Research Guides: Computer & Data Sciences: Datasets

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Data Registries

Re3data.org
Global registry of research data repositories.
Dryad Digital Repository
International open-access repository of research data, especially data underlying scientific and medical publications.
Nature Scientific Data
Data repositories list from Nature.
Data repositories
Open access directory of data repositories maintained by Simmons College.
FAIRsharing.org
A curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, databases, policies, and collections.

Select Data Repositories

UCI Machine Learning Repository
Collection of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community for the empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms, hosted by the UC Irvine.
Kaggle
Kaggle allows users to find and publish data sets, explore and build models in a web-based data-science environment.
Google Dataset Search
Search engine from Google that helps researchers locate online data that is freely available for use.
Microsoft Research Open Data
A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research
U.S. Government’s open data
U.S. Government's open data
Open Science Framework
Open Science Framework (OSF), a platform for open data, is run by the Center for Open Science.

CWRU has an institutional account for OSF.
WordNet
Large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs developed at Princeton University.
ImageNet
Image database organized according to the WordNet hierarchy (currently only the nouns), in which each node of the hierarchy is depicted by hundreds and thousands of images. Developed by Stanford University.
Open Datasets
Collections of open datasets for machine learning maintained by Pathmind.
figshare
A repository where users can make their data, papers, code, media and other research outputs freely available.
Harvard Dataverse Network
A free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community.
Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
centralized repository of datasets aggregated from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Programs, Offices, and National Laboratories.
WorldData.AI
A searchable digital platform of datasets across macroeconomics, trade, labour statistics, financial markets, weather, health, and demographics. Free for academics.
National Institute of Health (NIH) Data Repositories
Health related open repositories supported by NIH.
Vivli
A global clinical research data sharing platform

Library Data Sources

Sage Data

This resource provides tools to dynamically compare and manipulate tens of millions of statistical data series available in the Data-Planet repository. The interactive database allows users to create tables, maps, and figures from a variety data sources covering banking, criminal justice, education, energy, food and agriculture, government, health, housing and construction, industry and commerce, labor and employment, natural resources and environment, income, cost of living, stocks, transportation, and more. Data holdings for the United States are significant with some data available at state, county, or local geographies. International data, available at the country level, include population, food and agriculture, labor, trade, and more. Data are organized by subject and source.
Data Citation Index
Data Citation Index is a searchable collection of data sets and data studies from a select list of repositories in the Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. Includes citations to publications reporting research that utlitizes the data.
Statista
Categorized into market sectors, Statista provides access to statistical data and comparisons for an eclectic, wide-ranging, and continually updated array of topics, using both publicly accessible and proprietary sources. About 20 percent of the total data in Statista comes from sources available free online, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Census. But the data also includes numerous other exclusive sources including industry, marketing, and trade groups. The chief types of data are related to marketing, demographics, and government information.
SAGE Research Methods Datasets
SAGE Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets and instructional guides that give students a chance to learn data analysis by practicing themselves. This bank of topical, engaging practice datasets, indexed by method and data type, are optimized to use in classroom exercises or in exam papers, saving faculty members hours spent sourcing and cleaning data themselves.

US Census
Data tables from the U.S. Census.
Data.gov
Datasets from a wide variety of agencies of the U.S. federal government and local governments.

Dataset from a Journal Article

ACM Digital Library

Comprehensive collection of full-text publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, books, and newsletters published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
IEEE Xplore
Collection of IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, and standards from 1988 to the present.