Data Sets for Politics, POLS 201 / 401: WWW Sources for Data Sets

"The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. "

"re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines." [...] It is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

UCI contains "622 data sets as a service to the machine learning community."

"Vital Statistics began as a joint effort undertaken by Thomas E. Mann of Brookings and Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, in collaboration with Michael Malbin of the Campaign Finance Institute. The datasets were published in print until 2013 when the project migrated online for the first time."

Analyze Boston is the City of Boston's open data hub.

"New England Economic Indicators is a data resource assembled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s New England Public Policy Center. It provides current and historical economic data for the six states in the First Federal Reserve District (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont), large metropolitan areas in the region, New England as a whole, and the United States."

"We’re sharing the data and code behind some of our articles and graphics." Founded by Nate Silver in 2008, FiveThirtyEight (538) focused on opinion poll analysis. It has been associated with The New York Times, ESPN, and now with ABC News.

Selection of free public data sets available at Tableau.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) was founded in 1920, to "encourage ... investigation, research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge ... in the fields of economic, social, and industrial science."

ANES is a collaboration of Duke University, University of Michigan, The University of Texas at Austin, and Stanford University, with funding by the National Science Foundation.

From the The U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Raw data files containing campaign finance data.

"FRED, your trusted source for economic data since 1991. [...] Download, graph, and track 816,000 US and international time series from 108 sources" From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Data Download Program.

"Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.""

Depending on the extent of use, fees may apply.

To browse open data sets by subject, click Find data > [In filters] Subject Terms > view all entries in an A-Z list.

Offers "Webinars and tutorials on accessing and using ICPSR resources."

"Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union."

Includes data sets on education, energy, communication (internet usage), and development assistance.

"The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication."

Create tables relating to:
Country Profiles
Economy
Forestry
Millennium Development Goals
Population and Gender
Sustainable Development Goals
Thematic Overviews
Transport

Data.census.gov is the data dissemination platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

"The home of the U.S. Government’s open data."

Use the filters to narrow down to a data set, by topic, format, agency/organization, or location.

The publisher ProQuest stepped in to continue the Statistical Abstract series when the U.S. Census Bureau ceased its publication in 2011.

"Resources.data.gov is an online repository of policies, tools, case studies, and other resources to support data governance, management, exchange, and use throughout the federal government."

Archival access to the digitized volumes of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1889-2012.