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1,000 | 2020.06.17 | 1 | Confederate monuments. | For several years, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Whose Heritage?” project has been gathering and mapping information on “public symbols of the Confederacy,” such as monuments, place names, official holidays, commemorative license plates, and municipal seals. For each of the 1,800+ entries, the project’s dataset indicates the type of monument/symbol, its location, sponsor, year dedicated, and (if applicable) year removed. [h/t Gita Jackson + Dan Brady] | https://www.splcenter.org/
https://www.splcenter.org/data-projects/whose-heritage
https://www.splcenter.org/20190201/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confederacy
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17ps4aqRyaIfpu7KdGsy2HRZaaQiXUfLrpUbaR9yS51E/edit | https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqnjy/is-there-a-racist-monument-in-your-town-check-this-map-to-find-out
https://danjbrady.com | 0.107588 | 0.360665 | 2,787 | 11,206 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,001 | 2020.06.17 | 2 | More protest data. | CountLove.org has been using news reports to quantify protest events in the US since 2017. Its downloadable dataset currently contains more than 27,000 events and provides each event’s date, location, and approximate number of attendees. The events are also tagged with one or more topics, such as civil rights, healthcare, for racial justice, and against regulation. The site’s search/mapping tool lets you to filter by those tags, and also for “curated protest data for a more compassionate country.” Related: Tommy Leung and Nathan Perkins describe how they built the project. [h/t Audra Burch et al.] | https://countlove.org/
https://countlove.org/faq.html
https://countlove.org/search.html
https://www.tommyleung.com/about.htm
https://www.nathanntg.com/
https://www.tommyleung.com/countLove/index.htm | https://twitter.com/abscribe/status/1272169075662376960 | 0.348289 | -0.619325 | 811 | 3,158 | 11 | 11 | Protest and Violence Data | false |
1,002 | 2020.06.17 | 3 | The Green Books. | The New York Public Library has digitized more than 20 volumes of the Green Book — a series of travelers’ guides, published from the 1930s to 1960s by US postal worker Victor Green, that listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other establishments where Black visitors would be safe and welcome. The library has converted its digital copies into semi-structured text and turned the 1947 edition into a fully-structured dataset. The University of South Carolina has built a dataset of the 1,500+ listings in the 1956 edition. Inn 2015, NYPL Labs combined both years’ datasets into a tool to map the locations and plan routes with them. | https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-green-book#/?tab=about
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/03/24/schomburg-treasures-green-book
https://github.com/NYPL-publicdomain/greenbooks
https://github.com/NYPL-publicdomain/greenbooks/tree/master/geojson
https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/the-negro-travelers-green-book-1956/
https://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/ | null | 0.147334 | 0.330593 | 2,724 | 10,953 | 47 | -1 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,003 | 2020.06.17 | 4 | Sentences for measuring bias. | StereoSet aims to measure biases toward stereotypes — as they relate to profession, gender, race, and religion — in statistical language models, using a dataset containing thousands of sentences, each with several variations. Through the project’s online data explorer, you can examine the sentences and see how some popular language models perform. [h/t Michael McLaughlin] | https://stereoset.mit.edu/
https://github.com/moinnadeem/StereoSet
https://stereoset.mit.edu/explore/dev/ | https://www.datainnovation.org/2020/05/measuring-bias-in-natural-language-models/ | 0.848684 | 0.502815 | 3,131 | 12,406 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
1,004 | 2020.06.17 | 5 | A few hundred penguins. | Data educator Allison Horst earlier this month released a dataset describing the physical characteristics of 344 Antarctic penguins, derived from data collected by marine biologist Kristen Gorman and the Palmer Station. With palmerpenguins, Horst aims to provide a data-exploration alternative to the ubiquitous iris dataset, which was first published, in 1936, in the Annals of Eugenics. Previously: Thousands of penguins (DIP 2020.03.11). [h/t Alex Cookson] | https://www.allisonhorst.com/
https://twitter.com/allison_horst/status/1270046399418138625
https://github.com/allisonhorst/palmerpenguins/blob/master/data-raw/penguins_raw.csv
https://www.uaf.edu/cfos/people/faculty/detail/kristen-gorman.php
https://pal.lternet.edu/
https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_flower_data_set
http://www.penguinmap.com/mapppd
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-03-11-edition | https://twitter.com/alexcookson/status/1270073380792872962 | -0.393253 | 0.915185 | 3,923 | 15,654 | 4 | -1 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
1,005 | 2020.06.24 | 1 | New policing bills. | The National Conference of State Legislatures has built a database of state-level policing bills and executive orders introduced since May 25, the day George Floyd was killed. The database covers proposed bills on “oversight and data, training, standards and certification, use of force, technology, policing alternatives and collaboration, [...] and other timely issues.” So far, it contains brief descriptions, author information, statuses, and last-activity dates for more than 250 pieces of legislation in 25 states and DC. Although the database does not provide downloads, its HTML output is highly structured. Related: Last week, The Marshall Project’s Weihua Li, Humera Lodhi, and Damini Sharma analyzed the database and put the bills in context. | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.ncsl.org\nhttps://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/legislative-responses-for-policing.aspx\nhttps://twitter.com/Weihua_Li1\nhttps://twitter.com/HumeraLodhi\nhttps://twitter.com/sharmad23\nhttps://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/18/which-states-are-taking-on-police-reform-after-george-floyd" | null | 0.29661 | -0.733495 | 553 | 2,258 | 10 | -1 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,006 | 2020.06.24 | 2 | Indigenous lands. | Native-Land.ca maps the historical geographic extents of Indigenous territories in North America, Australia, New Zealand, parts of South America, and elsewhere. The project’s datasets cover 1,400+ territories, 900+ languages, and 800+ related treaties, drawn from a wide range of resources. It was launched in 2015 by programmer Victor Temprano and is now run by a not-for-profit organization with a board of directors. Related: Earlier this year, High Country News published Land-Grab Universities, a “two-year inquiry into the origin of wealth that undergirds the nation’s system of higher education,” accompanied by a detailed methodology and dataset spanning nearly 11 million acres of expropriated Indigenous land. | https://native-land.ca/
https://native-land.ca/api-docs/
https://native-land.ca/resources/
http://victortemprano.com
https://native-land.ca/about/
https://www.landgrabu.org
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-education-how-we-investigated-the-land-grant-university-system
https://github.com/HCN-Digital-Projects/landgrabu-data | null | -0.304781 | 0.418611 | 2,902 | 11,564 | 36 | 36 | Agricultural Data and Analysis | false |
1,007 | 2020.06.24 | 3 | The Gay Guides. | Mapping the Gay Guides “aims to understand often ignored queer geographies using the Damron Address Books, an early but longstanding travel guide aimed at gay men since the early 1960s.” The project — launched earlier this year and led by historians Amanda Regan and Eric Gonzaba — includes an interactive map, downloadable dataset, methodology, and ethics statement. It already covers more than 22,000 entries in more than 30 states, with plans for further expansion. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.mappingthegayguides.org\nhttps://www.mappingthegayguides.org/2020/02/announcing-the-launch-of-mapping-the-gay-guides/\nhttps://mappingthegayguides.org/about/\nhttps://mappingthegayguides.org/regan/\nhttps://mappingthegayguides.org/gonzaba/\nhttps://mappingthegayguides.org/map/\nhttps://github.com/MappingtheGayGuides/MGG-Data\nhttps://mappingthegayguides.org/methodology/\nhttps://mappingthegayguides.org/ethics/" | https://mailchi.mp/42557319b05d/preview-222-in-other-news-3837485 | -0.012716 | 0.327744 | 2,719 | 10,815 | 43 | -1 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
1,008 | 2020.06.24 | 4 | Coronavirus-era child care. | Economist and parenting book–author Emily Oster has been collecting and publishing “preliminary, unscientific data on child care centers which were open in the pandemic.” The dataset currently includes more than 900 centers, their locations, age ranges served, whether they were open the whole time or just part of it, the number of students and staff, and the number of COVID-19 cases in students and staff. [h/t Laura Libby] | https://emilyoster.net/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYIy0Dc9PW9sWCSWNXypw36FLoMiSx9jDalgDPcccK4T7ezQ/viewform
https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1275044876133044225
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L45r63t8hpYfGLpT6gWKjYMscu8Wut6jtlxO-1FAW9c/edit | https://twitter.com/LauraALibby/status/1274084844817940480 | -0.111546 | -0.533427 | 924 | 3,768 | 14 | -1 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,009 | 2020.06.24 | 5 | These datasets lead to Rome. | The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations at Harvard University “makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for [...] mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.” The project’s datasets include economic indicators, climate records, ports and harbors, shipwrecks, roads, and more. [h/t Pier Rolla] | https://darmc.harvard.edu/
https://darmc.harvard.edu/data-availability | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/h0702y/has_anyone_put_together_a_document_listing_all/ | -0.053525 | 0.437446 | 2,910 | 11,708 | 43 | 43 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
1,010 | 2020.07.01 | 1 | The coronavirus economy. | Opportunity Insights’ Economic Tracker “combines anonymized data from leading private companies – from credit card processors to payroll firms – to provide a real-time picture of indicators such as employment rates, consumer spending, and job postings across counties, industries, and income groups.” Small business revenue, for instance, appears to be down about 55% in Boston, compared to the beginning of the year. The project’s GitHub page provides aggregated data corresponding to each of the charts and graphs. Previously: Opportunity Insights’ extensive datasets on economic mobility (DIP 2019.06.12). [h/t Matteo Ferroni + Dan Stein] | https://tracktherecovery.org/
https://github.com/Opportunitylab/EconomicTracker
https://opportunityinsights.org/data/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-06-12-edition | https://twitter.com/matteoferroni93/status/1273312600793714689
https://twitter.com/DanStein_econ/status/1273301012091035648 | -0.062026 | -0.085932 | 1,886 | 7,484 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,011 | 2020.07.01 | 2 | Voter registration. | At least three states publish monthly, machine-readable statistics on new voter registrations: Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. Maryland and the District of Columbia publish similar data as PDF tables. A recent report by Center for Election Innovation & Research analyzed pandemic-era registrations, using that data plus numbers obtained from Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, and Texas. The analysis found a “steep decline in new registrations,” largely attributable to social distancing measures and DMV closures. To accompany an article on the topic, FiveThirtyEight has compiled CEIR’s counts for those 12 states, for the first five months of 2016 and 2020, into a simple CSV. | https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reportsxlsx/
https://www.elections.virginia.gov/resultsreports/registration-statistics/
https://dl.ncsbe.gov/?prefix=data/voterstats/
https://elections.maryland.gov/voter_registration/stats.html
https://www.dcboe.org/Data-Resources-Forms/Voter-Registration-Stats
https://electioninnovation.org/new-voter-registrations-in-2020/
https://electioninnovation.org/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/voter-registrations-are-way-way-down-during-the-pandemic/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/voter-registration | null | 0.963479 | -0.253261 | 1,534 | 6,141 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,012 | 2020.07.01 | 3 | COVID clusters. | A team of researchers in the UK has been gathering data on COVID-19 “transmission events” that have resulted in clusters of cases, based on various official, scholarly, and news reports. For each of the 250+ events listed so far, the dataset specifies the setting (e.g., “work,” “household,” “religious,” “elderly care”), whether it was indoors or outdoors, geographical location, number of cases involved, and more. The New York Times has also been tracking the location and size of COVID-19 clusters in the US — so far, more than 1,700 clusters with at least 50 cases. The NYT doesn’t provide a download button, but its webpage loads the data from a JSON file. [h/t Kai Kupferschmidt] | https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-83
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16wtnHe4hM6I7TFHXVpLXY8R4GAUzAJ-7NWbKIVvsVuA/edit
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html#clusters | https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all | -0.242862 | -0.740044 | 536 | 2,096 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,013 | 2020.07.01 | 4 | Subway accessibility. | To better understand accessibility issues in the NYC subway, the Two Sigma Data Clinic has constructed a series of datasets and diagrams describing each station’s elevator connections — from the street to the station, and between various points and platforms within it. Related: The subway system’s official list of elevators and escalators. Previously: Turnstile data from NYC and Chicago (DIP 2017.02.08). [h/t Erin Stein] | https://medium.com/dataclinic/open-tools-to-analyze-accessibility-within-the-nyc-subway-system-383fb111b4ad
https://dataclinic.twosigma.com/
https://github.com/tsdataclinic/mta
https://github.com/tsdataclinic/mta/tree/master/data/processed/stationgraph
https://github.com/tsdataclinic/mta/tree/master/figures/elevator_maps
http://advisory.mtanyct.info/eedevwebsvc/allequipments.aspx
http://web.mta.info/developers/turnstile.html
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/CTA-Ridership-L-Station-Entries-Daily-Totals/5neh-572f
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-02-08-edition | https://twitter.com/eeeestein/status/1271539959632211971 | -0.525112 | 0.078464 | 2,191 | 8,862 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
1,014 | 2020.07.01 | 5 | Humans using computers. | BEHACOM is a dataset that details minute-by-minute usage statistics for 12 Spanish and Italian men “interacting for fifty-five consecutive days with their personal computers in their own way and without restrictions.” | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920306612
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/cg4br62535/2 | null | 0.390977 | 0.170888 | 2,412 | 9,561 | 55 | -1 | Open Data Initiatives | false |
1,015 | 2020.07.08 | 1 | The Paycheck Protection Program. | On Monday, the US Treasury Department and Small Business Administration released detailed data on the financial assistance given to businesses through the government’s Paycheck Protection Program. For the 660,000+ loans of at least $150,000, the dataset includes each recipient’s name, address, industry classification, and business type, plus the name of lender, the number of jobs the business said would be supported, loan amount (grouped into several ranges), and more. For aid less than $150,000, the dataset contains similar information, but without names or addresses. Related: Efforts to make the data more accessible are already underway. Simon Willison, for instance, generated a searchable database of all loans of $150,000+, and The Washington Post has published an interactive database of the $1,000,000+ loans. Also related: There are some errors in the data. | https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1052
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Protection_Program
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares-act/assistance-for-small-businesses/sba-paycheck-protection-program-loan-level-data
https://simonwillison.net
https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1280283053726691329
https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com/loans_150k_plus/foia_150k_plus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/sba-ppp-data/
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/06/ppp-small-business-coroniavirus-loan-database-contains-errors.html | null | 0.212412 | -0.204931 | 1,638 | 6,477 | 62 | 62 | Government Financial Data | false |
1,016 | 2020.07.08 | 2 | Women in office. | Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics has made public its Women Elected Officials Database, which “represents the most complete collection of information anywhere in the world about women elected officials in the United States.” It covers all “women who have held office at the congressional, statewide elected executive, and state legislative levels nationwide,” going back to the 1890s. For each of the 11,540 officeholders, “the database includes their geographic information, party identification, and race identification where available.” You can explore the data online and also (with a free registration) download it. Previously: Women candidates for the US House, 1972–2010 (DIP 2017.07.26) . | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://cawp.rutgers.edu\nhttps://cawpdata.rutgers.edu\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_J._Eisenhuth\nhttps://cawpdata.rutgers.edu/women-elected-officials\nhttps://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CFPBRI\nhttps://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-07-26-edition" | null | 0.93484 | -0.279529 | 1,533 | 6,011 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,017 | 2020.07.08 | 3 | Programmer surveys. | For the past decade, programming Q&A site StackOverflow has run an annual survey, asking developers about the languages they use, their workplaces, learning goals, salaries, and more. The site provides anonymized, respondent-level data for each survey, including the 2020 edition, which received 64,000+ responses. Between 2016 and 2018, the not-for-profit FreeCodeCamp ran an annual “new coder” survey, which attracted more than 31,000 responses in its most recent year; those datasets are also available to download. [h/t Jason Norwood-Young | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://stackoverflow.com\nhttps://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/\nhttps://www.freecodecamp.org\nhttps://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-2018-new-coder-survey-31-000-people-told-us-how-theyre-learning-to-code-and-getting-dev-jobs-e10feb9ed419/\nhttps://github.com/freeCodeCamp?q=new-coder-survey" | https://nakeddata.org/2020/06/12/the-most-loved-and-dreaded-computing-languages/ | 0.528457 | 0.214486 | 2,480 | 9,953 | 75 | 75 | Open Research Datasets | false |
1,018 | 2020.07.08 | 4 | UK land parcels. | Last week, the UK expanded access to its datasets defining the geographical boundaries of 23 million “title extents” in England, Wales, and Scotland. Previously: UK property sales (DIP 2016.03.23). | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/inspire-data-to-be-shared-under-open-terms
https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/datasets/inspire
https://ros.locationcentre.co.uk/inspire/
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/price-paid-data
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-03-23-edition | null | -0.1451 | 0.185389 | 2,395 | 9,654 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
1,019 | 2020.07.08 | 5 | Dungeons & Dragons dialogue. | Microsoft researchers Revanth Rameshkumar and Peter Bailey have assembled the Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset, converting 159 transcripts of a popular, live-streamed role-playing show into structured information about 398,682 bits of dialogue. [h/t Lynn Cherny] | https://twitter.com/rev_rameshkumar
https://twitter.com/peter_r_bailey
https://github.com/RevanthRameshkumar/CRD3
https://critrole.com | https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/ | 0.711995 | 0.641529 | 3,382 | 13,549 | 67 | 67 | Film Data and Analysis | false |
1,020 | 2020.07.15 | 1 | 1.75 million US COVID patients. | The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published a dataset containing demographic and medical information on 1.75 million deidentified COVID-19 patients. For each confirmed or probable case, the dataset report reports the patient’s age group and race/ethnicity, the date of their initial symptoms, whether they were hospitalized, whether they had an “underlying morbidity or disease,” and more — although several of the fields contain high percentages of “unknown” values. The dataset is similar to the one The New York Times got from the CDC through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit (see: “The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus”), but it does not specify the patient’s county. [h/t Marc Bevand + Steven Mosher] | https://data.cdc.gov/Case-Surveillance/COVID-19-Case-Surveillance-Public-Use-Data/vbim-akqf
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus-data-united-states.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html | https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1282139606905786369
https://twitter.com/stevenmosher/status/1282136596628688896 | -0.29216 | -0.732338 | 534 | 2,221 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,021 | 2020.07.15 | 2 | More government responses to the coronavirus. | The CoronaNet Research Project aims “to collect as much information as we can about the various fine-grained actions governments are taking to defeat the coronavirus.” The project, which has drawn contributions from more than 400 researchers around the world, published its initial release a few weeks ago, and now details nearly 16,000 policy events in nearly 200 countries. Related: The nonprofit Hikma Health says it has compiled “the largest county-level COVID-19 policy dataset in the nation,” covering 1,200 US counties and more than 120 Native American communities. The dataset indicates the dates on which each jurisdiction undertook various responses, such as closing schools and restricting large gatherings. [h/t Alex Pashanov] | https://www.coronanet-project.org/
https://www.coronanet-project.org/download.html
https://www.hikmahealth.org/
https://www.hikmahealth.org/map
https://github.com/hikmahealth/covid19countymap/tree/gh-pages | https://twitter.com/AlexPashanov/status/1275441552324612102 | -0.174201 | -0.58561 | 858 | 3,380 | 14 | 14 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,022 | 2020.07.15 | 3 | COVID cases in migrant worker dorms. | The anonymous author of Squirrelling Data has been collating information from the Singapore Ministry of Health’s coronavirus press releases. Among the datasets: daily case counts in dozens of migrant worker dormitories, which have been hit hard. [h/t Joses Ho] | https://squirrellingdata.wixsite.com/home/
https://squirrellingdata.wixsite.com/home/post/singapore-covid-19-data
https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NcoRQkvlPTiXh1_CWtjQFyyGXNTY5enbRPNLf4cHuhc/edit#gid=0
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/singapore-million-migrant-workers-suffer-as-covid-19-surges-back | https://www.josesho.com/ | -0.254861 | -0.709254 | 599 | 2,351 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,023 | 2020.07.15 | 4 | Case citations. | The Caselaw Access Project (DIP 2018.11.07) has begun publishing a citation graph, a dataset listing the previous cases that each court decision cites. The latest release covers 43 million citations. The project also provides aggregated versions of the data, plus interactive graphics showing the frequency of citations to and from courts in each state. | https://case.law/about/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-11-07-edition
https://case.law/download/citation_graph/
https://case.law/download/citation_graph/2020-05-08/
https://case.law/exhibits/cite-grid | null | 0.750714 | -0.634912 | 760 | 3,056 | 1 | 1 | Legal Data Collections | false |
1,024 | 2020.07.15 | 5 | Old British lighthouses. | The Historical Light Aids to Navigation dataset “shows the development of historical lighthouses, lightships, harbour lights and beacons in England and Wales for several benchmark years between 1514-1911,” drawn from navigational charts, government publications, and other sources. For each of the 600+ entries, the dataset provides the light aid’s name, geocoordinates, and (when available) its visibility range, height, and number of lights. | https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854172/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920308854 | null | 0.087245 | 0.498885 | 3,042 | 12,229 | 44 | 44 | Diverse Research Databases | false |
1,025 | 2020.07.22 | 1 | Police surveillance tech. | The Atlas of Surveillance, a new project from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, documents various types of surveillance technology used by 3,500 law enforcement agencies around the US. The 5,300 data-points, crowdsourced with the help of hundreds of students and volunteers, cover a dozen categories of technology, such as automated license plate readers, facial recognition systems, and partnerships with doorbell camera–companies. [h/t anigbrowl] | https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
https://www.eff.org/
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/search
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/methodology | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23824845 | 0.214316 | -0.598898 | 806 | 3,277 | 9 | 9 | Data Analysis and Disclosure | false |
1,026 | 2020.07.22 | 2 | COVID-related behavior. | Since early April, Imperial College London and YouGov have been surveying people in 29 countries about their coronavirus-related behaviors and opinions. Topics include mask usage, self-isolation, working from home, vaccinations, and economic activity; the 230,000+ (anonymized) responses are available to download. [h/t Akin Unver] | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/global-health-innovation/our-research/covid-19-response/covid-19-behaviour-tracker/
https://github.com/YouGov-Data/covid-19-tracker | https://twitter.com/AkinUnver/status/1282815737288183810 | -0.217237 | -0.566398 | 857 | 3,506 | 14 | 14 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,027 | 2020.07.22 | 3 | Mexican migration to the US. | The Mexican Migration Project “was created in 1982 by an interdisciplinary team of researchers to further our understanding of the complex process of Mexican migration to the United States.” Since then, the project — co-directed by professors at the University of Guadalajara and Princeton University — has interviewed more than 176,000 people from 170 communities in Mexico, some who migrated and others who did not. The datasets (registration required) record various facets of their lives and migrations: demographic, health, and economic attributes; migration timings, circumstances, and destinations; community characteristics; and more. [h/t Brian K. Kovak and Rebecca Lessem] | https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/
https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/databases/dataoverview-en.aspx
https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/research/maps-en.aspx
https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/databases/instructions-en.aspx
https://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/databases/codebooks-en.aspx | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26790 | -0.042089 | -0.49309 | 1,054 | 4,157 | 19 | 19 | Migration and Policy Data | false |
1,028 | 2020.07.22 | 4 | The Arctic seafloor. | The General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean project has published a new version of its Arctic Ocean depth chart, which was first released in 1997 and last updated in 2012. The latest dataset incorporates new sources, has “more than twice the resolution” as the previous version, and is more precise. Previously: Arctic (and Antarctic) ice coverage (DIP 2016.09.14), which is hitting year-over-year lows. | https://www.gebco.net/about_us/overview/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0520-9
https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/arctic_ocean/
https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-14-edition
https://twitter.com/paldhous/status/1283049748614848528 | null | -0.554875 | 0.855044 | 3,790 | 15,132 | 32 | 32 | Geospatial Data and Monitoring | false |
1,029 | 2020.07.22 | 5 | The Big Mac Index. | The Economist’s Big Mac Index, which the magazine invented in 1986, compares the cost of the signature McDonald’s hamburger around the world. “Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible,” it says. “Yet the Big Mac index has become a global standard, included in several economic textbooks and the subject of dozens of academic studies.” The index is updated twice a year (including last week) and now covers 55 countries; both the data (going back to April 2000) and calculation code are available to download. | https://www.economist.com/news/2020/07/15/the-big-mac-index
https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data | null | -0.06317 | 0.121178 | 2,269 | 9,147 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
1,030 | 2020.07.29 | 1 | COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. | The Milken Institute’s FasterCures project is tracking hundreds of potential COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. For each candidate, the project’s database lists its category (e.g., DNA-based vaccines, cell-based therapies, et cetera), a brief description, its stage of development, “anticipated next steps,” funders, and more. Related: The project’s interactive graphic exploring the vaccines. | https://milkeninstitute.org/centers/fastercures
https://covid-19tracker.milkeninstitute.org/
https://airtable.com/shrSAi6t5WFwqo3GM/tblEzPQS5fnc0FHYR/viweyymxOAtNvo7yH?blocks=bipZFzhJ7wHPv7x9z
https://www.covid-19vaccinetracker.org/ | null | -0.329952 | -0.71351 | 597 | 2,346 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,031 | 2020.07.29 | 2 | NYPD officer misconduct. | ProPublica has published a dataset of more than 12,000 civilian complaints against nearly 4,000 NYPD officers. The reporters obtained the data through a freedom-of-information request to New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, after state lawmakers overturned a decades-old statute that had shielded the records. ProPublica’s database “lists the name of each officer, the race of the complainant and the officer, a category describing the alleged misconduct, and whether the CCRB concluded the officers’ conduct violated NYPD rules.” Related: In 2018, my colleagues Kendall Taggart and Mike Hayes obtained thousands of NYPD disciplinary records from a source who requested anonymity — giving the public access to this closely-guarded information for the first time and demonstrating how the department had let hundreds of officers keep their jobs after committing fireable offenses. (Soon after, the NYPD announced an independent panel to review its disciplinary program.) [h/t Jan Willem Tulp + Ed Vine] | https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-civilian-complaint-review-board-editors-note
https://projects.propublica.org/nypd-ccrb/
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/civilian-complaints-against-new-york-city-police-officers
https://twitter.com/KendallTTaggart
https://twitter.com/michaelhayes
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/nypd-police-misconduct-database
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/nypd-police-misconduct-database-explainer
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikehayes/nypd-disciplinary-review-board-created | https://twitter.com/JanWillemTulp
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-vine-a480347 | 0.114769 | -0.797196 | 419 | 1,607 | 8 | 8 | Police Accountability Data | false |
1,032 | 2020.07.29 | 3 | US political polls. | FiveThirtyEight’s frequently-updated polling database provides results from thousands of polls (and hundreds of pollsters) on the current presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Those datasets — plus historical polling averages for presidential elections since 1980 — are available to download. The files list each poll’s sample size, methods, timeframe, FiveThirtyEight pollster rating, and more. | https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/polls
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/ | null | 0.949576 | -0.205271 | 1,662 | 6,524 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,033 | 2020.07.29 | 4 | Territorial self-governance. | Christoph Trinn and Felix Schulte’s TERRGO dataset presents “a fresh look at territorial self-governance in more than 2,200 second-level regions in 96 Western and non-Western democracies, semi-democracies, and a selection of autocratic regimes between 2000 and 2018.” For each region (for instance, Guam or Greenland), TERRGO provides several self-governance metrics, such as whether the national constitution protects the its status and to what degree it can set taxes. | https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/politikwissenschaften/personal/croissant/trinn_en.html
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/politikwissenschaften/personal/croissant/schulte_en.html
https://territorial-governance.com/ | null | 0.544221 | -0.334359 | 1,393 | 5,474 | 27 | -1 | Government Transparency Datasets | false |
1,034 | 2020.07.29 | 5 | Meteorite landings. | The Meteoritical Society’s Meteoritical Bulletin Database “is a clearinghouse for basic information about each meteorite, including the classification, place and year of discovery, whether if was observed to fall, references to catalogues in which the meteorite is described, and known synonyms that may be encountered in the literature.” The society doesn’t provide an easy way to download the full database, but NASA’s open data portal hosts a key slice of it — 45,000+ landings recorded through mid-2013. Related: Craig Taylor’s animated, 3-D rendering of the data. [h/t EwanP] | https://meteoritical.org/
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/
https://data.nasa.gov/Space-Science/Meteorite-Landings/gh4g-9sfh
https://twitter.com/CraigTaylorViz
https://twitter.com/CraigTaylorViz/status/1287007372053970945 | null | -0.583827 | 0.897946 | 3,853 | 15,514 | 34 | -1 | Geospatial and Environmental Data | false |
1,035 | 2020.08.05 | 1 | Cabinet members. | WhoGov, a new project led by two graduate students at Oxford, provides “bibliographic information, such as gender and party affiliation, on cabinet members in July every year in the period 1966-2016 in all countries with a population of more than 400,000 citizens.” In all, the dataset covers more than 50,000 officials, “makes it possible to answer questions such as; what is the share of female cabinet members globally, which type of regime has the highest cabinet turnover, and have cabinets increased in size over time?” [h/t Yujin Julia Jung + Max Grömping] | https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-centres/nuffield-politics-research-centre/whogov/
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-centres/nuffield-politics-research-centre/whogov/people/
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-centres/nuffield-politics-research-centre/whogov/download-dataset/ | https://twitter.com/YJuliaJung/status/1285598237068582912
https://twitter.com/MaxGroemping/status/1285641311677231106 | 0.67155 | -0.328535 | 1,397 | 5,482 | 30 | -1 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,036 | 2020.08.05 | 2 | Values and beliefs. | The World Values Survey, first fielded in 1981, “is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents.” Last month, the project began releasing data from its seventh wave of interviews, conducted in 77 countries and covering hundreds of questions about religion, migration, stereotypes, trust, and more. [h/t Michael Howlett + Seth J. Meyer] | http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSEventsShow.jsp?ID=413
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp | https://twitter.com/howlettm/status/1285279256906395648
https://twitter.com/SethJMeyer/status/1287439947209879552 | -0.089041 | -0.26017 | 1,501 | 6,074 | 64 | 64 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
1,037 | 2020.08.05 | 3 | Software supply chain attacks. | Breaking Trust, a new project from the Atlantic Council, provides a dataset of 115 “software supply chain” attacks and disclosures in the past decaude. These vulnerabilities occur “when an attacker accesses and edits software somewhere in the complex software development supply chain to compromise a target farther up the chain by inserting their own malicious code.” The dataset’s examples include Stuxnet, malicious browswer extensions, and various attacks on software package registries. [h/t Maya Kaczorowski + Lily Liu] | https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/breaking-trust-shades-of-crisis-across-an-insecure-software-supply-chain/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/resources/breaking-trust-the-dataset/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
https://threatpost.com/500-malicious-chrome-extensions-millions/152918/ | https://twitter.com/MayaKaczorowski/status/1288231258422575105
https://twitter.com/LilyZimeng/status/1290331849928118272 | 0.559577 | 0.020342 | 2,097 | 8,419 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,038 | 2020.08.05 | 4 | Animals with SARS-CoV-2. | The USDA has been publishing basic information about animals that its National Veterinary Services Laboratories have confirmed contracted the novel coronvirus. The simple table — unavailable to download, but easy enough to copy-paste into a spreadsheet — lists the types of animals (mostly “Cat” and “Dog,” but also a lion and a tiger), the states they lived in, the dates confirmed, and the methods of diagnosis. | https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/sa_one_health/sars-cov-2-animals-us
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/lab-info-services/sa_about_nvsl/ct_about_nvsl | null | -0.206685 | 0.780031 | 3,609 | 14,514 | 2 | -1 | Animal Data Collections | false |
1,039 | 2020.08.05 | 5 | A lot of CAD sketches. | SketchGraphs characterizes 15 million computer-aided design (CAD) sketches, “extracted from real-world CAD models” and obtained from a popular online CAD platform. Each of the dataset’s sketches “is represented as a geometric constraint graph where edges denote designer-imposed geometric relationships between primitives, the nodes of the graph.” | https://github.com/PrincetonLIPS/SketchGraphs/ | null | 0.389181 | 0.561337 | 3,180 | 12,760 | 79 | 79 | Open Data Art Projects | false |
1,040 | 2020.08.12 | 1 | Coronavirus humanitarian funding. | The Centre for Disaster Protection and Development Initiatives have been jointly compiling data on the billions of dollars of humanitarian and development aid that the IMF, World Bank, and other agencies have allocated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For each “flow” of funds, the dataset specifies the funding source, amount, approval date, purpose, and more. Related: The UN’s provides a downloadable and explorable dataset of its coronavirus–related humanitarian funding, and has built an interactive map based on these and related datasets. | https://www.disasterprotection.org/
https://devinit.org/
https://www.disasterprotection.org/funding-covid-19-response
https://www.disasterprotection.org/latest-news/funding-covid-19-response-tracking-global-humanitarian-and-development-flows-to-meet-crisis-needs
https://pfbi.unocha.org/COVID19/
https://centre.humdata.org/covid-19-map-explorer-whats-included-and-how-we-built-it/
https://data.humdata.org/visualization/covid19-humanitarian-operations/ | null | 0.17196 | -0.42597 | 1,189 | 4,683 | 18 | 18 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
1,041 | 2020.08.12 | 2 | US climate change. | On Friday, the Washington Post released several datasets and computer scripts from its Pulitzer Prize–winning series, “2°C: Beyond the Limit,” which examined how “extreme climate change has arrived in America.” The data files — derived from NOAA’s nClimDiv and nClimGrid climate datasets — contain the annual average temperatures and seasonal temperature changes for each state and county in the contiguous US. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/07/how-use-posts-climate-data-analysis/
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-2C-beyond-the-limit-usa/
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-washington-post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-america/
https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00005
https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00332 | null | -0.696691 | 0.897112 | 3,849 | 15,507 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
1,042 | 2020.08.12 | 3 | International banking statistics. | The Bank for International Settlements, established in 1930 and run by a group of central banks, publishes a range of statistical datasets “designed to inform analysis of financial stability, international monetary spillovers and global liquidity.” The datasets are available to explore online and to download; they cover exchange rates, cross-border liabilities, consumer prices, debt service ratios, and more. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen] | https://www.bis.org/about/index.htm
https://www.bis.org/about/member_cb.htm
https://www.bis.org/statistics/index.htm
https://stats.bis.org/statx/toc/LBS.html
https://www.bis.org/statistics/full_data_sets.htm | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/a09133e2c4343415c6d6cbdc81f88da3748265a5 | 0.050229 | 0.036561 | 2,145 | 8,515 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,043 | 2020.08.12 | 4 | Electric vehicle charging. | A team led by public policy professor Omar Asensio used a field experiment to collect data on 3,395 electric vehicle charging sessions. The dataset “contains sessions from 85 EV drivers with repeat usage at 105 stations across 25 sites at a workplace charging program”; it indicates the date and length of each session, total energy used, cost, and more. | https://spp.gatech.edu/people/person/omar-isaac-asensio
https://github.com/asensio-lab/workplace-charging-experiment
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NFPQLW | null | -0.959779 | 0.414789 | 2,881 | 11,522 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,044 | 2020.08.12 | 5 | 44 million Reddit votes. | On Reddit, users can choose to publicize their history of upvoting and downvoting other users’ posts. Software engineer Joey Leake recently collected and published data on more than 44 million of these votes. For each, Leake’s dataset lists the post ID, relevant subreddit, the vote’s timestamp (in most cases), and the voter’s username. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-leake-83229b1/
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/hzdkbp/a_huge_collection_of_reddit_voting_data/
https://www.kaggle.com/josephleake/huge-collection-of-reddit-votes/ | null | 0.957081 | -0.151793 | 1,790 | 7,037 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,045 | 2020.08.19 | 1 | Federal sentencing. | The United States Sentencing Commission publishes annual datasets, going back to 2002, on people and organizations criminally sentenced in federal court. The files are anonymized, but contain hundreds of variables detailing the circumstances and outcomes of each decision. The commission also publishes “special collections” with additional information on drug-trafficking and economic crimes. Note: The datasets are published as SAS and SPSS files, but Kevin H. Wilson has shared Python code to convert them to CSVs. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo] | https://www.ussc.gov/
https://www.ussc.gov/research/datafiles/commission-datafiles
https://kevinhayeswilson.com/
https://github.com/khwilson/SentencingCommissionDatasets | https://mailchi.mp/6e3a3405cf45/preview-222-in-other-news-3899490 | 0.376276 | -0.805604 | 428 | 1,624 | 10 | -1 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,046 | 2020.08.19 | 2 | The demographics of power. | The Reflective Democracy Campaign and the Center for Technology and Civic Life have partnered to produce datasets examining the demographics of 3,000+ elected sheriffs; 2,800+ elected prosecutors; and candidates for federal, state, and local offices in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. [h/t Stacy Montemayor] | https://wholeads.us/
https://www.techandciviclife.org/
https://wholeads.us/resources/for-researchers/ | https://twitter.com/teacupwoozy | 0.919828 | -0.25979 | 1,533 | 6,138 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,047 | 2020.08.19 | 3 | House work. | With help from academics and former Hill staffers, journalist Derek Willis has assembled an archive of the weekly job and internship bulletins sent by the US House of Representatives. The archive, which goes back to late 2013, includes both the original PDFs and text extracted from them. | http://thescoop.org/about/
https://github.com/dwillis/house-jobs | null | 0.790431 | -0.177707 | 1,721 | 6,770 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,048 | 2020.08.19 | 4 | Late-medieval English immigrants. | England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is “a fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation,” drawing on “taxation assessments, letters of denization and protection, and a variety of other licences and grants.” In addition to names, the dataset includes nationalities, places of residence, occupations, and more. [h/t W. Mark Ormrod] | https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/
https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/browse/ | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/englands-immigrants-13301550-aliens-in-later-medieval-and-early-tudor-england/18763980AF6911AD8DEA4B5D27984007 | 0.100831 | 0.304707 | 2,659 | 10,694 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,049 | 2020.08.19 | 5 | Bees. | The US Geological Survey’s Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab keeps tabs on the country’s bee species, including through a dataset of more than 400,000 observations of “native and non-native bees, wasps and other insects.” (Free registration required.) Related: The lab also publishes “The Very Handy Manual: How to Catch and Identify Bees and Manage a Collection,” plus thousands of high-resolution photos. | https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pwrc/science/native-bee-inventory-and-monitoring-lab
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/f519367d-6b9d-411c-b319-99424741e7de
https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/atoms/files/The%20Very%20Handy%20Manual%20-%202015.pdf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml | null | -0.224451 | 0.895321 | 3,864 | 15,537 | 3 | 3 | Biodiversity Databases and Datasets | false |
1,050 | 2020.08.26 | 1 | Protests around the world. | The Mass Mobilization Project is “an effort to understand citizen movements against governments, what citizens want when they demonstrate against governments, and how governments respond to citizens.” The project’s dataset covers more than 14,000 protests in more than 160 countries between 1990 and early 2017. For each protest, it indicates the location, dates, estimated number of participants, protesters’ demands, the state’s response, and more. The project, led by political scientists David H. Clark and Patrick M. Regan, is indirectly funded by the CIA through the government-sponsored Political Instability Task Force. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen] | https://massmobilization.github.io/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/MMdata
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=miiCGvgAAAAJ&hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Regan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Instability_Task_Force | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/884ae0d5e6dce893c2ad986ae51fb09bbd0d0cd2 | 0.406675 | -0.598518 | 813 | 3,290 | 12 | 12 | Conflict Data and Analysis | false |
1,051 | 2020.08.26 | 2 | Ruling elites. | The Authoritarian Ruling Elites Database, compiled by political scientist Austin S. Matthews, is “a collection of biographical and professional information on the individuals who constitute the top elite of authoritarian regimes.” Each of the project’s 18 datasets focuses on a particular regime, such as the military dictatorship that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. The biographical data-points include gender, occupation, dates of birth and death, tenure among the elite, and more. | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/QZ9BSA
https://sites.google.com/view/austinsmatthews/home | null | 0.524027 | -0.395577 | 1,264 | 4,961 | 30 | -1 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,052 | 2020.08.26 | 3 | Government publications. | The US Government Publishing Office’s govinfo.gov provides online access to a wide range of official federal publications — including bulk downloads of congressional bills, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and more. It also provides sitemaps “to crawl and harvest content” from many of its other collections. [h/t Christine Stefano] | https://www.govinfo.gov/
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/bills
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/fr
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/cfr
https://www.govinfo.gov/sitemaps | https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-stefano-5615456/ | 0.648872 | -0.097479 | 1,844 | 7,401 | 23 | -1 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,053 | 2020.08.26 | 4 | National park trails. | The US National Park Service publishes a dataset of 28,000+ lines describing “formal and informal trails as well as routes within and across” the park system. The dataset provides the trail names, types, surfaces, allowed uses, and more. [h/t u/torrijasycafe] | https://public-nps.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nps-trails-geographic-coordinate-system-1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/icxtxf/csv_of_us_national_park_trails/ | -0.469482 | 0.535128 | 3,152 | 12,577 | 20 | 20 | Forest and Land Data | false |
1,054 | 2020.08.26 | 5 | Bad words. | “With millions of images in our library and billions of user-submitted keywords, we work hard at Shutterstock to make sure that bad words don’t show up in places they shouldn’t.” The company’s dataset of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words contains the block-lists for their autocompletion and recommendation features, covering 2,600+ words and phrases in 28 languages. [h/t Katie McCulloch] | https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words | https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-04-16-f*%24!-you-in-4-languages/ | 0.770998 | 0.475562 | 3,064 | 12,145 | 49 | 49 | Language Data and Research | false |
1,055 | 2020.09.02 | 1 | A who’s who of historical China. | The China Biographical Database is packed with details on “approximately 470,000 individuals” from historical China, “primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries.” The extensively documented records include information about kinships, social statuses, offices and postings, aliases, known addresses, and more. The project, which has a long history of its own, provides bulk downloads as well as an API. [h/t Yifei Hu] | https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/supporting-documents
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/history-of-cbdb
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/download-cbdb-standalone-database
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/cbdb-api | https://twitter.com/yifeiphu | 0.234684 | 0.35302 | 2,791 | 11,087 | 46 | -1 | Digital Historical Data | false |
1,056 | 2020.09.02 | 2 | School reopenings. | Education Week is collecting coronavirus-era reopening plans “from a sample of school districts around the country.” The dataset (free registration required) covers more than 800 US public school districts so far, and is being updated weekly. USAFacts has collected similar information from the 255 largest US public school districts as of August 17. And coronaviral.fyi has pulled together data on a thousand districts’ plans in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. [h/t Sasha Anderson + Stephen Stirling and Rebekah F. Ward] | https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/school-districts-reopening-plans-a-snapshot.html
https://fs24.formsite.com/edweek/lpuqp09jhq/index.html
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-are-children-going-back-school-americas-225-largest-public-school-districts/
http://www.coronaviral.fyi/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16f99488ylGL9L1BaeqaD-yy85mayS7-BSHJS31ukiXk/edit#gid=608920111 | https://twitter.com/sashananderson
https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=f41127908fa3aa16b3d6c4d99&id=542bdcc636 | 0.009915 | -0.383268 | 1,248 | 5,056 | 69 | -1 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,057 | 2020.09.02 | 3 | US cabinets. | UX designer Tait Chamberlain has constructed a dataset of all US presidential cabinet nominations — including nominees appointed, withdrawn, and rejected — from George Washington’s to the current administration. The spreadsheets contain “service dates, notable scandals, education, military service, foreign birth, known minority and gender status, whether the appointee died in office, and the senate confirmation vote tallies.” Previously: Cabinets around the world, 1966–2016 (DIP 2020.08.05). | https://taitcha.com/
https://github.com/taitcha/American_cabinet_appointments
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-centres/nuffield-politics-research-centre/whogov/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-08-05-edition | null | 0.624284 | -0.349661 | 1,331 | 5,351 | 30 | 30 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,058 | 2020.09.02 | 4 | Papal visits. | For their “Pacem in Terris: Are Papal Visits Good News for Human Rights?” working paper, economists Marek Endrich and Jerg Gutmann have compiled “the first global dataset on papal travels outside of Italy.” For each country-year combination between 1964 and 2017, the dataset indicates whether the Pope visited, who he was, and the country’s “latent human rights” score for that year. | https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwilewps/37.htm
https://www.jura.uni-hamburg.de/die-fakultaet/personenverzeichnis/endrich-marek.html
https://sites.google.com/site/jerggutmann/home
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lr3qQvtReCAbke6DksuX5IoGMqwjbN_r/view
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/HumanRightsScores | null | 0.242414 | -0.326037 | 1,383 | 5,583 | 18 | -1 | Data on Aid and Rights | false |
1,059 | 2020.09.02 | 5 | The Bible. | Tim Morgan’s bible-api.com “provides a JSON API for grabbing bible verses and passages.” You can choose verses from six translations in five languages, and can download both the underlying code and the data. [h/t Oto Brglez] | https://timmorgan.dev/
https://bible-api.com/
https://github.com/seven1m/bible_api
https://github.com/seven1m/open-bibles | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737601 | 0.702984 | 0.485358 | 3,062 | 12,268 | 71 | -1 | Datasets and Corpora | false |
1,060 | 2020.09.30 | 1 | State bills. | For years, Open States has allowed you to “track bills, review upcoming legislation, and see how your local representatives are voting in your state.” The volunteer-driven project provides bulk downloads of nearly all its data, plus an API. More recently, it has started tracking coronavirus-related legislation, with data on more than 3,300 bills across the country. [h/t Amy Cesal] | https://openstates.org/
https://openstates.org/about/
https://openstates.org/data/
https://docs.openstates.org/en/latest/api/v2/
https://openstates.org/covid19/ | https://www.amycesal.com/ | 0.747731 | -0.153469 | 1,783 | 7,023 | 23 | 23 | Legislative Data and Transparency | false |
1,061 | 2020.09.30 | 2 | Centuries of federal debt. | The US Treasury’s “Debt to the Penny” dataset reports the total amount of outstanding public debt issued by the federal government — updated daily and going back to April 1, 1993. As of Monday, that number was $26,811,409,726,497.33. Another of the Treasury’s datasets provides annual debt figures going back to 1789. [h/t Sam Hunley] | https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/historical-debt-outstanding/historical-debt-outstanding | https://twitter.com/shunley42/status/1301875586101583877 | 0.085496 | -0.008631 | 2,018 | 8,133 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,062 | 2020.09.30 | 3 | Wind. | The Global Wind Atlas aims “to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world.” The internationally-funded project provides a range of global and country-specific datasets, including wind speeds at various heights, as well as a description of its methodology and an FAQ. [h/t Anton Rühling] | https://globalwindatlas.info/
https://globalwindatlas.info/downloads/gis-files
https://globalwindatlas.info/about/method
https://globalwindatlas.info/about/faq | https://twitter.com/AntnRueh/status/1291634332965261312 | -0.850469 | 0.550624 | 3,140 | 12,681 | 22 | 22 | Energy Data Resources | false |
1,063 | 2020.09.30 | 4 | Cross-border friendliness. | The Social Connectedness Index, a collaboration between Facebook and academic researchers, quantifies “the intensity of connectedness between locations” by measuring the frequency of Facebook-friendships linking their residents. The index represents this measurement on a scale from 1 to 1,000,000,000; the publicly available datasets provide it for every pair of countries, every pair of US counties, every county-country pair, and between subnational regions around the world. Related: An illustrative Twitter thread demonstrating the data. [h/t Johannes Stroebel] | https://dataforgood.fb.com/tools/social-connectedness-index/
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/social-connectedness-index
https://twitter.com/stroebel_econ/status/1247537135487299590 | https://twitter.com/stroebel_econ | -0.110404 | 0.144973 | 2,332 | 9,400 | 54 | -1 | Housing Price Data Analysis | false |
1,064 | 2020.09.30 | 5 | Prime numbers. | Mathematician Chris K. Caldwell maintains a searchable, downloadable database of the largest prime numbers known to humankind — plus who discovered them, when, and how. Related: Smaller primes. | https://www.utm.edu/staff/caldwell/
https://primes.utm.edu/primes/search.php
https://primes.utm.edu/primes/download.php
https://primes.utm.edu/primes/home.php
https://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/ | null | 0.544055 | 0.439234 | 2,993 | 11,874 | 70 | -1 | Research Data and Datasets | false |
1,065 | 2020.10.07 | 1 | Polling places. | As part of a new investigative series, the Center for Public Integrity and Stateline have published a dataset of polling places during the 2012–18 US general elections for 30 states (and plan to add more states “in the coming weeks”). To assemble the dataset, reporters filed 1,200 records requests, and then converted the disparate files they received into standardized CSVs listing each polling place’s county, precinct, name, and address. | https://publicintegrity.org/topics/politics/elections/ballotboxbarriers/
https://publicintegrity.org/
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline
https://github.com/PublicI/us-polling-places
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/ballotboxbarriers/data-release-sheds-light-on-past-polling-place-changes | null | 0.938762 | -0.2064 | 1,662 | 6,524 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,066 | 2020.10.07 | 2 | Xinjiang internment camps. | In August, BuzzFeed News published a two-part investigation into China’s “vast new infrastructure” for imprisoning Muslim minorities in its Xinjiang region. The reporters used a novel methodology to of hundreds of detention facilities: examining the gaps in Baidu Maps’ satellite imagery. Last month, they published a dataset of those facilities’ coordinates and statuses. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has also launched its Xinjiang Data Project, identifying more than 380 detention facilities as well as the destruction of religious/cultural sites in the region. The project — which builds on previous research by the institute, BuzzFeed News, and others — classifies the detention sites into four tiers, from “low-security re-education facilities” to “suspected maximum-security prisons.” [h/t William Yang] | https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/satellite-images-investigation-xinjiang-detention-camps
https://github.com/critocrito/xinjiang-camps-data
https://www.aspi.org.au/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/china-has-built-380-internment-camps-in-xinjiang-study-finds
https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/
https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/data/?tab=datasets
https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/explainers/exploring-xinjiangs-detention-facilities/
https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/explainers/cultural-erasure/
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/mapping-xinjiangs-re-education-camps | https://twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1308950380219252736 | 0.065458 | -0.961057 | 98 | 324 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,067 | 2020.10.07 | 3 | Historical newspaper imagery. | The Library of Congress’ Newspaper Navigator dataset extracts “visual content” from more than 16 million pages of newspapers from 1789 to 1963, drawn from the library’s Chronicling America project (DIP 2017.08.16). To compile the dataset, its creators used machine learning to detect seven types of visuals: photos, illustrations, maps, comics, editorial cartoons, headlines, and ads. They also built an interactive search tool. [h/t Jessamyn West] | https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-08-16-edition
https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/newspaper-navigator
https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search | https://www.metafilter.com/188743/This-is-the-largest-dataset-of-its-kind-ever-produced | 0.400809 | 0.405536 | 2,860 | 11,481 | 73 | 73 | Sports Data Compilation | false |
1,068 | 2020.10.07 | 4 | Even older UK economic figures. | The Bank of England has considerably expanded its longitudinal dataset on the UK’s economy (DIP 2017.01.25), renaming it “a millennium of macroeconomic data.” A few indicators (such as GDP per capita) now stretch back to 1086, thanks to the Domesday Book, while several others (such as consumer price inflation) now extend to the 13th century. [h/t Alex Albright] | https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/research-datasets
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-01-25-edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book | https://thelittledataset.com/about/ | 0.000184 | 0.099633 | 2,272 | 9,024 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,069 | 2020.10.07 | 5 | A lifetime of first kisses. | The Kiss List explores artist Galen Beebe’s 48 first kisses. Reconstructed from “memories and journals,” and developed with her partner John West, the dataset and visualization present “a set of facts that show who, what, where, when, and why I kissed how I did.” | http://beebe-west.com/viz/kiss-list/
https://www.galenbeebe.com/
http://beebe-west.com/john/
https://github.com/jswest/kiss-list-refresh/blob/master/public/data.json.js | null | 0.393047 | 0.691231 | 3,500 | 13,913 | 78 | -1 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
1,070 | 2020.10.21 | 1 | Voting equipment. | Verified Voting is “a non-partisan organization focused exclusively on the critical role technology plays in election administration," and its Verifier project provides “the only comprehensive data set of voting equipment down to the precinct level of the United States, going back to 2006.” For each election year and jurisdiction, the database indicates the type of technology in use (ranging from hand-counted paper ballots to touchscreen systems), equipment brands and models, and other details, such as whether there is a “voter-verified paper audit trail.” [h/t Jonathan Cohen] | https://verifiedvoting.org/
https://verifiedvoting.org/verifier/ | https://twitter.com/jonpcohen | 1 | -0.231315 | 1,599 | 6,399 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,071 | 2020.10.21 | 2 | Jail deaths. | Last week, Reuters published an investigation into deaths in US jails. Because the federal government doesn’t publish jail-by-jail mortality data, reporters “filed more than 1,500 records requests to obtain information about deaths in 523 U.S. jails – every jail with an average population of 750 or more inmates, and the 10 largest jails or jail systems in nearly every state.” The resulting dataset contains details about more than 7,500 inmate deaths between 2008 and 2019, including the cause of death, custody status, and demographic information. Among the findings: “At least two-thirds of the dead inmates identified by Reuters, 4,998 people, were never convicted of the charges on which they were being held.” [h/t Grant Smith] | https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-deaths/
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-graphic/ | https://twitter.com/grantmeaccess | 0.09823 | -0.956873 | 99 | 326 | 7 | 7 | Incarceration Data and Research | false |
1,072 | 2020.10.21 | 3 | College athletics. | The Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act requires thousands of US colleges to provide annual data on athletic particpation, staffing, and finances by team gender and sport. School- and team-level datasets are available through the Department of Education for the academic years ending 2003–19. Related: USAFacts recently used the data to examine college football finances. [h/t Sasha Anderson] | https://www2.ed.gov/finaid/prof/resources/athletics/eada.html
https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/
https://usafacts.org/articles/coronavirus-college-football-profit-sec-acc-pac-12-big-ten-millions-fall-2020/ | https://twitter.com/sashananderson | 0.128298 | -0.316592 | 1,380 | 5,576 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,073 | 2020.10.21 | 4 | Bug bounties. | Technology companies often offer “bug bounties” — rewards to people who tell them about vulnerabilities in their websites and apps, often coordinated through online platforms. For the past few years, security engineer Arkadiy Tetelman has been scraping and publishing data about the bug bounty “targets” listed on several platforms, including the eligible domains, maximum payouts, and more. | https://twitter.com/arkadiyt
https://github.com/arkadiyt/bounty-targets-data | null | 0.590758 | 0.042826 | 2,162 | 8,549 | 74 | 74 | Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities | false |
1,074 | 2020.10.21 | 5 | Shrinking salmon. | Scientists recently documented “widespread declines in Pacific salmon size based on 60 years of measurements from 12.5 million fish across Alaska,” collected by state officials from more than 1,000 sampling locations. The underlying dataset lists each salmon’s age, sex, length, and other details where available. [h/t Holly Kindsvater] | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17726-z
https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/view/doi:10.5063/F1707ZTM | https://twitter.com/HollyKindsvater/status/1298960157876027394 | -0.318066 | 0.84893 | 3,797 | 15,147 | 4 | 4 | Fish and Wildlife Data | false |
1,075 | 2020.10.28 | 1 | Pregnancy, birth, and abortion. | Last month the Guttmacher Institute, a “research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights,” released its latest estimates of annual pregnancies, births, and abortions among women in the US — overall, and also by age-group and state. The national statistics cover 1973 to 2016, while the state-level numbers go from 1988 to 2016; both sets of estimates are derived from a combination of government data and the institute’s own Abortion Provider Census. Related: An introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Isaac Maddow-Zimet] | https://www.guttmacher.org/report/pregnancies-births-abortions-in-united-states-1973-2016#
https://osf.io/kthnf/
https://guttinst.github.io/National-State-Pregnancy-Codebook/
https://www.guttmacher.org/report/abortion-incidence-service-availability-us-2017
https://twitter.com/Imaddowzimet/status/1313501719406555138 | https://twitter.com/Imaddowzimet | -0.051416 | -0.500642 | 990 | 4,028 | 19 | 19 | Migration and Policy Data | false |
1,076 | 2020.10.28 | 2 | COVID-19 in ICE facilities. | Since late March, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been updating a webpage that tallies coronavirus cases and deaths at each of its detention facilities. But the site doesn’t provide any historical numbers; it’s just a snapshot. To fill that gap, the Vera Institute of Justice has been continually downloading the webpage, parsing it, and turning the information into structured, longitudinal data. Related: Over the summer, Vera used the data to estimate “the true scope” of COVID-19 in ICE detention, and called on the agency to provide more detailed statistics. | https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus
https://www.vera.org/
https://github.com/vera-institute/ice-detention-covid
https://www.vera.org/the-hidden-curve-covid-19-in-ice-detention | null | -0.151529 | -0.870414 | 283 | 1,078 | 15 | -1 | Mortality Data and Analysis | false |
1,077 | 2020.10.28 | 3 | Mining areas. | A team of academics has built a dataset and map indicating the geographic extents of 6,000+ mining sites around the world. The project traces out 21,000+ polygons covering 57,000+ square kilometers, with boundaries based on experts’ visual interpretation of satellite imagery. It focuses on “above-ground features,” such as “open cuts, tailings dams, waste rock dumps, water ponds, and processing infrastructure.” | https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.910894
https://www.fineprint.global/visualisations/viewer/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00624-w | null | -0.461851 | 0.435823 | 2,897 | 11,682 | 37 | -1 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,078 | 2020.10.28 | 4 | E-bike and e-scooter laws. | A dataset of state regulations pertaining to standard bicycles, electric bicycles, and electric scooters accompanies a recent paper in the Journal of Law and Mobility. It includes various classifications for each state — indicating, for instance, whether riders can use the sidewalk, whether adults must wear helmets, and whether DUI laws apply. | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/W9NGI2
https://repository.law.umich.edu/jlm/vol2020/iss1/2/ | null | -0.495708 | -0.179925 | 1,680 | 6,688 | 35 | -1 | Consumer Safety Reports | false |
1,079 | 2020.10.28 | 5 | Witch trials. | Some years ago, economists Peter T. Leeson and Jake Russ compiled a dataset of 10,000+ witch trials in Europe. Over the course of 550 years, the trials accused more than 43,000 people and led to 16,000 deaths. Related: Leeson and Russ’s academic paper analyzing the data (PDF). Previously: The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft (DIP 2016.01.27). [h/t Sophie Warnes] | https://economics.gmu.edu/people/pleeson
https://www.jakeruss.com/
https://github.com/JakeRuss/witch-trials
https://www.peterleeson.com/Witch_Trials.pdf
https://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-01-27-edition | https://www.getrevue.co/profile/FairWarning/issues/fair-warning-blasts-birdwatchers-and-battleground-states-272882 | 0.117421 | 0.231984 | 2,531 | 10,055 | 47 | 47 | Historical Data Datasets | false |
1,080 | 2020.11.11 | 1 | Child detention. | The Marshall Project has obtained and published official data from US Customs and Border Protection listing 580,000+ times that the agency detained migrant children since early 2017. For each detention, the dataset includes the date and time the child entered and left CBP custody, as well as the child’s age, gender, and citizenship. Related: The Marshall Project’s report on the data. | https://github.com/themarshallproject/cbp-migrantchildren-detention-data
https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/cbp-child-detentions-2017-to-2020
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/30/500-000-kids-30-million-hours-trump-s-vast-expansion-of-child-detention | null | -0.016179 | -0.667819 | 671 | 2,750 | 5 | 5 | Migration and Detention Data | false |
1,081 | 2020.11.11 | 2 | USPS performance. | As part of Jones v. United States Postal Service, a federal lawsuit filed in August, USPS must submit weekly performance reports that indicate, at a national and district level, the percentage of mail that was processed (though not necessarily delivered) on time. The agency files these reports as PDFs; Save the Post Office, a decade-old website run by a retired English professor, has been collecting those PDFs and converting them into spreadsheets. Related: Aaron Gordon’s pre-election analysis of the USPS data, from Gordon’s (limited-run) newsletter about the postal service. | https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17449832/jones-v-united-states-postal-service/
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/about/
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/updates-on-the-service-performance-reports/
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WIiUIu0PP_5D1j8R_-T7IN7kVWk9lvuj
https://themail.substack.com/p/crunch-time
https://themail.substack.com/ | null | -0.161058 | -0.046024 | 1,946 | 7,861 | 59 | -1 | Economic Statistics Reports | false |
1,082 | 2020.11.11 | 3 | Transit costs. | “Why do transit-infrastructure projects in New York cost 20 times more on a per kilometer basis than in Seoul?” With the aim of answering questions like these, the NYU-based Transit Costs Project is building a dataset that already spans more than 500 urban rail projects around the world. For each project, the dataset specifies the city, start year, end year, rail length, number of stations, total cost, and more. | https://transitcosts.com/about/
https://transitcosts.com/data/
https://transitcosts.com/projects/ | null | -0.478183 | 0.077545 | 2,192 | 8,737 | 50 | -1 | Urban Transit Data | false |
1,083 | 2020.11.11 | 4 | The early Islamic world. | The al-Ṯurayyā Project features an interactive map of the early Islamic world, with 2,000 named locations — from Damascus to Baghdad and beyond — and historical routes between them. The underlying dataset includes geocoordinates, Arabic spellings, transliterations, primary sources, and other details. [h/t Jajwalya Karajgikar] | https://althurayya.github.io/
https://github.com/althurayya/althurayya.github.io/tree/master/master | https://twitter.com/JajRK/status/1299889379817775106 | -0.067702 | 0.39913 | 2,845 | 11,451 | 43 | 43 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
1,084 | 2020.11.11 | 5 | The opera. | Operabase has gathered information about more than 500,000 opera performances staged since 1996. The website doesn’t provide direct downloads but you can access a dataset on six full seasons of stagings, covering thousands of runs in hundreds of cities, thanks to a “data donation” to support Alexander N. Cuntz’s study of how copyright affects performance frequency. | https://www.operabase.com/
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/8LUFN8
https://ideas.repec.org/e/pcu83.html
https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4521 | null | 0.371012 | 0.742311 | 3,563 | 14,295 | 78 | 78 | Music and Performance Databases | false |
1,085 | 2020.11.18 | 1 | Global inequality. | The World Inequality Database “aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.” The project, co-directed by Thomas Piketty, published a major update last week, expanding its geographic and temporal coverage. The data points vary by country; you can download them interactively or in bulk. Previously: Frederick Solt’s Standardized World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2019.12.04) and the United Nations University’s World Income Inequality Database (DIP 2016.06.01). | https://wid.world/wid-world/
https://wid.world/team/
https://wid.world/news-article/2020-regional-updates/
https://wid.world/summary-table/
https://wid.world/data/
https://fsolt.org/
https://fsolt.org/swiid/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-12-04-edition
https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/wiid-world-income-inequality-database
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-06-01-edition | null | 0.011948 | 0.003511 | 2,080 | 8,256 | 60 | 60 | International Economic Databases | false |
1,086 | 2020.11.18 | 2 | Urban traffic. | Researchers from ETH Zurich’s Institute for Transport Planning and Systems have assembled 170 million observations of traffic intensity on urban roads, registered by 23,000+ detection points in 40 cities, “making it the largest multi-city traffic dataset publically available.” The cities are mostly in Western Europe, but also include Tokyo, Taipei, Melbourne, Vilnius, Los Angeles, and Toronto. [h/t ddechamb] | https://www.ivt.ethz.ch/en/
https://utd19.ethz.ch/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405632 | -0.522886 | 0.13652 | 2,319 | 9,246 | 50 | 50 | Urban Transit Data | false |
1,087 | 2020.11.18 | 3 | Education and civil rights. | For decades, the US Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection has compiled “data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation’s public schools,” including “student enrollment and educational programs and services, most of which is disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency, and disability.” Last month, the department released the CRDC for the 2017–18 school year. Related: ProPublica has used CRDC data to investigate racial inequality and the use of restraints and seclusions. [h/t Andrew McCartney] | https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/data.html
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-2017-18-civil-rights-data-collection
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-2017-18.html
https://projects.propublica.org/miseducation/methodology
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/reporting-recipe-investigating-restraint-and-seclusion-in-us-schools | https://twitter.com/wouldeye125 | 0.091557 | -0.393858 | 1,250 | 4,933 | 69 | -1 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,088 | 2020.11.18 | 4 | State spending on kids. | A new dataset from the Urban Institute “provides a comprehensive accounting of public spending on children from 1997 through 2016.” Drawing on the US Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and other sources, the dataset summarizes “state-by-state spending on education, income security, health, and other areas.” [h/t Erica Greenberg] | https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/state-state-spending-kids-dataset
https://www.urban.org/
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/gov-finances.html | https://twitter.com/EricaHGreenberg/status/1300540133427613701 | -0.047454 | -0.165938 | 1,694 | 6,844 | 63 | -1 | Economic and Demographic Studies | false |
1,089 | 2020.11.18 | 5 | Yet more urban trees. | DIP editions 2016.11.16 and 2018.08.08 featured datasets of trees in NYC and other cities. But wait, there's more: millions of trees in Bogotá, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Helsinki, and Dublin. [h/t Juan Pablo Marín Díaz + Ana Lucía González + Cormac O’Keeffe + Topi Tjukanov + Tuija Sonkkila + Martin Bangratz + Sanne Hombroek + u/cavedave] | https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-11-16-edition
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-08-08-edition
http://especiales.datasketch.co/arboles-bogota/metodologia.html
https://opendata.paris.fr/explore/dataset/les-arbres/information/
https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/stadt-wien_baumkatasterderstadtwien
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/bomen/?LANG=en
https://hri.fi/data/en_GB/dataset/helsingin-kaupungin-puurekisteri
https://data.smartdublin.ie/dataset/trees | https://twitter.com/jpmarindiaz/status/1324000258452541440
https://twitter.com/anlugonz/status/1323991925708492800
https://twitter.com/ocaoimh/status/1093494467351449600
https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1130481172151177217
https://twitter.com/ttso/status/1192730262993620992
https://twitter.com/MartinBangratz/status/1130489730234236929
https://twitter.com/sannehombroek/status/1130545212386873345
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/br8b32/tree_gps/ | -0.46253 | 0.30235 | 2,641 | 10,658 | 51 | -1 | Surveillance and Mapping Data | false |
1,090 | 2020.12.02 | 1 | Student loans. | The US Department of Education publishes a range of aggregate datasets on federal student loans, including the amounts outstanding ($1.5+ trillion overall, from 43 million students), volumes of financial aid requested and awarded (by student demographic and by school), default rates, and forgiveness. | https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/portfolio
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/application-volume
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/title-iv
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/default
https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/loan-forgiveness | null | 0.109476 | -0.300584 | 1,443 | 5,703 | 69 | 69 | Education Data and Analysis | false |
1,091 | 2020.12.02 | 2 | Rural facilities in India. | As part of its Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana road-development program, India’s Ministry of Rural Development has gathered data on 700,000+ rural facilities, which data-science engineer Pratap Vardhan has organized into state-level CSV files. The information includes each facility’s name, category (e.g., education, medical, etc.), subcategory, state, district, block, address, and geocoordinates. Related: An exploratory Twitter thread by Vardhan, who says, “This is probably the largest open indian geo-tagged dataset I’ve seen!? It’s mostly great!?” | http://omms.nic.in/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradhan_Mantri_Gram_Sadak_Yojana
https://pratapvardhan.com
https://github.com/pratapvardhan/rural-facilities-pmgsy
https://twitter.com/PratapVardhan/status/1332174593877020673 | null | -0.340747 | 0.367283 | 2,773 | 11,178 | 37 | 37 | Geospatial Datasets and Analysis | false |
1,092 | 2020.12.02 | 3 | More coups. | Last month, the University of Illinois’ Cline Center for Advanced Social Research published version 2.0 of its Coup D’état Project, a dataset detailing more than 900 coups, attempted coups, and coup conspiracies from 1945 to 2019. Each entry indicates the country and date, plus the “type of actor who initiated the coup (i.e. military, palace, rebel, etc.) as well as the fate of the deposed executive (killed, injured, exiled, etc.).” Previously: Powell and Thyne’s coup dataset (DIP 2016.07.20). | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://clinecenter.illinois.edu\nhttps://clinecenter.illinois.edu/project/research-themes/democracy-and-development/coup-detat-project-cdp\nhttps://databank.illinois.edu/datasets/IDB-9651987\nhttps://www.jonathanmpowell.com/coup-detat-dataset.html\nhttps://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-07-20-edition" | null | 0.544958 | -0.443356 | 1,137 | 4,578 | 30 | -1 | Political Dataset Collections | false |
1,093 | 2020.12.02 | 4 | Jefferson’s weather. | From July 1776 to June 1826, Thomas Jefferson recorded thousands of nearly-daily weather observations — temperatures, precipitations, humidities, wind speeds — at Monticello, Paris, Milan, and scores of other locations. Now a UVA/Princeton collaboration has turned those handwritten records into an explorable and downloadable database. [h/t Erica Cavanaugh] | https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/40574
https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/41011
https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/40566
https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/40568
https://jefferson-weather-records.org/node/41009 | https://twitter.com/ecava12/status/1329503730706866179 | -0.714707 | 0.900495 | 3,849 | 15,506 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
1,094 | 2020.12.02 | 5 | Integer sequences. | The decades-old, frequently-updated, and downloadable On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences contains more than 338,000 lists of those things. Each has some particular significance, ranging from the famous (the Fibonacci numbers) to the intriguing (“days required to spread gossip to n people”) to the obscure (“numbers n such that 2^n + 35 is prime”) to the super-obscure. Related: This xkcd comic and its impact. [h/t Dan Brady] | https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#OEIS:_Brief_History
https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#Compressed_Versions
https://oeis.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_sequence
https://oeis.org/A000045
https://oeis.org/A007456
https://oeis.org/A056561
https://xkcd.com/2016/
https://oeis.org/A316600 | https://danjbrady.com | 0.575073 | 0.471917 | 3,058 | 12,132 | 72 | 72 | Data-Driven Puzzles Analysis | false |
1,095 | 2020.12.09 | 1 | COVID-19 hospital capacity. | On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services released a dataset on coronavirus-related capacity at thousands of US hospitals — information the agency previously only published as state-level metrics. The self-reported, weekly-updated dataset quantifies various aspects of capacity, such as the number of staffed ICU beds and the number of beds occupied by patients with COVID-19. “This data is tremendously complex and is the result of substantial ongoing efforts,” notes an accompanying blog post. “We opted not to have perfect be the enemy of good, so these datasets will have imperfections.” Related: An FAQ “developed in collaboration with a group of data journalists, data scientists, and healthcare system researchers who have reviewed the data.” [h/t Ryan Panchadsaram] | https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/12/07/hhs-publishes-covid-19-hospital-facility-level-data.html
https://healthdata.gov/dataset/covid-19-reported-patient-impact-and-hospital-capacity-facility
https://healthdata.gov/dataset/covid-19-reported-patient-impact-and-hospital-capacity-state
https://healthdata.gov/hhs-publishes-covid-19-hospital-facility-level-data
https://github.com/CareSet/COVID_Hospital_PUF | https://twitter.com/rypan/status/1336095555852767233 | -0.27908 | -0.70668 | 599 | 2,350 | 16 | 16 | Public Health Datasets | false |
1,096 | 2020.12.09 | 2 | Pandemic travel restrictions. | The UN World Food Program has been tracking countries’ and airlines’ travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on official communications, media reports, and other sources. The country-level dataset indicates whether travelers must obtain a recent negative test and what type of quarantine or self-isolation is required. [h/t Cassidy Chansirik] | https://data.humdata.org/dataset/covid-19-global-travel-restrictions-and-airline-information | https://datainnovation.org/2020/12/documenting-global-travel-restrictions-and-airline-policies/ | -0.176918 | -0.615138 | 794 | 3,124 | 14 | -1 | COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets | false |
1,097 | 2020.12.09 | 3 | Country facts. | The CIA’s World Factbook “provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.” The details are extensive and fairly standardized. Open data–enthusiast Gerald Bauer has converted the publication into a series of JSON files. Now you know: The physical areas of five countries (Georgia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sri Lanka) are all described as “slightly larger than West Virginia.” | https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
https://github.com/geraldb
https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json | null | -0.142975 | 0.332806 | 2,715 | 10,934 | 43 | -1 | Geolocation and Dataset Projects | false |
1,098 | 2020.12.09 | 4 | La Pola and her compatriots. | During Colombia’s struggle for independence, Royalists executed scores of women by shooting squad, the most famous of whom was the seamstress and spy known as “La Pola.” Writing last year for the cultural journal of Colombia’s central bank, historian Pablo Rodríguez Jiménez presented a list of 76 women known to have suffered this fate — their names, locations, and dates of death. Colombia-based Datasketch has converted that list into a spreadsheet. [h/t Juan Pablo Marín Díaz] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policarpa_Salavarrieta
https://www.banrepcultural.org/boletin-cultural/
https://publicaciones.banrepcultural.org/index.php/boletin_cultural/article/view/20880/21278
https://www.datasketch.co/datasketch/mujeres-fusiladas-durante-la-independencia-colombiana | https://twitter.com/jpmarindiaz | 0.260454 | -0.885757 | 232 | 976 | 10 | -1 | Violence and Crime Databases | false |
1,099 | 2020.12.09 | 5 | Bob Ross paintings. | Data scientist Jared Wilber has built a dataset of all paintings in Bob Ross’s 31 seasons of “The Joy of Painting,” scraped from the searchable database at TwoInchBrush.com. For each painting, the dataset lists the title, season, episode, YouTube link, and list of colors used. For a 2014 article at FiveThirtyEight, Walt Hickey created a dataset categorizing the types of things Ross depicted in each episode. Related: “Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them,” a video from the New York Times. [h/t u/palpitations] | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.jwilber.me\nhttps://github.com/jwilber/Bob_Ross_Paintings\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Painting\nhttps://www.twoinchbrush.com\nhttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-statistical-analysis-of-the-work-of-bob-ross/\nhttps://twitter.com/WaltHickey\nhttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-statistical-analysis-of-the-work-of-bob-ross/\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDs3o1uLEdU" | https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/k2wqax/i_once_found_a_dataset_of_every_paint_used_in/ | 0.439016 | 0.659078 | 3,438 | 13,660 | 76 | -1 | Data Collections and Analyses | false |
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