GAISE Data Sources

[&]-easy to access [&&]-may need some work [&&&]-may require wrangling/digging

Data Repositories

  • DASL - Dataset and Story Library Repository of datasets searchable by keyword or statistical technique. Maintained by Data Description Inc. the creators of Data Desk. [&]

  • Kaggle Lots of interesting datasets, some tied to data competitions. May need to register for (free) account to download data. [&&-&&&]

  • JSE Data Archive Datasets with associated articles from the “Datasets and Stories” section of the Journal of Statistics Education (1993-2014) [&]

  • eeps data zoo Dataets from eeps media. These load automatically in CODAP (an online data analysis tool) and can then be exported as a .csv file. Use the information link in the CODAP window for more documentation on the data. [&&]

  • TidyTuesday Weekly dataset projects from the Data Science Learning Community. This links to a github repo. Check the readme files for a specific year (e.g. 2024) for a list and links to the weekly data topics for that year. [&&-&&&]

  • FiveThirtyEght Data Repository Datasets related to articles on the FiveThirtyEight website. [&&]

  • TSHS Resources Portal A collection of resources maintained by the ASA’s Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences [&]

  • Datahub Links to tons of curated datasets organized into “collections” by application topics. [&-&&&]

  • Our World in Data Lots of interactive charts with options to download data “to make progress against the world’s largest problems”. [&&]

  • Stanford Open Policing Project Data on police stops from communities around the US. [&&&]

  • Mendeley Data Searchable repository of hundreds of shared datasets with documedntation. [&-&&&]

  • R Datasets Links to datasets from various R pacakges in .csv folrma eith data documentation. [&-&&]

  • OzDASL- Australian Data and Story Library Datasets for teaching organized by statistical topics. [&]

Sports Data

Places to search for data

These usually take some more digging to get at usable data…

  • Google - Dataset Search A Google search specifically for datasets.[&&-&&&]

  • Data.gov Links to sources for US government data. [&&-&&&]

  • Open Data Network “A global search engine that allows you to search across tens of thousands of datasets from hundreds of open data catalogs.” [&&-&&&]

  • Centers for Disease Control Searchable access to lots of health related datasets [&&-&&&]

  • UNdata Searchable access to datasets provided by the United Nations [&&-&&&]

  • World Bank Data Links to datasets with global perspectives provided by the World Bank. [&&-&&&]

  • US Census Data Links to tools to access various forms of data from the US Census Bureau

  • Census Reporter “An independent project to make it easier for journalists to write stories using information from the U.S. Census bureau. Place profiles and comparison pages provide a friendly interface for navigating data, including visualizations for a more useful first look.” [&&]

  • IPUMS Integrated Public Use Microdata Series is a collection of standardized microdata from a wide variety of national and international surveys and censuses. [&&-&&&]

  • Knoema World and national datasets (required an account). [&&-&&&]

  • Open data from Montgomery County County-level datasets on a variety of topics. [&&-&&&]

  • Open Data from Baltimore City-level public government datasets. [&&-&&&]

  • ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [&&-&&&]

  • World Health Organization Data Public Health data for many countries. [&&-&&&]

  • QSIDE Institute Datasets related to the QSIDE Data4Justice Curriculum [&&]

Textbook Data

Webpages with links to data from textbooks. Many also support R packages with the datasets.