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Sample Databases & Repositories

These databases and repositories have lots of different kinds of data that are not specific to any particular subject area. Keep in mind that this is just a start, there are many other places you can find data if you don't see what you're looking for.

Google Dataset Search
Google's Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
GitHub Awesome Public Data Sets
This is a list of topic-centric public data sources in high quality. They are collected and tidied from blogs, answers, and user responses. Most of the data sets listed below are free, however, some are not.
United States Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau hosts open data sets that can be found via this website.
Harvard Dataverse
Harvard Dataverse provides access to a rich array of datasets to support your research. It offers advanced searching and text mining in over 2,000 dataverses, 75,000 datasets, and 350,000+ files, representing institutions, groups, and individuals at Harvard and beyond.
Data.gov
United States Federal Government clearinghouse for linked, open government data.

These are just a few of the many places you can look for public health data. Keep in mind that this is just a start, there are many other places you can find data if you don't see what you're looking for.

CDC Data Sets
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosts a repository of all available data sets with a Socrata Open Data API. Available categories include: Administrative, Biomonitoring, Child Vaccinations, Flu Vaccinations, Health Statistics, Injury & Violence, Motor Vehicle, NCHS, NNDSS, Pregnancy & Vaccination, STDs, Smoking & Tobacco Use, Teen Vaccinations, Traumatic Brain Injury, Vaccinations and Web Metrics.
IPUMS Global Health
Harmonized international survey data on maternal, child, and reproductive health. IPUMS Global Health provides integrated international health survey data at no cost for research and educational purposes from three data series: the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS), the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster surveys (MICS), and Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA).
IPUMS Health Survey Data
Harmonized data from U.S. National Health Surveys. IPUMS Health Surveys provide free individual-level survey data for research purposes from two leading sources of self-reported health and health care access information: the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).

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Air Quality Measures on the National Environmental Health Tracking Network

These are just a few of the many places you can look for environmental research data. Keep in mind that this is just a start, there are many other places you can find data if you don't see what you're looking for.

Where to find EPA data
EPA data is found in many places. This guide by the EPA provides recommendations for applications where you can find them.
NOAA Billion Dollar Disasters
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) collects information and conducts data analysis to address severe weather and climate events in their historical perspective. As part of its responsibility of monitoring and assessing the climate, NCEI tracks and evaluates climate events in the U.S. and globally that have great economic and societal impacts.
AirData (EPA)
This EPA website provides an overview of air quality data collected by the EPA, as well as various means of accessing and interpreting it. The AirData website gives you access to air quality data collected at outdoor monitors across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The data comes primarily from the AQS (Air Quality System) database.

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Topic(s): Climate & Weather, Ecology, Health, Public Opinion
Geographic Coverage: National
Organization Type: U.S. Federal Government
Data Type: Subject-Specific Repository
USGS Data Sets
You can use USGS Science Explorer to identify interesting topics, papers, and associated datasets.
NASA Earthdata
The Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program provides full and open access to NASA’s collection of Earth science data for understanding and protecting our home planet.

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NPS Data Store: Streamside Bird Monitoring Data in Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network Parks (2011-2023) Data Package

These are just a few of the many places you can look for political science data. Keep in mind that this is just a start, there are many other places you can find data if you don't see what you're looking for.

ICPSR
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research's data archive of more than 350,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 23 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
IPUMS
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center makes the case-level microdata for much of its research available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time.
World Bank
Free and open access to global development data

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2024 National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS)

These datasets, adapted from Ohio State University's Sports and Society Initiative, can be a great starting point for research into a variety sports. These are just a few of the many places you can look for sports data. Keep in mind that this is just a start, there are many other places you can find data if you don't see what you're looking for.

Ohio State University: Sports and Society Initiative
This LibGuide provides a thorough list of datasets and databases for football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, tennis, MMA, golf, and more. The below links are a sample from this guide.
Baseball Savant
Baseball Savant is a source for various baseball data. This includes more advanced statistics such as xwOBA, barrell%, and much more. Baseball Savant also allows you to create a csv file and a visual with select statistics of your choice.
Pro Football Reference
Pro-football reference includes NFL data, dating back to 1967. This data includes player statistics, all-time leaders, draft history, coaches, and much more. Statistics are updated by every week, no later than Tuesday at 6pm. Additional data can be found behind a paid subscription.
Basketball Dataset
This website provides data sets on basketball. This data includes drafts, players, salary, game officials, etc. This website also provides data on the draft combine, so you can compare a players combine score to their draft position. This source would be great to research basketball data and statistics.
Money Puck
This website provides data on a wide variety of hockey data. This data includes playoff odds, teams, and players. This data is from 2008-2023. All of this data comes in a csv file. This website would be useful if you’re researching any hockey data over the past 15 years.