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Did terabytes of data get removed from open.whitehouse.gov in January or February 2017?
I'm not sure about "terabytes" but yes, the new administration has edited the whitehouse.gov domain, including the open subdomain.
Why?
New administrations across all levels of (U.S.) government, ...
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List of United States cities
The US Census Bureau also has a national gazeteer file with state and city info, including incorporation information.
For metadata/excel file column please have a look at HERE.
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Statistics of the yearly amount of beds in private prisons in the US
There is tons of data at the US Bureau of Justice Statistcs - Corrections
But I think the best way is to get these data points from the two major private prison companies (CCA and GEO Group).
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USA 2016 election demographic data
From an open-source point of view, there is no direct source for age/income/race/location as to which way an individual voted; this is by design that you cannot figure out who voted for whom.
Having ...
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Shapes of ZIP codes - polygons for each ZIP code
The Census provides the dataset as a shapefile. I loaded it into my CartoDB account so you can download it as a GeoJSON using the following API call:
http://eschbacher.cartodb.com/api/v2/sql?q=SELECT%...
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Shapes of ZIP codes - polygons for each ZIP code
The GIS site also has a useful answer
Most Up-To-Date Source for US Zip Code Boundaries
One thing to keep in mind is the fact that Zip Codes are not polygons, and therefore do not have boundaries. ...
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US Residential Mailing Addresses Databases
OpenAddresses.io does not have nearly 100% coverage but you may get lucky: http://results.openaddresses.io/
Open Street Map ("OSM") is another potential source: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Where can I get data on released inmates in the US?
There are data sets that you may not be aware of at BJS including
1995 Survey of Adults on Probation (SAP)
This Bureau of Justice Statistics survey is the first nationally representative survey of ...
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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?
Because of the decentralized nature of US elections it's difficult to find a free, public source for county or precinct level election data. The Federal Election Commission only publishes state-level ...
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List of United States cities
I have a CSV file you can download that lists all US cities by state. The data was compiled from the US Census 2013 Gazetteer.
http://www.opengeocode.org/download.php#statecity
In case you must ...
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Looking for open source LGBT datasets
There is not a lot of good nation-wide data on LGBT topics. Here are a few I was able to find for you. Some of them are already in CSV/TSV and/or Excel format (and therefore trivial to convert to CSV) ...
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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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Granular Data of US Census Population (zip code, block or household)
The granularity of the census data is done by design. When the United States Census bureau conducts a sample of a household, they make sure that the granularity is not small enough as to identify ...
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Hate crime dataset in the United States
List of places to gather that information:
Hate Crime Publications & Products - Bureau of Justice Statistics
Hate Crime - FBI:UCR
Hate/Extremism Reports - Center for the Study of Hate & ...
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Largest U.S. cities per state in 1950
The data you want are in these files.
The primary source for this data was a US Census Bureau dataset of ~7500 incorporated cities whose populations surpassed 2500 people at some point in their ...
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A table mapping from US county or ZIP to Nielsen Designated Market Area (DMA)
For anyone else needing this information, it looks like Gaurav Sood compiled the relevant data and provided code to create the tables that link:
DMA to county
DMA to zip
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Mapping counties to zip codes
Here are is a very user-friendly collection of Census geography code crosswalk datasets: https://data.world/nrippner/ansi-geographic-codes
And, a complete collection of ZCTA crosswalk tables: https://...
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For a given 5 year ACS (American Community Survey), when is the effective date of estimation?
The ACS is a rolling annual sample. They take the sample for the entire year (about 3.5 million addresses in 2013) and divide it into 12 equal, monthly samples, and they mail out forms every month. So ...
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How do I acquire bike network shapefiles for a particular region?
Yes; go to overpass turbo and build your query based on cycleway tags. It's not guaranteed that OSM will have official open data in it, as manual collection and addition always takes priority over ...
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Where can I find data to determine the US county from an US address?
The 2010 Zip Code Tabulation Area, provided by the Census Bureau, in text format with the county number it is located in can be found here:
https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/...
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Is there a dataset on existing flow of people between US cities?(could be car, bus, train or plane)
review the codebooks for
http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/national%20household%20travel%20survey%20%28nhts%29
and
http://www.asdfree.com/2012/12/analyze-american-community-survey-acs.html
nhts ...
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List of United States cities
You might try using data from the Geonames.org database. You can download gazateer data by country from this list.
Another potential source is the the MaxMind GeoLite2 dataset.
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United States Ports of Entry -- Historical and Current
Department of Transportation has Border Crossing/Entry Data that you can query; Running one for all ports provides CSV you can use, providing all border-crossings between US/Mexico. It goes back to ...
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Where to get usa coastline/shoreline data
There are actually a lot of sources for this, and some sources have multiple products.
This chart on NOAA breaks it down
These sites are pretty difficult to navigate, and I'm unsure of your ...
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Where is voter data from the recent General Election?
Many states have posted the data on their election commission websites. The format varies from state to state. To answer your question about Open Elections, they pull their information directly from ...
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US county-to-county and/or state-to-state migration flows - historic data for the 20th century
There is a Forbes article with an interactive graphic for county-to-country migration based on IRS tax records. Each county-to-county move must have at least 10 people, so as to protect privacy. The ...
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Where can I find data on MARTA?
Data
Marta Open Data
Archived Marta Realtime Data Note: File name times are in UTC not Eastern. Also, the marta train API is particularly flaky so trains randomly disappear and reappear and/or show ...
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Distance between different places in USA
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has this data available in its County Distance Database.
Its incredibly detailed, and goes back to 1990.
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Invalid API Key - Accessing OSHA data
Looks like you got it right in your answer. The "data.dol.gov" URLs use the newer Department of Labor API (v2), which sends the Key in the http headers.
See the data.dol.gov tab for more information ...
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List of data sources at the state, county and zip / zcta level
FRED, from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis offers various economic time-series data on various geographic levels. I personally use these on a county level, where you can find data on: population,...
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