Data Sources

This page is a semi-curated source of datasets for use in assignments. The different sections have datasets that are good for different assignments.

Best for loading directly into a notebook

• Tidy Tuesday inside the folder for each year there is a README file with list of the datasets. These are .csv files

• Json Datasets

• National Center for Education Statistics Digest 2019 These data tables are available for download as excel and visible on the page.

• Lots of wikipedia pages have tables in them.

General Sources

These may require some more work

• Stackoverflow Developer Survey This data comes with readme info all packaged together in a .zip. You’ll need to unzip it first.

• Google Dataset Search

• Kaggle most Kaggle datasets will require you to download and unzip them first and then you can copy them into your repo folder.

• UCI Data Repository Machine Learning focused datasets, can filter by task

• A curated list of datasets by task It includes datasets for cleaning, visualization, machine learning, and “data analysis” which would align with EDA in this course.

• Hugging Face NLP Datasets lots of text datasets

Datasets in many parts

• Makeup Shades

• Kenya Census

• Wealth and Income over time

• UN Votes

• Deforestation

• Survivor

• Billboard

• Caribou Tracking

• Video games from steam 2021 and from 2019

• BBC Rap Artists

Datasets with time

• Superbowl commercials

Databases

• SQLite Databases

If you have others please share by creating a pull request or issue on this repo (from the GitHub logo at the top right, suggest edit).