Questions tagged [usa]
For questions related to the United States of America or regions within it.
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Should I approach an agency unofficially before FOIAing them?
Are there drawbacks to FOIAing (Freedom of Information Act, either federally or equivalent state/local laws) an agency? For example, can it lead to an adversarial relationship?
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Where can I get private companies' financials?
Countries have mandatory disclosure of some financial indicators for certain industries. Some companies may disclose information about their financial performance at will.
While public corporations ...
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Where can I find data on the winner of the presidential popular vote by U.S. county, for as many elections as possible?
I'm trying to find data on the breakdown of the popular vote in each U.S. county, for each presidential election going back as far as possible. I realize that counties change over time, but are these ...
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Is there an open database of elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States?
Is there an up-to-date and regularly maintained open database of elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States?
I'm looking for both public and private schools. Names alone would be a ...
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U.S. City and County Web Data (API)
Are there any websites that have basic City and County information for the U.S.?
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Is there a list, database or API that contains the URLs for United States city and town websites?
I'm looking for a database of URLs for every official city and town website. Ideally this list would be up to date and maintained. Freebase has some of the results and we have every city and town in ...
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What is the best way to request machine readable data from a FOIA request?
Maybe there is no way to request a specific file type but what is the best way to request a file (paper or digital) that can be converted easiestly?
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How to construct a database with the underlying real estate data displayed by Redfin, Zillow, or Trulia?
Regardless of whether the home is for sale, if you type any street address into Zillow, Redfin, or Trulia, they will often tell you the square footage, the last-sold-date, the taxable value, and often ...
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Raw data from US Census and BLS
Is the raw data of US Census or BLS available?
By raw I mean the datapoints that later comprise the summary tables. For instance, the average employment by firm size. Apart from means that you can ...
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Cost of living dataset
I'm trying to compare what the equivalent salary would be between two cities based upon the cost of living in each city.
I want to be able to build something like CNN's cost of living calculator.
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Is there a tool to match zip codes to cities?
I have a data set with zipcodes and would like to do a bulk upload to a tool that will give me the cities each zip is in (US only.)
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Government shutdown causing linked open data to go away
With the government shutdown now upon us, and many groups going to be performing an 'orderly shutdown' of their systems in a few hours...
How can systems that rely on linked open data make sure that ...
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How to make a successful FOIA request?
There are several questions regarding making a US "Freedom of Information Act" reqest (FOIA) for data:
What is the best way to request machine readable data from a FOIA request? - (this question and ...
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US county-to-county and/or state-to-state migration flows - historic data for the 20th century
I am looking for US county-to-county migration out flow data. That is, for every county in the United States (say, 1001 Autanga), the data would contain the absolute or relative number of people who ...
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US Fire Database
I am searching for a website that will allow me to find wildfires/forest fire/small fires in the United States that has all the information in a database. What I would like to look it up the database ...
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Weather Web Service by Postal Code?
I'm looking for either a website, a web service, an RSS feed, etc. that would allow me to look up current and historic weather info for a particular zipcode or region in the U.S., specifically:
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Snow days per county per monthly in US specifically in Colorado?
I am seeking a detail monthly snow days where I can look it up for more accurate information. I have looked at the Weather Channel, RoCoRaHS, Accuweather and others and it does not provide me more ...
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Green Button energy data
The Green Button Data program in the US allows energy consumers to easily download their consumption data in a standard XML format. With that exported file, they can upload to a 3rd party site or app, ...
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Looking for database of US companies
Crunchbase looks most promising but they seem to be payware. Are there any free datasets of companies (established business & startups) to do some data science analysis? Ideally, the data should ...
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Rental Prices in US Cities
I am conducting a study on different cities, and I am interested in highlighting and comparing rental prices in different US cities. In case you can share some websites (Other than Zillow) where I can ...
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What is the latest census statistics on US demographics
I am looking for sources about US demographics, when i started collecting data, i found that there are different statistics inside census data portal.what is the latest +to date+ statistics that I can ...
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Open API for SEC data?
Is there any free API for programmatically grabbing SEC filing data, such as company financials or insider trading? It seems ironic that the EDGAR search gives you information in a nice tabular form, ...
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Mapping counties to zip codes
Is there any freely available data that relates USA zip codes and USA counties (FIPS County codes)?
Since counties can contain multiple zip codes, one can have multiple entries, in such a table:
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Source of ABA Numbers for US banks
I'm looking an open data source of American Banking Association Route Numbers for US banks. The ABA number is the routing number that is found on a US bank check.
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Is there a complete list of all US tax-exempt nonprofits in machine-readable format?
I've seen they can be purchased from Guidestar, but wondered if there was an freely available open data source.
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What new open data do you need from the U.S. government?
Data.gov provides ~400,000 datasets from 180 federal agencies. However, I know you are interested in more data and more specific data than what is already included. What additional topics, formats, or ...
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List of data sources at the state, county and zip / zcta level
I am trying to compile a list data sources - excluding the US Census - that cover the continental US at the state, county and ZIP/ZCTA level. Any help would be appreciated.
Additional details: I ...
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Is the data used to calculate national CPI public?
What data is used to calculate the CPI (Consumer Price Index) and if it is open, where can I find it?
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Where can I get bulk access to IRS 990 filings for US non-profits
There's another question about a list of all nonprofits, and this answer is kind of buried in the answers to that one. Also, this question came up today on the NICAR-L mailing list. It's a common ...
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USA 2016 election demographic data
I am looking for demographic data (age, income, race, location) for individuals who voted in the 2016 US presidential election. The resolution that I am looking for can be at the state, county, or ...
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What is the difference between US Census definitions of "Urbanized Areas" and "Urban Clusters"?
I am trying to classify US Census tracts as urban, suburban, or rural. The Census Bureau provides a table with counts of people, and classifies them as either urban: urbanized area, urban: urban ...
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How and where can I get data on US census block data by city and state?
I am overwhelmed looking through dead ends on the US census website. Could someone that has solved this puzzle tell me where I can get the demographic and shapefile data? Race and income are my ...
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Is there a better public version of USA's Social Security Death Master File?
USA data on death can be obtained via Social Security as SSDI (death index) and SSDMF (death master file).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index
One site http://ssdmf.info offers ...
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USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM) data
I want to obtain the entire dataset for all zip codes in the US along with their corresponding USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM) data.
There are many sites that seem to offer a zipcode lookup tool ...
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City mayor/council racial demographics
I can't seem to find any data regarding racial demographics at the US place (city) level for mayors and council members per year.
Is there any resources available with such information?
I would like ...
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Is there a list of all utilities that offer the Green Button Download and Green Button Connect?
I see the Green Button data standard on greenbuttondata.org. But I am trying to figure out which geographic regions have the standard ALREADY deployed.
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What is the best source for finding what businesses have opened/exist/closed in a given geographical area?
Is there a a standard source for finding out what businesses (with brick and mortar locations) exist in a geographical area (particularly in the U.S.)? This doesn't necessarily have to be a ...
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What would be particularly useful basic APIs for the US Federal Government to offer?
There are already certain basic APIs for census tracts, school districts, energy costs, a range of geo data, zip codes, etc.
What I'm wondering is what would be other fundamental web services that ...
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After FOIA is fulfilled where can it be found?
I recently saw a story where a City Weekly filed a FOIA request and received a trove of emails in response. Is the receiver required to publish a link to the source? Is there a way to get access to ...
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Trying to link ZIP code to core-based statistical area
I have a dataset downloaded from the IRS reporting AGI by ZIP code (link: irs.gov). However, I'm interested in tying each ZIP code to statistical areas (whether it's [a] primary statistical area, [b] ...
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Data Source for Speed Limits
I am not even quite sure how this data would be organized. But I am looking for a data source for different speed limits in the US correlated to street name.
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How can I convert from Census 2010 tracts to Census 2000 tracts?
I have a dataset (it's a bunch of count variables) at the Census 2010 census tract level, and I want to merge it to a bunch of other datasets that are at the Census 2000 tract level. Because it would ...
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Map of Orange County (CA) buildings
I'm plotting a map of the Los Angeles metro area, and I'm using TileMill. I've loaded different layers for the geographical data, and wanted to add buildings as well. So I found this map for the LA ...
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Individual precinct voting data for Pennsylvania
I'm currently trying to find voting results by precinct for for Pennsylvania. I know several states such as South Carolina have published voting data from the 2016 General Election. This data can be ...
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Real-time gunshot detection data?
Was curious whether anyone had successfully obtained access to streaming data from any municipality that uses a "shots fired" detection system like this one.
According to their own documentation, the ...
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Dataset of number of car accidents per cause in the United States
I am looking for a dataset that lists the number of car accidents broken down by causes in the United States. By cause I mean the direct cause of the accident such as failure to stop at red light, or ...
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Structured demographic, economic and geographic attributes of US States
I'm looking for long lists of structured demographic, economic, agricultural and/or geographic attributes of US States. For example:
<geo name="Iowa" population=3107000 cows_per_capita=1.2* etc=......
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IRS Statistics of Income, machine-readable
Does anyone know of anyone else who has compiled a machine-readable set of the IRS's SOI Tax Stats - Historical Table 2, i.e., these?
The .xls files available from the IRS are crosstabbed and ...
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List of United States cities
I'm looking to get some data of this page
http://www.greatschools.org/california/san-francisco/schools/?gradeLevels=e&page=2
To do it I need to create the links in this format:
http://www....
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Looking for open source LGBT datasets
I have been looking for any general datasets about LGBT Americans. The type of file I look for are either CSV or TSV. Although my inquiry will hopefully yield some spatial indices at the county or ...