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Data Web Sites from Delicious

The datasets listed here are ones that I have bookmarked recently using the free bookmarking site, del.icio.us.

To see all the sites I've bookmarked, go to http://del.icio.us/kpartlo/data and use the tags to limit or perform a search.

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Latest Bookmarks to Data

  • Dataverse Network

    Via web application software, data citation standards, and statistical methods, the Dataverse Network project increases scholarly recognition and distributed control for authors, journals, archives, teachers, and others who produce or organize data; facilitates data access and analysis for researchers and ... more

  • DEED : LMI : Comparing Employment Data

    An excellent table comparing the main sources of employment data.

  • Minnesota’s Nonwhite and Latino Population, 2007

    From the State Demographic Center, a new report on state and country trends in population by race and ethnicity between 2000 and 2007, based on U.S. Census Bureau Estimates, Dec. 31, 2008

  • The Financial Crisis Timeline

    "a timeline of events and actions for the credit crisis. The site has timeline of market events and Fed and other government agency actions with links to the official source documents. The website also contains links to relevant economic data ... more

  • DataPlace

    "DataPlace aims to be your one-stop source for housing and demographic data about your community, your region, and the nation. The site not only assembles a variety of data sets from multiple sources, but it also provides tools and guides ... more

  • GeoCommons Finder!

    A new source for finding free GIS data. Many layers don't contain full metadata, but when they do, the interface is very easy to understand and all datasets appear to at least have basic descriptive information of attributes, scope, source, ... more

  • St. Louis Fed Introduces Digitized Archives

    To date, CEDD has digitized more than 300,000 pages of published material and archival collections from the Federal Reserve System and selected partners—currently, the Brookings Institution, the Government Printing Office and the Missouri Historical Soc

  • Political Science, Public Opinion & Polling, Worldwide, at Northwestern University Library

    A nice list of public opinion polls sources, some free, some subscription

  • Global Maps in Google Earth Format

    Maplecroft provides a series of Google Earth files to complement its Global Maps series, which analyses a wide range of environmental, social, economic and political issues that impact on society and the goals of business. Everybody is used to looking ... more

  • DOE DATA EXPLORER

    Use the DOE Data Explorer (DDE) to find scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various scie

  • Health Data Tools and Statistics

    A nice comprehensive listing of health data soures

  • Experimental Storm Surge Flood Models

  • New Orleans and Louisiana GIS Information

    From the LSU Hurricane Public Health Center and partners, over 60 layers of GIS data and imagery of New Orleans

  • GIS Resources for Hurricane Katrina

  • Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - Disaster Response and Assistance

    ESRI guide to information