DATA! Visualizing and More: Data Sets

Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)

" the premier source for detailed population and housing information about our nation.” -- their website

"Our goal is to inform people about politics by providing accurate and objective information about politics at all levels of government. Ballotpedia connects people with politics by changing the way they access the information they need to be informed about federal, state, and local politics. Our content includes neutral, accurate, and verifiable information on government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, candidates, and the influencers of politics. Ballotpedia currently has over 276,000 encyclopedic articles.” This source is sponsored by the Lucy Burns Institute, a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization." --from their website

These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.”This site houses data on corrections, courts, crime types, employment and expenditure, victims, and law enforcement." --from their website

“The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the federal government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments, business, and labor.” --from their website

United States Environmental Protection Agency

United States Environmental Protection Agency

United States Environmental Protection Agency

United States Environmental Protection Agency

As the surveys are designed for replication, they can be used for both cross-national and cross-time comparision laying the base for a vast range of substantial and methodological research.” --from their website

IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community context. Data and services available free of charge.” --from their website

NCES is located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences. NCES fulfills a Congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education; conduct and publish reports; and review and report on education activities internationally.” --from their website

"He envisioned NCSC as a clearinghouse for research information and comparative data to support improvement in judicial administration in state courts.” --from their website

"We also offer access to 50-state information and other legislative resources, such as weekly session schedules. You can find legislation in the 50 states, District of Columbia and Congress through NCSL’s new 50-State Bill Information Service, a searchable database containing the full text of legislation for the current session.” --from their website

"NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis.” --from their website

"A considerable amount of life-history information was collected, including the respondent's family living arrangements in childhood, departures and returns to the parental home, and histories of marriage, cohabitation, education, fertility, and employment.” --from their website

"...[NCCAA] collects a wealth of data from its member institutions and their student-athletes. "--from their website

"We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. ...Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time.” --from their website

"The repository’s holdings include different types of projects, and multiple types of qualitative data including (but not limited to) unpublished primary sources, published primary sources, primary sources cited in secondary sources, and secondary sources.” --from their website

“The Schlesinger participates in Harvard’s Open Collections Program, which began in 2004, assembling digitized materials from Harvard’s various libraries to create online collections around themes like “working women” and “immigration.” -- from their website

"The crime data are submitted either through a state UCR program or directly to the FBI's UCR Program. The UCR Program consists of four data collections: The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the Summary Reporting System (SRS), the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program, and the Hate Crime Statistics Program.” --from their website

"The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. "Moreover, the WVS is the only academic study covering the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries, in all of the world’s major cultural zones.” --from their website

"To propel the scientific study of terrorism, counterterrorism and community resilience forward, START seeks to collect and disseminate valuable datasets so that academics, analysts, and practitioners can take these objective baselines as their starting point for future analysis and decision-making. START also produces interactive knowledge tools to help visualize data, integrate data and organize data for greater utility. "