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Ballots cast.
“Electronic records of actual ballots cast (cast vote records) are available to the public in some jurisdictions,” Shiro Kuriwaki et al. write. “However, they have been released in a variety of formats and have not been independently evaluated.” So the researchers have constructed a standardized dataset representing 40.7 million (anonymous) ballots in the November 2020 general election, spanning 352 counties across 20 states. Each of the 160 million rows corresponds to a voter’s choice in a particular race and indicates the precinct, legislative district, office in question, candidate selected, and candidate’s party. The initial release, which the authors use to analyze ticket-splitting patterns, covers votes for president, Senate, House, governor, and state legislature. [h/t Derek Willis]
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=10404813&version=1.0 https://github.com/kuriwaki/cvr_harvard-mit_scripts https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/PQQ3KV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-ticket_voting https://x.com/shirokuriwaki/status/1816213954194202733
https://thescoop.org/
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false
1,901
2024.07.31
2
Hurricane evacuation orders.
Harsh Anand et al.’s Hurricane Evacuation Order Database “is a comprehensive and standardized database of evacuation orders issued by state and local government officials in response to the hurricanes that impacted the United States between 2014 and 2023.” To build it, the authors combed through government websites, official social media, news reports, and other sources. The database covers 27 storms and several types of announcements: state-of-emergency declarations, mandatory evacuations, voluntary evacuations, and the lifting of those orders. For each announcement, the database indicates the order type, date/time announced, date/time effective, counties affected, and evacuation area.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03100-x https://www.hurrevacorder.info/
null
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-1
Disaster and Flood Data
false
1,902
2024.07.31
3
Scholarship, networked.
OpenAlex, “a free and open catalog of the global research system,” has compiled data on more than 250 million scholarly works — and has linked those works to structured information about their authors, institutions, publishers, funders, topics. The data are available to search online, to download in bulk, and via API. As seen in: Aliakbar Akbaritabar et al.’s “Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020” and Philippe Mongeon et al.’s dataset of scholars’ Twitter/X usernames.
https://openalex.org/ https://docs.openalex.org/ https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/authors https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/institutions https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/publishers https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/funders https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/topics https://docs.openalex.org/download-all-data/openalex-snapshot https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/api-overview https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03655-9 https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/4/2/314/115151/An-open-data-set-of-scholars-on-Twitter https://zenodo.org/records/10905839
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Open Research Datasets
false
1,903
2024.07.31
4
People surveyed since 1979.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ NLSY79 survey has interviewed the same people dozens of times since 1979. It began with a “nationally representative sample of 12,686 young men and women”; more than four decades later, 6,000+ interviewees are still responding to the project’s biennial inquiries. The survey asks about a range of topics, including education, employment, health, dating, marriage, children, attitudes, and substance abuse. Public-use data are available to download and through the agency’s NLS Investigator tool. Related: The agency’s other national longitudinal surveys. [h/t Prashant Bharadwaj et al.]
https://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy79.htm https://www.nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy79/intro-to-the-sample/retention-reasons-noninterview https://www.nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy79/topical-guide https://www.bls.gov/nls/getting-started/accessing-data.htm https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/home https://www.bls.gov/nls/
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Labor and Employment Surveys
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2024.07.31
5
Wait Wait.
Linh Pham considers himself “the unofficial scorekeeper” of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, NPR’s weekly quiz show. Since 2007, he’s been maintaining a structured database that describes Wait Wait’s episodes, venues, hosts, guests, panelists, and more. Pham provides the data via API, and also publishes charts and automated reports, such this list of panelists who won their debut appearances. [h/t Cody Winchester]
https://blog.linh.social/about/ https://waitwait.npr.org/ https://stats.wwdt.me/site-history https://stats.wwdt.me/ https://stats.wwdt.me/shows/ https://stats.wwdt.me/locations/ https://stats.wwdt.me/hosts/ https://stats.wwdt.me/guests/ https://stats.wwdt.me/panelists/ https://api.wwdt.me/v2.0/docs https://graphs.wwdt.me/ https://reports.wwdt.me/ https://reports.wwdt.me/panelists/first-appearance-wins
https://codywinchester.com/
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Data Collections and Analyses
false
1,905
2024.08.07
1
State/local government employment.
Every year, the Census Bureau sends its Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll to all 50 state governments and 90,000+ local governments, requesting employee counts and payroll totals. The survey’s public datasets provide those figures for each government unit, broken down by several dozen “functional categories” (such as “Highways”, “Financial Administration”, and “Hospitals”). As seen in: The Marshall Project’s guide to using the data to examine declines in prison staffing, part of the organization’s new Investigate This! initiative; they’ve also aggregated the raw records into a spreadsheet of annual state totals. [h/t David Eads]
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/apes.html https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/apes/technical-documentation/methodology/annual/2023.html https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/apes/data/datasetstables.html https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/07/25/how-to-investigate-the-trend-of-declining-prison-staff-and-deteriorating-conditions-behind-bars https://www.themarshallproject.org/investigate-this https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/census-labor-data-release
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Labor and Employment Surveys
false
1,906
2024.08.07
2
Railroad incidents.
Since last August, the Federal Railroad Administration has been rolling out a new portal for its safety data. Through it, you can find datasets on incidents and accidents involving railroad equipment, incidents at grade crossings, and reported injuries and illnesses, as well as dashboards and reports on related topics. The grade crossing dataset, for instance, lists 246,000+ incidents since 1975; it indicates each incident’s date, railroad, crossing identifier, nearest station, number of injuries, vehicle and train speeds, and much more. Previously: Blocked rail crossings (DIP 2023.05.10).
https://railroads.dot.gov/ https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/FRA-Safety-Data/dakf-i7zd https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Railroad-Equipment-Accident-Incident-Source-Data-F/aqxq-n5hy/about_data https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Highway-Rail-Grade-Crossing-Accident-Incident-Sour/icqf-xf4w/about_data https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Injury-Illness-Summary-Operational-Source-Data-For/unww-uhxd/about_data https://www.fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings/incidents https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-05-10-edition/
null
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Aviation Safety Data
false
1,907
2024.08.07
3
Ireland’s gender pay gaps.
Ireland’s Gender Pay Gap Information Act requires certain-sized companies to report their differences pay for men versus women. “While plans are in place to create a central portal (similar to that in the UK) to collate this information, such a database does not exist yet,” writes Jennifer Keane, who has built PayGap.ie to fill the void. For each company and year, the project’s database lists the metrics the Act requires — mean and median hourly pay gaps, percentages of men and women paid bonuses, proportion of employees in each pay quartile for each gender, among others — plus a link to the company’s public report.
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/29606-what-is-the-gender-pay-gap-information-act-2021/ http://www.jenniferkeane.ie/ https://paygap.ie/ https://paygap.ie/downloads
null
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Diverse Research Datasets
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1,908
2024.08.07
4
Weather balloons.
When a weather balloon rises into the atmosphere, it carries a radiosonde to record the temperature, pressure, wind speed, humidity, and other measurements. NOAA’s Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive “consists of radiosonde and pilot balloon observations from more than 2,800 globally distributed stations,” some dating back to the early 1900s. SondeHub, meanwhile, tracks hundreds of weather balloons a day in real-time, thanks to a community-run network of 1,400+ receiver stations. You can browse the flight paths and detailed measurements online, and access the data via download and API. [h/t Michael Allen]
https://www.weather.gov/chs/upperair https://www.weather.gov/upperair/factsheet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosonde https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-balloon/integrated-global-radiosonde-archive https://sondehub.org https://github.com/projecthorus/sondehub-infra/wiki https://github.com/projecthorus/sondehub-tracker/wiki/SondeHub-Tracker-User-Guide https://github.com/projecthorus/sondehub-infra/wiki/Amazon-Open-Data https://github.com/projecthorus/sondehub-infra/wiki/API-(Beta)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-allen-60287015b/
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Climate and Weather Datasets
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2024.08.07
5
Art auction sales.
Kangsan Lee et al. have compiled a dataset of “34,200 auction sales records, including images, artists’ attributes, and market information, encompassing 590 living contemporary artists spanning 17 years (1996 to 2012) across 23 countries.” It includes the artist’s name, nationality, and birth year; the artwork’s name, year, medium, and dimensions; the auction date, house, initial estimates, and final sale price; and more. The sales information comes from Blouin, which the researchers “cross-check[ed] with publicly available auction house data at the time, such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60957-z https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Buying_a_Work_of_Art_or_an_Artist_Exploring_the_Impact_of_Visual_and_Social_Features_on_Art_Prices/24746268 https://www.blouinartsalesindex.com/
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Open Data Art Projects
false
1,910
2024.08.14
1
The Freedman’s Bank.
The Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company was chartered by Congress in 1865, toward the end of the Civil War, to provide banking services to formerly enslaved Americans. “Though the bank achieved some early successes, it failed catastrophically in 1874, destroying the savings of a broad swath of newly freed black citizens,” write Malcolm Wardlaw and Virginia Traweek, who have constructed several datasets based on handwritten records preserved by the federal government. One dataset lists 5,000+ transactions from 500+ accounts’ “passbooks”, indicating the account holder, city, transaction type, date, and amount. Another lists 40,000+ accounts’ final balances at the time of the bank’s failure. Read more: Wardlaw and Traweek’s studies analyzing the records.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman%27s_Savings_Bank https://www.malcolmwardlaw.info/ https://www.virginiatraweek.com/ https://freedmansbank.uga.edu/ https://freedmansbank.uga.edu/project/passbooks/ https://freedmansbank.uga.edu/project/dividendrecord/ https://freedmansbank.uga.edu/#publications
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-1
Historical Data Projects
false
1,911
2024.08.14
2
Recreational boating accidents.
In the US, recreational boaters must notify state authorities soon after any incident involving a death, serious injury, disappearance, or substantial damage. The authorities relay those notifications to the Coast Guard, which stores them in its centralized Boating Accident Report Database. The Data Liberation Project (which, customary disclosure, I run) filed a FOIA request for the database and, earlier this week, published the records it received. The data describe 58,000+ boating accidents, 78,000+ vessels, 8,900+ deaths, and 36,000+ injuries from 2009 to 2023, although a few states and territories withheld their incidents from disclosure. Read more: The Data Liberation Project’s introductory documentation.
https://uscgboating.org/recreational-boaters/accident-reporting.php https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsuscgpia-011-boating-accident-report-database-bard https://www.data-liberation-project.org/ https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ https://buttondown.com/data-liberation-project/archive/dlp-dispatch-17/ https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/uscg-boating-accident-report-database/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lk0dnACzcj3Yo6DAjZbGKf_zFYkymor5IDwNxypnZpc/edit
null
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Consumer Safety Reports
false
1,912
2024.08.14
3
Western water rights.
Matthew D. Lisk et al. have compiled and standardized a dataset of water rights records — key documents in the allocation of the scarce resource — in the Western United States. Drawing on raw data collected from 11 states, the harmonized dataset “provides consistent unique identifiers for each spatial unit of water management across the domain, unique identifiers for each water right record, and a consistent categorization scheme that puts each water right record into one of 7 broad use categories.” Those categories: irrigation, domestic, livestock, fish, industrial, environmental, and other. The authors have also published a set of shapefiles outlining each water management area’s boundaries.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03434-6 https://data.msdlive.org/records/dfkx0-hew78 https://data.msdlive.org/records/8y9nq-bdt52 https://data.msdlive.org/records/h79e1-k3h91 https://data.msdlive.org/records/v5ree-qj344
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Water Resources Data
false
1,913
2024.08.14
4
Real-time UK voter registrations.
The UK government’s voter registration statistics dashboard updates hundreds of times per day. It provides downloadable data on the number of online applications in each five-minute interval in the past 24 hours and daily counts broken down by online vs. paper applications, age group, elector type, and nation. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/live_usage https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/applications_breakdown https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/applications_by_age_group https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/applications_by_type https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance/applications_by_nation
https://buttondown.com/puntofisso/archive/569-quantum-of-sollazzo/
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Political Data Datasets
false
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2024.08.14
5
Watching grass grow.
The Jornada Experimental Range, run by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, “is one of the longest serving laboratories focused on rangelands and drylands in the world.” Located north of Las Cruces, N.M., the site has operating since the 1910s. A few years ago, Erica Christensen et al. published a dataset of grass and shrub growth within 122 one-meter-by-one-meter squares on the range from 1915 to 2016, containing roughly 200,000 observations.
https://jornada.nmsu.edu/ https://jornada.nmsu.edu/about https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3530 https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-jrn.210351004.2
null
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-1
Forest and Land Data
false
1,915
2024.08.21
1
H-1B lotteries.
A recent Bloomberg News investigation into the US government’s annual H-1B lottery, a key step in allocating the country’s skilled-worker visas, finds that “thousands of companies got an unfair advantage by helping themselves to extra lottery tickets.” To reach those conclusions, the team “obtained data on all H-1B lottery registrations, selections, and petitions for fiscal years 2021 through 2024 after bringing a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security under the Freedom of Information Act.” They’ve shared the records, which indicate each registration’s employer, as well as the proposed beneficiary’s gender, nationality, and birth year. For registrations that led to visa petitions, the data include additional details, such as the worksite, salary, job title, and beneficiary’s field of study. [h/t Eric Fan]
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-h1b-visa-lottery-system/ https://github.com/BloombergGraphics/2024-h1b-immigration-data
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericfan24_every-year-a-random-drawing-determines-which-activity-7224534067688427520-QyqO/
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Migration and Policy Data
false
1,916
2024.08.21
2
Multinational corporations.
The Multinational Enterprise Information Platform, a collaboration between the OECD and the UN Statistics Division, provides publicly sourced data on the 500 multinational corporations with the largest market capitalization. Its “Global Register” dataset examines the companies’ structure, listing each subsidiary’s name, parent company, address, alternative names, and various unique identifiers. The “Digital Register” dataset lists all known web domains controlled by each company and assessments of those domains’ popularity. The platform’s “Media Monitor” feature, although not downloadable, links to news articles and other webpages mentioning the companies. [h/t Annie Burns-Pieper]
https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/oecd-unsd-multinational-enterprise-information-platform.html https://unstats.un.org/unsd/business-stat/mne-platform/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Statistics_Division https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/the-oecd-unsd-multinational-enterprise-information-platform_b7d90a06-en.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/annieburnspieper_corporatetransparency-opendata-financialcrime-activity-7224812619063324673-0HZZ/
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Data Platforms on Corporations
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2024.08.21
3
California residential water supply.
Marie-Philine Gross et al.’s dataset of residential water demand and supply in California includes the monthly volumes of water produced/sold by 404 of the state’s water suppliers, covering 2013–2021. The researchers extracted, standardized, and cleaned the data from the state’s mandatory annual reports, which collect thousands of data points from each supplier. They also added contextual information, such as climatic data (monthly local precipitation, temperature, and drought severity) and each supplier’s hydrologic region.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03474-y https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/4ec7019fe63944bf87d40d2cdfa0d686/ https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/ear.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_drought_index https://cww.water.ca.gov/regionscale
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2024.08.21
4
UK grantmakers.
The UK Grantmaking initiative “is a unique cross-sector collaboration between” several major organizations in the field. Their downloadable dataset provides information about 12,000+ trusts, foundations, charities, and other grantmakers for financial year 2022-23, based on records from government regulators. The dataset lists each organization’s name, government-assigned ID, location, category, registration date, income, spending totals, net assets, and more. Previously: UK grants via 360Giving (DIP 2018.12.05). [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/ https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/partners/ https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/report/2024/methodology-data/#Full%20data https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/report/2024-06/methodology-data/ https://grantnav.threesixtygiving.org/datasets/ https://www.threesixtygiving.org/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2018-12-05-edition/
https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/569-quantum-of-sollazzo/
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2024.08.21
5
Olympic medalists.
The European Data Journalism Network’s Giorgio Comai has used Wikipedia and Wikidata to create a series of datasets listing the name, birth date, sex, and birthplace of Summer Olympic medalists. Comai has mapped the birthplace coordinates and, for Europe-born medalists, linked them to their NUTS regions. The project focuses on the 2024 and 2020 Summer Olympics but also provides provisional data for other recent iterations. [h/t Federico Caruso]
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/ https://giorgiocomai.eu/ https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/ https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/2024/medalists_map.html https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/statistical-units/territorial-units-statistics https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/2024/ https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/2020/
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/about/
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Sports Data Compilation
false
1,920
2024.09.11
1
Health and nutrition.
Since 1999, CDC has been continuously fielding its National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, interviewing and testing approximately 5,000 people in 15 different counties each year. The survey combines “demographic, socioeconomic, dietary, and health-related questions” with an “examination component” involving “medical, dental, and physiological measurements, as well as laboratory tests administered by highly trained medical personnel.” Its public-access data files provide anonymized, respondent-level records and are currently available for surveys conducted through March 2020. As seen in: Catherine McDonough et al.’s dataset and interactive dashboard “exploring factors associated with prediabetes and diabetes mellitus among youth in the United States.”
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/about_nhanes.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.htm https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/default.aspx https://publichealth.jmir.org/2024/1/e53330 https://zenodo.org/records/10382740 https://rstudio-connect.hpc.mssm.edu/POND/
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Occupational and Workforce Data
false
1,921
2024.09.11
2
Monthly crime trends.
The Real-Time Crime Index, launched last week by a team of crime-data analysts, presents a “sample of reported crime data from hundreds of law enforcement agencies nationwide which mimics national crime trends with as little lag and the most accuracy possible.” Framed as a supplement to the FBI’s slow-to-update official statistics, the project provides monthly and rolling 12-month totals of reported crimes (using the FBI’s UCR Part I offense categories) for the nation, individual cities, and by city population size. You can download the data and see the sources for each of the 300+ local agencies in the national sample. Read more: “The Real-Time Crime Index Shows Declining Crime in 2024,” from project co-leader Jeff Asher’s newsletter.
https://realtimecrimeindex.com/ https://jasher.substack.com/p/the-real-time-crime-index-is-live https://www.ahdatalytics.com/about-us/ https://realtimecrimeindex.com/how-does-this-work/ https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/offense-definitions https://realtimecrimeindex.com/data/ https://ah-datalytics.github.io/rtci/list/list.html https://jasher.substack.com/p/the-real-time-crime-index-shows-declining https://jasher.substack.com/
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Police Accountability Data
false
1,922
2024.09.11
3
Source code.
Software Heritage, a nonprofit initiative collaborating with UNESCO, maintains “the largest public collection of source code in existence”: an archive tracking 20 billion source files and 4 billion code-commits from 317 million projects from a range of public software hosts (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, npm, et cetera). Its Graph Dataset, which provides access to the archive’s content and internal relationships, is available via bulk downloads and APIs. [h/t Derek M. Jones]
https://www.softwareheritage.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230722080603/https://en.unesco.org/softwareheritage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO https://www.softwareheritage.org/faq/ https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ https://github.com/ https://gitlab.com/ https://bitbucket.org/ https://www.npmjs.com/ https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-dataset/graph/index.html#swh-graph-dataset https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ctizzjwytj4sk#overview https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/#endpoint-index
https://shape-of-code.com/2024/06/02/obtaining-source-code-for-training-llms/
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Open Research Datasets
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1,923
2024.09.11
4
Italian tax-to-charity allocations.
Italy’s “five per thousand” program allows taxpayers to allocate 0.5% of their income tax to certain nonprofits, research institutions, and other social-benefit organizations. The country’s Ministry of Economy and Finance has published information about 2022’s beneficiaries, but initially did so only via PDFs. Earlier this year, the Liberiamoli tutti! initiative converted those PDFs into structured data that list each recipient organization’s name, tax ID, category, region, province, and municipality, number of taxpayers choosing it, and amount of money allocated. The ministry has since added structured files of its own.
https://www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/portale/elenco-complessivo-degli-enti-ammessi-in-una-o-piu-categorie-di-beneficiari https://web.archive.org/web/20240605153105/https://www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/portale/elenco-complessivo-degli-enti-ammessi-in-una-o-piu-categorie-di-beneficiari https://datibenecomune.substack.com/p/liberiamoli-tutti-numero-4 https://datibenecomune.substack.com/p/il-numero-zero https://github.com/ondata/liberiamoli-tutti/tree/main/cinque_per_mille/dati
null
0.228399
-0.276533
1,511
5,966
62
-1
Government Financial Data
false
1,924
2024.09.11
5
Snakes.
SnakeDB — created by Sascha Steinhoff “after [he] accidentally stepped into a snake in South-East Asia” — provides downloadable data on the maximum size, fang position, pupil shape, mode of reproduction, and toxicity of thousands of species, drawn from a broad range of sources. As seen in: Oleksandra Oskyrko et al.’s ReptTraits database.
https://snakedb.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sascha-steinhoff/ https://snakedb.org/pages/about-snakedb.php https://snakedb.org/pages/size-max.php https://snakedb.org/pages/dentition-species.php https://snakedb.org/pages/pupil-species.php https://snakedb.org/pages/reproduction-species.php https://snakedb.org/pages/ld50.php https://snakedb.org/pages/ref-library.php https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03079-5 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/ReptTraits_a_comprehensive_database_of_ecological_traits_in_reptiles/24572683
null
-0.161075
0.934034
3,930
15,797
3
3
Biodiversity Databases and Datasets
false
1,925
2024.09.18
1
Landslides.
The US Geological Survey has released a new map of landslide susceptibility, indicating the specific areas of the country (at 90-meter resolution) that are at greatest risk of slides. The map and county-level metrics are also available as structured data. To calculate the susceptibilities, Benjamin B. Mirus et al. combined data from the agency’s 3D Elevation Program and a national landslide inventory that they updated. The latter provides the location (as a single point or more detailed boundary), timing, number of fatalities, and confidence level for 610,000+ landslides (or evidence of them) in the US since the early 1900s. The researchers also consulted data from state landslide inventories published by Idaho, Maine, North Dakota, and West Virginia.
https://www.usgs.gov/tools/us-landslide-inventory-and-susceptibility-map https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ae120962f459434b8c904b456c82669d https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/65ccea5bd34ef4b119cb3bac https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024AV001214 https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/61f326dfd34e622189b93308 https://www.idahogeology.org/product/DD-10 https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/hazards/landslides/inland/index.shtml https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/landslides/ https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2021AM/webprogram/Paper370833.html https://wvu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=cb01c47cfa884309b4f38dcd7542f805
null
-0.723493
0.772652
3,592
14,481
29
29
Disaster and Flood Data
false
1,926
2024.09.18
2
Long-run economic growth.
The Maddison Project Database, based on the work of Angus Maddison (1926-2010), “provides information on comparative economic growth and income levels over the very long run.” Its latest release includes historical per-capita GDP estimates for 169 countries, in many cases spanning several centuries. In all, the database contains 21,000+ such estimates and another 17,000+ population estimates, drawn from hundreds of sources. Previously: The Penn World Table (DIP 2016.08.17) — “income, output, input and productivity” estimates now “covering 183 countries between 1950 and 2019” — and the Long-Term Productivity Database (DIP 2020.04.08).
https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joes.12618 https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/original-maddison https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2023 https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-08-17-edition/ http://longtermproductivity.com/about.html https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-04-08-edition/
null
0.023291
0.052703
2,144
8,641
60
60
International Economic Databases
false
1,927
2024.09.18
3
Alcohol consumption.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s latest consumption surveillance report, published earlier this year, uses sales and shipment data to measure annual alcohol intake by beverage type (beer, wine, spirits) and state. The report and corresponding data file estimate the likely total and per-capita volumes (of the beverages and of their ethanol content) consumed each year from the 1970s through 2022. Related: Additional surveillance reports and the CDC’s list of surveys gathering data on alcohol use. [h/t Millie Giles]
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/ https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance-reports/surveillance121 https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/sites/default/files/pcyr1970-2022.txt https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance-reports https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/about-data/surveillance-surveys/index.html
https://sherwood.news/business/pernod-ricard-selling-wine-business-americans-drinking-more-spirits/
-0.310672
-0.35535
1,302
5,292
66
-1
Occupational and Workforce Data
false
1,928
2024.09.18
4
Art words.
The Getty Vocabularies, published by the Getty Research Institute, “contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, art conservation, and bibliographic materials.” They provide definitions, relationships, translations, and disambiguations for a broad range of terms and entities. Their Art & Architecture Thesaurus, for example, describes 57,000+ generic concepts (e.g., lithography), while others focus on artist names, cultural objects, and geographies. The records are available several ways, including bulk downloads. [h/t Lynn Cherny]
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/index.html https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/faq.html https://www.getty.edu/research/ https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/index.html https://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=lithography&logic=AND&note=&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300053271 https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/cona/index.html https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/obtain/index.html https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/obtain/download.html
https://pinboard.in/u:arnicas
0.291178
0.611732
3,305
13,266
79
79
Open Data Art Projects
false
1,929
2024.09.18
5
Messi’s moves.
StatsBomb, a soccer/football-data company, publishes a subset of its detailed, in-play data for free. Among the offerings: Every touch, pass, dribble, and shot from Lionel Messi’s 17 seasons playing for Barcelona in La Liga. Related: Carlos Menezes’s tool for visualizing StatsBomb event data files. Read more: Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution, by Ryan O’Hanlon. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
https://statsbomb.com/ https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data https://statsbomb.com/what-we-do/hub/free-data/ https://statsbomb.com/news/statsbomb-release-free-messi-data-all-seasons-from-2004-05-2020-21-now-available/ https://www.carlos-menezes.com/ https://statsbomb-3d-viz.vercel.app/ https://www.ryanohanlon.com/net-gains-out-october-18 https://www.ryanohanlon.com/bio-contact
https://buttondown.com/puntofisso/archive/573-quantum-of-sollazzo/
0.272962
0.497097
3,048
12,241
42
42
Sports Data Collections
false
1,930
2024.09.25
1
NYC evictions.
New York City’s government publishes a dataset listing evictions “pending, scheduled and executed” since 2017, updated daily. The data are “compiled from the majority of New York City Marshals,” who are mayor-appointed officers tasked with enforcing civil court cases. Each of the 97,000+ rows indicates the eviction court case number, address, property type, eviction type, execution date, and marshal. Related: The city also publishes data on marshals’ annual eviction revenues. Also related: nycdb points to, and helps download, a range of NYC housing–related datasets. As seen in: “Spiking Evictions Renew Calls to Reform NYC Marshals System,” by Patrick Spauster for City Limits.
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Evictions/6z8x-wfk4/about_data https://www.nyc.gov/site/doi/offices/nyc-marshals.page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Marshal https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/City-Marshals-Revenue/7ewi-9cdf/about_data https://github.com/nycdb/nycdb https://citylimits.org/2024/08/26/spiking-evictions-renew-calls-to-reform-nyc-marshals-system/ https://patrickspauster.com/
null
-0.363105
0.026817
2,068
8,360
48
48
New York City Housing Data
false
1,931
2024.09.25
2
Open-source weather APIs.
Open-Meteo, an open-source project built on data from national weather services, offers a range of weather and climate APIs that are free for non-commercial use. They include weather forecasts (temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind speed, etc.), daily historical weather since 1940, climate change model outputs, marine wave forecasts, air quality assessments, and more. The project also provides bulk downloads of the underlying data and self-hosting instructions. As seen in: Jan Kühn’s Historical Meteo Graphs. [h/t Giuseppe Sollazzo]
https://open-meteo.com/ https://github.com/open-meteo/open-meteo https://open-meteo.com/en/about https://open-meteo.com/en/features#available-apis https://open-meteo.com/en/pricing https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/ https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/historical-weather-api https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/climate-api https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/marine-weather-api https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/air-quality-api https://github.com/open-meteo/open-data https://github.com/open-meteo/open-meteo/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md https://yotka.org/ https://yotka.org/meteo-hist
https://buttondown.email/puntofisso/archive/532-quantum-of-sollazzo/
-0.725328
0.89113
3,848
15,505
28
28
Climate and Weather Datasets
false
1,932
2024.09.25
3
Tree canopies.
The High Resolution Canopy Height Maps dataset, released in April by Meta and the World Resources Institute, estimates “tree canopy height at a 1-meter resolution, allowing the detection of single trees at a global scale.” It is available to explore online and download, and was constructed by applying machine learning techniques to satellite imagery and LiDAR data. The estimates use satellite imagery mostly from 2018–2020, and “when newer imagery is available, the publicly shared model can be used to detect change in canopy heights.” [h/t Ben Hur Pintor]
https://github.com/facebookresearch/HighResCanopyHeight https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/04/22/using-artificial-intelligence-to-map-the-earths-forests/ https://www.wri.org/about https://meta-forest-monitoring-okw37.projects.earthengine.app/view/canopyheight https://registry.opendata.aws/dataforgood-fb-forests/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003442572300439X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benhur07b_bnhr-meta-data-ugcPost-7189501844841291777-7cGt
-0.479253
0.63206
3,344
13,345
20
20
Forest and Land Data
false
1,933
2024.09.25
4
Canadian mines.
Economist Clara Dallaire-Fortier has compiled a dataset of “mine-level estimates for the Canadian mining industry with a persistent annual coverage between 1950 and 2022,” based partly on historical government maps. For each of the 947 mines identified, the dataset indicates its name, location, mining companies, dates open/closed, and commodities produced. Previously: Australian mine production, 1799–2021 (DIP 2023.07.12).
https://sites.google.com/view/claradallaire-fortier/home https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03116-3 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Principal_Productive_Mines_of_Canada/23740071 https://research-repository.rmit.edu.au/articles/dataset/A_Comprehensive_Dataset_for_Australian_Mine_Production_1799_to_2021/22724081/2 https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-07-12-edition/
null
-0.500797
0.396973
2,831
11,423
37
-1
Geospatial Datasets and Analysis
false
1,934
2024.09.25
5
James Beard honorees.
Cody Winchester has constructed a dataset of James Beard Foundation Award semifinalists, nominees, and winners since 1991, sourced from the foundation’s award-search page. For each honoree, the dataset provides their name, year, category, subcategory, and award status, plus additional category-specific variables (such as publisher for the book awards, and location for restaurant and chef awards).
https://codywinchester.com/ https://github.com/cjwinchester/james-beard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beard_Foundation_Award https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search
null
0.610487
0.605458
3,315
13,159
76
-1
Data Collections and Analyses
false
1,935
2024.10.09
1
Disability claims processing.
The Social Security Administration publishes monthly and annual datasets tracking each state agency’s progress processing disability claims. The datasets, which go back to October 2000, count the number of initial claims received, pending, determined, and approved by each agency during each period, as well as similar breakdowns for denial reconsiderations and continuing disability reviews. The administration’s extensive catalog of public datasets also includes several that measure the waiting involved, such as monthly average initial claim processing times, average wait times for reconsiderations, and wait times for administrative hearings. As seen in: “Wait times for Social Security disability benefit decisions reach new high” (USAFacts).
https://www.ssa.gov/disability/data/ssa-sa-mowl.htm https://www.ssa.gov/disability/data/ssa-sa-fywl.htm https://www.ssa.gov/disability/determination.htm https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-cdrs-ussi.htm https://www.ssa.gov/open/data/ https://www.ssa.gov/open/data/Combined-Disability-Processing-Time.html https://www.ssa.gov/open/data/disability_reconsideration_average_processing_time.html https://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/01_NetStat_Report.html https://usafacts.org/data-projects/disability-benefit-wait-time
null
-0.307109
-0.39733
1,238
4,908
66
-1
Occupational and Workforce Data
false
1,936
2024.10.09
2
Evapotranspiration.
With the goal of “filling the biggest data gap in water management,” the OpenET project uses satellite imagery, weather data, and other sources to estimate the volume of evapotranspiration — “the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere” — at a 30-meter resolution across 17 states in the western US. The results are available to explore via an online map of annual cumulative evapotranspiration (2019–2024), as monthly datasets via Earth Engine, and through an API. [h/t Mira Rojanasakul]
https://etdata.org/ https://etdata.org/methodologies/ https://etdata.org/faq/ https://explore.etdata.org/ https://openet.gitbook.io/docs/additional-resources/data-archives https://openet.gitbook.io/docs
https://schedules.ire.org/nicar-2024/index.html#1050
-0.662904
0.71205
3,466
13,973
25
25
Water Resources Data
false
1,937
2024.10.09
3
Fuel forecasts.
The US Energy Information Administration’s monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook provides forecasts and recent trends of energy supply, consumption, prices, and inventory. It covers a range of commodities and electricity sources, such as crude oil, coal, natural gas, gasoline, renewables, and nuclear. Starting with its September 2024 report, the outlooks have also begun to include more detailed data on biofuels, available in Table 4d of its structured datasets.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/ https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63384 https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data/browser/#/?v=11 https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data.php
null
-0.935599
0.399117
2,818
11,396
22
22
Energy Data Resources
false
1,938
2024.10.09
4
Trash balloons.
Since May of this year, North Korea has floated thousands of trash-carrying balloons into South Korea. A team from the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Beyond Parallel project has mapped 160+ known balloon landing locations, based on public sources. The map’s downloadable data indicates the each landing’s date, associated “wave,” coordinates, location name, and province. As seen in: Reuters’ visually immersive article on the topic. [h/t Soph Warnes]
https://www.csis.org/ https://beyondparallel.csis.org/about/ https://beyondparallel.csis.org/map-of-north-koreas-garbage-filled-balloons/ https://www.reuters.com/graphics/NORTHKOREA-SOUTHKOREA/TRASH/klvynygmjpg/
https://fairwarning.substack.com/p/vienna-where-worlds-collided
0.40967
-0.525707
1,005
3,930
12
12
Conflict Data and Analysis
false
1,939
2024.10.09
5
Anglo-Saxons on record.
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England project “aims to provide structured information relating to all the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the late eleventh century.” Built over (relatively less) time by several teams at UK universities, PASE is “based on a systematic examination of the available written sources for the period, including chronicles, saints’ Lives, charters, libri vitae, inscriptions, Domesday Book and coins.” The Domesday-focused portion of the project features a downloadable table of 17,000+ landholders from that manuscript, listing their name (where known), gender, description, value of holdings, and linking to details about those holdings. [h/t Derek M. Jones]
https://pase.ac.uk/ https://pase.ac.uk/about/introduction/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book https://pase.ac.uk/domesday/
http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
0.080891
0.351239
2,786
11,077
47
-1
Historical Data Datasets
false
1,940
2024.10.23
1
SBA disaster loans.
“Following a declared disaster,” the US Small Business Administration offers “disaster assistance in the form of low-interest, long-term disaster loans for damages not covered by insurance or other recoveries to businesses of all sizes, private nonprofit organizations, as well as homeowners and renters.” The SBA publishes anonymized data about each such loan in fiscal years 2000 to 2022, drawn directly from its Disaster Credit Management System. The records provide the relevant disaster declaration IDs, property type, ZIP code, city, county, state, verified losses (in real estate and in “content”), and approved loan amounts. Previously: SBA datasets the Paycheck Protection Program (DIP 2020.07.08) and the administration’s 7(a) and 504 loan programs (DIP 2023.01.11). [h/t Benjamin L. Collier et al.]
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/disaster-assistance https://data.sba.gov/dataset/disaster-loan-data https://www.sba.gov/document/report-disaster-credit-management-system-20 https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program/ppp-data https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2020-07-08-edition/ https://data.sba.gov/dataset/7-a-504-foia https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-01-11-edition/
https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2024/2024-16
0.182477
-0.191644
1,637
6,603
62
62
Government Financial Data
false
1,941
2024.10.23
2
US buildings.
“Leveraging high performance computing, remote sensing, geographic data science, machine learning, and computer vision,” Hsiuhan Lexie Yang et al., researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have “partnered with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to build a baseline structure inventory covering the US and its territories to support disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.” The dataset and interactive map trace the outlines of 125 million buildings and, in many cases, contain the building’s address, occupancy class, usage type, height, elevation, and other attributes. They also provide information about the imagery used to identify the structure.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03219-x https://gis-fema.hub.arcgis.com/pages/usa-structures https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03219-x/tables/2
null
-0.416439
0.424137
2,898
11,685
37
-1
Geospatial Datasets and Analysis
false
1,942
2024.10.23
3
The cost of sustenance.
The UN World Food Programme’s Fill the Nutrient Gap initiative conducted a series of analyses in 2015 through 2021 to “calculate the costs of energy-sufficient and nutrient-adequate diets and the percentage of households that were unable to afford each diet.” In a recent paper, Zuzanna Turowska et al. describe the analyses’ methodology and share their results as a dataset. For each of the 37 countries analyzed, the dataset contains one row per geographic unit, timeframe, and type of household member; each row provides the cost and unaffordability estimates for that category.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Programme https://www.wfp.org/publications/fill-nutrient-gap https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000609
null
-0.197898
0.394153
2,841
11,443
36
36
Agricultural Data and Analysis
false
1,943
2024.10.23
4
German election results.
GERDA, a new project by Vincent Heddesheimer et al., “provides a comprehensive dataset of local, state, and federal election results in Germany.” The results go back to 1953 for federal elections, to 1990 for local elections, and to 1996 for state elections. The files indicate each geographic unit’s number of eligible voters, actual voters, valid votes, invalid votes, and vote shares by party. The authors have also created “geographically harmonized datasets that account for changes in municipal boundaries and mail-in voting districts.”
http://www.german-elections.com/ https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/q28ex
null
0.942012
-0.329656
1,406
5,500
31
31
Political Data Datasets
false
1,944
2024.10.23
5
Synths.
Iftah Gabbai is building a dataset of “hardware synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines” produced since 1896, “compiled through a mix of automated and manual processes, combined with extensive research.” For each of the 2,300+ devices identified, the dataset indicates its name, brand, release year, years in production, device type (synth, sampler, et cetera), form factor, architecture, synth engine used, number of keys, key type, oscillator count, and more. Learn more: Gabbai’s introductory video. [h/t Stefan Bohacek]
https://linktr.ee/iftah.gabbai https://github.com/iftah-og/Synthesizers-1896-2024 https://github.com/iftah-og/Synthesizers-1896-2024/blob/main/Synths_1896_2024_EDA.ipynb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omj405hkOt0
https://stefanbohacek.com/
0.404975
0.802163
3,692
14,809
78
78
Music and Performance Databases
false
1,945
2024.11.13
1
Tariffs.
The United States International Trade Commission maintains annual datasets of US import tariffs going back to 1997. The datasets include each impacted product’s eight-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule code, a brief description, the duty rate, rate type, effective and ending dates, and more. The commission also publishes a tariff search tool and data on upcoming tariff rates. More globally, the World Trade Organization provides tools to query and download data about its members’ tariffs, as well as databases of regional trade agreements and preferential trade agreements. Previously: Trade policy intervention data from Global Trade Alert (DIP 2022.01.19).
https://www.usitc.gov/ https://dataweb.usitc.gov/tariff/annual https://hts.usitc.gov/ https://dataweb.usitc.gov/assets/content/annual-tariffs/td-fields.pdf https://dataweb.usitc.gov/tariff/database https://dataweb.usitc.gov/tariff/rates-future https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tariffs_e/tariff_data_e.htm https://rtais.wto.org/UI/PublicMaintainRTAHome.aspx https://ptadb.wto.org/ https://www.globaltradealert.org/data_extraction https://www.globaltradealert.org/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-01-19-edition/
null
0.325724
-0.141969
1,770
6,996
61
61
Government Financial Datasets
false
1,946
2024.11.13
2
Climate summit attendees.
Daria Blinova et al. have built a dataset of 310,000+ attendees of United Nations climate summits. The data, largely compiled from PDFs of attendance rosters, include each attendee’s year and meeting attended, name, job title, affiliation, delegation, delegation type (party, observer state, intergovernmental organization, NGO), gender, and more. In all, the attendees span 27,000+ delegations across three decades of COP and predecessor summits. Read more: “This Is 29 Years of International Climate Summits, Visualized,” by The New York Times’ Mira Rojanasakul.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03978-7 https://github.com/bagozzib/UNFCCC-Attendance-Data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/13/climate/cop-climate-summit-attendance.html https://www.nytimes.com/by/mira-rojanasakul
null
0.580139
-0.285534
1,458
5,861
27
-1
Government Transparency Datasets
false
1,947
2024.11.13
3
Substance abuse treatment.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Treatment Episode Data Set records admissions to, and discharges from, substance abuse centers in the US. The public-use datasets, which span several decades, are based on records collected by state agencies. They include each patient’s demographic information, state, metro/micro area, referral source, treatment type, substances used, frequency of use, age at first use, number of previous treatment episodes, among other details. Related: The administration’s National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, “an annual census of treatment facilities.” [h/t Conor Lennon et al.]
https://www.samhsa.gov/ https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/teds-treatment-episode-data-set https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/teds/datafiles https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/n-ssats-national-survey-substance-abuse-treatment-services
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33077
-0.40844
-0.499089
1,042
4,133
45
45
Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
1,948
2024.11.13
4
Waves.
The Coastal Data Information Program, launched in the 1970s by a research group at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, “is an extensive network for monitoring waves and beaches along the coastlines of the United States.” The program provides a map of its stations, a table of recent observations, a catalog of real-time and historical wave measurements, and an extreme wave tracker. As seen in: Dion Häfner et al.’s “FOWD: A Free Ocean Wave Dataset for Data Mining and Machine Learning.”
https://cdip.ucsd.edu/ https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/about/ https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/deployment/station_view/ https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/stn_table/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uz_xIAVD2M6WeqQQ_x7ycoM3iKENO38S4Bmn6SasHtY/edit https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/extreme/ https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/38/7/JTECH-D-20-0185.1.xml
null
-0.587341
0.649626
3,341
13,466
26
26
Environmental Data Collection
false
1,949
2024.11.13
5
NYC marathon finishers.
New York Road Runners publishes a searchable database of all races it has organized since 1970 — the year of NYC’s first marathon — and all finishers of those races. Data Is Plural reader Joe Hovde has scraped the results of the 2024 marathon into a downloadable spreadsheet. Each row represents one of the 55,000+ finishers and provides their name, bib number, age, gender, city, state, country, time ran, and place finished. Read more: “Marcelo & Karolina, the Fastest Names in the NYC Marathon,” by Hovde.
https://www.nyrr.org/ https://results.nyrr.org/races https://www.nyrr.org/tcsnycmarathon/getinspired/marathonhistory https://www.residualthoughts.com/about/ https://results.nyrr.org/event/M2024/finishers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O_zxndHKhKMIfJ9e7_M5L7b4F3S__d1nVnUS8iZn8yE/edit https://residualthoughts.substack.com/p/marcelo-and-karolina-the-fastest
null
0.426629
0.41556
2,925
11,611
73
73
Sports Data Compilation
false
1,950
2024.12.04
1
100 million places.
Foursquare has released an open dataset describing more than 100 million points of interest across 200+ countries. For each place, the dataset includes its name, address, latitude/longitude, date entered, date updated, date marked closed, telephone number, website, email address, and relevant categories. Among the many possible labels: casino, comedy club, 300+ kinds of restaurants (e.g., deli, diner, Korean BBQ, “mac and cheese joint”), and 100+ types of retailers (e.g., candy store, used car dealership, shopping mall). Learn more: Some initial explorations from Tim Wallace and from Simon Willison. Previously: The Overture Maps Foundation’s datasets (DIP 2023.08.09), including information about 53 million places. [h/t Derek M. Jones + Sharon Machlis + Giuseppe Sollazzo]
https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-source-places-a-new-foundational-dataset-for-the-geospatial-community/ https://opensource.foursquare.com/os-places/ https://docs.foursquare.com/data-products/docs/categories https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPost-7265867829252386817-iAMl/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source-places/ https://overturemaps.org/ https://overturemaps.org/download/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-08-09-edition/ https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/places/
http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/ https://masto.machlis.com/@smach https://puntofisso.net/
-0.105666
0.378739
2,844
11,321
43
43
Geolocation and Dataset Projects
false
1,951
2024.12.04
2
Education policies around the world.
Adrián del Río et al. “introduce a global dataset on education policies and systems across modern history,” with “measures on compulsory education, ideological guidance and content of education, governmental intervention and level of education centralization, and teacher training.” The dataset covers 157 countries annually from 1789 to 2020. The questions answered by the team’s evaluators include, for example, “How many years of schooling are required by compulsory education?”, “Are there any national laws in place that ban specific subjects or topics in school?”, and “Which entities operate secondary schools?”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00104140241252075 https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/MNM5Q5
null
0.118842
-0.29335
1,443
5,831
69
69
Education Data and Analysis
false
1,952
2024.12.04
3
China leaders’ foreign visits.
Yu Wang and Randall W. Stone’s China Visits dataset records 400+ visits by China’s presidents and premiers to 100+ countries between 1998 and early 2020. To compile it, the authors consulted official reports, web search results, and relevant Wikipedia pages. For each visit, the dataset indicates its starting and ending date, Chinese leader, foreign country, broader meeting (e.g., those of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and source URL.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-022-09459-z https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-022-09459-z#Sec23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation
null
0.456959
-0.253632
1,518
6,109
27
-1
Government Transparency Datasets
false
1,953
2024.12.04
4
Nanosatellites.
Space systems engineer Erik Kulu’s Nanosats Database tracks 4,000+ nanosatellites that have been launched into space, are planned for future launch, or have had their launches cancelled. The data for each satellite include its mission name and description, launching organization and country, mass/unit size, launch date, and status. Additional tables provide lists of CubeSat companies, launch providers, costs, and more. [h/t Ahmad Assem]
https://erikkulu.com/ https://www.nanosats.eu/ https://www.nanosats.eu/cubesat https://www.nanosats.eu/database https://www.nanosats.eu/companies https://www.nanosats.eu/tables#launch-providers https://www.nanosats.eu/tables#costs
https://www.miun.se/Personal/a/ahmadassem/
-0.540528
0.990081
4,046
16,285
33
33
Space Exploration Datasets
false
1,954
2024.12.04
5
Pixar films.
Software engineer Eric Leung built and maintains a dataset and R package providing structured information about every Pixar film — from 1995’s Toy Story to 2024’s Inside Out 2. It lists each film’s creators (storywriters, screenwriters, directors, composers, and producers), budget, box-office earnings, aggregate critic ratings, Oscar nominations and wins, and more. [h/t Josh Laurito]
https://erictleung.com/ https://github.com/erictleung/pixarfilms https://erictleung.com/pixarfilms/ https://erictleung.com/pixarfilms/reference/index.html
https://nycdata.substack.com/p/nyc-data-331-new-mta-data-buy-vs
0.66087
0.705238
3,509
14,058
67
67
Film Data and Analysis
false
1,955
2024.12.11
1
Quits and layoffs.
Minneapolis Fed–affiliated economists Kathrin Ellieroth and Amanda Michaud have constructed a new dataset on monthly quits and layoffs. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) microdata going back to 1978, the dataset estimates the proportions of employees who, after quitting or being laid off, transition to unemployment versus exiting the labor market. In a recent article, Ellieroth and Michaud note that “CPS data offer a perspective not seen in the most-often-used series on quits and layoffs, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS),” featured in DIP 2022.09.21. “Whereas the JOLTS tracks what happens to a job, the CPS tracks what happens to people.” Analyzing it, they found “that increases in unemployment are typically not due to increases in layoffs; rather, they happen because laid-off workers are less likely to quickly find a new job, more likely to stay in the labor force, and thus more likely to join a growing pool of unemployed people hunting for work.” [h/t Alex Albright]
https://sites.google.com/site/kathrinellieroth https://ammichau.github.io/ https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/institute-working-papers/quits-layoffs-and-labor-supply https://sites.google.com/qlmonthly.com/home https://www.bls.gov/cps/ https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2024/where-is-the-us-labor-market-heading-interpreting-the-mixed-signals https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2022-09-21-edition/
https://www.albrightalex.com/
-0.085152
-0.268583
1,501
5,946
64
64
Diverse Research Datasets
false
1,956
2024.12.11
2
Food safety alerts.
Data journalist Adrian Nesta is building a automated pipeline to collect and standardize data on food safety recalls and alerts from two US federal agencies — the FDA and the USDA. For each alert, the standardized dataset indicates the notice’s title, ID, URL, and time posted, as well as the product description, company name, brand name, recall type, recall reason, impacted states, risk level, and more.
https://justanesta.com/ https://github.com/anesta95/food_safety_recalls https://github.com/anesta95/food_safety_recalls?tab=readme-ov-file#data-details https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls https://github.com/anesta95/food_safety_recalls/blob/main/clean_data/food_safety_recalls.json https://github.com/anesta95/food_safety_recalls?tab=readme-ov-file#data-dictionary
null
-0.579884
-0.294253
1,421
5,786
35
-1
Consumer Safety Reports
false
1,957
2024.12.11
3
Crop rotations.
The Department of Agriculture’s Crop Sequence Boundaries initiative algorithmically analyzes satellite imagery to create “estimates of field boundaries, crop acreage, and crop rotations across the contiguous United States.” The results are available via an interactive map and downloads for eight-year time frames. The underlying code is open-source and can be used to generate datasets for custom time frames. Previously: The USDA’s CropScape tool and Cropland Data Layer (DIP 2019.03.06). [h/t Forest Gregg]
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Crop-Sequence-Boundaries/ https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Crop-Sequence-Boundaries/Viewer/index.php https://github.com/USDA-REE-NASS/crop-sequence-boundaries https://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/ https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/SARS1a.php https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2019-03-06-edition/
https://bsky.app/profile/bunkum.us
-0.381424
0.618762
3,283
13,223
20
20
Forest and Land Data
false
1,958
2024.12.11
4
Serbian political party funds.
The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia’s Party Funds database “tracks all reported incomes and expenses of 40 political parties and citizens’ groups in Serbia over the past nine years.” The records, based on financial disclosure reports, can be browsed online, searched, and downloaded. They indicate revenues, overhead costs, ad spending, salary expenditures, and more. The data specifies each line item’s year, amount, purpose, and other context-dependent details. [h/t Teodora Ćurčić]
https://www.cins.rs/en/ https://www.cins.rs/en/party-funds-database-sns-the-financially-strongest-political-party-in-serbia/ https://www.cins.rs/baze-podataka/stranacka-kasa-2024/ https://www.cins.rs/baze-podataka/stranacka-kasa-2024/pretrazi-bazu/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/teodora-%C4%87ur%C4%8Di%C4%87-27a93884/
0.742138
-0.30617
1,463
5,743
31
31
Political Data Datasets
false
1,959
2024.12.11
5
A long-running ultramarathon.
The Comrades Marathon, first run in 1921, is considered “the oldest and largest ultramarathon in the world.” The route stretches 80+ kilometers between Durban and Pietermaritzburg, flipping annually between “up” and “down” directions. In 2019, Kyle Stratton scraped the official website to construct a dataset of all 445,000+ finishers (year, name, country, club, category, finishing time, medal received) through that year. Related: The Association of Road Racing Statisticians’ lists of longest-running marathons and ultramarathons, last updated in 2017. As seen in: Antony Unwin’s Getting (more out of) Graphics.
https://www.comrades.com/ https://www.comrades.com/about/comrades-museum https://www.kaggle.com/suugaku https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/suugaku/comrades-marathon-results https://arrs.run/ https://arrs.run/LongRunM.htm https://arrs.run/LongRunUM.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Unwin https://bookdown.org/aatcosada/GmooG-book2/secComM.html
null
0.393354
0.435349
2,924
11,737
73
73
Sports Data Compilation
false
1,960
2025.01.08
1
Overdose demographics.
Since mid-2024, reporters at the Baltimore Banner have been publishing a series examining the city’s overdose crisis — reporting supported by The New York Times’ Local Investigations Fellowship and Stanford’s Big Local News. Last month the team partnered with The Upshot and a range of local news organizations to examine a stark phenomenon: In dozens of US counties, “Black men born between 1951 and 1970 have died of overdose at exceptionally high rates for decades.” They’ve published the supporting data, which list overdose death counts and rates by year, county, race/ethnicity, sex, and age group. The data, based on restricted-use records from the CDC, cover the years 1989 to 2022 for “the 408 U.S. counties that had 200 or more overdose deaths between 2018 and 2022”. [h/t Cheryl Phillips + Kimi Yoshino]
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/specials/overdose-crisis/ https://www.nytco.com/careers/local-investigations-fellowship/ https://biglocalnews.org/content/about/ https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/banner-pr/new-york-times-big-local-news-opioid-crisis-partnership-2ONBVC5UHVATDAW6GKG5V55WZE/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/upshot/black-men-overdose-deaths.html https://biglocalnews.org/content/news/2024/12/20/overdose-cohorts.html https://purl.stanford.edu/cx567kr8730 https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cx567kr8730/Senior_Overdoses_Project_README.pdf
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-local-journalism-collaboration-tells-story-black-men-phillips-ryroc/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kimi-yoshino-241164_the-banner-is-sharing-data-about-us-overdoses-activity-7277040654952611840-8RS4/
-0.061102
-0.836801
350
1,340
15
-1
Mortality Data and Analysis
false
1,961
2025.01.08
2
Opioid settlement spending.
KFF Health News, working with researchers at Johns Hopkins and Shatterproof, has published “a first-of-its kind database” tracking how states and local governments are using the billions of dollars received via opioid settlements in recent years. The database, drawing from “dozens of interviews, thousands of pages of documents, an array of public records requests, and outreach to all 50 states,” represents “the most comprehensive resource to date tracking some of the largest public health settlements in American history.” For each state, it indicates the total funds received in 2022-23, amount committed or spent in various categories (e.g., prevention, treatment, recovery), amount set aside, and amount “untrackable via public reports.” It also catalogs 7,000+ specific spending decisions: funder, destination, purpose, and amount. Previously: Opioid settlement payouts (DIP 2024.04.10). [h/t Aneri Pattani]
https://opioidprinciples.jhsph.edu/ http://www.shatterproof.org/ https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlement-funds-detailed-database-state-county-city-spending/ https://kffhealthnews.org/download-the-data-opioid-settlement-expenditures/ https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/opioid-settlement-expenditures-methodology-121124.pdf https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlement-payouts-state-county-city-tracker/ https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2024-04-10-edition/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aneri-pattani-4aab328a_how-are-states-spending-opioid-settlement-activity-7274419712388657152-JwWa
-0.462476
-0.540714
913
3,746
45
45
Healthcare Data and Transparency
false
1,962
2025.01.08
3
AI governance documents.
The Emerging Technology Observatory’s AGORA “is a living collection of AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the United States and around the world.” The dataset, available to download and explore online, provides the full text, metadata (e.g., jurisdiction, title, relevant dates), summaries, and thematic tags for 600+ documents. The project currently “skews toward U.S. law and policy” but is aiming “to broaden coverage of U.S. state documents […] and to broaden coverage of Chinese central government documents and major corporate commitments.”
https://eto.tech/ https://eto.tech/dataset-docs/agora-dataset/ https://zenodo.org/records/14499135 https://agora.eto.tech/ https://eto.tech/dataset-docs/agora-dataset/#scope
null
0.384918
-0.077382
1,900
7,640
61
-1
Government Financial Datasets
false
1,963
2025.01.08
4
NEA writing fellowships.
A team led by English professor Alexander Manshel has compiled a dataset of every recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts’ fellowship for creative writing, “from the organization’s founding in 1965 to 2024, including information about those writers’ demographics, education, and geography.” The dataset, which lists 3,700+ recipients, is based on the NEA’s own directory and a 2006 report, as well as “author biographies and websites, institutional websites, interviews, encyclopedias, literary criticism, and literary journalism.” [h/t Melanie Walsh + Derek Willis]
https://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/alexander-manshel https://data.post45.org/posts/nea-creative-writing-fellowships/ https://www.arts.gov/grants/creative-writing-fellowships https://www.arts.gov/grants/recent-grants/literature-fellowships https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA_lit.pdf
https://melaniewalsh.org/ https://thescoop.org/
0.593583
0.561514
3,186
12,773
76
-1
Data Collections and Analyses
false
1,964
2025.01.08
5
ISS telemetry.
The International Space Station beams home a wide range of measurements: cabin temperature, solar array angles, spacesuit power supply, wastewater tank capacity, oxygen production rate, and much more. NASA, in collaboration with Lightstreamer, provides a feed of these measurements. A team developing a live 3D model of the station has also published a couple of dashboards of the realtime data, historical data going back to 2018, and a data dictionary. [h/t ajdud + AIorNot]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station https://blog.lightstreamer.com/2014/02/how-nasa-is-using-lightstreamer.html https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20130013825 https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lightstreamer-example-ISSLive-client-javascript https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/dashboard.html https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic/issues/213#issuecomment-761708613 https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic/blob/main/Telemetry/ISS_Public_Telemetry.xlsx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42505454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506213
-0.568038
0.954369
3,981
16,027
34
-1
Geospatial and Environmental Data
false