Data Sets

Locating Data Sets

Select a set of raw data for analysis (not a report with summarized statistics). This data set may be related to your interests or research activities. Below are some free websites featuring data sets that you are welcome to use but you are not limited to these.

Data.gov
Find open data sets from the U.S. Government in a variety of topics.
Kaggle
Kaggle is a community of data scientists and data enthusiasts. This platform enables you to learn from and mentor each other on your personal, academic, and professional data science journeys.
IBM Guide to Sample Datasets
Discover sample data sets on a variety of topics.
Google Public Data Directory
The 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. The Public Data Explorer launched in March, 2010.