Public data sources from Storytelling with data (with a few additions):
- American Community Survey - the premier source for detailed information about the American people and workforce.
- ArcGIS Hub Open Data - Localized geo-spatial data.
- The Association of Religious Data Archives - A collection of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.
- Awesome JSON Datasets - GitHub repository with links to data on bitcoin, cars, climate, and more.
- Awesome Public Datasets - GitHub repository, topic-centric list of high-quality open datasets in public domains. By everyone, for everyone!
- BJS.gov - Bureau of Justice statistics and data.
- BRFSS - Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- British Oceanographic Data Center - Publicly accessible marine data.
- CDC - Center for Disease Control datasets by topic.
- CDC Wonder Online Database - WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for the analysis of public health data.
- Canada - open data for the federal government of Canada
- Child Trends DataBank - Child Trends improves the lives and prospects of children and youth by conducting high-quality research and sharing the resulting knowledge with practitioners and policymakers.
- City of Chicago - open data portal for all things Windy City
- Data.gov - The home of the U.S. Government’s open data.
- Data.gov.au - Australian government’s open data.
- Data.gov.nz - New Zealand government’s open data.
- Data.gov.uk - Data published by UK government departments and agencies, public bodies, local authorities.
- Data.gov.sg - Singapore government’s open data.
- Data is Plural - Spreadsheet of public datasets and sources.
- DataSF - Search hundreds of datasets from the City and County of San Francisco.
- Dataverse - Open source research data repository software.
- Data.world - Data aggregator of public datasets, projects and sources.
- Diversity Data Kids - Data on diversity, opportunity and equity amongst US children
- DRYAD - Curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
- The Economist - markets & data.
- EIA - US Energy Information Administration’s energy data.
- Enigma Public - “The world’s broadest collection of public data”.
- Eurostat - European statistics.
- FAA Data - Data and statistics from Federal Aviation Administration research.
- FAOSTAT Data - Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations datasets.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer - View trends, download bulk datasets, and access the Crime Data API for reported crime at the national, state, and agency levels.
- FEMA Data Feeds - FEMA data available in multiple formats.
- Figshare - Opening up scientific data to the world.
- FiveThirtyEight - Datasets used in its articles available via Github repository.
- FlowingData - 30 resources to find the data you need.
- Gapminder.org - Data in Gapminder World (over 500 entries).
- The General Social Survey - Datasets from NORC.org on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spending priorities, crime/punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions.
- Google Public Data Explorer - Google's Public Data Explorer provides public data and forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions.
- Health Intelligence - Links to a ton of health related datasets.
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - Free healthcare statistics.
- HealthData.gov - dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all.
- Human Fertility Database - Detailed and high-quality data on period and cohort fertility to facilitate research on changes and inter-country differences in fertility in the past and in the modern era.
- Human Mortality Database - Provides detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity.
- The Huntington’s Early California Population Project - Public access to all the information contained in California's historic mission registers.
- IIE.org Open Doors Data Portal - Data tables for the past decade on international students and scholars in the United States and on American students studying abroad for academic credit.
- Informatics Lab Open Data - 80TB of meteorological data.
- Information is beautiful – Collections of data presented by Information is beautiful
- IPUMS - Provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.
- The Italian National Institute of Statistics – official data and statistics from the Italian National Institute of Statistics
- Kaggle - Open datasets on variety of topics (government, health, science, popular games, dating trends).
- KIDS COUNT Data Center - Provides data on children and families
- KDNuggets Datasets - Lists a ton of data repositories.
- Lahman’s Baseball Database - Complete batting and pitching statistics from 1871 to 2016, plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, post-season data, and more.
- London Datastore - The London Datastore is a free and open data-sharing portal where anyone can access data relating to the London.
- Makeover Monday - Datasets from the weekly Makeover Monday competition.
- MassVis - Massachusetts (massive) visualization dataset
- MEPS - Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration datasets and images.
- NASA Earth Data - Data from The Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).
- NHAMCS - National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Data.
- NHANES - National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- New York State - Browse and download over 1,500 New York State data resources on topics ranging from farmers’ markets to solar photovoltaic projects to MTA turnstile usage.
- ODI Leeds - Pioneer nodes bring together communities, host events, produce open data projects and help promote understanding of open data in our region and worldwide.
- OECD Data - Find, compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications.
- Office for National Statistics - The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.
- Toronto Open Data - Open data from the provincial government of Ontario, Canada
- Open Data Nederland - Open data from the Netherlands.
- Open Data Network - Publish data and share. Find data and build. Answer questions.
- Our World in Data - Explore the ongoing history of human civilization at the broadest level, through research and data visualization (with downloadable datasets).
- PermID from Thomson Reuters - PermIDs are open, permanent and universal identifiers where underlying attributes capture the context of the identity they each represent.
- Pew Research Center - Download datasets.
- Plenar.io - centralized hub for open datasets from around the world
- PolicyMap - Easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US.
- Princeton University Library - Political opinion & survey data sources.
- re3data.org - Registry of research data repositories.
- Retrosheet.org - Baseball play by play and game log stats back to the 20s (see “data downloads”).
- Satori - open data initiative
- Statista - Statistics portal for stats & studies from 18,000 sources.
- St. Louis Federal Reserve - Download 507,000 US & international time series from 87 sources.
- SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
- Swiss Open Government Data - opendata.swiss is the portal for Swiss open government data (OGD).
- Tableau Public - Datasets on education, government, science, lifestyle and more.
- Toronto Open Data - Open data catalogue from city of Toronto.
- Transport for London - TFL data feeds.
- UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository - Nearly 400 datasets maintained as a service to the machine learning community. You may view all data sets through our searchable interface.
- UMich ICPSR - University of Michigan’s searchable database.
- UN Comtrade Database - Trade statistics from the United Nations.
- Uniform Crime Reporting - FBI datasets.
- University of Rochester LibGuide “Data-Stats” - Repository listing many public data sources & datasets.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics - National longitudinal surveys. See also “Databases & Tables by Subject.”
- US Census Bureau Data - Browse by topic, download data.
- USA Facts - Federal, state and local data from over 70 government sources
- Utah Open Data - State of Utah open data catalog with data provided by State of Utah agencies.
- Varieties of Democracy - Time series data on various aspects of democracy.
- Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center - Now serving 262 datasets and counting.
- WHO Data Repository - World Health Organization database.
- The World Bank Data Catalog - 20K+ datasets, this catalog lists all open data and other publicly available data disseminated through World Bank sites.
- World Values Survey - Data from nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries using a common questionnaire to measure changing values and impact on social and political life.
- World Wealth & Income Database - Download open access datasets.