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Social Sciences Data: ICPSR and More
This guide provides information about locating datasets for use in the social sciences (with a bit about data in the humanities and big data in STEM fields). It also has resources on using datasets (including in teaching) and associated issues.
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Data Repositories (ICPSR and More)
State Data
US Data
Foreign & International Data
GIS
Other Useful Guides
The Census and GIS (also Geolytics)
Resources
Cool Stuff
Regional GIS Data Sources
File Conversion Tools
Data and Data Management Tools and How-tos
Big Data in the [STEM] Sciences
Data in the Humanities
Data Visualisation
Citing Data
Health Data (US, Foreign,and International)
Other Useful Guides
GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
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Chelsea Leachman
Last Updated Mar 30, 2023
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The Census and GIS (also Geolytics)
Zoomable map: 2000 to 2010 demographic changes
Cool graphic showing Census documented changes in about 10 urban areas. via The Center for Urban Research and the CUNT Graduate Center.
See also the
Geolytics CDs
available at the Libraries. Note: These are a major pain to use.
Resources
Styling Maps with TileMill - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Geospatial Platform (via US government)
GeoNode
New NDSA Report: Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data | The Signal: Digital Preservation
U.S. Congressional District Shapefiles
EarthWorks: Find Maps and Data (Stanford University)
Cool Stuff
Old Maps Online
A need website of old maps which have been digitized... here more for fun, really
Regional GIS Data Sources
WAGDA (Washington State Geospatial Data Archive)
INSIDE Idaho [Interactive Numeric & Spatial Information Data Engine]
"INSIDE Idaho is the official geospatial data clearinghouse for the State of Idaho."
Interactive Numeric & Spatial Information Data Engine (INSIDE)
File Conversion Tools
How Do I Join Tabular Data to a Shapefile?
Converting Shapefiles for Use in Google Fusion Tables
Bounding Box Tool: Metadata Enrichment for Catalogue Records by Visually Selecting Geographic Coordinates (Latitude / Longitude) for Maps
"Visual selection of the latitude / longitude coordinates for geotagging "
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