The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.
Collection of economic, social and environmental time series data from sources including the United Kingdom government, the Federal Reserve System and the European Central Bank. you can build graphs and embed them into your blogs and websites, and if the data they're based on is updated, they'll be updated too. You can set up alerts too, and get Timetric to email you when something interesting happens to a value you're watching. Also has an API.
mashed up Google Maps with World Bank data to give a visual entry point to browse world bank projects, news, statistics and public information center by country.
The 2008 version of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database contains 8,374 voyages added since the CD-Rom was published in 1999 and additional information on 19,320 voyages. The expanded data set has 276 variables, compared with 99 in the Voyages Database available online.
September 23, 2009. The first homework assignment for students in the Government 2.0 consulting course was to find prior art (i.e., existing applications on the web) and data sets that might inspire them. Here’s what they found.
designed to provide quick and easy access to a wide range of data on tax rates, collections and overall tax burdens. All data are posted in Excel when available.
Politically-Oriented Web-Enhanced Research Methods for Undergraduates — Topics and Tools Resources for introductory research methods courses in political science and related disciplines. Most Topic exercises require data analysis that uses statistical software.
Wired Magazine issue 16.07. Data Deluge. Crop predictions. Quark. Data mining. tracking news. watching the skies, scanning skeletons. airfares. voting. epidemics. google events. terrorism. visualizing big data
wiki devoted to strategies for developing statistical literacy and data services among and between libraries and archives and other service units in academic settings.
a research dataset constructed at the Center for Economic Studies (CES). Currently, the LBD contains the universe of all U.S. business establishments with paid employees from 1976 to 1999. The LBD is updated annually. The LBD offers researchers at CES and its affiliated Research Data Centers (RDCs) a number of features not available in other longitudinal datasets.
here's a lot of great information out there about politics — votes, lobbying records, campaign finance reports. Unfortunately, it's split across a dozen different web sites and often hidden behind confusing interfaces. We're pulling all of that together and letting you explore it in one elegant, unified interface. (Plus, we're sharing all the results so you can come up with new ways to explore it.)
Fisher Department of Finance, Ohio State University. Financial Data Finder is a collection of references to web sites devoted to various areas of finance. It is targeted to the needs of researchers and students.
a data API. an environment in which the data is distributed, discoverable, described and linked just as the text data of documents is now. One would have a data browser and a service like Swivel would be more of an aggregator/search engine rather than a d