Places to find data

Places to Find Data

Here are some of my favorite places to find data:

  • Data is Plural newsletter and associated spreadsheet

  • FiveThirtyEight data archive

  • Data.gov 186,000+ datasets!

  • Google dataset search a version of google that just searches for data. Works just like regular google, so you can write things like -site:figshare.com if you want to exclude figshare results (for example).

  • IRE and NICAR are good resources for the types of data journalists care about. For example, Energy data sources and Chrys Wu’s resource page.

  • Tidy Tuesday. Dig into the data directory and the different years. For example, if you scroll down for 2018 you can see a listing of the datasets. There’s lots of fun stuff here! Animal Crossing, craft beer, Medium articles, and much more.