Datasets
Table of Contents
Updated as I find them…
News and Reporting
- Buzzfeed News
- FiveThirtyEight
- The Economist
- The Upshot (NYTimes)
- Baltimore Sun
- Los Angeles Times
- MediaCloud
Random / Fun
- #TidyTuesday
- The Pudding
- Data is Plural
- Kaggle
- Zillow Housing Data
- US Popular Baby Names babynamer R package
- AwesomeData
- Cryptic Crossword Clues
- Formula1 Racing Results
- K-12 School Shootings
Trends / Relative Interest
- Wikipedia Page Interest
- Google Trends
- Michigan Consumer Sentiment
- YouGov
- Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker
Covid
Social Science / Surveys
- American National Election Studies
- Cooperative Congressional Election Study
- Pew Research Center
- Monmouth Polling
- World Values Survey
- General Social Survey
- Nationscape/Voter Surveys
- Harvard Dataverse
Government
General
Labor
- Unemployment - Weekly Claims
- Unemployment - CPS Monthly
- Unemployment - State & Local
- Earnings and Wages
- QCEW - Workers and Wage per State/County
Households and Consumer
- Inflation
- Consumer Price Index
- Personal Income, Expenditures, Savings
- Consumer Credit
- Household Debt and Credit
- Consumer Expenditure Surveys
- American Time Use Survey
Home Sales
- US Census - New Home Sales and Prices
- Select “Download all data for this report/survey”
- US Census - Residential Single Family Home Sales
Environmental
Congressional Stock Transactions
Other
- Highway Statistics incl. Vehicle and Driver Registrations
- Monthly Retail Sales
- Recreation Information Database
R Packages to Import Data
- BLS data: blscrapeR
- Stock data: quantmod
- BEA data: bea
- SEC Filings: edgar
- SIC Codes: edgarWebR
- FRED data: FredR
- Census data (decennial and 5-year ACS): tidycensus
- Census data (full API): censusapi
- Census IPUMS microdata: ipumsr
- Twitter data: rtweet
- Real Estate date: realtR
- Finance data: pedquant
- World Bank data: wbstats
