Data Resources
Search databases
CESSDA Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives; provides seamless access to data across repositories, nations, languages and research purposes
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps data for every state and county in the United States
Data.gov (U.S.) data, tools and resources
Data360 U.S. data in the news
DataRefuge a safe location for storing U.S. federal environmental and climate data
DOE Data Explorer U.S. Dept. of Energy
Dryad Digital Repository an international repository of data underlying articles in bioscience
European Data Portal search by category or by keyword; available in many other languages
GigaDB "primarily serves as a repository to host data and tools associated with articles in GigaScience, an oa journal
Global Biodiversity Information Facility free and open access to biodiversity data
Harvard Dataverse Network research data studies
NPG Linked Data Platform datasets from Nature Publishing Group published as linked data
OECD Data search for, compare and share charts, maps, tables from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PublicData.eu Search Europe's public data
re3data.org Registry of Research Data Repositories; search for repositories
U.S. City Open Data Census collection of U.S. city open data
Open Knowledge Repository search over 15,000 World Bank publications; see also harvesting the OKR
Data Research Resources
Aid Data open data for international development
Automated Game Play Datasets datasets from the research project "Small Artificial Human Agents for Virtual Economies"
Better Life Index view quality of life tabulations for countries around the world from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Climate Change Knowledge Portal includes open data resources
Common Crawl a non-profit foundation that provides an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone
Crowdflower Data for Everyone Library a collection of open data resources available for download
Data Ab Initio blog by Kristan Briney who writes about managing research data; see her post on Spreadsheet Best Practices (Sept. 10, 2016)
Data Basin open data repository for conservation biology
Databib "a searchable catalog/registry/directory/bibliography of research data repositories"
Datablog The Guardian's blog
Datacentrum datasets originating from technical and scientific research in the Netherlands
DataCite locate data, learn how to cite data sources
Dataconomy news and articles about data in the business world
Data For Everyone a collection of data sets gathered by CrowdFlower contributors available for anyone to use
the Datahub free data management platform from the Open Knowledge Foundation
DataMashup a place to explore information about big data
Datopolis the open data board game developed by the Open Data Institute
Data Sets list of data sets provided by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce; these can also be found on data.gov
Data Store From The Guardian; provides a source of information for creating data tables; citizen journalism
Dataversity data education for business and IT professionals
End of Term Presidential Harvest "a collaborative project to preserve public United States Government web sites at the end of the current presidential administration ending January 20, 2017; for other years visit the End of Term Archive
Figshare store and share your data; see new features from Figshare (June 2014)
Frictionless Open Data Open Knowledge Foundation's data website
Gapminder find and use datasets
The GDELT Project Global Database of Events, Language and Tone, where "the GDELT dataset is available for free download, including over a quarter-billion event records capturing over 300 categories"
IFTTT form your own data using this tool
Global Open Data Index open government data; new datasets to be added in 2015
The Governance Lab at NYU (New York University) follows trends in open data; see new project Open Data 500 a "comprehensive study of U.S. companies that use open government data to generate new business..."
Index Mundi "This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources."
Karma an open source data integration tool
The Language Archive language data, tools and archiving
Linked Data resources from across the Linked Data community
MIT Human Dynamics Lab developing such technologies as reality mining; big data research
Office of Population Research demographic research data
Open Data Barometer "The Barometer is designed to provide a clear and comparable analysis of the macro-level context for open data, the availability of open data, and emerging impacts of open data, across the world."
Open Data 500 "first comprehensive study of U.S. companies that use open government data to generate new business and develop new products and services."
Open Geography Portal from the Office for National Statistics (U.K.)
OpenNASA NASA's new open data portal; see also article "Space is Big: How to explore all of NASA's Open Data", Sept. 23, 2015.
Open Data Inception 1600+ data portals from around the world
Open Data Initiative "dive deep into the data of OpenSecrets.org and the Center for Responsive Politics."
The Open Data Institute founded in part by Tim Berners Lee which has a goal to "to make better use of the huge amounts of information collected by the public sector"
Open Data Study research on open data and transparency
Open Definition "sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to data and content"
Open Knowledge Blog from the Open Knowledge Foundation
OpenRefine a free open source tool for working with data
Physical Science Informatics a new NASA data repository for physical science experiments performed on the International Space Station
PLOS Open Data collection A PLOS journal article collection that focuses on "data sharing, data practices and data policy"
Practical Data Management for Bug Counters a blog for people who count things
re3data.org Registry of Research Data Repositories
SF OpenData San Francisco's open data portal; Data SF, companion blog with good posts on data and organizations
Smart Data Collective articles, news, discussion about data
Social Physics human behavior and big data
Teach Data Science a companion website for the electronic book, Introduction to Data Science by Jeffrey Stanton.
Wikidata "the free knowledge base with 12,875,086 data items that anyone can edit"
Wolfram Data Drop a place to upload and compute data
The World Bank free and open access global data
Zenodo "a repository service that enables researchers, scientists, projects and institutions to share and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data and publications) that are not part of existing institutional or subject-based repositories."
Data visualization
Bookworm "visualize trends in repositories of digitized texts"
Capitol Words search for words used by members of the U.S. Congress; this resource is a project of the Sunlight Foundation
D3.js in Action by Elijah Meeks. Manning Publications, 2014. View the Manning Early Access Program version for free; Paper edition to be published Jan. 2015.
Dear Data Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. This incredibly colorful and visual book can be viewed on issue.com; follow the link from the Princeton Architectural Press.
easel.ly create and share a visual graphic
eRegulations Insights see "federal regulatory data through real-time visualizations, using open data retrieved directly from Regulations.gov and powered by Splunk." See discussion about Splunk's launch of the open data project in a Wall Street Journal press release, June 3, 2014.
Gephi an open source graph visualization tool
Immersive and Collaborative Data Visualization Using Virtual Reality Platforms by Ciro Donalek et al. Paper presented at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. This paper demonstrates the creation of 3d data visualization using OpenSim on vCaltech.
infogr.am create and share infographics
"Information visualization for humanities scholars" by Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, and Milena Radzikowska in Literary Studies in the Digital Age. MLA Commons, 2013. (an evolving anthology)
Internet Monitor Dashboard new free tool developed by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; for further description see Gary Price "New Research Tools," infodocket, Sept. 28, 2015.
Journal of Visualized Research first PubMed-indexed scientific video journal, peer-reviewed, open access
openaccess.xyz/ word search millions of open access research papers; results appear in graph form to show word usage
Open Data Companion access and share data using this app
open source data visualization tools a list of eight tools from opensource.com, June 2015.
Open Spending upload, create or explore financial data; create data visualizations
Paper Machines visualize your Zotero collections; an open source extension for Zotero
peoplemovin a visualization of migration across the world
Photogrammar "a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945" taken by photographers hired by the U.S. Farm Security Administration
Piktochart create and share infographics; "start for free"
Tufte, Edward The work of Edward Tufte, data visualization whiz
Silk a data visualization tool
30+ free tools for data visualization and analysis Computerworld, Nov. 7, 2013
Visualising helps make sense of data [Commentary] by Teresa Tocewicz; Research Information, Mar. 14, 2014.
UX Magazine Data visualization category of the magazine
Visual Design Basics a guide from usability.gov
Visualization as experience by Tomoko Ichikawa. Digital Studies, 2014.
visualizing.org upload data visualizations; find datasets
New open access books
Beyond Transparency published by the Code for America Press, a collection of essays edited by Brett Goldstein with Lauren Dyson.
The Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies by Annika Richterich. London: University of Westminster Press, 2018. Available to read online for free.
Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. View the book on issuu.com by following the link on Princeton Architectural Press
Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data edited by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs. London: University of Westminster Press, 2019. This book can be downloaded for free.
Introduction to Data Science ver. 3 by Jeffrey Stanton. A Creative Commons publication.
Introduction to to the Applications of Mind Mapping in Medicine by José M Guerrero and Pilar Ramos. imed.pub, 2015. An open access book available via imed.pub an international medical publisher.
Issues in Open Research Data by Samuel Moore. London: Ubiquity Press, 2014. An open access publication.
Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, IOS Press, 2014. Open access publication.
Linked Open Data: creating knowledge out of interlinked data. Edited by Sören Auer, Volha Bryl, Sebastian Tramp. Springer, 2014. Open access book available on SpringerLink
Open Access Journals
Biodiversity Data Journal open access
Data Science Journal open access
International Journal of Digital Curation open access
Journal of Digital Information open access
Journal of Open Archaeology Data "peer reviewed data papers describing archaeology datasets with high reuse potential"
Journal of Open Psychology Data open access
Open Health Data open access
Open Innovation an online journal published by Socrata, covering the topic of open data
Guides/Reports
Big data: the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity by James Manyika et al. [McKinsy and Company] Insights and Publications, May 2011. Discussion of report on data produced by the McKinsey Global Institute, 2011. Report can be downloaded from this location.
Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World edited by Thomas Elliott, Sebastian Heath, John Muccigrosso. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) Papers 7, 2014.
Data on the Web Best Practices a report from W3C, first public working draft Feb. 24, 2015
Discussion of "text and data mining copyright exceptions introduced in the UK" (July 2014).
"Exploring the legal issues around open data and open hardware," posted on May 19, 2014 on opensource.com
How to find an appropriate research data repository? PLOS Tech (blog) posted Nov. 18, 2013
An introduction to linked open data Grad Hacker blog post, June 1, 2014
Is It Open Data? - Guide a beta project at the Open Knowledge Foundation
Linked Data Tim Berners Lee on linked data design issues (2006); includes Linked Open Data update (2010)
Open Data Handbook originally published in 2012
Privacy Tools for Sharing Data Research
State of Open Data: a selection of analyses and articles about open data, curated by Figshare. Figshare, 2016. For a discussion of the report and a link to the full text visit Digital Science.
Online Courses and MOOCs
Data, Analytics and Learning: An introduction to the logic and methods of analysis of data to improve teaching and learning. An edX course that will begin Oct. 20, 2014.
Data Carpentry a community that creates and teaches data workshops; some self-guided lessons available
Data Science Masters open source curriculum for learning the theory and technology of data science
School of Data independent learning modules
Visualizing Data A six module collection of Tedtalks created by Ted Studies
