financial Datasets
false
1,352
2022.02.02
3
House committee witnesses.
Political scientists Lauren C. Bell and J.D. Rackey have compiled a spreadsheet of 435,000+ people testifying before the US House of Representatives from 1971 to 2016. They began with a text file scraped from a ProQuest database, provided by the authors of a dataset that focused on social scientists’ testimony (DIP 2020.12.23). Then, they determined each witness’s first and last name; type of organization; the committee, date, title, and summary of the relevant hearing; and more. [h/t Derek Willis]
https://www.rmc.edu/departments/political-science/faculty/lauren-bell https://jdrackey.com/ https://www.rmc.edu/departments/political-science/faculty/lauren-bell/dataset-information https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/ProQuest-Congressional-Hearings-Digital-Collection/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230104 https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-12-23-edition/
https://twitter.com/derekwillis
0.786352
-0.285071
1,465
5,874
31
31
Political Data Datasets
false
1,353
2022.02.02
4
Immigrant populations in 1900.
The 1900 US Census’s public report includes a table counting the foreign-born residents of each state and territory — overall and disaggregated into a few dozen origins, which range from subdivisions of countries (Poland is split into “Austrian,” “German,” “Russian,” and “unknown” columns) to entire continents (“Africa”). It’s officially available as a low-resolution PDF. Reporters at Stacker, however, recently transcribed it into a CSV file for easier use. [h/t Emilia Ruzicka]
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/decennial-publications.1900.html https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1900/volume-1/volume-1-p13.pdf https://stacker.com/ https://github.com/stacker-media/data/tree/main/1900-census-immigrant-state https://github.com/stacker-media/data/blob/main/1900-census-immigrant-state/1900-census-immigrant-pop-state.csv
https://emiliaruzicka.com
0.085602
0.172221
2,402
9,669
47
-1
Historical Data Datasets
false
1,354
2022.02.02
5
Borrowed words.
The World Loanword Database, a project from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, examines how languages have borrowed words from each other. For 41 historical and contemporary languages, it lists 1,000–2,500 words, experts’ judgment of whether they were borrowed, from what language, and other etymological details. Previously: The World Atlas of Language Structures (DIP 2016.01.06). [h/t blopeur]
https://wold.clld.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Evolutionary_Anthropology https://wold.clld.org/terms https://wals.info/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-01-06-edition/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29867638
0.85489
0.519641
3,131
12,534
49
49
Language Data and Research
false
1,355
2022.02.09
1
People affected by Trump’s travel ban.
On January 27, 2017, then–President Trump issued an executive order suspending entry to the United States by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries. For a recent, year-long HuffPost investigation, reporter Rowaida Abdelaziz led a team that collected and categorized the stories of 874 people affected by the travel ban, such as those who separated from a parent or child. An anonymized spreadsheet indicates the types of loss each person experienced, their nationalities, and other relevant details. Related: Between September 2019 and January 2021, the State Department published monthly, cumulative statistics about visa applications affected by later versions of the travel ban, but only as PDF reports. [h/t David Vine]
https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump%27s_immigration_executive_order_issued_January_27,_2017 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-travel-ban-muslims-changed-lives_n_61e86498e4b01f707dabbdcd https://twitter.com/Rowaida_Abdel https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11w02tTBHguxfQljb2--fN-c3kEaiSpHhnpW6CYkBgQY/edit#gid=135755090 https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/presidential-proclamation-archive/presidential-proclamation9645.html?wcmmode=disabled
http://www.davidvine.net/
-0.049343
-0.620577
798
3,132
5
5
Migration and Detention Data
false
1,356
2022.02.09
2
Erasmus exchanges.
The European Union publishes data on the movement of students, staff, and trainees through its Erasmus+ exchange program. The most recent dataset covers academic years 2014–15 through 2019–20, detailing the international transfer of millions of participants. Each row lists a combination of variables and the number of participants who matched that description. The variables include the field of education, participant gender and nationality, duration of the exchange, sending and receiving cities and organizations, and more. As seen in: Erasmus a dos velocidades (El Confidencial). [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]
https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&catalog=eac&query=erasmus&page=1&sort=issued%2Bdesc,%20relevance%2Bdesc,%20title.en%2Basc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/erasmus-mobility-statistics-2014-2019-v2?locale=en https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/europa/2021-12-28/erasmus-dos-velocidades-programa-ue-desigualdad_3348913/
https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-4-2022/
0.074387
-0.21487
1,634
6,468
68
68
Education Data and Statistics
false
1,357
2022.02.09
3
National climate funds.
Boston University’s Rishikesh Ram Bhandary has constructed an inventory of national funds for financing action on climate change. The dataset, which you can download or browse interactively, currently covers 46 funds in 39 developing countries. It lists each fund’s title, year established, source of funding, host entity, scope, and more.
https://www.bu.edu/gdp/profile/rishikesh-ram-bhandary/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2027223 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/National_climate_funds_a_new_dataset_on_national_financing_vehicles_for_climate_change/18865640 https://www.bu.edu/gdp/national-climate-funds-tracker/
null
-0.742463
0.266084
2,568
10,384
21
-1
Climate Data and Emissions
false
1,358
2022.02.09
4
Sites that support HTTPS.
DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption project provides a big text file that lists every website that the company knows supports HTTPS, the internet encryption protocol. The list contains 31+ million entries, updated via a web crawler. Related: Last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation began incorporating the data into its HTTPS Everywhere browser extension. (It has since announced plans to retire the decade-in-service extension, now that “HTTPS is truly just about everywhere.”) [h/t Giulio Magnifico]
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-smarter-encryption/ https://github.com/duckduckgo/smarter-encryption https://www.eff.org/about https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/https-everywhere-now-uses-duckduckgos-smarter-encryption https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywhere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821333
0.602071
0.08682
2,227
8,934
74
74
Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities
false
1,359
2022.02.09
5
Board games.
BoardGameGeek users have submitted millions of ratings over the past two decades, judging tens of thousands of games. The website provides an API that lets you search for games and retrieve detailed information about their attributes and ratings. As seen in: “Diving into BoardGameGeek,” by Jesse van Elteren, who crawled the API to compile a dataset of 19 million ratings from 410,000+ users. [h/t Jordan Isip]
https://boardgamegeek.com/ https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/ratings https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/designing-the-best-board-game-on-the-planet/ https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame/ https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/BGG_XML_API2 https://jvanelteren.github.io/blog/2022/01/19/boardgames.html https://jvanelteren.github.io/blog/ https://www.kaggle.com/jvanelteren/boardgamegeek-reviews
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040739
0.473112
0.551737
3,183
12,766
77
-1
Diverse Data Collections
false
1,360
2022.03.09
1
Refugees fleeing Ukraine.
The UN’s refugee agency last week launched a data portal tracking the arrival of refugees from Ukraine in other countries. The daily-updated maps, charts, and structured data provide counts and estimates of arrivals by date, by receiving country, and overall. Related: The UN’s Refugee Population Statistics Database, which “contains information about forcibly displaced populations spanning more than 70 years of statistical activities.”
https://www.unhcr.org/news/announc/2022/3/621f5e334/launch-unhcr-data-portal-ukraine-refugee-situation.html https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics-uat/
null
0.072628
-0.527779
994
3,908
19
19
Migration and Policy Data
false
1,361
2022.03.09
2
International crises.
The International Crisis Behavior Project, initiated in 1975, collects detailed data about interstate military-security crises such as the Mukden Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. The project’s datasets and online catalog, now in their 14th version, have come to cover 487 crises between 1918 and 2017. The dozens of variables include the start and end dates, type of triggering event, centrality of violence, use of mediation, type of outcome, and more. Related: The International Crisis Behavior Events project, developed by a separate group of researchers, has translated the sub-events within ICB’s summaries into structured data. [h/t Lynn Cherny]
https://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/ https://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/project-info/ http://www.icb.umd.edu/dataviewer/?crisno=39 http://www.icb.umd.edu/dataviewer/?crisno=196 http://www.icb.umd.edu/dataviewer/?crisno=471 https://sites.duke.edu/icbdata/data-collections/ http://www.icb.umd.edu/dataviewer/ https://www.crisisevents.org/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07081
https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas
0.457231
-0.619681
814
3,165
12
12
Conflict Data and Analysis
false
1,362
2022.03.09
3
Foreign ministry statements.
The FOCUSdata project, led by New Jersey City University’s National Security Studies Department, has compiled English-language statements and articles from the foreign ministries and state media in Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran. Many of the collections span more than a decade, and typically extend to 2019 or 2020. The project also presents interactive charts showing estimated sentiment trends and topic frequencies. [h/t Graig Klein + Juste Codjo]
https://focusdataproject.com/ https://www.njcu.edu/academics/schools-colleges/college-professional-studies/departments/professional-security-studies https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article/18/2/orac002/6527272 https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/focusdataproject
https://twitter.com/GraigKlein/status/1493617381712834564 https://twitter.com/J_Codjo/status/1493627145645703172
0.540717
-0.481837
1,073
4,322
30
-1
Political Dataset Collections
false
1,363
2022.03.09
4
Prison COVID policies.
Between April 2020 and April 2021, researchers at the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project gathered 3,500+ policy announcements from federal and state prison agencies in the US. Their Prison Policy Index spreadsheet, published earlier this year, describes the announcements they gathered through April 2021. It indicates the state, date publicized, and date collected, and provides an archival link, a short summary, and a series of columns classifying the policies announced.
https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/ https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/policy-index https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/prison-policy-index
null
-0.004291
-0.946342
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447
7
7
Incarceration Data and Research
false
1,364
2022.03.09
5
Medieval prices.
The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank, an effort that dates back to the 1980s, contains six datasets relating to currency exchanges, prices, wages, and textile production in Europe “circa 800-1815 C.E.” The records, which have been compiled from prior publications (such as a statistical compendium of grain sales in Cologne), can be queried online or downloaded in bulk. [h/t Vlad Zavidovych + Mirko Lorenz]
https://memdb.libraries.rutgers.edu/ https://memdb.libraries.rutgers.edu/metz-prices https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA8150
https://medium.com/@zavidovych/what-we-can-learn-by-looking-at-prices-and-wages-in-medieval-england-8dc207cfd20a https://blog.datawrapper.de/medieval-prices-wages/
0.069583
0.198986
2,466
9,796
47
47
Historical Data Datasets
false
1,365
2022.03.16
1
European energy imports/exports.
The EU’s Eurostat office publishes a range of statistical datasets on energy usage and economics, including annual imports and exports of petroleum, natural gas, and coal between European countries and their trading partners. Related: The Energy Information Administration tracks US imports and exports of petroleum, natural gas, and coal. As seen in: How Europe is dependent on Russian gas (New Statesman) and Why the Toughest Sanctions on Russia Are the Hardest for Europe to Wield (New York Times). Previously: European gas storage (DIP 2022.01.26), state-owned oil companies (DIP 2019.05.01), and global and gas infrastructure (DIP 2018.06.06). [h/t Lisa Charlotte Muth]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostat https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg.nrg_quant.nrg_quanta.nrg_t.nrg_ti&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg.nrg_quant.nrg_quanta.nrg_t.nrg_te&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925 https://www.eia.gov/ https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/data.php#imports https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/data.php#imports https://www.eia.gov/coal/data.php#imports https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-day/2022/02/how-europe-is-dependent-on-russian-gas https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/business/economy/russia-europe-sanctions-gas-oil.html https://agsi.gie.eu/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-01-26-edition/ https://www.nationaloilcompanydata.org/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-05-01-edition/ https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/global-oil-gas-features-database https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-06-06-edition/
https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-march-1-2022/
-0.90221
0.365865
2,755
11,142
22
22
Energy Data Resources
false
1,366
2022.03.16
2
Ukraine border crossing sites.
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Ukraine has combined information from multiple sources to create a geospatial dataset of the country’s international border crossings with Moldova (11 crossings listed), Poland (8), Hungary (5), Romania (4), and Slovakia (2). It provides each crossing’s latitude, longitude, border country, and name in both Ukrainian and English. The associated metadata indicates an “expected update frequency” of weekly.
https://www.unocha.org/ukraine https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ukraine-border-crossings
null
0.105224
-0.492087
1,059
4,166
19
19
Migration and Policy Data
false
1,367
2022.03.16
3
Conspiracy theory language.
Alessandro Miani et al. have built a dataset to study the language of conspiracy theories. Starting with a set of phrases associated with major conspiracy theories (e.g., those surrounding Princess Diana’s death), the authors searched online for sources that mentioned them often, ultimately selecting 150 websites — both mainstream and conspiracy-laden — that met their criteria. Then, in mid-2020, they collected 72,000+ topical articles from those sites. For each article, the project includes its text, lexical features, and metadata. [h/t Gwern Branwen]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-021-01698-z https://osf.io/snpcg/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/rzufy9/loco_the_88millionword_language_of_conspiracy/
0.742073
0.320052
2,743
10,863
57
-1
Historical News Datasets
false
1,368
2022.03.16
4
ISS photo locations.
In 2013, Nathan Bergey crawled NASA’s website of International Space Station imagery, creating a dataset that listed the mission, roll, frame, latitude, and longitude of each of the million-plus photographs ever taken from the habitable satellite. Related: NASA itself also provides tools for searching, browsing, and mapping ISS imagery. [h/t Sasha Trubetskoy]
https://natronics.org/ https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ https://natronics.github.io/ISS-photo-locations/ https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-Lightcycle.pl?results=Latest_ISS_Imagery https://issearthserv.jsc.nasa.gov/i4.html
https://twitter.com/sasha_trub/status/1466961926441914372
-0.544781
0.96571
3,982
16,029
33
33
Space Exploration Datasets
false
1,369
2022.03.16
5
Software sunsets.
The website endoflife.date tracks “end of life” dates and “support lifecycles” for roughly 100 software products — languages, frameworks, operating systems, and more. It indicates, for example, that Python 3.10 appeared in October 2021 and will lose security support in October 2026. You can access the project’s machine-readable data through its GitHub repository and API.
https://endoflife.date/ https://endoflife.date/python https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/tree/master/products https://endoflife.date/docs/api
null
0.528524
0.093822
2,288
9,057
74
-1
Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities
false
1,370
2022.03.23
1
HealthCare.gov plans.
A series of datasets from the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services describes all the plans available through the government’s health insurance marketplace. The information resembles that available through HealthCare.gov, but is provided as structured, downloadable files. The datasets describe the costs, benefits, networks, service areas, and other aspects of 27,000+ plans offered by hundreds insurers in 2022, plus similar data for each year since 2014. [h/t Qiang Liu et al. + Kevin Lewis]
https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Data-Resources/marketplace-puf https://www.healthcare.gov/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3966751 https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/healing-powers
-0.43873
-0.552783
913
3,619
45
45
Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
1,371
2022.03.23
2
Political apologies.
The Political Apologies Database, part of a broader research project on the theme, is “an inventory of political apologies offered by states or state representatives to a collective for human rights violations that happened in the recent or distant past.” The current version describes 300+ apologies offered between 1947 and 2021, indicating the countries and officials who offered them, the countries and groups that received them, classifications of the apologized-for violations, and other context. Read more: “Examining the ‘age of apology,’” a study summarizing the researchers’ findings. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]
https://www.politicalapologies.com/?page_id=74 https://www.politicalapologies.com/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00223433211024696 https://www.politicalapologies.com/?page_id=234
https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/177cde6b811e08867e24c00f42ea8a58112d04f0
0.662346
-0.450867
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30
-1
Political Dataset Collections
false
1,372
2022.03.23
3
Border changes.
The CShapes 2.0 dataset “maps the borders and capitals of independent states and dependent territories from 1886 to 2019,” and includes the specific dates of each change. It’s available in a range of formats and as an interactive graphic. Read more: Guy Schvitz et al. describe the dataset’s creation and how it compares to others. Related: Steven V. Miller’s Territorial Change dataset, which “records all peaceful and violent changes of territory from 1816-2018.” [h/t Mojmír Polák + Scott F. Abramson et al.]
https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/ https://cshapes.ethz.ch/ https://icr.ethz.ch/publications/cshapes-2/ http://svmiller.com/ https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/territorial-change
https://twitter.com/Pmojmir/status/1481577831582736384 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/historical-border-changes-state-building-and-contemporary-trust-in-europe/363B969350A764C68914A48276B44252
-0.104581
0.232038
2,524
10,041
54
-1
Housing Price Data Analysis
false
1,373
2022.03.23
4
PISA results and responses.
Through tests and questionnaires, the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment examines the math, science, and reading proficiency, learning environments, and attitudes of hundreds of thousands 15-year-olds in dozens of countries around the world. Its public datasets include students’ results and responses from seven assessment waves, dating from 2000 to 2018. As seen in: “Sex differences in adolescents’ occupational aspirations: Variations across time and place,” a study using 2018 PISA data. [h/t Xan Gregg]
https://www.oecd.org/pisa/ http://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/pisa-participants.htm https://www.oecd.org/pisa/data/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261438
https://twitter.com/xangregg
0.067832
-0.239083
1,570
6,212
68
68
Education Data and Statistics
false
1,374
2022.03.23
5
Born-digital artworks.
In 1999, the new-media-art nonprofit Rhizome launched ArtBase, “an archive of born-digital artworks.” Last year, it relaunched the project as a linked data resource, allowing you run complex and detailed queries across the collection’s 2,200+ entries.
https://rhizome.org/ https://artbase.rhizome.org/ https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/apr/26/the-artbase-relaunches-welcome-to-linked-open-data/ https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/About#Linked_Open_Data https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Query
null
0.336879
0.692912
3,498
13,909
79
79
Open Data Art Projects
false
1,375
2022.03.30
1
WHO outbreak alerts.
The World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News provides “information on confirmed acute public health events or potential events of concern,” with reports issued when those events meet certain criteria. Colin J. Carlson et al. have assembled a dataset of all 2,700+ reports published between January 1996 and December 2019; it includes report metadata (date and headline, for example), as well as variables drawn from the descriptive text, such as the diseases discussed, countries affected, case counts, whether the report implicates mass gatherings, and more.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272790v1 https://github.com/cghss/dons
null
-0.322007
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405
1,707
16
16
Public Health Datasets
false
1,376
2022.03.30
2
Census tract urbanization.
Studies of US urbanization often examine census tracts, but those boundaries have changed over time and are relatively new in many parts of the country. To aid longitudinal analyses, Scott N. Markley et al. have taken 2010’s tract boundaries and used several techniques to estimate the number of housing units within them every decade from 1940 to 2010, plus 2019. The dataset also estimates each tract’s “urbanization year,” when it surpassed 200 units per square mile. Read more: An introductory Twitter thread. Related: The Longitudinal Tract Data Base, which also provides historical estimates of housing units (and other Census variables) matched to 2010 tracts, going back to 1970.
https://twitter.com/snmarkley/status/1502268920593592321 https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/tracts_and_block_numbering_areas.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01184-x https://osf.io/fzv5e/ https://twitter.com/snmarkley/status/1502234165521092610 https://s4.ad.brown.edu/Projects/Diversity/Researcher/Bridging.htm
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-0.261286
0.090194
2,199
8,879
53
53
Housing Market Data
false
1,377
2022.03.30
3
Local digital news.
Project Oasis, which aims to “map and showcase the growing number of locally focused digital news publications in the U.S. and Canada,” has collected data on 700+ such organizations. Its downloadable, browsable dataset describes their ownership, tax status, years in operation, communities served, and other characteristics. A parallel effort is underway in Europe, with plans to publish a final report in early 2023. [h/t Hacks/Hackers]
https://www.projectnewsoasis.com/ https://www.projectnewsoasis.com/publications https://www.sembramedia.org/projectoasis/
https://mailchi.mp/hackshackers/nicar-is-back
0.616103
0.154186
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9,447
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-1
Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities
false
1,378
2022.03.30
4
Research organizations.
The Research Organization Registry is “a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world.” Earlier this month, the project published its first “independent” release, expanding on data seeded from a prior initiative. It contains the names, location, contact information, and other structured information for 100,000+ organizations.
https://ror.org/ https://zenodo.org/record/6347575 https://ror.org/blog/2022-03-17-2022-first-independent-release/ https://www.digital-science.com/press-release/grid-passes-torch-to-ror/ https://ror.readme.io/docs/ror-data-structure
null
0.257272
-0.064192
1,896
7,632
56
-1
Data Platforms on Corporations
false
1,379
2022.03.30
5
Teenagers on TV.
In search of “a better understanding of the age differences between teen characters in TV shows and the actors who portray them,” Amber Thomas last year manually compiled data on 240+ characters in 33 series that premiered between 2000 and 2021. For each character, Thomas’s dataset lists their name, fictional age/grade, gender, and love interests, as well as the actor’s name and birth date.
https://amber.rbind.io/ https://data.world/amberthomas/age-of-characters-and-actors-in-teen-tv-shows
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0.58204
0.709379
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14,053
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67
Film Data and Analysis
false
1,380
2022.04.06
1
COVID-19 therapeutics.
The US Department of Health & Human Services’ COVID-19 Therapeutics Locator tracks which pharmacies, hospitals, and other facilities have received government-procured COVID-19 drugs, and how much they have left. The therapeutics include one preventative antibody combination (Evusheld) and several treatments (bebtelovimab, molnupiravir, Paxlovid, and, until its distribution was recently paused, sotrovimab). The underlying dataset contains 39,000+ entries, one for each facility-therapeutic combination; they list the facility’s name and location, the drug, the number of courses available, and the time of the last update. As seen in: Rob Relyea’s locators with current and historical data. [h/t Betsy Ladyzhets]
https://covid-19-therapeutics-locator-dhhs.hub.arcgis.com/ https://aspr.hhs.gov/COVID-19/Therapeutics/Products/Evusheld/Pages/default.aspx https://aspr.hhs.gov/COVID-19/Therapeutics/Products/Bebtelovimab/Pages/default.aspx https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/investigation-MCM/molnupiravir/Pages/default.aspx https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/investigation-MCM/Paxlovid/Pages/default.aspx https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/investigation-MCM/Sotrovimab/Pages/default.aspx https://healthdata.gov/Health/COVID-19-Public-Therapeutic-Locator/rxn6-qnx8/ https://github.com/rrelyea https://rrelyea.github.io/
https://coviddatadispatch.com/2022/02/20/featured-sources-february-20/
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-1
Public Health Datasets
false
1,381
2022.04.06
2
The 1950 Census.
After 72 years of mandated confidentiality, the US government on Friday released “over 165 terabytes” of microfilm digitized from the 1950 decennial Census. You can search the scans, which include millions of population schedules (the sheets that contain the details recorded about each household and resident), plus maps and descriptions of the survey’s enumeration districts. You can also download the raw images and metadata files. [h/t Eric Gardner + Michael E. Ruane]
https://1950census.archives.gov/ https://1950census.archives.gov/search/ https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1950/faqs https://1950census.archives.gov/howto/finding-aids.html https://www.archives.gov/developer/1950-census
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gardner-0531aa9/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/30/census-data-1950-secret-unveiled/
0.174038
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47
47
Historical Data Datasets
false
1,382
2022.04.06
3
Electric vehicle registrations.
The US Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center hosts dozens of vehicle-related datasets, including the number of electric vehicle registrations in each state in 2020, hybrid sales by model from 1999 to 2019, and a database of manufacturers’ offerings. As seen in: “U.S. Has a Blueprint to Electrify Its Country Roads” (Bloomberg Opinion). Previously: Alt-fuel stations (DIP 2021.09.08). [h/t Rose Mintzer-Sweeney]
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/categories/vehicles--2 https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10962 https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10301 https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/search/ https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-22/u-s-has-a-blueprint-to-electrify-its-country-roads-for-evs https://afdc.energy.gov/stations/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-09-08-edition/
https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-25-2022/
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22
22
Energy Data Resources
false
1,383
2022.04.06
4
Military alliances.
The Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions project, based at Rice University, examines “the content of military alliance agreements signed by all countries of the world between 1815 and 2018.” Its dataset covers 760+ alliances, their various phases, and membership, with variables speaking to the formation, duration, obligations, and other aspects of the arrangements. [h/t Ashley Leeds]
http://www.atopdata.org/ http://www.atopdata.org/data.html
https://twitter.com/BAshleyLeeds/status/1336317522518347776
0.492091
-0.491523
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12
-1
Conflict Data and Analysis
false
1,384
2022.04.06
5
White sharks.
A collaboration led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium has published a dataset of location, pressure, light, and temperature measurements gathered from trackers attached to dozens of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) that researchers tagged off the coast of Southern California. The project ran from 2001 to 2020, when its “present and future status was adversely affected” by pandemic-related budget cuts. [h/t Sharon Machlis]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01235-3 https://portal.atn.ioos.us/#metadata/6e2ba85c-2f61-4bc5-8c2b-34d6734155ed/project
https://twitter.com/sharon000
-0.350323
0.828375
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15,017
4
4
Fish and Wildlife Data
false
1,385
2022.04.13
1
Constitutions.
The Comparative Constitutions Project, a nonprofit originally launched at the University of Illinois in 2005, “produces comprehensive data about the world’s constitutions.” Its downloadable datasets cover both chronology (years of creation, amendment, dissolution, and other events from 1789 to 2019) and characteristics (hundreds of variables on topics ranging from citizenship and electoral oversight to whether the text discusses a national flag or motto). A sibling site, Constitute, provides annotated text of all national constitutions currently in force, as well as Linked Data files and an API. As seen in: André Borges’s dataset tracking presidential powers in 79 democracies with elected presidents. [h/t Florian Hollenbach]
https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/ https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/about-ccp/ https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/download-data/ https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/chronology/ https://www.constituteproject.org/ https://constituteproject.org/constitutions?lang=en&status=in_force https://www.constituteproject.org/content/data?lang=en https://andreborges.org/ https://andreborges.org/datasets/
https://twitter.com/fhollenbach/status/1489532506093334529
0.671897
-0.438847
1,141
4,587
31
31
Political Data Datasets
false
1,386
2022.04.13
2
EU asylum.
The European Union requires members to submit a range of asylum-related figures to Eurostat, which it then compiles into standardized datasets. These include monthly and annual counts of asylum applications submitted, pending, withdrawn, processed under the EU’s “accelerated procedure,” and filed by unaccompanied minors, disaggregated by age, sex, and citizenship. As seen in: “Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees with an asylum system that averages more than 15 months of delay,” published by Civio.es, with data and an Observable notebook. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/migr_asyapp_esms.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostat https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/popul?lang=en&subtheme=migr.migr_asy https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-news/Is-the-EU-s-asylum-system-ready-to-welcome-Ukrainian-refugees https://datos.civio.es/dataset/meses-de-retraso-en-la-resolucion-de-solicitudes-de-asilo-en-la-ue/ https://observablehq.com/@civio/682-backlog-in-asylum-applications-in-the-european-union-as
https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/463-quantum-of-sollazzo/
0.058669
-0.539757
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3,779
19
19
Migration and Policy Data
false
1,387
2022.04.13
3
Critical infrastructure density.
Sadhana Nirandjan et al. have developed “a first-of-its-kind globally harmonized spatial dataset” representing the density of critical infrastructure, built with OpenStreetMap data (and noting its limitations). The researchers selected 39 kinds of structures (railways, landfills, pharmacies, etc.), grouped into seven categories: education, energy, health, telecommunication, transportation, waste, and water. Then they calculated those categories’ concentrations at 0.10°- and 0.25°-grid resolutions. Previously: US infrastructure, from the Department of Homeland Security (DIP 2016.03.02). [h/t Arthur Turrell]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01218-4 https://www.openstreetmap.org/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01218-4#Sec16 https://github.com/snirandjan/CISI https://zenodo.org/record/4957647 https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-03-02-edition/
http://aeturrell.com/
-0.369237
0.363188
2,772
11,176
37
37
Geospatial Datasets and Analysis
false
1,388
2022.04.13
4
Brazilian news outlets.
Atlas da Notícia (⎘English homepage) aims to catalog Brazil’s print, online, television, and radio news outlets. Created by the Instituto para o Desenvolvimento do Jornalismo and Volt Data Lab, the dataset’s 14,000+ entries list each outlet’s name, medium, distribution frequency, municipality, state, open/closed status, and (in some cases) approximate staff size. [h/t Marcelo Fontoura + Sérgio Spagnuolo]
https://www.atlas.jor.br/ https://www.atlas.jor.br/en/ https://www.projor.org.br/en https://voltdata.info/en/ https://www.atlas.jor.br/dados/app/
https://twitter.com/mdafontoura https://twitter.com/sergiospagnuolo
0.327437
0.158756
2,410
9,556
17
17
Historical Data Projects
false
1,389
2022.04.13
5
Carnivore diets.
Owen Middleton et al.’s CarniDIET 1.0 provides “data on the diet compositions for 103 species of terrestrial, carnivorous mammals from (mostly) peer-reviewed scientific papers.” Each of its 29,000+ rows represents a “diet record,” describing a component of the species’ consumption, for a particular population, geography, and study. [h/t finphil]
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13296 https://github.com/osmiddleton/CarniDIET-Database
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637450
-0.133655
0.98012
4,059
16,183
3
-1
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
false
1,390
2022.04.20
1
Rare diseases.
Orphanet, established in 1997 by the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, “aims to provide high-quality information on rare diseases,” defined as those affecting no more than 1 in 2,000 people in Europe. You can search the diseases, relevant drugs, patient organizations, and other resources. The affiliated Orphdata provides public downloads and an API for certain data, including disease prevalence, symptoms, and genetic links. Related: Orphanet and the European Bioinformatics Institute have developed a structured vocabulary defining relevant terms and their relations to one another. [h/t Simona Gamba et al. + Kevin Lewis]
https://www.orpha.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inserm https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Disease_Search_List.php?lng=EN https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Disease.php?lng=EN https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Drugs.php?lng=EN https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/SupportGroup.php?lng=EN http://www.orphadata.org https://github.com/Orphanet/Orphadata_aggregated https://api.orphadata.com/ http://www.orphadata.org/cgi-bin/epidemio.html https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/ordo
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629621001077 https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/careful
-0.411057
-0.640614
722
2,981
45
-1
Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
1,391
2022.04.20
2
Solar panels.
The Berkeley Lab’s Tracking the Sun project examines US trends in residential and small non-residential solar panel installations. Its latest report describes more than 2 million such projects, based on records provided by state governments, utility companies, and other organizations. It features an interactive dashboard, summary tables, and a public dataset that lists each installation’s location, capacity, price, cost rebated, owner type, installer, physical orientation, component details, and other characteristics. A companion report and dataset examine utility-scale solar plants. [h/t Ed Vine]
https://www.lbl.gov/about/ https://emp.lbl.gov/tracking-the-sun https://emp.lbl.gov/tracking-sun-tool https://emp.lbl.gov/utility-scale-solar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347
-0.910997
0.49772
3,010
12,165
22
22
Energy Data Resources
false
1,392
2022.04.20
3
Electoral interventions.
Political scientist Dov H. Levin’s Partisan Electoral Intervention by the Great Powers dataset describes 117 attempts by the US and Russia/USSR to influence foreign elections between 1946 and 2000, drawing on congressional investigations, declassified histories, academic publications, and other sources. For each election, it indicates the intervening nation(s), whether their acts were overt or covert, whether they involved campaign funding, and more. Related: Lucan A. Way and Adam E. Casey’s dataset of Russian electoral interventions from 1991 to 2017. [h/t @Idl3]
https://www.dovhlevin.com/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0738894216661190 https://www.dovhlevin.com/datasets https://politics.utoronto.ca/faculty/profile/95/ https://adamecasey.com/ https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP/BYRQQS https://www.ponarseurasia.org/russian-foreign-election-interventions-since-1991/
https://twitter.com/Idl3/status/1508112516009926656
0.72175
-0.384164
1,271
5,102
31
31
Political Data Datasets
false
1,393
2022.04.20
4
Open source security.
GitHub recently open-sourced its database of open source–related security advisories. Now the public can download its full contents and contribute additions and improvements. The database uses a standardized schema that Google staff introduced last year and that other major services have adopted; the osv.dev project aggregates their reports. [h/t Grey Baker]
https://github.blog/2022-02-22-github-advisory-database-now-open-to-community-contributions/ https://github.com/advisories https://github.com/github/advisory-database https://ossf.github.io/osv-schema/ https://security.googleblog.com/2021/06/announcing-unified-vulnerability-schema.html https://github.com/ossf/osv-schema#open-source-vulnerability-schema https://osv.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480862
0.522368
0.079645
2,224
8,929
74
-1
Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities
false
1,394
2022.04.20
5
Spider news.
Stefano Mammola et al. have “compiled an expert-curated global database on the online newspaper coverage of human-spider encounters” from 2010 to 2020, spanning 5,300+ articles from 81 countries. The database provides the location of each encounter, plus information about the “presence of photographs of spiders and bites, number and type of errors, consultation of experts, and a subjective assessment of sensationalism.” Read more: “The global spread of (mis)information on spiders,” by the researchers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01197-6 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Global_Spider_News_Database/14822301 https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1383492/v1
null
-0.130209
0.89335
3,867
15,543
3
-1
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
false
1,395
2022.04.27
1
Earmarks.
The US government’s spending bill for FY 2022, enacted last month, heralded the return of earmarks, which were banned for a decade. This time around, Congress is publishing a set of documents that describe legislators’ specific funding requests — but as sideways PDFs instead of structured data. So the Bipartisan Policy Center has converted the PDFs into a spreadsheet listing the 4,975 approved earmarks within them. Bloomberg Government has also compiled and shared a similar spreadsheet. Both files list each earmarked project’s name, recipient, state, and price tag, as well as the legislator(s) who made the request and the subcommittee that approved it; BPC’s file additionally includes the location, agency, agency-account, and legislators’ Bioguide IDs. [h/t First Branch Forecast]
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2471 https://www.axios.com/congressional-earmarks-new-constraints-44b0551d-bdfc-4e1e-b465-e1d2962c90b7.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark_(politics) https://appropriations.house.gov/transparency/fiscal-year-2022 https://twitter.com/danielschuman/status/1511322851932000260 https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/congressionally-directed-spending-fy2022-dataset/ https://about.bgov.com/news/colleges-cops-airports-among-earmark-winners-in-2022-funding/ https://www.congress.gov/help/field-values/member-bioguide-ids
https://firstbranchforecast.com/2022/04/11/first-branch-forecast-for-april-11-2022-fox-on-stocks/
0.357105
-0.237326
1,579
6,230
61
-1
Government Financial Datasets
false
1,396
2022.04.27
2
Intermediate care facilities.
In the US, intermediate care facilities provide residential, long-term care to people whose intellectual or developmental disabilities require active treatment and continuous supervision. On Monday, colleagues at BuzzFeed News published an investigation into one of the largest ICF owners, supplemented by an analysis of inspection data gathered through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ QCOR portal. (Disclosure: I helped to write an initial version of the data-collection code.) The records, available in bulk for the first time, enumerate surveys conducted between 2010 and 2021, the facilities examined, and the types of deficiencies inspectors found. [h/t John Templon]
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/CertificationandComplianc/ICFIID https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/kkr-brightspring-disability-private-equity-abuse https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2022-04-icf-analysis https://qcor.cms.gov/ https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2022-04-icf-analysis/tree/main/data/qcor https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2022-04-icf-analysis#survey-data
https://twitter.com/jtemplon/status/1518551383833731072
-0.39477
-0.452354
1,107
4,518
45
45
Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
1,397
2022.04.27
3
More county-level, COVID-related mortality data.
The CDC provides provisional, county-level mortality data for 2018 to the near-present (DIP 2021.12.15), but requires you to build specific, targeted queries. So researchers at Documenting COVID-19 used the agency’s WONDER API to gather key stats for every county, such as breakdowns of deaths among causes the CDC says are commonly comorbid with COVID-19, and have shared them in a downloadable repository. [h/t Betsy Ladyzhets + Juan Francisco Saldarriaga]
https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-12-15-edition/ https://documentingcovid19.io/ https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/WONDER-API.html https://github.com/MuckRock/uncounted_data/tree/main/data/race_ethnicity_and_cause_breakdowns https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2022/apr/04/muckrock-and-the-documenting-covid-19-project/ https://github.com/MuckRock/uncounted_data
https://betsyladyzhets.com/ https://www.juanfrans.com/
-0.225565
-0.789678
408
1,713
15
-1
Mortality Data and Analysis
false
1,398
2022.04.27
4
Alpine snow.
Michael Matiu et al. (2021) compiled a dataset of daily snowfall and snow depths at 2,000+ measurement stations in the European Alps, spanning the years 1970 to 2019. They gathered records from open data portals and through requests to authorities in five countries, standardized them into a consistent format, and filled in gaps where possible. [h/t Olivier Lejeune]
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/1343/2021/ https://zenodo.org/record/5109574
https://dataisthenewoil.substack.com/p/data-is-the-new-oil-04032021-update
-0.557246
0.873596
3,790
15,260
32
32
Geospatial Data and Monitoring
false
1,399
2022.04.27
5
The meta-Dataverse.
The Dataverse project is an open-source platform for data sharing. (This newsletter has linked to dozens of Dataverse-hosted datasets, mostly on the original Harvard Dataverse.) It offers an API for fetching metadata on each known installation and the datasets within them, which project member Julian Gautier has been using to assemble and update bulk snapshots.
https://dataverse.org/ https://dataverse.org/about https://dataverse.harvard.edu/ https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/index.html https://dataverse.org/metrics https://scholar.harvard.edu/juliangautier/home https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DCDKZQ
null
0.482363
0.250326
2,607
10,334
75
-1
Open Research Datasets
false