Subject & Research Guides: Open Data Sets and Visualization Resources: Other Data Sets

Google Data Sets

The open web provides many options for finding data resources. Try using:

Google Advanced Search
Tips for Advanced Google searching include:

Include search terms like data or table
Google ignores the word AND as a search operator. But, typing OR in all caps will find similar or related terms (e.g. women OR females OR girls).
Search for a particular document type (e.g. food insecurity filetype:xls)
Search for data on a particular site or domain (e.g. food insecurity site:.gov)
Exclude words by using the "-" sign in front of the word you wish to exclude

Google Dataset Search - A search engine aggregator of data resources that are freely available to use.

Google Public Data Explorer - A powerful tool to explore, find and visualize U.S. and international data in one place. Visualizations can be selected to create line, bar, scatter, map, and other visualization formats.

Other Data Sets

Child Trends
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.
Climate.gov
A gateway to reusable climate maps and datasets that document various climate conditions. The section aims to serve officials and professionals who need climate data to inform their decisions or compile a climate adaptation report.
CTData
Striving for informed decision-making across Connecticut, CTData empowers an ecosystem of data users by democratizing access to public data and building data literacy.
DataCite
Search for datasets that you can share and reuse; create and manage DOIs.
Data is Plural
An archive of datasets collected for the Data is Plural listserv, a weekly newsletter (and seasonal podcast) of useful/curious datasets, published by Jeremy Singer-Vine.
Gapminder
Open source teaching resources, including datasets, that make the world understandable based on reliable statistics.
Kaggle
Allows users to find and publish data sets, explore and build models in a web-based data-science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges.
KDNuggets
A listing of datasets on a variety of disciplines.
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
Pew Research Center Data
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.
Statista
Marketing and consumer data from 600 industries and 50+ countries.
USA Facts
A not-for-profit, nonpartisan civic initiative making government data easy for all Americans to access and understand. We provide accessible analysis on US spending and outcomes in order to ground public debates in facts.