Learning Public Data Sets

Introduction

• Use public data sets to perform analyses
• What you should know

1. US Census Bureau and Securities and Exchange Commission

• US Census Bureau population data
• US Census Bureau maps and visualizations
• US Census Bureau industry data
• US Census Bureau geographic data sets
• US health data
• EDGAR

2. Other US Government Agencies

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Internal Revenue Service migration data
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• US Federal Reserve Board
• US Department of Education Data and Research
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• US Patent and Trademark Office
• National Centers for Environmental Information

3. Data Sources for Non-US Entities

• World Bank
• CIA World Factbook
• United Nations
• UNICEF
• Statistics Canada
• Eurostat
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• UK National Health Service NHS Digital

4. Data Search Engines and Portals

• Google Finance
• Google Trends
• Google Public Data Explorer
• Amazon Web Services Public Data Sets
• Data.gov
• Google Ngram Viewer
• The Corpus of Contemporary American English
• University of California, Irvine, Center for Machine Learning
• Pew Research Center

Conclusion

• Next steps