Publicly Available Data

Sometimes I'm looking for interesting data sets to play with.  Here's an (incomplete) attempt at making a list of sites where one can find publicly available data sets.  It's definitely a work in progress.  I'll update this as I find more of them and try to organize it a little better.

TODO

• Keep finding more useful data sources.


• Dig into each of these sources a bit, provide some annotations.


• Think of better ways to organize these links.  Things to consider: Sponsoring rganizations, geographic locations of sponsoring organization, accessibility of data, data quality, data freshness, disciplines.  Consider using a table that lists each source and indicates the presence/absence of various attributes.


• Rate each resource on ease of use (e.g., a site producing CSVs is more readily accessible to more people than a site that requires SPARQL queries, etc.)

Sites Offering Free Data Sets

Government Websites

United States of America

• Data.gov -- http://www.data.gov/


• Fedstats.gov
  
  
  
  • http://www.fedstats.gov/
  
  
  • Might be outdated. "Home page last updated March 12, 2007"
  
  
  
  


• USA.gov -- http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference-Shelf/Data.shtml


• USASpending.gov ("Where Americans can see where their money goes") -- http://www.usaspending.gov/


• http://www.uscourts.gov/Statistics.aspx


• CIA World Factbook -- https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/


• Department of Veterans' Affairs -- http://www.va.gov/vetdata/


• South Carolina Office of Research and Statistics -- http://ors.sc.gov/


• United States Department of Agriculture -- http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=DATA_STATISTICS

Labor

• Bureau of Labor Statistics -- http://www.bls.gov/


• Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration -- https://www.osha.gov/oshstats/

Business/Finance/Economics

• Small Business Administration -- http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/establishing-business/business-data-statistics


• SBA Office of Advocacy -- http://www.sba.gov/advocacy/847


• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Bank Data and Statistics -- http://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/

Education

• US Department of Education -- http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/landing.jhtml


• State of California Department of Education -- http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/


• Utah State Office of Education -- http://www.schools.utah.gov/data/

Health

• National Institute of Mental Health -- http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/index.shtml


• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Tuberculosis) -- http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/


• Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration -- http://www.hrsa.gov/data-statistics/


• Ohio Department of Health -- http://www.odh.ohio.gov/healthstats/datastats.aspx


• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems.html


• Oregon Division of Health -- http://public.health.oregon.gov/datastatistics/Pages/index.aspx


• Alaska Division of Public Health -- http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/VitalStats/Pages/data/default.aspx


• New York State Department of Health -- http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/

United Kingdom

• Data.gov.uk -- http://data.gov.uk/

Media Websites

• The Guardian DataBlog Data Sets -- http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jan/14/all-our-datasets-index


• The New York Times Data Sets -- http://data.nytimes.com/

Wikipedia-based

• DBPedia -- http://wiki.dbpedia.org/


• Freebase -- http://wiki.freebase.com/


• Wikidata -- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

Other

• OpenCyc -- http://www.cyc.com/platform/opencyc