Academic Torrents
Academics Torrents was founded to address the needs of science in the era of big data. It is a scalable platform using BitTorrent which distributes the cost of hosting data in order to prevent the rise and fall of dataset hosting providers and the erasure of the data they host. Researchers are empowered to mirror data they are working with and share large datasets without the large costs typically associated with commercial providers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
BJS is the primary statistical agency of the Department of Justice. It is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies throughout the Executive Branch, agencies whose activities are predominantly focused on the collection, compilation, processing, or analysis of information for statistical purposes.
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
Short for Federal Reserve Economic Data, FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Population and demographic data available from the Minnesota Population Center. Population data includes: international and national harmonized data from 1960 onwards, harmonized data from the Current Population Survey, the North Atlantic Population Project, the National Historical Geographic Inform, and American Time Use Survey-X.
A part of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics is responsible for collecting data and statistics related to education in the United States. Find various surveys the center conducts broken down by category on the Survey and Program Areas page. Some surveys of interest may include the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (AAAL), Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), and School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) among others.
Part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the NCEI provides data regarding the weather and climate.
The central role of National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) is in the collection, interpretation, analysis, and dissemination of objective data on the science and engineering enterprise.
Data made available from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with topics including economics, energy, education, health, innovation & technology, and government among others. Create your own queries using the OECD database OECD.Stat (Available without a subscription).
Datasets made available by the Pew Research Center with data covering topics related to U.S. Politics & Policy; Internet, Science, & Technology; Journalism & Media; Global Attitudes & Trends; and more!
United Nations Data contains official statistics, estimates and projections produced by countries and compiled by the United Nations. Domains covered are agriculture, crime, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population and tourism. You can also find indicators such as Millennium Development Goals. Free resource.
The World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory (GHO) provides data and statistics related to various health indicators across the globe.
Freely available, open access data portal from The World Bank. Also provides access to World Development Indicators. You can also search using the Open Data Catalog.
Nearly 350 datasets are maintained on the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository site. View all datasets, see newest datasets, and view most popular datasets. Datasets are organized to browse alphabetically by subject but users can sort using the faceting tools on the left sidebar by attribute type, data type, subject area, the number of attributes, the number of instances, and format types.