Data Sources
- OpenEI - Open Energy Information Data
- IHSN Survey Catalog - 2,500+ survey datasets
- Billion Prices Project - High Frequency Price Data for (most of) Planet Earth (h/t - Ed Rubin)
- AfroBarometer - An African led survey of national public attitudes on democracy and governance.
- JPAL Guide to Administrative Data - J-PAL North America resources on how to obtain and use non-public administrative data (h/t - Laura Feeney)
- Other Barometers
- NYC Open Data - Data from America's Largest City
- Breathe NYC - Accurate, real-time data about pollution levels in major cities (in the works...)
- IHME ABCD - Health systems data from Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia
- World Values Survey
- PEW Research Data
- German General Social Survey
- BenMAP - is a Windows-based computer program that uses a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based to estimate the health impacts and economic benefits occurring when populations experience changes in air quality.
- Global Forest Watch - Satellite tree loss data in (almost) real time
- PecanStreet DataPort - one-minute resolution disaggregated energy-use data for 200+ homes
- Buildings Performance Database
- Energy Information Agency
- EIA - Electricity Data
- US Electricity Generation Database (EIA)
- The International Benchmark Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities
- India Place Finder - GPS coordinates of places in India (hamlets/villages)
- Awesome Public Dataset
- R-Packages with Data Access
- USA Facts - a non-partisan data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society
Research Tools
- Captricity - Transform static documents into actionable information.
- Sense - Cloud Data Science Platform
- OpenDataKit - Computer Assisted Surveying
- RePEc Biblio - Important papers organized by topic
- LyX - LaTeX front-end
- Zotero - My favorite reference manager
- Cite-While-You-Write with LyX & Zotero
- Using Atom to Write Markdown - My favorite way to take notes on my computer