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1,700 | 2023.08.02 | 1 | Nursing home inspections. | A couple of weeks ago, ProPublica launched a major update to its Nursing Home Inspect database, originally published in 2012 (and briefly mentioned in DIP 2016.07.06). The new version “includes more data, new views that summarize problems, and advanced search features.” As an accompanying guide explains, the database now “covers nearly 400,000 deficiencies from over 90,000 reports at over 15,000 homes.” The project links to its source data, including the federal government’s list of Medicare-certified nursing homes and the date, regulation, scope/severity, and narrative text of all deficiencies. Tip: The Seattle Times provides guidance for downloading those deficiency records. Later today: ProPublica is hosting a webinar about the updated database. | https://www.propublica.org/article/here-whats-new-in-nursing-home-inspect-database
https://projects.propublica.org/nursing-homes/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-07-06-edition/
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-use-updated-nursing-home-inspect
https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py
https://github.com/seattletimes/nursing_homes_staffing_20200925#deficiency-data
https://www.propublica.org/events/how-to-use-propublicas-updated-nursing-home-inspect-database | null | -0.430068 | -0.435181 | 1,170 | 4,644 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
1,701 | 2023.08.02 | 2 | Local ideology. | “Little is known about the American public’s policy preferences at the level of Congressional districts, state legislative districts, and local municipalities,” Chris Tausanovitch and Christopher Warshaw wrote in the Journal of Politics a decade ago. To address the issue, the researchers applied Bayesian statistical methods to large public-opinion surveys to generate numeric “ideal point” (left-vs-right) estimates at many geographic levels. Through their American Ideology Project, they have since updated these estimates, including most recently with data through 2021. Previously: Ideology estimates for state legislators (DIP 2020.01.01), updated in April 2023, and members of Congress (DIP 2023.03.01). [h/t Mike Stucka] | https://ctausanovitch.com/
http://www.chriswarshaw.com/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1017/s0022381613000042?seq=1
https://americanideologyproject.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/americanideologyproject
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BQKU4M
https://americanlegislatures.wordpress.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-01-01-edition/
https://americanlegislatures.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/april-2023-update-to-shor-mccarty-state-legislatures-data/
https://voteview.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-03-01-edition/ | https://twitter.com/MikeStucka | 0.871055 | -0.336603 | 1,403 | 5,495 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,702 | 2023.08.02 | 3 | COVID-19 in deer. | Aijing Feng et al. “collected 8,830 respiratory samples from free-ranging white-tailed deer across Washington, D.C. and 26 states in the United States between November 2021 and April 2022.” The researchers sequenced the COVID-19 genomes from 391 of the samples that tested positive for the virus, finding that the infections “originated from at least 109 independent spillovers from humans, which resulted in 39 cases of subsequent local deer-to-deer transmission and three cases of potential spillover from white-tailed deer back to humans.” The study’s public spreadsheets include data about each sequenced sample (collection date, state, virus lineage, etc.), each spillover event, and more. [h/t Tyler Dedrick] | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x#Sec28 | http://www.tmdedrick.com/ | -0.354789 | -0.788499 | 404 | 1,705 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,703 | 2023.08.02 | 4 | Colombian public-sector algorithms. | Juan David Gutiérrez et al. have compiled a spreadsheet listing 113 automated decision systems (“sistemas de decisión automatizada”) in the Colombian public sector. Each entry lists the system’s name, government entity, level of government (national, department, municipal), sector, description, objectives, data used, various categorizations, and much more. The project also includes a spreadsheet of the 300+ sources used in the compilation. | https://juangutierrez.co/2023/06/07/nueva-base-de-datos-caracteriza-113-algoritmos-utilizados-el-sector-publico-colombiano-para-orientar-o-tomar-decisiones/
https://research-data.urosario.edu.co/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34848/YN1CRT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_Colombia | null | 0.380771 | -0.259456 | 1,516 | 6,104 | 27 | -1 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
1,704 | 2023.08.02 | 5 | Forageable fruit. | The Falling Fruit project “is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets.” It provides a map — “not the first of its kind, but [aspiring] to be the world’s most comprehensive” — and downloadable dataset of 1.5 million locations of edible plants in public, although not strictly fruit. The entries come from user contributions, as well as imports of community maps and tree inventories. [h/t Susie Cambria] | https://fallingfruit.org/
https://fallingfruit.org/about
https://fallingfruit.org/data
https://fallingfruit.org/changes
https://fallingfruit.org/datasets | https://twitter.com/susiecambria | -0.189958 | 0.560754 | 3,161 | 12,723 | 36 | -1 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
1,705 | 2023.08.09 | 1 | Much mapping material. | The Overture Maps Foundation has released its first datasets, which include 59 million “points of interest” (landmarks, businesses, parks, etc.), 785 million building outlines, road network data, and administrative boundaries. The initiative, which is steered by several giant tech companies, “could help third-party developers use maps that don’t rely on Google and Apple,” The Verge’s Emma Roth writes. The datasets draw on a range of sources, including the project’s member-companies, OpenStreetMap, and USGS’s 3D Elevation Program. Read more: “Exploring the Overture Maps places data using DuckDB, sqlite-utils and Datasette,” by Simon Willison, who considers the data release “a really big deal.” [h/t Avi Levin] | https://overturemaps.org/
https://overturemaps.org/overture-maps-foundation-releases-first-world-wide-open-map-dataset/
https://overturemaps.org/download/overture-july-alpha-release-notes/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808274/meta-microsoft-amazon-overture-open-source-mapping
https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program
https://til.simonwillison.net/overture-maps/overture-maps-parquet
https://simonwillison.net/ | https://twitter.com/Arithmomaniac | -0.339606 | 0.360954 | 2,773 | 11,178 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,706 | 2023.08.09 | 2 | Sweeteners. | The US Department of Agriculture’s Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables provide “summary statistics on sugar, sugarbeets, sugarcane, corn sweeteners (dextrose, glucose, and high-fructose corn syrup), and honey.” Compiled by the agency’s Economic Research Service from a range of national, international, and industry sources, the statistics are provided as regularly-updated spreadsheets, many of which go back multiple decades. They estimate global and country-level production, supply, distribution, and prices, as well as US imports and consumption. [h/t Sam Larson] | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables.aspx
https://www.ers.usda.gov/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables/documentation/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/shlarson/ | -0.219368 | 0.513532 | 3,096 | 12,337 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
1,707 | 2023.08.09 | 3 | Federal Reserve communications. | Agam Shah et al. have compiled a corpus of key communications by the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee, which “controls the three tools of monetary policy — open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements.” Gathered from the Fed’s website, the corpus includes all meeting minutes and speeches from 1996 to mid-October 2022, and all press conferences from April 2011 to mid-October 2022. The published records include the raw text and metadata of each communication, as well as datasets filtered to key sentences. Previously: Federal Reserve Bank directors (DIP 2021.05.05) and Fed forecasts (DIP 2018.02.07). | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4447632
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish/tree/main/data/raw_data
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish/tree/main/data/master_files
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish/tree/main/data/filtered_data
https://www.brookings.edu/research/diversity-within-the-federal-reserve-system/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-05-05-edition/
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-data/real-time-data-research/greenbook
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-07-edition/ | null | 0.153026 | -0.05752 | 1,956 | 7,753 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,708 | 2023.08.09 | 4 | English families. | The Families of England project, led by economic historians Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins, aims “to reconstruct the economic and social position, and the demography, of a representative set of English families” over time. A recent paper by Clark includes a public version of the dataset, which “details the family connections of 422,374 people with rarer surnames in England for births from 1600 to 2022.” The dataset, based in part on genealogies from the Guild of One-Name Studies, indicates (where available) each person’s years of birth, marriage, and death, plus indicators of literacy, sex, occupational status, and more. [h/t Derek M. Jones] | http://neilcummins.com/foe.html
https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/
http://neilcummins.com/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300926120
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300926120#data-availability
https://one-name.org/about-the-guild/ | http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/ | 0.12891 | 0.27269 | 2,596 | 10,440 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,709 | 2023.08.09 | 5 | Winning numbers. | New York State’s Gaming Commission publishes various lottery-related datasets, including the winning numbers for many national and state lotteries, such as Powerball (since 2010), Mega Millions (since 2002), and Pick 10 (since 1987). New York isn’t alone; the Colorado Lottery, for instance, also publishes downloadable drawing histories. Their Powerball results go back to August 2001 and include the jackpot values, unavailable from New York. As seen in: “The jackpot is a lie,” by Zach Seward. | https://data.ny.gov/browse?limitTo=datasets&tags=new+york+lottery&sortBy=most_accessed&utf8=%E2%9C%93
https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Lottery-Powerball-Winning-Numbers-Beginning-2010/d6yy-54nr
https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Lottery-Mega-Millions-Winning-Numbers-Beginning-20/5xaw-6ayf
https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Lottery-Pick-10-Winning-Numbers-Beginning-1987/bycu-cw7c
https://www.coloradolottery.com/en/player-tools/winning-history/
https://www.zachseward.com/the-jackpot-is-a-lie/
https://www.zachseward.com/ | null | -0.347356 | -0.067321 | 1,876 | 7,593 | 48 | -1 | New York City Housing Data | false |
1,710 | 2023.08.23 | 1 | International cancer statistics. | The World Health Organization’s Global Cancer Observatory provides interfaces to a range of studies and statistics. Its Cancer Today portal features tables, charts, and maps of “incidence, mortality and prevalence for year 2020 in 185 countries or territories for 36 cancer types by sex and age group.” Those figures come from the latest GLOBOCAN estimates, calculated by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer based on data from national and regional registries. Note: “Caution must be exercised when interpreting these estimates, given the limited quality and coverage of cancer data worldwide at present, particularly in low- and middle-income countries,” the researchers warn. Previously: Statistics from the American Cancer Society (DIP 2016.01.27). | https://gco.iarc.fr/
https://gco.iarc.fr/projects
https://gco.iarc.fr/today/home
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21660
https://www.iarc.who.int/
https://gco.iarc.fr/today/about
https://cancerstatisticscenter.cancer.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-01-27-edition/ | null | -0.243175 | -0.716971 | 600 | 2,352 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,711 | 2023.08.23 | 2 | SSVF satisfaction surveys. | The Veterans Administration’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families program aims to “to promote housing stability among very low-income Veteran families who reside in or are transitioning to permanent housing.” The VA outsources those services to a network of 200+ selected nonprofits, which it grants hundreds of millions of dollars per year. When a veteran exits a grantee’s program, they’re invited to complete a satisfaction survey. The Data Liberation Project (which, disclosure, I run) filed a FOIA request for the survey data, and received three spreadsheets in return (among other documents), detailing nearly 40,000 anonymized responses from fiscal years 2016–20 and 2022. | https://www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf/index.html
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/ssvf-satisfaction-surveys/
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/va-ssvf-survey-data/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unanFEUnBDVBMK9pmpb0EVvRlpB-jtRC6gwlXSN-If4/edit | null | -0.135685 | -0.389415 | 1,243 | 5,047 | 66 | -1 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
1,712 | 2023.08.23 | 3 | Katherine Dunham. | Dunham’s Data, a project led by Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench, “explores the kinds of questions and problems that make the analysis and visualization of data meaningful for dance history, through the case study of 20th century African American choreographer Katherine Dunham” (1909–2006). Drawing on materials “held by seven archives across the United States,” the team has built three core datasets, accompanied by essays, visualizations, and code repositories. They “document the daily itinerary of Dunham’s touring and travel from the 1930s-60s; the over 300 dancers, drummers, and singers who appeared with her; and the shifting configurations of the nearly 300 repertory entities they performed.” [h/t Selena Chau] | https://dunhamsdata.org/
https://www.kateelswit.org/
https://dance.osu.edu/people/bench.9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunham
https://dunhamsdata.org/portfolio/datasets
https://dunhamsdata.org/index.php/portfolio/essays
https://dunhamsdata.org/index.php/portfolio/visualizations
https://dunhamsdata.org/blog/code-tutorial-release | https://www.linkedin.com/in/selenachau/ | 0.332612 | 0.759394 | 3,626 | 14,421 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
1,713 | 2023.08.23 | 4 | Singaporean wages. | Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower released its 2022 wage tables last month. The tables list the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of basic and gross wages for more than 300 occupations by industry, plus median wages by worker sex, by worker age, and by establishment size. As seen in: The Straits Times’ benchmarking tool and DIP reader Joses Ho’s interactive chart of Singapore’s gender wage gaps. | https://stats.mom.gov.sg/Pages/Occupational-Wages-Tables2022.aspx
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2023/07/salary-guide-2023/index.html
https://www.josesho.com/
https://observablehq.com/@josesho/singapore-gender-wage-gap-2022 | null | -0.03308 | -0.14957 | 1,758 | 6,973 | 63 | -1 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
1,714 | 2023.08.23 | 5 | Scotland’s Common Good. | Scotland’s Common Good Act, passed in 1491, creates a legal distinction for historical property owned by local authorities — often land and buildings, but also “moveable assets” such as paintings, chains of office, and furniture. CommonGood.scot, launched in April by investigative journalism cooperative The Ferret, presents a searchable, browsable, and downloadable dataset of 2,900+ of these common good assets, compiled largely through freedom of information requests. [h/t Chris H] | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aosp/1491/19/introduction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_collar
https://commongood.scot/
https://commongood.scot/launching-commongood-scot/
https://theferret.scot/about-us/
https://commongood.scot/search/
https://commongood.scot/map/
https://commongood.scot/data/
https://commongood.scot/faqs-common-good-funds/ | null | 0.112637 | 0.267289 | 2,595 | 10,439 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,715 | 2023.09.06 | 1 | Eponymic streets. | Mapping Diversity, created by the European Data Journalism Network, “is a platform for discovering key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe, and to spark a debate about who is missing from our urban spaces.” The interactive analysis of 145,000+ streets in 30 major European cities launched in March, accompanied by spreadsheets calculating city-level statistics and listing all the streets named after women. Last month the team released its full dataset, which provides information for every street examined, plus data for six more cities. Each row indicates a street’s country, city, and name; whether it’s named after anyone; and, if so, the person’s name, gender, and various attributes from Wikidata, such as occupation and date of birth. Previously: Las Calles de las Mujeres (DIP 2019.05.29). | https://mappingdiversity.eu/
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_dataset/street-names-in-european-cities/
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news/mapping-diversity-full-dataset-release/
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xBc8EcR2jR2senxMpgIRFE0jafMn23sM
https://www.wikidata.org/
https://geochicasosm.github.io/lascallesdelasmujeres/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-05-29-edition/ | null | -0.289935 | 0.294787 | 2,646 | 10,541 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,716 | 2023.09.06 | 2 | Doctors in practice. | The Physician and Physician Practice Research Database, published by the US government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, harmonizes data on medical practices from 13 participating states. The public-use files provide each practice’s ZIP code, number of physicians, most common specialty, organizational NPI, and other characteristics. They also provide statistical aggregates at the 3-digit ZIP code level, such as the number of physicians accepting Medicare and/or Medicaid, average claims per month, and more. [h/t Gary Price] | https://www.ahrq.gov/data/innovations/3p-rd.html
https://www.ahrq.gov/
https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/NationalProvIdentStand | https://www.infodocket.com/2023/03/28/upcoming-event-u-s-repository-network-action-plan-update-now-available-detailed-agenda-and-updated-schedule-now-available-for-spring-2023-depository-library-council-dlc-virtual-meeting-more-n/ | -0.457426 | -0.521216 | 977 | 3,874 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
1,717 | 2023.09.06 | 3 | Intra-state ceasefires. | Govinda Clayton et al.’s Civil Conflict Ceasefire Dataset “covers all ceasefires in civil conflict between 1989 and 2020, including multilateral, bilateral and unilateral arrangements, ranging from verbal arrangements to detailed written agreements.” The dataset’s 2,200+ ceasefires span 109 conflicts in 66 countries, largely based on news articles discussing the agreements. A team of reviewers manually coded each instance, indicating its type and stated purpose; sides participating; dates declared, entered effect, and ended; and more. Previously: The PA-X Peace Agreements Database (DIP 2018.02.28). | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220027221129183
https://ceasefireproject.org/download/
https://www.peaceagreements.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-28-edition/ | null | 0.478392 | -0.551838 | 943 | 3,678 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,718 | 2023.09.06 | 4 | Metabolisms. | Drawing on 20+ published sources, Tori M. Hoehler et al. have compiled a dataset of 10,000+ measurements of metabolic rates of mammals, fish, birds, insects, tree saplings, bacteria, and other living organisms. The dataset includes several types of metabolic rates (primarily basal, field, and maximum), and a mix of individual-organism and species-average measurements. | https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303764120
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303764120#supplementary-materials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate | null | -0.134673 | 0.959253 | 3,995 | 16,055 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,719 | 2023.09.06 | 5 | Vox populi, except not. | The Onion runs a regular feature called “American Voices,” which presents fake quotes from fake people responding to not-fake events in the news. Cody Winchester has built a spreadsheet listing the headlines, descriptions, and dates for 7,000+ of these features since August 1996; the 23,000+ quotes in them; and the names, occupations, and (almost always recycled) photos of the fictional personae purportedly quoted. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion
https://www.theonion.com/opinion/american-voices
https://codywinchester.com/
https://codywinchester.com/the-onion-american-voices/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kPvF9_zZ375JKr0ATguQwUMXYDYi23HBkzu3uLUw_R8/edit | null | 0.761153 | 0.410702 | 2,936 | 11,632 | 71 | 71 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
1,720 | 2023.09.13 | 1 | Political contributions, enhanced. | Political scientist Adam Bonica’s Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME) gathers “500 million itemized political contributions made by individuals and organizations to local, state, and federal elections covering from 1979 to 2020.” The project, which received a major update last month, “is intended to make data on campaign finance and elections (1) more centralized and accessible, (2) easier to work with, and (3) more versatile […].” It assigns each contributor a unique identifier, geocodes their stated addresses, quantifies their ideological orientation, and more. The raw data come from several sources, including the Federal Election Commission and OpenSecrets. Related: MoneyInPolitics.wtf, a collaborative project that aims to be “America’s most comprehensive dictionary of campaign finance jargon.” [h/t Isadora Borges Monroy] | https://web.stanford.edu/~bonica/
https://data.stanford.edu/dime
https://listserv.wustl.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=1702A&L=POLMETH&D=0&H=N&P=6749708
https://www.fec.gov/data/
https://www.opensecrets.org/
https://moneyinpolitics.wtf/
https://moneyinpolitics.wtf/about/ | https://twitter.com/1sadoraB | 0.829254 | -0.188402 | 1,658 | 6,645 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,721 | 2023.09.13 | 2 | Historical newspaper articles. | Melissa Dell et al.’s American Stories dataset contains the text of ~400 million newspaper articles, extracted from ~20 million public-domain scans in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America project (DIP 2017.08.16). To construct the dataset, the authors built “a novel deep learning pipeline that incorporates layout detection, legibility classification, custom OCR, and the association of article texts spanning multiple bounding boxes.” For each article, the dataset provides the newspaper name, edition number, date of publication (largely in the 1800s–1920s), page number, headline, byline, and article text. Previously: The LOC’s Newspaper Navigator dataset (DIP 2020.10.07), which extracts visual content from the Chronicling America scans. [h/t Derek M. Jones] | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477
https://huggingface.co/datasets/dell-research-harvard/AmericanStories
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-08-16-edition/
https://github.com/dell-research-harvard/AmericanStories
https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-10-07-edition/ | http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/ | 0.686798 | 0.269008 | 2,613 | 10,475 | 57 | 57 | Historical News Datasets | false |
1,722 | 2023.09.13 | 3 | Prigozhin audio messages. | Giorgio Comai has collected and auto-transcribed hundreds of audio messages from Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, which were posted “on his official Telegram channel - the press service of his holding company” from late 2022 through June 2023. For each transcribed segment within each message, the resulting datasets (one in Russian and one auto-translated into English) include the message ID, time posted, segment timestamp, and segment text. [h/t Federico Caruso] | https://giorgiocomai.eu/
https://tadadit.xyz/posts/2023-08-telegram_prigozhin/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin
https://tadadit.xyz/datasets/prigozhin_audio_files/ | https://twitter.com/_federicocaruso | 0.66439 | -0.172726 | 1,717 | 6,762 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,723 | 2023.09.13 | 4 | The “Unknome.” | The human genome has been sequenced, but what do all those genes do? João J. Rocha et al.’s Unknome database assigns a “knownness” score to “all protein clusters that contain at least 1 protein from humans or any of 11 model organisms.” The score is based on the density of annotations in the Gene Ontology knowledgebase, which bills itself as “the world’s largest source of information on the functions of genes.” The clustering comes from another downloadable database, PANTHER, which contains “comprehensive information about the evolution of protein-coding gene families.” | https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002222
https://unknome.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/
https://geneontology.org/
https://pantherdb.org/ | null | 0.055115 | 0.832493 | 3,745 | 15,043 | 0 | 0 | Biological Databases and Analysis | false |
1,724 | 2023.09.13 | 5 | License plate designs. | Beautiful Public Data’s Jon Keegan scraped the websites of every US state’s (and DC’s) motor vehicle agency to assemble a dataset of 8,291 license plate designs. The dataset provides each design’s name, state, and image. Read more: Keegan’s exploration of the data, which includes a searchable table. Previously: Vanity plates requested in California (DIP 2020.01.29) and New York (DIP 2015.10.21). | https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/
https://jonkeegan.com/
https://github.com/jonkeegan/us-license-plates
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/all-of-the-license-plates-in-the-united-states/
https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-01-29-edition/
https://github.com/datanews/license-plates
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2015-10-21-edition/ | null | -0.435887 | -0.027123 | 2,002 | 7,972 | 48 | -1 | New York City Housing Data | false |
1,725 | 2023.09.20 | 1 | US facility GHG emissions. | The EPA’s Facility Level Information on Greenhouse Gases Tool “gives you access to greenhouse gas data reported to EPA by large emitters, facilities that inject CO2 underground, and suppliers of products that result in GHG emissions when used in the United States.” The information comes from the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which also provides bulk data downloads. Per the EPA: “Approximately 8,000 facilities are required to report their emissions annually, and the reported data are made available to the public in October of each year.” The data, which go back to 2010, indicate the facility type, emissions reported, measurement methods, types of fuel used, and much more. Previously: Climate TRACE’s estimates of the world’s largest GHG emitters (DIP 2022.11.16). [h/t Terin V. Mayer] | https://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do#/facility/
https://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting
https://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/data-sets
https://ccdsupport.com/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=93290546
https://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ghgrp-methodology-and-verification
https://ccdsupport.com/confluence/display/ghgp/Detailed+Description+of+Data+for+Certain+Sources+and+Processes
https://climatetrace.org/
https://climatetrace.org/news/more-than-70000-of-the-highest-emitting-greenhouse-gas
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-11-16-edition/ | https://terinvmayer.com/ | -0.790546 | 0.327762 | 2,694 | 10,765 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
1,726 | 2023.09.20 | 2 | Net migration estimates. | Using national and subnational data on birth rates, death rates, and population counts, Venla Niva et al. have constructed a dataset of estimated net migration for each part of the world, each year between 2000 and 2019. The estimates are available as gridded data (with ~10km resolution) and at three levels of administrative units: national, provincial, and communal. (For the US, the latter two levels correspond to states and counties, respectively.) The researchers have also published an interactive map of the estimates for each administrative unit. | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01689-4
https://zenodo.org/record/7997134
https://wdrg.aalto.fi/global-net-migration-explorer/ | null | -0.147732 | 0.005928 | 2,075 | 8,246 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
1,727 | 2023.09.20 | 3 | Gubernatorial approval. | Political scientist Matthew M. Singer’s State Executive Approval Database contains the results of 10,000+ gubernatorial approval polls, spanning all 50 states and going back decades. The database, which builds on earlier efforts by Thad Beyle et al., lists each poll’s date, state, governor, pollster, sample size, sample type, ratings scale, percentage of positive/negative responses, and more. Previously: The Executive Approval Project (DIP 2019.10.16), which Singer co-directs. | https://polisci.uconn.edu/person/matthew-singer/
https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/QHHQEF
https://jmj313.web.lehigh.edu/node/6
http://www.executiveapproval.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-10-16-edition/
http://www.executiveapproval.org/contributors/ | null | 0.931143 | -0.194584 | 1,661 | 6,651 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,728 | 2023.09.20 | 4 | DOI drones. | Through a FOIA request to the US Department of the Interior, journalist Ben Welsh has obtained and published the agency’s drone roster. For each of the 850+ remote-controlled aircraft, the dataset lists the agency bureau and office, drone manufacturer, model, cost, serial number, and more. The FOIA request also unearthed spreadsheets listing specific drone flights and multi-flight deployments. Previously: Drone registration data (DIP 2022.12.21), also obtained by Welsh via FOIA. | https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/list-of-all-department-of-interior-owned-unmanned-aircraft-systems-137451/
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/110966893650258876
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q2yLaIJWEgofIJc8XS9oAdgSrW0_zPMYF04jAI9edVM/edit
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/list-of-all-department-of-interior-owned-unmanned-aircraft-systems-137451/#files
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/database-of-14-cfr-part-48-registered-drones-132943/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-12-21-edition/ | null | -0.651994 | -0.174621 | 1,675 | 6,678 | 38 | 38 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
1,729 | 2023.09.20 | 5 | Bug shots. | Zahra Gharaee et al.’s BIOSCAN-1M Insect Dataset contains one million microscope photographs of bugs, each taxonomically classified by experts and supplemented with raw DNA sequences and genetic “barcode” identifiers. The dataset, part of the broader BIOSCAN initiative, includes 8,300+ species across 3,400+ genera; the specimens were primarily collected in Costa Rica, Canada, and South Africa, using tent-like traps. Previously: Bug splats (DIP 2020.03.04). [h/t Robin Sloan] | https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10455
https://biodiversitygenomics.net/1M_insects/
http://www.boldsystems.org/
https://ibol.org/bioscan/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaise_trap
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gq73493
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-03-04-edition/ | https://www.robinsloan.com/ | -0.183761 | 0.941418 | 3,994 | 15,924 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,730 | 2023.09.27 | 1 | Censuses, linked. | The Census Tree, developed by Kasey Buckles et al., “is the largest-ever database of record links among the historical U.S. censuses, with over 700 million links for people living in the United States between 1850 and 1940.” By the team’s estimates, the dataset “includes over 70% of the possible links that could be made for men, and over 60% of possible links for women.” To build it, the researchers began with genealogy records from FamilySearch.org, developed a machine learning algorithm to identify additional links, and incorporated data from other census-linking projects. Each Census Tree row connects an individual’s IPUMS identifier in one decade’s census to their identifier in another. Per the project’s instructions, you’ll need to download the Census data itself from IPUMS. | https://www.censustree.org/
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31671
https://www.censustree.org/our-team
https://sites.google.com/nd.edu/censustreefaq
https://www.censustree.org/methodology
https://www.familysearch.org/
https://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/variables/HISTID
https://www.censustree.org/quickstart
https://usa.ipums.org/usa/full_count.shtml | null | 0.148269 | 0.316693 | 2,724 | 10,825 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,731 | 2023.09.27 | 2 | Fracking fluids. | Since launching in 2011, FracFocus has become the largest registry of hydraulic fracturing chemical disclosures in the US. The database, available to explore online and download in bulk, contains 210,000+ such disclosures from fracking operators; it details the location, timing, and water volume of each fracking job, plus the names and amounts of chemicals used. The project is managed by the Ground Water Protection Council, “a nonprofit 501(c)6 organization whose members consist of state ground water regulatory agencies”. As seen in: The latest installment of the New York Times’ Uncharted Water series. | https://www.fracfocus.org/learn/about-fracfocus
https://fracfocus.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking
https://fracfocus.org/data-download
https://fracfocus.org/about-us
https://www.gwpc.org/overview/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/25/climate/fracking-oil-gas-wells-water.html
https://www.nytimes.com/series/uncharted-waters | null | -0.754961 | 0.565427 | 3,207 | 12,815 | 25 | -1 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,732 | 2023.09.27 | 3 | Europopulism. | The PopuList, constructed by Matthijs Rooduijn et al., “offers academics and journalists an overview of populist, far-left and far-right parties in Europe from 1989 until 2022.” Version 3.0 of the dataset, released last month, lists each party’s country, local/English names, presence in parliament, and identifiers in the Party Facts (DIP 2019.01.16) and ParlGov (DIP 2018.09.19) databases. It also indicates whether the project’s comparativists and country experts classified the party (outright or “borderline”) as populist, far-right, far-left, and/or euroskeptic, and for which time periods. | https://popu-list.org/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/populist-a-database-of-populist-farleft-and-farright-parties-using-expertinformed-qualitative-comparative-classification-eiqcc/EBF60489A0E1E3D91A6FE066C7ABA2CA
https://osf.io/2ewkq/
https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-01-16-edition/
https://www.parlgov.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-09-19-edition/
https://popu-list.org/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroscepticism | null | 0.811801 | -0.401235 | 1,273 | 4,979 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,733 | 2023.09.27 | 4 | GitHub metrics. | GitHub’s new Innovation Graph datasets present a range of quarterly metrics on the code-sharing site, aggregated by “economy” — a concept similar to “country” but slightly broader. (Antarctica is an “economy” in the data, for example.) The datasets count the number of developers based in each economy, their repositories and code pushes, most-used programming languages, and more. As noted in the project’s datasheet, the locations are based on IP addresses, so VPN usage may distort the results. Previously: More-granular GitHub activity via the GH Archive (DIP 2018.02.21). [h/t Kevin Xu] | https://innovationgraph.github.com/
https://github.com/github/innovationgraph
https://github.com/git-guides/git-push
https://github.com/github/innovationgraph/blob/main/docs/datasheet.md
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN_service
https://www.gharchive.org/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-02-21-edition/ | https://github.com/khxu | 0.416475 | 0.098258 | 2,285 | 9,050 | 55 | -1 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
1,734 | 2023.09.27 | 5 | Ancient places. | Pleiades, “a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places,” has collected data on 40,000+ settlements, roads, rivers, monuments, and many other types of landmarks. It also describes the relationships between them — linking, for instance, the Parthenon to the Acropolis and the Acropolis to Athens. Related: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. Previously: Roman amphitheaters (DIP 2022.06.08) and the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DIP 2020.06.24). [h/t Avi Levin] | https://pleiades.stoa.org/
https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads
https://pleiades.stoa.org/home
https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/place-types
https://pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies/relationship-types
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/168254096
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638356144
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579885
https://orbis.stanford.edu/
https://github.com/roman-amphitheaters/roman-amphitheaters
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-06-08-edition/
https://darmc.harvard.edu/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-06-24-edition/ | https://twitter.com/Arithmomaniac | -0.128197 | 0.438884 | 2,971 | 11,831 | 43 | -1 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
1,735 | 2023.10.11 | 1 | US income distributions. | The Income Distributions and Dynamics in America project combines confidential Census Bureau records and IRS tax forms to generate detailed, downloadable statistics regarding “income percentiles, shares, growth rates, persistence, and more for many U.S. demographic groups at national and state levels.” The statistics, which cover 1998 through 2019, are the result of a research partnership between the Minneapolis Fed’s Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute and the Census Bureau. The project’s interactive tools let you track individual and household income percentiles by year, state, race/ethnicity, sex, US/foreign-born status, and age group. Previously: Global income deciles from Kanishka B. Narayan et al. (DIP 2023.06.28). [h/t Alex Albright] | https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/income-distributions-and-dynamics-in-america
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2023/understanding-incomes-in-america
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/income-distributions-and-dynamics-in-america/data-center
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/income-distributions-and-dynamics-in-america/chart-and-map-toolkit
https://zenodo.org/record/7093997
https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2023-137/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-06-28-edition/ | https://www.albrightalex.com/ | -0.092766 | -0.072387 | 1,885 | 7,610 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,736 | 2023.10.11 | 2 | Education reform. | The World Education Reform Database describes 10,000+ education policy changes reported by 180+ countries to international organizations, among other sources. The project, led by education policy scholars Patricia Bromley and Rie Kijima, focuses on “systemic reforms that envision a supra-school administrative level and aim to impact the wider education system, rather than small projects that target individual schools.” The database lists each reform’s country, year, name, and summary. Although some of the reforms in the database were introduced hundreds of years ago, the vast majority occurred in the last 50 years. | https://werd.stanford.edu/
https://werd.stanford.edu/our-team
http://www.patriciabromley.com/
https://www.riekijima.com/
https://werd.stanford.edu/database
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/C0TWXM | null | 0.111157 | -0.287011 | 1,443 | 5,831 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,737 | 2023.10.11 | 3 | Kia/Hyundai thefts. | “Cities around the U.S. are facing a staggering new normal when it comes to stolen cars,” writes Motherboard reporter Aaron Gordon, who has been digging into the boom in thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles, millions of which lack “engine immobilizers, a basic anti-theft device that is legally mandated in Canada and Europe.” Gordon has requested car theft data from more than 100 cities, and received it from 43 so far. He’s updating a spreadsheet that lists each city’s number of thefts each month, plus the number/percentage that were Kias or Hyundais. Related: Earlier this year, USAFacts obtained and published similar data from 23 US cities. | https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaq9z/us-cities-have-a-staggering-problem-of-kia-and-hyundai-thefts-this-data-shows-it
https://aaronwgordon.com/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5b8d/what-its-like-to-own-the-cars-that-became-a-viral-sensation-to-steal
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-6614t_Ata5k7oESrm-HAdF1uOe8aPGRaQECl44GYeE/edit#gid=0
https://usafacts.org/data-projects/car-thefts | null | -0.484537 | -0.046402 | 1,936 | 7,840 | 50 | -1 | Urban Transit Data | false |
1,738 | 2023.10.11 | 4 | Michigan air permit violations. | For local news organization Planet Detroit, freelance journalist Shelby Jouppi has built a daily-updating dashboard of air quality permit violations cited by Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. The dataset lists 1,500+ violation notices since 2018; for each, it provides the notice date and findings, facility name and location, and more. To construct it, Jouppi had to scrape individual notice PDFs from the department’s website and then extract the information from those documents. Read more: “Southwest Detroit steel slag processor receives 12th air quality permit violation for fallout since 2018,” an article by Jouppi based on the data. | https://planetdetroit.org/
https://shelbyjouppi.com/
https://planet-detroit.github.io/air-permit-violation-dashboard/
https://www.michigan.gov/egle/about/organization/air-quality/air-permits
https://github.com/Planet-Detroit/air-permit-violation-dashboard/
https://shelbyjouppi.com/egle-air-database/
https://planetdetroit.org/2023/09/southwest-detroit-steel-slag-processor-edward-c-levy-receives-12th-air-quality-permit-violation-for-fallout-since-2018/ | null | -0.683826 | 0.330626 | 2,698 | 10,900 | 21 | -1 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
1,739 | 2023.10.11 | 5 | Dog genomes. | The Dog10K project aims “to coordinate the global effort on genome sequencing in dogs and build a comprehensive resource for the canine community.” In a recent Genome Biology article, the team shared data and findings from 1987 individual animals — “1611 dogs (321 breeds), 309 village dogs, 63 wolves, and four coyotes.” The records include raw sequence data and variation analysis results. [h/t Kim Nguyen] | http://www.dog10kgenomes.org/dog10k/index.html
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-023-03023-7
http://www.dog10kgenomes.org/dog10k/consortium.html
https://zenodo.org/record/8084059
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-023-03023-7#availability-of-data-and-materials | https://kimhnguyen.com/ | -0.071936 | 0.829268 | 3,741 | 15,035 | 2 | -1 | Animal Data Collections | false |
1,740 | 2023.10.25 | 1 | Court-debt jailings. | “In the absence of a clear picture of debt imprisonment,” Stanford’s Computational Policy Lab and Big Local News “set out in 2018 on a first-of-its-kind data integration effort to answer the most basic question of all: how many people are being jailed for unpaid court debts?” To do so, the team submitted “hundreds of public records requests with county jails”; last month, their Debtors’ Prisons Project published standardized, anonymized versions of data received from 100 counties (primarily in Texas and Wisconsin), “totalling more than 4 million individual jail booking records,” plus warrant data from Oklahoma and Delaware. The datasets indicate (where available) each arrestee’s race, ethnicity, sex, age, state, ZIP code, booking date, release date, and release type, as well as each charge’s description, severity, and whether it represents a “failure to pay.” Read more: The team’s tutorial for analyzing the data. | https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2023/09/14/debt-impisonment.html
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0290397
https://policylab.stanford.edu/projects/uncovering-debtors-prisons.html
https://policylab.stanford.edu/debtors-prisons/
https://policylab.stanford.edu/debtors-prisons/data/
https://policylab.stanford.edu/debtors-prisons/tutorial/ | null | 0.04245 | -0.986522 | 33 | 66 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,741 | 2023.10.25 | 2 | Runway incursions. | The Federal Aviation Administration maintains a database of runway incursions, which it defines as “any occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle, or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take-off of aircraft.” It currently contains 30,000+ entries, spanning October 2001 through July 2023; each lists an incursion’s date, category, location, severity, aircraft types, and weather conditions. You can export those elements as a CSV file, but the exports lack the online database’s event narratives. As seen in: “Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known” and “How a Series of Air Traffic Control Lapses Nearly Killed 131 People,” by the NYT’s Sydney Ember and Emily Steel. [h/t Alan Levenson] | https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:28:::NO:::
https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:32:::NO::P32_REGION_VAR:3
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/21/business/airline-safety-close-calls.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5Ew.J67z.HKYk1WsCZ6Pg
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/business/air-traffic-control-austin-airport-fedex-southwest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5Ew.O4gS.lkIKxyZn1K2P
https://www.nytimes.com/by/sydney-ember
https://www.nytimes.com/by/emily-steel | null | -0.66402 | -0.165615 | 1,674 | 6,805 | 38 | 38 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
1,742 | 2023.10.25 | 3 | Goldin records. | Claudia Goldin, who was awarded 2023’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, maintains a faculty webpage with some of the data she’s created, digitized, and/or improved. They include records from the 1915 Iowa State Census (“the first census in the United States to include information on education and income”), rosters of eleven US orchestras from the 1930s to 1990s, compulsory education and child labor state laws during the early 1900s, appendix tables for a 1975 paper estimating the economic costs of the US Civil War, and more. | https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/home
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/summary/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences
https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages/data
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/28501
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/economiccosts_data_1975.pdf
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/goldin_economiccost.pdf | null | 0.037888 | -0.101738 | 1,825 | 7,362 | 60 | -1 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,743 | 2023.10.25 | 4 | Postal code ecology. | David Willinger et al. have used two major satellite data sources — the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer — to create ecolo-zip, “a novel geospatial dataset that provides a granular-yet-global, parsimonious-yet-rich ecological characterization of over 1.5 million postal codes across 94 countries and regions.” Those characterizations include “physical topography (elevation, mountainousness, distance to sea), vegetation (normalized difference vegetation index), and climate (surface temperature).” | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02579-0
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/index.html
https://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://osf.io/wcjad/ | null | -0.454956 | 0.727028 | 3,537 | 14,114 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
1,744 | 2023.10.25 | 5 | Beautiful spreadsheets. | The team behind infographics powerhouse Information is Beautiful maintains a catalog of the data used in 130+ of their projects, going back to 2009. The entries links to spreadsheet tables that present original research as well as numbers drawn more directly from academic studies, government reports, Wikipedia, and other sources. Recent topics include plastic waste, large language models, and Marvel movies. | https://informationisbeautiful.net/about/team
https://informationisbeautiful.net/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/data/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-problem-with-plastics-and-recycling-bioplastics-microplastics-ocean-waste/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-rise-of-generative-ai-large-language-models-llms-like-chatgpt/
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/which-is-the-best-performing-marvel-movie/ | null | 0.434785 | 0.543863 | 3,181 | 12,635 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
1,745 | 2023.11.01 | 1 | Opioid settlements. | OpioidSettlementTracker.com, run by lawyer Christine Minhee, asks: “Will opioid settlements be spent in ways that bolster the public health response to drug use?” Minhee has compiled a series of spreadsheets to help answer that question. They track the status and reported values of settlements between 14 companies (opioid manufacturers, distributors, and others) and US states (plus DC and Puerto Rico), states’ plans for spending those settlements, and their promises to publicly report such spending. Read more: “$50 Billion in Opioid Settlement Cash Is on the Way. We’re Tracking How It’s Spent,” a KFF Health News article using Minhee’s data, part of a broader project on the topic. | https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/
https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/about
https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/globalsettlementtracker/#statuses
https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/settlementspending#plans
https://www.opioidsettlementtracker.com/publicreporting/#promises
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-drugmakers-settlement-funds-50-billion-dollars-khn-investigation-payback/
https://kffhealthnews.org/opioid-settlements/ | null | -0.481352 | -0.546849 | 912 | 3,745 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
1,746 | 2023.11.01 | 2 | Financial offshoring. | The Atlas of the Offshore World — “a new effort by the EU Tax Observatory,” a research group based at the Paris School of Economics — aims “to inform the global debate around international tax evasion and avoidance.” Its four main datasets provide country-level estimates of international profit shifting, offshore financial wealth, offshore real estate ownership, and 50+ years of effective tax rates. Read more: The team’s “Global Tax Evasion Report 2024” and “The History Behind the Atlas of the Offshore World.” [h/t Matt Collin] | https://atlas-offshore.world/
https://www.taxobservatory.eu/
https://atlas-offshore.world/download-data/
https://atlas-offshore.world/dataset/global-profit
https://atlas-offshore.world/dataset/offshore-financial
https://atlas-offshore.world/dataset/offshore-real-estate
https://atlas-offshore.world/dataset/effective-tax
https://www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/global-tax-evasion-report-2024/
https://www.taxobservatory.eu/the-history-behind-the-atlas-of-the-offshore-world/ | https://sites.google.com/view/mattcollin/home | 0.06393 | 0.009552 | 2,082 | 8,260 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,747 | 2023.11.01 | 3 | Minority-serving colleges. | The MSI Data Project provides a dashboard and dataset focused on colleges and universities that qualify federally as minority-serving institutions either through their mission (e.g., HBCUs) or through enrollment. The project examines institutions’ funding status, location, student body, and degree granting for 2017–2021. It draws on records from the Department of Education’s “eligibility matrices” for each MSI designation and the agency’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). As seen in: “Beyond the Rankings: The College Welcome Guide,” by The Hechinger Report’s Fazil Khan, incorporating data from both IPEDS and the MSI Data Project. [h/t Sarah Butrymowicz] | https://www.msidata.org/
https://www.msidata.org/data
https://www.msidata.org/publications
https://www.msidata.org/msis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/idues/eligibility.html
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/
https://hechingerreport.org/beyond-the-rankings-the-college-welcome-guide/
https://hechingerreport.org/author/fazil-khan/ | https://hechingerreport.org/author/sarah-butrymowicz/ | 0.108586 | -0.325203 | 1,379 | 5,574 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,748 | 2023.11.01 | 4 | Childcare inspections. | “Across 41 states, one in ten licensed daycare facilities is overdue for an inspection,” according to an analysis by USAFacts, which gathered inspection-timing data for 148,000 facilities. The analysis’s downloadable datasets indicate the number of facilities overdue (versus on-time or unknown) in each state and county, as well as the distribution of days-since-last-inspection in each state. Most of the inspection data had to be programmatically collected from state portals, according to Amber Thomas, except for California, which publishes bulk data (including inspection dates) about all childcare facilities. | https://usafacts.org/data-projects/childcare-inspections
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amberrthomas_are-states-meeting-their-childcare-inspection-activity-7120861735833518080-V-6s/
https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/carefacilitysearch/DownloadData | null | -0.361068 | -0.371209 | 1,300 | 5,160 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
1,749 | 2023.11.01 | 5 | Two Zurich buses. | Fabio Widmer et al.’s ZTBus dataset provides detailed data from 1,409 “driving missions” of two electric public transit buses in Zurich, Switzerland. Each mission typically represents a full day’s operation. The records, which span early 2019 to late 2022, include “time series that represent the power demand, propulsion system, odometry, global position, ambient temperature, door openings, number of passengers, and the dispatch patterns within the public transportation network of the two vehicles.” | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02600-6
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/626723 | null | -0.581868 | 0.040185 | 2,125 | 8,474 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
1,750 | 2023.11.15 | 1 | Trans rights. | Myles Williamson’s Trans Rights Indicator Project “provides insight into the legal situations transgender people faced in 173 countries from 2000 to 2021.” The project’s dataset is “the only public dataset covering trans rights with wide spatial and temporal coverage (to my knowledge),” Williamson writes. For each country-year combination, it “includes 14 indicators that capture the presence or absence of laws related to criminalization, legal gender recognition, and anti-discrimination protections.” For instance: Does the country require a psychological diagnosis before someone can change their gender on identity documents? | https://www.myleswilliamson.net/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/global-analysis-of-transgender-rights-introducing-the-trans-rights-indicator-project-trip/3C143E501E0824C8F9F0C40925965F43
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/FXXLTS
https://www.myleswilliamson.net/trip-data | null | 0.219907 | -0.457673 | 1,127 | 4,430 | 18 | -1 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
1,751 | 2023.11.15 | 2 | Home schooling. | The Washington Post has gathered data on home-school enrollment figures in dozens of US states and 6,700+ school districts over the past six academic years. Post reporters, with help from students at American University, “trawled state websites, contacted education officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and submitted multiple public records requests” to build the dataset, released last week. Each entry indicates the state/district, school year, and the number of students registered for home schooling. Read more: The Post’s analysis, which “reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the onset of the pandemic has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions […].” [h/t Meghan Hoyer] | https://github.com/washingtonpost/data_home_schooling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/11/09/tracking-home-schooling-an-expansive-data-set-exclusively-washington-post/
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data_home_schooling/blob/main/home_school_data_dictionary.csv
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/homeschooling-growth-data-by-district/ | https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/meghan-hoyer/ | 0.030644 | -0.376003 | 1,248 | 5,057 | 69 | -1 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,752 | 2023.11.15 | 3 | Migrant arrivals in Italy. | The Dati Bene Comune campaign’s latest initiative, Liberiamoli tutti! (Let’s free them all!), aims to improve the availability of Italian government data. Its first project has been to convert the interior ministry’s statistics on migrant arrivals from PDF reports into spreadsheets. The extracted information includes daily counts of sea arrivals, twice-monthly totals by nationality, and the number of people in reception centers by center type and Italian region. A nice shout-out: Liberiamoli tutti! says it’s inspired by Data Is Plural’s sibling, The Data Liberation Project. | https://www.datibenecomune.it/about-us/
https://datibenecomune.substack.com/p/il-numero-zero
http://www.libertaciviliimmigrazione.dlci.interno.gov.it/it/documentazione/statistica/cruscotto-statistico-giornaliero
https://github.com/ondata/liberiamoli-tutti/blob/main/sbarchi-migranti/dati/README.md
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dNlByw2cMoqGorp4zPN6OULtG_jVRCe5xpl0YdKJxFE/edit#gid=1693395128
https://help.unhcr.org/italy/asylum-italy/reception/
https://open.substack.com/pub/datibenecomune/p/il-numero-zero?selection=39d56eb6-7897-43a1-bdbd-884de1382040
https://www.data-liberation-project.org/ | null | 0.108183 | -0.416825 | 1,187 | 4,806 | 18 | -1 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
1,753 | 2023.11.15 | 4 | Toxic wastewater spills. | For a recent Inside Climate News investigation, Martha Pskowski and Peter Aldhous wrangled data on 10,000+ wastewater spills reported by oil and gas companies to the Texas government between 2013 and 2022. These “spill logs” — obtained through public records requests, then cleaned and standardized by the journalists — correspond to more than 148 million gallons of “produced water,” a byproduct of drilling and fracking. The data indicate each spill’s date, location, facility, operator, type of operation, volume of wastewater released, volume recovered, and much more. | https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31102023/oil-gas-companies-spill-wastewater-in-texas/
https://insideclimatenews.org/profile/martha-pskowski/
https://peteraldhous.com/
https://github.com/InsideClimateNews/2023-10-tx-produced-water-spills
https://insideclimatenews.github.io/2023-10-tx-produced-water-spills/tx-spills-central.html | null | -0.727131 | 0.573734 | 3,208 | 12,817 | 25 | -1 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,754 | 2023.11.15 | 5 | Coffee tasting. | Last month, British YouTuber (and former World Barista Champion) James Hoffman virtually hosted the Great American Coffee Taste Test, during which thousands of people simultaneously blind-tasted the same four coffees. Hoffman has published a video summarizing the results, as well as a spreadsheet of anonymized survey responses from 4,000+ participants. It includes tasters’ demographics, general coffee drinking habits and preferences, assessments of the four coffees, and more. [h/t Dan Brady] | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ
https://www.jameshoffmann.co.uk/work#/coffee-competitions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hoffmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fN_z4-EcOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMOOQfeloH0
https://bit.ly/gacttCSV+ | null | 0.519235 | 0.544325 | 3,184 | 12,641 | 77 | -1 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
1,755 | 2023.11.22 | 1 | Food access. | The USDA’s Food Access Research Atlas estimates how far people have to travel to buy healthy groceries. For any given Census tract, the project’s interactive map and downloadable data indicate the number of residents living within 0.5, 1, 10, and 20 miles of “the nearest supermarket, supercenter, or large grocery store.” They provide similar counts for each tract’s low-income residents, children, seniors, people without vehicle access, SNAP recipients, and by race/ethnicity. The most recent update uses 2019 data; prior versions are available for 2015 and 2010. Related: The distances are based partly on the USDA’s database of SNAP-authorized retailers. [h/t Sayli Benadikar] | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/go-to-the-atlas/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/download-the-data/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2021/june/updated-food-access-research-atlas-now-maps-changes-in-low-income-and-low-supermarket-access-areas-in-2019/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/documentation/
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator | https://saylibenadikar.github.io/about.html | -0.229854 | 0.364964 | 2,776 | 11,185 | 37 | -1 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,756 | 2023.11.22 | 2 | Strategic ecology. | The National Ecological Observatory Network operates 81 study sites across the US, strategically selected to represent a diversity of “vegetation, landforms, and ecosystem dynamics.” Examples include Caribou Creek in Alaska, Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland in Texas, and Guanica Forest in Puerto Rico. The network’s data portal provides downloads and an API for 160+ datasets, such as site elevations, downed wood log surveys, soil microbe compositions, and fish DNA sequences. Related: Ben G. Weinstein et al. recently used the network’s remote sensing data to generate a dataset estimating the location, size, likely species, and status of 100 million individual trees at 24 of the sites. [h/t Sharon Machlis] | https://www.neonscience.org/
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/explore-field-sites
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/about-field-sites
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/cari
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/clbj
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/guan
https://www.neonscience.org/data
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/explore
https://data.neonscience.org/data-api/
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP3.30024.001
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10010.001
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10081.001
https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.20105.001
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.25.563626v1
https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2023/11/13/data-on-100-million-individual-trees-in-the-national-ecological-observatory-network/
https://github.com/weecology/DeepTreeAttention/tree/species_release
https://zenodo.org/records/10067302 | https://fosstodon.org/@smach@masto.machlis.com | -0.414467 | 0.72578 | 3,538 | 14,117 | 20 | -1 | Forest and Land Data | false |
1,757 | 2023.11.22 | 3 | Australian law. | In a recent blog post, Umar Butler describes the process of building the Open Australian Legal Corpus, “from months-long negotiations with governments to reverse engineering ancient web technologies to hacking together a multitude of different solutions for extracting text from documents.” The corpus, “the largest open database of Australian law,” lists the text, type, jurisdiction, source, citation, and URL of 220,000+ documents. It includes “every in force statute and regulation in the Commonwealth, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Norfolk Island, in addition to thousands of bills and hundreds of thousands of court and tribunal decisions.” [h/t Susie Cambria] | https://umarbutler.com/how-i-built-the-largest-open-database-of-australian-law/
https://umarbutler.com/
https://huggingface.co/datasets/umarbutler/open-australian-legal-corpus | https://www.facebook.com/susiecambria/ | 0.737323 | -0.623308 | 823 | 3,183 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
1,758 | 2023.11.22 | 4 | Electricity-balancing incentives. | Jim Moran’s VPP Data tracks programs in the US that incentivize homeowners (and others) to participate in virtual power plants — collections of internet-connected batteries and other “distributed energy resources” that utilities can use to balance supply and demand. The project’s main spreadsheet tracks 120+ programs and their variations, spanning 20+ states and Puerto Rico. Each entry lists the program name, date announced, status, state, utility, sector, VPP platform, market aggregator, devices covered, monetary incentives, and more. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdmoran/
https://www.vppdata.com/p/vpp-data
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/articles/doe-releases-new-report-pathways-commercial-liftoff-virtual-power-plants
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y8epdlr_7npoJBwKd5A3CDpxoYaYY1xI38btHpOn2tw/edit#gid=0 | null | -0.962736 | 0.45796 | 2,945 | 11,906 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,759 | 2023.11.22 | 5 | Moon dents. | The Lunar Crater Database, compiled by Stuart Robbins, provides the location and dimensions of 1.3 million lunar impact craters. The catalog, “manually identified and measured” from lunar orbiter imagery, is “approximately complete for all craters larger than about 1–2 km in diameter.” Related: Craters on Venus, Ganymede, and Callisto, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Previously: A 1:5,000,000-scale map of Earth’s moon (DIP 2021.12.08). [h/t Allen Downey] | https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Research/Craters/lunar_crater_database_robbins_2018
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005592
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/scientific-databases/
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/about/
https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Geology/Unified_Geologic_Map_of_the_Moon_GIS_v2
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-12-08-edition/ | https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2022/10/03/the-long-tail-of-disaster/ | -0.533007 | 0.868917 | 3,790 | 15,261 | 32 | 32 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
1,760 | 2023.11.29 | 1 | Political violence and protests. | The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project “collects real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world.” First featured in DIP six years ago, ACLED has since expanded substantially. Most notably, its datasets are no longer limited to Africa and Asia; they now cover all countries and territories. The project has updated its event types — battles, “explosions/remote violence,” violence against civilians, riots, protests, and “strategic developments” — and added sub-categories. It has also developed topical subsets, such political violence targeting women and violence against local officials and administrators. | https://acleddata.com/about-acled/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-11-29-edition/
https://acleddata.com/about-acled/#history
https://acleddata.com/curated-data-files/
https://acleddata.com/2019/03/14/acled-introduces-new-event-types-and-sub-event-types/
https://acleddata.com/political-violence-targeting-women/
https://acleddata.com/2023/06/22/special-issue-violence-against-local-officials/ | null | 0.448483 | -0.678108 | 686 | 2,652 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,761 | 2023.11.29 | 2 | Seafloor depths. | The International Hydrographic Organization’s Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry, established in 1990, hosts dozens of terabytes of “oceanic depth soundings acquired with multibeam and singlebeam sonars by hydrographic, oceanographic and industry vessels during surveys or while on passage.” It also provides access to depth data crowdsourced from mariners, who agree to attach logging devices to their ships’ echosounders. Read more: “Can a map of the ocean floor be crowdsourced?” by ocean journalist Laura Trethewey for the BBC. Previously: The Arctic seafloor (DIP 2020.07.22) from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, another IHO project. [h/t Walt Hickey] | https://iho.int/
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/iho/
https://iho.int/en/crowdsourced-bathymetry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_sounding
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230929-can-a-map-of-the-ocean-floor-be-crowdsourced
https://lauratrethewey.ca/
https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/arctic_ocean/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-07-22-edition/
https://www.gebco.net/about_us/overview/ | https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-october-3-2023-taco | -0.57926 | 0.737988 | 3,533 | 14,234 | 26 | -1 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
1,762 | 2023.11.29 | 3 | How we pay. | The Survey and Diary of Consumer Payment Choice, run annually by a collaboration of Federal Reserve Banks, “aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the payment behavior of US consumers.” The survey component inquires about demographics, habits, and preferences, including respondents’ use of different payment methods (cash, check, credit card, debit card, mobile payments, et cetera). The diary component asks participants to record their account balances and every transaction they made during a three-day period. The most recent iteration features responses from 4,700+ people in October 2022; the data downloads include summary tables and anonymized microdata. [h/t Chartr] | https://www.atlantafed.org/banking-and-payments/consumer-payments/survey-and-diary-of-consumer-payment-choice
https://www.atlantafed.org/banking-and-payments/consumer-payments/survey-and-diary-of-consumer-payment-choice/2022-survey-and-diary
https://www.atlantafed.org/banking-and-payments/consumer-payments/survey-and-diary-of-consumer-payment-choice/2022-survey-and-diary#Tab3 | https://read.chartr.co/newsletters/2023/11/5/cash-stuff | -0.045065 | -0.184936 | 1,694 | 6,717 | 63 | -1 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
1,763 | 2023.11.29 | 4 | Legal cannabis sales. | Colorado’s Department of Revenue publishes a range of data about the state’s legal marijuana industry, including spreadsheets of monthly sales totals and taxes collected by county and medical/retail status. Other states that have legalized recreational marijuana and publish downloadable, machine-readable sales data include California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Those with data in PDFs include Arizona, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. [h/t Cody Winchester] | https://cdor.colorado.gov/data-and-reports/marijuana-data
https://cdor.colorado.gov/data-and-reports/marijuana-data/marijuana-sales-reports
https://cdor.colorado.gov/data-and-reports/marijuana-data/marijuana-tax-reports
https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/catalog.htm?subcategory=Cannabis%20Taxes
https://data.ct.gov/Health-and-Human-Services/Cannabis-Retail-Sales-by-Week-Ending/ucaf-96h6
https://cannabis.illinois.gov/research-and-data/sales-figures.html
https://www.maine.gov/revenue/taxes/tax-policy-office/sales-tax-reports
https://masscannabiscontrol.com/open-data/data-catalog/
https://crop.rld.nm.gov/data-catalog.html
https://www.oregon.gov/olcc/marijuana/pages/marijuana-market-data.aspx
https://lcb.wa.gov/records/frequently-requested-lists
https://azdor.gov/reports-statistics-and-legal-research/marijuana-tax-collection
https://mmcc.maryland.gov/Pages/Data-and-Reports.aspx
https://www.michigan.gov/cra/resources/cannabis-regulatory-agency-licensing-reports/cannabis-regulatory-agency-statistical-report
https://mtrevenue.gov/cannabis-sales-reports/
https://www.nj.gov/cannabis/resources/reports-stats-info/
https://dbr.ri.gov/office-cannabis-regulation/data | https://github.com/cjwinchester/co-weed-sales-data | -0.369626 | -0.317113 | 1,364 | 5,544 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
1,764 | 2023.11.29 | 5 | Romance book covers. | “What does a happily ever after look like?” asks Alice Liang, whose visual essay in The Pudding examines the covers of 1,400+ books featured in Publishers Weekly’s announcements for the genre. Liang’s spreadsheet provides each book’s title, author, publisher, publication date, announcement year/season, ISBN, cover image, and several assessments of the cover: whether its style is photorealistic or illustrated, whether it features someone partially undressed, and whether it depicts at least one person of color. | https://aliceyliang.com/
https://pudding.cool/2023/10/romance-covers/
https://observablehq.com/@aliceyliang/what-does-a-happily-ever-after-look-like-extension
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/index.html
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rxz5IFE16bA9pPAY5_B5LhitvPDIlYrlMwp7fmszwOA/edit#gid=0 | null | 0.517498 | 0.613925 | 3,312 | 13,281 | 76 | 76 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
1,765 | 2023.12.06 | 1 | Nuclear weapon systems. | The Council on Strategic Risks’s Nuclear Weapon Systems Project aims “to document every type of nuclear weapon system ever deployed” by China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US — the five “nuclear weapon states” per the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The project’s core dataset, launched last week, currently covers 250+ such systems. For each, it provides the system’s name, country, type (gravity bomb, torpedo, ICBM, etc.), military branches in charge of deployment, “mission” (tactical, strategic, or hybrid), years introduced and retired, replacement system, and more. Previously: Nuclear stockpiles (DIP 2022.11.02), nuclear explosions (DIP 2016.03.23), and uranium/plutonium facilities (DIP 2016.02.24). | https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/about/mission-and-vision/
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/nolan/nuclear-systems-project/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oaRJKHwF9p48tPGHBJw5tB13YgsllLm4MAHOpT6tSpg/edit#gid=804863401
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/2023/11/29/introducing-the-nuclear-weapon-systems-project/
https://fas.org/initiative/status-world-nuclear-forces/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-11-02-edition/
https://github.com/data-is-plural/nuclear-explosions
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-03-23-edition/
http://www.matthewfuhrmann.com/datasets.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-02-24-edition/ | null | -0.792617 | 0.508021 | 3,078 | 12,301 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,766 | 2023.12.06 | 2 | Social media platform policies. | The Platform Governance Archive “collects and curates policies of major social media platforms in a long-term perspective.” The initial version of the archive used the Wayback Machine retrospectively to collect policies published 2005–2021 by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube. The new version, part of a re-launch this year, uses web-scraping to track 18 platforms’ policies daily. Related: The new version is a collaboration with the Open Terms Archive, an evolution of work by France’s Ambassador for Digital Affairs to track terms of service, featured in DIP 2021.01.20. | https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/
https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/data/dataset-pga-v1-historical-dataset/
https://web.archive.org/
https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/data/dataset-pga-v2-ongoing-collection/
https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/2023/re-launch-of-platform-governance-archive-pga-with-new-dataset-access-options-website-and-data-paper/
https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/pga-versions
https://opentermsarchive.org/
https://disinfo.quaidorsay.fr/en/our-work
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-01-20-edition/ | null | 0.68998 | 0.0092 | 2,102 | 8,300 | 58 | -1 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
1,767 | 2023.12.06 | 3 | EU court cases. | The IUROPA Project’s CJEU Database “is the most complete collection of research-ready data about the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and European Union (EU) law.” Developed from several official sources by Stein Arne Brekke et al., the database provides tables of all cases (45,000+), parties (85,000+), proceedings (47,000+), decisions (50,000+), citations (1,000,000+), judges (270+), and more from the court’s inception in 1952 through 2022. That first table, for instance, lists each case’s name, ID, sub-court, year, judgment status, appeal status, and additional details. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen] | https://www.iuropa.pol.gu.se/about
https://www.iuropa.pol.gu.se/cjeu-database
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-and-courts/article/cjeu-database-platform-decisions-and-decisionmakers/69151433D88FD163B9CC997296CEE540
https://www.iuropa.pol.gu.se/cjeu-database/cjeu-database-platform | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/062d1fc66219f9f954ed66592d2633477a40c264 | 0.738082 | -0.570291 | 887 | 3,567 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
1,768 | 2023.12.06 | 4 | The Fed’s “dot plots.” | Four times a year, the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee publishes its “Summary of Economic Projections” reports. Those reports contain a chart that’s come to be known as the Fed’s “dot plot,” which tallies the committee members’ forecasts of the year-end federal funds interest rate for this and subsequent years. Upon noticing “no simple, easy-to-access data file” of the chart’s information, journalist Ben Welsh wrote a scraper to create such a file, currently covering 2018–present. Previously: Federal Reserve communications collected by Agam Shah et al. (DIP 2023.08.09). | https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm
https://www.britannica.com/money/what-is-the-fed-dot-plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/111099055527649500
https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
https://github.com/palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper
https://github.com/palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper/blob/main/data/dotplot.csv
https://github.com/gtfintechlab/fomc-hawkish-dovish
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4447632
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-08-09-edition/ | null | 0.134609 | -0.042409 | 1,956 | 7,880 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,769 | 2023.12.06 | 5 | Many coin flips. | “Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process,” write František Bartoš et al., introducing an experiment in which “a group of 48 people (i.e., all but three of the co-authors) tossed coins of 46 different currencies × denominations and obtained a total number of 350,757 coin flips.” The authors have published the raw results, images of each coin, and videos of the flips. [h/t Derek M. Jones] | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153
https://osf.io/pxu6r/ | http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/ | 0.381886 | 0.411478 | 2,924 | 11,608 | 73 | 73 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
1,770 | 2023.12.13 | 1 | NYC shelter counts. | Every night, tens of thousands of people stay in New York City homeless shelters, which are managed by a half-dozen city agencies. Earlier this year, thanks to a 2022 law, the city began publishing monthly statistics on shelter population counts and average lengths of stay, broken down by agency, program, and family composition. One agency, the Department of Homeless Services, publishes some structured daily data, but shares its most comprehensive daily counts as a nightly-overwritten PDF. So Patrick Spauster and Adrian Nesta have built a data pipeline to scrape, archive, and standardize these datasets, and have partnered with City Limits to revamp the publication’s shelter population tracker. In October, more than 143,000 people slept in the city’s shelters, the highest monthly count on record. | https://citylimits.org/2023/07/24/as-homeless-population-booms-nyc-steps-closer-to-an-accurate-shelter-census/
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Local-Law-79-2022-Temporary-Housing-Assistance-Usa/jiwc-ncpi
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/DHS-Daily-Report/k46n-sa2m
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dhs/downloads/pdf/dailyreport.pdf
https://patrickspauster.com/
https://justanesta.com/
https://github.com/anesta95/nyc_shelter_count
https://citylimits.org/2023/12/07/tracking-nycs-record-high-homeless-shelter-population/
https://citylimits.org/nyc-shelter-count/ | null | -0.390221 | 0.01619 | 2,067 | 8,359 | 48 | 48 | New York City Housing Data | false |
1,771 | 2023.12.13 | 2 | US solar facilities. | The United States Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database, released last month, maps and describes 3,600+ solar power facilities with capacities of at least 1 megawatt. The project, a collaboration between the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and US Geological Survey, includes an online viewer, downloadable database, and API (with example usage). The data indicate each facility’s boundary and centroid coordinates, state, county, and site type, plus data extracted from EIA Form 860, such as capacity, axis type, tilt angle, and more. Related: A map and dataset of Illinois solar installations, large and small, compiled by volunteers at Chi Hack Night. Previously: The Global Energy Monitor’s Global Solar Power Tracker (DIP 2022.06.01). [h/t Kate Martin + Derek Eder] | https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/viewer/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/data/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/api-doc/
https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/assets/data/uspvdbApiNotebook.html
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/
https://ilsolarmap.com/
https://github.com/chihacknight/il-solar-map/tree/main/data/v2/final
https://ilsolarmap.com/about.html
https://chihacknight.org/about
https://globalenergymonitor.org/about/our-story/
https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-solar-power-tracker/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-06-01-edition/ | https://www.threads.net/@katereports
https://mastodon.garden/@derekeder/111087577677957994 | -0.913503 | 0.504588 | 3,074 | 12,293 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,772 | 2023.12.13 | 3 | State supreme court justices. | David A. Hughes et al., building on prior work, have calculated ideology scores (on a conservative-liberal continuum) for 1,600+ state supreme court justices from 1970 to 2019. For each justice and year, the dataset provides the justice’s state, last name, political affiliation, the authors’ ideology score estimates, and ideology scores produced by two other research teams. Previously: Ideology estimates for state legislators (DIP 2020.01.01), members of Congress (DIP 2023.03.01), and local populations (DIP 2023.08.02). | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/state-politics-and-policy-quarterly/article/abs/updating-pajid-scores-for-state-supreme-court-justices-19702019/7EEE00DC60CB4D0F883B7E5BECDE116F
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-3816.00018
https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/M6U77I
https://americanlegislatures.wordpress.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-01-01-edition/
https://voteview.com/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-03-01-edition/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/americanideologyproject
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-08-02-edition/ | null | 0.856537 | -0.464585 | 1,147 | 4,470 | 31 | -1 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,773 | 2023.12.13 | 4 | Antimicrobial peptides. | In a recent journal article, the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Guangshun Wang discusses the history and future of the Antimicrobial Peptide Database, which his lab launched more than 20 years ago. The database now catalogs 3,500+ such molecules, which play an important role in the innate immune system. You can search the peptides by name, structural and functional properties, source organism, and other criteria, and can download their amino acid sequences. | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pro.4778
https://www.unmc.edu/pathology/faculty/bios/wang.html
https://aps.unmc.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_peptides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system
https://aps.unmc.edu/database
https://aps.unmc.edu/about
https://aps.unmc.edu/downloads | null | 0.064824 | 0.81087 | 3,682 | 14,788 | 0 | 0 | Biological Databases and Analysis | false |
1,774 | 2023.12.13 | 5 | Finland transport. | The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency’s public datasets span a range of topics, including the radio spectrum, mobile networks, cybersecurity, registered vehicles, ships, aircraft, and more. It also publishes downloadable statistics unavailable from many other countries, such as passenger cars’ inspection failure rates by make, model, and year and driving exam results. [h/t Stagnant] | https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/
https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/datatraficom/open-data
https://trafi2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/TraFi/
https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/statistics/statistics-inspections
https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/statistics/statistics-driving-and-theory-tests | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38471254 | -0.605735 | -0.021589 | 1,996 | 7,961 | 39 | -1 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
1,775 | 2023.12.20 | 1 | Dengue. | OpenDengue, a new project based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, “aims to build and maintain a database of dengue case counts for every dengue-affected country worldwide since 1990 or earlier.” (According to a 2013 study cited by the WHO, the virus causes an estimated 96 million symptomatic infections per year.) Drawing from a range of sources, the team has collected weekly, monthly, and/or annual national counts from 100+ countries so far and welcomes contributions. For each count, the project’s datasets indicate what was being counted: suspected cases, confirmed cases, probable cases, or a combination. For several dozen countries, the data also contain sub-national counts — including for 5,000+ municipalities in Brazil and all 70+ Thai provinces. [h/t Sarah Newey] | https://opendengue.org/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12060
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue
https://opendengue.org/overview.html
https://opendengue.org/contribute.html
https://opendengue.org/data.html | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/dengue-dashboard-climate-change-mosquitoes-dieases-viruses/ | -0.297497 | -0.75136 | 470 | 1,964 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,776 | 2023.12.20 | 2 | Workforce training providers. | The Workforce Almanac, launched last month by the Harvard-based Project on Workforce, maps “almost 17,000 providers of workforce training, which we have defined as short-term (lasting less than two years), post-high school training opportunities in which learners gain work-relevant skills to help them find a job.” The dataset lists each organization’s name, address, city, state, coordinates, and various categorizations. To build it, the team merged and cleaned data from four sources: the Department of Labor’s Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Database System (RAPIDS) and TrainingProviderResults.gov, IRS nonprofit registrations, and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). | https://www.workforcealmanac.com/
https://www.pw.hks.harvard.edu/post/workforce-almanac-launch
https://www.pw.hks.harvard.edu/
https://www.workforcealmanac.com/explore
https://workforcealmanac.com/methodology
https://www.apprenticeship.gov/data-and-statistics
https://www.trainingproviderresults.gov
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organizations-business-master-file-extract-eo-bmf
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/ | null | -0.166197 | -0.297647 | 1,434 | 5,685 | 65 | 65 | Labor and Employment Surveys | false |
1,777 | 2023.12.20 | 3 | Antarctic ice sheets. | The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s Bedmap Data Portal provides access to “ice bed, surface and thickness point data from all Antarctic geophysical campaigns since the 1950s.” In an accompanying paper, Alice C. Frémand et al. describe the process they undertook to standardize decades of ice-survey data and to publish the outputs based on “findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable” (FAIR) data principles. In all, the records contain “82 million data points collected as part of 277 campaigns,” spanning three generations of data. Previously: Antarctic geology (DIP 2023.05.31). | https://scar.org/
https://bedmap.scar.org/
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/2695/2023/essd-15-2695-2023.html
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/2695/2023/#section5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02152-9
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-05-31-edition/ | null | -0.50962 | 0.855664 | 3,791 | 15,135 | 32 | 32 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
1,778 | 2023.12.20 | 4 | Finance ministers. | Brenna Armstrong et al. have compiled a dataset of 2,900+ people who served as a national finance minister or equivalent position between 1972 and 2017. For each of their 3,200+ tenures, the dataset lists the minister’s name, country, year-month started/ended, gender, whether the minister received an advanced economics education, and whether they’d be considered a technocrat — i.e., someone who had policy expertise but hadn’t held elective office. [h/t Phenomenal World] | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/financial-crises-and-the-selection-and-survival-of-women-finance-ministers/BE5E829CA0838FAEF05B7B7C15E22B32
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IAEUVB | https://www.phenomenalworld.org/sources/1-32-meter-square/ | 0.640007 | -0.29864 | 1,460 | 5,736 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,779 | 2023.12.20 | 5 | Netflix viewership. | In late 2021, Netflix began publishing downloadable datasets of the 10 most popular movies and TV shows each week, overall and by country. Last week the company published a new data report, which lists all 18,000+ titles viewed for 50,000+ hours on the platform in the first half of 2023. The report, which Netflix says it will publish twice a year, indicates each title’s name, release date, approximate hours viewed, and whether it was available globally. [h/t Avi Levin + Saul Pwanson] | https://variety.com/vip/netflixs-new-top-10-lists-project-the-illusion-of-transparency-1235113186/
https://top10.netflix.com/
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-a-netflix-engagement-report | https://twitter.com/Arithmomaniac
https://www.saul.pw/ | 0.616742 | 0.694585 | 3,507 | 13,927 | 67 | 67 | Film Data and Analysis | false |
1,780 | 2024.01.17 | 1 | RSV. | The US CDC’s Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network collects data on hospital admissions due to lab-confirmed RSV at acute-care facilities in 58 counties, across 12 states. The CDC uses the data to estimate weekly hospitalization rates — overall as well as by age group, race/ethnicity, and sex. Those rates, which go back to 2016–17 for adults and 2018–19 for minors, are available via an interactive dashboard and downloadable dataset. Related: The network is part of a broader system that also monitors influenza and COVID-19 hospitalizations. Also: The European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary, launched in October by the European CDC and World Health Organization, features weekly data tables and epidemiological summaries. | https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/research/rsv-net/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/research/rsv-net/dashboard.html
https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/Weekly-Rates-of-Laboratory-Confirmed-RSV-Hospitali/29hc-w46k/about_data
https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/resp-net/dashboard.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/influenza-hospitalization-surveillance.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covid-net/purpose-methods.html
https://erviss.org/
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/ecdc-and-who-launch-new-surveillance-tool-respiratory-viruses-improve-early-detection | null | -0.308808 | -0.769695 | 470 | 1,836 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,781 | 2024.01.17 | 2 | Subnational economic output. | Leonie Wenz et al.’s Database of Sub-national Economic Output (DOSE) provides “harmonised data on reported economic output from 1,661 sub-national regions across 83 countries from 1960 to 2020.” Those regions include, for instance, Turkey’s 81 provinces, Japan’s 47 prefectures, and Kenya’s 47 counties. For each year, the dataset indicates the monetary value of the region’s total economic output, and often also subtotals for the agricultural, manufacturing, and services sectors. While previous projects have used interpolation to estimate similar figures, DOSE avoids that approach, instead assembling its data only from “statistical agencies, yearbooks and academic literature.” | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02323-8
https://zenodo.org/records/7573249
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02323-8/tables/1 | null | -0.012395 | 0.066812 | 2,207 | 8,767 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,782 | 2024.01.17 | 3 | Environmental treaties. | Ronald B. Mitchell’s International Environmental Agreements Database Project tracks 4,000+ such arrangements, defined as “an intergovernmental document intended as legally binding with a primary stated purpose of preventing or managing human impacts on natural resources.” Examples include the Indus Water Treaty (1960) and Convention on Nuclear Safety (1994). The project’s datasets characterize each agreement (e.g., its name, signature date, type, subject) and 100,000+ “membership actions” by participating countries. The project also tracks various “non-agreements,” such as memoranda of understanding. [h/t Jean-Frédéric Morin et al.] | https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/
https://iea.uoregon.edu/
https://iea.uoregon.edu/iea-project-contents
https://iea.uoregon.edu/international-environmental-agreements-ieas-defined
https://iea.uoregon.edu/treaty/198
https://iea.uoregon.edu/treaty/3197
https://iea.uoregon.edu/ieadb-and-related-datasets | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-023-09495-3 | 0.443508 | -0.408587 | 1,198 | 4,828 | 27 | -1 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
1,783 | 2024.01.17 | 4 | Chicago’s “menu money.” | Chicago’s 50 wards can each receive up to $1.5 million annually to spend on infrastructure projects such as street lighting, sidewalk repair, art murals, and park improvements. Each ward’s city council representative typically decides how to spend this so-called “menu money,” although some let residents allocate a portion. The city publishes menu money spending reports, but only as PDFs. So data researcher Jake J. Smith has programmatically converted twelve years of those PDFs (2012–2023) into a spreadsheet containing 28,000 line items. Each entry indicates the year, ward, line item’s cost, category, program, and description (often the location of the project). | https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/8/3/23819111/chicago-vote-tax-money-spent-wards-participatory-budgeting-democracy-solutions-project
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/obm/provdrs/cap_improve/svcs/aldermanic-menu-program.html
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/obm/provdrs/cap_improve/svcs/cip-archive.html
https://jakejeromesmith.wordpress.com/
https://github.com/jakejsmith/ChicagoMenuMoney
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MZpUnD8bXceRw-P3fiTZtH7KtSunNaEYa-xpapWw1Ho/edit
https://github.com/jakejsmith/ChicagoMenuMoney/blob/main/data-dictionary.md | null | -0.431257 | -0.006426 | 2,002 | 8,100 | 48 | 48 | New York City Housing Data | false |
1,784 | 2024.01.17 | 5 | Star Trek chairs. | Ex Astris Scientia, run by Bernd Schneider since 1998, contains much of what you might expect from a Star Trek fan site, such as episode summaries, starship catalogs, and an extensive encyclopedia. But it also publishes some more esoteric inventories, such as HTML tables of commercially available chairs and lamps that have appeared on screen. [h/t Duncan Geere] | https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/introduction.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/index-episodes.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/index-starships.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/treknology.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/chairs-trek.htm
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/lighting-trek.htm | https://www.duncangeere.com/ | 0.557212 | 0.844133 | 3,825 | 15,203 | 40 | 40 | Media Franchise APIs | false |
1,785 | 2024.01.24 | 1 | Police data metadata. | The Police Data Accessibility Project is compiling a meta-dataset of police records: where to find them online, what time period they cover, how often they’re updated, and other characteristics. The searchable, downloadable dataset includes links to 1,700+ resources, such as traffic stop datasets, crime maps, use-of-force reports, contract and policy listings, and many other types of records, across hundreds of agencies. The team also maintains a dataset of 23,000+ criminal legal agencies. Related: The Vera Institute of Justice’s Police Data Transparency Index, which scored 90+ local police agencies across 10 categories of data transparency; its methodology page links to a more detailed, downloadable spreadsheet. | https://pdap.io/
https://pdap.io/data
https://data-sources.pdap.io/
https://airtable.com/app473MWXVJVaD7Es/shrUAtA8qYasEaepI/tblx8XaKnFTphWNQM
https://airtable.com/app473MWXVJVaD7Es/shr43ihbyM8DDkKx4/tblpnd3ei5SlibcCX
https://www.vera.org/
https://policetransparency.vera.org/
https://policetransparency.vera.org/#/Methodology | null | 0.186008 | -0.71861 | 613 | 2,379 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,786 | 2024.01.24 | 2 | Historical fishing intensity. | Yannick Rousseau et al. have generated a series of datasets estimating annual fishing effort from 1950 to 2017 by country, year, gear type, vessel length, sector (industrial, artisanal motorized, and artisanal unmotorized), and category of species targeted. The datasets provide “information on number of vessels, engine power, gross tonnage, and nominal effort,” a metric that multiplies the engine power by the number of days at sea. Their sources include “a range of publicly available sources, governmental reports, and grey literature”. Related: Co-author Reg A. Watson’s Global Fisheries Landings dataset, which estimates “commercial, small-scale, illegal and unreported fisheries catch,” also since 1950. Previously: Global Fishing Watch’s fishing effort datasets, based on vessel tracking signals (DIP 2021.01.13). | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02824-6
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1241a51d-c8c2-4432-aa68-3d2bae142794
https://ecomarres.com/?page_id=24
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5c4590d3-a45a-4d37-bf8b-ecd145cb356d
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201739
https://globalfishingwatch.org/
https://globalfishingwatch.org/dataset-and-code-fishing-effort/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-01-13-edition/ | null | -0.355034 | 0.809531 | 3,668 | 14,761 | 4 | 4 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
1,787 | 2024.01.24 | 3 | Medicaid offices, geocoded. | Paul R. Shafer et al. have created a dataset of 3,000+ Medicaid offices in the US, identified via state and county government websites. The team of Boston University researchers, who focused on “public-facing Medicaid offices providing enrollment support,” have provided each office’s agency name, state, city, and address, and latitude/longitude coordinates (primarily sourced via the US Census Bureau’s geocoder). | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924000416
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/AVRHMI
https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/ | null | -0.418545 | -0.51036 | 978 | 4,005 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
1,788 | 2024.01.24 | 4 | Seine water quality. | Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris has been trying to decontaminate the Seine river to swimmable levels. But the city’s efforts appear to be falling short, according to government water testing data obtained, published, and analyzed by Mathieu Lehot-Couette, a reporter at Franceinfo.fr. The records include results from periodic samples taken at 14 points along the river, which Lehot-Couette has standardized into a spreadsheet of 1,400+ measurements of E. coli and enterococci between 2015 and 2023. | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/08/can-paris-clean-seine-for-next-year-2024-olympics
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/paris-2024/enquete-franceinfo-paris-2024-pollution-trop-elevee-normes-non-respectees-ce-que-revelent-les-analyses-de-la-qualite-de-l-eau-de-la-seine_6173826.html
https://mastodon.zaclys.com/@math_lehot
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/paris-2024-on-vous-explique-comment-franceinfo-a-analyse-les-donnees-sur-la-qualite-de-l-eau-de-la-seine_6252078.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterococcus | null | -0.429452 | -0.694487 | 594 | 2,468 | 16 | -1 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,789 | 2024.01.24 | 5 | Human heights. | Economic historians Jörg Baten and Matthias Blum have assembled a dataset on average male heights by decade and country. The estimates, derived from hundreds of scholarly and statistical sources, stretch back several centuries and span 140+ countries. A related resource page also provides individual-level data compiled by Baten and others, such as the heights of 1,000+ 19th-century Bavarian military conscripts. [h/t Karsten Johansson] | https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/fakultaeten/wirtschafts-und-sozialwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/faecher/fachbereich-wirtschaftswissenschaft/wirtschaftswissenschaft/lehrstuehle/economics/economic-history/chair/prof-dr-joerg-baten/
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/queens-business-school/people/academic-staff/AllAcademicStaffProfiles/Blum.html
https://clio-infra.eu/Indicators/Height.html
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/fakultaeten/wirtschafts-und-sozialwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/faecher/fachbereich-wirtschaftswissenschaft/wirtschaftswissenschaft/lehrstuehle/volkswirtschaftslehre/wirtschaftsgeschichte/forschung/data-hub-height/ | https://ksaj.inlisp.org | 0.059337 | 0.07929 | 2,209 | 8,899 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,790 | 2024.01.31 | 1 | Groundwater levels. | To assess global trends in groundwater levels, Scott Jasechko et al. have analyzed data from ~170,000 monitoring wells in 40+ countries. The researchers’ public datasets include annual groundwater levels “in all cases for which we have received permission from a database manager to post data,” amounting to more than 4 million measurements (59% of the total). The published records also include the boundaries of 1,600+ aquifer systems, “manually delineated […] using maps and descriptions from 1,236 local and regional studies.” The study’s supplementary documentation describes each data source and method of access. Read more: Coverage in the New York Times, with detailed maps of Iran and Spain, and in Wired. [h/t Patrick Tanguay] | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06879-8
https://zenodo.org/records/10003697
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06879-8#Sec18
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/climate/global-groundwater-aquifer-levels.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk0.0eOL.gThq9lynWGrN
https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-essential-aquifers-are-in-deep-trouble/ | https://sentiers.media/when-talk-about-future-polyfuturism-downward-spiral-technology-no-295/ | -0.728865 | 0.627506 | 3,336 | 13,329 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,791 | 2024.01.31 | 2 | Military surplus. | Through its Excess Defense Articles program, the US military offers free and reduced-price equipment to foreign governments. The Department of Defense publishes a spreadsheet of the program’s authorizations and transfers, last updated in mid–2020 and going back to 2010. Each of the 4,100+ entries lists the foreign country, item description, transfer status, status date, whether it was a sale or grant, quantities (requested, allocated, accepted, rejected, delivered), “current” value, and acquisition value. Items range in size and significance, from vinyl tape (55 rolls authorized for transfer to Iraq in 2016) to Abrams tanks (including 178 provided to Morocco in 2018). [h/t David Vine] | https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RS20428.html
https://www.dsca.mil/programs/excess-defense-articles-eda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams | http://www.davidvine.net/ | 0.357989 | -0.539583 | 939 | 3,798 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,792 | 2024.01.31 | 3 | Study abroad. | Open Doors, an Institute of International Education initiative funded by the State Department, “is the only long-standing, comprehensive information resource on international students and scholars in the United States and on U.S. students studying abroad for academic credit.” Its annual reports provide aggregate statistics by country, field of study, and/or institution. For example: NYU hosted more international students (~25,000) than any other US university in the 2022–23 school year, followed by Northeastern (~21,000) and Columbia (~19,000); Italy, the UK, and Spain were the most popular destinations for US students in 2021–22. Related: The State Department’s statistics on non-immigrant visas, including student visas. Previously: Data on Europe’s Erasmus exchanges (DIP 2022.02.09). [h/t Kate Miller] | https://opendoorsdata.org/
https://www.iie.org/
https://opendoorsdata.org/about/
https://opendoorsdata.org/annual-release/
https://opendoorsdata.org/annual-release/international-students/
https://opendoorsdata.org/annual-release/u-s-study-abroad/
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/nonimmigrant-visa-statistics.html
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-student-immigrants-come-to-the-us-and-what-countries-do-they-come-from/
https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&catalog=eac&query=erasmus&page=1&sort=issued+desc,%20relevance+desc,%20title.en+asc
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-02-09-edition/ | https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/kate.miller2285/viz/U_S_StudyAbroad200001-202021_16953356812420/Dashboard1 | 0.118248 | -0.217979 | 1,635 | 6,471 | 68 | -1 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
1,793 | 2024.01.31 | 4 | Dot-gov metadata. | Father-son duo Luke and Elias Fretwell are grading government websites’ metadata. Starting with a dataset of 1,300+ federal domains maintained by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Fretwells have tested whether each homepage’s source code includes a <title> tag, certain Open Graph markers, and other key HTML metadata, which “can have a significant impact on how citizens experience government digital services.” The results, presented online in the form of report cards, can also be downloaded. | https://www.governing.com/policy/a-young-civic-hacker-explores-the-possibilities-of-public-data
https://gov-metadata.civichackingagency.org/
https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data
https://www.cisa.gov/
https://ogp.me/
https://github.com/civichackingagency/gov-metadata?tab=readme-ov-file#metadata
https://govfresh.com/thoughts/metadata-open-graph-government-websites
https://github.com/civichackingagency/gov-metadata/blob/main/data.csv | null | 0.664722 | -0.032786 | 1,973 | 7,914 | 74 | -1 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,794 | 2024.01.31 | 5 | Taylor’s colors. | Last year, Reddit user swiftdata1989 published a spreadsheet and visualization of the colors mentioned in Taylor Swift’s albums. Each spreadsheet row lists the album, song, specific color (e.g., “scarlet”), closest generic color (e.g., red), number of times mentioned, and clarifying notes. Previously: Colors from the World Color Survey (DIP 2017.08.23), Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (DIP 2021.11.17), and Bob Ross paintings (DIP 2020.12.09). | https://www.reddit.com/user/swiftdata1989/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tweEvxe5UtIMhLldGFGxkW-AGIDwkSvwkWCUZhABqjk/edit#gid=0
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/12u0ncx/oc_every_time_a_color_is_mentioned_on_a_taylor/
https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/data.html
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2017-08-23-edition/
https://www.c82.net/werner/
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-11-17-edition/
https://github.com/jwilber/Bob_Ross_Paintings
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-12-09-edition/ | null | 0.353456 | 0.621717 | 3,307 | 13,270 | 79 | -1 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
1,795 | 2024.02.07 | 1 | Local election results. | Justin de Benedictis-Kessner et al. have compiled a dataset of 77,000+ (distinct) candidates across 57,000+ US elections for mayor, city council, school board, county executive, county legislature, sheriff, and prosecutor. It is, they write, “the most comprehensive publicly-available source of information on local elections across the entire country.” It includes “most medium and large cities and counties” and spans 1989 to 2021. The authors combined data from pre-existing databases, state election websites, and newspaper archives. They also “worked with a team of research assistants who coded results from thousands of local elections based on city and county websites.” For each candidacy, the core table indicates the election’s jurisdiction, office, and timing, plus the candidate’s name, incumbency status, party, estimated demographics, votes won, and more. | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02792-x
https://osf.io/mv5e6/
https://osf.io/tbwzd | null | 0.946496 | -0.199458 | 1,662 | 6,652 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,796 | 2024.02.07 | 2 | Mid-century anti-Black killings. | The Burnham-Nobles Archive at the Northeastern University School of Law is “dedicated to identifying, classifying, and providing factual information and documentation about anti-Black killings in the mid-century South.” The current version focuses on 11 southern states during 1930–1954. Developed by political scientist Melissa Nobles and law professor Margaret Burnham, the long-running project has gathered 12,000+ news articles, death certificates, federal agency records, and other sources. It documents 900+ incidents and 950+ victims, as well as alleged perpetrators and judicial outcomes. The archive provides an interactive map, record search (including by person, incident, and document), and downloads. Previously: Beck/Tolnay and Seguin/Rigby’s data on lynching victims (DIP 2021.06.02). [h/t Jasmine Mithani] | https://crrjarchive.org/
https://crrjarchive.org/scope
https://polisci.mit.edu/people/melissa-nobles
https://law.northeastern.edu/faculty/burnham/
https://crrjarchive.org/archive
https://crrjarchive.org/sources
https://crrjarchive.org/map
https://crrjarchive.org/catalog
https://crrjarchive.org/catalog?f%5Binternal_resource_tesim%5D%5B%5D=person
https://crrjarchive.org/catalog?f%5Binternal_resource_tesim%5D%5B%5D=incident
https://crrjarchive.org/catalog?f%5Binternal_resource_tesim%5D%5B%5D=document
https://crrjarchive.org/data_download
https://people.uncw.edu/hinese/HAL/HAL%20Web%20Page.htm
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023119841780
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-06-02-edition/ | https://jmithani.com/ | 0.302138 | -0.778275 | 489 | 1,875 | 10 | 10 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,797 | 2024.02.07 | 3 | US travel behavior. | Fielded every five to eight years since 1968, the Federal Highway Administration’s National Household Travel Survey “is the authoritative source on the travel behavior of the American public.” The questionnaire asks respondents to inventory all of their household’s trips taken during a 24-hour period. The most recent survey, for 2022, includes ~31,000 trips by ~17,000 people in ~8,000 households. It indicates each trip’s duration, vehicle details, motivation, parking costs, traveler demographics, and much more. The FHA provides downloads of the anonymized data, as well as user guides and technical notes. As seen in: “The school bus is disappearing. Welcome to the era of the school pickup line,” by the Washington Post’s Andrew Van Dam. | https://nhts.ornl.gov/
https://nhts.ornl.gov/downloads
https://nhts.ornl.gov/documentation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/02/school-bus-era-ends/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/andrew-van-dam/ | null | -0.294271 | -0.158164 | 1,686 | 6,829 | 59 | -1 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
1,798 | 2024.02.07 | 4 | Space X-rays. | eROSITA is a wide-field X-ray telescope “capable of delivering deep, sharp images over very large areas of the sky,” helping researchers “to study the large-scale structure of the universe.” The telescope launched into orbit in 2019 as a collaboration between Russia and Germany, with data rights split between the countries. In February 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s Max Planck Institute suspended eROSITA’s operations. Data processing continued, however, and last week the institute published its first data release. It contains the first six months of results for the hemisphere assigned to Germany, and is “the largest X-ray catalogue ever published.” | https://erosita.mpe.mpg.de/
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/03/aa39313-20/aa39313-20.html
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7856215/news20220303
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7989698/news20240131
https://erosita.mpe.mpg.de/dr1/index.html | null | -0.525573 | 0.945028 | 3,983 | 15,902 | 33 | 33 | Space Exploration Datasets | false |
1,799 | 2024.02.07 | 5 | Amateur archaeological finds. | The British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme “records archaeological finds discovered by the public,” assisted by a network of national and local partners. Its database contains 1.1 million records describing 1.7 million objects. “All have been found by everyday people by chance, most through metal detecting.” The most common finds: coins (~500,000 records), buckles (~58,000), and brooches (~52,000). Search results are available in JSON, XML, and other structured formats. [h/t Maev Kennedy + Walt Hickey] | https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/national/treasure-and-portable-antiquities-scheme
https://finds.org.uk/database
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objectType/COIN
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objectType/BUCKLE
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objectType/BROOCH
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results | https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/01/23/striking-gold-2022-was-a-record-year-for-treasure-and-antiquities-finds-with-more-than-50000-items-reported
https://www.numlock.com/p/numlock-news-january-24-2024-atomic | 0.125282 | 0.49826 | 3,044 | 12,232 | 44 | 44 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
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