LibGuides: Big Data Sources: Home

Explanation of Guide

This guide is designed to link to multi-disciplinary datasets. While ideally these are openly available, some links will require that you contact an organization that collects the data for access.This guide is a work in progress and suggestions/additions/corrections are always welcome.

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Suzanne Fricke

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Subjects: Animal Sciences, Neuroscience, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Sciences

WSU Dataset Sources

GIDEON
Epidemiological data going back to 1348 AD, covering 230+ countries and territories. Over 25,000 outbreaks, 35,000 graphs, and 82,000+ surveys. Includes interactive tools to identify 2,000+ pathogens, diagnose and compare 360+ infectious diseases, as well as to explore the properties of 30,000+ trade names of drugs and vaccines. The application is updated every day by a team of highly regarded medical scientists.
PolicyMap
PolicyMap is an online data and mapping tool for creating custom reports of data related to demographics, real estate, health, jobs, the environment, education and more. Data comes from authoritative public and proprietary sources. It has thousands of indicators on demographics, the economy, housing, lending, quality of life, education, health, and more. Data is available at the neighborhood census block group in many cases, up to a national level, depending on the data.
Statista
Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

MetaSearch

Google Dataset Search
Based on description with schema.org standard. Definition of dataset at https://schema.org/Dataset
DataMed | BioCADDIE
Data discovery tool from NIH searches across 75 repositories
FigShare
Enigma Public Data Explorer
Search engine for public datasets including patents, company data, and government regulations and agencies.
Open Government Data
Open Government Data - Curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world – including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs.
Explore Census Data
Data USA
Created by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, DataWheel and MIT Data professor
Data.gov
Development Data Library
USAID funded research
Open Data Network
from Socrata
Elsevier/Mendeley DataSearch
Search for research data across domains and types, from many domain-specific, cross-domain and institutional data repositories. Currently searches Science Direct, arXiv, PubMed Central, Dryad, ICPSR, NeuroElectro, PetDB, and Harvard Dataverse.
re3data
Registry of Research Data Repositories - based in Karlsruhe, Germany
Data Commons
World Bank Open Data
European Commission Global Human Settlement
Largest and most comprehensive database on cities ever published. Database includes environmental data (vegetation coverage, concrete coverage), population changes, disaster risk, and more
Awesome public datasets on GitHub
Nature recommended data repositories
Washington Office of Financial Management City and County Data
Access Washington
Registry of Open Data on Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Datasets

COVID Data

Tableau COVID-19 Data Hub
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases
Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases on GitHub
Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering Covid global cases data on GitHub
COVID genomic data links

WSU ArcGIS

ESRI software (ArcGIS Desktop and Pro) licensing on the WSU Pullman campus is now managed through WSU Libraries. For more information https://libraries.wsu.edu/arcgis-support/

For more on spatial and geospatial data see https://libguides.libraries.wsu.edu/gis