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In some cases, I have easier-to-use versions of these datasets than those available on the linked websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don’t want to use one of these datasets, you are welcome to use another! I have made a list<\/a> of places you might look for your own data. You can also make your own dataset; just talk to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Prisoner records from the Eastern State Penitentiary<\/a><\/li>
  2. Contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art<\/a><\/li>
  3. Photography at the Carnegie Museum of Art<\/a><\/li>
  4. Architecture at the Carnegie Museum of Art<\/a><\/li>
  5. Nixon White House recordings<\/a><\/li>
  6. A database of Scottish witchcraft<\/a><\/li>
  7. Artwork at the Williams College Museum of Art<\/a><\/li>
  8. Nineteenth-century children\u2019s books<\/a><\/li>
  9. Cylinder recordings<\/a><\/li>
  10. Photographs from science-fiction conventions<\/a><\/li>
  11. A database of graphic novels<\/a><\/li>
  12. Book acquisitions at the Osage, Iowa, public library in the early twentieth century<\/a><\/li>
  13. What people had in their houses in the 1700s in rural Pennsylvania<\/a><\/li>
  14. A database of archaeologists and classicists<\/a><\/li>
  15. The letters of Charles Darwin<\/a><\/li>
  16. Museum of Modern Art Acquisitions, 2006-2016<\/a><\/li>
  17. Marvel Comic Books and Characters<\/a><\/li>
  18. New York Philharmonic Performances<\/a><\/li>
  19. Facebook ads purchased by a Russian “troll farm”<\/a><\/li>
  20. Index of digital humanities conferences<\/a><\/li>
  21. The \u201cAustrian Biographical Lexicon 1815\u20131950\u201d records important personalities who were born, lived or worked in the respective Austrian state association or in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and who died between 1815 and 1950.<\/a><\/li>
  22. Sources of income, and expenditures, for college athletics<\/a><\/li>
  23. COVID data, geographically segmented<\/a><\/li>
  24. Datasets on police interactions, by city<\/a><\/li>
  25. Wikipedia editor activity<\/a><\/li>
  26. Social scientists who testified before Congress<\/a><\/li>
  27. Shapefiles tracking the changing boundaries of the French Third Republic<\/a><\/li>
  28. Datasets on enslaved individuals<\/a> (use with respect)<\/li>
  29. Metadata on the paintings of Bob Ross<\/a><\/li>
  30. Women executed during Colombia’s war for independence<\/a><\/li>
  31. Metadata about 900 coups<\/a><\/li>
  32. Datasets about trees in NYC<\/a>, Dublin<\/a>, Bogot\u00e1<\/a>, Amsterdam<\/a>, Helsinki<\/a>, and Vienna<\/a><\/li>
  33. Data about 500,000 opera performances<\/a><\/li>
  34. Deaths in US jails<\/a><\/li>
  35. US cabinet appointments<\/a><\/li>
  36. China Biographical Database<\/a><\/li>
  37. Immigrants to England, 1330-1550<\/a><\/li>
  38. World Values survey data<\/a><\/li>
  39. Data about Mexican migration to the US<\/a><\/li>
  40. Surveillance technology around the US<\/a><\/li>
  41. Lighthouses in England and Wales, 1514-1911<\/a><\/li>
  42. Women Elected Officials Database<\/a><\/li>
  43. Labor-management disputes in the US<\/a><\/li>
  44. Whaling voyages, ships, and crew members<\/a><\/li>
  45. Thousands and thousands of political emails<\/a><\/li>
  46. Wordle words<\/a><\/li>
  47. Slaveholders in Congress<\/a><\/li>
  48. Editors of scientific journals<\/a><\/li>
  49. Chocolate bar reviews and ingredients<\/a><\/li>
  50. Assets collected through civil forfeiture<\/a><\/li>
  51. Mortality and race in the 1918 flu pandemic<\/a><\/li>
  52. Newsroom layoffs during COVID-19<\/a><\/li>
  53. COVID in European jails<\/a> (context<\/a>)<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In some cases, I have easier-to-use versions of these datasets than those available on the linked websites. If you don’t want to use one of these datasets, you are welcome… Continue reading Datasets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}