Data Digest | Fall 2017
As the weather gets colder, unpack your cozy sweaters along with your data analysis skills. This autumn we saw many new Data Projects and analyses published by the data.world community, and they’re all ready for you to explore. Gather insights on fake news in Ukraine, compare the top 1000 companies’ revenue growth by state, and collaborate with others on the Scottish witchcraft Data Project. It’s time for you to harvest all this ripe data!
Sports
World Series Regular Season Winning Percentages: 1903–2016 — Year-by-year regular season wins, losses, and ties for all World Series participants
International
Fake News in Ukraine — Analysis and Insights highlighting the need to fight fake news in Ukraine
Maximum Travel Per Diem Allowances for Foreign Areas — Changes in State Department maximum travel per diem allowances for foreign areas over time
Economy
2017 INC 5000 — Growth of the top 1000 companies, showing color-coded connections between the largest industries (by total revenue growth) and the states where those companies are located
US County Economic Data Compiler — Reformatted and clean versions of U.S. county level data sets, with simple filtering options and an intuitive geographic display, using the R shiny dashboard
Business
How data-driven is your organization (really)? — New research and powerful guidance to help your business get ahead of the society-shaping force of data literacy
B Corp Best for the World List — Impact data of Certified B Corps that have been selected for the 2017 “Best for the World List”
Startup Venture Funding — Information about startup companies, investment, and acquisitions via Crunchbase
Small Business Lending Data — Verified loss and approved loan amount totals for both home and business disaster loans, segmented by city, county, zip code and state
Relato business graph database — Dataset used to drive both a lead generation system where metrics on the graph fed into a classification for leads and a market visualization system
Politics
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) — Public US animal feeding operations data, consolidated and visualized to support of The Humane League in their efforts to improve the lives of farm animals
Removed Facebook Pages: Engagement Metrics and Posts — Structured tabular data, pre-viewable PDFs, and Tableau Public visualizations for 3000 posts from the five removed Facebook pages linked to the 2016 US election investigation
Healthcare
2015 Drug Overdose Deaths — Number and age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths by state, US 2015
2018 QHP landscape data — 2018 individual and family health plans available in states where the federal government is operating the Marketplace
Navajo code talkers’ dictionary — Canonical dataset of translations and codes using Navajo words, declassified by the Department of Defense
Other
Scottish Witchcraft — A variety of information on the almost 4,000 people who were accused of practicing witchcraft between 1563 and 1736 in Scotland
Data Journalism on data.world — Examples of journalists and others publishing the data behind the news
What’s on the menu? — Changes in food consumption and taste preferences according to historical menu data
Airport traffic — Annual passenger traffic for 18 of America’s busiest airports
Historical County Boundaries — DC Comprehensive Database — Complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes (dated to the day) in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia
Students Eligible for Free Meal Programs in California — Data visualizations and Insights for students receiving free meals in California
Who We Are [In Data] — Majors, schools, and career goals of aspiring data scientists on data.world
Tutorials
What do I put in data.world? — A sample project to show off the different kinds of files you might want to keep in a data.world dataset or project
Explore the data.world Python SDK — iPython notebook, showing how data.world side-by-side with Python can improve your workflow
How to add depth to your data with the US Census ACS — Resources for learning how to use US Census American Community Survey to enhance your datasets and Data Projects
Explore the data.world R SDK — An introduction to the most handy ways you can use the data.world R package
Six Degrees of SPARQL — A SPARQL query you can tweak to play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” between any two actors. Try it out by replacing “John Goodman” with “Judy Garland” or another favorite actor, then hit “Run query” for a path of relationships that connects one actor to another in 6 steps
Linking to Linked Data (Anywhere) — An RDF crosswalk that shows how to query and link datasets from data.world to Wikidata, a free RDF knowledge base
Tableau Desktop 101: Step into the Shoes of a Data Analyst — Guide, tutorial and exercises for learning basics of business data analysis and visualization with Tableau and data.world
Expanded Inline Link Previews on data.world — Fantastic examples of embedded content on data.world
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