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The Datahub provides free access to many of CKAN's core features, letting you search for data, register published datasets, create and manage groups of datasets, and get updates from datasets and groups you're interested in. You can use the web interface or, if you are a programmer needing to connect the Datahub with another app, the CKAN API.
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Type: Open Data
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://datahub.io/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis site is a first-release of the Commerce Data Hub, a platform to connect data customers with the data they need. Search over 40,000 datasets.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: US
URL: https://data.commerce.gov/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkA trusted source for a variety of data and statistics on the US. This website lists statistical information on a wide range of topics from many government agencies in US. You may need to do further research to find out which agency has the information you are looking for.
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Type: Data Visualization, Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: US
URL: https://www.usa.gov/statistics All Users
More Info/PermalinkA comprehensive list of Open Data catalogs from around the world.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://datacatalogs.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Eurostat regional yearbook provides an overview of key statistics available for the regions of Europe.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Eurostat_regional_yearbook All Users
More Info/PermalinkIt is an on-line multilingual database covering statistics on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use and population.
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Type: Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://faostat3.fao.org/home/E All Users
More Info/PermalinkA database of 24,619 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International, US
URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
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Type: Statistics
Country: US
URL: https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/govstat/fedstats/fedstats3.htm All Users
More Info/PermalinkGapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.gapminder.org/data/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Google Public Data Explorer makes large, public-interest datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
Students, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages. Embedded charts and links can update automatically so you’re always sharing the latest available data.
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Type: Open Data
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory All Users
More Info/PermalinkAn international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: https://www-icpsr-umich-edu.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/web/pages/ McMaster Users
More Info/PermalinkThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.eia.gov/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an alliance of 64 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://library.ifpri.info/data/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe ISSP is a cross-national collaboration programme conducting annual surveys on diverse topics relevant to social sciences.
Established in 1984 by its founding members Australia, Germany, Great Britain and the US, the ISSP has since included members covering various cultures around the globe. Its institutional members, each of them representing one nation, consist of academic organizations, universities, or survey agencies.
Since its foundation, over one million respondents have participated in the surveys of the ISSP. All collected data and documentation is available free of charge.
Data Access: All Users
Type: Microdata, Open Data
Country: International, US
URL: http://www.issp.org/menu-top/home/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is a household survey program housed within the Surveys & Methods Unit of the World Bank's Development Research Group that provides technical assistance to national statistical offices (NSOs) in the design and implementation of multi-topic household surveys. Since its inception in the early 1980s, the LSMS program has worked with dozens of statistics offices around the world: generating high-quality data, incorporating innovative technologies and improved survey methodologies, and building technical capacity. The LSMS team also provides technical support across the World Bank in the design and implementation of household surveys and in the measurement and monitoring of poverty.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://surveys.worldbank.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe London Datastore has been created by the Greater London Authority (GLA) as an innovation towards freeing London’s data. We want citizens to be able access the data that the GLA and other public sector organisations hold, and to use that data however they see fit – free of charge.
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Type: Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://data.london.gov.uk/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world’s frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth’s cryosphere. NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://nsidc.org/data/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis website was created by Rapid Intelligence, a web technology company based in Sydney, Australia. We produce original sites that provide people with unique views of content. All statistics on this site are cited. If you are concerned about authenticity and authorship, please view the "Source:" field, found below each graph. Or when viewing country statistics, click the "View with citations" link below the bottom of the page.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.nationmaster.com/ All Users
More Info/Permalinkdata.NSW brings together a list of NSW Government datasets available in one searchable website.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://data.nsw.gov.au/data/ All Users
More Info/Permalinkdata.govt.nz is a directory of publicly-available, non-personal New Zealand government held datasets. This site does not host data, instead it links to datasets held on other government websites.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: https://www.data.govt.nz/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThe U.S. Natural Hazard Statistics provide statistical information on fatalities, injuries and damages caused by weather related hazards. These statistics are compiled by the Office of Services and the National Climatic Data Center from information contained in Storm Data, a report comprising data from NWS forecast offices in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
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Type: Statistics
Country: US
URL: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml All Users
More Info/PermalinkA jointly funded project between the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and OntarioBuys provides university researchers with access to datasets in a web-based data extraction system delivered through the Scholars Portal model. The project targets Statistics Canada datasets, datafiles from Gallup Canada and other polling companies, public-domain files such as the Canadian National Election Surveys and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). The files are marked-up using DDI, an international, XML-based metadata tagging system which allows data resource discovery, distributed access, extraction and analysis ... researchers working with opinion polls will be able to search across hundreds of datasets and collections to see trends and historical patterns over time"--summarized from the project page.
Data Access: McMaster Users
Type: Microdata, Statistics
Country: Canada, US
URL: http://libaccess.mcmaster.ca/login?url=http://odesi2.scholarsportal.info/ McMaster Users
More Info/Permalink12,106 RESOURCES IN 3,352 CATALOGS , 320 VISUALIZATIONS BY 81 DEPARTMENTS
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://data.gov.in/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkPassport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide.
The Library subscribes to the following modules in Passport:
- Countries & Consumers - Provides in-depth analysis on trends impacting consumers and countries around the world. It delivers research and analysis on the evolving economy, business environment, population, and income and expenditure patterns in 210 countries worldwide.
- Industries - Includes global statistics and analysis for 27 major consumer industries worldwide. Contains historic and forecast market sizes, distribution channel analysis, company and brand share data, company profiles, global industry reports, expert and breaking news & articles and more.
- Cities - Provides socioeconomic data and analysis on 850 of the world’s largest cities.
- Survey - Consists of online consumer survey data from 16 countries covering consumer habits, attitudes, opinions, values, behaviours and motivations on a variety of topics.
- Industrials (Canada) - Breaks down the Canadian economy into 177 different industry sectors from a B2B perspective. Data and analysis is provided for Agriculture, Forestry, Mining, Alcoholic Beverages and many other industries.
Data Access: McMaster Users
Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://libaccess.mcmaster.ca/login?url=http://www.portal.euromonitor.com/portal/server.pt McMaster Users
More Info/PermalinkThe Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people’s assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 240,000 interviews in 57 countries have been conducted as part of the project’s work.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: International
URL: http://www.pewglobal.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkPew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.
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Type: Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.pewresearch.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkThis site features select infographics from past reports, presentations, and commentaries of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
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Type: Open Data
Country: US
URL: http://www.pewglobal.org/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkData.gov.ph aims to make national government data searchable, accessible, and useful, with the help of the different agencies of government, and with the participation of the public.
This website consolidates the datasets of different government agencies, allowing users to find specific information from a rich and continuously growing collection of public datasets.
Data.gov.ph provides information on how to access these datasets and tools, such as infographics and other applications, to make the information easy to understand. Users may not only view the datasets, but also share and download them as spreadsheets and other formats, for their own use.
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://data.gov.ph/ All Users
More Info/PermalinkRealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science. All posts are signed by the author(s), except ‘group’ posts which are collective efforts from the whole team. This is a moderated forum. - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/about/#sthash.B3cij7g5.dpuf
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Type: Open Data
Country: International
URL: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/ All Users
More Info/Permalinkre3data.org is a searchable catalog / registry / directory / bibliography of research data repositories.
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Type: Microdata, Open Data, Statistics
Country: Canada, International, US
URL: http://www.re3data.org/ All Users
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