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Seeking UK School performance data
School performance data is collected by the Department for Education (DfE) and can be accessed via the gov.uk web site - https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables
The types of data available (for ...
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Where can I find subtitled recordings of university courses?
Any video on YouTube that has captions can be used, although you'll (probably) have to find a way to avoid auto-generated captions.
For example, from MIT (with friendly CC license). You can use open ...
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Is there an open database of elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States?
Unfortunately, the key links in the popular answers for this question are all currently broken. It is still true, as David H answered, that the Common Core of Data is the official source, but the ...
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Is public information obtained through FOIA an example of Open Data?
Data obtained through FOIA is open data. Before it was attained, I would argue that it is not, as it was not being released.
Data previously published on a government website was and still is in ...
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Where can I find dataset for University acceptance rate for college athletes?
Possible options:
Student-Athlete Experiences Data Archive
Stanford University Common Data Sets (CDS)
This article has data for PAC-10:
Comparing the Acceptance Rates of Athletes to the General ...
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Seeking US public school serving area boundaries
There is a way...but its not a silver bullet; very time intensive and may require learning new skillsets.
You can search through data portals and collect them along the way:
Here's a search on data....
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Schools in Canada
If you are by any chances affiliated to a Canadian university you get free access to DMTI POI data that includes public schools and universities.
All of this is located in the Scholar GeoPortal ...
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Public School Teacher Dataset
This is a public record in every state I've ever worked. You're likely to have to go state-by-state to collect it. File a public records request with the state's department of education or ...
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Dataset about attainment of college degree based on parent's education level?
I believe the General Social Survey (GSS) has this. And there are the longitudinal education surveys that have been launched every few years for decades: Baccalaureate & Beyond, Beginning ...
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Missing College Scorecard data for Navy, Army, Air Force
College Scorecard data are currently limited to institutions that participate in Title-IV federal financial aid programs. As the U.S. service academies do not participate in Title-IV, the data needed ...
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Books and Supplies
That data element is not available in Scorecard. However, it is available from IPEDS (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/) which is where the other Scorecard cost metrics come from. The books and supplies ...
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List of US Universities And Colleges
I believe almost all universities and colleges are in Wikidata, so you can query it:
SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel
WHERE
{
{
?item p:P31/ps:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q3918. # University or subclass
...
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Seeking UK School performance data
Someone has already done some of the hard work for you.
MyEd is a small business that combines open data about educational performance, environmental data and some user generated data to provide ...
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Where can I find a data set on the federal student loan debt since at least 1965?
check this:
The National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) is the national database
of information about loans and grants awarded to students under Title
IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of ...
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public Normally-distributed data for teaching intro Stats
You can find the best publicly available datasets on Kaggle with kernels/notebooks for references. This is the best place to find the relevant data for your teaching. Need to signup to download the ...
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How to find the variable in javascript which gives the positions of the competitors on the site sapsailing?
The data is loaded from an RPC endpoint. Here's an example for the page you linked.
curl 'https://www.sapsailing.com/gwt/service/dispatch/leaderboard/HWCS_2020_Round_1___RS_X_Men' \
-H 'Content-Type: ...
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College Scorecard: determining how representative data is of the overall undergraduate body
Thanks for submitting your questions. I forwarded your questions to our helpdesk and received the following responses. I hope you find them helpful.
What is the best way to determine the concrete ...
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Are 6-digit CIP codes available with associated Schools for College Score Card
Although I am unaware of any existing list, it certainly is possible to create one using the IPEDS Use The Data tool (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data) which allows for the downloading of the ...
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French/English word database for a hangman game
In this case, I'd suggest using the flashcards from an Anki deck.
Here's a list of French decks: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/french
You can convert the deck to txt/csv with these steps: https:/...
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Downloadable list of all majors across U.S. schools/colleges?
For a really broad answer, you can use Wikidata via a Sparql query on the property "Academic Major".
From my quick query, I think the data would need to be cleaned up a bit, and also made specific to ...
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Data for teaching: Representative simple random sample in educational research
Since you go with statistical analysis, I recommend the R-Datasets. They are usually small and statistically interesting:
https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/datasets/html/00Index.html
...
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Public School Teacher Dataset
I couldn't find one nationally, but it seems like you ought to dig in by state. For instance, there appears to be school directory data for the state of Oregon, and in Portland, there also seems to be ...
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Derived variable origin
It's the type of degree that makes up a larger percentage than any other.
From the documentation:
Predominant undergraduate degree (PREDDEG) identifies the type of
degree that the institution ...
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Level of education required for employment over time
You may want to look at the US Occupational Employment Statistics historical data.
That data allowed for the creation of this chart:
The original chart is available as a BLS publication.
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School Closing Due to Snow or Bad Weather
You may want to read my past question I posted here...
Snow days per county per monthly in US specifically in Colorado?
See if that helps yours.
I am not sure for the whole country's school ...
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International Education Spending
Here are some databases on Quandl that show government expenditures on education when I searched for "expenditure education" within each database:
World Bank Africa Development Indicators: https://...
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International Education Spending
The question on "spending money on eductaion" might have an answer here:
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49589/is-education-in-europe-really-this-cheap
There are links for Europe and ...
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Has any MOOC (Coursera, edX, Udacity or others) publicly released some of their student data?
I come after the storm but:
Yu, J., Luo, G., Xiao, T., Zhong, Q., Wang, Y., Feng, W., ... & Tang, J. (2020, July). MOOCCube: a large-scale data repository for NLP applications in MOOCs. In ...
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PhD for open data in Europe
I found a portal that lists PhD topics, coincidentally called "find a phd"
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywords=%22open+data%22
returns these 3 PhD programs (2019-03-12):
University of East ...
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