Data sources

From WikiViz

There are several places around the web where you can find data sources that can be processed with Information Visualization tools. Here there are some:

• Bundesamt für Statistik (Swiss Federal Statistical Office): Data about Switzerland.http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index.html
• CIA World Factbook, A wealth of data about all the countries in the world. https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
• COHOWeb Data Selector. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cohoweb/form/cw_ds.html
• Encyclopedia Titanica. Interesting data about the passengers on the Titanic. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
• GapMinder. http://www.gapminder.org.
• Geneology Data.http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/. From the US Census Bureau
• Knowledge Discovery in Databases Archive.http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/. At UC Irvine
• Many Eyes A collection of data contributed by users of the web site. http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app
• National italian statistics bureau. http://www.istat.it
• National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/. From the USDA
• NSSDC's CDF Homepage. http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov
• Statistisches Amt des Kantons Zürich (Statistics Office of the Canton of Zürich, German only): Good source of statistics data about the greater Zürich area.http://www.statistik.zh.ch/
• StatLib Index. http://lib.stat.cmu.edu
• UBS Wealth Management Research. Economic research data, among them the "Prices and Earnings around the Globe" survey.http://www.ubs.com/1/e/ubs_ch/wealth_mgmt_ch/research.html
• UC Irvine Machine Learning datasets. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html
• UC Irvine KDD Archive - http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/
• United Nations Data Access System (UNdata). http://data.un.org. 55 million data records from UN agencies
• UNIX System User Load Data. http://cs.uml.edu/~lechner/cslog.txt. From Bob Lechner of U Mass, Lowell
• USA National Center for Health Statistics. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/ftpserv/ftpdata/ftpdata.htm
• USA National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. - http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/
• Weather data - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climatedata.html
• World Wine Statistics. http://www.wineinstitute.org/communications/statistics/worldstats.htm. From the Wine Institute
• Worldmapper. http://www.worldmapper.org Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. Data is also provided in Excel and Opendoc data formats

Datasets from IEEE InfoVis contests

• InfoVis2006
  • The contest (prerelease page): http://sun.cs.lsus.edu/iv06/
  • The wiki page: http://infovis.cs.lsus.edu/

• InfoVis2005
  • The contest: http://ivpr.cs.uml.edu/infovis05/
  • The dataset with some explanations: http://ivpr.cs.uml.edu/infovis05/info.html

• InfoVis2004
  • The contest: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/iv04contest/
  • The dataset with some explanations: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/iv04contest/info.html

• InfoVis2003 http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/iv03contest/