University of Iowa

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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

• General collections and links
  • Rob Gould’s list of data sources
  • Washington Post list of public data
  • New York Times data sources
  • Data from Wikipedia
  • The Guardian Data Sources
  • Best Open Data Releases of 2012
  • FiveThirtyEight data package
  • Date sources from Visualising Data

• Crime data

  • Baltimore Homicides
  • Oakland crime data
  • Washington DC Homicides

• Government and Economics

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Elections 2008
  • Elections 2012
  • Elections 2016
  • OECD
  • IMF
  • Worldbank
  • FAO
  • Eurostat
  • Data.gov
  • UN data
  • Data.gov.uk
  • US Census Bureau
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
  • European Public Data Portal
  • ProPublica Congress API
  • Fuel economy data
  • Refugees
  • Economic Policy Institute and epidata package

• 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
  • Shipping Data 1750–1800

• Sports

  • Every regular-season NFL play since 2002.
  • NHL player data

• ASA Data Expo