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College Scorecard full data base
College Scorecard Data: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
Download all data (~200 MB)
Documented API
Github repo for website
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Dataset on coronavirus government countermeasures (per country/region/city?)
We started a worldwide crowdsourcing data collection on policy measures, including lockdowns at the admin1 level (region) and the country level. Currently we coded data for ~13 countries and are ...
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Coordinates of all embassies and consulates
Wikidata has a lot of data about embassies and consulates.
I created a Python+SPARQL script that pulls that data and maintains an easy-to-consume CSV file. You can download the CSV file at https://...
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Dataset on coronavirus government countermeasures (per country/region/city?)
At this point Wikipedia will have most of the information but not yet machine readable. For a broad data-request on global lockdowns of varying degree, and for an ongoing event, I can't image a ...
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USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM) data
Just released on Github!!
Frostline
A parser and resulting dataset for USDA plant hardiness zones. It uses the ZIP-querying API built into the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone ...
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Federal, state, and county prisons & jails
You can start with the US Bureau of Justice Statistics: Corrections page.
In particular: State and federal prisoners and prison facilities
And perhaps of interest: Annual Survey of Jails Data ...
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Dataset on coronavirus government countermeasures (per country/region/city?)
What about this database? It includes government measures...
ACAPS COVID-19: Government Measures Dataset
The COVID-19 Government Measures Dataset puts together all the measures implemented by ...
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Where is the block assignment file linking 2010 Census data with 113th congressional districts?
In accordance with the inimitable "logic" of the Census website, the files in question are not located with the other block assignment files. Rather they are on a "113th & 114th Congressional and ...
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Freshness of Unemployment Data
There are many sources of surveys/administrative in the United States data you might find useful.
Unemployment Insurance Claims - the number of people in a given week who: newly file for unemployment ...
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Is the web performance of U.S. government websites open data?
The US Government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP) has been working on unified Web analytics for federal agencies for a couple of years
Recently they launched a nice web site that displays the top ...
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successful open data advocacy website
Public advocacy is effective when it shows decision makers the examples they'd like. But it's not always clear what they'd like. The best bet is to demonstrate them good examples widely used across ...
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dataset on emergency response
The city of Seattle publishes real-time 911 data, since 2011 and in a variety of formats (direct link)
Address,Type,Datetime,Latitude,Longitude,Report Location,Incident
Number 13 W Cremona St,Aid ...
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Is there a data set for all vehicle accidents in USA?
The DOT keeps track of every fatal traffic accident since 1975 in their FARS database. They host all their data on their FTP, but I've also collected their data since 2001 in a format that's easier to ...
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Individual precinct voting data for Pennsylvania
You can find County-level voting data on the election site of Townhall.
A kind person has done a scrape of the website and made the data available on Github as a CSV and Ipython notebook.
2016 ...
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Dataset on coronavirus government countermeasures (per country/region/city?)
Actions taken in Switzerland are available with machine-readable CSV
Repo 1: https://github.com/zdavatz/covid19_ch#data-on-the-measures-taken-against-covid2019
Repo 2: https://github.com/baffelli/...
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Dataset on coronavirus government countermeasures (per country/region/city?)
There are now some fairly complete and up to date such datasets.
An Oxford University group - Future of Humanity Institute - has gathered these data:
https://storage.googleapis.com/static-covid/...
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Datasets of labor union metadata and membership in the United States
Data and Statistical Sources: Labor and Employment: Labor Union Statistics
Annual Reports (National Labor Relations Board)
Find summary statistics on NLRB activity, including decisions, court ...
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Open data version of the Foreign Assistance Program Inventory?
We have requested that a machine-readable (CSV) version of the Standardized Program Structure and Definitions be posted to this website. Will circle back when we have confirmation of posting.
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Are there good examples of open read-write APIs in Federal government?
The Regulations.gov API answer is a good example! It's also an example of government dogfooding its own APIs.
As I am sure you are aware, the We the People petition site has a write API as well: ...
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where in the uk may i find a register or map of properties and their energy use
This is not a direct answer, but you could try to extrapolate the data using openstreetmap. As far as I know, the data contains also information about the usage of the building (housing, industrial). ...
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Which Governments publish their Ledgers and Accounts?
OpenSpending
This website collects datasets related to public spending by country:
https://openspending.org/
Other resources
You should check Open Budget Survey's top 10's national websites for ...
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Is the web performance of U.S. government websites open data?
You can find some stats for individual sites by searching for the names of weblog analyzers that generate HTML reports and restrict by agency domain. For example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%...
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Is there (or should there be) a standard way to categorize procurement data at the municipal level?
You hit on a particularly relevant pain-point when it comes to procurement data. The purchasing thresholds differ wildly across the map, and there isn't any universal standard for classification.
I ...
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Funding data for US Department of Education CSV format
If the data you need is from more recent years, USAspending.gov is a good place to start (you can choose a specific agency on the data download page: https://www.usaspending.gov/DownloadCenter/Pages/...
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Government standards, guidelines, and practices for collecting data
Civic Common's Open Data Guidelines seem to be the default reference for most standards that I'm aware of. It's important to point out that Civic Commons is not a government entity/agency, however ...
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Implications of "For official use only"
The warning says nothing about using the data. Unauthorized activities are prohibited. Don't set up your own website or store your vacation images on their servers even if there is unfettered access ...
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Is there an open standard for the CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Finance Report)?
There does not seem to be a separate data standard for CAFR, but you may want to consider XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language).
The State of Oregon piloted providing CAFR in XBRL format and ...
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Is there an open standard for the CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Finance Report)?
Two standards you may wish to consider are XBRL and Frictionless Data.
I have been working on a municipal XBRL taxonomy with others. You can see the current status here: https://github.com/govwiki/...
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Where can I find machine readable transcribed text of the 2016 Presidential speeches and debates?
The GitHub repo 2016-campaign contains
campaign speeches given by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
[and] the text of the three presidential debates, separated ...
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