There is just so much data out there! Here are some ways of acquiring data that I’m aware of.1 If you find any broken links on this page, let me know!
US Data
Here’s some data available through the US government.
- Data.gov
- US Government Statistics
- HealthData.gov
- DoE: Statistics
- FBI: Crime Statistics
- SBA: Market Research Data
- CDC: National Center of Health Statistics
- CDC: WONDER
- NIH: NIH Data and Specimen Hub
- NIH: National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute
- Federal Reserve: Data
Here’s some other US-related data.
Regional Data
Colorado Data
- Colorado Information Marketplace
- Colorado Springs Open Data Portal (Dysfunctional)
- Denver Regional Data Catalog
Other Regions
Many other state, county, and city governments also have “Open Data” websites; a map of these can be found here, or you can just use Google (typing in “(region-name) open data” typically works). For example, there’s California, Texas, and New York.
Global Data
International Data
- Our World in Data
- World Data Bank
- WHO (World Health Organization)
- OECD (Organizaton for Economic Co-ordination and Development)
- Pew Research Center
- KAPSARC Energy Data
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- IPUMS (census and survey data from around the world)
- Global Open Data Index
Foreign Data
Many governments around the world (of all levels) maintain “Open Data” websites; you can find a map of some of these at data.gov/open-gov, or you can just use Google (typing in “(region-name) open data” typically works). Here’s a short list of a few. Note that some of these are not in English, so you may need some foreign language competence to navigate through them.
Other Health and/or Medical Data
A number of health and/or medical data sources are already mentioned above. Here are a few others.
- UC Berkeley Library: Health Statistics Data
- University of Edinburgh: International Stroke Trial Database
- Vanderbilt University: Biostatistics Datasets
- MIT Lab for Computational Physiology: MIMIC-III Critical Care Database
- PRO-ACT (Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials Database
Financial Data
Sports Data
- Rotowire
- Sports Reference
- Cricsheet (cricket data)
Linguistic Data
Miscellaneous
Here are some other things that might be useful: data search tools, data repositories, lists of data sources, etc.
- Zenodo
- Google: Dataset Search
- Grinnell Stat2Lab: Data Resources
- UC Irvine: Machine Learning Repository
- Kaggle
- Re3Data (Registry of Research Data Repositories)
- KDnuggets: Datasets
- Statistical Science Web
- JSE (Journal of Statistics Education): Data Archive
- Data and Story Library
- Microsoft R Application Network: Data Sources on the Web
- Carnegie Mellon: StatLib
- Dryad
- GapMinder