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200 | 2016.08.10 | 1 | Pretrial inmates. | Connecticut has begun publishing a daily census of every inmate held in jail while awaiting trial. Starting July 1, the database contains one row per inmate per day; each row includes basic demographic data (age, gender, race), as well as the inmate’s bond amount, main offense, and jail location. Read more at: The New Haven Independent and TrendCT. Question: This release seems unprecedented; does any other state or country publish such detailed data on pretrial inmates? [h/t Camille Seaberry] | https://data.ct.gov/Public-Safety/Accused-Pre-Trial-Inmates-in-Correctional-Faciltie/b674-jy6w
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/bail_reform1/
http://trendct.org/2016/07/20/pre-trial-inmates/ | http://www.ctdatahaven.org/staff | 0.009018 | -0.992194 | 32 | 64 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
201 | 2016.08.10 | 2 | U.S. slave populations, 1790–1860. | For more than a century, the U.S. Census collected slave population figures. An assistant professor at George Mason University has aggregated that data, and mapped it. He cautions: “Treat the Census numbers skeptically: even in the best of circumstances the Census undercounts the population.” Previously: New Orleans slave sales in the December 30 edition; slave ship voyages in the January 20 edition. | http://lincolnmullen.com/
https://github.com/lmullen/slavery-map/blob/master/census.csv
http://lincolnmullen.com/projects/slavery/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-20-edition | null | 0.166555 | 0.163958 | 2,405 | 9,546 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
202 | 2016.08.10 | 3 | Hospital ratings. | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services evaluates hospitals on dozens of measures — relating to safety, timeliness of care, patient satisfaction, and more — and publishes the results online as the “Hospital Compare” dataset. The dataset also includes an overall score, which distills each hospital’s results into a single five-star rating. If you don’t want to download the data, you can explore the results online. [h/t Drew Ivan] | https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/Data-Updated.html#
https://data.medicare.gov/data/archives/hospital-compare
https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/Hospital-overall-ratings-calculation.html
https://www.medicare.gov/HospitalCompare/search.html | https://twitter.com/drewivan | -0.407417 | -0.571213 | 850 | 3,493 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
203 | 2016.08.10 | 4 | Rocks. | Macrostrat.org provides data and maps on thousands of geologic formations around the world. The database currently includes 1,474 “regional columns,” 33,903 “rock units,” and 1,750,044 “geologic map polygons.” You can also explore the data through the University of Minnesota’s “Flyover Country” iOS and Android apps. [h/t Grant J. Smith] | https://macrostrat.org/
https://macrostrat.org/#api
https://macrostrat.org/burwell/
http://fc.umn.edu/ | https://twitter.com/grantmeaccess/status/720992509950865412 | -0.404534 | 0.670939 | 3,411 | 13,606 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
204 | 2016.08.10 | 5 | Heartbeats. | PhysioNet has published sound and data files for more than 3,000 heart recordings (a.k.a. phonocardiograms). The files support PhysioNet’s 2016 contest, which seeks algorithms that can detect abnormal heart sounds. [h/t Joe Isaacson] | http://physionet.org/physiobank/database/challenge/2016/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonocardiogram
http://physionet.org/challenge/2016/#introduction | https://github.com/jisaacso/DeepHeart | 0.292001 | 0.859642 | 3,817 | 15,314 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
205 | 2016.08.17 | 1 | Beaches. | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s BEACON system contains data on more than 5,000 public beaches. For each state’s most “significant” beaches, BEACON’s downloadable reports include data on water quality, pollution advisories, closures, and more. Of these highly-visited beaches, the longest — at nearly 24 miles — is the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area’s South Jetty, also home to “the largest expanse of coastal sand dunes in North America.” | https://watersgeo.epa.gov/beacon2/reports.html
http://www.fs.fed.us/visit/destination/oregon-dunes-national-recreation-area-%E2%80%93-south-jetty-area | null | -0.595992 | 0.597134 | 3,276 | 13,081 | 26 | 26 | Environmental Data Collection | false |
206 | 2016.08.17 | 2 | Internet access. | Through its Form 477 program, the Federal Communications Commission collects detailed data on broadband internet access in the United States. One of the easiest ways to access county-level data is through the agency's Mapping Broadband Health in America project, which overlays internet access data and physical health indicators. The latest tabulations come from 2014. In more than a quarter of counties with at least 1,000 residents that year, broadband reached less than 50% of the population. | https://www.fcc.gov/general/broadband-deployment-data-fcc-form-477
https://www.fcc.gov/health/maps/methodology | null | 0.35993 | -0.022101 | 2,027 | 8,023 | 56 | -1 | Data Platforms on Corporations | false |
207 | 2016.08.17 | 3 | Music makers. | The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) boasts a membership of “more than 585,000 US composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers of every kind of music.“ The organization also maintains a downloadable catalog of the writers and publishers behind nearly 9 million songs. (But the downloaded files lack key details, such as the date the song was published.) | http://www.ascap.com/about
https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceWeb/ | null | 0.407743 | 0.776474 | 3,629 | 14,554 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
208 | 2016.08.17 | 4 | Relative living standards. | The Penn World Table contains GDP estimates, normalized for purchasing power, for 182 countries. These “real GDP” estimates — based on a combination of price surveys and national accounts data — stretch back at least to 1960, and many to 1950. In the most recent year available, 2014, Qatar’s real GDP per capita ranked highest: roughly $144,340 in 2011 U.S. dollars. The Central African Republic’s ranked lowest (~$594), and the United States’ ranked 11th (~$52,292). [h/t Willem Kerstholt] | http://www.rug.nl/research/ggdc/data/pwt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_accounts | https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemkerstholt | 0.003117 | 0.022125 | 2,080 | 8,384 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
209 | 2016.08.17 | 5 | Hunter-gatherers. | In the 1990s, ethnoarchaeologist Lewis Binford digitized more than 200 variables describing 339 groups of hunter-gatherers, a project his collaborator and widow Amber Johnson continues to maintain. The data come from historical ethnographies of societies, ranging from the Chichimec of the 1570s (in what is now Mexico), to the Dorobo of the 1920s (in what is now Kenya), to the Shompen of the 1980s (in the Nicobar Islands). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Binford
http://ajohnson.sites.truman.edu/data-and-program/ | null | 0.020608 | 0.680242 | 3,424 | 13,761 | 13 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
210 | 2016.08.24 | 1 | Crime in cities. | The Marshall Project has collected and analyzed four decades of FBI data “on the most serious violent crimes in 68 police jurisdictions.” The FBI data covers 1975 through 2014; the reporters “also obtained data directly from 61 local agencies for 2015 — a period for which the FBI has not yet released its numbers.” Between 2010 and 2015, violent crime increased most in Milwaukee (+11%) and declined most in Prince George’s County, Md. (-22%). | https://github.com/themarshallproject/city-crime
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/08/18/crime-in-context | null | 0.18353 | -0.799696 | 421 | 1,611 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
211 | 2016.08.24 | 2 | One billion Australian healthcare claims. | Australia’s Department of Health has recently released an enormous dataset of Medicare and subsidized-prescription claims. It includes all claims from a random 10% sample of patients, and “contains approximately 1 billion lines of data relating to approximately 3 million Australians.” The Medicare claims go back to 1984, and the prescription claims go back to 2003. [h/t Drew Ivan] | https://data.gov.au/dataset/a8e3c0bc-44ac-4e9a-8b3c-b779438ddb10 | null | -0.507439 | -0.541322 | 911 | 3,743 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
212 | 2016.08.24 | 3 | Oil concessions. | The OpenOil project aims to collect and standardizes data oil and gas development contracts around the world. So far, they’ve gathered at least some data from more than 60 countries. They’ve also published a map of oil concessions in the Middle East and Africa. [h/t Michael Gardiner] | http://openoil.net/
http://repository.openoil.net/wiki/Concession_Layer_Methodology
http://maps.openoil.net/concessions/ | null | -0.807734 | 0.419071 | 2,886 | 11,532 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
213 | 2016.08.24 | 4 | New York racehorse deaths and injuries. | New York State tracks every time a horse has been injured or died at a state race track since March 2009. The dataset, which is updated often, also includes a few other types of incidents, such as when a rider falls or horse loses badly. Related: “Horses’ Deaths at Aqueduct Prompt New Rules.” [h/t Mark Secada] | https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Equine-Death-and-Breakdown/q6ts-kwhk
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/sports/horses-deaths-at-aqueduct-prompt-new-rules.html | null | -0.554618 | -0.250552 | 1,486 | 6,044 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
214 | 2016.08.24 | 5 | German traffic signs. | The German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark dataset contains 50,000+ images of 43 kinds of German traffic signs — from the classic “STOP,” to various speed limits, to roundabout indicators. The dataset, published by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Institut für Neuroinformatik, formed the basis of a 2011 machine-learning competition. [h/t Viktor Schepik] | http://benchmark.ini.rub.de/?section=gtsrb&subsection=dataset | null | -0.450305 | 0.133034 | 2,321 | 9,251 | 52 | 52 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
215 | 2016.08.31 | 1 | Family money. | The Panel Study of Income Dynamics is “the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world,” according to its University of Michigan overseers. The study, which began in 1968, has interviewed more than 70,000 people, including four generations of some families. You can access the data for free, but you first need to register for an account and agree to a set of guidelines. An example insight: In 2013 — the most recent year for which data is available — approximately 11% of families said they owned a business in the previous year. [h/t Don Fullerton + Nirupama S. Rao] | http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/ | http://www.nber.org/papers/w22580 | -0.132822 | -0.189965 | 1,627 | 6,583 | 63 | 63 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
216 | 2016.08.31 | 2 | Fatal car crashes. | On Monday, the Department of Transportation released 2015 data from its Fatality Analysis Reporting System. The dataset contains detailed information about every fatal motor-vehicle crash in the U.S., aggregated from a variety of state databases, including police reports, death certificates, and licensing files. In 2015, such crashes led to 35,092 deaths, 7.2% more than in 2014. [h/t Tanya Snyder] | https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/2015-traffic-fatalities-data-has-just-been-released-call-action-download-and-analyze
http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS | https://twitter.com/TSnyderDC/status/770339872792014848 | -0.543708 | -0.203497 | 1,614 | 6,429 | 38 | -1 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
217 | 2016.08.31 | 3 | Global agriculture. | EarthStat provides geographic data on harvest regions, yields, and fertilizer use for more than 100 crops. The website also publishes data on pasture land, water depletion, and climatological effects on crop yields. | http://www.earthstat.org/ | null | -0.370785 | 0.604456 | 3,284 | 13,096 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
218 | 2016.08.31 | 4 | The California Database Hunt. | California Senate Bill 272, enacted last year, required every local government agencies to publish a “catalog of enterprise systems” — essentially a guide to all the big databases they keep — by July 1 of this year. To find out who complied, a group of data-transparency organizations hosted the California Database Hunt last weekend. Volunteers searched 680 agencies, and published two spreadsheets of their findings: 430 (63%) of local agencies had posted their database catalogs, while 250 had not. [h/t Stephanie M. Lee] | https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB272
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/transparency-advocates-collect-more-400-database-catalogs | https://twitter.com/stephaniemlee | 0.285526 | -0.407542 | 1,193 | 4,818 | 18 | -1 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
219 | 2016.08.31 | 5 | Tennis time. | The 2016 U.S. Open began on Monday. It’s as good an occasion as any to highlight the work of. TennisAbstract.com’s Jeff Sackmann, who has published decades of match results and historical rankings from the men’s ATP and women’s WTA tours. Related: How FiveThirtyEight is using the data to forecast this year’s U.S. Open. Also: Prize money for the four Grand Slam tournaments, by gender and over time. And: The Tennis Racket. [h/t Nadja Popovich + John Templon] | http://www.tennisabstract.com/
https://github.com/JeffSackmann
https://github.com/JeffSackmann/tennis_atp
https://github.com/JeffSackmann/tennis_wta
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-were-forecasting-the-2016-us-open/
https://github.com/popovichN/grand-slam-prize-money
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/the-tennis-racket | https://twitter.com/popovichn
https://twitter.com/jtemplon | 0.256235 | 0.463755 | 2,984 | 11,984 | 42 | 42 | Sports Data Collections | false |
220 | 2016.09.07 | 1 | Healthcare spending. | Since 1996, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey has collected data on “the specific health services that Americans use,” and the “health insurance held by and available to U.S. workers.” In a typical year, the survey collects data from more than 30,000 people from more than 10,000 families. In addition to the raw data files, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which runs the survey, also provides summary data tables. They show that, for example, in 2013 an estimated 61% of Americans faced expenses for prescription drugs, which cost the median patient about $278 before insurance. [h/t Ricardo Pietrobon] | https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/
https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files.jsp
https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/quick_tables.jsp
https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/tables_compendia_hh_interactive.jsp?_SERVICE=MEPSSocket0&_PROGRAM=MEPSPGM.TC.SAS&File=HCFY2013&Table=HCFY2013_PLEXP_A&VAR1=AGE&VAR2=SEX&VAR3=RACETH5C&VAR4=INSURCOV&VAR5=POVCAT13&VAR6=REGION&VAR7=HEALTH&VARO1=4+17+44+64&VARO2=1&VARO3=1&VARO4=1&VARO5=1&VARO6=1&VARO7=1&_Debug= | https://twitter.com/rpietro | -0.393939 | -0.470565 | 1,043 | 4,262 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
221 | 2016.09.07 | 2 | Radio rights. | The Federal Communications Commission decides who can use the nation’s airwaves and how. To date, they’ve issued millions of licenses, including nearly 200,000 last year for broadcast, personal use, law enforcement, and more. Almost exactly six years ago, the FCC launched a consolidated portal that pulls data from its various licensing systems into a single dataset. You can download all 17 million licenses in bulk, search for specific licenses online, or query the dataset’s API. [h/t Marc DaCosta] | http://reboot.fcc.gov/blog?entryId=752037
https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/licensing
http://reboot.fcc.gov/license-view/
http://reboot.fcc.gov/license-view/search-results.html
https://www.fcc.gov/general/license-view-api | https://twitter.com/marc_dacosta | 0.454248 | -0.041825 | 1,966 | 7,901 | 41 | 41 | Datasets on Social Issues | false |
222 | 2016.09.07 | 3 | Night lights. | Earlier this summer, a group researchers published a “new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness,” also known as light pollution. You can download a KMZ version of their atlas and view it in Google Earth. The researchers haven’t made their most detailed, “floating point” dataset available for public download; instead, they ask that you first submit a data-request form. [h/t Matthew Petroff] | http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1600377.full
http://pmd.gfz-potsdam.de/contact/showshort.php?id=escidoc:1541893&contactform
http://pmd.gfz-potsdam.de/contact/showshort.php?id=escidoc:1541893&contactform | https://mpetroff.net/2016/06/light-pollution-map/ | -0.579344 | 0.764362 | 3,597 | 14,362 | 32 | -1 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
223 | 2016.09.07 | 4 | Innovation nation. | Last week, a team of researchers published HistPat, a database containing county-of-residence data for 2.8 million U.S. patents granted between 1836 and 1975. The database covers approximately 83% of all patents granted to U.S. residents during that time, according to the authors. The most frequent home counties for innovation were New York County (422,234 patents); Cook County, Ill. (215,021), and Los Angeles County (90,171). Related: The National Bureau of Economic Research’s dataset of patent citations, 1975-1999. And: “Cancer moonshot” patents, 1976–2016. [h/t Drew Ivan] | http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201674
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BPC15W
http://www.nber.org/patents/
https://developer.uspto.gov/product/cancer-moonshot-patent-data | https://twitter.com/drewivan | 0.118909 | 0.252014 | 2,595 | 10,311 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
224 | 2016.09.07 | 5 | The federal fleet. | The U.S. General Services Administration publishes an annual dataset about vehicles owned and leased by the federal government. The spreadsheets — which contain details on total inventories, cost, usage, and fuel consumption — go back to fiscal year 2011. In FY 2015, federal vehicles drove 4.8 billion miles, down about 9% from FY 2011. [h/t John Templon] | http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/102943 | https://twitter.com/jtemplon | -0.558228 | -0.112109 | 1,806 | 7,196 | 38 | -1 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
225 | 2016.09.14 | 1 | Minimum wages. | Researchers at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth have compiled a dataset of current and historical minimum wages in America. The federal and state minimum-wage data stretches back to May 1974 — when the federal minimum was $2.00 per hour, or roughly equivalent $9.76 per hour in today’s dollars — while the data for cities and counties starts in January 2004. [h/t Ben Casselman] | http://equitablegrowth.org/
https://github.com/equitablegrowth/VZ_historicalminwage/releases
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=2&year1=1974&year2=2016 | https://twitter.com/bencasselman/status/773516754354049024 | -0.130065 | -0.11528 | 1,819 | 7,223 | 59 | -1 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
226 | 2016.09.14 | 2 | Health habits. | The CDC calls its Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System “the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world.” Every year, the survey asks more than 400,000 American adults about a range of health-related topics, from tobacco to seatbelt use, from alcohol consumption to arthritis, from HIV testing to immunizations. Annual datasets from 1984–2015 are currently available. [h/t Ricardo Pietrobon] | http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/ | https://twitter.com/rpietro | -0.2627 | -0.424339 | 1,175 | 4,655 | 66 | -1 | Occupational and Workforce Data | false |
227 | 2016.09.14 | 3 | Sea ice. | The National Snow and Ice Data Center, based at the University of Colorado, publishes the Sea Ice Index. The data files, which track ice coverage in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, include daily and monthly measurements from November 1978 to the present. Lately, the extent of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean has been two or more standard deviations below its long-term average, according to the center, while Antarctic sea ice remained at average levels. [h/t Dan Vergano] | https://nsidc.org/about/overview
https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g02135_seaice_index/
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2016/09/arctic-sea-ice-nears-its-minimum-extent-for-the-year/ | https://twitter.com/dvergano | -0.548263 | 0.858444 | 3,790 | 15,132 | 32 | 32 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
228 | 2016.09.14 | 4 | State prison admissions, by county. | Reporters at the New York Times have assembled a dataset counting the number of inmates each U.S. county sent to state prison in 2006, 2013, and 2014. The reporters derived the numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Corrections Reporting Program, which only certain researchers can access. Related: “This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why?” | https://github.com/TheUpshot/prison-admissions
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/series/38/studies/36373?archive=NACJD&sortBy=7
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html | null | 0.015064 | -0.968318 | 96 | 320 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
229 | 2016.09.14 | 5 | Captionless cartoons, captioned. | A group of computer scientists and the New Yorker’s cartoon editor walk into a room… and write an academic article titled, “Humor in Collective Discourse: Unsupervised Funniness Detection in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.” The corresponding dataset — available via the “cartoons” link on this page — includes 50 cartoons and nearly 300,000 reader-submitted captions. | http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08126
http://clair.si.umich.edu/homepage/downloads.html | null | 0.698577 | 0.464891 | 2,998 | 12,012 | 71 | -1 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
230 | 2016.09.28 | 1 | State-level results. | Perhaps better known for its campaign-finance data, the Federal Election Commission also publishes official state-level results for presidential, House, and Senate elections going back to 1982. The results include all official candidates, and sometimes even write-ins (depending on the state). In the 2008 presidential election, eight Rhode Island voters wrote-in “Stephen Colbert,” five scribbled “Joe the Plumber,” and seven chose “Jesus.” | http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/electionresults.shtml | null | 0.957167 | -0.181332 | 1,726 | 6,781 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
231 | 2016.09.28 | 2 | County-level and precinct-level results. | OpenElections, a Knight Foundation–funded project, aims “to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States.” They’ve made progress, but are looking for additional volunteers. In the meantime, you can download county-level presidential results from the National Atlas of the United States for 2004, 2008, and 2012 — or all combined. And you can download precinct-level results from 2002 to 2012 from the Harvard Election Data Archive (codebook here). | http://www.openelections.net/
http://openelections.net/about/
http://openelections.net/get-involved/
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2004-presidential-general-election-county-results-direct-download
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2008-presidential-general-election-county-results-direct-download
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/presidential-general-election-results-2012-direct-download
https://github.com/helloworlddata/us-presidential-election-county-results
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/21919
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eda/
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/156214/heda_docs.pdf | null | 0.944642 | -0.202796 | 1,662 | 6,652 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
232 | 2016.09.28 | 3 | Ways and means. | The U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Election Administration and Voting Survey “includes data on the ability of civilian, military and overseas citizens to register to vote and successfully cast a ballot,” as well as an overview of each state’s voting laws and procedures. [h/t Derek Willis] | http://www.eac.gov/
http://www.eac.gov/research/election_administration_and_voting_survey.aspx | https://twitter.com/derekwillis | 0.965542 | -0.286762 | 1,470 | 5,885 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
233 | 2016.09.28 | 4 | Global elections. | The Constituency-Level Elections Archive, based at the University of Michigan, collects and standardizes results from lower-house legislative elections around the world. (In the U.S., the lower house is the House of Representatives; in the U.K., it’s the House of Commons; in Albania, it’s the Kuvendi i Shqipërisë.) The latest release covers 1,591 elections from 136 countries. [h/t Jeremy Darrington] | http://www.electiondataarchive.org/
http://www.electiondataarchive.org/datacenter.html | http://libguides.princeton.edu/elections/foreign | 0.919331 | -0.336891 | 1,405 | 5,498 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
234 | 2016.09.28 | 5 | Bush v. Gore v. hanging chads. | After 2000’s contentious election, the National Opinion Research Center — funded by a consortium of news organizations — rigorously reviewed 175,010 Florida ballots that weren’t recognized as “valid” votes for president. In November 2001 the researchers concluded that, even with a full recount of disputed ballots, George W. Bush still would have won the state by 493 votes. The underlying data is available in several formats. | http://www.electionstudies.org/florida2000/sponsors.htm
http://www.electionstudies.org/florida2000/index.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/us/examining-vote-overview-study-disputed-florida-ballots-finds-justices-did-not.html
http://www.electionstudies.org/florida2000/data/data_files.htm | null | 0.96002 | -0.190102 | 1,662 | 6,653 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
235 | 2016.10.05 | 1 | Global foreign aid. | AidData, an organization based at the College of William & Mary, has compiled a dataset of more than 1.5 million foreign aid projects between 1947 and 2013. Together, the dataset accounts for more than $7 trillion in commitments from 96 donors such as the U.S. government, UNICEF, the Nordic Development Fund, and the World Bank. AidData also publishes geospatial datasets and a data user guide. Previously: ForeignAssistance.gov, featured Jan. 13. [h/t Kedar Pavgi] | http://aiddata.org/about-aiddatas-work
http://aiddata.org/country-level-research-datasets
http://aiddata.org/subnational-geospatial-research-datasets
http://aiddata.org/data-user-guide
http://beta.foreignassistance.gov/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-13-edition | https://twitter.com/KedarPavgi/status/774595172034371584 | 0.215957 | -0.42629 | 1,190 | 4,685 | 18 | 18 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
236 | 2016.10.05 | 2 | Educational attainment. | Researchers at the Vienna-based Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital have developed a dataset of historical and projected education levels for 171 countries. For five-year age groups in each country, the project estimates the percentage of people in each of several categories of educational attainment — no education, primary education, secondary education, post-secondary education, and a few gradations in between. The dataset is available to browse and download via the Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer – look for “Educational Attainment Distribution” in the “indicators” dropdown. | http://www.wittgensteincentre.org/en/index.htm
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-demographic-economics/article/a-harmonized-dataset-on-global-educational-attainment-between-1970-and-2060-an-analytical-window-into-recent-trends-and-future-prospects-in-human-capital-development/D5540E2C23E4CB89AF08ECD9379B38FD
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Institute/VID/dataexplorer/index.html | null | 0.076393 | -0.235058 | 1,570 | 6,212 | 68 | 68 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
237 | 2016.10.05 | 3 | Student loan default rates. | The federal government publishes default rates for federal student loans, aggregated by school, state, and school type. Last week, it published data covering students whose loans were due for repayment beginning in FY2013.The national default rate for those students as of this August was 11.3%. At certain schools, however, more than a third of students defaulted. More: Some background on the 10 colleges with highest default rates, by my colleague Molly Hensley-Clancy. | https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/data-center/student/default
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/national-student-loan-cohort-default-rate-declines-steadily
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/these-colleges-have-the-worst-student-loan-default-rates
https://twitter.com/mollyhc | null | 0.096271 | -0.253522 | 1,507 | 6,086 | 68 | 68 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
238 | 2016.10.05 | 4 | R&D spending. | The UNESCO Institute for Statistics’ data on national research and development budgets contains estimates of personnel and total spending by field, funding source, and more. You can also explore the data online through a series of interactive graphics. [h/t Rebecca Galloway] | http://data.uis.unesco.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SCN_DS&lang=en
http://www.uis.unesco.org/_LAYOUTS/UNESCO/research-and-development-spending/ | https://twitter.com/rtgalloway | 0.058715 | -0.176323 | 1,697 | 6,723 | 68 | -1 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
239 | 2016.10.05 | 5 | Highway traffic. | FOIA enthusiast Max Galka received a month of highway traffic data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The dataset “includes hourly traffic counts for each hour of each day of [November 2015] at approximately 4,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide.” In all, the dataset “amounts to a total of 14 million traffic count readings and a total of 6 billion vehicles counted.” | https://twitter.com/galka_max
http://metrocosm.com/map-us-traffic/ | null | -0.559407 | -0.082009 | 1,870 | 7,452 | 39 | -1 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
240 | 2016.10.12 | 1 | Presidential newspaper endorsements. | Noah Veltman has collected all presidential endorsements (and non-endorsements) of 100+ major newspapers from 1980 (Reagan vs. Carter) to 2016. You can view the data as a spreadsheet, or as a formatted table. | https://twitter.com/veltman
https://github.com/veltman/endorsements/
http://noahveltman.com/endorsements/ | null | 0.908782 | -0.144965 | 1,789 | 7,034 | 31 | -1 | Political Data Datasets | false |
241 | 2016.10.12 | 2 | Forest cover. | The World Bank keeps statistics on total forest coverage per country and worldwide. (Between 1990 and 2015, that worldwide total declined from 41.3 million to 40.0 million square kilometers.) More than 98% of all land area in Suriname was forest in 2015, according to a related dataset — the highest proportion of any country. [h/t Tariq Khokhar + Max Galka] | http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.K2
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?year_high_desc=true | about:blank
https://twitter.com/galka_max/status/781943480708894720 | -0.435055 | 0.624352 | 3,282 | 13,220 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
242 | 2016.10.12 | 3 | Performances and exhibitions. | The New York Philharmonic’s performance history dataset contains “all known concerts” — more than 20,000 of ‘em — played by the Philharmonic and the groups with which it has merged (e.g., the New York Symphony). Last month, the Museum of Modern Art published a dataset containing “all of the known exhibitions held at the museum from 1929 through 1989” — 1,788 in total. The first featured Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, and van Gogh. [h/t Stacy-Marie Ishmael + Miriam Posner + Chad Weinard] | https://github.com/nyphilarchive/PerformanceHistory/
https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/exhibitions
http://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1767 | https://twitter.com/s_m_i/status/783427305142046720
https://twitter.com/miriamkp/status/783424561773633536
https://twitter.com/caw_/status/776529362439012354 | 0.359584 | 0.742113 | 3,563 | 14,295 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
243 | 2016.10.12 | 4 | Computer memory prices. | John C. McCallum has collected the advertised prices of computer memory over time. In 1957, one byte of memory cost $392, or the equivalent of $411 million per megabyte; today, one metabyte costs about a third of a cent. [h/t Jorge Luis] | http://www.jcmit.com/index.htm
http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm | https://twitter.com/jorgeluis500 | -0.038335 | 0.111135 | 2,270 | 9,149 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
244 | 2016.10.12 | 5 | “Murray, I think you dropped New Zealand's mineral exports for '08-'09.” | You don’t have to like Flight of the Conchords to enjoy New Zealand’s national statistics website, though it couldn’t hurt. The country publishes data on a broad range of topics, including abortion, work stoppages, the Māori census, and, of course, exports. In '08 and '09, the country exported NZD $3.5 billion and NZD $2.4 billion, respectively, of ”mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes.” [h/t Drew Ivan] | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buoztHLk9JQ
http://www.stats.govt.nz/
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/health/abortion.aspx
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/income-and-work/Strikes.aspx
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/people_and_communities/maori.aspx
http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLECODE7311 | https://twitter.com/drewivan | -0.016767 | 0.051434 | 2,143 | 8,638 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
245 | 2016.10.19 | 1 | American manufacturing. | The Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Manufacturers provides state-by-state and industry-by-industry statistics for America’s manufacturing sector. Metrics include the number of employees, annual payroll, “value added,” beginning-of-year inventory, and many more. In 2014, dog and cat food manufacturers employed about 18,000 people nationwide. Related: “Why Are Politicians So Obsessed With Manufacturing?” [h/t Scott Stern + RJ Andrews] | http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/asm.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/magazine/why-are-politicians-so-obsessed-with-manufacturing.html | https://twitter.com/sstern_mit/status/786974010911428608
https://twitter.com/infowetrust/status/786971887653924864 | -0.196769 | -0.095825 | 1,817 | 7,347 | 59 | 59 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
246 | 2016.10.19 | 2 | County-level health care. | Each year, the Department of Health and Human Services updates its Area Health Resources Files, a vast suite of local health care data collated from more than 50 sources. Among the topics covered: the number health care professionals by specialty, various rates of hospital usage, air quality, and demographic profiles. You can download the data, or explore and map it online. [h/t Ricardo Pietrobon] | http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/index.htm
http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/download.htm
http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/arfdashboard/HRCT.aspx
http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/arfdashboard/ArfGeo.aspx | https://twitter.com/rpietro | -0.396874 | -0.567793 | 851 | 3,494 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
247 | 2016.10.19 | 3 | Global financial history. | The Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database claims to be “the most extensive long-run macro-financial dataset to date.” It contains dozens of variables — GDP per capita, long-term interest rates, and the timing of systemic financial crises, for example — for 17 “advanced economies”. The dataset uses a Creative Commons license and has been extensively documented. | http://www.macrohistory.net/data/ | null | 0.051871 | 0.076993 | 2,209 | 8,771 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
248 | 2016.10.19 | 4 | 8,675 farmers markets. | The Department of Agriculture publishes a spreadsheet of farmers markets in the United States. For each market, the dataset notes its location, hours, and the types of goods available (e.g., vegetables, seafood, flowers, et cetera). [h/t Susie Lu] | https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/farmers-markets-geographic-data | http://www.susielu.com/data-viz/farmers-markets | -0.2567 | 0.571828 | 3,223 | 12,847 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
249 | 2016.10.19 | 5 | Readers like you. | Today’s newsletter marks the 50th edition of Data Is Plural, as well as its one-year anniversary. To celebrate, I’ve started publishing a spreadsheet that details each edition’s basic stats — total subscribers, the “open rate,” the number of people who chose to unsubscribe, and more. | https://github.com/data-is-plural/newsletter-stats#data-is-plural-newsletter-stats | null | 0.493198 | 0.484258 | 3,055 | 12,127 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
250 | 2016.10.26 | 1 | Congressional Research Service reports, in bulk. | The website EveryCRSReport.com provides unprecedented public access to reports from the Congressional Research Service — essentially the national legislature’s think-tank. The website, which launched last week by Demand Progress and Congressional Data Coalition, also lets you download metadata and text for each report. [h/t Daniel Schuman] | https://www.everycrsreport.com/
https://medium.com/@danielschuman/why-i-came-to-believe-crs-reports-should-be-publicly-available-and-built-a-website-to-make-it-77b4b0f6233e
https://www.everycrsreport.com/about.html
https://www.everycrsreport.com/download.html | https://twitter.com/danielschuman | 0.720033 | -0.127435 | 1,783 | 7,150 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
251 | 2016.10.26 | 2 | School testing. | The Department of Education’s EDFacts data tracks public grade schools’ participation and proficiency rates on standardized math and reading/language exams. The files provide data on all students who took the tests, broken down by race/ethnicity, sex, disability status, homelessness, and more. A related set of data files, available on the same page, tracks high-school graduation rates. | http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/data-files/index.html | null | 0.084083 | -0.345075 | 1,314 | 5,317 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
252 | 2016.10.26 | 3 | Cities and culture. | The World Cities Culture Forum, a convening of 32 major cities on six continents, has assembled a series of mini-datasets on 70+ “cultural indicators”. Those indicators range from the number of art galleries in each city (Paris had 1,151 in 2012) to the number of international tourists each city sees per year (Istanbul had 11.8 million in 2014) to the value of cinema ticket sales (Shanghai sold $563 million in 2014). Note: The data points draw on various sources — at least one just says “Google” — and aren’t necessarily directly comparable. [h/t Camilo Moreno] | http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/art-galleries
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/number-of-international-tourists-per-year
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/total-value-of-cinema-ticket-sales-per-year-ppp
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/data/number-of-comedy-clubs | https://twitter.com/cmorenok | -0.079252 | 0.363125 | 2,781 | 11,194 | 43 | 43 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
253 | 2016.10.26 | 4 | Airborne. | OpenFlights.org has collected data on more than 60,000 flight routes, including 915 itineraries departing Atlanta’s Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport. (That airport was recently named the world’s busiest, for the 18th year in a row.) For each route, the dataset indicates the airline, the departing airport, the arriving airport, the number of stops, and what type of plane is typically used. The website also provides datasets on thousands of airports and airlines. Important caveat: “This data is not suitable for navigation.” | http://openflights.org/data.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2016/09/12/worlds-busiest-airport-atlanta-takes-title-again/90271028/ | null | -0.676426 | -0.078609 | 1,866 | 7,444 | 39 | 39 | Aviation Data and Regulations | false |
254 | 2016.10.26 | 5 | TSA confiscations. | Between October 2014 and September 2015, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration confiscated 22,196 “dangerous” items at airports, including 156 times at New York’s JFK. (Twice there, someone had placed fireworks in checked baggage.) That’s according to data obtained from the government by FOIA enthusiast Max Galka, who has also built an interactive map of the confiscations. | http://metrocosm.com/get-the-data/#tsa
https://twitter.com/galka_max
http://metrocosm.com/confiscated-items-airport-security/ | null | -0.632754 | -0.128751 | 1,739 | 7,063 | 38 | -1 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
255 | 2016.11.02 | 1 | Medicare beneficiaries. | The U.S. government’s Medicare Health Outcomes Survey tracks the “physical and mental health and well-being” of Americans covered by Medicare. Each survey, currently available for 1998–2000 to 2012–2014, follows a sample of Medicare beneficiaries for two years, and asks them questions along the lines of, “In the past 12 months, have you had a problem with balance or walking?” The 2012–2014 data includes (at least partial) responses from 296,320 people. [h/t Ricardo Pietrobon] [Update, 2016-11-02: The original link in this item points to an ICPSR page, which provides access only to people at "member institutions." Here's a better link to the data: http://www.hosonline.org/en/data-dissemination/research-data-files/] | http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/23380?classification=ICPSR.IX.&q=&sortBy=7 | https://twitter.com/rpietro | -0.367772 | -0.516954 | 980 | 3,880 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
256 | 2016.11.02 | 2 | Where we live and build. | The European Commission’s Global Human Settlement Layer combines satellite imagery and census data to measure three things: population, building density, and urban/rural classification. The resulting datasets are fairly detailed — they provide population estimates for every 250-meter square in the world, for example — and are available for 1975, 1990, 2000, and 2015. [h/t Alaistair Rae] | http://ghslsys.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php
http://ghslsys.jrc.ec.europa.eu/datasets.php | http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2016/10/the-global-human-settlement-layer.html | -0.257384 | 0.286894 | 2,647 | 10,543 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
257 | 2016.11.02 | 3 | Complaints against NYC police. | Earlier this autumn, New York City began publishing a dataset of official citizen complaints against the city’s police, for every case closed since 2006. For each of the 200,000+ allegations, the main dataset includes various details about the incident — e.g., where it took place, and whether there’s video evidence — but no information about the officer involved. Related: Similar data from Indianapolis, which includes demographic information about the complained-against officers but not their names. Also related: “The local projects that are making police complaint data open and accessible.” Previously: Complaints against Chicago police, featured Nov. 11, 2015. [h/t Eve Ahearn] | http://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/policy/data-transparency-initiative.page
https://www.projectcomport.org/department/IMPD/
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/10/25/the-local-projects-that-are-making-police-complaint-data-open-and-accessible/
https://cpdb.co/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-25-edition | https://twitter.com/eveahe | 0.137642 | -0.796562 | 420 | 1,736 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
258 | 2016.11.02 | 4 | Millions of Amazon reviews. | Julian McAuley, an assistant professor at UC San Diego, has collected a massive amount of user-generated data from Amazon.com, including 142.8 million reviews and 1.4 million answered Q&As. (As of mid-2014, Sophie la Girafe was the most-reviewed item in the baby category. Backstory here.) Much of the data can be downloaded directly, but the largest files require contacting McAuley for access. [h/t Reddit user samofny] | http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~jmcauley/
http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/
http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/qa/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IDSLOG
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/number_1/2011/03/im_french_chew_on_me.html | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/59owtn/amazon_review_data_1428_million_reviews_spanning/ | 0.535217 | 0.372811 | 2,801 | 11,234 | 70 | 70 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
259 | 2016.11.02 | 5 | The dangerous dogs of Austin, Texas. | The city publishes a spreadsheet — last updated in May — of local dogs who’ve officially been “declared dangerous.” (“They have attacked in the past. The owner is required to provide $100,000 in financial responsibility. If they attack again the court could order them put to sleep.”) The file currently contains 63 entries, from a Labrador named Charlie to a Blue Lacy named Flint. [h/t Sharon Machlis] | https://data.austintexas.gov/Public-Safety/Declared-Dangerous-Dogs/ykw4-j3aj | https://twitter.com/sharon000 | -0.120547 | 0.782872 | 3,676 | 14,648 | 2 | 2 | Animal Data Collections | false |
260 | 2016.11.16 | 1 | Hate crimes in the United States. | Since the 1990s, the FBI has collected data on hate crimes from local law enforcement agencies. On Monday, the bureau released data for 2015, reporting “5,850 criminal incidents and 6,885 related offenses, as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.” Those numbers are based on reports from 14,997 participating agencies. On the FBI’s website, you can view and download summary tables of the most recent data. You can also download incident-specific data for 1992 through 2014 from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. Unfortunately, as ProPublica noted yesterday, the FBI dataset is “deeply flawed”; more than 3,000 law enforcement agencies don’t participate in the program. [h/t John Templon] | https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2015-hate-crime-statistics
https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2015/topic-pages/jurisdiction_final
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/series/57/studies?searchIn=TITLE&archive=NACJD&q=%22Hate+Crime+Data%22&sortBy=7
https://www.propublica.org/article/hate-crimes-are-up-but-the-government-isnt-keeping-good-track-of-them | https://twitter.com/jtemplon | 0.176825 | -0.783219 | 421 | 1,739 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
261 | 2016.11.16 | 2 | Fake news on Facebook. | Last month, colleagues at BuzzFeed News and I analyzed and fact-checked 1,000+ posts from hyperpartisan Facebook pages, and found a disturbingly high rate of fake news. Here’s the data. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed the possibility that fake news influenced the election, calling it a “pretty crazy idea”. Meanwhile, renegade Facebook employees have now formed an unofficial task force to battle fake news on the platform. | https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-analysis
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2016-10-facebook-fact-check
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/zuckerberg-techonomy-fake-news-election
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/renegade-facebook-employees-form-task-force-to-battle-fake-n | null | 0.785054 | 0.077891 | 2,233 | 8,818 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
262 | 2016.11.16 | 3 | Election Day on “the front page of the internet.” | Jason Baumgartner — a.k.a. Stuck_In_the_Matrix — has collected and published every submission and comment posted to Reddit from November 8th through November 10th. For each of the nearly 8 million comments, the dataset includes the message, the author, the subreddit it was posted to, the comment thread’s ID, and more. Previously: 1.7 billion Reddit comments, featured Nov. 25, 2015. | https://www.reddit.com/user/Stuck_In_the_Matrix
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5ch2bq/reddit_raw_election_data_comments_and_submissions/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_every_publicly_available_reddit_comment/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-11-25-edition | null | 0.80522 | 0.297486 | 2,681 | 10,739 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
263 | 2016.11.16 | 4 | The most important entries on Wikipedia. | Germany-based researcher Andreas Thalhammer has applied PageRank — the algorithm at the heart of Google’s origin story — to the world of Wikipedia. The result: the DBpedia PageRank dataset, which estimates the importance of each page based on the other pages that link to it. You can download the data directly, or query it online. (According to the metric, Aristotle, Plato, and Karl Marx are history’s three most Wiki-central philosophers.) | https://twitter.com/thalhamm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
http://people.aifb.kit.edu/ath/#DBpedia_PageRank
http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&qtxt=PREFIX+rdf%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2F02%2F22-rdf-syntax-ns%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+vrank%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fvoc%2Fvrank%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+dbo%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0A%0D%0ASELECT+%3Fs+%3Fv+%0D%0AFROM+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%3E+%0D%0AFROM+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpeople.aifb.kit.edu%2Fath%2F%23DBpedia_PageRank%3E+%0D%0AWHERE+{%0D%0A%3Fs+rdf%3Atype+dbo%3AUniversity.%0D%0A%3Fs+vrank%3AhasRank%2Fvrank%3ArankValue+%3Fv.%0D%0A}%0D%0AORDER+BY+DESC%28%3Fv%29+LIMIT+50%0D%0A&format=text%2Fhtml&CXML_redir_for_subjs=121&CXML_redir_for_hrefs=&timeout=30000&debug=on
http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=PREFIX+rdf%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2F02%2F22-rdf-syntax-ns%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+vrank%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fvoc%2Fvrank%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+dbo%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0A%0D%0ASELECT+%3Fs+%3Fv+%0D%0AFROM+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%3E+%0D%0AFROM+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpeople.aifb.kit.edu%2Fath%2F%23DBpedia_PageRank%3E+%0D%0AWHERE+%7B%0D%0A%3Fs+rdf%3Atype+dbo%3APhilosopher.%0D%0A%3Fs+vrank%3AhasRank%2Fvrank%3ArankValue+%3Fv.%0D%0A%7D%0D%0AORDER+BY+DESC%28%3Fv%29+LIMIT+50%0D%0A&format=text%2Fhtml&CXML_redir_for_subjs=121&CXML_redir_for_hrefs=&timeout=30000&debug=on | null | 0.574899 | 0.335701 | 2,738 | 10,980 | 70 | -1 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
264 | 2016.11.16 | 5 | Every street tree in NYC. | Earlier this month, New York City published the results of its decennial tree count. You can explore a map of every street tree in NYC — nearly 700,000 of ‘em — or download the corresponding dataset, which contains info on each tree’s species, circumference, health status, and other observations. (Note: That dataset appears to contain about one-third fewer trees than the map’s count, for reasons I can’t quite figure out.) Results of the 1995 and 2005 tree censuses are also available. | https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/treescount
https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2015-Street-Tree-Census-Blockface-Data/ju3b-rwpy
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?q=Street%20Tree%20Census | null | -0.470506 | 0.255523 | 2,576 | 10,273 | 52 | -1 | Urban Infrastructure Datasets | false |
265 | 2016.11.30 | 1 | What kills us. | The CDC’s Underlying Cause of Death database provides county-level mortality statistics based on death certificates of U.S. residents for each year from 1999 to 2014. The tool lets you group the data by geography, demographics, place of death (e.g., inpatient hospital, hospice, home, etc.), and other variables. In 2014, for example, about 40,000 residents died of pancreatic cancer — with the highest rates coming in America’s most-rural counties (~15.6 deaths per 100,000 residents) and the lowest rates in country’s most-urban counties (~11.3 per 100,000). The CDC’s “compressed mortality” datasets contain slightly less detail, but go all the way back to 1968. [h/t Drew Ivan] | https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html
https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/ucd.html
https://wonder.cdc.gov/mortSQL.html | https://twitter.com/drewivan | -0.161039 | -0.752859 | 474 | 1,973 | 15 | 15 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
266 | 2016.11.30 | 2 | Gunshot detections. | Earlier this month, Forbes published an examination of ShotSpotter, a company that uses networks of outdoor microphones to detect and locate gunshot-like sounds. Forbes found that ShotSpotter has produced “few tangible results.” “In some cities, ShotSpotter hasn’t had the effect city officials and residents had hoped for. While officers are responding to more illegal gunfire, they rarely catch the shooter.” To support its findings, Forbes has published the ShotSpotter data they received from police departments in seven cities: Brockton, Mass.; East Palo Alto, Calif.; Kansas City, Mo.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Omaha, Neb.; San Francisco, Calif.; and Wilmington, N.C. The data varies somewhat for each city, but typically includes the date, time, location, and outcome of the each gunshot alert. [h/t Matt Drange] | http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/11/17/shotspotter-struggles-to-prove-impact-as-silicon-valley-answer-to-gun-violence/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/11/17/shotspotter-alerts-police-to-lots-of-gunfire-but-produces-few-tangible-results | https://twitter.com/mattdrange | 0.159995 | -0.795452 | 421 | 1,738 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
267 | 2016.11.30 | 3 | Comparing election forecasts. | This year, I decided to grade a bunch of prominent election forecasts for BuzzFeed News. Now that Michigan has finally been called, I’ve published the results. I’ve also published the underlying data and code on GitHub, including state-level predictions from all nine forecasters in the analysis. | https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/grading-the-2016-election-forecasts
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvine/2016-election-forecast-grades
https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2016-11-grading-the-election-forecasts | null | 0.965709 | -0.186813 | 1,726 | 6,781 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
268 | 2016.11.30 | 4 | Five years of Facebook posts from 15 news sites. | Data analyst Patrick Martinchek has published a dataset of all Facebook posts from “15 of the top mainstream media sources” — a group that includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fox News, and other familiar sources — from January 2012 through Nov. 8, 2016. Related: “What I Discovered About Trump and Clinton From Analyzing 4 Million Facebook Posts.” | https://www.facebook.com/Patrick.Martinchek
https://data.world/martinchek/2012-2016-facebook-posts
https://shift.newco.co/what-i-discovered-about-trump-and-clinton-from-analyzing-4-million-facebook-posts-922a4381fd2f | null | 0.739982 | 0.117242 | 2,295 | 9,199 | 58 | -1 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
269 | 2016.11.30 | 5 | I’ll take “Datasets” for $200. | A few years ago, Reddit user trexmatt uploaded 216,930 Jeopardy! trivia-tidbits, scraped from j-archive.com, “the nearly comprehensive online Jeopardy! archive maintained by obsessive fans.” Each entry lists the question, answer, category, value, round, show number, and show air-date. | https://www.reddit.com/user/trexmatt/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/1uyd0t/200000_jeopardy_questions_in_a_json_file/
http://www.j-archive.com/
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/02/this_fanmaintained_episode_database_helps_contestants_prepare_for_jeopardy.html | null | 0.80403 | 0.266345 | 2,617 | 10,483 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
270 | 2016.12.07 | 1 | Pipelines. | The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes a bunch of geographic data, including shapefiles mapping the country’s crude oil, petroleum product, hydrocarbon gas liquid, and natural gas pipelines. (They were last updated five months ago.) Additionally, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration keeps track of “significant incidents” — for example, those that caused a serious injury or $50,000 in damage. Related: “Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure.” Also related: ProPublica’s Pipeline Safety Tracker, covering 1986–2012. | https://www.eia.gov/maps/layer_info-m.php
http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline/library/data-stats/flagged-data-files
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/maps-of-american-infrastrucure/
https://projects.propublica.org/pipelines/ | null | -0.829346 | 0.407466 | 2,885 | 11,530 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
271 | 2016.12.07 | 2 | Solar panels. | The Open PV Project is a “community driven, comprehensive database” of solar panel installations in the U.S., ranging from home installations to utility-scale projects. The database, run by the Department of Energy, contains more than 1 million installations — with a total capacity of 16,000+ megawatts — and tracks their locations, sizes, costs, installers, and other variables. [h/t Dad] | https://openpv.nrel.gov/index | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347 | -0.932577 | 0.486828 | 3,010 | 12,164 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
272 | 2016.12.07 | 3 | Chicago cab rides. | Last month, Chicago’s city government published data on more than 100 million local taxi rides taken in the city since 2013. (The city gathers the data through “periodic reporting by two major payment processors believed to cover most taxis in Chicago.”) The dataset contains each ride’s start/end times, pickup/dropoff location (based on Chicago’s “community areas”), distance, cost, payment type, and taxi company. Related: “Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance,” which contains pointers to similar data for New York City. [h/t Dan Nguyen] | http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/chicago-taxi-data-released/
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Taxi-Trips-Dashboard/spcw-brbq
http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-taxi-and-uber-trips-with-a-vengeance/ | https://twitter.com/dancow/status/803471830707093504 | -0.511906 | 0.019413 | 2,063 | 8,351 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
273 | 2016.12.07 | 4 | STEM surveys. | The IPUMS Higher Ed portal provides data from three “leading surveys for studying the science and engineering (STEM) workforce in the United States.” The surveys currently cover 1993 through 2013 and include questions about educational choices, demographics, employment outcomes, and more. Requires a free account. [h/t Michael A. Rice, a teacher at Ingraham High School in Seattle] | https://highered.ipums.org/highered/ | null | 0.017885 | -0.345247 | 1,312 | 5,313 | 69 | -1 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
274 | 2016.12.07 | 5 | Classical music, annotated. | “MusicNet is a collection of 330 freely-licensed classical music recordings, together with over 1 million annotated labels indicating the precise time of each note every recording, the instrument that plays each note, and the note's position in the metrical structure of the composition.” [h/t Lon Riesberg] | http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~thickstn/musicnet.html | http://dataelixir.com/issues/108#resources | 0.390669 | 0.798712 | 3,692 | 14,809 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
275 | 2016.12.14 | 1 | Medicare drug costs. | The federal government has released data on Medicare’s prescription drug spending from 2011 to 2015. Previously, Medicare had only published data on the most expensive drugs; the new release includes data on all drugs used by at least 11 Medicare patients in a given year. Caveat: Medicare “is prohibited from publicly disclosing drug-specific information on manufacturer rebates,” so the “spending metrics do not reflect any manufacturers’ rebates or other price concessions.” [h/t Charles Ornstein] | https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Information-on-Prescription-Drugs/2015MedicareData.html | https://twitter.com/charlesornstein/status/806587500307353601 | -0.519939 | -0.527733 | 975 | 3,870 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
276 | 2016.12.14 | 2 | Breached accounts. | Troy Hunt runs HaveIBeenPwned.com, a service that lets you see whether your email address has been included in any major data breaches. Last week, Hunt published an anonymized dataset based on the breaches he’s collected. (That post provides a torrent file for the dataset; you can also download the data here.) Unlike the HaveIBeenPwned website, the dataset doesn’t include information about specific accounts; instead it counts the number of email addresses that have been compromised on particular combinations of websites. For example, 14.6 million email addresses appeared in both the LinkedIn and Dropbox breaches. (You can read more about each breach here.) | https://haveibeenpwned.com/
https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-1-4-billion-records-from-have-i-been-pwned-for-you-to-analyse/
https://github.com/data-is-plural/haveibeenpwned-account-combinations
https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites | null | 0.611012 | 0.014545 | 2,099 | 8,295 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
277 | 2016.12.14 | 3 | Water world. | The European Commission and Google engineers have mapped surface water – including lakes, rivers, reservoirs, oceans, and more – on every 30-meter-by-30-meter square on Earth between 1984 and 2015. During that time, “permanent surface water has disappeared from an area of almost 90,000 square kilometres, roughly equivalent to that of Lake Superior, though new permanent bodies of surface water covering 184,000 square kilometres have formed elsewhere.” The data, based on the U.S. government’s Landsat satellite images, are available to download and explore online. Related: “Mapping Three Decades of Global Water Change,” published by The New York Times, based on this dataset. | http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature20584.html
https://landsat.usgs.gov/
https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/download
https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/09/science/mapping-three-decades-of-global-water-change.html | null | -0.643084 | 0.698734 | 3,467 | 13,846 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
278 | 2016.12.14 | 4 | Crowdfunding. | A Lithuania-based web-scraping company has been collecting data on Kickstarter projects and Indiegogo campaigns every month. The datasets include (among other things) each project’s number of backers, amount pledged, and category. You can also explore the data online. [h/t Vincent Granville] | https://webrobots.io/about-us/
https://webrobots.io/kickstarter-datasets/
https://webrobots.io/indiegogo-dataset/
http://crowdfunding.webrobots.io/ | http://www.datasciencecentral.com/forum/topics/more-free-data-sets | 0.532767 | 0.117198 | 2,289 | 9,186 | 74 | -1 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
279 | 2016.12.14 | 5 | Energy use at 10 Downing Street. | UK-based CarbonCulture helps organizations measure and publish their buildings’ energy and water use in near-realtime. Among the first users: 10 Downing Street, the Tate Modern, and University College London. For each building, you can download yearly datasets, which are broken down into 30-minute intervals. [h/t Max Roser] | https://platform.carbonculture.net/places/10-downing-street/9/https://platform.carbonculture.net/about/
https://platform.carbonculture.net/places/10-downing-street/9/
https://platform.carbonculture.net/places/tate-modern/8962/
https://platform.carbonculture.net/communities/ucl/30/ | https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/802553471618732033 | -0.762202 | 0.333978 | 2,695 | 10,895 | 21 | 21 | Climate Data and Emissions | false |
280 | 2016.12.21 | 1 | The Affordable Care Act, quantified. | Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a dataset of state-level Obamacare metrics. The dataset is divided into five main categories: coverage gains, employer coverage, individual market coverage, Medicaid, and Medicare. Between 2010 and 2015, the proportion of Nevadans without health insurance dropped from 22.6% to 12.3% — the largest percentage-point decrease of any state. (In 2015, an estimated 17.1% of Texans still didn’t have health insurance, the highest rate of any state that year.) The metrics come from various sources, including the Census, academic studies, and the department’s own estimates. [h/t Nadja Popovich] | https://aspe.hhs.gov/compilation-state-data-affordable-care-act | https://twitter.com/PopovichN | -0.413526 | -0.584228 | 850 | 3,365 | 45 | 45 | Healthcare Data and Transparency | false |
281 | 2016.12.21 | 2 | Petroleum rig counts. | Since the 1940s, oilfield services corporation Baker Hughes and its predecessor companies have been publishing “rig counts” — the number of rigs actively drilling for oil and/or gas in various parts of the world. These days, the company updates its North America numbers every week and its international counts every month. As of December 16, they counted 637 rigs in — and offshore of — the United States, nearly half of them in Texas. [h/t Jordan Wirfs-Brock] | http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-rigcountsoverview
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-reportsother
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79687&p=irol-rigcountsintl | https://github.com/InsideEnergy/24-energy-stories-CAR16 | -0.806741 | 0.43383 | 2,886 | 11,660 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
282 | 2016.12.21 | 3 | The birds and the bees (and more). | The U.S. Geological Survey’s BISON service brings together “species occurrence” data from hundreds of sources. The service, whose name stands for ”Biodiversity Information Serving our Nation,” currently contains 262 million records, each of which refers to the observation of “an organism at a particular time in a particular place.” Most of the observations are based on direct sightings; others use fossils, written records, or other sources. The data aren’t available for bulk download, but can be accessed via BISON’s free API. [h/t Clare Malone] | https://bison.usgs.gov/ | http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-trumps-white-house-could-mess-with-government-data/ | -0.213724 | 0.937931 | 3,993 | 15,922 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
283 | 2016.12.21 | 4 | Two planes too close. | The FAA’s Near Midair Collision System keeps track of incidents where two planes flew uncomfortably close to each other. The system, which is based on reports from pilots and flight crew members, contains more than 7,500 incidents dating back to 1987. The FAA received 305 of these reports for the first 10 months of 2016, including 35 classified as “critical.” | http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:33:0::NO:::
http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:35:0::NO::P35_REGION_VAR:1 | null | -0.64295 | -0.179442 | 1,675 | 6,678 | 38 | 38 | Aviation Safety Data | false |
284 | 2016.12.21 | 5 | The geography of language on Twitter. | Last week, Quartz published an addictive tool that lets you map word usage on Twitter, by U.S. county. It’s based on an academic analysis of 890 million geocoded tweets uttered between October 2013 and November 2014. Data and details available here. | http://qz.com/862325/the-great-american-word-mapper/
https://sites.google.com/site/wordmapperinfo/ | null | -0.019212 | 0.319734 | 2,719 | 10,814 | 43 | -1 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
285 | 2017.01.11 | 1 | What Facebook knows about us. | In September, ProPublica published a Chrome extension that showed readers what Facebook said it knew about them — and then asked readers to share that data. In the following months, readers unearthed more than 52,000 of the “unique interest categories” that Facebook uses for advertising, such as “yoga,” “beer,” and “Scent of a Woman (1992 film).” But ProPublica’s reporters also found that Facebook doesn’t tell users about the “far more sensitive” data it buys about their offline lives, which can include “their income, the types of restaurants they frequent and even how many credit cards are in their wallets.” To support these findings, ProPublica published two key datasets: the crowdsourced “interest categories” and the list of categories that Facebook allows advertisers to target. | https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-what-facebook-knows-about-you
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-doesnt-tell-users-everything-it-really-knows-about-them
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/facebook-ad-categories | null | 0.733241 | 0.096192 | 2,295 | 9,070 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
286 | 2017.01.11 | 2 | Getting warmer. | Scientists expect that, when the final numbers come in, 2016 will have been Earth’s hottest year on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes monthly data on “temperature anomalies” — how much hotter or cooler a month was than the 20th century average. (November 2016, the most recent month available, was 0.73° Celsius warmer than the average November.) You can grab the data for the entire globe, by hemisphere, or by continent; for the land and ocean combined, or separately; and going all the way back to 1880. Related: My colleague Peter Aldhous demonstrates how he charted this data using R. Also: NOAA released its 2016 U.S. “State of the Climate” report on Monday. | https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/another-hottest-year
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global
https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2016-12-warmest-year/
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/201613 | null | -0.669906 | 0.885482 | 3,850 | 15,381 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
287 | 2017.01.11 | 3 | Four wars’ bombing missions. | Years ago, Lt. Col. Jenns Robertson began entering information into “a simple Excel spreadsheet that eventually matured into the largest compilation of releasable U.S. air operations data in existence.” Last month, the Department of Defense published a “beta” version of this data, known as Theater History of Operations Reports (THOR). Currently, THOR’s data covers bombing operations from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. For each bombing, the reports include data about the aircraft, munitions, targets, results, and more. | https://www.data.mil/s/v2/data-stories-an-overview-of-thor/a100cd16-c2a7-453b-8ea6-45947c1bbc51/ | null | 0.406108 | -0.602723 | 812 | 3,289 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
288 | 2017.01.11 | 4 | So many satellites. | CelesTrak’s T.S. Kelso has been obsessively transcribing NORAD’s “resident space object” data for decades. Among his offerings: the SATCAT satellite catalog, which provides data on all known satellites launched since 1957 — more than 41,900 of ‘em. Kelso also provides a SATCAT Boxscore, which is like a baseball box score ... but for satellites. The U.S., it turns out, is responsible for almost exactly one-third of the 1,590 satellites classified as “active.” Previously: The Union of Concerned Scientists’ satellite database, featured Dec. 30, 2015. [h/t Noah Veltman] | https://celestrak.com/
https://celestrak.com/webmaster.asp
https://celestrak.com/NORAD/documentation/
https://celestrak.com/satcat/search.asp
https://celestrak.com/satcat/boxscore.asp
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/space-weapons/satellite-database
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-30-edition | http://noahveltman.com/ | -0.51154 | 1 | 4,047 | 16,287 | 33 | 33 | Space Exploration Datasets | false |
289 | 2017.01.11 | 5 | Where Waldo is. | In 2015, computer scientist Randy Olson tried computing “the optimal search strategy for finding Waldo” in the seven original Where’s Waldo? books. In doing so, he transcribed a 2013 Slate chart of Waldo’s locations (itself transcribed from those seven original books). The resulting dataset contains 68 rows — one for each Waldo — and four columns: book, page, x coordinate, and y coordinate. | http://www.randalolson.com/2015/02/03/heres-waldo-computing-the-optimal-search-strategy-for-finding-waldo/
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/11/where_s_waldo_a_new_strategy_for_locating_the_missing_man_in_martin_hanford.html
http://www.randalolson.com/wp-content/uploads/wheres-waldo-locations.csv | null | 0.478981 | 0.506772 | 3,119 | 12,382 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
290 | 2017.01.18 | 1 | TrumpWorld. | At BuzzFeed News, a few colleagues and I spent the past two months compiling a big database of organizations and people connected to President-elect Trump, his family, advisers, and Cabinet picks. On Sunday, we published what we’ve found so far — connections between more than 1,500 organizations and people altogether. Still, there are certainly things we’ve missed. So you can download and search the data, but you can also help us expand it. See something we’ve overlooked? Let us know! | https://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/help-us-map-trumpworld | null | 0.771034 | 0.065449 | 2,232 | 8,817 | 58 | 58 | Political Data and Analysis | false |
291 | 2017.01.18 | 2 | Food stamp foods. | Late last year, the USDA published a study that used “point-of-sale transaction data from a leading grocery retailer to examine the food choices” of households receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. In an appendix, the report ranks the total spending on major commodities by SNAP households and non-SNAP households. Soft drinks, “fluid milk products,” and ground beef were the top three commodities purchased by SNAP households. Milk, soft drinks, and cheese were the top three for non-SNAP households. That information is presented as a PDF table, but I’ve converted it to a spreadsheet-friendly text file for you. [h//t Reddit user "junglejuicy"] | https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/foods-typically-purchased-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-households
https://github.com/data-is-plural/usda-snap-spending-study
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/5o249x/foods_typically_purchased_by_supplemental/ | null | -0.2051 | 0.468373 | 2,969 | 11,954 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
292 | 2017.01.18 | 3 | Online and offline prices. | Between December 2014 and March 2016, Alberto Cavallo — co-founder of MIT’s Billion Prices Project — sent 323 crowdsourced workers to collect product prices from 56 large retailers in 10 countries. Then, he found the prices for the same products on the retailers’ websites. The results, which contain tens of thousands of observations, are available as several Excel spreadsheets. (Caveat: The dataset’s “Terms of Use” rules stipulate that the information is “EXCLUSIVELY FOR USE IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS”.) Related: Cavallo summarized his findings in a paper published recently by the American Economic Review. | http://www.mit.edu/~afc/
http://bpp.mit.edu/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2FXXOUHF
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20160542 | null | 0.385986 | 0.250624 | 2,604 | 10,328 | 46 | -1 | Digital Historical Data | false |
293 | 2017.01.18 | 4 | German rail. | State-owned Deutsche Bahn AG is Europe’s largest railway company by revenue, serving 12 million train and bus passengers each day. It also happens to publish a bunch of open data, including datasets on its routes, stations, platforms, and cargo facilities. [h/t Martin Bergmann] | http://www.railway-technology.com/features/featureengines-of-trade-the-ten-biggest-rail-companies-by-revenue-4943955/
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset?groups=datasets
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/data-streckennetz
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/data-stationsdaten
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/data-bahnsteig-regio
http://data.deutschebahn.com/dataset/betriebsstellen-gueterverkehr | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bergma | -0.583411 | 0.014246 | 2,061 | 8,218 | 50 | -1 | Urban Transit Data | false |
294 | 2017.01.18 | 5 | Dot-gov domains. | The General Services Administration recently updated its list of known .gov domains. It currently includes more than 1,300 federal domains — from aapi.gov to youthrules.gov — and more than 4,300 domains registered by state, local, and native sovereign agencies. | https://github.com/GSA/data/tree/gh-pages/dotgov-domains
http://aapi.gov
http://www.youthrules.gov/ | null | 0.618487 | -0.015874 | 2,035 | 8,039 | 74 | -1 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
295 | 2017.01.25 | 1 | Colleges and economic mobility. | A team of economists studying “the equality of opportunity” has published new research identifying which colleges “help the most children climb the income ladder.” For their analysis, the researchers combined federal tax records and data from the Department of Education. California State University–Los Angeles was one of the greatest engines of mobility; nearly 1 in 10 students enrolled there began in the bottom 20% of income but reached the top 20% by their early thirties. You can download the findings, which include similar statistics for more than 2,000 schools, as a series of spreadsheets. Related: “Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours,” from the New York Times. | http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/team/
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/college/
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html | null | 0.0549 | -0.237627 | 1,569 | 6,211 | 68 | 68 | Education Data and Statistics | false |
296 | 2017.01.25 | 2 | Three centuries of UK macroeconomic data. | The Bank of England publishes a spreadsheet of historical economic data going back, in some cases, to the late 1600s. The country’s GDP in 1700 was £11.7 billion in 2013 prices. That’s about 1/157th the size of the UK’s GDP in 2015. And in November 1694, monthly short-term interest rates were roughly 6%. [h/t Ian Greenleigh] | http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/Pages/onebank/threecenturies.aspx | https://data.world/ian/3-centuries-of-uk-economy-data | -0.017634 | 0.115109 | 2,271 | 9,150 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
297 | 2017.01.25 | 3 | TV talk. | The GDELT Project and the Internet Archive have collaborated to make the latter's Television News Archive more powerfully searchable. Their new tool, announced in December, lets you search across “more than 5.7 billion words from over 150 distinct stations spanning July 2009 to present” at a sentence-by-sentence level. The results are downloadable as CSV or JSON files. Previously: The Political TV Ad Archive (Feb. 2, 2016). | http://gdeltproject.org/
https://archive.org/details/tv
http://television.gdeltproject.org/cgi-bin/iatv_ftxtsearch/iatv_ftxtsearch
https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/20/new-research-tool-for-visualizing-two-million-hours-of-television-news/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-02-10-edition | null | 0.814152 | 0.230343 | 2,554 | 10,100 | 57 | -1 | Historical News Datasets | false |
298 | 2017.01.25 | 4 | European trees. | EU-Forest is a new dataset that, according to its authors, “extends by almost one order of magnitude the publicly available information on European tree species distribution.” The new project merges and harmonizes data from 21 national forest surveys and two related databases. In all, EU-Forest includes more than 580,000 observations of more than 200 species in 1km-by-1km square plots of land, and is available in both tabular and geospatial file formats. Previously: American tree maps (Dec. 23, 2015) and NYC street trees (Nov. 16, 2016). | https://figshare.com/collections/A_high-resolution_pan-European_tree_occurrence_dataset/3288407
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2016123
https://figshare.com/articles/Tree_occurrences_at_species_level/3497885
https://figshare.com/articles/Occurrences_location_shapefile/3497891
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-12-23-edition
http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-11-16-edition | null | -0.398533 | 0.610652 | 3,283 | 13,222 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
299 | 2017.01.25 | 5 | Standard mugshots. | The National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes Special Database 18 “for use in development and testing of automated mugshot identification systems.” The dataset contains 3,248 mugshot photos portraying 1,573 different people (mostly men), and includes each arrestee’s age and gender. [h/t Noah Veltman] | https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-special-database-18 | http://noahveltman.com/ | 0.433872 | 0.523113 | 3,117 | 12,507 | 77 | 77 | Diverse Data Collections | false |
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