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This guide is here to help researchers identify freely available datasets on the Internet.

This libguide will help you find out about databases and select web resources comprised of sets of data across many different fields. Not all data is freely available.

Data Set Sites on the Internet

Data.gov
Main portal to US government data including crime and education data.
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The Data.gov catalog brings together datasets from hundreds of agency sources across the federal government and from 50 non-federal sources.
UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
"The UCI Machine Learning Repository is a collection of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community for the empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms."
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"The current version of the web site was designed in 2007 by Arthur Asuncion and David Newman, and this project is in collaboration with Rexa.info at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Funding support from the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. Many people deserve thanks for making the repository a success. Foremost among them are the donors and creators of the databases and data generators. Special thanks should also go to the past librarians of the repository: David Aha, Patrick Murphy, Christopher Merz, Eamonn Keogh, Cathy Blake, Seth Hettich, and David Newman."
data.world
Free membership required in order to download datasets.
CISER - Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research
"The collection includes federal and state census files, administrative records, public opinion surveys, economic and social data from national and international organizations, along with studies compiled by individual researchers."
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"In addition, Cornell University subscribes to many different data resources including ICPSR and the Roper Center, providing access to a large variety of additional data sources. The CISER archive was founded in 1982."
Census - United States
Access data through products and tools including data visualizations, mobile apps, interactive web apps and other software.
Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics
The UCR Program collects statistics on violent crime (murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) and property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft).
Virginia Tech Libguide for American politics and government
American politics and government at Virginia Tech is the scholarly study of politics within the United States, including political behavior, public opinion, elections and electoral systems, institutions, political parties and pressure groups, public laws, etc.
Google Example Search for datasets
Sample search including the word "dataset" in a search for 'intelligence AND mental illness AND income AND dataset.'
Registry of Open Data on Amazon Web Services

Education Specific Data & Data Sets

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
Access to publications and datasets for researchers and policy makers
ChildStats.gov
Forum on Child and Family Statstics
Department of Education - United States
U.S. Department of Education Public Data
DESE
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Schools & the Missouri Comprehensive Data System
EdStats/Education Statistics
The World Bank EdStats portal is a comprehensive data and analysis source for key topics in education such as access, completion, learning, expenditures, policy, and equity.
IES: Institute of Education Sciences
Source for independent education research, evaluation and statistics.
IPEDS - Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
Kids Count Data Center
Source of data on children and families from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Can search by location, topic, characteristic, publication.
NCES/National Center for Education Statistics
NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES is located within the U.S. Dept. of Education and the IES.

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