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; another source
  • Shipping Data 1750–1800
• Sports
  • Detailed NFL Playby-Play Data
  • NHL player data
• ASA Data Expo

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