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2020.01.22
| 1
|
China’s projects abroad.
|
The AidData research lab at the College of William & Mary has published several datasets on China’s international soft-power efforts, including the first-ever dataset of government-financed development projects abroad (covering 3,485 projects between 2000 and 2014) and a structured dataset of diplomacy efforts in 25 Asia/Pacific countries between 2000 and 2016. [h/t Nick Routley + Simon Kuestenmacher]
|
https://www.aiddata.org/about
https://www.aiddata.org/blog/aiddata-releases-first-ever-global-dataset-on-chinas-development-spending-spree
https://www.aiddata.org/data/geocoded-chinese-global-official-finance-dataset
https://www.aiddata.org/data/chinas-public-diplomacy-dashboard-dataset-version-1-0
|
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-chinese-financing-is-fueling-megaprojects
https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1216764349026574337
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| 5,199
| 18
| -1
|
Data on Aid and Rights
| false
|
901
|
2020.01.22
| 2
|
Broadcast geography.
|
To construct her maps “visualizing the geography of FM radio” in the US, Erin Davis combined the Federal Communication Commission’s service contour data — the area where reception for a station “is generally protected from interference caused by other stations” — with the agency’s radio station licensing data and genre information from radio-locator.com. The FCC also provides service contour data for broadcast television. Previously: All FCC-issued licenses (DIP 2016.09.07). [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
|
https://erdavis.com/2020/01/04/visualizing-the-geography-of-fm-radio/
https://erdavis.com/about/
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/fm-service-contour-data-points
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/fm-query
https://radio-locator.com
https://www.fcc.gov/media/television/tv-service-contour-data-points
http://reboot.fcc.gov/license-view/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2016-09-07-edition
|
https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=c55fd8b814
| 0.453071
| -0.03488
| 1,966
| 7,900
| 41
| 41
|
Datasets on Social Issues
| false
|
902
|
2020.01.22
| 3
|
Street sprawl.
|
Using 46 million kilometers of data from OpenStreetMap, Christopher Barrington-Leigh and Adam Millard-Ball have published “the first systematic and globally commensurable measures of street-network sprawl based on graph-theoretic and geographic concepts.” You can explore their findings via an interactive map and also download aggregate metrics for nearly 200 cities and more than 160 countries. [h/t Roberto Rocha]
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|
https://twitter.com/robroc
| -0.352469
| 0.29861
| 2,644
| 10,665
| 37
| -1
|
Geospatial Datasets and Analysis
| false
|
903
|
2020.01.22
| 4
|
Cannabis tests.
|
Despite US adults increasingly gaining state-legal access to cannabis, “no universal standards for laboratory testing protocols currently exist,” write Nick Jikomes and Michael Zoorob, in a March 2018 article for Scientific Reports. “To investigate these concerns, we analyzed a publicly available seed-to-sale traceability dataset from Washington state containing measurements of the cannabinoid content of legal cannabis products from state-certified laboratories.” The dataset, obtained by the authors via public records requests, includes more than 200,000 test results over the course of three years.
|
https://twitter.com/trikomes
https://michaelzoorob.com/about/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22755-2
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/E8TQSD
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| 5,028
| 45
| 45
|
Healthcare Data and Transparency
| false
|
904
|
2020.01.22
| 5
|
Backyard ice rinks.
|
RinkWatch “asks people who love outdoor skating to help environmental scientists monitor winter weather conditions” by reporting the conditions of their backyard ice rinks. The project’s downloadable data includes more than 30,000 “skateable” / “not skateable” observations of more than 1,200 rinks since 2012. As mentioned in: Last week’s New York Times article about outdoor skating trails in Quebec.
|
https://www.rinkwatch.org/
https://www.rinkwatch.org/download.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/travel/ice-skating-Quebec.html
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| 0.872356
| 3,790
| 15,261
| 32
| 32
|
Geospatial Data and Monitoring
| false
|
905
|
2020.01.29
| 1
|
How we spend our time.
|
Ever year since 2003, the American Time Use Survey, has been measuring how much time we spend sleeping, eating, and working; with friends, with family, and alone; and much more. Unlike many other time use surveys, the ATUS’s respondent-level datasets are freely available to the general public. Other time use surveys with downloadable data include the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey and a Kosovo time use survey sponsored by the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Related: Through IPUMS, you can build custom data extracts of the ATUS, of historical US time survey data, and of the Multinational Time Use Study (registration required). As seen in: “How the American Work Day Changed in 15 Years” and “A Day in the Life: Women and Men,” two visualizations by Nathan Yau. [h/t Petrit Selimi]
|
https://www.bls.gov/tus/home.htm
https://www.timeuse.org/information/access-data
https://www.bls.gov/tus/data.htm
https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/rlms-hse
https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/205/study-description
https://ipums.org
https://www.atusdata.org/atus/
https://www.ahtusdata.org/ahtus/
https://www.mtusdata.org/mtus/
https://flowingdata.com/2019/07/16/how-the-american-work-day-changed-in-15-years/
https://flowingdata.com/2019/03/06/women-men-timeuse/
https://twitter.com/flowingdata
|
https://twitter.com/Petrit/status/1043413638068006912
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| -1
|
Labor and Employment Surveys
| false
|
906
|
2020.01.29
| 2
|
Dams.
|
The Global Georeferenced Database of Dams contains geographic data on more than 38,000 dams and their watersheds. The project, published by geographers at King’s College London, is based on a combination of satellite imagery, national registries, and other sources. At least one co-author has been working on the project since 2008. [h/t Jida Wang]
|
https://globaldamwatch.org/goodd/
https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/GOODD_a_global_dataset_of_more_than_38_000_georeferenced_dams/4648214
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0362-5
https://twitter.com/drarnoutvans/status/1219664646107533318
|
https://twitter.com/JIDA1983/status/1220374752533131264
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| 20
|
Forest and Land Data
| false
|
907
|
2020.01.29
| 3
|
Three decades of Spanish migration.
|
Spain’s national statistics institute publishes annual microdata on the relocation of residents within, into, and out of the country. The datasets indicate each relocator’s gender and age, birthplace, previous location, and destination — down to the municipality for locations within Spain. Currently, the records cover 1988 to 2018. Related: El Confidencial’s report on intra-provincial migration patterns, using this data, and related GitHub repository. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
|
https://github.com/ECLaboratorio/unidad-de-datos/tree/master/proyectos/migraciones_espana
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elconfidencial.com%2Feconomia%2F2019-09-27%2Fexodo-urbano-espana-migraciones-provincias_2240119%2F&sandbox=1
https://github.com/ECLaboratorio/unidad-de-datos/tree/master/proyectos/migraciones_espana
|
https://mailchi.mp/a4bbc86cc07b/preview-222-in-other-news-3750685
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Economic Statistics Reports
| false
|
908
|
2020.01.29
| 4
|
Darknet market survival.
|
The researcher who goes by “Gwern” maintains a dataset of more than 80 darknet marketplaces founded between 2011 and 2015. For each market (such as the infamous Silk Road), the dataset lists when it began, when it closed, why it closed, its URL, what cryptocurrencies it accepted, whether guns were allowed to be sold, and more.
|
https://www.gwern.net/Links
https://www.gwern.net/DNM-survival
| null | 0.559893
| 0.034881
| 2,161
| 8,547
| 74
| 74
|
Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities
| false
|
909
|
2020.01.29
| 5
|
California vanity plates.
|
Through a public records request, Noah Veltman has obtained data on more than 23,000 personalized license plate applications flagged for review by the California DMV. For each flagged application, the dataset contains the applicant’s justification, comments from the state’s reviewers, and the proposal’s outcome. The reviewers rejected about 80% of the proposals, including those believed to be referencing racial slurs, swearing, drugs, sex, violence, and more. Previously: New York vanity plate applications (DIP 2015.10.21).
|
https://twitter.com/veltman
https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates
https://github.com/datanews/license-plates
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2015-10-21-edition
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| 1,809
| 7,203
| 48
| -1
|
New York City Housing Data
| false
|
910
|
2020.02.05
| 1
|
Credibly accused clergy.
|
Reporters at ProPublica have assembled the first-ever nationwide database of US Catholic clergy “credibly accused” of sexual abuse, based on nearly 180 official lists released by dioceses and religious orders. (The majority of the lists were published during the past year and a half, following a landmark grand jury report in Pennsylvania.) The database contains more than 6,700 names so far, plus details available from some of the lists, including birth year, ordination year, assignments, and status.
|
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-assembled-the-only-nationwide-database-of-priests-deemed-credibly-accused-of-abuse-heres-how
https://projects.propublica.org/credibly-accused/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury_investigation_of_Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_in_Pennsylvania
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| 9
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Data Analysis and Disclosure
| false
|
911
|
2020.02.05
| 2
|
Coronavirus cases.
|
As the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak intensifies, a team at Johns Hopkins has been mapping the number of confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries. The project aggregates data from several sources, including the WHO, US CDC, European CDC, and DXY, a website that reports case counts from China’s CDC and National Health Commission. The dataset powering the Johns Hopkins map is available as a spreadsheet. [h/t Fionn Delahunty]
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases
https://ncov.dxy.cn/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wQVypefm946ch4XDp37uZ-wartW4V7ILdg-qYiDXUHM/edit#gid=787605648
|
http://www.fionn.xyz
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Public Health Datasets
| false
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912
|
2020.02.05
| 3
|
Baseball sign-stealing.
|
“I’m an Astros fan. They cheated during the 2017 regular season — the evidence is clear. In an attempt to understand the scope of the cheating and the players involved, I decided to listen to every pitch from the Astros’ 2017 home games and log any banging noise I could detect.” That’s from Tony Adams, who analyzed audio spectrograms corresponding to more than 8,200 pitches. Last week, he published a website documenting his findings, including a spreadsheet of the data. Related: Adams’s list of stories and analyses that have used the data. [h/t Dan Brady]
|
https://twitter.com/adams_at
http://signstealingscandal.com/about/
http://signstealingscandal.com/
http://signstealingscandal.com/files/
http://signstealingscandal.com/statistical-analysis/
|
https://danjbrady.com
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Sports Data Collections
| false
|
913
|
2020.02.05
| 4
|
Hotel bookings.
|
In 2018, a trio of researchers at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa published a dataset detailing nearly 120,000 (anonymized) bookings at two (unnamed) hotels in Portugal between July 2015 and August 2017. The bookings, extracted from the hotels’ property management systems, are described in detail: the number of adults, children, and babies for the reservation; country of origin; customer, room, and deposit types; whether the guests were repeat visitors; the number of special requests made; and more.
|
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340918315191
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Public Health Datasets
| false
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914
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2020.02.05
| 5
|
Last (but not least) names.
|
From the US Census Bureau, you can download a dataset of all surnames that belonged to at least 100 people in 2010, and the same for 2000. Those datasets indicate the total number of people with the name, and distribution of those people by race/ethnicity. A similar list, but based on a sample population and without demographic information, is also available for 1990. Pop quiz: Try to guess the five most popular surnames that are also colors ... in order. [h/t Lynn Cherny]
|
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2000_surnames.html
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/1990_census/1990_census_namefiles.html
|
https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas/
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|
Sports Data Compilation
| false
|
915
|
2020.02.12
| 1
|
Banking crises.
|
Luc Laeven and Fabián Valencia — economists at the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, respectively — have built and maintain a dataset of systemic banking crises, like those that rippled across the globe in 2008. First published in 2008 and most recently updated in 2018, the dataset covers on 151 crises affecting 118 countries from 1970 to 2017. For each episode, the dataset provides the starting and ending dates, policy responses, output loss, fiscal cost, increase in public debt, and more. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]
|
https://sites.google.com/site/laevenl/home
https://www.imf.org/external/np/cv/AuthorCV.aspx?AuthID=179
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2018/09/14/Systemic-Banking-Crises-Revisited-46232
|
https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/commit/5499561d2ff6b692ed59770b0f62e3fe98995bdc
| 0.075926
| 0.004656
| 2,082
| 8,260
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| 60
|
International Economic Databases
| false
|
916
|
2020.02.12
| 2
|
Europe in translation.
|
IATE is the European Union’s official terminology database, containing translations for words and phrases such as “orange juice,” “climate change policy”, and “competence of the Member States.” (That’s succo d’arancia in Italian, ilmastonmuutospolitiikka in Finnish, and tagállami hatáskör in Hungarian.) Over the past 20+ years, the project has accumulated more than 970,000 entries, translated into nearly 8 million phrasings in 25 languages. You can search the entries online or download the entire dataset as a single XML file. [h/t Laura Solana Garzón]
|
https://iate.europa.eu/home
https://iate.europa.eu/download-iate
|
https://twitter.com/Yambo_LSG/status/1224270800150245381
| 0.813528
| 0.504329
| 3,130
| 12,404
| 49
| 49
|
Language Data and Research
| false
|
917
|
2020.02.12
| 3
|
Tropical cyclone simulations.
|
A team of scientists have used historical hurricane and typhoon data to simulate a 10,000 plausible years of cyclone activity. The dataset covers the world’s most active “basins” — the areas where cyclones form — and includes each simulated storm’s path, maximum wind speed, average pressure, and more. [h/t Jose A Cañizares]
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0381-2
https://data.4tu.nl/repository/uuid:82c1dc0d-5485-43d8-901a-ce7f26cda35d
|
https://mobile.twitter.com/jcnathaz/status/1225676744625012736
| -0.709603
| 0.88342
| 3,849
| 15,378
| 28
| 28
|
Climate and Weather Datasets
| false
|
918
|
2020.02.12
| 4
|
arXiv metadata.
|
Founded nearly 30 years ago, arXiv is an open-access repository of more than 1,600,000 scholarly articles — typically “preprints” of papers, uploaded by the authors before being peer-reviewed — in physics, math, computer science, statistics, economics, and several other fields. The website participates in Open Archives Initiative, providing metadata on uploaded articles through the initiative’s protocol; it also has an API. Last summer, computer science student Bora M. Alper collected the metadata for all the site’s papers and published it as a single file.
| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://arxiv.org\nhttps://www.openarchives.org\nhttps://arxiv.org/help/oa/index\nhttps://arxiv.org/help/api/index\nhttps://boramalper.org\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/c39mmj/arxiv_complete_metadata_dump_20190618_internet/\nhttps://archive.org/details/arXiv-metadata-dump-2019-06-18.tar.xz"
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| 2,545
| 10,083
| 75
| 75
|
Open Research Datasets
| false
|
919
|
2020.02.12
| 5
|
Biggie data.
|
What are the greatest hip-hop songs of all time? Last year, the BBC posed that question to more than 100 artists, producers, critics, and other experts, asking each to rank their top five tracks. (Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy” nabbed the highest rating.) Software engineer Simon Jockers has turned the responses into a structured dataset and visualized the results.
|
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191007-the-greatest-hip-hop-songs-of-all-time-who-voted
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191007-the-greatest-hip-hop-songs-of-all-time
https://simonjockers.de
https://github.com/sjockers/bbc-best-rapmusic
https://blog.datawrapper.de/best-hip-hop-songs-of-all-time-visualized/
| null | 0.425839
| 0.748772
| 3,565
| 14,299
| 78
| 78
|
Music and Performance Databases
| false
|
920
|
2020.02.19
| 1
|
Electric utilities, standardized.
|
“Electric utilities report a huge amount of information to the US government,” but “much of this data is not released in well documented, ready-to-use, machine readable formats.” That assessment comes from the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project, which aims to clean, standardize, and cross-link the electric utility information gathered by various agencies. Earlier this month, PUDL published its first data release; it includes information originally collected through Energy Information Administration Form 860 (details about individual generators) and Form 923 (individual power plants), the Environmental Protection Agency’s Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (hourly emissions), and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Form 1 (price rates and financial audits). The code PUDL uses to download, extract, and standardize the raw data is also available online. [h/t Zane Selvans]
|
https://catalyst.coop/pudl/
https://zenodo.org/record/3653159
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/
https://www.epa.gov/emc/emc-continuous-emission-monitoring-systems
https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/forms/form-1/data.asp
https://github.com/catalyst-cooperative/pudl
|
https://twitter.com/ZaneSelvans
| -0.983989
| 0.452511
| 2,944
| 11,777
| 22
| 22
|
Energy Data Resources
| false
|
921
|
2020.02.19
| 2
|
School vaccination rates.
|
Reporters at the Wall Street Journal collected data on school-specific vaccination rates — both overall and also for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine — from 32 US states’ health departments. In total, the WSJ’s dataset covers more than 46,000 schools, of which 42,000 have at least one vaccination rate available. Most states provided data for the 2018–19 school year; the rest did so for 2017–18.
|
https://github.com/WSJ/measles-data
| null | -0.283061
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| 662
| 2,733
| 16
| 16
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Public Health Datasets
| false
|
922
|
2020.02.19
| 3
|
4,500 years of empire.
|
To help study “the imperial roots of global trade,” a trio of economists have built a dataset of 168 historical empires. For each empire, the dataset lists the modern-day countries under rule (and during which years), plus whether the empire had a centralized administration, centralized religion, and/or monopoly on coin-minting. [h/t Jain Family Institute]
|
https://voxeu.org/article/imperial-roots-global-trade
https://www.wnvermeulen.com/empires/
|
https://mailchi.mp/newsletter.jainfamilyinstitute.org/some-totality
| 0.075815
| 0.186644
| 2,402
| 9,668
| 47
| 47
|
Historical Data Datasets
| false
|
923
|
2020.02.19
| 4
|
Farm households.
|
The Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) “collects information on 758 variables covering household demographics, farm area, crops grown and their production, livestock holdings” and more. In an academic article published this month, researchers from the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute presented a dataset of responses collected from 13,310 farm households in 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and Asia between 2015 and early 2018.
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0388-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0388-8
https://www.ilri.org
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/9M6EHS
| null | -0.252283
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| 3,031
| 12,079
| 36
| 36
|
Agricultural Data and Analysis
| false
|
924
|
2020.02.19
| 5
|
Pinball.
|
The crowdsourced website pinballmap.com provides data on more than 25,500 pinball machines at more than 7,400 locations in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Finland, and Japan. The website’s API lets you access the underlying data, including the specific machines available at each location.
| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://pinballmap.com\nhttps://pinballmap.com/api/v1/docs"
| null | -0.008842
| 0.420728
| 2,911
| 11,583
| 44
| 44
|
Diverse Research Databases
| false
|
925
|
2020.02.26
| 1
|
Government contracts, standardized.
|
The Open Contracting Data Standard is a “free, non-proprietary open data standard” that makes it “easier to share, compare and analyze” the contracts that governments award to bidders. The project has been gaining traction, with dozens of local and federal governments using the standard to publish detailed official data, including in the UK, Canada, Colombia, Nepal, Uganda, and Afghanistan.
|
https://www.open-contracting.org/data-standard/
https://www.open-contracting.org/impact-stories/
https://www.open-contracting.org/worldwide/
https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-contracting
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/open-contracting-data-standard-pilot/about-the-ocds-pilot
https://www.colombiacompra.gov.co/transparencia/gestion-documental/datos-abiertos
http://ppip.gov.np
https://gpp.ppda.go.ug
https://ageops.net/en/home
| null | 0.396629
| -0.068387
| 1,900
| 7,641
| 41
| -1
|
Datasets on Social Issues
| false
|
926
|
2020.02.26
| 2
|
Tech workers, united.
|
The Collective Actions In Tech project database aims to document every instance of tech-industry workers banding together to raise awareness of a shared cause. The database, which is developed collaboratively and available to download, so far contains more than 200 protests, strikes, union drives, legal actions, and open letters. (The earliest event: In 1979, IBM workers protested their company’s business with apartheid South Africa.) Related: Writing for The Guardian, two of the project’s organizers describe “our eight most important insights.” [h/t anjakefala]
| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://collectiveactions.tech\nhttps://github.com/collective-action/tech/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md\nhttps://github.com/collective-action/tech\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/22/tech-worker-activism-2019-what-we-learned"
|
https://anja.kefala.info
| 0.317682
| -0.567966
| 874
| 3,540
| 11
| -1
|
Protest and Violence Data
| false
|
927
|
2020.02.26
| 3
|
Anti-press incidents.
|
Since 2017, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has collected information on more than 400 incidents targeting journalists in the United States, such as arrests, attacks, and denials of access. The initiative, led by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists, provides bulk downloads of the data, plus an API. Related: The project also maintains a spreadsheet of anti-press tweets by Donald Trump. Previously: CPJ’s database of journalists who’ve been killed for reasons related to their work (DIP 2019.01.16). [h/t Sid Rao]
| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://pressfreedomtracker.us\nhttps://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/3-years-tracking-our-january-2020-newsletter/\nhttps://pressfreedomtracker.us/about/\nhttps://freedom.press/\nhttps://www.cpj.org/\nhttps://pressfreedomtracker.us/data/\nhttps://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/back-campaign-trail-president-trump-increases-his-anti-press-tweet-offensive/\nhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uNA6nsgcRhhQ0b6USsMNzhYLMfuDRSMhbGZNZ00WkHk/edit?usp=sharing\nhttps://cpj.org/data/killed\nhttps://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-01-16-edition"
|
https://twitter.com/sidnext2none
| 0.556069
| -0.141597
| 1,777
| 7,011
| 41
| 41
|
Datasets on Social Issues
| false
|
928
|
2020.02.26
| 4
|
EU laws.
|
The CEPS EurLex dataset contains more than 142,000 European Union regulations, directives, and official decisions — ”almost the entire corpus of the EU’s legally binding acts passed between 1952 - 2019.” The dataset contains two dozen variables, including dates, subject matter, authors, various links, and the full text of most laws. The information comes, ultimately, from the EU’s online legal repository, eur-lex.europa.eu. [h/t Moritz Laurer]
|
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0EGYWY
https://eur-lex.europa.eu
|
https://twitter.com/MoritzLaurer/status/1229356229660639237
| 0.71613
| -0.476468
| 1,078
| 4,333
| 1
| -1
|
Legal Data Collections
| false
|
929
|
2020.02.26
| 5
|
Cockatoo Island prisoners.
|
Historical criminologist Katherine Roscoe has transcribed archival records to create a detailed dataset of more than 2,500 people imprisoned between 1847 and 1869 at Cockatoo Island Prison — “Sydney’s most notorious 19th century prison,” now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
|
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-social-policy-and-criminology/staff/katherine-roscoe/
https://cockatooconvicts.wordpress.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatoo_Island_(New_South_Wales)
| null | 0.102011
| -1
| 35
| 70
| 7
| 7
|
Incarceration Data and Research
| false
|
930
|
2020.03.04
| 1
|
Climate policies.
|
The Climate Policy Database, a project of the NewClimate Institute, has collected data on more than 3,800 regulations, subsidies, and other policies related to climate change mitigation. The downloadable and browseable database, drawn from more than a dozen sources, includes policies from nearly every country in the world and lists the policies’ names, jurisdictions, years of enactment, general objectives, and more. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]
|
http://climatepolicydatabase.org/
https://newclimate.org/about-newclimate/
http://climatepolicydatabase.org/index.php/Download_policies
http://climatepolicydatabase.org/index.php/Special:BrowsePolicy
http://climatepolicydatabase.org/index.php?title=About_the_database
|
https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/
| -0.772186
| 0.298987
| 2,631
| 10,638
| 21
| 21
|
Climate Data and Emissions
| false
|
931
|
2020.03.04
| 2
|
Political emails.
|
Reporters at the The Markup, a newly launched newsroom that “investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society,” subscribed to receive emails from more than 200 presidential candidates, advocacy organizations, and other political groups. Four months later, they had received more than 5,000 messages, which they used to examine Gmail’s treatment of political communications. On GitHub, they’ve published the emails, relevant code, and a cleaned-up dataset. Related: Last year, FiveThirtyEight signed up for emails from the Democratic presidential campaigns; by August, they had collected 830 messages, which they published and used to see who was talking most about Donald Trump.
|
https://themarkup.org/
https://themarkup.org/2020/02/25/editor-letter-julia-angwin
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/show-your-work-wheres-my-email
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/wheres-my-email
https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-wheres-my-email
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/candidate-emails
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-democrats-are-campaigning-on-trump/
| null | 0.798244
| 0.046626
| 2,169
| 8,563
| 58
| 58
|
Political Data and Analysis
| false
|
932
|
2020.03.04
| 3
|
Smithsonian imagery.
|
“For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithsonian has released 2.8 million high-resolution two- and three-dimensional images from across its collections onto an open access online platform for patrons to peruse and download free of charge,” the institution announced last week. The new platform includes “data and material from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo”; the records are accessible via an API, and the metadata is also available on GitHub. Related: KaoKore, a dataset of 5,552 face images cropped from Japanese artworks at several (non-Smithsonian) institutions. [h/t Erin Petenko + Corin Faife]
|
https://www.si.edu/openaccess
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-releases-28-million-images-public-domain-180974263/
https://www.si.edu/openaccess/devtools
https://github.com/Smithsonian/OpenAccess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08595
https://github.com/rois-codh/kaokore
|
https://twitter.com/EPetenko/status/1232687035237961729
https://twitter.com/corintxt
| 0.32703
| 0.656005
| 3,370
| 13,524
| 79
| 79
|
Open Data Art Projects
| false
|
933
|
2020.03.04
| 4
|
London grocery purchases.
|
“We present the Tesco Grocery 1.0 dataset: a record of 420 M food items purchased by 1.6 M fidelity card owners who shopped at the 411 Tesco stores in Greater London over the course of the entire year of 2015, aggregated at the level of census areas to preserve anonymity,” researchers announced in a recent academic paper. For each area, the dataset contains “the number of transactions and nutritional properties [...] including the average caloric intake and the composition of nutrients.” [h/t Luca Maria Aiello]
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0397-7
https://figshare.com/articles/Area-level_grocery_purchases/7796666
|
https://twitter.com/lajello/status/1230447728708243456
| -0.061497
| 0.47647
| 3,038
| 12,092
| 43
| -1
|
Geolocation and Dataset Projects
| false
|
934
|
2020.03.04
| 5
|
Bug splats.
|
Danish zoologist Anders Pape Møller counted the number of insects killed on the windscreen of a single car after each of 1,375 journeys along the same stretch of road between 1997 and 2017. After accounting for time of day, weather, and other factors, Møller says his data suggests an 80% decline in flying insects during that time. Related: The Guardian on two bug-splat studies, including Møller’s. [h/t Laura Norén and Brad Stenger]
|
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.5236
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.gq73493
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects
|
https://cds.nyu.edu/communitynewsletter/
| -0.183116
| 0.960247
| 3,994
| 16,052
| 3
| 3
|
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
| false
|
935
|
2020.03.11
| 1
|
More coronavirus data.
|
Last month, DIP featured coronavirus case counts mapped by researchers at Johns Hopkins. Since then, efforts to collect and publish COVID-19 data have grown, including: the Johns Hopkins team has moved its data repository to GitHub ... the Open COVID-19 Data Curation Group has expanded its data on individual cases ... the Italian government is publishing local case and test counts on GitHub ... Princeton PhD student Sang Woo Park is building a detailed dataset of cases in South Korea ... the decade-old Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data is sharing COVID-19 genome samples and mutations ... while the collaboratively-edited CoronavirusTechHandbook.com is pointing to additional datasets and data-trackers. Related: My colleague Peter Aldhous is using the Johns Hopkins data to publish clear, concise graphics tracking known case counts globally and in the United States. [h/t John Emerson + Hannah Nam + Bruno Salzano + illo + Lam Thuy Vo + Mago Torres]
|
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-02-05-edition
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30119-5/fulltext
https://github.com/beoutbreakprepared/nCoV2019
https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19
https://twitter.com/sang_woo_park
https://github.com/parksw3/COVID19-Korea
https://www.gisaid.org/
https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/next-hcov-19-app/
https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
https://www.peteraldhous.com/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/coronavirus-updating-charts-maps-us-states
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/coronavirus-updating-charts-maps-us-states
|
https://backspace.com/
https://twitter.com/HannahNamMD/status/1233929884994547715
https://twitter.com/brsalzano/status/1236564010318925826
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22520069
https://twitter.com/lamthuyvo
https://twitter.com/magiccia
| -0.281456
| -0.768408
| 470
| 1,837
| 16
| 16
|
Public Health Datasets
| false
|
936
|
2020.03.11
| 2
|
Political parties around the world.
|
The Global Party Survey is “an international scientific study, directed by Pippa Norris, designed to compare political parties around the world. Drawing on survey data gathered from 1,861 party and election experts, the study uses 21 core items to estimate key ideological values, issue positions, and populist rhetoric for 1,127 parties in 170 countries.” Last month, Norris released the dataset and a paper that uses it to measure “populism as a global phenomenon.” Previously: The Manifesto Project (DIP 2017.06.21) and Party Facts (DIP 2019.01.16).
|
https://www.globalpartysurvey.org/methods
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/pippa-norris
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/GlobalPartySurvey
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/measuring-populism-worldwide
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2017-06-21-edition
https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-01-16-edition
| null | 0.807716
| -0.396164
| 1,273
| 4,979
| 31
| 31
|
Political Data Datasets
| false
|
937
|
2020.03.11
| 3
|
Flights in and out of SFO.
|
San Francisco International Airport’s museum team has been collecting information on all flights in and out of SFO’s terminals. Online, you can browse and search the data, which includes details about the airlines, flight numbers, gates of arrival and departure, and more. Earlier this year, the team published a downloadable database of 769,250 flights from 2019. (Or 1.2 million flights, if you count codeshares.) [h/t Simon Batistoni]
|
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/about/
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2019/05/17/flights/
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/flights/
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2020/01/24/flightdata/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeshare_agreement
|
https://buttondown.email/vaguemtn
| -0.683674
| -0.085072
| 1,866
| 7,444
| 39
| 39
|
Aviation Data and Regulations
| false
|
938
|
2020.03.11
| 4
|
Bicycle racers.
|
Applied mathematics PhD student Thomas Camminady has built a spreadsheet of all Tour de France riders since 1903 (including name, team, time taken, and final ranking), based on the competition’s official results page.
|
https://camminady.org/
https://github.com/camminady/LeTourDataSet/
https://www.letour.fr/en/history
| null | 0.412722
| 0.436799
| 2,925
| 11,738
| 73
| 73
|
Sports Data Compilation
| false
|
939
|
2020.03.11
| 5
|
Penguins.
|
The MAPPPD project — Mapping Application for Penguin Populations and Projected Dynamics — “aims to deliver open access penguin population data for the Antarctic continent, and occupancy probabilities for flying birds around the Antarctic Peninsula.” The data, last updated about a year ago, can be both browsed online and downloaded. [h/t Michael Polito]
|
http://www.penguinmap.com/
http://www.penguinmap.com/mapppd
|
https://twitter.com/MJPolito
| -0.396197
| 0.891755
| 3,859
| 15,526
| 4
| -1
|
Fish and Wildlife Data
| false
|
940
|
2020.03.18
| 1
|
COVID-19 testing in the US.
|
The COVID Tracking Project “collects information from 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and 5 other U.S. territories to provide the most comprehensive testing data we can collect for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.” The project — a collaboration between The Atlantic, data scientist Jeff Hammerbacher, and a growing team of volunteers — “attempt[s] to include positive and negative results, pending tests, and total people tested for each state or district currently reporting that data.” (Unfortunately, not all states are reporting each of those numbers, and private-lab testing also complicates the picture.) You can access the data online, through an API, on GitHub, and via Twitter. Related: How to Understand Your State’s Coronavirus Numbers (The Atlantic, March 12).
|
https://covidtracking.com/
https://covidtracking.com/about-team/
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1240017561757962245
https://covidtracking.com/data/
https://covidtracking.com/api/
https://github.com/COVID19Tracking/covid-tracking-data
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/how-understand-your-states-coronavirus-numbers/607921/
| null | -0.2944
| -0.703073
| 598
| 2,477
| 16
| 16
|
Public Health Datasets
| false
|
941
|
2020.03.18
| 2
|
Coronavirus research papers.
|
The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset is “a free resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.” The dataset, produced by a collaboration of several research groups and the National Library of Medicine, “will be updated weekly." Related: On Monday, the White House issued a “call to action to the tech community” regarding the dataset, asking experts “to develop new text and data mining techniques that can help the science community answer high-priority scientific questions related to COVID-19.”
|
https://pages.semanticscholar.org/coronavirus-research
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/call-action-tech-community-new-machine-readable-covid-19-dataset/
| null | 0.456062
| 0.131765
| 2,350
| 9,309
| 55
| 55
|
Open Data Initiatives
| false
|
942
|
2020.03.18
| 3
|
WFH.
|
Stayinghome.club is compiling hundreds of coronavirus-spurred work-from-home policies, university annoucements, and event cancellation statuses. The project is collaboratively edited on GitHub, and includes instructions for how to add your company/university/event. [h/t Jackie Kazil]
|
https://stayinghome.club/
https://stayinghome.club/companies.html
https://stayinghome.club/universities.html
https://stayinghome.club/events.html
https://github.com/phildini/stayinghomeclub
|
https://twitter.com/JackieKazil
| -0.202261
| -0.612212
| 793
| 3,123
| 14
| 14
|
COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets
| false
|
943
|
2020.03.18
| 4
|
Health security preparedness.
|
The Global Health Security Index is “the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 countries” that signed on to the WHO’s 2005 International Health Regulations. The index is built on a “framework of 140 questions, organized across 6 categories, 34 indicators, and 85 subindicators to assess a country’s capability to prevent and mitigate epidemics and pandemics.” The first edition of the index was released this past October, and can be downloaded as a macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet. The National Health Security Preparedness Index aims to do something similar, but for US states; the 2019 results are also available as a spreadsheet. [h/t Big Local News]
|
https://www.ghsindex.org/about/
https://www.who.int/ihr/legal_issues/states_parties/en/
https://www.ghsindex.org/news/inaugural-global-health-security-index-finds-no-country-is-prepared-for-epidemics-or-pandemics/
https://www.ghsindex.org/report-model/
https://nhspi.org/
https://nhspi.org/nations-ability-to-manage-health-emergencies-rises/
https://nhspi.org/tools-resources/2019-release-health-security-data-explorer/nhspi_2019_data_download/
|
https://biglocalnews.org/
| -0.270265
| -0.664075
| 663
| 2,734
| 16
| 16
|
Public Health Datasets
| false
|
944
|
2020.03.18
| 5
|
Speed dating.
|
Between 2002 and 2004, professors Ray Fisman and Sheena Iyengar ran a series of speed dating events for Columbia University graduate students, while collecting detailed data on the participants and results. The full dataset is available to download; data scientist Keith McNulty has also created a simplified version of it.
|
https://twitter.com/RFisman
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/ss957
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2008/01/21/the_speeddating_1/
https://drkeithmcnulty.com/
https://drkeithmcnulty.com/2020/02/14/what-matters-in-speed-dating/
| null | 0.396062
| 0.391747
| 2,860
| 11,481
| 73
| 73
|
Sports Data Compilation
| false
|
945
|
2020.03.25
| 1
|
COVID-19 cases, continued.
|
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has been publishing a COVID-19 dashboard and daily-updated data files tracking country-level cases and deaths. Related: Our World In Data explains why the publication switched from using the World Health Organization’s situation reports to the ECDC’s data for its analyses and graphics. Also related: USAFacts is using data from state governments, local public health agencies, and Johns Hopkins University (DIP 2020.03.11) to map US cases at the county level, with the underlying data available to download. [h/t YY Ahn + Big Local News]
|
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/
https://qap.ecdc.europa.eu/public/extensions/COVID-19/COVID-19.html
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide
https://ourworldindata.org/
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-source-data
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
https://usafacts.org/
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-03-11-edition
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/
|
https://github.com/covid19-data/covid19-data
https://biglocalnews.org/
| -0.279747
| -0.79112
| 407
| 1,710
| 16
| 16
|
Public Health Datasets
| false
|
946
|
2020.03.25
| 2
|
Official coronavirus interventions.
|
ACAPS, a humanitarian analysis nonprofit, is cataloguing government measures implemented in response to the pandemic. The measures range from quarantine policies (the most common) to electronic surveillance and the lockdown of refugee camps. As of Tuesday evening, the dataset contained 1,741 entries; each entry includes the date implemented, source links, and descriptive comments. Computational social scientist Rex Douglass, meanwhile, is crowdsourcing a dataset of mandatory government restrictions, such as bans on large gatherings, restaurant shutdowns, and shelter-in-place decrees. It has fewer entries so far, but more detail on US cities and states. [h/t Nishanth Arulappan]
|
https://www.acaps.org/who-we-are/in-short
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/acaps-covid19-government-measures-dataset
https://rexdouglass.com/
https://github.com/rexdouglass/TIGR
https://github.com/rexdouglass/TIGR/blob/master/data_out/TIGR_version1_latest.tsv
|
https://twitter.com/NArulappan/status/1240305942798848001
| -0.151567
| -0.567969
| 859
| 3,510
| 14
| 14
|
COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets
| false
|
947
|
2020.03.25
| 3
|
Getting around.
|
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Census Transportation Planning Products initiative “produces special tabulations of American Community Survey (ACS) data that have enhanced value for transportation planning, analysis, and strategic direction,” such as commute times, carpooling, bicycle usage, available vehicles, and more. The program’s core dataset “consists of almost 200 residence-based tables, 115 workplace-based tables and 39 flow tables (home to work) for over 325,000 geographies.” [h/t Adrienne Heller]
|
https://www.transportation.org/home/organization/
https://ctpp.transportation.org/
https://ctpp.transportation.org/2012-2016-5-year-ctpp/
|
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienne-heller-aicp-env-sp-0b96837/
| -0.327463
| -0.072499
| 1,877
| 7,595
| 48
| -1
|
New York City Housing Data
| false
|
948
|
2020.03.25
| 4
|
Prisoners, polled.
|
The Marshall Project and Slate have partnered to conduct a survey of incarcerated people’s political views. They’ve received more than 8,000 responses so far, and have made the (anonymized) data available to download.
|
https://www.themarshallproject.org/
https://slate.com/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/11/how-we-pulled-off-a-groundbreaking-political-survey-behind-bars
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/11/what-do-we-really-know-about-the-politics-of-people-behind-bars
https://github.com/themarshallproject/incarcerated_survey
| null | -0.007149
| -0.94817
| 95
| 447
| 7
| 7
|
Incarceration Data and Research
| false
|
949
|
2020.03.25
| 5
|
Unfinished business.
|
BusinessFinancing.co.uk attempted to identify the oldest, still-operating companies in every country in the world, and put its findings into a spreadsheet. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo + Iman Ghosh]
|
https://businessfinancing.co.uk/about/
https://businessfinancing.co.uk/the-oldest-company-in-almost-every-country/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ynIAoLhz0SZYzjpwZ5e5mFzBxt6V28FTBjX7A99jq3E/edit#gid=1002274442
|
https://mailchi.mp/ad9d9051041f/preview-222-in-other-news-3843345
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/oldest-companies/
| 0.207755
| 0.028714
| 2,086
| 8,397
| 56
| -1
|
Data Platforms on Corporations
| false
|
950
|
2020.04.01
| 1
|
Subnational COVID-19 case counts.
|
The New York Times is conducting “a round-the-clock effort to tally every known coronavirus case in the United States,” and has begun publishing a dataset of county-level cases and deaths. France publishes spreadsheets of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths by département and sex; on GitHub, there’s an active effort to collect and standardize this dataset and others from France. The German government has a dashboard showing official case counts in each of its Bundesländer and Landkreise; software engineer Jan-Philip Gehrcke has been pulling that data into standardized CSV files. Spain publishes daily case, hospitalization, death, and recovery counts for each comunidad autónoma, as a dashboard with downloadable data; investigative outlet Datadista has been compiling and standardizing that dataset and similar ones.
|
https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-county-data-us.html
https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/donnees-hospitalieres-relatives-a-lepidemie-de-covid-19/
https://github.com/opencovid19-fr/data
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823b17327b2bf1d4/page/page_1/
https://gehrcke.de/about/
https://github.com/jgehrcke/covid-19-germany-gae
https://covid19.isciii.es/
https://datadista.com/
https://github.com/datadista/datasets/tree/master/COVID%2019
| null | -0.257289
| -0.787175
| 407
| 1,711
| 16
| 16
|
Public Health Datasets
| false
|
951
|
2020.04.01
| 2
|
Official coronavirus interventions, continued.
|
The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker “aims to track and compare government responses to the coronavirus outbreak worldwide rigorously and consistently.” The project posts daily information concerning 11 kinds of responses, ranging from travel bans to investment in vaccines, and is based on data “collected from public sources by a team of dozens of Oxford University students and staff from every part of the world.” One of those public sources is UNESCO, which has been tracking countries’ school closure policies over time. In the US, the Kaiser Family Foundation is keeping tabs on the current mandates issued by state governors (rather than legislators or local governments).
|
https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker
https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/state-data-and-policy-actions-to-address-coronavirus/
| null | -0.170433
| -0.560357
| 922
| 3,637
| 14
| 14
|
COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets
| false
|
952
|
2020.04.01
| 3
|
Visa fees.
|
The Global Visa Cost Dataset, published by the European University Institute’s Migration Policy Centre, “reports the cost [in 2019] of country-to-country visas for tourism, student, business, work, transit, family reunification and other motives worldwide.” The dataset’s authors describe their methodology and findings in a detailed working paper. There is, they write, “a fundamentally paradoxical situation: The richer a country, the less its citizens pay for visas to go abroad.”
|
http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/globalmobilities/dataset/
http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/about/
https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/66583
| null | 0.050015
| -0.161308
| 1,697
| 6,851
| 68
| -1
|
Education Data and Statistics
| false
|
953
|
2020.04.01
| 4
|
iPhone search warrants.
|
In light of ongoing debates over encryption, tech publication Motherboard “collected and analyzed over 500 iPhone search warrants and related documents filed throughout 2019 to build a database of cases in which law enforcement attempted to get information from an iPhone.” The database, published last month, includes court-docket information, the requesting agency, the suspected crimes, phone models, and more. [h/t Colin Prince]
|
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkeeay/apple-dmca-take-down-tweet-containing-an-iphone-encryption-key
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l20Kgp77tG7BBDnblx8vH_VWevuCbPkg?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xmh1QEXYJmVPFlqAdEIVGemvbkoZmk_WyAPGC4eY-eE/edit?usp=sharing
|
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22557091
| 0.189677
| -0.637508
| 742
| 3,020
| 9
| 9
|
Data Analysis and Disclosure
| false
|
954
|
2020.04.01
| 5
|
Before Wikipedia.
|
The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860. The effort, which captured approximately 167 million words across 143 volumes, was named a runner-up in the 2019 Digital Humanities Awards.
|
https://data.nls.uk/data/digitised-collections/encyclopaedia-britannica/
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2019/results/
| null | 0.506407
| 0.468459
| 2,992
| 12,000
| 77
| -1
|
Diverse Data Collections
| false
|
955
|
2020.04.08
| 1
|
Pandemic-era economic policies.
|
A group of researchers have built a structured dataset quantifying 166 countries’ economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset draws mainly from the International Monetary Fund’s COVID-19 Policy Tracker — which describes the policies in free-form text — and supplements it with additional research. The quantified policies include fiscal stimuli, monetary stimuli, interest-rate cuts, and interventions to control the countries’ balance of payments. [h/t u/smurfyjenkins]
|
http://web.boun.edu.tr/elgin/COVID.htm
https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19
|
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/fve5ta/dataset_economic_policy_measures_adopted_by_166/
| -0.115924
| -0.544061
| 924
| 3,768
| 14
| 14
|
COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets
| false
|
956
|
2020.04.08
| 2
|
Historical economic productivity.
|
The Long-Term Productivity database was created at the Bank of France in 2013, and has been updated several times since then. For 23 OECD countries from 1890 to 2018, the database tracks total factor productivity, labor productivity, capital intensity, GDP per capita, and more. [h/t Mokhtar Tabari]
|
http://longtermproductivity.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity
https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_intensity
|
https://www.mokhtartabari.ca/
| 0.015942
| 0.036263
| 2,144
| 8,513
| 60
| 60
|
International Economic Databases
| false
|
957
|
2020.04.08
| 3
|
Forty-plus years of FOIA.
|
Journalism professor A.Jay Wagner has compiled a dataset of 14 federal agencies’ Freedom of Information Act annual reports from 1975 through 2018. For each agency and year, the dataset contains the number of FOIA requests processed, granted, and denied; exemptions invoked; appeal outcomes; staffing figures; fees assessed; and more. [h/t George LeVines]
|
https://www.ajaywagner.com/
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_data/1/
|
https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgelevines/
| 0.501618
| -0.298124
| 1,456
| 5,728
| 27
| 27
|
Government Transparency Datasets
| false
|
958
|
2020.04.08
| 4
|
Police drones.
|
Last month, the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College released the third edition of its Public Safety Drones report, in which researchers identified “1,578 state and local police, sheriff, fire, and emergency services agencies in the U.S. that are believed to have acquired drones.” You can explore and download the data through the report’s interactive map.
|
https://dronecenter.bard.edu/about/
https://dronecenter.bard.edu/projects/public-safety-drones-project/public-safety-drones-3rd-edition/
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1zcTdAkQB_gqVX383oQcyujM7Nd85rquH
| null | -0.668854
| -0.220403
| 1,546
| 6,293
| 38
| -1
|
Aviation Safety Data
| false
|
959
|
2020.04.08
| 5
|
A lot of domain names.
|
Software engineer Bohdan Turkynewych has compiled a dataset of more than 50 million domain names, discovered by crawling the web and processing 86 terabytes of internet traffic. Related: French registry Afnic publishes a full list of all registered .fr domains. [h/t Javier Sáenz]
|
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bohdanturkynewych
https://github.com/tb0hdan/domains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fran%C3%A7aise_pour_le_nommage_Internet_en_coop%C3%A9ration
http://opendata.afnic.fr/en/products-and-services/services/opendata-en.html
|
https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/6835
| 0.611185
| 0.100195
| 2,291
| 9,063
| 74
| 74
|
Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities
| false
|
960
|
2020.04.15
| 1
|
COVID-19 testing around the world.
|
Nearly every country publishes the number of residents who’ve tested positive for COVID-19. Far fewer post data on the total number of people tested (or tests performed). But as more countries start doing that, the team at Our World In Data has begun compiling a regularly-updated dataset on COVID-19 testing, along with key context, a detailed methodology, and interactive charts.
|
https://ourworldindata.org/
https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data/testing
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing
| null | -0.30413
| -0.782961
| 406
| 1,708
| 16
| 16
|
Public Health Datasets
| false
|
961
|
2020.04.15
| 2
|
Aggregated smartphone movements.
|
A team of academics has begun publishing a series of “exposure indices” based on smartphone “pings” collected by a location-analytics company. One set of indices describes the proportion of smartphones that, on a given day in a given US state or county, were observed at least once in another given state or county during the previous 14 days. Another tries to quantify how often smartphones are observed in the same “commercial venues” as other devices. “We are making these indices publicly available to all researchers in the context of the spread of COVID-19,” the researchers write.
|
https://github.com/COVIDExposureIndices/COVIDExposureIndices
| null | 0.370534
| 0.081613
| 2,219
| 8,919
| 55
| 55
|
Open Data Initiatives
| false
|
962
|
2020.04.15
| 3
|
Privacy policies.
|
Researchers at Imperial College London and Oxford have compiled a dataset of more than 4,000 privacy policies published on major US companies’ websites. For each policy, the dataset includes its full text, counts the number of words and paragraphs in it, calculates a readability metric, and reports the number of third-party tracking cookies loaded through the policy’s webpage. [h/t Antione Uettwiller]
|
https://github.com/ansgarw/privacy
|
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.uettwiller17
| 0.618399
| 0.008589
| 2,099
| 8,295
| 74
| 74
|
Cybersecurity Datasets and Vulnerabilities
| false
|
963
|
2020.04.15
| 4
|
Thirty years of NYC trash and recycling.
|
New York City’s Department of Sanitation publishes a dataset of the monthly tonnage it collects from city residences, going back to 1990. For each community district and month, the dataset tallies the weight of household trash, recyclables, “organics,” and more — including, for each January, the tonnage of Christmas trees collected. Related: Reporters at The City recently analyzed the dataset, and found potential evidence of Manhattanites fleeing the city in March. They also interviewed the Department of Sanitation’s anthropologist-in-residence.
|
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DSNY-Monthly-Tonnage-Data/ebb7-mvp5
https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/garbage-pickups-tell-tale-of-two-cities-as-manhattan-shrinks.html
https://robinnagle.com/
| null | -0.482986
| 0.189842
| 2,448
| 9,761
| 52
| 52
|
Urban Infrastructure Datasets
| false
|
964
|
2020.04.15
| 5
|
Animal Crossing.
|
VillagerDB is an online and downloadable database of thousands of the characters, accessories, tools, and other items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons — the Sims-like game that’s breaking sales records and saving my colleague’s marriage. [h/t Justin]
|
https://villagerdb.com/
https://github.com/jefflomacy/villagerdb/tree/master/data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/26/21195022/animal-crossing-switch-sales-japan-famitsu
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/animal-crossing-quarantine-distraction
|
https://twitter.com/ACWorldBlog/status/1248376259735769090
| 0.278204
| 0.790035
| 3,688
| 14,673
| 78
| -1
|
Music and Performance Databases
| false
|
965
|
2020.04.22
| 1
|
Tracking the COVID policy trackers.
|
Economics graduate student Lukas Lehner has gathered, with help from the hive-mind, a list of dozens of websites and datasets tracking policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic – a few that have been mentioned in DIP, plus many that haven’t. Lehner’s tracker-tracker groups the resources into several topic areas, summarizes them, and indicates their data formats. [h/t François Briatte]
|
https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/people/lukas-lehner
https://twitter.com/LukasLehner_/status/1251048564899397632
https://lukaslehner.github.io/covid19policytrackers/
|
https://f.briatte.org/
| -0.157497
| -0.557556
| 922
| 3,637
| 14
| 14
|
COVID-19 Policy Tracking Datasets
| false
|
966
|
2020.04.22
| 2
|
Every Census question, ever.
|
Programmer Alec Barrett has built a spreadsheet listing every question asked on every decennial US Census since 1790 — more than 900 items overall. In addition to the questions themselves, the dataset describes the subgroups of people questioned and the types of answers expected. Related: The dataset powers “The Evolution of the American Census,” Barrett’s interactive exploration of how the questions have changed over time, and what they say about America.
|
https://github.com/anbnyc
https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/census-history
https://pudding.cool/2020/03/census-history/
| null | 0.164922
| 0.215762
| 2,469
| 9,930
| 47
| 47
|
Historical Data Datasets
| false
|
967
|
2020.04.22
| 3
|
Chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
|
“Building on years of painstaking work alongside our Syrian and international partners,” the Global Public Policy Institute “has compiled the most comprehensive dataset of incidents of chemical weapons use in Syria to date.” The institute has published a new interactive data portal to display the data on 345 attacks between 2012 and 2019. The data fields include the date and time of the attack, location, chemical agent, munition type and method of delivery, perpetrator, confidence rating, and more. [h/t Tobias Schneider]
|
https://chemicalweapons.gppi.net/
https://chemicalweapons.gppi.net/data-portal/
|
https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1247665719334100994
| 0.423653
| -0.708103
| 621
| 2,395
| 12
| 12
|
Conflict Data and Analysis
| false
|
968
|
2020.04.22
| 4
|
NYC sidewalks, narrow and broad.
|
Urban planner Meli Harvey has taken New York City’s official dataset of sidewalks and dissected its geometries to map the width of each segment of walkable pavement. [h/t Dan Brady]
|
http://meliharvey.com/
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Sidewalk/vfx9-tbb6
https://github.com/meliharvey/sidewalkwidths-nyc
http://www.sidewalkwidths.nyc/
|
https://danjbrady.com
| -0.444356
| 0.171054
| 2,385
| 9,507
| 52
| 52
|
Urban Infrastructure Datasets
| false
|
969
|
2020.04.22
| 5
|
Crowdsourced moral judgements.
|
Data scientist Elle O’Brien recently described how she built and cleaned a dataset of the moral dilemmas posted to r/AmItheAsshole, “a semi-structured online forum that’s the internet’s closest approximation of a judicial system.” For each of the 97,628 posts collected, the dataset includes the title, body, date, number of Reddit upvotes, and number of comments — plus the community’s verdict. [h/t u/thumbsdrivesmecrazy]
|
https://www.elle-obrien.com/
https://dvc.org/blog/a-public-reddit-dataset
https://github.com/iterative/aita_dataset
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/
|
https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/f5t5fo/a_public_dataset_of_reddit_posts_about_moral/
| 0.835465
| 0.067512
| 2,234
| 8,821
| 58
| -1
|
Political Data and Analysis
| false
|
970
|
2020.04.29
| 1
|
Six million parliamentary speeches.
|
ParlSpeech V2 contains 6.3 million parliamentary speeches from nine countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The dataset, created by political scientists Christian Rauh and Jan Schwalbach, includes the full text of each speech, plus the date, speaker, and the speaker’s party. Related: Roll call votes from the European Parliament’s first six terms (1979–2009). [h/t Robert Stelzle]
|
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN
https://sites.google.com/site/christianrauh/
https://twitter.com/janschwalbach
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix/HixNouryRolandEPdata.HTM
|
https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/pull/5
| 0.782382
| -0.363434
| 1,337
| 5,234
| 31
| 31
|
Political Data Datasets
| false
|
971
|
2020.04.29
| 2
|
COVID-19 preprints.
|
Preprints — academic papers published online before they’ve gone through traditional peer review — have become a common way for scientists to disseminate their coronavirus-related findings. So researchers Nicholas Fraser and Bianca Kramer have begun compiling a dataset of more than 6,000 COVID-19 preprints. For each paper, the dataset includes the title, abstract, DOI, date posted, and the hosting repository (such as medRxiv, the most common so far).
|
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-6339
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5965-6560
https://github.com/nicholasmfraser/covid19_preprints
https://www.medrxiv.org/
| null | 0.532277
| 0.218954
| 2,545
| 10,082
| 75
| 75
|
Open Research Datasets
| false
|
972
|
2020.04.29
| 3
|
Mobility indicators.
|
Tech companies have repurposed some of the data they collect from you into explorable, downloadable datasets that estimate the degree to which movement patterns have (or haven’t) changed in recent months. Among them: Apple, which is quantifying requests for directions; Google, which is counting visits to places such as grocery stores and transit station; and Descartes Labs, which is tracking smartphone movements. Related: Sociologist Kieran Healy recently found and explained a curious February 17 spike in Apple’s data. [h/t Hillary Hartley]
|
https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
https://github.com/descarteslabs/DL-COVID-19
https://kieranhealy.org/about/
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2020/04/23/apples-covid-mobility-data/
|
https://mobile.twitter.com/hillary/status/1250130170029248512
| 0.344465
| 0.113845
| 2,283
| 9,174
| 17
| -1
|
Historical Data Projects
| false
|
973
|
2020.04.29
| 4
|
US retail.
|
Since the 1950s, the US Census Bureau has conducted monthly surveys of retail and food-services industries. The results — which estimate sales and inventory numbers by subsector — are available as machine-readable data going back to 1992. The next release is scheduled for May 15. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
|
https://www.census.gov/retail/index.html
|
https://mailchi.mp/b13add45c669/preview-222-in-other-news-3862701
| -0.216875
| -0.056532
| 1,945
| 7,730
| 59
| 59
|
Economic Statistics Reports
| false
|
974
|
2020.04.29
| 5
|
Poems by kids.
|
PoKi is “a corpus of 61,330 poems written by children from grades 1 to 12,” scraped with permission from a Scholastic website. The dataset includes each poem’s title, text, and character count, plus the author’s first name and grade. Noteworthy: “PoKi is made freely available for research with the condition that the research be used for the benefit of children.”
|
https://github.com/whipson/PoKi-Poems-by-Kids
http://web.archive.org/web/20191025052907/teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_readall.asp
| null | 0.705197
| 0.502558
| 3,126
| 12,397
| 71
| -1
|
Datasets and Corpora
| false
|
975
|
2020.05.06
| 1
|
Coronavirus and race.
|
Last week, the COVID Tracking Project (DIP 2020.03.18) launched a beta release of its COVID Racial Data Tracker, built in collaboration with American University’s Antiracist Research & Policy Center. The tracker collects demographic statistics, now published by most states, that disaggregate the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths by race and/or ethnicity. “This is a challenging dataset to compile and code, and our data sources remain in flux, but we offer this beta release for full transparency,” the project’s organizers write; they’re seeking feedback “as we work toward building a complete dataset and getting it into our API and onto the website.”
|
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-03-18-edition
https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1254909756742852608
https://covidtracking.com/race
https://antiracismcenter.com/
| null | -0.27799
| -0.78189
| 407
| 1,710
| 16
| 16
|
Public Health Datasets
| false
|
976
|
2020.05.06
| 2
|
COVID-19 in prisons.
|
The Marshall Project has been tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths in US prisons. To compile that dataset, every week the publication’s reporters ask each state prison system and the federal Bureau of Prisons “for the total number of coronavirus tests administered to its staff members and prisoners, the cumulative number who tested positive among staff and prisoners, and the numbers of deaths for each group.”
|
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons
https://github.com/themarshallproject/COVID_prison_data
| null | -0.05863
| -0.922345
| 158
| 572
| 7
| -1
|
Incarceration Data and Research
| false
|
977
|
2020.05.06
| 3
|
Essential NYC construction sites.
|
New York City’s Department of Buildings has been publishing a dataset and interactive map of construction sites deemed “essential,” and thus eligible to continue work during the coronavirus pandemic. The current list covers more than 6,700 sites, including more than 1,200 at schools, 1,000 for public housing, and 250 related to health care. [h/t Josh Laurito]
|
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/essential-active-construction.html
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/buildings/about/essential-construction-faq.page
|
https://tinyletter.com/nycdatajobs/letters/nyc-data-188-spotify-northwell-health-the-knot-predicting-weekly-unemployment-claims-turner-cit-bayer
| -0.421312
| 0.127196
| 2,322
| 9,253
| 52
| 52
|
Urban Infrastructure Datasets
| false
|
978
|
2020.05.06
| 4
|
Space dollars.
|
The Planetary Science Budget Dataset “integrates the spending history, by year, of every NASA planetary science mission and related activities.” It also calculates funding by destination (e.g., Mars, Venus, the moon, etc.), and annual budget breakdowns for individual missions. The dataset is maintained by The Planetary Society, a nonprofit founded 40 years ago by Carl Sagan, Louis Friedman, and Bruce Murray — and now led by Bill Nye. [h/t Ingrid Burrington]
|
https://www.planetary.org/get-involved/be-a-space-advocate/become-an-expert/planetary-exploration-budget-dataset.html
https://www.planetary.org/about/
|
https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1257431537252999168
| -0.499184
| 0.963838
| 3,984
| 16,032
| 33
| 33
|
Space Exploration Datasets
| false
|
979
|
2020.05.06
| 5
|
Love Island.
|
Developer advocate Amy Boyd has assembled a dataset of 96 contestants who appeared on the British dating reality series Love Island from 2016 to 2019, including each contestant’s name, age, profession, and various metrics of success in the competition. [h/t Nick Latocha]
|
https://twitter.com/AmyKateNicho
https://github.com/amynic/love-island-workshop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Island_(2015_TV_series)
|
https://twitter.com/nckltcha/status/1253977479204818944
| 0.542424
| 0.644117
| 3,377
| 13,538
| 76
| 76
|
Data Collections and Analyses
| false
|
980
|
2020.05.13
| 1
|
Employee protections.
|
The UN International Labour Organization’s Employment Protection Legislation Database tracks “legal information on the regulation of temporary contracts and employment termination at the initiative of the employer,” on a national-regulatory level. The database quantifies and categorizes regulations under nine “themes” — including grounds for dismissal, procedures for collective dismissals, severance pay, and redress — and for more than 100 countries.
|
https://eplex.ilo.org/
| null | -0.08015
| -0.408753
| 1,181
| 4,794
| 19
| -1
|
Migration and Policy Data
| false
|
981
|
2020.05.13
| 2
|
COVID stimulus recipients.
|
The nonprofit Good Jobs First has launched COVID Stimulus Watch, which is gathering data on the grants and loans that have been provided to corporations through the $2 trillion CARES Act. So far, the dataset contains more than 5,700 awards, totalling $54 billion. The records are based on information from public financial filings, press releases, and, most recently, data from the government’s healthcare-focused Provider Relief Fund.
|
https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/about-us
https://covidstimuluswatch.org/blog/2020-04/covid-stimulus-watch-new-website-documents-accountability-track-records-cares-act
https://covidstimuluswatch.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_Aid,_Relief,_and_Economic_Security_Act
https://covidstimuluswatch.org/blog/2020-05/covid-stimulus-watch-adds-5000-healthcare-provider-awards
https://data.cdc.gov/Administrative/HHS-Provider-Relief-Fund/kh8y-3es6
| null | 0.126442
| -0.443185
| 1,124
| 4,552
| 18
| 18
|
Data on Aid and Rights
| false
|
982
|
2020.05.13
| 3
|
National wildernesses.
|
Since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964, the US federal government has established 803 official wilderness areas, which cover more than 111 million acres. They’re all part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, co-managed by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Forest Service. The University of Montana’s Wilderness.net brings data about each of the agencies’ wildernesses into one place, where it can be explored via an interactive map and downloaded in bulk. For each wilderness, the dataset provides its name, description, boundaries, acreage, year designated, and more.
|
https://wilderness.net/learn-about-wilderness/fast-facts/default.php
https://wilderness.net/default.php
https://umontana.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a415bca07f0a4bee9f0e894b0db5c3b6
https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/gis-gps.php
| null | -0.450582
| 0.606347
| 3,281
| 13,091
| 20
| 20
|
Forest and Land Data
| false
|
983
|
2020.05.13
| 4
|
EU legislative edits.
|
Computer science graduate student Victor Kristof has built a dataset of 450,000 legislative edits proposed by members of the EU parliament from 2009 to 2019. For each proposed edit, the dataset points to the relevant legislation, names the parlimentarian, and indicates whether the edit was accepted. In an accompanying academic paper, Kristof et al. describe the dataset’s construction and “propose a model for predicting the success of such edits.”
|
https://victorkristof.me/
https://zenodo.org/record/3757714
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3366423.3380041
| null | 0.794202
| -0.359918
| 1,337
| 5,234
| 31
| 31
|
Political Data Datasets
| false
|
984
|
2020.05.13
| 5
|
Millions of Iowa liquor purchases.
|
Iowa’s Alcoholic Beverages Division publishes itemized data on all liquor sales by grocery/liquor/convenience-type stores since January 2002 — more than 18 million purchases in all. For each purchase, the dataset includes the specific kind, amount, and cost of the liquor, plus the date and location of the sale. Previously: State liquor prices (DIP 2019.08.07). [h/t Martin Burch]
|
https://data.iowa.gov/Sales-Distribution/Iowa-Liquor-Sales/m3tr-qhgy
https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2019-08-07-edition
|
https://twitter.com/seecmb/status/1259948995981516801
| -0.319098
| -0.29005
| 1,429
| 5,803
| 66
| -1
|
Occupational and Workforce Data
| false
|
985
|
2020.05.20
| 1
|
Excess deaths.
|
The Economist has published the data behind its estimates of excess deaths due to COVID-19. The data repository currently covers 20 countries; it provides recent weekly/monthly death totals, officially-counted COVID-19 death, and average historical death totals for the same time periods. Related: Data journalist James Tozer’s introductory Twitter thread. [h/t Sharon Machlis]
|
https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries
https://twitter.com/J_CD_T/status/1261625814854045696
|
https://twitter.com/sharon000/status/1262029159976574976
| -0.161984
| -0.751994
| 474
| 1,973
| 15
| 15
|
Mortality Data and Analysis
| false
|
986
|
2020.05.20
| 2
|
Trade agreements.
|
The Design of Trade Agreements database collects information about customs unions, free trade agreements, and other similar treaties signed between 1948 and 2018. It currently includes more than 800 agreements, plus additional negotiations, accessions, withdrawals, consolidations, and amendments. For each agreement, the database indicates the its name, member countries, year of signature, and a number of policy-specific variables. [h/t Erik Gahner Larsen]
| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.designoftradeagreements.org\nhttps://www.designoftradeagreements.org/downloads/"
|
https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData/
| 0.437602
| -0.378109
| 1,262
| 5,084
| 27
| -1
|
Government Transparency Datasets
| false
|
987
|
2020.05.20
| 3
|
US forests.
|
The US Department of Agriculture’s National Forest Type Dataset shows the geographic distribution of the country’s “forest types” — defined as ”logical ecological groupings of species mixes.” (Examples include “deciduous oak woodland” and “subalpine fir.”) To estimate the extent of each forest type, the dataset’s developers combined satellite imagery with “nearly 100 other geospatial data layers, including elevation, slope, aspect, and ecoregions.” Related: The Washington Post has used the dataset to map fall foliage and forests where Christmas-y trees grow. [h/t Joe Fox]
|
https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/rastergateway/forest_type/
https://wapo.st/peep-these-leaves
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/12/where-christmas-trees-come/
|
https://twitter.com/joemfox
| -0.431053
| 0.649123
| 3,346
| 13,476
| 20
| 20
|
Forest and Land Data
| false
|
988
|
2020.05.20
| 4
|
Historical crop yields.
|
The Global Dataset of Historical Yields combines data from agricultural censuses and satellite sensors to estimate the annual yields for four major crops — maize, rice, wheat, and soybean — annually from 1981 to 2016, for each 0.5-degree square on the planet. Related: The dataset’s authors describe their methodology and the latest update.
|
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909132
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0433-7
| null | -0.292619
| 0.572317
| 3,222
| 12,845
| 36
| -1
|
Agricultural Data and Analysis
| false
|
989
|
2020.05.20
| 5
|
Victorian fiction.
|
At the Circulating Library “offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction.” Launched by literature professor Troy J. Bassett in 2007, the searchable, browseable, downloadable database now contains information on more than 19,000 titles by more than 4,000 authors.
|
https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/index.php
https://twitter.com/3VolumeNovel
https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/search.php
https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/view_authors.php
http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/snapshots.php
| null | 0.578028
| 0.611793
| 3,314
| 13,284
| 76
| -1
|
Data Collections and Analyses
| false
|
990
|
2020.05.27
| 1
|
Census response rates.
|
As it has in the past, the US Census Bureau is encouraging residents to respond to the 2020 Census’s mailed questionnaire, which reduces the need for in-person census-taking. The agency calculates these "self-response" rates all the way down to individual Census tracts, and provides that data as a CSV and via its API. Those datasets, however, only represent the latest numbers, so researchers at the CUNY’s Center for Urban Research have been creating daily snapshots, which they’re also mapping and analyzing for the public. Related: The Center’s FAQ for the data. [h/t Steven Romalewski]
|
https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond.html
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/2020map/2020/
https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/decennial-response-rates.html
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUR
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qrwrdkmjb3fjmg5/AAAaxYr9yeU9hBQMJcggriuEa?dl=0
https://www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us/
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-Urban-Research/CUR-research-initiatives/Census-2020-Self-Response-Data-Questions-and-Answers
|
https://twitter.com/SR_spatial
| -0.172639
| -0.182265
| 1,690
| 6,708
| 63
| -1
|
Economic and Demographic Studies
| false
|
991
|
2020.05.27
| 2
|
More excess mortality data.
|
Last week’s newsletter featured the data and code that The Economist is using to estimate excess deaths due to COVID-19. Also last week: The New York Times began publishing the data behind its similar-but-different estimates. And earlier this month, the team at the Human Mortality Database launched its Short-term Mortality Fluctuations data series, which provides “user-friendly access to detailed data on mortality by week, sex, and aggregated age group” for more than a dozen countries. [h/t Esteban Ortiz-Ospina]
|
http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2020-05-20-edition
https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries
https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/excess-deaths
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html
https://www.mortality.org/
https://www.mortality.org/Public/STMF_DOC/STMFNote.pdf
|
https://twitter.com/EOrtizOspina/status/1263153998057660416
| -0.178196
| -0.748628
| 538
| 2,100
| 15
| 15
|
Mortality Data and Analysis
| false
|
992
|
2020.05.27
| 3
|
Ranked-choice votes.
|
The website ranked.vote, built by quantitative analyst Paul Butler, standardizes and visualizes the detailed results of a few dozen elections — in Maine, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Burlington — that have used ranked-choice voting, where voters can list their preferred candidates in sequential order.
|
https://ranked.vote/
https://paulbutler.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting
| null | 0.982677
| -0.220821
| 1,599
| 6,398
| 31
| 31
|
Political Data Datasets
| false
|
993
|
2020.05.27
| 4
|
Interwar literary lending.
|
From 1919 to 1941, Sylvia Beach ran Shakespeare and Company, the legendary Paris bookstore. It featured a lending library, whose members included writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Simone de Beauvoir, and Ernest Hemingway. Princeton University’s Shakespeare and Company Project has digitized hundreds of the library’s lending cards and logbooks, and has made the data available to explore and download. [h/t Tom Merritt Smith]
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(bookstore)
https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/
https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/sources/
https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/members/
https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/about/data/
|
https://twitter.com/tmrtsmith
| 0.531424
| 0.609899
| 3,313
| 13,282
| 76
| 76
|
Data Collections and Analyses
| false
|
994
|
2020.05.27
| 5
|
Seashells.
|
A team of researchers has built a dataset that characterizes 29,622 samples of shells from 7,894 water-dwelling species. You can search the shell images online and also download the full dataset.
|
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0230-3
http://www.cis.um.edu.mo/research/shelldataset/
https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/A_shell_dataset_for_shell_features_extraction_and_recognition/4428335
| null | -0.25235
| 0.92145
| 3,927
| 15,663
| 3
| 3
|
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
| false
|
995
|
2020.06.10
| 1
|
Black Lives Matter protests.
|
An unnamed geospatial analyst has been mapping “every town or city I can find where a George Floyd / Black Lives Matter protest, action, or vigil has occurred since May 25” — more than 2,600 so far. The data files powering the map include each city’s name, state/region, country, coordinates, and the date it was added. Related: For a study of the relationship between police-caused deaths and demonstrations, Williamson et al. built a dataset of Black Lives Matter protests in 2014 and 2015.
|
https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/gx8uoa/mapping_george_floyd_black_lives_matter_protests/
https://www.creosotemaps.com/blm2020/
https://www.creosotemaps.com/blm2020/json/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/black-lives-matter-evidence-that-policecaused-deaths-predict-protest-activity/BFA2E74F4BCB25C3C222807E8B1111D4/share/53d6d67c798695fc19688bd571777e433fca550d
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L2GSK6
| null | 0.34297
| -0.61044
| 810
| 3,157
| 11
| 11
|
Protest and Violence Data
| false
|
996
|
2020.06.10
| 2
|
Police violence at the BLM protests.
|
Several groups are collecting examples of disproportionate police responses to the protests against police brutality. One such collection, spurred by criminal defense attorney T. Greg Doucette, has compiled hundreds of instances of “unnecessary violence by law enforcement officers against civilians”; for each one, the underlying spreadsheet provides the city and state of the incident, links to visual documentation on Twitter and YouTube, and a short description. Another collection, which emerged from the /r/2020PoliceBrutality subreddit and seeks “to accumulate and contextualize evidence of police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests,” also includes incident dates, an interactive map, and APIs. Related: Bellingcat and The Guardian have compiled a spreadsheet of 140+ “reports of arrests, violence, and intimidation against journalists” at the protests. [h/t anjakefala + Aric Toler]
|
https://watchwatch.org/
https://time.com/5849839/police-brutality-george-floyd-protests-spreadsheet/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YmZeSxpz52qT-10tkCjWOwOGkQqle7Wd1P7ZM1wMW0E/edit
https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality
https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/
https://846policebrutality.com/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/06/05/visualizing-police-violence-against-journalists-at-protests-across-the-us/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/05/im-getting-shot-attacks-on-journalists-surge-in-us-protests
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F7Q-XoCoHzb_cX28ARCL4BMsuxp3EpkouUDJ2cRSjOQ/edit
| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://anja.kefala.info\nhttps://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1268892644941447168"
| 0.327474
| -0.65334
| 746
| 2,900
| 11
| 11
|
Protest and Violence Data
| false
|
997
|
2020.06.10
| 3
|
Police reforms and union contracts.
|
Campaign Zero’s 8cantwait.org advocates for eight specific reforms to curtail police officers’ use of force, including bans on chokeholds, requiring de-escalation tactics, and establishing comprehensive reporting. The organization has compiled the use of force policies for 100 large police departments, and determined whether they’ve instituted these reforms. (Direct CSV download here.) And at checkthepolice.org, the organization has gathered police union contracts in major cities and assessed whether they contain language makes it harder to hold officers accountable for misconduct. [h/t Samuel Sinyangwe]
|
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
https://8cantwait.org/
https://useofforceproject.org/database
https://8cantwait.org/compare/
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/campaign-zero-use-of-force/data/force.csv
https://www.checkthepolice.org/
https://www.checkthepolice.org/database
|
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655721052020737
| 0.209904
| -0.7235
| 550
| 2,253
| 8
| 8
|
Police Accountability Data
| false
|
998
|
2020.06.10
| 4
|
Police militarization.
|
The US Defense Logistic Agency’s Law Enforcement Support Office sends surplus Department of Defense equipment to local law enforcement agencies, through an arrangement known as the 1033 program. The Pentagon publishes quarterly updates of the equipment transferred — which can range from coffee makers to rifles to entire aircraft — but only began doing so after the program came under intense scrutiny for its role in the militarized police response to the 2014 Ferguson protests and police militarization in general. Related: Despite the criticisms, the 1033 program has sent police departments hundreds of millions of dollars in military equipment since Ferguson, including more than 490 mine-resistant vehicles, my colleague John Templon reports.
|
https://www.dla.mil/DispositionServices/Offers/Reutilization/LawEnforcement/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1033_program
https://www.dla.mil/DispositionServices/Offers/Reutilization/LawEnforcement/PublicInformation/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/03/the-pentagon-finally-details-its-weapons-for-cops-giveaway
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimdalrympleii/war-zone-in-ferguson-how-billions-in-military-weapons-ended
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johntemplon/police-departments-military-gear-1033-program
| null | 0.297456
| -0.623024
| 809
| 3,155
| 11
| 11
|
Protest and Violence Data
| false
|
999
|
2020.06.10
| 5
|
Tech’s BLM statements.
|
The Plug, a news site that focuses on the Black innovation economy, has been assembling a dataset of statements made by tech companies on racial justice, Black Lives Matter, and George Floyd. The dataset links to more than 200 statements so far and includes each company’s name, the timing of the statement, and other relevant context, such as the URL of their most recent diversity report and the percentage of employees and/or leaders who identify as Black. [h/t Sherrell Dorsey]
|
https://tpinsights.com/
https://tpinsights.com/2020/05/31/twilio-box-spotify-and-other-tech-ceos-speak-out-against-racism-and-police-brutality-others-stay-silent/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZx-_tm3PPyx6-ZJAST1xxOJRfn7KfYDjDT6JedrTfs/edit#gid=0
|
https://www.sherrelldorsey.com/
| 0.468415
| -0.035109
| 1,966
| 7,901
| 41
| 41
|
Datasets on Social Issues
| false
|
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