ITSCM 380 Business Intelligence / ITSCM 774 Data Analytics: Finding Data
An online research guide for use with ITSCM380 and ITSCM774
Finding Datasets
In addition to library resources, lots of data, domestic and international, is freely available online. This page contains links to just a few potential sources.
Provides access to an extensive repository of standardized and structured statistical data. The repository contains more than 18.9 billion data points from more than 70 source organizations providing access to data presented in charts, maps, graphs, and table form.
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to analysis and data. Click the Statistics tab to find data. Note: We do not have access to the IEA statistics.
Data.Census.Gov is the Census Bureau's data access point. Starting in July, 2019 data.census.gov will be the primary way to access Census Bureau data, including upcoming releases. After July 1, 2019, all new data (previously released on American FactFinder) will be released on this new data platform.
American FactFinder (AFF) will remain as an "archive" system for accessing historical data until spring 2020.
It provides tools to look up, view, and deliver data, reports, tables, maps, and fact sheets on United States population, economy, and industry statistics. Large and small scale geographies, eg., states, counties, places, census tracts, and blocks can be searched.
A resource from the United Nations Statistics Division. "The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators."
Contains over 186,770 datasets from government entities. Find information on everything from student loans, precipitation rates, and consumer complaints.
A free and easy way to find, access and use quality data on Africa. It contains data from all of Afrobarometer’s Rounds 1-5 (1999-2012) covering 33 countries.
The data base contains all the latest available data and indicators, for education, literacy, science, technology and innovation, as well as culture. It also contains updated country and regional profiles, global rankings and other interactive tools.
FedStats supports a community of practice for over 100 agencies engaged in the production and dissemination of official federal statistics, and provides the public with a showcase of information, tools and news related to official federal statistics.
Called the "social network for data people," this relatively new site lets you sign up and share datasets with other researchers, or download datasets that may have been manipulated or changed to be just what you need for your own research.
"Creating a platform that monitors the world's news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day and that stretches back to January 1, 1979 through present day, with daily updates..."
"The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts hundreds of surveys every year and prepares reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture. Production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of U.S. producers are only a few examples."
Contains data from 1840-2002. "The Census of Agriculture, taken every five years, is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. The Census looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures, and many other areas."
"The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation."
The ARDA Data Archive is a collection of surveys, polls, and other data related to religion submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.
"Contains links to sites with statistical information and published reports on subjects such as U.S. military casualties (DCAS), aggregated roster immunization reports (ICRS), and military training and readiness reports (START)."
"Contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings."
"ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields."
"The MMP Database is the result of an ongoing multidisciplinary study of Mexican Migration to the United States. It contains data gathered since 1982 in surveys administered every year in Mexico and in the United States."
The International Monetary Fund's IFS database contains data on exchange rates, commodity prices, consumer prices, interest rates, and other economic indicators.
Historical time series data for the U.S. economy which includes daily U.S. interest rates, CPI, PPI, GDP, monetary data, exchange rates, balance of payments and more. Data may be exported into Excel or text files.
"NAHB produces in-depth economic analyses of the home building industry based on private and government data. Our economics group surveys builders, home buyers, and renters to gain insight into the issues and trends driving the industry."
"SIPP collects data and measures change for many topics including: economic well-being, family dynamics, education, assets, health insurance, childcare, and food security."
"USAID maintains the official database for OECD/DAC and Greenbook reporting for assistance provided by the U.S. Government to the rest of the world, from 1946 to the present."
The Election Administration and Voting Survey "captures quantitative data pertaining to the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), and other election administration issues such as the counting of provisional ballots and poll worker recruitment. The second part is the Statutory Overview, which asks states a series of open-ended questions about their election laws, definitions, and procedures."
"This archive contains data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, with particular focus on the United States. The core data for the archive are state, county and district level election returns for all recent state and federal elections in the United States."
"Provides information on the results of both national and subnational elections around the world.... All parties are included in the database regardless of the number of votes that they won. The data are based on countries' official election results and have been amassed from various government institutions."
A collaboration between the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Data on oil and gas.
"NCEI is the world’s largest provider of weather and climate data. Land-based, marine, model, radar, weather balloon, satellite, and paleoclimatic are just a few of the types of datasets available."
"SEDAC focuses on human interactions in the environment. Its mission is to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and Earth science data and to serve as an "Information Gateway" between the Earth and social sciences."
"Labour statistics describe the size, structure, characteristics, outputs and contributions of the participants in the labour market and how these change over time. From an economic perspective, these statistics are useful to analyse, evaluate and monitor the way the economy is performing and the effectiveness of current and longer term economic policies."
Contains data the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development from national and international sources. Most of the time series cover long periods, with some dating back to 1948, for almost all economies of the world.
"This database is maintained by the Statistical Division of the UNECE Secretariat. It provides free access to data structured to facilitate easy retrieval of statistics by users. It is organised by subject or policy areas. Multi-dimensional tables present data by country, by various socio-economic classifications related to the context, and by time period."
"The ICTWSS database covers four key elements of modern political economies: trade unionism, wage setting, state intervention and social pacts. The database contains annual data for all OECD and EU member states."
The MISSOC Comparative Tables Database contains detailed information on social protection in 32 countries, including financing, healthcare, sickness, maternity/paternity, invalidity, old age, survivors, accidents at work and occupational diseases, family, unemployment, guaranteed minimum resources and long-term care.
A "comprehensive source for sports statistics and data.... Our focus will be on the statistics side of things but we'll also provide historical and other data for all players, leagues and teams."
"[Brought] to you by the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. This analysis cutting tool was designed to provide rapid customized reports for public inquiries relating to equity in athletics data."
"his archive includes user-friendly data collections related to graduation rates; team-level Academic Progress Rates in Division I; and individual-level data on the experiences of current student-athletes from the NCAA's Growth, Opportunities, Aspirations and Learning of Students in college study (GOALS)."
Links to sports data on American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Cycling, Fencing, Golf, Hockey, Olympics, Poker, Racing, Rugby, Soccer, Tennis, and Volleyball.
"The International Transport Forum collects data relevant to a range of transport policy issues. It maintains historical databases and publishes analysis and indicators regarding the transport sector."
"The Airline Data Project aggregates airline data from the U.S. DOT’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)."
