Selected Data Sets
Consider the time period -- current or historical, and the format -- table to print or data to download to a spreadsheet.
IPUMS - Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is the world's largest individual-
ATUS – American Time Use Survey
Data page: ATUS Data Files - https://www.bls.gov/tus/#data
select single or multi year files or use the module data files
How to use ATUS microdata files
NLSY - National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Home page ; http://www.bls.gov/nls/
Navigator page; register to use: https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/login.jsp
The Investigator User's Guide describes how to use this website.
An available tutorial also teaches how to search for variables in the Investigator
National Center for Charitable Statistics
Data page: https://nccs.urban.org/nccs/datasets/
- Primarily pulls data from the IRS Form 990 – there is a lot of information on that form! Anything related to financial impacts of the sector (or subsectors within the nonprofit sector), the NCCS is a great place to find that data/information.
- The financial impacts are broken in to dozens of categories, by type of activity and type of nonprofit, ex. Medicaid expansion, ACA’s impact on nonprofit hospitals, or the rise and fall of conservation and environmental organizations over the last 20 years looking across different administrations and their policies, or the impacts of “h-elective” legislation on nonprofit organizations’ lobbying activities….
Inside Airbnb
Data page:https://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html
Offers different csv data sets for listing in cities around the world
Kaggle datasets
Data page: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets
Kaggle’s community is made up of data scientists and machine learners from all over the world with a variety of skills and backgrounds.
ex: Social Media Engagement Report - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/aliredaelblgihy/social-media-engagement-report
Yelp Datasets
Data page: https://www.yelp.com/dataset
Yelp maintains a dataset for use in personal, educational, and academic purposes. It includes 6 million reviews spanning 189,000 businesses in 10 metropolitan areas. Students are welcome to participate.
Need to sign a form to get data first so I am not sure about file format
CDC Data:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data set page :https://data.cdc.gov/browse
By topic, sets can differ mostly zip files to download
Dow Jones Weekly Returns
Data set page: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Dow+Jones+Index
Predicting stock prices is a major application of data analysis and machine learning; zip file to download
Types
Time Series - same phenomina over specificed length of time
Cross Section - 1 point of time in multiple places
Pooled - combination of time series and cross section data
Citing
Don't forget to cite your data sources.
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APA Style - Online Data SetsPoint readers to raw data by providing a Web address or a general place that houses data sets on the site example: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2008). |