Data Sources

Election Data

manifesto political preferences

2018 General Election

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/UYSHST

Election Data

https://github.com/MEDSL/constituency-returns

the unitedstates project

https://theunitedstates.io/

Poltical Survey Data

Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version

https://data.stanford.edu/dime

Cooperative Congressional Election Study

The CCES is a 50,000+ person national stratified sample survey administered by YouGov. Half of the questionnaire consists of Common Content asked of all 50,000+ people, and half of the questionnaire consists of Team Content designed by each individual participating team and asked of a subset of 1,000 people. In addition, several teams may pool their resources to create Group Content.

https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/

American Trends Data

http://www.pewresearch.org/methods/u-s-survey-research/american-trends-panel/

Pew Political Topology

http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/24/political-typology-reveals-deep-fissures-on-the-right-and-left/

Politicians

Wikipedia Data on Political Elite

legislatoR is a data package for the software environment R. It comprises political, sociodemographic, and Wikipedia-related data on elected politicians across the globe. This version (0.1.0) includes 32,533 current and former elected politicians from nine countries’ legislatures.

https://github.com/saschagobel/legislatoR

Criminal Justice

Incarceration

County-level jail data (1970-2015) and prison data (1983-2015)

https://github.com/vera-institute/incarceration_trends

Police Shooting Data

The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015.

https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings

Police Stops Data

https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/data/

SIPRI Arms Transfers Database

United States Bomb Data Center (USBDC)
Listing of Federal Firearms Licensees
Firearms Commerce Report in the United States
Federal Firearms Licensee Statistics Theft / Loss Reports

https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/background

ATF Data

https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/data-statistics

Eviction Labs

https://evictionlab.org/get-the-data/

Economics

County Productivity per Real Worker

https://www.datawrapper.de/_/phhbs/

Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD)

https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/hospitals

Immigration

Refugee Resettlement

https://github.com/OWH-projects/refugees

Global Flow

http://download.gsb.bund.de/BIB/global_flow/

https://github.com/mathewhauer/IRS-migration-data/blob/master/README.md

International Migration Database

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=MIG

U.S. Population Migration Data

https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-migration-data

SWB

World happiness report http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2018/

Transfer of Wealth

IRS

State returns

https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-county-data-2016

Federal Reserve

Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking

https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed_data.htm

US Census

Population projections

Financial

Opportunity Insights

us treasurey daily statements

Example jsons

https://github.com/jdorfman/awesome-json-datasets/blob/master/README.md

Opioids Washington Post

https://t.co/iYG6rGaRLd

500 Cities CDC Project

ACLEDR Conflict Data

Research and Methods Resources
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