MRU Library Website: Statistics and Data: Dataset Collections

Searching for Datasets

Use Google's Dataset Search to find data on a topic of interest

Some news and blogging organizations publish the data they collect for articles. Keep an eye out for mentions of interesting data and look for portals where the data is collected. GitHub is used by a number of organizations to collect datasets.

Browse through some of the sources below

Dataset Collections

Kaggle Datasets
Kaggle provides datasets on a wide range of topics, sortable by size and file type.
Awesome Public Datasets
Collection of links to publicly available data
Our World in Data
Contains reports that incorporate extensive data visualizations and aggregate data on a wide array of topics. Look for links to original sources to find full datasets.
Data.World
A free account is required to view and download datasets.
Data is Plural
A curated list of publicly available datasets on a variety of topics
Tidy Tuesday
New datasets weekly on a wide variety of topics
Wikipedia Database Download
Download Wikipedia. All of it.
FiveThirtyEight Data
Datasets used for articles for the FiveThirtyEight blog. Focus on US politics and sports.
BuzzFeed News Data
Data and analysis used in the development of BuzzFeed News articles.
IMDB Data
Download data on movies, TV shows, performers, and ratings.

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