List of Datasources to Explore
My definitinon of a 'datasource' might be considered somewhat loose. Not all of these are presented in nice tabular format, and in fact many would require scraping or text-processing steps before being useful. Some of these may show up in futurue blogposts. I'm curious about what can be learned from them.
Data About Government:
- Veteran's affairs wait time data
- DOJ blogposts, speeches and other communication
- Project on government oversight's databases. I've started exploring the contractor misconduct database
- Government contractor network
- SIGAR reports
- Miliary enlistments per capita via the atlantic.
Wikipedia & Dbpedia:
- Wikipedia page views
- Dbpedia ontology queriable via this sparql endpoint for grabbing quick facts about the world.
- data-enchancement tool dbpedia spotlight
Media
Geo Data:
- Cityobservatory's favorite datasources
- Aerial sattelite photos
- NASA sattelite images
- Map of federally owned land
- US bridges, bridge age & reconstruction date ...
- US Energy sources mapped
- FAA Obstacles dataset includes location information on a variety of structures
Aggregators:
- https://data.commerce.gov/
- http://journalistsresource.org/skills/research/u-s-government-agencies-reports-data-resources
- http://journalistsresource.org/skills/research/websites-u-s-federal-government-administrative-datasets
- https://github.com/jackiekazil/pyusda
- https://www.quandl.com/
- http://enigma.io/
- http://www.esri.com/landing-pages/tapestry/
- http://americancommunities.org/
- http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/data/
- http://101.datascience.community/2014/10/17/data-sources-for-cool-data-science-projects-part-1-guest-post/* http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/165347/8-apis-your-news-organization-should-start-using-today/
- https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets