Research Guides: Data Science: Datasets

Freely Available Datasets - Multidisciplinary

ALFRED: Archival FRED
Historic economic data.
FDIC: Bank Data & Statistics
Find information on specific banks, their branches, and the financial industry.
FRED: Economic Data
Over 800,000 US and international time series of economic data
IMF Data
Macroeconomic and financial data from the International Monetary Fund.
NBER: Public Use Data Archive
Public use economic, demographic, and enterprise data collected by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
US. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Data Tools
Data on inflation, employment, ,unemployment, productivity, spending, and more.

Earth Data
Earth science data from NASA.
EPA Geospatial Data
Data from the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Geospatial Platform
Foundation of digital geospatial data representing the topography, natural landscape, and manmade environment of the United States.
IPUMS:NHGIS
Time series from the National Historic Geographic Information System with GIS compatible boundary files, dating back to 1790.
USGS: National Geologic Map Database
Standardized geoscience information.

CDC: Public-Use Data Files and Documentation
Datasets from the National Center for Health Statistics surveys.
EMBL-EBI
Publicly available biological data from the European Bioinformatics Institute
WHO: Global Health Observatory
Health data from the World Health Organization.

Consortium of European Social Science Data
Social science data from 20+ European countries.
FBI Crime Data Explorer
ICPSR
Social science datasets at the University of Michigan.
US Census: Datasets
Data files, for public use, based on the US Census.
World Bank DataBank
Analysis and visualization tool with collections of time series data on many topics.
World Bank Open Data
Source of global development data.

Nasa Data
NASA's clearinghouse for open data.
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Tools to analyze NCSES data on R&D,