Data
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
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Aviation Weather Center - Consistent, timely and accurate weather […]
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Brazilian Weather - Historical data (In Portuguese) - Data related to […]
Complex Networks
Data Challenges
Economics
Education
Foundations
- International Aid Transparency Initiative (iati) [ database of grants ]
- Ford Foundation Grants [ database ]
- Hewlett Foundation Grants [ database ]
GIS
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Geo Maps - High Quality GeoJSON maps programmatically generated
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GeoFabrik - OSM data extracted to a variety of formats and areas
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Global Administrative Areas Database (GADM) - Geospatial data organized […]
Government
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Datos Argentina - Portal de datos abiertos de la República Argentina. […]
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EveryPolitician - Ongoing project collating and sharing data on every […]
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Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) (formerly FedStats)
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Italy - Il Portale dati.gov.it è il catalogo nazionale dei metadati […]
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Metropolitain Transportation Commission (MTC), California, US
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OpenDataPhilly - OpenDataPhilly is a catalog of open data in the […]
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San Antonio, TX - Community Information Now - CI:Now is a nonprofit […]
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Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), California, US [fixme ]
Healthcare
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Composition of Foods Raw, Processed, Prepared USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard […]
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GDC - GDC supports several cancer genome programs for CCG, TCGA, TARGET etc.
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MeSH, the vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed
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Number of Ebola Cases and Deaths in Affected Countries (2014)
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PhysioBank Databases - A large and growing archive of physiological data.
PublicDomains
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Data.World [fixme ]
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Grand Comics Database - The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, […]
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Infochimps [fixme ]
SearchEngines
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OpenDataNetwork - A search engine of all Socrata powered data portals
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Zenodo - An open dependable home for the long-tail of science
Social Networks
Social Sciences
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Center for Systemic Peace Datasets - Conflict Trends, Polities, State Fragility, etc
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Gun Violence Data - A comprehensive, accessible database that contains […]
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Open Crime and Policing Data in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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OpenSanctions - A global database of persons and companies of political, […]