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Data Sources

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

• General collections and links
  • Data Sources at Teaching Data Science
  • Our World in Data
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Wild World of Data Repositories
  • Washington Post list of public data
  • New York Times data sources
  • Data from Wikipedia
  • FiveThirtyEight data on GitHub
  • Gapminder Data
  • Data for stories on FiveThirtyEight.
  • Tidy Tuesday Projects.
  • MRAN Data Sources on the Web.
  • USA Facts
• Crime data
  • Baltimore Homicides
  • Washington DC Homicides
• Government and Economics
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Elections 2008
  • Elections 2012
  • Elections 2016
  • OECD
  • IMF
  • World Bank
  • FAO
  • Eurostat
  • Data.gov
  • UN data
  • Data.gov.uk
  • US Census Bureau
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
  • European Public Data Portal
  • FedData package
  • Quality of Government Institute
  • MIT Election Data Science Lab
• Earthquakes, Fires, and Climate
  • USGS earthquake data
  • New Zealand
  • Christchurch earthquake
  • Global Fire Data
  • Climate Data Library
  • KNMI Climate Explorer
• Historical
  • Nightingale Crimea Data
  • Snow Cholera Data; another source
• Sports
  • Detailed NFL Playby-Play Data
  • NHL player data
• ASA Data Expo

There are many resources for obtaining data related to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Here is a small selection:

• Data Sources and Repositories

  • New York Times data on GitHub
  • Johns Hopkins University data on GitHub
  • CDC data on excess deaths; (CSV)
  • COVID-19 data at Our World in Data
  • The COVID Tracking Project; (daily data)
  • COVID-19 data at USA Facts
  • COVID-19 data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

• R packages

  • COVID-19 Data Hub package COVID19
  • cdccovidview package on GitHub
  • covdata package

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