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1,600 | 2023.02.15 | 1 | Fair market rents. | Every year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development recalculates what it calls “fair market rents” for every county in the US and for individual ZIP codes in metropolitan counties. The results, which factor into various housing subsidy programs, represent the 40th percentile cost of monthly rent and (basic) utilities for “recent movers” in “standard quality” units, adjusted for the number of bedrooms. HUD’s annual spreadsheets go back to the early 2000s; you can also browse the estimates online and query them via an API. As seen in: “Where are rents rising post COVID-19?” (USAFacts). | https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/smallarea/index.html
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/24/888.113
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/dataset/fmr-api.html
https://usafacts.org/articles/where-are-rents-rising-post-covid-19/ | null | -0.21672 | 0.059646 | 2,137 | 8,626 | 53 | 53 | Housing Market Data | false |
1,601 | 2023.02.15 | 2 | Humanitarian groups. | “Based on clear and reproducible criteria,” Clara Egger and Doris Schopper have compiled the Humanitarian Organizations Dataset, which describes 2,500+ groups active in the sector. It includes the organizations’ founding years, structures, countries headquartered, regional scopes, types of activities, targets for assistance, and more. You can also explore a version of the dataset online. Related: The Global Database of Humanitarian Organisations, from Humanitarian Outcomes, “a team of specialist consultants providing research and policy advice for humanitarian aid agencies and donor governments.” | https://claramarieegger.wordpress.com/
http://www.ge2p2.org/people/2018/10/12/doris-schopper-md-dph
https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/66/2/sqac009/6564592
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/52GFWC
https://humanitarianencyclopedia.org/community/organizations
https://www.humanitarianoutcomes.org/projects/gdho
https://www.humanitarianoutcomes.org/about | null | 0.20522 | -0.466367 | 1,126 | 4,429 | 18 | 18 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
1,602 | 2023.02.15 | 3 | Diplomatic visits. | The US Department of State’s Office of the Historian maintains a dataset and online directory of every visit by a foreign leader from 1874 to 2020. The details include each visit’s starting and ending date, the visitor’s name, their country, and a brief description. The office publishes similar data on the travels of US presidents and secretaries of state. Related: Matt Malis and Alastair Smith have expanded the data for 1946–2019, adding fields that indicate the type of visit, whether it involved a presidential meeting, the names of agreements signed, and more. Previously: Diplomatic gifts (DIP 2022.08.03). | https://history.state.gov/
https://github.com/HistoryAtState/visits
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/visits
https://github.com/HistoryAtState/travels
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels
https://mattmalis.github.io/
https://wp.nyu.edu/alastairsmith/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/2ZNR5R
https://github.com/tacookson/data/tree/master/us-government-gifts
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-08-03-edition/ | null | 0.525843 | -0.308566 | 1,456 | 5,729 | 27 | 27 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
1,603 | 2023.02.15 | 4 | Bog bodies. | Roy van Beek et al. “present the first large-scale overview of well-dated human remains from northern European mires, based on a database of 266 sites and more than 1000 bog mummies, bog skeletons and disarticulated/partial skeletal remains.” The database, which can be found in the study’s supplementary materials tab, indicates the bog bodies’ location, year found, preservation level, sex, estimated age, assumed cause of death, and much more. [h/t Miriam Posner + Robin Sloan] | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/bogs-bones-and-bodies-the-deposition-of-human-remains-in-northern-european-mires-9000-bcad-1900/B90A16A211894CB87906A7BCFC0B2FC7
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/bogs-bones-and-bodies-the-deposition-of-human-remains-in-northern-european-mires-9000-bcad-1900/B90A16A211894CB87906A7BCFC0B2FC7#supplementary-materials | https://dair-community.social/@miriamkp/109785940080210793
https://www.robinsloan.com/ | 0.045763 | 0.483795 | 3,041 | 12,098 | 44 | 44 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
1,604 | 2023.02.15 | 5 | Open Data Day events. | Open Data Day(s), scheduled for March 4–10 this year, “is an annual celebration of open data all over the world.” The Open Knowledge Foundation, which helps to coordinate the locally-organized gatherings, hosts a searchable list of registered events, plus datasets of each year’s events since 2014. | https://opendataday.org/
https://okfn.org/
https://blog.okfn.org/2023/02/07/open-data-days-2023-will-take-place-from-4th-to-10th-march/
https://opendataday.org/events/2023/
https://github.com/okfn/opendataday/tree/master/Datasets | null | 0.411112 | 0.046579 | 2,157 | 8,538 | 55 | -1 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
1,605 | 2023.02.22 | 1 | Facilities handling hazardous chemicals. | The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Management Program rule requires facilities that handle “extremely hazardous substances” to tell the government, at least every five years, about those substances, their safety plans, their recent accident history, and more. Through a FOIA request to the EPA, the Data Liberation Project (which, disclosure, I run) obtained a copy of the agency’s database of these filings (minus some parts the government deems non-disclosable), containing submissions by 21,000+ facilities from early 1999 to February 2022. You can now access that data, in various formats, along with documentation guiding you through it. | https://www.epa.gov/rmp/risk-management-program-rmp-rule-overview
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/epa-risk-management-program/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/about/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jrLXtv0knnACiPXJ1ZRFXR1GaPWCHJWWjin4rsthFbQ/edit | null | -0.704047 | 0.06342 | 2,185 | 8,722 | 39 | -1 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
1,606 | 2023.02.22 | 2 | Animal Welfare Act inspections. | The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service checks whether animal dealers, exhibitors, research facilities, and transporters are complying with the care standards set by the Animal Welfare Act. The agency provides public access to the inspection reports but no bulk data on them. So, in a collaboration between Big Local News and the Data Liberation Project (same disclosure as above), Ben Welsh and I wrote code to fetch the 80,000+ (and counting) inspections going back to 2014, parse their PDFs, and make the data more accessible. The information includes each inspection’s date, type, licensee, violation counts, species inspected, and more. | https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/home/
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalwelfare/awa/ct_awa_program_information
https://efile.aphis.usda.gov/PublicSearchTool/s/inspection-reports
https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2023/02/21/usda-animal-inspection-database.html
https://biglocalnews.org/content/about/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/aphis-inspection-reports/blob/main/METHODOLOGY.md
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/aphis-inspection-reports | null | -0.170077 | 0.724289 | 3,546 | 14,133 | 2 | -1 | Animal Data Collections | false |
1,607 | 2023.02.22 | 3 | Daily European gas imports. | Researchers at Bruegel are tracking daily and weekly natural gas imports to Europe, using data from the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas’s transparency portal. Alongside the imports, which they’re aggregating by source (e.g., Russia, Norway, Algeria) and by route (e.g., Nord Stream, TurkStream), the researchers are also tracking gas storage levels, using data from Gas Infrastructure Europe (DIP 2022.01.26). Previously: Eurostat’s data on annual European energy imports and exports (DIP 2022.03.16). | https://www.bruegel.org/bruegel-european-think-tank-specialises-economics
https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports
https://www.entsog.eu/
https://transparency.entsog.eu/
https://agsi.gie.eu/
https://www.gie.eu/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-01-26-edition/
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg.nrg_quant.nrg_quanta.nrg_t.nrg_ti&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/explore/all/envir?lang=en&subtheme=nrg.nrg_quant.nrg_quanta.nrg_t.nrg_te&display=list&sort=category&extractionId=NRG_TI_SFF__custom_2293925
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-03-16-edition/ | null | -0.87559 | 0.33754 | 2,691 | 10,887 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,608 | 2023.02.22 | 4 | Unclaimed estates. | The UK government’s Bona Vacantia division publishes a dataset of unclaimed estates — inheritances that nobody has claimed yet to inherit. The entries indicate the deceased person’s name, aliases, date/place of birth and death, marital status, and more. Related: California provides a dataset of unclaimed property, such as “lost or forgotten” bank accounts, insurance benefits, and stock holdings. | https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bona-vacantia
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/unclaimed-estates-list
https://sco.ca.gov/upd_download_property_records.html
https://sco.ca.gov/upd_msg.html | null | -0.077716 | 0.133593 | 2,333 | 9,275 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
1,609 | 2023.02.22 | 5 | Data journalists, surveyed. | The European Journalism Center’s DataJournalism.com has published a dataset of 1,800+ anonymized responses to its second annual State of Data Journalism Survey, including 50+ entries each from the US, UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, India, and Nigeria, plus double-digit counts from dozens of other countries. The questions touch on demographics, employment, training, skills, the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. [h/t Simona Bisiani] | https://ejc.net/
https://datajournalism.com/
https://github.com/ejcnet/stateofdatajournalism2022
https://datajournalism.com/survey/2022/ | https://twitter.com/BisianiSimona | -0.13896 | -0.508244 | 987 | 4,023 | 14 | -1 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,610 | 2023.03.01 | 1 | Congressional votes and ideology. | The Voteview project “allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history,” and places those votes in the context of ideology estimates along a liberal-to-conservative spectrum. The core estimates come from DW-NOMINATE, a method developed by the project’s directors emeritus, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal. Voteview’s bulk data includes ideology estimates for every member of the House and Senate since 1789, every vote taken in either chamber, and every member’s position on those votes. [h/t Philip Bump] | https://voteview.com/
https://voteview.com/about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_(scaling_method)
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/83232/
https://voteview.com/data
https://voteview.com/articles/data_help_members
https://voteview.com/articles/data_help_rollcalls
https://voteview.com/articles/data_help_votes | https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?s=63f0e8661b79c61f879a5b01 | 0.899708 | -0.304932 | 1,468 | 5,753 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,611 | 2023.03.01 | 2 | EPA-regulated facilities. | The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Facility Registry System “provides Internet access to a single source of comprehensive information about facilities, sites or places subject to environmental regulations or of environmental interest.” It includes each entity’s name, type, location, industry, regulatory programs, and more. That information, which spans millions of facilities, is “subjected to rigorous verification and data management quality assurance procedures.” The records also provide facilities’ ID numbers from other EPA systems, such as the agency’s Risk Management Program database featured in last week’s edition. [h/t Michael Allen] | https://www.epa.gov/frs
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/epa-risk-management-program-database/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-02-22-edition/ | https://carts.lsu.edu/about/staff/1 | -0.678822 | 0.237509 | 2,506 | 10,132 | 21 | -1 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
1,612 | 2023.03.01 | 3 | Programming languages. | PLDB is a database that describes several thousand programming languages, file formats, communications protocols, and other related concepts. Its downloads, available in several formats, provide information on the languages’ years announced, technical features, creators, countries and communities of origin, relevant books and URLs, popularity metrics, and more. [h/t Derek M. Jones] | https://pldb.com/
https://pldb.com/pages/about.html
https://pldb.com/docs/csv.html
https://github.com/breck7/pldb
https://pldb.com/lists/features.html | http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/ | 0.815315 | 0.54768 | 3,194 | 12,788 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
1,613 | 2023.03.01 | 4 | 20th-century occupations. | Between 1939 and 1991, the US government published several iterations of the now-discontinued Dictionary of Occupational Titles, a precursor to the O*NET database (DIP 2017.09.27). The dictionaries included job descriptions, classification codes, and cross-references, but are mostly available only as scans. So Shahad Althobaiti et al. organized the manual transcription of five major editions into structured text files. A random sample of 1939’s titles: punch-press operator, seam dampener, base brander, box pleater, and necktie finisher. | https://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/DOT/REFERENCES/DOTINTRO.HTM
https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-09-27-edition/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07073
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DQW8IP | null | -0.200539 | -0.329417 | 1,369 | 5,427 | 66 | 66 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
1,614 | 2023.03.01 | 5 | Thump, thump, coconut. | “Traditionally,” in the Philippines, “coconuts are classified into their maturity levels manually,” June Anne Caladcad and Eduardo Piedad Jr. write. “Traders often use their fingernails, knuckles, or the blunt end of the knife to tap the coconuts before assessing the sounds produced.” The authors and their colleagues have developed hardware and software to emulate that process, and used it to collect acoustic signal data from 129 premature, mature, and overmature coconuts, each mechanically knocked on each of its three ridges. | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923000549
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168169919324767
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/hxh8kd3snj | null | 0.0255 | 0.872166 | 3,808 | 15,297 | 0 | 0 | Biological Databases and Analysis | false |
1,615 | 2023.03.08 | 1 | Government contracting data, cataloged. | The nonprofit Open Contracting Partnership has launched a registry of government procurement datasets that use its Open Contracting Data Standard (featured in DIP 2020.02.26). The registry contains 100+ entries so far, across 50+ countries — from Argentina’s national roads authority and the city of Buenos Aires to Zambia’s Public Procurement Authority. You can filter the listings by dataset recency, update frequency, and the data types included (parties, awards, documents, amendments, et cetera). [h/t Georg Neumann] | https://www.open-contracting.org/about/
https://www.open-contracting.org/2023/02/23/a-new-registry-for-open-contracting-data/
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/
https://www.open-contracting.org/data-standard/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-02-26-edition/
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/18
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/17
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/3
https://data.open-contracting.org/en/search/
https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/schema/reference/#release-structure | https://twitter.com/georg_neu | 0.356034 | -0.093757 | 1,835 | 7,382 | 61 | -1 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
1,616 | 2023.03.08 | 2 | Debt-to-income ratios. | The US Federal Reserve generates quarterly statistics estimating the median ratio of household debt to income in each state, county, and metro area. The published maps and datasets, which go back to 1999, don’t include precise figures, but rather place each geographic unit into one of ten ranges. The income calculations come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the debt estimates (which do not include student loans) come from the New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel, “an anonymized 5 percent random sample of Americans with credit files at the credit reporting bureau Equifax.” As seen in: “Debt and Inequality” (American Inequality). | https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/household_debt/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/household-debt-to-income-ratios-in-the-enhanced-financial-accounts-20180109.html
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr479
https://americaninequality.substack.com/p/debt-and-inequality
https://www.americaninequality.io/ | null | -0.078545 | -0.078534 | 1,885 | 7,482 | 63 | -1 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
1,617 | 2023.03.08 | 3 | Changes of address. | In the “Frequently Requested Records” section of its online FOIA library, the US Postal Service provides datasets counting how many individuals, families, and businesses have registered for the agency’s change-of-address service, by month and ZIP code. The datasets tally the moves originating from a given ZIP code separately from those destined for it, although moves within the same ZIP code are counted on both sides of the ledger. Related: The companies to which USPS sells mover-level data. [h/t Tim Henderson] | https://about.usps.com/who/legal/foia/library.htm
https://postalpro.usps.com/ncoalink/Full_Service_Provider_Licensees | https://twitter.com/TimHendersonSL/status/1632119186540441603 | -0.228081 | -0.08419 | 1,880 | 7,473 | 59 | 59 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
1,618 | 2023.03.08 | 4 | Decades of UK prices. | In January 2023, the UK’s Office for National Statistics collected 139,000+ price quotes from thousands of stores and across hundreds of products, from “A4 PRINTER PAPER (500 REAM)” to “YORKSHIRE PUDDING FROZEN”. The agency has collected this kind of price-quote data for decades, using it to calculate inflation and price indices. Economist Richard Davies has aggregated the data going back to 1988 and standardized it, correcting misrecorded prices, offsetting measurement changes, among other efforts described in a 2021 working paper. | https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/datasets/consumerpriceindicescpiandretailpricesindexrpiitemindicesandpricequotes
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/adhocs/007392consumerpriceinflationpricequotes1988to1996
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices
https://richarddavies.io/about
https://richarddavies.io/research/prices
https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/occasional/op055.pdf | null | -0.053659 | 0.161687 | 2,398 | 9,532 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
1,619 | 2023.03.08 | 5 | Shows cut short. | IsItCutShort.com provides a searchable list of television shows that were canceled (e.g., Knight Rider), ended on a cliffhanger (The Sopranos), or both (Rubicon). The database provides each series’s title, cliffhanger and cancellation status, IMDB identifier, and occasional extra notes. A handful of the 130+ entries fit another category: shows that “ended without a cliffhanger, but more show content exists outside the show itself.” [h/t Dan Brady] | https://www.isitcutshort.com/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083437/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141842/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389371/
https://github.com/xdpirate/isitcutshort.com | https://danjbrady.com | 0.617495 | 0.788702 | 3,699 | 14,695 | 40 | -1 | Media Franchise APIs | false |
1,620 | 2023.03.15 | 1 | Bank financials, 1976–present. | The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s National Information Center “provides comprehensive financial and structure information on banks and other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest.” Its datasets include quarterly financial statements for bank holding companies, going back to 2016, plus detailed attributes of all active banks, 150,000+ banks closed since the mid-1930s (including Silicon Valley Bank), and 160,000+ bank branches. The agency also provides bank financials in the form of “call reports” going back to 2001. Earlier call reports, going back to 1976, are available from the Chicago Fed. Related: The FDIC’s list of failed banks since October 2000. [h/t Sergio Correia] | https://www.ffiec.gov/default.htm
https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/Home/About
https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/FinancialReport/FinancialDataDownload
https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/Help/InstitutionTypes#bhcs
https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/FinancialReport/DataDownload
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_Bank
https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/PWS/DownloadBulkData.aspx
https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/HelpFileContainers/FAQ.aspx
https://www.fdic.gov/resources/bankers/accounting/reports-of-condition-and-income/
https://www.chicagofed.org/banking/financial-institution-reports/commercial-bank-data
https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/failed-bank-list/ | http://scorreia.com/ | 0.162767 | -0.091032 | 1,893 | 7,498 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,621 | 2023.03.15 | 2 | Bank financials, 1867–1904. | Federal Reserve economists Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck have compiled a dataset of “annual national bank balance sheets for more than 7,000 unique national banks, covering the years 1867 to 1904.” They did so by “combining optical character recognition (OCR) techniques with modern layout separation techniques,” which allowed them to extract information from scans of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s annual reports to Congress. The data include asset and liability subtotals, receivership dates, city-level variables, and more. Related: Correia and Luck describe their methodology in a recent paper and open-access preprint. | http://scorreia.com/
https://sites.google.com/site/stephanluck/
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/03/insights-from-newly-digitized-banking-data-1867-1904/
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/banking_research/balance-sheet-national-bank
https://www.occ.treas.gov/
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/annual-report-comptroller-currency-56?browse=1860s
http://scorreia.com/data/call-reports.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014498322000535
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00052 | null | 0.132925 | -0.025555 | 2,020 | 8,008 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,622 | 2023.03.15 | 3 | Policies, categorized. | The Comparative Agendas Project “assembles and codes information on the policy processes of governments from around the world,” categorizing them into 20+ topics (e.g., “Civil Rights”) and 200+ subtopics (e.g., “Handicap Discrimination”). It “actively monitors thirty different data series,” which you can download and explore online, “all coded by this same predictable, reliable coding system.” Previously: CAP categorizations for a decade of NYT front-page stories (DIP 2018.04.25). [h/t E.J. Fagan] | https://www.comparativeagendas.net/pages/About
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/pages/master-codebook
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/datasets_codebooks
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/tool
http://www.amber-boydstun.com/supplementary-information-for-making-the-news.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-04-25-edition/ | https://www.ejfagan.com/ | 0.611405 | -0.428284 | 1,203 | 4,711 | 30 | -1 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,623 | 2023.03.15 | 4 | Irrigation by county and crop. | P. J. Ruess et al. have developed annual, county-level estimates of irrigation water use for 20 crop groups between 2008 and 2020. The calculations draw on water use data from the US Geological Survey, as well as high-resolution data on crop locations, climate, and more. They generate estimates for surface water withdrawals, groundwater withdrawals, and nonrenewable groundwater depletion, making the findings “the first national-scale assessment of irrigation by crop, water source, and year.” [h/t Mike Stucka] | https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022WR032804
https://databank.illinois.edu/datasets/IDB-4607538
https://water.usgs.gov/watuse/data/index.html
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/groundwater-decline-and-depletion | https://twitter.com/MikeStucka | -0.687814 | 0.660652 | 3,401 | 13,587 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,624 | 2023.03.15 | 5 | The market for X-Men. | Anderson Evans’s Mutant Moneyball project uses comic book market data to explore the financial value of individual X-Men characters. The project’s dataset provides decade-by-decade statistics for 26 members of the team, drawn from sales histories and pricing guides, as well as a matrix indicating the issues in which each character appeared. | https://andersonevans.me/
https://rallyrd.com/mutant-moneyball-a-data-driven-ultimate-x-men/
https://github.com/EliCash82/mutantmoneyball
https://github.com/EliCash82/mutantmoneyball/blob/main/MutantMoneyballOpenData.csv
https://github.com/EliCash82/mutantmoneyball/blob/main/MutantMoneyballAppearanceData.csv | null | 0.305579 | 0.579895 | 3,241 | 13,011 | 79 | 79 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
1,625 | 2023.03.22 | 1 | Civilian harm in Ukraine. | Researchers at Bellingcat and contributors to its Global Authentication Project have assembled a map and dataset of 1,000+ incidents “that have resulted in potential civilian impact or harm since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.” They include incidents “where rockets or missiles struck civilian areas,” “where attacks have resulted in the destruction of civilian infrastructure,” and/or where visual evidence depicts civilian injuries or “immobile civilian bodies.” The information, collected from public sources and vetted by Bellingcat, includes each incident’s date, location, description, sources, type of area affected, and type of weapon system (if known). [h/t Philip Bump] | https://www.bellingcat.com/about/
https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/bellingcat-uses-open-source-information-to-expose-wrongdoing
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/02/24/russias-assault-on-daily-life-in-ukraine/
https://ukraine.bellingcat.com/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/03/17/hospitals-bombed-and-apartments-destroyed-mapping-incidents-of-civilian-harm-in-ukraine/ | https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?s=63fa229e1b79c61f87a893e0 | 0.395971 | -0.622402 | 812 | 3,161 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,626 | 2023.03.22 | 2 | Aid for Ukraine. | Christoph Trebesch et al.’s Ukraine Support Tracker “lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war.” The 1,400+ entries in the tracker’s dataset include contributions and commitments from 40 governments, plus several European Union institutions. (It does not include aid from NGOs and other non-state entities.) Each entry indicates the country, announcement date, type of aid, total value, description, sources, and more. The tracker’s next update is scheduled for March 29. | https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/kiel-working-papers/2022/the-ukraine-support-tracker-which-countries-help-ukraine-and-how-17204/
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/data-sets/ukraine-support-tracker-data-17410/ | null | 0.164328 | -0.494832 | 1,061 | 4,170 | 18 | -1 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
1,627 | 2023.03.22 | 3 | Municipal incorporations. | Christopher B. Goodman, a professor of public administration, has consulted a range of state-level sources to compile a dataset listing the year of incorporation for 18,000+ municipalities in the United States. The dataset, which covers nearly 96% of all active municipalities, also provides each place’s name, state, coordinates, canonical ID in the Census, and more. Read more: In a Twitter thread, Goodman explains why he undertook the effort and shares a couple of visualizations. [h/t Maggie Lee] | https://cgoodman.com/
https://github.com/cbgoodman/muni-incorporation
https://twitter.com/cbgoodman/status/1631705180201943040 | http://maggielee.net/ | -0.154476 | 0.037546 | 2,139 | 8,502 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
1,628 | 2023.03.22 | 4 | Political podcasts. | The Popular Political Podcast Dataset, developed by the Brookings Institution’s Valerie Wirtschafter and Chris Meserole, covers 50,000+ episodes from 100+ “prominent political podcast series” — the latter based on Apple Podcasts’ popularity rankings and its “You Might Also Like” recommendations. Updated daily and explorable online, the dataset provides each episode’s name, description, air date, and URL, plus the series name, partisan leaning, and Apple Podcasts category. | https://politicalpodcastproject.shinyapps.io/dataset/
https://www.brookings.edu/author/valerie-wirtschafter/
https://www.brookings.edu/experts/chris-meserole/ | null | 0.825072 | -0.113476 | 1,850 | 7,284 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,629 | 2023.03.22 | 5 | Stop signs. | The City of Los Angeles publishes the location and orientation of 50,000+ local stop signs (plus a few yield signs). Other cities offering similar datasets include Houston, San Francisco, Detroit, Topeka, Menlo Park, and London, Ontario. Related: OpenStreetMap’s dataset features nearly 1.4 million stop signs located across the world. [h/t Matt Stiles] | https://geohub.lacity.org/datasets/lahub::stop-and-yield-signs/about
https://geohub.houstontx.gov/datasets/625faeaffe924a0c968f216bf3c321fc_1/about
https://data.sfgov.org/Transportation/Stop-Signs/4542-gpa3
https://data.detroitmi.gov/datasets/detroitmi::traffic-sign-locations/about
https://data.topeka.org/datasets/Topeka::topeka-stop-signs/about
https://data.menlopark.org/datasets/MenloPark::stop-signs/about
https://opendata.london.ca/datasets/51b53a163cf64681a057c397208637d6_5/about
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dstop
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/highway%3Dstop#map | https://twitter.com/stiles/status/1627044761172602881 | -0.48 | 0.166859 | 2,384 | 9,505 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
1,630 | 2023.03.29 | 1 | Local public meetings. | LocalView, developed by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko, “is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.” In a recent paper, the authors describe how they built the dataset, which is based on 130,000+ YouTube-hosted videos of such meetings in 1,000+ US cities and counties, covering the years 2006 to 2022. The dataset lists each meeting’s date, jurisdiction, and government body (e.g., municipal council, school board, etc.), plus the video’s ID, title, channel, transcript, and more. [h/t Chris Goodman] | https://localview.net/
https://soubhikbarari.com/
https://tylersimko.com/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02044-y
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NJTBEM | https://twitter.com/cbgoodman/status/1636070353930682374 | 0.879838 | -0.248199 | 1,596 | 6,264 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,631 | 2023.03.29 | 2 | Health workers. | The World Health Organization’s Global Health Workforce Statistics database presents annual, national estimates of the number of medical doctors, nursing and midwifery professionals, community health workers, and several other types of health personnel. The estimates come from the WHO’s National Health Workforce Accounts system, national censuses, labor force surveys, and other sources. For medical doctors, the estimates span nearly 200 countries, with the majority having estimates as recent as 2020 or 2021. Twenty countries’ estimates go back to the 1960s (and, for Spain, all the way back to 1952). [h/t Datasketch] | https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/health-workforce
https://www.who.int/activities/improving-health-workforce-data-and-evidence | https://www.datasketch.co/newsletter/data-journalism/issue-23-everything-is-getting-more-expensive/ | -0.280493 | -0.636052 | 727 | 2,990 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,632 | 2023.03.29 | 3 | Kremlin posts. | Giorgio Comai’s “text as data & data in the text” project “aims at facilitating structured analysis of on-line contents related to conflicts in the post-Soviet space by providing easier access to relevant datasets and tools.” Those datasets include the URL, title, text, date, and other metadata of all posts published on the Kremlin’s English-language website since the year 2000; on the Kremlin’s Russian-language website; and by Zavtra since late 1996. Previously: Foreign ministry statements (DIP 2022.03.09). [h/t EDJNet] | https://giorgiocomai.eu/
https://tadadit.xyz/about/about.html
https://tadadit.xyz/
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/kremlin.ru_en/
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/kremlin.ru_ru/
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/zavtra.ru_ru/
https://focusdataproject.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-03-09-edition/ | https://mailchi.mp/4370094fc2e6/rtkppffzok-13646506 | 0.659772 | -0.26822 | 1,525 | 5,994 | 30 | -1 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,633 | 2023.03.29 | 4 | Carbon capture projects. | The National Energy Technology Laboratory maintains a map and dataset of carbon capture and storage projects “active, proposed, and terminated” in 30+ countries since the 1970s. The latest version of the dataset includes 400+ entries, slightly more than are on the map. It lists each project’s name, company, location, date, type, scope, magnitude, status, technology, cost, summary, and other details. As seen in: “What is carbon capture and storage? Where is it happening in the US?” (USAFacts). | https://netl.doe.gov/about/mission-overview
https://netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-storage/worldwide-ccs-database
https://netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-storage/faqs/carbon-storage-faqs
https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-carbon-capture-and-storage-where-is-it-happening-in-the-us/ | null | -0.808087 | 0.353284 | 2,758 | 11,020 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
1,634 | 2023.03.29 | 5 | Milan drinking fountains. | Milan’s government publishes a dataset of 600+ local vedovelle, the distinctive (green, cast iron, dragon-headed) drinking fountains that dot the city. The dataset provides each fountain’s coordinates, municipal zone, and neighborhood. As seen in: “Tutto sulle fontanelle di Milano,” with a map of the locations, by Il Post’s Isaia Invernizzi. | https://dati.comune.milano.it/it/dataset/ds502_fontanelle-nel-comune-di-milano
https://memorialdrinkingfountains.wordpress.com/2019/03/30/vedovelle-fountains/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalities_of_Milan
https://www.ilpost.it/2022/06/27/fontanelle-vedovelle-milano/
https://twitter.com/easyinve | null | -0.299948 | 0.282341 | 2,646 | 10,540 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,635 | 2023.04.05 | 1 | Treasury transactions. | The US Treasury’s Daily Treasury Statement dataset paints a near-real-time picture of the federal government’s purse. The eight tables provide data on “operating cash balance, deposits and withdrawals of cash, public debt transactions, federal tax deposits, income tax refunds issued,” and more. The table of deposits and withdrawals, for example, indicates the total value (rounded to the nearest $1 million) of transactions each day, by type and category (e.g., “Economic Recovery Programs,” “Defense Vendor Payments,” etc.). The records, available to download in bulk or via API, go back to October 2005. As seen in: “Can a billionaire die without anyone noticing? The mystery behind a remarkable $7 billion tax payment.” (Tim Fernholz, Quartz). [h/t Walt Hickey] | https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/daily-treasury-statement/operating-cash-balance
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/api-documentation/
https://qz.com/can-a-billionaire-die-without-anyone-noticing-1850268606
https://timfernholz.com/about | https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-march-28-2023-crocs | 0.208776 | -0.115094 | 1,830 | 7,245 | 62 | -1 | Government Financial Data | false |
1,636 | 2023.04.05 | 2 | European buildings. | EUBUCCO is a “database of individual building footprints for 200+ million buildings across the 27 European Union countries and Switzerland, together with three main attributes – building type, height and construction year – included for respectively 45%, 74%, 24% of the buildings.” The researchers, who describe their methodology in a recent paper, collected and standardized the information from 50 open government datasets and OpenStreetMap. They then “perform[ed] extensive validation analyses to assess the quality, consistency and completeness of the data in every country.” You can browse the data online, download it, and access the underlying code. | https://eubucco.com/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02040-2
https://eubucco.com/data/map
https://eubucco.com/data/
https://github.com/ai4up/eubucco | null | -0.30438 | 0.352082 | 2,774 | 11,052 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,637 | 2023.04.05 | 3 | 911 service areas. | Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) are, essentially, the call centers to which 911 calls are routed. A while ago, the US government hired a contractor to compile a dataset of the service area boundaries for each of the country’s PSAPs, “the geographic area within which a 911 call placed using a landline is answered at the associated PSAP.” Although some of that information has likely changed since the dataset’s publication in 2009, the records may still be useful for certain purposes. Related: The FCC’s 911 Master PSAP Registry, which doesn’t include service boundaries but does provide the name, state, county, and ID of 6,000+ primary PSAPs, plus 2,700+ PSAPs listed as “secondary,” “duplicate,” or “orphaned.” [h/t Maddy Varner + Mike Thompson] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_safety_answering_point
https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/geoplatform::psap-911-service-area-boundaries/explore
https://www.fcc.gov/general/9-1-1-master-psap-registry | https://maddy.zone/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-thompson-871773a/ | -0.341626 | -0.461793 | 1,109 | 4,394 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
1,638 | 2023.04.05 | 4 | Lists of medical codes. | OpenCodelists is “an open platform for creating and sharing codelists of clinical terms and drugs,” built by the University of Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team. The platform supports several coding systems, including ICD-10 and SNOWMED CT. The lists can refer to groups of symptoms, diagnoses, medications, and more. Public lists note their creators and coding system; you can view each list’s codes online, or download them as a CSV. [h/t Ben Goldacre] | https://www.opencodelists.org/
https://www.opensafely.org/
https://www.opencodelists.org/docs/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOMED_CT | https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1393173321378844675 | 0.454482 | 0.116107 | 2,286 | 9,181 | 55 | 55 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
1,639 | 2023.04.05 | 5 | Midwestern mollusks. | The Illinois Natural History Survey’s mollusk collection contains 500,000+ specimens, cataloged into 90,000+ lots, some gathered more than a century ago. “The collection is strong in freshwater mussels (Unionoida), freshwater and terrestrial snails from the Midwestern U.S. and cone shells (Conoidea),” as well as “freshwater bivalves and gastropods from the Southeastern U.S., Central, and South America.” For each lot, the collection’s dataset lists the genus, species, number of specimens, date and location collected, and more. Related: INHS’s other collections. [h/t Meredith Broussard] | https://inhs.illinois.edu/about/about-inhs/
https://mollusk.inhs.illinois.edu/
https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=49
https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php | https://meredithbroussard.com/ | -0.272058 | 0.912278 | 3,927 | 15,662 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,640 | 2023.04.12 | 1 | Jail rosters. | The NYU Public Safety Lab’s Jail Data Initiative has built a fleet of web scrapers to gather and process daily roster data from 1,000+ US city and county jails. The project’s aggregate metrics include the number of people in these jails each day, the daily numbers of people newly incarcerated and released, and how long people have been held (among those released). You can filter and download these counts by age, gender, and race. Profiles of individual jails also list the most common charges and the overall demographics of people held there. The time frames available vary by jail, but mostly begin in 2020 or 2021. You can also apply for access to person-level records. [h/t Adam Vine + Orion Taylor] | https://publicsafetylab.org/
https://jaildatainitiative.org/
https://jaildatainitiative.org/documentation/architecture
https://jaildatainitiative.org/documentation/scrapers
https://jaildatainitiative.org/documentation/about
https://jaildatainitiative.org/dashboards/population
https://jaildatainitiative.org/profile
https://jaildatainitiative.org/dua | https://twitter.com/cagefreerepair
https://twitter.com/orionjtaylor/status/1637878248230076417 | 0.046245 | -0.981256 | 33 | 194 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,641 | 2023.04.12 | 2 | Sanctions enforcement. | Political scientists Bryan R. Early and Keith A. Preble have assembled a dataset of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanctions-related penalties, settlements, and findings of violation since 2003. To do so, they combed through the agency’s mostly-PDF-based archive of these enforcement actions. Each of the dataset’s 1,000+ entries indicates the action date, type, and monetary amount; entity name, type, location, and sector; the specific sanctions programs violated; and more. Previously: OFAC’s sanctions lists (DIP 2018.02.21) and OpenSanctions (DIP 2021.09.08). | https://sites.google.com/site/bryanrearly/home
https://poliscikeith.com/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2020.1722850
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/TIFRTT
https://ofac.treasury.gov/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=6988628&version=5.1
https://ofac.treasury.gov/civil-penalties-and-enforcement-information
https://ofac.treasury.gov/other-ofac-sanctions-lists
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-21-edition/
https://opensanctions.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-09-08-edition/ | null | 0.351172 | -0.27932 | 1,515 | 5,974 | 61 | -1 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
1,642 | 2023.04.12 | 3 | Border surveillance. | The Electronic Frontier Foundation has constructed a map and dataset of 340+ Customs and Border Protection surveillance towers along the US-Mexico border. “Compiled using public records, satellite imagery, road trips, and even exploration in virtual reality,” the dataset indicates each tower’s location, name, type, and vendor; it also links to sources and satellite imagery. Separate entries list potential future towers proposed by CBP and automated license plate readers at CBP checkpoints. [h/t Corin Faife] | https://www.eff.org/about
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/cbp-expanding-its-surveillance-tower-program-us-mexico-border-and-were-mapping-it
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1bxUGeOT6vVXu0jFQhDLxgktLFLVOKsI&ll=29.681163559249427,-107.321836295&z=5
https://www.eff.org/document/us-mexico-border-surveillance-data
https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr | https://twitter.com/corintxt | -0.378394 | 0.221107 | 2,515 | 10,023 | 51 | 51 | Surveillance and Mapping Data | false |
1,643 | 2023.04.12 | 4 | Flash flooding in urban England. | ClimateNode’s Helen Jackson has created a dataset and series of interactive maps of recent summertime flash flooding in urban England. To construct the dataset, Jackson “analysed approximately 17,400 articles about flooding from around 300 newspaper websites,” and then used natural language processing to “extract the names of streets, buildings and other places affected” — some 2,800+ locations in all, corresponding to 56 flooding events since 2010. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://www.climatenode.org/index.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-jackson-28926285/
https://www.climatenode.org/maps/about_UFF_maps.html
https://www.climatenode.org/maps/UFFEdoc.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing | https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/511-quantum-of-sollazzo/ | -0.684977 | 0.82249 | 3,722 | 14,868 | 29 | -1 | Disaster and Flood Data | false |
1,644 | 2023.04.12 | 5 | Dutch textile shipments. | The Dutch Textile Trade Project “aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by examining data drawn from trade records alongside samples of textiles and visual culture depicting textiles in use.” The 22,000+ entries in the project’s main dataset each represent a shipment from one port to another; they indicate the textile type, quantity, and value, shipment date, supplier, and more. [h/t Dan Bouk] | https://dutchtextiletrade.org/
https://dutchtextiletrade.org/data/ | https://www.shroudedincloaksofboringness.com/democracysdata/ | 0.049174 | 0.257778 | 2,593 | 10,307 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,645 | 2023.04.19 | 1 | Municipal zoning rules. | Matt Mleczko and Matthew Desmond, of Princeton’s Eviction Lab (DIP 2018.04.18), have developed a method for extracting structured information from the text of local zoning regulations. Their National Zoning and Land Use Database covers 2,600+ cities, towns, and other municipalities — a sample drawn from the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index’s prior, survey-based research. The database includes dozens of indicators, such as whether the rules specify annual limits on several types of permits, allow any accessory dwelling units, require various review-board approvals, impose parking space minimums, and more. These factors then feed into the authors’ Zoning Restrictiveness Index, which they calculate at a municipal and metro-area level. | https://mattmleczko.scholar.princeton.edu/
https://matthewdesmond.scholar.princeton.edu/
https://evictionlab.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-04-18-edition/
https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/2YGAQ9JE5S6PYXHVTBZG/full
https://github.com/mtmleczko/nzlud
https://real-faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/gyourko/land-use-survey/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_suite
https://evictionlab.org/zoning-restrictiveness-index/ | null | -0.339263 | 0.105928 | 2,261 | 9,002 | 48 | -1 | New York City Housing Data | false |
1,646 | 2023.04.19 | 2 | AI incidents. | The AI Incident Database “is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems.” The open-source project is “managed in a participatory manner,” with a board of directors, submissions from the public, and a team of reviewers guided by a set of definitions and decision criteria. So far, it has cataloged 500+ incidents and 2,500+ reports, which you can search and filter by entity, category, date, and other facets. You can also download full snapshots of the database. [h/t Sasha Anderson] | https://incidentdatabase.ai/
https://github.com/responsible-ai-collaborative/aiid
https://incidentdatabase.ai/about/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/editors-guide/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/apps/discover/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/entities/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/taxonomies/
https://incidentdatabase.ai/research/snapshots/ | https://twitter.com/sashananderson | 0.339149 | -0.556861 | 938 | 3,669 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,647 | 2023.04.19 | 3 | State bill trajectories. | Political scientist Alex Garlick has published a dataset categorizing bills’ trajectories in state legislatures. It follows each proposed law’s journey along 23 possible steps, which range from “First Reading (first chamber)” to “Bill enacted.” The dataset spans more than 1 million bills tracked by OpenStates (DIP 2020.09.30), with full coverage for all 50 states for 2011–18 and partial coverage for some earlier and later years. Read more: “Bicameralism Hinges on Legislative Professionalism,” Garlick and Adam R. Brown’s recent paper (and preprint) using this data. | https://www.alexgarlick.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/8PTHXT
https://openstates.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-09-30-edition/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lsq.12422
https://adambrown.info/
https://adambrown.info/docs/research/brown-garlick-2023-bicameralism.pdf | null | 0.821757 | -0.259267 | 1,530 | 6,132 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,648 | 2023.04.19 | 4 | Rare-earth mining. | Shuang-Liang Liu et al. have compiled a dataset of 146 mining projects targeting rare-earth elements, which serve as “critical raw materials in many low-carbon technologies.” The dataset lists each project’s name, company, location, status, deposit type, estimated tonnage of deposits, element composition, and other details sourced from “company annual reports and public presentations, government reports, and papers in various scientific journals.” | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169136823001439
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169136823001439#s0060
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element | null | -0.543044 | 0.404496 | 2,830 | 11,421 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
1,649 | 2023.04.19 | 5 | “Pirate radio” enforcement. | The Federal Communications Commission publishes a dashboard and dataset of its “pirate radio” enforcement actions, part of the agency’s crackdown against the “unauthorized transmission of radio frequency signals on the frequencies in or adjacent to the FM and AM radio bands.” The 38 entries list the entity targeted, state/territory, radio frequency, enforcement type, date issued, and penalty amount. They go back to early 2020, when Congress passed the PIRATE Act. Related: Congressional acronym abuse, 1973-2013. [h/t Jon Keegan] | https://www.fcc.gov/pirate-database
https://opendata.fcc.gov/stories/s/wgq8-eb5c
https://opendata.fcc.gov/Pirate-Radio-Enforcement/Pirate-Radio-Broadcasting-Database/xqgr-24et
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-first-pirate-act-fines-totaling-more-2-million
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/583
https://noahveltman.com/acronyms/ | https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/ | 0.470422 | -0.099797 | 1,839 | 7,390 | 41 | -1 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
1,650 | 2023.04.26 | 1 | Drinking water violations. | Through the Safe Drinking Water Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency sets baseline standards for the country’s ~150,000 public water systems. Although enforcement is mostly delegated to the states and territories, all monitoring, violation, and enforcement data is reported to the EPA and stored in its Safe Drinking Water Information System. The agency provides bulk downloads of the data, going back decades, plus a search tool and dashboard. As seen in: “Which cities have health issues with their drinking water?” (USAFacts). Related: Sara Hughes et al.’s Municipal Drinking Water Database, which connects information about 2,000+ municipal water systems to local demographic, government, climate, and political indicators. [h/t Greg Pierce] | https://www.epa.gov/sdwa
https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/information-about-public-water-systems
https://echo.epa.gov/help/sdwa-faqs
https://www.epa.gov/enviro/sdwis-overview
https://echo.epa.gov/tools/data-downloads#dwdownloads
https://echo.epa.gov/tools/data-downloads/sdwa-download-summary
https://www.epa.gov/enviro/sdwis-search
https://echo.epa.gov/trends/comparative-maps-dashboards/drinking-water-dashboard?state=National
https://usafacts.org/articles/which-cities-have-health-issues-with-their-drinking-water/
https://journals.plos.org/water/article?id=10.1371/journal.pwat.0000081
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DFB6NG | https://twitter.com/gregspierce/status/1636090987738206208 | -0.666406 | 0.511444 | 3,082 | 12,309 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
1,651 | 2023.04.26 | 2 | Childcare prices. | The National Database of Childcare Prices, launched in January by the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau, “is the most comprehensive federal source of childcare prices at the county level.” For each county and year from 2008 to 2018, the dataset provides estimates of the median and 75th-percentile weekly cost, disaggregated by provider type and child age. The estimates are calculated from the market surveys the federal Child Care and Development Fund requires participating states to conduct. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen] | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/featured-childcare
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/wb/wb20230124
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WB/media/NationalDatabaseofChildcarePricesTechnicalGuideFinal.pdf
https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/equal-access-and-market-rate-surveys | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/062d1fc66219f9f954ed66592d2633477a40c264 | -0.104384 | -0.21241 | 1,628 | 6,457 | 63 | 63 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
1,652 | 2023.04.26 | 3 | Kinship terms. | Kinbank is a browseable and downloadable database of family-tree nomenclature for 1,000+ spoken languages, across 100+ types of relationships. Examples include ahätatum (Akkadian for one’s younger sister), yerudê (Galibi Carib for one’s husband’s brother’s wife), and ɗan’ùbā (Hausa for one’s paternal half-brother). As the project’s team describes in a recent paper, they’ve collected these “kinship terminologies” mostly from secondary sources, which “ranged from ethnographies and grammars, to simpler descriptions like wordlists”; those sources “are primarily in Roman script […] and can contain transcription inconsistencies across languages.” | http://www.kinbank.net/
https://github.com/kinbank/kinbank
http://www.kinbank.net/languages/
http://www.kinbank.net/languages/akka1240/
http://www.kinbank.net/languages/gali1262/
http://www.kinbank.net/languages/haus1257/
https://excd.org/research-activities/kinbank/
https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157986/ | null | 0.860214 | 0.520932 | 3,131 | 12,535 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
1,653 | 2023.04.26 | 4 | Art history allocations. | For her undergraduate thesis, “Quantifying Art Historical Narratives,” Holland Stam measured the amount of space (in text and in images) devoted to each artwork and artist in 25 editions of two major art history textbooks: Gardner’s Art Through the Ages and Janson’s History of Art. Stam’s thesis repository includes the measurement data, which also indicates each artist’s nationality, gender, race, and ethnicity. Related: An R package for the data. As seen in: “Resampling to understand gender in #TidyTuesday art history data,” a post and screencast by Julia Silge. | https://github.com/hollandstam1/thesis/blob/main/_book/Quantifying-Art-Historical-Narratives.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner%27s_Art_Through_the_Ages
https://www.worldcat.org/title/373059219
https://github.com/hollandstam1/thesis
https://github.com/hollandstam1/thesis/tree/main/raw-data
https://saralemus7.github.io/arthistory/
https://juliasilge.com/blog/art-history/
https://juliasilge.com/ | null | 0.327564 | 0.650374 | 3,370 | 13,524 | 79 | -1 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
1,654 | 2023.04.26 | 5 | The Morrow Plots. | The University of Illinois’ Morrow Plots, established in 1876, “are the oldest experimental crop field in America and the second oldest in the world.” An interdisciplinary team has compiled, cleaned, and standardized the experiment’s archival records (such as this notebook). For each year and plot, their dataset lists the crop, date of planting, treatment plan, amount of various substances applied, yield per acre, and more. | https://aces.illinois.edu/research/history/morrow-plots
https://aces.illinois.edu/news/oldest-us-agricultural-plots-go-digital-130-years-data-now-online
https://github.com/SandiCal/morrow-plots-public
https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/259e2e70-3ed0-0138-717e-02d0d7bfd6e4-3
https://databank.illinois.edu/datasets/IDB-7865141 | null | -0.278773 | 0.652952 | 3,351 | 13,486 | 20 | -1 | Forest and Land Data | false |
1,655 | 2023.05.10 | 1 | Prison demographics. | In a recent paper in Nature, Brennan Klein et al. describe how they “manually assembled and validated a dataset covering all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to both quantify the widening racial disparity observed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and uncover its plausible causes.” Their Dataset on Incarcerated Populations provides the monthly number (or interpolated estimates) of people, by race/ethnicity, in each prison system. The dataset goes back at least to 2010 for most states; for 18 states, it also includes admission/release counts. Related: The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ annual data on prison demographics, which provide state-level counts by sex but not race/ethnicity. Previously: The Vera Institute’s Incarceration Trends Dataset (DIP 2019.01.02) and NYU Public Safety Lab’s Jail Data Initiative (DIP 2023.04.12). [h/t Shawn Musgrave] | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05980-2
https://github.com/jkbren/incarcerated-populations-data
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05980-2#MOESM1
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/list?series_filter=Prisoners
https://github.com/vera-institute/incarceration-trends
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-01-02-edition/
https://jaildatainitiative.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-04-12-edition/ | https://twitter.com/ShawnMusgrave/status/1648729222817382401 | 0.006073 | -0.953218 | 96 | 320 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,656 | 2023.05.10 | 2 | More AI incidents. | The AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Incidents and Controversies initiative, founded by Charlie Pownall in 2019, maintains a repository of such events, as well as related systems (e.g., GPT-4) and datasets (e.g., Labeled Faces in the Wild). The project’s spreadsheet features 1,000+ entries, each listing a title, type, year, country, sector, operator, purpose, and more — and linking to more detailed descriptions on AIAAIC’s website. Previously: The AI Incident Database (DIP 2023.04.19). | https://www.aiaaic.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliepownall/
https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/aiaaic-repository-governance
https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/about-the-aiaaic-repository
https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-and-algorithmic-incidents-and-controversies/gpt-4-large-language-model
https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-and-algorithmic-incidents-and-controversies/labeled-faces-in-the-wild-lfw-dataset
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bn55B4xz21-_Rgdr8BBb2lt0n_4rzLGxFADMlVW0PYI/edit
https://incidentdatabase.ai/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-04-19-edition/ | null | 0.387397 | -0.550945 | 940 | 3,672 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,657 | 2023.05.10 | 3 | Blocked rail crossings. | “As rail profits soar, blocked crossings force kids to crawl under trains to get to school,” a recent investigation by ProPublica and InvestigateTV has found. In addition to on-the-ground reporting, photos, and video, the article cites the Federal Railroad Administration’s database of blocked crossing complaints. The database’s ~70,000 reports, going back to December 2019, each list a crossing ID, street, city, state, railroad, reported incident date, duration, reason, impacts, and additional comments. Related: The FRA’s database of all rail crossings. [h/t Tom Hughes] | https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern
https://www.propublica.org/
https://www.investigatetv.com/
https://www.fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings/incidents
https://www.fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings/
https://railroads.dot.gov/safety-data/crossing-and-inventory-data/crossing-inventory-lookup
https://railroads.dot.gov/crossing-and-inventory-data/grade-crossing-inventory/highwayrail-crossing-database-files | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmh176/ | -0.533572 | -0.100998 | 1,806 | 7,325 | 38 | -1 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
1,658 | 2023.05.10 | 4 | Grammatical phenomena. | Grambank, the result of a collaboration involving 100+ linguists, examines a range of grammatical phenomena, “from word order to verbal tense, nominal plurals, and many other well-studied comparative linguistic variables.” The project’s dataset, available to download and explore online, spans 195 such features across 2,400+ languages and dialects. For instance, here’s the page for feature GB030, which asks, “Is there a gender distinction in independent 3rd person pronouns?” [h/t Robin Sloan] | https://grambank.clld.org/
https://www.mpg.de/20186271/0418-evan-grambank-shows-the-diversity-of-the-world-s-languages-150495-x
https://grambank.clld.org/contributors
https://github.com/grambank/grambank
https://grambank.clld.org/parameters
https://grambank.clld.org/languages
https://grambank.clld.org/parameters/GB030#2/21.0/152.1 | https://www.robinsloan.com/ | 0.866021 | 0.524705 | 3,131 | 12,535 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
1,659 | 2023.05.10 | 5 | Planetary nomenclature. | The International Astronomical Union’s Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature “provides a unique system of official names for planetary surface features, natural satellites, dwarf planets, and planetary rings for the benefit of the international science community, educators, and the general public.” You can browse, search, and the download the data, as well as view images of their locations. As seen in: Cinzia Bongino’s The Names on the Moon. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | http://www.iau.org/
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/AdvancedSearch
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/GIS_Downloads
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Images
https://www.cinziabongino.com/
https://www.behance.net/gallery/168652141/The-Names-on-the-Moon | https://buttondown.email/duncangeere/archive/a-lot-of-light-a-little-refreshing/ | -0.538513 | 0.923764 | 3,918 | 15,773 | 34 | -1 | Geospatial and Environmental Data | false |
1,660 | 2023.05.17 | 1 | Controlled substances lost and stolen. | In response to a Data Liberation Project Freedom of Information Act request, the US Drug Enforcement Administration last week sent me data counting the thefts and other losses of controlled substances and “listed chemicals” that regulated entities have reported to the agency. The DEA provided the records as two spreadsheet files, which I’ve also converted into tidy CSVs. They indicate the number of incidents by state, type of business (pharmacy, importer, distributor, etc.), and type of loss (burglary, hijacking, natural disaster, etc.), plus the total quantities stolen/lost. Read more: Yesterday’s Data Liberation Project newsletter, featuring some numbers that caught my eye. | https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/controlled-substance-theft-and-loss/
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/chem_prog/34chems.htm
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/tree/main/data/raw
https://github.com/data-liberation-project/dea-theft-and-loss-counts/tree/main/data/tidy
https://buttondown.email/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-8/ | null | -0.533681 | -0.382312 | 1,230 | 5,021 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
1,661 | 2023.05.17 | 2 | International case law. | “The quantitative analysis of international legal data is still in its infancy, a situation which is exacerbated by the lack of high-quality open access data sets,” writes Seán Fobbe in a 2022 paper in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. To this end, Fobbe’s “present[s] the first two of a new series” of such resources, “covering one hundred years of case law of the primary judicial organs of the United Nations and the League of Nations.” The datasets — for the Permanent Court of International Justice (covering 1922–1940) and for the International Court of Justice (1947–present) — include case metadata, linguistic metrics, and the full text (in English and French) of the courts’ opinions, orders, and other key documents. | https://seanfobbe.com/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.12313
https://zenodo.org/record/7051934
https://zenodo.org/record/7876286 | null | 0.761543 | -0.589079 | 888 | 3,440 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
1,662 | 2023.05.17 | 3 | ICE database misconduct. | “Since 2016, hundreds of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have faced internal investigations into abuse of confidential law enforcement databases and agency computers,” Dhruv Mehrotra reports in Wired, based on disciplinary database records Mehrotra obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. ICE provided 414 rows of records. Each represents an alleged misconduct incident and provides a summary, date of occurrence, date reported, location, several categorizations, case resolution, and more. Wired has also added a column identifying the database in question, based on the summary. [h/t Andrew Couts + Sebastian Lammers] | https://www.wired.com/story/ice-agent-database-abuse-records/
https://airtable.com/shrodU77cgvD2e8dc/tblwELYkSA0fNXgKF | https://mastodon.social/@couts/110213868275915332
https://vis.social/@seblammers | 0.105989 | -0.669148 | 675 | 2,758 | 9 | -1 | Data Analysis and Disclosure | false |
1,663 | 2023.05.17 | 4 | Weighted, inflation-adjusted exchange rates. | A country’s real effective exchange rate is its average exchange rate with its trading partners, weighted by trade volume and adjusted for inflation. Economist Zsolt Darvas maintains a dataset that estimates these rates for 178 countries and the eurozone, by month and year. The project, which updates a dataset and methodology Darvas first published in 2012, uses data from international organizations, national statistics offices, and central banks. | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reer.asp
https://www.bruegel.org/people/zsolt-darvas
https://www.bruegel.org/publications/datasets/real-effective-exchange-rates-for-178-countries-a-new-database
https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/timely-measurement-real-effective-exchange-rates
https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/real-effective-exchange-rates-178-countries-new-database | null | 0.038797 | 0.051635 | 2,145 | 8,642 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,664 | 2023.05.17 | 5 | Collective nouns. | Daniel E. Meyers has consulted dozens of sources to compile The Collective Noun Catalog, which presents an inundation of 7,300+ such constructs, such as a pulse of cardiologists and a warren of wombats. The project’s spreadsheet lists each collective noun’s subject, category, notes, and primary sources — some of which date to the 1400s. | https://sites.miamioh.edu/meyersde/
https://sites.miamioh.edu/meyersde/the-collective-noun-catalog/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xCYrcJYhZVHNaF2J5oIgiFsROF--ZDzl68VFS8HzNUQ/edit | null | 0.658956 | 0.444214 | 2,997 | 11,882 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
1,665 | 2023.05.24 | 1 | Aviation accident investigations. | Through its Case Analysis and Reporting Online service, the National Transportation Safety Board provides information about all US civil aviation accident investigations since 1983; another NTSB tool includes earlier cases, going back to 1963. The agency also provides bulk data downloads, covering the full span. Those files link each investigated event to details regarding the aircraft involved, engines, crew, injuries/fatalities, narratives, findings, and more. Related: In February, the agency launched an interactive dashboard summarizing accidents from 2012 to 2021. [h/t Gary Price] | https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/landing-page
https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQuery.aspx
https://data.ntsb.gov/avdata
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20230215.aspx
https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/GeneralAviationDashboard.aspx | https://www.infodocket.com/2023/02/17/new-research-resource-ntsb-releases-data-visualization-tool-for-general-aviation-accidents/ | -0.650314 | -0.190937 | 1,611 | 6,550 | 38 | 38 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
1,666 | 2023.05.24 | 2 | The top of BuzzFeed News. | You’ve likely heard: BuzzFeed Inc. has shut down BuzzFeed News, where I worked from 2014 to early 2022. In July 2018, the newsroom launched its own website, BuzzFeedNews.com, distinct from BuzzFeed.com. The top of the new homepage featured a “Trending” strip, with links to a handful of editor-selected articles. A few months later, I wrote a computer script to save the text, URL, and position of each link on the strip. My personal server ran that script every five minutes (with occasional interruptions) until the newsroom’s final day of operation on May 5. Here’s what it saw. Read more: “The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News,” as told by many of my wonderful former colleagues. | https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1828972/000182897223000062/bzfd-20230420.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/
https://github.com/jsvine/buzzfeed-news-trending-strip/blob/main/misc/trending-strip-screenshot.png
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/buzzfeed-news/
https://github.com/jsvine/buzzfeed-news-trending-strip/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/buzzfeed-news-oral-history-2012-2023 | null | 0.724693 | 0.135297 | 2,359 | 9,326 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
1,667 | 2023.05.24 | 3 | Forty years of financial reforms. | A decade-plus ago, a team of IMF economists published “A New Database of Financial Reforms,” recording changes to financial policy in 91 economies from 1973 to 2005. They did so “along seven different dimensions: credit controls and reserve requirements, interest rate controls, entry barriers, state ownership, policies on securities markets, banking regulations, and restrictions on the capital account.” Last year, Sawa Omori, a political scientist who assisted with that project, introduced a revised and updated version, expanding the coverage to 100 economies, extending it through 2013, and refining the seven original dimensions into 20 subdimensions. | https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/A-New-Database-of-Financial-Reforms-22485
https://sawaomori.jpn.org/
https://academic.oup.com/jfr/article/8/2/230/6627259
https://sawaomori.jpn.org/data/ | null | 0.090067 | -0.060102 | 1,954 | 7,749 | 60 | -1 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,668 | 2023.05.24 | 4 | Parking reforms. | The Parking Reform Network, a US-based nonprofit that aims “to discourage the building of too much parking supply,” has compiled a map and dataset of ~1,400 relevant local mandates. They focus on policies that reduce or eliminate minimum parking requirements for new developments, or set maximums. For each mandate, the dataset provides a summary and indicates its location, status, category, geographic scope, affected land use, and more. Related: Parking lots in the central areas of 50+ cities, as mapped by the organization. [h/t Derek M. Jones] | https://parkingreform.org/
https://parkingreform.org/what-is-parking-reform/
https://parkingreform.org/resources/mandates-map/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking_minimums_and_maximums
https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/ | http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/ | -0.453135 | 0.119801 | 2,257 | 9,122 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
1,669 | 2023.05.24 | 5 | Protected European ham. | In the world of food and wine, geographical indications protect traditional local producers against imitators — Champagne being a famous example. To explore the relationship between protected region size and product price, Gero Laurenz Höhn et al. have collected the prices of protected and non-protected European ham from dozens of supermarket websites. The 22 protected varieties in the dataset (such as Italy’s Prosciutto di Parma and Spain’s Jamón de Trevélez) come from nine countries. Related: eAmbrosia, the EU’s downloadable register of protected indications. | https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-and-protection/protecting-eu-creations-inventions-and-designs/geographical-indications_en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2023.2187365
https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34894/RX0QIN
https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/geographical-indications-and-quality-schemes/geographical-indications-food-and-drink/prosciutto-di-parma-pdo_en
https://www.tmdn.org/giview/gi/EUGI00000013467
https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/food-safety-and-quality/certification/quality-labels/geographical-indications-register/ | null | -0.137811 | 0.401284 | 2,843 | 11,447 | 43 | -1 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
1,670 | 2023.05.31 | 1 | Correctional control. | The Prison Policy Initiative’s Punishment Beyond Prisons report cross-references data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and several other sources to count or estimate the number of people under eight forms of “correctional control” in each state and DC: federal prisons, state prisons, local jails, Indian Country jails, youth confinement, involuntary commitment, parole, and probation — approximately 5.5 million people in total. Related: The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, one of the report’s sources, provides a tool to tabulate youth confinement counts by sex, age, race, status, offense, and facility characteristics. [h/t Mike Wessler] | https://www.prisonpolicy.org/
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/correctionalcontrol2023.html
https://bjs.ojp.gov/
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/correctionalcontrol2023.html#methodology
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/correctionalcontrol2023_data_appendix.html
https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/research-and-statistics/research-projects/Census-of-Juveniles-in-Residential-Placement/overview
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezacjrp/ | https://www.prisonpolicy.org/staff.html#wessler | 0.008815 | -0.985324 | 32 | 64 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,671 | 2023.05.31 | 2 | Local business. | Despite the name, the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns datasets cover a range of geographic units, including states, congressional districts, metro areas, counties, and ZIP codes. Generated from the Bureau’s confidential Business Register, they provide the number of establishments and (noise-infused) employee counts and payroll figures, disaggregated by industry code. Last month, the Bureau released the data for 2021. Historical availability varies; the Bureau directly provides data for counties back to 1986, and for ZIP codes back to 1994, for example. Fabian Eckert and colleagues, meanwhile, have converted two older archives of the records into comparable data, spanning 1946 to 1974 and 1975 onward. | https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/data/datasets.html
https://www.census.gov/econ/overview/mu0600.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/technical-documentation/methodology.html#par_textimage_245304869
https://www.census.gov/naics/
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/2021-county-business-patterns.html
https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2021/econ/cbp/2021-cbp.html
https://www.fpeckert.me/
https://www.fpeckert.me/elmmss/
https://www.fpeckert.me/cbp/ | null | -0.201088 | -0.052199 | 1,945 | 7,731 | 59 | 59 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
1,672 | 2023.05.31 | 3 | Crowd accidents. | Claudio Feliciani et al. have compiled a dataset of 281 crowd accidents from 1900 to 2019, based on “a comprehensive investigation of the press and media reports.” The researchers focus on accidents with at least one fatality or ten injuries “caused by a collective crowd motion which could have been potentially prevented by employing a different design or through a proper crowd management.” The dataset lists each accident’s date, country, coordinates, gathering type (sport, religious, political, etc.), fatality and injury counts, crowd size, and sources. The deadliest accident included, by far, is the 2015 Mina stampede. [h/t Neil Martin] | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753523001169
https://zenodo.org/record/7523480
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mina_stampede | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-overseas-hot-areas-deadly-crowd.html | 0.106769 | -0.675383 | 675 | 2,630 | 8 | -1 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,673 | 2023.05.31 | 4 | Antarctic geology. | Antarctica’s surface is mostly ice, but there’s also lots of rock. In a recent paper, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s GeoMAP team describes building the “first detailed geological map dataset covering all of Antarctica,” assembled and refined from 589 sources. The dataset, which you can download or explore as an interactive map, uses 99,000+ polygons to describe the rock-scape, associating each unit with a name (or group name), rock type, lithology, geologic period, and more. | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02152-9
https://www.scar.org/
https://www.scar.org/science/former-groups/geomap/
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.951482
https://data.gns.cri.nz/ata_geomap/index.html?content=/mapservice/Content/antarctica/Download.html
https://data.gns.cri.nz/ata_geomap/index.html?map=Antarctic_v2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithology
https://geomap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ | null | -0.472157 | 0.831021 | 3,728 | 15,009 | 32 | -1 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
1,674 | 2023.05.31 | 5 | NYC sidewalk scaffolding. | New York City’s Department of Buildings publishes a map and dataset of active permits for “sidewalk sheds,” the ubiquitous, temporary structures (often colloquially called scaffolding) meant to shield pedestrians from falling debris. Each of the ~9,000 entries indicates the permit address, date issued, material, linear feet, age, and more. The oldest shed has had a permit for more than 17 years. Read more: An introduction to the sheds and several visualizations of the data, by BetaNYC’s Zhi Keng He. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://www.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/sidewalk-shed-map.html
https://www.nyc.gov/site/buildings/safety/sidewalk-sheds.page
https://observablehq.com/@betanyc/what-are-sidewalk-sheds
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhi-keng-he-870072156 | https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/512-quantum-of-sollazzo/ | -0.426724 | 0.135208 | 2,322 | 9,252 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
1,675 | 2023.06.07 | 1 | Pesticide use. | As part of its National Water-Quality Assessment Project, the US Geological Survey publishes maps and datasets that estimate local pesticide usage, based on “proprietary surveys of farm operations.” The datasets provide high/low estimates (measured in kilograms) by county, chemical, and year, as well as by crop group for each state. The most recent “preliminary” figures refer to 2019, with the next release not scheduled until “late 2024.” Read more: “Move to change how U.S. tracks pesticide use sparks protest,” an article by Virginia Gewin in Science, reporting on the pushback against USGS’s decision “to reduce the number of chemicals it tracks and to release updates less frequently.” [h/t Walt Hickey] | https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/national-water-quality-assessment-nawqa
https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/
https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/about.php
https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0907/
https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/county-level/
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6081ae7cd34e8564d6866222
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6081a924d34e8564d68661a1
https://www.science.org/content/article/move-change-how-u-s-tracks-pesticide-use-sparks-protests
https://www.virginiagewin.com/ | https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-june-1-2023-coconuts | -0.649255 | 0.594669 | 3,275 | 13,078 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
1,676 | 2023.06.07 | 2 | Commercial space launches. | The Federal Aviation Administration regulates the United States’ commercial space transportation industry. The agency publishes HTML tables listing operator licenses, permits for experimental operations, licensed launches, and more. The 552 launches listed go back to 1989; each row indicates the date, payload, vehicle name, company, and site’s state (or “Pacific Ocean”). Related: The FAA’s map and descriptions of the country’s commercial spaceports. [h/t Chartr] | https://www.faa.gov/space
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/licenses/
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/launches/?type=Permitted
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/launches/
https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/images/ast/AST-Spaceport-Map_Sept2022.jpg
https://www.faa.gov/space/spaceports_by_state
https://www.faa.gov/space/office_spaceports | https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/2023-05-22 | -0.672585 | -0.064223 | 1,866 | 7,572 | 39 | 39 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
1,677 | 2023.06.07 | 3 | Firearm suicide rates. | A recent paper (published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine) and dataset by Megan Kang and Elizabeth Rasich “extends an existing proxy for household gun ownership rates — the rate of firearm suicide divided by suicide (FSS) — from 1949 to 2020, including new coverage for the 1949 to 1972 period.” For each state and year, the dataset provides the count and population-adjusted rate of suicides, firearm suicides, homicides, and firearm homicides, among other figures. The first 30 years of firearm suicide/homicide counts had to be transcribed from scanned National Center for Health Statistics reports; later figures come from the CDC’s WONDER and WISQARS systems. | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4453698
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(23)00205-2/fulltext
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/QVYDUD
https://www.megankang.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-rasich-087b1a144/
https://wonder.cdc.gov/
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html | null | 0.058195 | -0.760069 | 481 | 1,987 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,678 | 2023.06.07 | 4 | Harvard’s library holdings. | Harvard Library, “the oldest library system in the United States and the world’s largest academic library,” provides several ways to access detailed metadata about its holdings, including its LibraryCloud API and bulk downloads. The millions of items described include not only books, but also “journals, scores, databases, sound recordings, films and video, images, maps,” and more. Previously: Metadata from the Library of Congress (DIP 2017.05.24). | https://library.harvard.edu/visit-about/about-harvard-library
https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/harvard-library-apis-datasets
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/display/LibraryStaffDoc/LibraryCloud
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/I8L0ZZ
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/Y5WUTU
https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-068/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-05-24-edition/ | null | 0.389319 | 0.539788 | 3,180 | 12,632 | 77 | -1 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
1,679 | 2023.06.07 | 5 | Ransomware negotiations. | Negotiations between ransomware victims and their attackers “are usually not shared widely, limiting the understanding of the process,” writes journalist Valéry Marchive, whose repository of chat transcripts “aims at changing that, in a respectful manner for the victims of cyberattacks: chats are anonymized as long as the victim hasn’t been publicly disclosed, either by the attackers or in the media.” [h/t Duncan Geere] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
https://github.com/Casualtek
https://github.com/Casualtek/Ransomchats | https://www.duncangeere.com/ | 0.586792 | -0.038685 | 1,970 | 7,909 | 41 | -1 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
1,680 | 2023.06.14 | 1 | Canadian wildfires. | The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System monitors wildfires and fire-conducive conditions across the country. It publishes daily maps of its Fire Weather Index, satellite-detected hotspots, and fire intensity predictions, among other analyses. Its Canadian National Fire Database provides the perimeters, dates, sizes, and other metadata for tens of thousands of fires, spanning decades. In the agency’s datamart, you can find additional downloads of tabular and geospatial data, including burned-area statistics, active fires, and current conditions. Related: The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre’s dashboard of active fires. Previously: The Global Wildfire Information System (DIP 2022.07.27). [h/t Michael Nolan] | https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/home
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fw?type=fwi
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?type=tri
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fb
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart/metadata/nbac
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart/metadata/activefires
https://www.ciffc.ca/
https://ciffc.net/
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-07-27-edition/ | https://m-nolan.github.io/ | -0.83464 | 0.770428 | 3,589 | 14,474 | 24 | 24 | Wildfire Data and Monitoring | false |
1,681 | 2023.06.14 | 2 | Climate finance. | “Rich nations say they’re spending billions to fight climate change” in developing countries, notes a recent Reuters investigation, which found some of this climate finance going to “questionable” projects, “including a coal plant, a hotel and chocolate shops.” To help find those examples, Reuters teamed up with Big Local News to extract “43,844 records [from the] Fifth, Fourth, and Third Biennial reports that developed countries submitted to the U.N. Climate Change secretariat.” Each of the records represents a reported contribution, listing the recipient country/region, program funded, funding amount, sector, status, and more. Read more: “How you can use climate finance data we collected for local stories around the globe” (Big Local News). | https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-finance/
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-CHANGE/FINANCE/gdvzqlyjqpw/
https://biglocalnews.org/content/about/
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dx902xg3463/README_bln_reuters_climate_finance.pdf
https://unfccc.int/BR5
https://unfccc.int/BR4
https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/transparency-and-reporting/reporting-and-review-under-the-convention/national-communications-and-biennial-reports-annex-i-parties/biennial-report-submissions/third-biennial-reports-annex-i
https://purl.stanford.edu/dx902xg3463
https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2023/06/01/climate-finance-story-recipe.html | null | -0.762449 | 0.316692 | 2,695 | 10,767 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
1,682 | 2023.06.14 | 3 | Pennsylvania competency cases. | Earlier this year, Spotlight PA and the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism published an investigation into Pennsylvania’s competency system, which is “supposed to protect people with mental health issues from prosecution if they cannot understand the legal system and cannot aid in their own defense.” The team has also published the data it received from the state’s court administrators, with information about 697 cases that involved competency proceedings between 2018 to mid-2022. The records, available for 23 counties, indicate each case’s court, filing date, charges, disposition, sentencing, attorneys, plus the type and timing of 1,400+ competency-related docket filings. [h/t Matt Dempsey] | https://www.spotlightpa.org/
https://pinjnews.org/
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/03/pa-mental-illness-jail-incompetent-treatment/
https://github.com/spotlightpa/competency-data-2023/ | https://twitter.com/mizzousundevil | 0.136847 | -0.912812 | 164 | 712 | 6 | -1 | Criminal Justice Databases | false |
1,683 | 2023.06.14 | 4 | Ad-targeting labels. | The Markup has obtained, analyzed, and published a spreadsheet of 650,000+ ad-targetable “audience segments” (described by labels such as “Depression Propensity - Reach Tier 2”) and their data suppliers. The spreadsheet — flagged to The Markup by privacy researcher Wolfie Christl — was, until recently, linked from the website of a Microsoft-owned ad platform. “The Markup found thousands of rows in the file that indicate sensitive audience groupings,” including those related to medical issues, race/ethnicity, political activity, addiction, and more. [h/t Sharon Machlis] | https://themarkup.org/
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you
https://github.com/the-markup/xandr-audience-segments
https://wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en | https://fosstodon.org/@smach | 0.722648 | 0.093919 | 2,295 | 9,070 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
1,684 | 2023.06.14 | 5 | Food defect thresholds. | “How many rat hairs in your macaroni before the FDA considers it adulterated?” asks Cody Winchester, who has found the answer in the Food and Drug Administration’s Food Defect Levels Handbook. That guide’s “action levels” table lists 180 criteria for 111 commodities, indicating the “maximum levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods for human use that present no health hazard.” Winchester has converted the table into a JSON file. The answer: An “average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples.” | https://codywinchester.com/
https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
https://github.com/cjwinchester/fda-food-defect-action-levels | null | -0.095876 | 0.664973 | 3,420 | 13,625 | 13 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
1,685 | 2023.06.28 | 1 | Rape kit backlogs. | The actual number of unanalyzed sexual assault kits in the United States is unknown. But last year “at least 25,000 untested rape kits sat in law enforcement agencies and crime labs across the country,” according to rape kit backlog data compiled by USAFacts, based on responses by 30 states and DC to public records requests. Elizabeth “Betsy” Kim, who led the project, has published the raw records the agencies and labs provided, as well as her correspondence with them. The core data indicate the number of kits in each backlog each year between 2018 and 2022; the backlog definition (in number of days) the state used in the data they provided; and, of the kits received by crime labs in 2022, how many were tested within 30 days. | https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/untested-evidence-sexual-assault-cases
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-rape-kits-are-awaiting-testing-in-the-us-see-the-data-by-state/
https://usafacts.org/articles/detailed-methodology-rape-kit-backlog-data/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbkim/
https://github.com/elizabethbkim/rape-kits-data | null | 0.213255 | -0.678195 | 678 | 2,637 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,686 | 2023.06.28 | 2 | Global income deciles. | Kanishka B. Narayan et al. “present a consistent dataset of income distributions across 190 countries from 1958 to 2015 measured in terms of net income.” Where net income statistics were unavailable, the authors imputed the deciles from consumption data or the country’s Gini coefficient. Their paper also provides a comparison of their dataset to the United Nations University’s World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2016.06.01), the Luxembourg Income Study Database, and the World Bank’s PovcalNet (now the Poverty and Inequality Platform). Also previously: The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (DIP 2022.11.09) and Frederick Solt’s Standardized World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2019.12.04). | https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2023-137/
https://databank.worldbank.org/metadataglossary/gender-statistics/series/SI.POV.GINI
https://zenodo.org/record/7093997
https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/wiid-%E2%80%93-world-income-inequality-database
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-06-01-edition/
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/lis-database/
http://web.archive.org/web/20220426042531/http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/home.aspx
http://web.archive.org/web/20220501080610/https://pip.worldbank.org/
https://www.grid-database.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-11-09-edition/
https://fsolt.org/
https://fsolt.org/swiid/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-12-04-edition/ | null | -0.01407 | -0.001924 | 2,015 | 8,127 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,687 | 2023.06.28 | 3 | US fire statistics. | The US National Interagency Fire Center “is home to the national fire management programs of each federal fire agency, along with partners,” such as the National Weather Service. It provides a range of aggregate statistics as HTML tables, including firefighting suppression costs by year, the number and size of human-caused wildfires by year and geography, similar counts for lightning-caused fires, and prescribed fires by year and agency. Reader Michael Nolan has converted the prescribed fire tables, which cover 1998 to 2019, into CSV files. Previously: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (DIP 2017.10.11). | https://www.nifc.gov/
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/suppression-costs
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/human-caused
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/lightning-caused
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/prescribed-fire
https://m-nolan.github.io/
https://github.com/m-nolan/NIFC-prescribed-burns/
https://www.mtbs.gov/project-overview
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-10-11-edition/ | null | -0.851793 | 0.775847 | 3,588 | 14,473 | 24 | 24 | Wildfire Data and Monitoring | false |
1,688 | 2023.06.28 | 4 | Species introduced to the Antarctic. | “From the earliest expeditions to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Islands, humans have intentionally and accidentally introduced non-native species to the region,” write Rachel I. Leihy et al., who have assembled a dataset of “introduced and invasive alien species” documented in the region. The dataset identifies 3,000+ location-species combinations, providing their “establishment, eradication status, dates of introduction, habitat, and evidence of impact,” plus reference citations. | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02113-2
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Introduced_and_invasive_alien_species_of_Antarctica_and_the_Southern_Ocean_Islands/22056647 | null | -0.275503 | 0.97376 | 4,055 | 16,174 | 3 | -1 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,689 | 2023.06.28 | 5 | Swedish air traffic control. | Jens Nilsson and Jonas Unger’s Swedish Civil Air Traffic Control dataset contains 13 non-contiguous weeks of “flight plans, clearances from air traffic control, surveillance data and trajectory prediction data,” corresponding to 167,000+ scheduled commercial flights in 2017. The records come from two control centers, in Malmö and Stockholm. | https://liu.se/en/employee/jenni29
https://liu.se/en/employee/jonun48
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/8yn985bwz5/1
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923003591 | null | -0.681159 | -0.077057 | 1,866 | 7,572 | 39 | 39 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
1,690 | 2023.07.12 | 1 | US military interventions. | For the Military Intervention Project, Sidita Kushi and Monica Duffy Toft have constructed a dataset of “all instances of US military intervention from 1776 until 2019, alongside key drivers and consequences of these interventions.” The 392 cases include wars, occupations, major troop deployments, humanitarian assistance, and other military actions abroad. The dataset categorizes their objectives, use of force, and outcomes; indicates their location, foreign states involved, starting/ending year, and human costs; and provides many additional variables. Its sources include government publications, media reports, other datasets (such as the International Military Intervention and Military Intervention by Powerful States projects), and more. [h/t David Vine] | https://sites.tufts.edu/css/mip-research/
https://www.siditakushi.com/
https://sites.tufts.edu/css/people/about/monica-duffy-toft/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027221117546
https://sites.tufts.edu/css/mip-research/mip-dataset/
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/21282
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/15519 | https://www.davidvine.net/ | 0.437371 | -0.607411 | 813 | 3,291 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,691 | 2023.07.12 | 2 | The latest White House visitors. | In May 2021, the Biden-Harris administration began releasing its logs of visitors to the White House. The records now include 500,000+ entries from January 2021 to March 2023, featuring 350,000+ distinct names and indicating the visit’s timing, visitee, meeting location, and more. Caveat: “However, a Bloomberg News analysis of the data found duplications, anomalies and missing names,” write Eric Fan and Josh Wingrove. “For example, the records […] show just five visits from Nancy Pelosi when she was House Speaker, despite at least 20 known instances when she was there.” Previously: Official logs from the Obama-Biden White House, plus ProPublica’s and Politico’s attempts to compile them for Trump-Pence (DIP 2017.11.29). | https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/2021/05/07/biden-harris-administration-reinstates-visitor-log-policy-will-be-first-administration-to-post-records-from-first-full-year-in-office/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/disclosures/visitor-logs/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-26/biden-re-opens-white-house-visitor-logs-but-some-names-are-missing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/goodgovernment/tools/visitor-records
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex
https://www.politico.com/interactives/databases/trump-white-house-visitor-logs-and-records/index.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-11-29-edition/ | null | 0.50417 | -0.308549 | 1,456 | 5,728 | 27 | 27 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
1,692 | 2023.07.12 | 3 | NY prison employee misconduct. | For a series of articles (co-published with the New York Times) investigating abuse by prison guards in New York State, The Marshall Project obtained and analyzed data representing 12 years of Department of Corrections and Community Supervision employee disciplinary notices. The newsroom is publishing those records, which they’ve converted from two PDFs into tabular data, along with additional context and caveats. The records contain ~6,000 (non-redacted) notices; they indicate the employee name, title, facility, union, type of misconduct, case disposition, description, and penalty, among other details. | https://www.themarshallproject.org/tag/when-guards-abuse-prisoners
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/nyregion/ny-prison-guards-brutality-fired.html
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/19/new-york-prison-officer-abuse-how-we-investigated
https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/new-york-prison-employee-discipline-data | null | 0.040421 | -0.911352 | 161 | 706 | 7 | -1 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,693 | 2023.07.12 | 4 | Australian mine production. | “No […] study has ever compiled a national mine production data set which includes basic mining data such as ore processed, grades, extracted products (e.g., metals, concentrates, saleable ore) and waste rock,” writes Gavin M. Mudd, whose new dataset aims to do exactly that for Australia from 1799 to 2021. It contains mine-by-mine metrics, as well as annual production by state and element/mineral. | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02275-z
https://rmit.figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_Comprehensive_Dataset_for_Australian_Mine_Production_1799_to_2021/22724081/2 | null | -0.505175 | 0.401221 | 2,831 | 11,423 | 37 | -1 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,694 | 2023.07.12 | 5 | “The global human day.” | By harmonizing “data collected by national statistics agencies, international organizations, and researchers from over 140 countries,” William Fajzel et al. have “assemble[d] a complete estimate of what humans are doing, averaged over time and across the entire population, to provide [what] we refer to as the global human day.” Their published data include global and national estimates for 24 subcategories, such as sleep (~9 hours) and childcare (~17 minutes). | https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2219564120
https://zenodo.org/record/8040631 | null | -0.184409 | -0.482243 | 1,050 | 4,276 | 14 | -1 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,695 | 2023.07.26 | 1 | Natural resources revenue. | To extract minerals, coal, oil, or gas from US federal land, Native American land, or the Outer Continental Shelf, companies must pay various royalties, rents, and bonuses to the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, which then distributes those payments — amounting to billions of dollars per year — to the federal government, local governments, tribes, and individuals. Through its data portal, the agency provides annual and monthly breakdowns of revenue, disbursements, and production, which you can download, query, and visually explore. Related: The Bureau of Land Management also provides “data that include the numbers of BLM-administered oil and gas leases, applications for permit to drill, and oil and gas wells” on federal land. As seen in: “How much oil and gas comes from federal territory?” (USAFacts). | https://www.boem.gov/environment/outer-continental-shelf
https://onrr.gov/about
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/downloads
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/query-data
https://revenuedata.doi.gov/explore
https://www.blm.gov/about
https://www.blm.gov/programs-energy-and-minerals-oil-and-gas-oil-and-gas-statistics
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-oil-and-gas-comes-from-federal-territory/ | null | -0.762252 | 0.438897 | 2,951 | 11,791 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,696 | 2023.07.26 | 2 | Gender and diplomacy. | Birgitta Niklasson and Ann Towns’s GenDip dataset “maps the extent to which states appoint men, women and other diplomats to different kinds of bilateral ambassador postings.” The data cover 200+ countries and 10 specific years between 1968 and 2021. For each diplomat and year, the dataset indicates their sending country, receiving country, type of diplomatic title (e.g., ambassador, minister, etc.), and gender, which is “based on titles (e.g. Mr/Mrs, prince/princess, baron/baroness, etc.), pronouns used when referring to the diplomat, or the recognition of names as either female or male.” The team has also produced a series of visualizations based on the data. | https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/birgittaniklasson
https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/anntowns
https://www.gu.se/en/gendip/the-gendip-dataset-on-gender-and-diplomatic-representation
https://www.gu.se/en/gendip/the-gendip-dataset-on-gender-and-diplomatic-representation/visualization-tools | null | 0.636671 | -0.364783 | 1,332 | 5,224 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,697 | 2023.07.26 | 3 | Millions of PDFs. | As part of its SafeDocs project, DARPA has compiled a corpus of “nearly 8 million PDFs gathered from across the web in July/August of 2021.” To create it, the authors began with the URLs of PDF files identified by Common Crawl (DIP 2021.04.21), fetched their complete contents, and recorded metadata about each file and where it was found. “At the time of its creation, this is the largest single corpus of real-world (extant) PDFs that is publicly available,” they write. | https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-06-14
https://www.darpa.mil/program/safe-documents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
https://digitalcorpora.org/corpora/file-corpora/cc-main-2021-31-pdf-untruncated/
https://commoncrawl.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-04-21-edition/ | null | 0.642822 | 0.235273 | 2,548 | 10,217 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,698 | 2023.07.26 | 4 | Iberian orcas. | The website orcas.pt publishes monthly, downloadable maps indicating the date, time, and location of orca sightings and attacks off the coasts of Portugal and Spain. Run by Rui Alves as a personal project, the project gathers its data through a network of local sailors. Related: The Cruising Association, in collaboration with Grupo de Trabajo Orca Atlántica, publishes maps and detailed reports of orca interactions, including “uneventful passages.” [h/t Soph Warnes] | https://www.orcas.pt/
https://www.orcas.pt/maps
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/the-orca-uprising-whales-are-ramming-boats-but-are-they-inspired-by-revenge-grief-or-memory
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/group-of-orcas-attack-and-sink-vessels-off-iberian-peninsula
https://www.theca.org.uk/
https://www.orcaiberica.org/
https://www.theca.org.uk/orcas/reports
https://www.theca.org.uk/orcas | https://fairwarning.substack.com/ | -0.284654 | 0.820326 | 3,734 | 14,893 | 4 | -1 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
1,699 | 2023.07.26 | 5 | Comedians, challenged. | At TaskMaster.Info, Karl Craven is “obsessively documenting the international Taskmaster franchise,” which began as a British game show on which comedians compete to win challenges such as watermelon speed-eating and high-fiving strangers. Reddit user Alohamori has used the site and other sources to create a “ridiculously comprehensive” database of that information, enabling queries such as the fastest-completed tasks, tasks awarding zero points, and episodes ending in ties. Bonus link: Taskmaster’s official YouTube channel. | https://taskmaster.info/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kandrewcraven/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskmaster_(TV_series)
https://taskmaster.info/task.php?id=2
https://taskmaster.info/task.php?id=8
https://www.reddit.com/user/Alohamori/
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/sources
https://www.reddit.com/r/taskmaster/comments/13zb9nl/i_put_together_a_ridiculously_comprehensive/
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/taskmaster
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/taskmaster/measurements?_sort=measurement&objective.target__exact=least&measurement__notnull=1&objective.unit__exact=time
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/taskmaster/tasks?points=0
https://prettygr.im/tdlm/taskmaster/episode_scores?rank=1%3D&_sort_desc=episode
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5C7yaO3RVuOgwP8JVAujQ | null | 0.562498 | 0.496626 | 3,057 | 12,259 | 72 | -1 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
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