Data Sources


  1. OpenEI - Open Energy Information Data
  2. IHSN Survey Catalog - 2,500+  survey datasets
  3. Billion Prices Project - High Frequency Price Data for (most of) Planet Earth (h/t - Ed Rubin)
  4. AfroBarometer - An African led survey of national public attitudes on democracy and governance. 
  5. JPAL Guide to Administrative Data - J-PAL North America resources on how to obtain and use non-public administrative data (h/t - Laura Feeney)
  6. Other Barometers 
  7. NYC Open Data - Data from America's Largest City
  8. Breathe NYC - Accurate, real-time data about pollution levels in major cities (in the works...)
  9. IHME ABCD - Health systems data from Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia
  10. World Values Survey 
  11. PEW Research Data
  12. German General Social Survey
  13. 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.
  14. Global Forest Watch - Satellite tree loss data in (almost) real time 
  15. PecanStreet DataPort - one-minute resolution disaggregated energy-use data for 200+ homes
  16. Buildings Performance Database 
  17. Energy Information Agency 
  18. EIA - Electricity Data 
  19. US Electricity Generation Database (EIA)
  20. The International Benchmark Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities
  21. India Place Finder - GPS coordinates of places in India (hamlets/villages)
  22. Awesome Public Dataset
  23. R-Packages with Data Access
  24. USA Facts - a non-partisan data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society

Research Tools

  1. Captricity - Transform static documents into actionable information.
  2. Sense - Cloud Data Science Platform
  3. OpenDataKit - Computer Assisted Surveying
  4. RePEc Biblio - Important papers organized by topic
  5. LyX - LaTeX front-end
  6. Zotero - My favorite reference manager 
  7. Cite-While-You-Write with LyX & Zotero 
  8. Using Atom to Write Markdown - My favorite way to take notes on my computer