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NHGIS National Historical Geographic Information System

Shapefiles and data at the census tract, county, state, and other geographic levels going back to 1790 for counties, and 1910 for tracts. Also includes some data for downloading.

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA)

Pennsylvania's official geospatial information clearinghouse. Included are Philadelphia municipal, census, and environmental shapefiles, as well as parcel maps.

BIG GIS Sources

Understanding Federal Statistics Presentations

These are slides from the 4 day "Understanding Federal Statistics" workshop held in May 2008. They are a good starting point for learning about Federal Data Sources.

BIG OPPORTUNITIES IN ACCESS TO "SMALL SCIENCE" DATA

Data Science Journal, Volume 6, Open Data Issue, 17 June 2007

DISC-UK DataShare - Publications and References

This site lists the publications of the DISc-UK DataShare project, whichis one of the best sources I know of to learn about the issues around data repositories.

SensibleUnits.com

Translates units into examples. Very useful for adding some reality to measurements.

Data Curation Summer Institute Description

The National Map Seamless Server

EpiSurveyor | DataDyne.org

Sustainable and adaptable information technology tools that allow people to help themselves.

No subscription fees. No contracts. No consultants. No data entry.
No kidding.
No Data Entry
EpiSurveyor is a free, open source tool enabling anyone to very easily create a handheld data entry form, collect data on a mobile device, and then transfer the data back to a desktop or laptop for analysis -- without expensive consultants, software subscriptions, or long-term contracts.

Coming soon: EpiSurveyor running on Windows Mobile, Symbian phones (and other Java-enabled devices).

Learn more, or download the program or manual, using the menus at right.

Geostat Center: Collections: County and City Data Books

International surface weather observations, 1982-1997 [electronic resource] / jointly produced by U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center [and] U.S. Department of Air Force, AFCCC.

. International surface weather observations, 1982-1997 [electronic resource] / jointly produced by U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center [and] U.S. Department of Air Force, AFCCC. series Asheville, N.C. : The Center : NCDC Climate Services Branch, [1998]
Call#: Van Pelt Library QC982 .I584 1998
Call#: Van Pelt Library QC982 .I584 1998
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab STORAGE QC982 .I584 1998
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab STORAGE QC982 .I584 1998

v. 1. Eastern United States
v. 2. Western United States
v. 3. Europe
v. 4. Asia and Southeastern Europe
v. 5. Middle East, Africa, South America, and Australia.

Integrated surface hourly 1995-1999 [electronic resource].

. Integrated surface hourly 1995-1999 [electronic resource]. Version 1.0 series Asheville, N.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, [National Climatic Data Center, 2002].
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab STORAGE QC983 .N28 2002

24 cds record hourly surface readings internationally from 1995-2002.

v.1. Greenland, England, Northern Europe
v.2. Central Europe
v.3. Eastern and southern Europe and the Mediterranean
v.4. Northeastern Europe and Asia
v.5. Ulan Bator (Mongolia), Middle East and Southern Asia
v.6. Africa and Indian Ocean
v.7. Eastern United States
v.8. Central United States
v.9. Western United States
v.10. Alaska and Canada
v.11. Mexico, Caribbean, Central/South America and Antarctica
v.12. Australia, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean and Hawaii
v.13. Greenland Europe, and Asia
v. 14. Asia, Middle East, and Africa
v. 15. United States
v. 16. Canada, Mexico, South America, Central America, Oceania and Antartica
v. 17. Greenland, Europe, and Asia (2001)
v. 18. Asia, Middle East, and Africa (2001)
v. 19. United States (2001)
v. 20. Canada, Mexico, South America, Central America, Oceania and Antarctica (2001)
V. 13-16 have title: Integrated surface hourly 2000
V. 17-20 have title: Integrated surface hourly observations 2001
V. 21- have title: Integrated surface hourly observations 2002

Many Eyes

"This IBM utility aims ‘to “democratize” visualisation and to enable a new social kind of data analysis'. Many Eyes allows registered users to upload their own data on the understanding that the data is made available to all. It also has the facility to visualise numeric data in a spatial manner (using the proprietary mapping utility World Map). Users can view (or create) topic hubs which are pages devoted to a particular topic or theme. It serves as a way to collect related visualisations and data sets."
Stuart MacDonald

Data360 Homepage

Data360 embraces Web.2.0 concepts of participation and collaboration ‘to provide clear context on important cultural, environmental, social and economic issues’. By using ‘collaborative trend tracking’ Data360 allows organisations and users to create their own Data360 space, as well as to collaborate with others. The datasets held are predominantly aggregated and from the US, with sources including: US Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, US Geological Survey, Gallup, Federal Reserve, US Census Bureau, US Department of Energy. There are also datasets sourced from the World Bank, United Nations, the World Factbook Transparency International. The frequency of the datasets is mainly annual although some daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly data are also available.

Numeric_data_mashup.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Web 2.0 Data Visualisation Tools: Numeric Data – Stuart Macdonald, January 2008

UNdata

A great search engine from the UN for finding international data.

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA)

Pennsylvania's official geospatial information clearinghouse. Included are Philadelphia municipal, census, and environmental shapefiles, as well as parcel maps.

HSPV GIS

Datasets & Statistical Sources

A long list of useful sites for finding data sets and statistics from the Penn Library.

Philadelphia Shapefiles

GIS Shapefiles from the City of Philadelphia. Includes building outlines, street centerline files, administrative boundaries, aerial photos, parcels, curbs, and contours.

American Factfinder

For access to tables from the 1990 and 2000 census, the American Community Survey, Economic Census, Annual Economic Surveys, and Annual Population Estimates.

The DataWeb

The DataWeb provides access to economic, health and demographic databases from the US government and private organizations. The portal is maintained by the Census Bureau and the CDC. You will need to download a free program called the DataFerrett to use the database. This interface provides an intermediate between statistical tables and whole data sets.

FedStats

Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies

Current West Philadelphia Data

Social Explorer

The Social Explorer produces maps and reports of US Census Tract level data from 1940-2000. Using high quality maps and data, they make available the full contents of the tract data for the United States for the full period. Reports include aggregated totals and the system allows for slideshows demonstrating change over time. The data can also be exported as excel spreadsheets for easy reuse.

PMAP Pricing.pdf (application/pdf Object)

From policymap.com, you can access all of the information you need about a place without having to visit multiple websites or task staff and consultants with collecting and analyzing data. Policymap.com houses thousands of indicators related to demographics, real estate markets, crime, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy and public investments. Much of this data is available to the public for free — other proprietary data, such as demographic and employment projections, and home sale trends — are only available to paying subscribers. All data comes with brief, reliable, easy-to-understand definitions. For a complete listing of data available in policymap.com, please refer to the Data Directory link in the upper right of the web page. TRF hopes that you will suggest other datasets you’d like to see incorporated into PolicyMap. Click on the Suggest a Dataset link at the bottom of the web page to send us your ideas.

Philadelphia CityMaps Home

The City of Philadelphia provides maps of City Services, service areas, and zoning rules.

CML: Downloadable Data from the Cartographic Modeling Lab

The Cartographic Modeling Lab provides shapefiles for download of several Philadelphia files, most notably the Philadelphia Neighborhoods file used in the creation of the Neighborhood Base.

PASDA Geospatial Data and Shapefiles for Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access Center files on Philadelphia. Includes shapefiles from the City of Philadelphia, as well as some state resources. Important files here are Street Centerlines, local area boundaries (planning commission, police, councilmanic districts) and aerial photos.

NHGIS National Historical Geographic Information System

Shapefiles and data at the census tract, county, state, and other geographic levels going back to 1790 for counties, and 1910 for tracts. Also includes some data for downloading.

PASDA Geospatial Data and Shapefiles for Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access Center files on Philadelphia. Includes shapefiles from the City of Philadelphia, as well as some state resources.

Philadelphia Maps and Geospatial Data

The Gapminder World 2006, beta

ATLAS.ti - The Knowledge Workbench:: Calculating the Campus License

Social Explorer

Social Explorer
The Social Explorer produces maps and reports of US Census Tract level data from 1940-2000. Using high quality maps and data, they make available the full contents of the tract data for the United States for the full period. Reports include aggregated totals and the system allows for slideshows demonstrating change over time. The data can also be exported as excel spreadsheets for easy reuse.

LexisNexis Statistical

LexisNexis Statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available.

LexisNexis Statistical

U.S. Census Bureau

IPUMS

IPUMS
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Census microdata from historic national censuses, U.S. and worldwide. Only provides microdata data sets, with data subsetting and extraction, and documentation. Frequency distributions and crosstabulations not provided.

LexisNexis Academic

LexisNexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal materials. News sources also include magazines, broadcast transcripts, and wire services. Among the document sources included are the U.S. Code and Federal Case Law, state codes and case law, and U.S. patents.

Note that many Congressional publications including bills and laws, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register and campaign finance and voting record data which were previously available in LEXIS/NEXIS are now accessible through a companion database, Congressional Universe.

Qualitative Data Analysis Software Conference

Is it time to take a second look at Qualitative Data Analysis software? Encoding texts? Ethnographic work? Can this software save you time? Improve consistency? What are the differences between the available packages? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How difficult are these packages to learn and use? This one day conference is designed to help researchers who use Qualitative Methods learn about available software in Qualitative Analysis. Raymond Maietta, Ph.D., a leading consultant on Qualitative Research Methods, and an expert on the use of Software in Qualitative Research, will give an overview of the benefits and limits of QDA software, and will introduce participants to the leading software packages in the area. Following Dr. Maietta's overview of the packages, we will hear from faculty in a number of fields about their experience using Qualitative Data Analysis Software. Packages discussed will include: Nudist, NVivo, N6, MaxQDA, Atlas.Ti, HyperResearch, etc.

Amherst College IT : Collecting Data with Excel

chicagocrime.org: Chicago crime database

This site is a non-profit, freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago.

It is not affiliated with the Chicago Police Department or with Google Maps. It is not an official source of crime information for the city of Chicago. Rather, it is an alternative view of public record that is available elsewhere.

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

The Dartmouth Atlas Project works to accurately describe how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project offers comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians, in order to provide a basis for improving health and health systems. Through this analysis, the project has demonstrated glaring variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. The project is run by Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School.

Quantitative and Geospatial Data

To support the research needs of Penn faculty, students and staff, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquire and subscribe to numerical and geospatial data resources in print and electronic formats. The library is a federal depository library, and receives large amounts of numerical data from agencies. Many of these resources are available on CD-ROM as well as on the web.

Oxford Latin American Economic History Database

Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
Statistical series for more than 40 economic and social indicators coveringun 1900-2000 for twenty Latin American cotries.

Latinobarometro

Latinobarometro
Annual public opinion survey conducted in 17 Latin American countries, 1995 to present. No data sets are provided at this web site.

McNair

Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households: 2000 (application/pdf Object)

Does the Census Bureau have data on same-sex and unmarried-partners?

Same sex and unmarried partner household data are collected for those households where the householder and his or her partner are not married, but are living in a close personal relationship. An unmarried partner can be of the same sex or opposite sex of the householder.

An unmarried partner, in an unmarried partner household, is an adult who is unrelated to the householder, but shares living quarters and has a close personal relationship with the householder. This relationship is based on the self-identification of respondents.

Here are some sources for your use:

The American FactFinder contains two sources:
- American Community Survey Table B11009, shows "Unmarried Partner Households by Sex of Partner."
- Census 2000, Summary File (SF) 1 Table PCT14, "Unmarried Partner Households by Sex of Partner" is available for the nation, state, metropolitan statistical area, city/place, county, and various other geographies.
- Additionally, same-sex unmarried partner household data were collected in the 1990 Census. The Technical Note on Same-Sex Unmarried Partner Data From the 1990 and 2000 Censuses provides guidance on comparing these data.
The Census 2000 special reports include:
- Married-Couple and Unmarried Partner Households: 2000 and
- Population and Housing Table, PHC-T-19, Hispanic Origin and Race of Coupled Households provides race and gender for unmarried partner households for the U.S.
The Census Bureau also collects data for same sex and unmarried partner households in ongoing survey programs, but does not regularly produce tabulations on this topic. For more information and special studies on the subjects of same gender couples and unmarried partner households based on the Census Bureau's survey programs, visit the Population Division Working Papers:

Investigating Community and Social Capital

Based on quantitative data used in Robert D. Putnam's book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, the exercises on this Web site introduce you to an investigation of Putnam's claim about social change in America--that community is declining. Next, the exercises guide you in an investigation into why this is happening, whether it matters (so what), and what is to be done about it in the future. Overall, the exercises illustrate social science investigation and build your skills in data analysis.

Neighboroo - Neighborhood Information for Real Estate and Marketing

Google maps mashup includes data on population, housing cost, housing market, schools, safety, health, climate, income/work, and age ethnicity for the continental US.

annoyingly, their "explains" don't say where the data comes from, so it's hard to know how up to date it is. However, it's neat.

County and city data book.

County and city data book. [0082-9455 ] [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.], 1952-
Call#: Van Pelt Library HA202 .A35

Integrated Health Interview Series

The Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS) is a harmonized set of data and documentation based on material originally included in the public use files of the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and distributed for free over the internet. IHIS currently consists of approximately 300 integrated variables selected from more than 2000 variables included in the core survey household and person files for 1969-2003, the sample adult/sample child files for
1997-2003, and the Access to Care supplements for 1993-96.

Many Eyes

You can explore data using your eyes! This site is set up to allow the entire internet to upload data, visualize it, and talk about their discoveries with other people.

About - Swivel

Swivel is a Web site for curious people to explore data. Users can upload data to the swivel website and swivel allows tusers to transform the data and create graphs. I can't really tell exactly what else it does, or how.

diva @ sfsu

DIVA is the Digital Information Virtual Archive, a web-based file management solution for use by faculty and researchers in higher education. DIVA provides always-on storage, organization, recovery, version-tracking, and sharing/dissemination capabilities for campuses across the CSU.

2006 Baghdad Reference Map

Huge map of baghdad

Iraq Data & Maps

The war in Iraq has thrust GIS and Geospatial technologies into the limelight. Each day the public is presented with maps, imagery, and other spatial data products in an effort to provide a visual representation of the latest developments. The following directory provides some valuable pointers and descriptions of companies that are providing GIS-based solutions to help the public follow the war in Iraq. If you know of additional resources that are of interest please send us some details.

GayData.org

The website was created for individuals and organizations:

1) Who want to find information about lesbians, gays and bisexuals grounded in scientific knowledge,

2) Who want to find datasets to analyze that include sexual orientation data, and

3) Who want to learn how to collect sexual orientation data.

Breastfeeding: Data and Statistics | DNPA

DataPlace

Housing and demographic data about communities, regions, and the U.S more broadly. Provides tools and guides for analyzing, interpreting and applying data.

PSHP (Philadelphia Social History Project) Data

Worldwide Digital Maps for GIS - GfK GeoMarketing

Global Mapping International Home

Data for GIS Analysis Available at NACJD

Lists data from NACJD that can be used in GIS.

DHS countries

Choose a country and then select tabs for surveys, quikstats, and publications.

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project is the third consecutive worldwide research project initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide data and analysis on the population, health, and nutrition of women and children in developing countries. Its two predecessors, the World Fertility Survey (WFS) and the Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys (CPS), paved the way for the DHS project by focusing their research on questions related to fertility, family planning, and mortality. They also helped develop DHS' current reputation as a leader in the field of demographic and health research.

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) by country

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are nationally-representative household surveys with large sample sizes (usually between 5,000 and 30,000 households). DHS surveys provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.

DOLPHN

The Data Online for Population, Health and Nutrition (DOLPHN) is an online statistical data resource of selected demographic and health indicators gathered from various sources for several countries of the world. The DOLPHN system is designed to provide users with quick and easy access to frequently used statistics.

EarthTrends | Environmental Information

"EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world."

There are country reports and detailed, time series data tables for most countries in each of the following areas:
Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems, Climate and Atmosphere, Population, Health and Human Well-being, Economics, Business and the Environment, Energy and Resources, Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Agriculture and Food, Forests, Grasslands and Drylands, Environmental Governance and Institutions.

You may be asked to register to view content, but the registration process is easy and the content is free.

LeadDog Consulting, LLC: Worldwide GIS Mapping

LeadDog creates and maintains GIS street and road maps for Iraq, the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America. We offer GIS and postcode maps for virtually every country in the world.

CensusCD neighborhood change database (NCDB) [electronic resource] : 1970-2000 tract data : selected variables for US Census tracts for 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and mapping too / Geolytics.

Intute: Social Sciences - Statistics and Data

Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. We aim to match resources to the statistics curriculum and the needs of researchers. Our target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education.

Public Use Microdata Sample Files - documentation

From page 247-248

TECHNICAL NOTE ON SAME-SEX UNMARRIED PARTNER DATA FROM THE 1990 AND 2000 CENSUSES

...In 1990, the edit and allocation procedures did not allow same-sex “spouse” combinations to occur, thus resulting in the allocation of one of these two items in order to achieve editing consistency among the responses.

...Processing steps were changed for Census 2000 for households that contained same-sex “spouses.” If the person with the “spouse” category was the same sex as the householder and if neither person had their sex previously allocated, a relationship response of “spouse” was allocated as an “unmarried partner” response.

...Two principal factors affected our decision to take this approach for Census 2000.

1. Marriage Act (H.R. 3396) passed by the 104th Congress. This act instructs all federal agencies only to recognize opposite-sex marriages for the purposes of enacting any agency programs. In order for Census Bureau data to be consistent with this act and the data requirements of other federal agencies, same-sex spouse responses were invalidated. The legislation defines marriage and spouse as follows:

“In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word ’marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ’spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife.” In order for the Census Bureau to be consistent with this act and the data requirements of other federal agencies, same-sex “spouse” responses were invalidated.

2. The second factor took into consideration that couples in long term same-sex relationships may consider themselves as “married partners” and thus respond as such on the census form. In addition, at the time of writing the editing program for Census 2000, there were several challenges in the courts concerning the legality of same-sex marriages. Clearly, we could not ignore the fact that same-sex spouse responses were going to be recorded during Census 2000. In light of these social and legal aspects and the lack of a key variable in the statistical allocation routine (marital status) the assignment of same-sex “married” couples to the same-sex “unmarried partner” category was the procedure chosen for the editing process. We were adverse to a randomized allocation of these responses after people had clearly marked a close relationship preference on the census form.

As a result of these changes in the processing routine, estimates of same-sex unmarried partners are not comparable between the 1990 and 2000 census.

HHS Data Council Gateway to Data and Statistics

HHS Data Council Gateway to Data and Statistics
A "web-based tool that brings together key health and human services data and statistics. It is designed to complement other government resources such as FirstGov and FedStats. The Gateway covers federal, state and local government sponsored information."

Social Science Electronic Data Library

Social Science Electronic Data Library
A numeric data archive providing microdata for research into AIDS/STD, disability in the U.S., the American family, adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention, aging, and maternal drug abuse, and aggregate population, social, economic data supporting geographic contextual analysis.

IPUMS

ICPSR

ICPSR
USE OF ICPSR DATA REQUIRES STATISTICAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE. Direct-download access to social science quantitative data sets archived by ICPSR. Subjects covered include political science, sociology, demography, history, economics, communication, international relations, gerontology, public health, criminal justice, and education. The ICPSR archive includes almost all major studies in the social sciences, including the General Social Survey and International Social Survey Program, decennial Census of Population and Housing, American National Election Study, Eurobarometer, Voter News Service exit polls, US Congressional and UN roll call votes, National Crime Victimization Survey, and public opinion polls. Special topic archives, with limited interactive tabulation and extraction capability, cover health and medical care, international education, aging, criminal justice, and substance abuse and mental health.
Holdings: 1962-present.

PSHP (Philadelphia Social History Project) Data

MMP - Home

" Each year this project compiles a history of Mexican migration to the U.S. based on interviews conducted in Mexico during the winter. Topics include employment, earnings, and use of U.S. social services. The site features downloadable data, maps, and a list of publications. Also includes oral histories, and an online exhibit of religious folk art retablos (1900-1993). In English and Spanish. The MMP is a research effort between investigators in Mexico and the United States." (via LII)

Thematic Maps from The United States Census

The US Census provides thematic maps at various levels of geography and for many data points.

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century

Twentieth century conditions in maps.

gCensus - Census Data and Google Maps

The map images as well as the satellite imagery belong to Google and are pulled from maps.google.com. The data is extracted from the 2000 United States Census and can be downloaded from www.census.gov.

National Judicial Reporting Program, 2002: [United States]

Sentences and characteristics of convicted felons based on data collected from state courts.

U.S. Interim Projections by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin

Geoarchiving News - North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project

The North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project is just one of many recent or current projects focused on the issue of preservation of digital geospatial data. Following is a brief overview of other projects.

NCGDAP: North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project

The joint project of the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis will focus on collection and preservation of digital geospatial data resources from state and local government agencies in North Carolina.

The objectives of the project include:

Identification of available resources through the NC OneMap data inventory
Acquisition of at risk geospatial data, including static data such as digital orthophotos as well time series data such as local land records and assessment data
Development of a digital repository architecture for geospatial data, using open source software tools such as DSpace
Enhancement of existing geospatial metadata with additional preservation metadata, using Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) records as wrappers
Investigation of automated identification and capture of data resources using emerging OpenGeospatial Consortium specifications for client interaction with data on remote servers
Development of a model for data archiving and time series development

GRADE Documents

GRADE Project - Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction

GRADE will investigate and report on the technical and cultural issues around the reuse of geospatial data within the JISC IE in the context of media-centric, informal and institutional repositories.

The aim of GRADE is to lay the foundations for a sustainable infrastructure (both cultural and technical) that underwrites the communities' substantial and ongoing investment in the utilisation of geospatial resources within the learning, teaching and research environments of UK academia.

Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications

By Julie Linden and Anne Green at Yale.

Digitization has the potential to transform scholarly use of data found in print statistical publications. While presenting images of statistical tables in a digital library environment may be desirable, the full potential of such material can be realized only if the resulting digital objects are easy to search and manipulate and are accompanied by sufficient metadata to support extraction of numbers from tables and comparison of numbers across tables.

European Social Survey Data Online Nesstar WebView

A cumulative datafile for ESS1-2002 and ESS2-2004 will be made available when a dataset including all participating countries in ESS2-2004 has been published.

Nesstar Limited

Nesstar Limited, the leading provider of data publishing and analysis solutions, is proud to announce the release of version 3.0 of the Nesstar product suite. Publishing and sharing of data on the Web has never been easier with Nesstar 3.0 that comes with numerous functional enhancements and a fresh look and feel.

Census Transportation Planning Package 2000

The Census Transportation Planning Package provides great detail about travel patterns down to the census tract level. It is also the only census product that provides information about people based on their place of work, rather than place of residence.

MPIP - Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project

Free Registration Required.

Information is at the sub-county level, but only one level beneath county, generally, so Philadelphia is broken only into Planning districts.

Funded by a 3-year grant from the William Penn Foundation, the Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project combines two types of information to illuminate conditions and trends in our 9-county region (defined as the central cities of Philadelphia and Camden along with the Pennsylvania counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery, and the New Jersey counties of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem). The first is a set of social, environmental and economic indicators that portray the quality of life in the region’s communities. The second type of information comes from an annual household survey conducted by Temple’s Institute for Survey Research, asking respondents across the region how they assess the quality of life in their communities. Tracking over time the changes in the indicators and in the survey responses, we can better understand how citizens’ perceptions relate to the changing conditions on the ground.

Historique des C)lC)ctions depuis 1993

Data on French elections by region.

Project on Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe

This research project is based in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, UK, is part of the ESRC 'One Europe or Several?' research programme.

The principal aim of the project is to explain the role of electoral systems in the process of democratisation in post-communist Europe. The investigation will focus on twelve core countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine), but where available we have provided data for other post-communist states.

This website is part of the dissemination strategy of the project. It includes and on-line database of election results and electorally-relevant laws from throughout Eastern Europe. The International Foundation for Electoral Systems and the Association of Central and East European Election Officials contributed to the construction of the database.

The Election Law section of the database includes election laws (parliamentary and presidential election laws, country-wide regional election laws, universal electoral codes, and laws on basic guarantees) and other legislation relevant to elections (constitutional provisions, political party laws, campaign finance laws, media laws, and other relevant legislation).

Laws from 12 countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine) can be searched by country, election year and by twelve topic areas.

The Election Results section of the database includes results for parliamentary and presidential elections dating back to 1990 in each of the 12 countries, plus other information such as number of registered voters, turnout, votes cast, and total valid votes. Constituency level results of parliamentary elections from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine are also available.

Candidate data (downloadable SPSS and Excel files) and lists of relevant internet links supplement the database.

Elections and Electoral Systems by Country

Links to International election statistics by country.

PHMC - Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, Addictions, The Bridge

Access to the Community Health Database is limited to researchers who buy access and promise not to share the data. However, PHMC has the most current and extensive data on Philadelphia neighborhood health.

BMJ - How to read a paper

How to interpret data reported in medical literature

Find your way around open source GIS

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software relies on data sets that cover the whole planet. To cope with the flood of GIS data and their formats, programmers have created several open source libraries and GIS suites. This article gives a short introduction to the range and depth of GIS tools and libraries available for UNIX® and Linux®.

Geolib Public Library Database

U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: Thanksgiving Day

"Facts and statistics about turkeys, cranberries, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, holiday shopping, places named Plymouth, and more. Includes quotes and audio clips, and a brief history of the holiday."

CensusCD neighborhood change database (NCDB) [electronic resource] : 1970-2000 tract data : selected variables for US Census tracts for 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and mapping too / Geolytics.

EDINA : Global and Regional Mapping

EDINA is actively seeking global and regional geographic datasets which can be made available to the UK Higher and Further Education community. Many global datasets are now being published via web map servers and are accessible through the use of interoperability standards. EDINA have created a Web Map Viewer, which will allow anyone with Internet access to view geographic data available through web map servers around the World.

Census Transportation Planning Package from BTS

Download Tables from the CTTP by tract, county, state, etc. The best place for demographics by place of work.

Hurricanes and Tropical Stroms Information

Census page listing Hurricane Katrina related info.

Hurricane Katrina Disaster Response

List of data sets available from USUS. Huge and quite up to date.

Hurricane Katrina Disaster Response

List of data sets available from USUS. Huge and quite up to date.

Katrina

he World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and GIS for Public Health (WHOCC) at LSU is dedicated to the application and advancement of geographic information science (GISc) and geographic technologies for Public Health and disease modeling.

Hurricane Katrina Response Mapping

From LSU, this site links to many federal and local sources of data and maps.

Atlas: The Louisiana Statewide GIS

Geospatial Data from the State of Louisiana. Download Census data, topo maps, digital elevation models, DOQQ's.

GOS - Geospatial One Stop - Hurricane Katrina Resources

Federal Gateway to information about Katrina in New Orleans. Includes maps, GIS data, interactive mapping packages, etc.

GISc Resources for Hurricane Katrina

Collection of data and maps from UCGIS related to Katrina and New Orleans