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1,900 | 2024.07.31 | 1 | 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/ | 0.984176 | -0.216577 | 1,663 | 6,526 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | 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 | -0.785617 | 0.852595 | 3,782 | 15,117 | 29 | -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 | null | 0.51273 | 0.235281 | 2,544 | 10,208 | 75 | 75 | 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/ | https://www.nber.org/papers/w32562 | -0.161405 | -0.287094 | 1,434 | 5,813 | 65 | 65 | Labor and Employment Surveys | false |
1,904 | 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/ | 0.578552 | 0.565073 | 3,250 | 12,901 | 76 | -1 | 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 | https://www.themarshallproject.org/staff/david-eads | -0.199644 | -0.23937 | 1,561 | 6,195 | 65 | -1 | 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 | -0.59308 | -0.215479 | 1,613 | 6,426 | 38 | -1 | 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 | -0.025144 | -0.341082 | 1,375 | 5,438 | 64 | -1 | Diverse Research Datasets | false |
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/ | -0.69127 | 0.906291 | 3,913 | 15,635 | 28 | 28 | Climate and Weather Datasets | false |
1,909 | 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/ | null | 0.308113 | 0.640829 | 3,369 | 13,523 | 79 | 79 | 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 | null | 0.213634 | 0.086531 | 2,214 | 8,909 | 17 | -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 | -0.607879 | -0.294072 | 1,420 | 5,785 | 35 | -1 | 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 | null | -0.70226 | 0.627817 | 3,337 | 13,331 | 25 | 25 | 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/ | 0.976634 | -0.281753 | 1,471 | 5,886 | 31 | 31 | Political Data Datasets | false |
1,914 | 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 | -0.33693 | 0.672147 | 3,413 | 13,738 | 20 | -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/ | -0.073931 | -0.401282 | 1,245 | 4,923 | 19 | -1 | 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/ | 0.309355 | 0.004139 | 2,089 | 8,275 | 56 | 56 | Data Platforms on Corporations | false |
1,917 | 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 | null | -0.696888 | 0.649307 | 3,337 | 13,459 | 25 | 25 | Water Resources Data | false |
1,918 | 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/ | 0.322441 | -0.149517 | 1,770 | 6,996 | 61 | 61 | Government Financial Datasets | false |
1,919 | 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/ | 0.403563 | 0.383685 | 2,860 | 11,353 | 73 | 73 | 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/ | null | -0.263472 | -0.41493 | 1,175 | 4,783 | 66 | -1 | 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/ | null | 0.138595 | -0.801314 | 420 | 1,608 | 8 | 8 | 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/ | 0.563082 | 0.188146 | 2,482 | 9,828 | 75 | 75 | Open Research Datasets | false |
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¬e=&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 |
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