Collections#
Lists and collections of datasets released by journalists or governments or others.
BBC shared data unit: all story datasets
Buzzfeed: all story datasets & analyses
Cities: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leipzig, London, New York, Paris, Stirling
CSO (Central Statistics Office, Ireland)
Datassist: catalogue of different indexes available
Data commons: open sources for students & researchers
Data Is Plural: archive of data mentioned in email — J Singer-Vine
Dataverse: research datasets made public — Harvard
Deutsche Welle: repository of story data
The Economist: repository of story data and code
Environmental Information: public register
Equality & human rights commission UK
Get the data: Q&A forum for finding answers in or about data
Google Bigquery datasets on Kaggle
Goverment Statistical Service (beta)
Guardian Data Blog: 1400 stories with data sources (2009-11)
Harvard University’s data repository
Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
Higher Education Statistics Agency
Housing, communities & local govt(Ministry of)
Human rights data analysis group
Information is beautiful datasets (300+)
Investigative journalism: 18 sources
JSON format datasets (random list)
London data (Colouring London project)
National centre for social research
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local government — data portal
MIT: Knight Science Journalism dataset list
My Society datasets (including UK political datasets)
OCCRP. Organised crime and corruption reporting project - datasets
ONS data stories: Project Cairo
Our World in Data: long list of datasets
Oxpeckers (environmental investigation) story datasets
Paris Tech: random datasets — James Eagan
Propublica: story datasets with APIs
Random datasets for cleaning — Rachel Tatman
Sourceful: finding useful public Google documents
South Africa’s national statistics agency
SODP: data sources for journalists
Stanford list of US datasets for journalists
Statista: full access via Cardiff University library
UK data service (ESRI-funded collection of datasets)
UK govt reports on open data and government — Gavin Freeguard
UK data service: social research data