Data Sources

A vast amount of data is now available through the World-Wide Web. Here are a few pointers.

• General collections and links
  • Joe Rickert's list of public data sites
  • Rob Gould's list of data sources
  • Washington Post list of public data
  • New York Times data sources
  • Data from Wikipedia
  • Free Base data
  • The Guardian Data Sources
  • Best Open Data Releases of 2012
• Crime data
  • Baltimore Homicides
  • Oakland crime data
  • Washington DC Homicides
• Government and Economics
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Elections 2008
  • Elections 2012
  • OECD
  • IMF
  • Worldbank
  • FAO
  • Eurostat
  • Data.gov
  • UN data
  • Data.gov.uk
  • US Census Bureau
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
  • European Public Data Portal
• Earthquakes, Fires, and Climate
  • USGS earthquake data
  • New Zealand
  • Christchurch earthquake
  • Twitter Earthquake Detector
  • Global Fire Data
  • Climate Data Library
  • KNMI Climate Explorer
• Historical
  • Nightingale Crimea Data
  • Snow Cholera Data; another source
  • Shipping Data 1750-1800

• Sports
  • Every regular-season NFL play since 2002.
  • NHL player data
• ASA Data Expo