Open Data is the Best Data

Open Data is the Best Data

You don’t always have to collect data from 90 college undegraduates to answer your research questions. There might be an open dataset that will help you address a question that is important to you. Explore the following sites at your leisure:

Data From and For “Do-Gooders”

• Data World
• Data Science for Social Good
• ProPublica Data Store

Public Data to Practice

• Datasets in R - These datasets are, mostly if not all, already preloaded into R or come with particular R packages. No need to import.
• ROpenSci
• Data Science Central
• Springboard
• Data Quest
• ICSPR at Blue
• GitHub - GitHub is the main storage site for data scientists. Generally underutilized in psychology.
• Kaggle

Open Data from US Cities and the Government

• Data.Gov
• City of New York
• City of Los Angeles Open Data
• The City of San Diego Open Data
• GSS Data - A popular database site for the social sciences.

Data in the News

• 538 at Github - 538 is a web news sources that covers politics, social science, and sports.

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