Datasets
This is a non-exhaustive list of datasets to be used for academic purposes (class projects or research).
Collections of datasets
Government data sets
Economic and Global Development data
COVID-19 data
Other interesting datasets
Collections of datasets
- Datasets listed at St. Thomas libraries: libguides.stthomas.edu/c.php?g=88624&p=572224 (thanks to John Heintz our wonderful business librarian!)
- Data World: https://data.world
- Github: https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
- Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com
- FiveThirtyEight: https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/
- UCI Machine Learning Repository: archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.php
Government data sets
- Minneapolis city data: http://opendata.minneapolismn.gov/
- St Paul city data: https://information.stpaul.gov/
- (other cities, counties, states, have similar open access data if you search for it)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.bls.gov/data/
Economic and Global Development data
- World Bank global development data: data.worldbank.org/
- Gapminder: https://www.gapminder.org/data/
- Federal Reserve Economic data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
COVID-19 data
- Links to dozens of COVID data sets: libguides.stthomas.edu/covid-19_business/datasets
- NY Times coronavirus data: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
- Johns Hopkins University coronavirus data: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
- Financial responses to COVID-19: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/covid-19-finance-sector-related-policy-responses
Other interesting datasets
- General Social Survey: https://gss.norc.org/ (surveys conducted annually since 1972 about what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spending priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions)
- Data from online personality tests: openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata
