{"id":218,"date":"2019-01-09T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2019-10-02T18:45:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:45:23","slug":"finding-data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/tutorials-guides\/finding-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve assembled a <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/final-project\/datasets\/\">long list of datasets<\/a> that are ready to use. If, however, you don&#8217;t find something that works for you, you can try to find other data to use for your final project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding the right data can often be really challenging. There&#8217;s a lot of civic and scientific data out there, but that may not be what you want. For humanities projects, my favorite places to look for data are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data is Plural newsletter<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week, Jeremy Singer-Vine, a data journalist, sends out a <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/data-is-plural\">newsletter<\/a> containing interesting datasets. They&#8217;re also gathered on <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemwKL2c64vk\/edit?usp=sharing\">this spreadsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Pudding<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/pudding.cool\/\">The Pudding<\/a><\/em> is an online publication that publishes many stories based on datasets. Its collection of datasets contains many treasures, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/the-pudding\/data\/tree\/master\/boybands\">Internet Boy Band Database<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/the-pudding\/data\/tree\/master\/makeup-shades\">data about the diversity of makeup shades<\/a>. The challenge with these datasets is that you&#8217;ll need to find something new to say about them, beyond the story that&#8217;s already been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\/r\/datasets<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/\">This is a subreddit<\/a> (a category within the discussion forum Reddit) where people can ask for and offer datasets. It contains a very wide variety of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Humanities data repositories<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.stanford.edu\/research\/data-management-services\/share-and-preserve-research-data\/domain-specific-data-repositori-1\">Humanities data repositories exist<\/a>, but none of them is comprehensive, and I&#8217;ve had very patchy luck finding anything useful in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alan Liu&#8217;s list of datasets<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The literature scholar Alan Liu has a <a href=\"http:\/\/dhresourcesforprojectbuilding.pbworks.com\/w\/page\/69244469\/Data%20Collections%20and%20Datasets\">very large list of datasets and corpora for the humanities<\/a>. Some of them may need a bit of finagling before they&#8217;re fit for purpose (e.g., they may be in a format other than CSV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve assembled a long list of datasets that are ready to use. If, however, you don&#8217;t find something that works for you, you can try to find other data to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/tutorials-guides\/finding-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-218","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}