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I’ve assembled a long list of datasets<\/a> that are ready to use. If, however, you don’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

Finding the right data can often be really challenging. There’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

Data is Plural newsletter<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Every week, Jeremy Singer-Vine, a data journalist, sends out a newsletter<\/a> containing interesting datasets. They’re also gathered on this spreadsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pudding<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Pudding<\/a><\/em> is an online publication that publishes many stories based on datasets. Its collection of datasets contains many treasures, including the Internet Boy Band Database<\/a> and data about the diversity of makeup shades<\/a>. The challenge with these datasets is that you’ll need to find something new to say about them, beyond the story that’s already been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\/r\/datasets<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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

Humanities data repositories<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Humanities data repositories exist<\/a>, but none of them is comprehensive, and I’ve had very patchy luck finding anything useful in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan Liu’s list of datasets<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The literature scholar Alan Liu has a very large list of datasets and corpora for the humanities<\/a>. Some of them may need a bit of finagling before they’re fit for purpose (e.g., they may be in a format other than CSV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding the story in your data<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This is as challenging as any technical exercise you’ll do for class. Here are some guides:<\/p>\n\n\n\n