A compiled list of places to find data sets complete with descriptions about what types of data you can find on each website.

1. Where to Find Data Sets
Academic Torrents
Link: ​http://academictorrents.com/browse.php?cat=6
Description: Shares data sets pulled from scientific papers. These data sets might be difficult to
put into context if the original paper is not read.
Awesome-Public-Datasets on Github
Link: ​https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
Description: A collection of public datasets sorted by topic with links to the hosting website.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Link: ​https://www.bea.gov/
Description: Economic datasets, such as GDP, personal income, international transactions, etc.
CDC Data & Statistics
Link: ​https://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/index.html
Description: The CDC compiles data sets by different types of health-related topics.
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
Link: ​https://www.researchconnections.org/childcare/datasets-instruments.jsp
Description: Datasets on child care and early education that allow you to compare variables.
Child & Family Data Archive
Link: ​https://www.childandfamilydataarchive.org/cfda/pages/cfda/index.html
Description: Datasets on children, families, and their communities.
The Data And Story Library (DASL)
Link: ​https://dasl.datadescription.com/
Description: A library of datasets that allows you to search by keyword or by statistical method.
Data Hub
Link: ​https://datahub.io/
Description: A large consolidation of datasets on a large range of topics.
Data.gov
Link ​https://www.data.gov/
Description: A U.S. government website with access to public government information on all
levels, from federal to local. The datasets are machine-readable.

2. Data.gov.uk
Link: ​https://data.gov.uk/
Description: Makes non-personal UK government data open. It contains over 30,000 data sets
from the UK government.
Data.world
Link: ​https://data.world/
Description: Has a broad variety of datasets. You can also upload your own data to collaborate
with other users to analyze and share insights.
Earthdata
Link: ​https://earthdata.nasa.gov/
Description: The public can access NASA’s data through Earthdata. Different categories of data
sets include atmosphere, solar radiance, cryosphere, human dimensions, land, and the ocean.
EU Open Data Portal
Link: ​https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/
Description: It contains all the open data from EU institutions.
Eurostat
Link: ​https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/
Description: Datasets on a wide range of topics about the EU. Brexit does affect some datasets,
details about which can be found ​here.
FBI Crime Data
Link: ​https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr
Description: The FBI compiles lists about different types of crimes across different years.
Datasets can be broken up into categories based on the type of crime.
Fiscally Standardized Cities Database: Lincoln Institute of Land Studies
Link: ​https://www.lincolninst.edu/research-data/data-toolkits/fiscally-standardized-cities
Description: Database that allows you to create custom tables to compare data between cities.
There is also an option to download the entire dataset without creating the custom table.
FiveThirtyEight
Link: ​https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/
Description: Geared towards opinion polls, politics, economics, and sports. Was originally
created to be a place to aggregate poll data and was named after the 538 electors in the electoral
college.

3. Gapminder
Link: ​https://www.gapminder.org/data/
Description: Compiles world medical, social, and economic data. Pulled from some previously
mentioned databases, such as the World Health Organization and the World Bank.
General Social Survey
Link: ​http://gss.norc.org/
Description: A survey to gain insight into how Americans feel about government issues and
decisions.
The Global Health Observatory
Link: ​https://www.who.int/data/gho
Description: Datasets about universal health coverage, health emergencies, and health and
well-being.
Google Public Data Explorer
Link: ​https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Description: Datasets about human and world development and how they relate to economic
data.
Google’s Dataset Search
Link: ​https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
Description: A search engine to find datasets using keywords.
Google Public Datasets
Link: ​https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/
Description: Datasets hosted on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that can be query searched.
The first 1TB of queries are free.
Google Trends
Link: ​https://trends.google.com/trends/explore
Description: Allows the user to choose different search terms and compare them against one
another. Measures the proportions of searches on Google against each of the other search terms.
Healthdata.gov
Link: ​https://healthdata.gov/
Description: It contains 125 years’ worth of healthcare data from the United States.

4. Kaggle
Link: ​https://www.kaggle.com/
Description: Kaggle has data sets, models to build and explore, and is a collaborative
environment to work with data scientists and machine-learning engineers. There are also options
to compete to solve data science challenges.
National Climatic Data Center
Link: ​https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets
Description: The National Climatic Data Center contains environment and weather data from
around the world.
NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre
Link: ​https://digital.nhs.uk/
Description: A collection of processed data from health and social care systems in England.
Pew Research Center
Link: ​https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/datasets/
Description: Pew Research Center has data sets organized by survey name. The survey data are
released two years after research reports on the data set are issued.
Quandl
Link: ​https://www.quandl.com/search?filters=%5B%22Free%22%5D
Description: It contains economic and financial data geared toward investment professionals. Not
all the data sets are free, but the link filters to the free ones.
Reserve Bank of India
Link: ​https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/Statistics.aspx
Description: Datasets about India’s economy, finances, and banking from India’s central bank.
SEER*Explorer
Link: ​https://seer.cancer.gov/explorer/
Description: The National Cancer Institute's data on cancer statistics based on age, gender, stage,
etc.
UCI Machine Learning Repository
Link: ​http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.php
Description: Used by the machine learning community, this consolidates databases, domain
theories, and data generators to be used to analyze machine learning algorithms.

5. UNICEF
Link: ​https://www.unicef.org/research-and-reports
Description: Has datasets about children around the world that focus on their wellbeing.
United States Census Bureau
Link: ​https://www.census.gov/data.html
Description: Data from the U.S. Census including population, geographic, and education data.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Link: ​https://www.bls.gov/data/
Description: Databases containing labor-related statistics such as inflation, employment,
workplace injuries, resources, and various others.
The World Bank
Link: ​https://data.worldbank.org/
Description: A government organization that provides data on the success of the programs they
implement in developing countries.
YouTube labeled Video Dataset
Link: ​https://research.google.com/youtube8m/
Description: A dataset of over 8 million video IDs and 4800 visual entities from YouTube.