{"id":2663,"date":"2020-12-11T23:09:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lightsondata.com\/?post_type=tva_lesson&#038;p=2663"},"modified":"2021-02-05T19:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T03:25:48","slug":"resources-for-finding-public-data","status":"publish","type":"tva_lesson","link":"https:\/\/www.lightsondata.com\/course\/resources-for-finding-public-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for Finding Public Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some resources that you can use if you are in need of data for your data visualizations and data stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: there might be some overlap of data sets for some of the following resources.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/data.un.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">UNData<\/a>: International statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single-entry point. Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/datahub.io\/collections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">DataHub<\/a>: Thousands of data sets on everything from demographics, education, health care, to movies and TV, machine learning datasets, and more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google Finance<\/a>: Real-time stock market data that you can also download.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/directory?__hstc=20629287.a8a00ea39c5f0aa5c1cc13b5c918c4fa.1599091602051.1607305320066.1607307199744.10&amp;__hssc=20629287.1.1607307199744&amp;__hsfp=1026759523\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Public Data<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/datasetsearch.research.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Dataset Search<\/a>: Your one stop for open data.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">Data.gov<\/a>: The open data repository of the U.S. Government.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/healthdata.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">HealthData.gov<\/a>: Data on a wide range of topics, including environmental health, medical devices, Medicare &amp; Medicaid, social services, community health, mental health, and substance abuse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/datasets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\" data-tcb-href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/datasets\/\">Amazon Public Data Sets<\/a>: A repository of public data sets that can be integrated with AWS cloud-based applications.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">r\/datasets<\/a>: A subreddit of datasets to be used for data mining, data analytics, data visualization. You can also make an ask and the community would be able to jump in with solutions or recommendations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you have any other recommendations?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2663","tva_lesson","type-tva_lesson","status-publish","hentry","tva_courses-data-visualization-for-data-storytelling","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LightsOnData<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lightsondata.com\/course\/resources-for-finding-public-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Resources for Finding Public Data | LightsOnData\" 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