Open Data

Everyone enjoys blogs about interesting datasets, but useful datasets are even better. The problem is that the open data movement has been too successful by some measures.

We have gone from a relatively data poor environment in government and nonprofits to an amazing repositories of open data assets, including Socrata and CKAN’s Open Government data portals, the US Federal portal at www.data.gov, and over 80,000 academic datasets posted on Dataverse.

Data is more useful when it comes with a vignette that provides some information about the nature of the data and potential uses. We will work to update the site with some helpful datasets for public affairs programs in the near future.

In the meantime, enjoy:

Awesome Open Datasets

This is just a sample of some datasets that would be relevant to the public and nonprofit sectors from the larger catalog of open public sources curated and managed by AwesomeData.

Agriculture

Climate+Weather

Complex Networks

Data Challenges

Economics

Education

Foundations

GIS

Government

Healthcare

PublicDomains

SearchEngines

Social Networks

Social Sciences

Time Series

Transportation