It can be hard to know where to look to find publicly available data sets, so I want to provide you some resources as you start to think about what data set to work with this semester.
I’m going to provide some resources for finding data sets and, based on your responses on Discord from Learning Module 1, I’m going to offer up some sample data sets that you might be interested in based on the topics you said you were interested in.
A list of resources can be found under Data Resources in the top menu bar and is also linked here.
In your Discord posts, you all mentioned these topics:
- homelessness in Black communities and in cities
- income inequality (a few times)
- immigration (a few times)
- women in the workplace (a few times)
- poverty and children
- protests
- police misconduct
- white privilege
- poverty and mental health
- healthcare access and equity
(let me know in the comments if I missed anything!!)
With those topics in mind, I found a few recent Data is Plural newsletter editions that had some relevant data sets (IMPORTANT: if you don’t feel comfortable working with data, that is okay! However, I would then recommend only working with .csv files or sources that you can only analyze via a database operating from a website…the options below should only be one of those, but it could be some are files using a type other than .csv):
- December 2, 2020 (student loans, coups)
- November 18, 2020 (income inequality, education and civil rights, state spending on children)
- November 11, 2020 (child detention, transit costs–lots on NYC there)
- October 28, 2020 (COVID-19 in ICE facilities)
- August 26, 2020 (protests around the world, ruling elites)
- August 12, 2020 (funding for COVID-19 relief, climate change in localized ways, international banking)
- July 29, 2020 (NYPD office misconduct)
- July 22, 2020 (police surveillance technology, Mexican migration to US)
- June 24, 2020 (new policing bills, indigenous lands, COVID-19 and childcare)
Click around and see what grabs you. Open some stuff up and get acquainted with what is there.
Task
After looking around a bit in sources linked on this page, go to our Discord text channel “2-10-2021 data sets” and do these two things (don’t just choose one, do both):
- Name 2 or 3 data sets that seem like potential ones you might work on this semester.
- Respond to another student who also found some interesting stuff and ask them where they found it.
- If you are the first person to post here, end your post with a question (e.g., “did anyone find anything interesting on BLANK?”)
- If someone asks you where…respond if you can! This is an effort to lean on each other in finding data you would be interested working on.
After posting in Discord, click the button below to continue:
