datasets-for-stat-courses

This is a collection of datasets that are shareable, public, and useful for data-driven courses

Clean Data (little cleaning and wrangling needed)

Birth

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Vital Statistics System US Natality, 2019, (.zip) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Vital Statistics System US Territories Natality, 2019, (.zip)
  • Data key
  • Original source
  • License

Business and Finance

• United States Small Business Administration Historical Business Loans, (.zip)
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  • Original source - Min Li, Amy Mickel & Stanley Taylor (2018) “Should This Loan be Approved or Denied?”: A Large Dataset with Class Assignment Guidelines, Journal of Statistics Education, 26:1, 55-66, DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2018.1434342
  • License - CC BY-NC 4.0

COVID-19

• The COVID Tracking Project (.csv)

  • Data key
  • Original source - The COVID Tracking Project
  • License - CC BY-NC 4.0

• The New York Times Coronavirus Data in the United States - Historical state level, (.csv) and The New York Times Coronavirus Data in the United States - Historical county level, (.csv)

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  • Original source - The New York Times
  • License

Election

• Champaign County Vote By Mail Reqest Report, November 1, 2020, (.csv)

  • Original source - Champaign County Clerk - Elections Division

• MIT Election Data and Science Lab's U.S. Presidential Election Results 1976–2016

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  • Original source - MIT Election Data and Science Lab, 2017, "U.S. President 1976–2016", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/42MVDX, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:6:Mw0hOUHAijKPTVRAe5jJvg== [fileUNF]

Music and Entertainent

• Miles Davis Discography - Song Attributes via Spotify's Web API, (.csv)

Transportation

• City of Chicago's Divvy Bicycle Sharing Service - Historical Trips

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  • Original source
  • License

• Champaign County Regional Planning Commission - Bicycle Crashes, (.json)

  • Original source
  • License - ODbL 1.0

• Champaign County Regional Planning Commission - Pedestrian Crashes, (.json)

  • Original source
  • License - ODbL 1.0

Messy Data (much cleaning and wrangling needed)

COVID-19

• The COVID Tracking Project - Racial Data Tracker
  • Original source - COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research
  • License - CC BY-NC 4.0

Crime and Jail

• University of Illinois Daily Crime Log, last 60 days from 11-09-2020 (.csv)

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  • Original source

• Champaign County Sheriff's Office and Jail Bookings, 01-01-2012 to 06-30-2018 (.csv)

  • Original source

• Champaign County Sheriff's Office and Jail Bookings, 01-01-2019 to 07-31-2020 (.xlsx)

  • Original source

Dining and Food

• City of Chicago Food Inspections (.csv)
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  • Original source

Housing

• City of Urbana Rental Inspection Grades Listing (.csv)
  • Original source
  • License

Space and Extraterrestrial Life

• NASA Center for Near Earth Object Studies - Jet Propulsion Laboratory SBDB (Small-Body DataBase) Close Approach Data API
  • Data key
  • Original source