Datasets

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After I learned to do some fun things in R, I noticed that I needed datasets to practice my new skills. I know there are some already built in R (added a nice list here) but I also wanted to “choose” something that aligns more with what I do or may enjoy learning about, so here are other ones I found too.

Afro Barometer Database

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: Afrobarometer, a non-profit company limited by guarantee with headquarters in Ghana, is a pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy, and society.

  1. Link to datasets here: https://www.afrobarometer.org/data/

American Housing Survey (AHS)

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The AHS is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The survey is the most comprehensive national housing survey in the United States.

  1. Link to website here: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs.html

ANES-American National Election Studies

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. Central to this mission is the active involvement of the ANES research community in all phases of the project.

  1. Link to datasets here: https://electionstudies.org/data-center/

ARDA (Association of Religion Data Archives) Data Archive

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The ARDA Data Archive is a collection of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.


There are 1,236 data files included in the ARDA collection. You can browse files by category, alphabetically, view the newest additions, or search for a file. Once you select a file you can preview the results, read about how the data were collected, review the survey questions asked, save selected survey questions to your own file, and/or download the data file.

  1. Link to datasets here: https://www.thearda.com/data-archive/browse-categories

British Election Study

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: Here you will find all British Election Study data released by the current BES team, as well as historical BES data collected in elections between 1964 and 2010. New data are listed first.

  1. Link to datasets here: https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data/#.ZExD7-zML0o

Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy Dataverse

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?
Excerpt from site: This dataverse includes surveys and research conducted by professors at the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University.

  1. Link to the datasets: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/csed

Child and Familia Data Archive (Beta)

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The Child and Family Data Archive (C&F Data Archive) is the place to discover, access, and analyze data on young children, their families and communities, and the programs that serve them.

  1. Link to website here: https://www.childandfamilydataarchive.org/cfda/pages/cfda/index.html

Chicago Council Survey

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?
Excerpt from site: The Chicago Council Survey provides the most comprehensive view of American public opinion on critical US foreign policy issues, highlighting critical trends and shifts in thinking over time since 1974. The Council's polling experts, their annual report, and related topical briefs compose the Council's most recognized area of research. A signature area of study under the Lester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy, the Chicago Council Survey provides the public with a mechanism for sharing views with politicians and decision makers who each year cite the survey as a valuable resource for influencing policy debates.

  1. Link to the datasets: https://globalaffairs.org/research/lester-crown-center-us-foreign-policy/chicago-council-survey

Cooperative Election Study: Formerly the Cooperative Congressional Election Study

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The CCES is a 50,000+ person national stratified sample survey administered by YouGov. Half of the questionnaire consists of Common Content asked of all 50,000+ people, and half of the questionnaire consists of Team Content designed by each individual participating team and asked of a subset of 1,000 people.

  1. Link to datasets here: https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/

Data is Plural archive

What is this?

Excerpt from site here: Data Is Plural is a weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets, published by Jeremy Singer-Vine. There have been 256 editions, dating from October 21, 2015 to October 6, 2021.

  1. Link to website here: https://dataset-finder.netlify.app/

Data.gov

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023
What is this?
Excerpt from site here: The Home of the U.S. Government’s Open Data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

  1. Link to site: https://data.gov/

Datasets: Machine learning datasets

Added Sun June 6th, 2021
What is this?
Excerpt from site here: The mission of Papers with Code is to create a free and open resource with Machine Learning papers, code, and evaluation tables. We believe this is best done together with the community, supported by NLP and ML. All content on this website is openly licenced under CC-BY-SA (same as Wikipedia) and everyone can contribute - look for the “Edit” buttons! We also operate specialized portals for papers with code in astronomy, physics, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics.

  1. Link to site: https://paperswithcode.com/datasets

Datasets found in R

What is this?

This is an archive of datasets distributed within R. I love this list because it is alphabetized and I can also get the CSVs from it.

  1. The database is here: https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/datasets.html

Datasets from course: Modelling and visualizing data using R: A practical introduction.

What is this?

Here you can find the datasets used for the training course: Modelling and visualizing data using R: A practical introduction by Daniel Nettle.

  1. Datasets here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7s14m6ceph3laja/AAAIGT7jBZ3n6aIBR8-IT8R4a?dl=0
  2. Pdf for course here: https://www.danielnettle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/funwithR3.0.pdf
  3. Link to course here: https://www.danielnettle.org.uk/r-modelling/

Data files for “Putting R to Work”

By Andy Wills

What is this?

Excerpt from site: These files are in alphabetical order, by filename.

  1. Link to list of datasets here: https://ajwills72.github.io/rminr/rtoworkdata.html

Dataset from “R, Python and Stata code for Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy” book

By Gábor Békés & Gábor Kézdi

Added Sun Dec 12, 2021

What is this?

List of dataset used for the cases studies and exercises in the “R, Python and Stata code for Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy” book

  1. Link to list of datasets here: https://gabors-data-analysis.com/datasets/

Dynamics of Collective Action

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?
Excerpt from site: Here you can access data from an ongoing project about collective action in the United States. Using the menu either above or to the right, you’ll find links to the dataset, documentation, and contact information.

  1. Link to the datasets: https://web.stanford.edu/group/collectiveaction/cgi-bin/drupal/

General Social Survey - NORC

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?
Excerpt from site: The GSS has been a reliable source of data to help researchers, students, and journalists monitor and explain trends in American behaviors, demographics, and opinions. You’ll find the complete GSS data set on this site, and can access the GSS Data Explorer to explore, analyze, extract, and share custom sets of GSS data.

  1. Link to the datasets: https://gss.norc.org/Get-The-Data

LAPOP - AmericasBarometer [Barómetro de las Americas]

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The AmericasBarometer data sets feature a common core set of questions that has been asked from 2004 to present day. In addition, LAPOP has datasets that date back to the 1970s. Questionnaires and information on each data set can be found here.

  1. Link to datasets here: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/data-access.php

Machine learning datasets

Added Sun June 6th, 2021

What is this?

Excerpt from site: A list of the biggest machine learning datasets from across the web

  1. Link to list of datasets here: https://www.datasetlist.com/

MIT Election Data + Science Lab

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: This Dataverse is maintained by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL).

  1. Link to list of datasets here: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/medsl

Nationals Center for Education Statistics: Longitudinal Studies

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program includes four longitudinal studies that examine child development, school readiness, and early school experiences from birth through elementary school. The program provides data to analyze the relationships among a wide range of family, school, community, and individual factors with children’s development, early learning, and performance in school.

  1. Link to list of datasets here: https://nces.ed.gov/training/datauser/COMO_07.html

National Longitudinal Surveys- A program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The NLS, sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, are nationally representative surveys that follow the same sample of individuals from specific birth cohorts over time. The surveys collect data on labor market activity, schooling, fertility, program participation, health, and much, much more.

  1. Link to list of datasets here: https://www.nlsinfo.org/

National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT)

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT) is a nationally-representative, multi-method study of cohabiting and married individuals ages 20 to 60 who were in a same- or different-gender couple in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample includes 3,642 main respondents and 1,515 spouses/partners. The survey and time diary with experience sampling methods focus on relationship functioning, emotion regulation, discrimination, racial trauma, physical health, psychological well-being, health behaviors, stressors, and time use.

  1. Link to dataset here: https://pop.umn.edu/data/nchat

Open Data from city of New York

What is this?
Excerpt from site: Open Data is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government. We believe that every New Yorker can benefit from Open Data, and Open Data can benefit from every New Yorker.

  1. website here: https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/data/

Open Datasets

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?
Excerpt from site: Explore, analyze, and share quality data.

  1. website here: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

Package “pain21”

What is this?
Excerpt from site: Cleaned data from 21 pain studies used by Maumet et al. (2016) and downloaded from Neurovault.org at http://neurovault.org/collections/1425/.

Gorgolewski KJ, Varoquaux G, Rivera G, Schwartz Y, Ghosh SS, Maumet C, Sochat VV, Nichols TE, Poldrack RA, Poline J-B, Yarkoni T and Margulies DS (2015) NeuroVault.org: a web-based repository for collecting and sharing unthresholded statistical maps of the brain. Front. Neuroinform. 9:8. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2015.00008

Maumet, Camille, Tibor Auer, Alexander Bowring, Gang Chen, Samir Das, Guillaume Flandin, Satrajit Ghosh, et al. “Sharing Brain Mapping Statistical Results with the Neuroimaging Data Model.” Scientific Data 3 (December 6, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.102.

  1. Link to documentation: https://neuroconductor.org/help/pain21/index.html

Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN)

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) is a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. It was designed to advance the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors. In particular, the project examined the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence. At the same time, the project also provided a detailed look at the environments in which these social behaviors take place by collecting substantial amounts of data about urban Chicago, including its people, institutions, and resources.

  1. Link to list of datasets here: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NACJD/series/206

Survey Center on American Life

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?
Excerpt from site: The Survey Center on American Life makes its data available to the public after a period of six to twelve months. Datasets are available to download as Stata and SPSS files. Survey datasets are cleaned with all identifying information removed.

  1. Link to the datasets: https://www.americansurveycenter.org/data/download-data/

Survey Data Driving the Insights

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?
Excerpt from site: Voter Study Group analysis almost exclusively features data from two primary research tools, the VOTER Survey and the Nationscape™ survey. We make the data generated by these tools available for use by anyone interested in engaging the public in meaningful conversations about the American electorate.

  1. Link to the datasets: https://www.voterstudygroup.org/data

2022- World Population Data Sheet

Added Fri Apr 28th, 2023

What is this?
Excerpt from site: The 2022 World Population Data Sheet provides the latest population, health, and environment indicators for more than 200 countries and territories, each carefully researched by PRB's expert team of demographers and analysts.

  1. Link to documentation: https://2022-wpds.prb.org/