University of Iowa
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
STAT:7400
Syllabus
Outline
Notes
Homework
Resources
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
Harvard Dataverse
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 on GitHub
Gapminder Data
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
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
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another source
Shipping Data 1750–1800
Sports
Detailed NFL Playby-Play Data
NHL player data
ASA Data Expo