Analytics : Find Data

ICPSR is a membership based, non-profit data archive located at the University of Michigan. Access to datasets and related studies on a wide variety of topics.

The Data Citation Index provides a single point of access to research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.

ResearchDataGov is a web portal for discovering and requesting access to restricted microdata from federal statistical agencies.

Many important economic indicators for the United States (like unemployment and inflation) can be found. Most of the data can be divided both by time and by geography.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a database on cause of death. The data can be segmented in almost every way imaginable: age, race, year, and so on.

U.S. government data, this site acts as a portal to all sorts of amazing information on everything from climate to crime.

Search for datasets across over 1000 different major data centers and repositories including ICPSR, Harvard Dataverse, Data-Planet, etc.

One key differentiator of data.world is the tools they have built to make working with data easier - you can write SQL queries within their interface to explore data and join multiple data sets. They also have SDK's for R an python to make it easier to acquire and work with data in your tool of choice.

National crime statistics, with free data available at national, state and county level.

US healthcare data including claim-level Medicare data, epidemiology and population statistics.

Raw data from Pew's research into American life.

World data about population, education, labor and more from a variety of global organizations.

Business, economic, and population data.

Datasets covering population demographics and a huge number of economic and development indicators from across the world.

Database of the Roper Center at Cornell University. Provides data from national opinion polls, 1935 to present.

The Correlates of State Policy Project aims to compile, disseminate, and encourage the use of data relevant to U.S. state policy research, tracking policy differences across the 50 states and changes over time. We have gathered more than 3000 variables from various sources and assembled them into one large, useful dataset.

Prepared data set based on census data for government fianance

Offers world hunger, health, and disease statistics.

Google's search engine for datasets.

The City of Boston provides an open data hub. Locate datasets and other projects built on this open data.

Provides key indicators for data trends in Boston.The reports tend to include data from the field of health, education, transportation, etc.

Includes reports that provide descriptive information about the health status and factors that influence the health of Boston residents.

ODMOA facilitates and coordinates the collection, access to, and use of public health data in order to monitor and improve population health.

State Budget Sources is designed to provide improved tools for public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens researching the critical fiscal decisions that governors and legislators must make.

McCracken, P. & Raub, E., (2023) “Licensing Challenges Associated With Text and Data Mining: How Do We Get Our Patrons What They Need?”, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 11(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.15530

Search Google's text collection, including printed sources published between 1500 and 2019 in several languages.

Perform text mining on Hathi Trust's collection through a variety of channels.

Large collections of text for text mining.

Land-use design in California is controlled by local communities through documents known as General Plans. These documents commit city and county governments to long-term planning and development goals that shape the fortunes and health of the jurisdiction through zoning regulations. There is currently little coordination across cities or at the state-level for monitoring where and which policies are adopted. This searchable database of California’s General Plans is the first of its kind.