Science & Engineering Datasets: Finance, Government and More
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
Finance, Government and More
Government
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data.govUS government data is required to be made available in open, machine-readable formats, while continuing to ensure privacy and security. Agency Public Data Listings are made available on agency websites as JSON files and are then harvested into the central catalog for Data.gov.
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U.S. Census BureauUS census data. Includes data profiles, visualizations, tables, maps, and tools to explore the data.
Finance
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OrbisOrbis contains information about European, US, Canadian, South and Central American, Japanese, Chinese, and African companies, banks, and insurance companies. Includes financials, peer comparison, corporate ownership, and deals.
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Eikon with DatastreamFinancial markets database that provides access to real time market data, economic and business news, analytics and trading tools. Eikon with Datastream is installed on three computers in Pappajohn Business Building. Two are in the Business Library's Biz Hub and one is in the College of Business Finance Lab.
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International Monetary FundGlobal economic data. This data portal provides streamlined access to timely, reliable, and easy-to-understand macroeconomic and financial data, including world economic outlook databases, national economic accounts, balance of payments and international investment position, international financial statements, consumer prices, and the financial access survey.
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World Bank Open DataFree and open access to global development data.
Maps
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Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867–1970Large-scale landbook maps which includes information such as the outline of each building, the size and shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, and door and window location, street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Also includes construction details, ownership and building use.
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FIMo -Fire Insurance Maps onlineMaps for research on urban development patterns, past property uses and occupants, family homes, genealogy, and more. This subscription is to Iowa maps only.
Public Policy & Opinion
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iPoll databankAn up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion. Organized at the question level, iPoll provides the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys, 1935 to present.
Dataset Search Tools
Dataset Search Tools
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Google Dataset SearchDataset Search is a search engine for data sets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover data sets hosted in thousands of repositories across the web.
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Web of Science Data Citation IndexResearch data sets and data studies that are connected to articles, books, and conference proceedings across a wide range of international data repositories and disciplines. Links directly to data repositories.
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FAIRsharingA curated, searchable resource on data and metadata standards. It includes well over 2000 databases, repositories, and data policies.
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DataCite CommonsDatacite is dedicated to providing persistent identifiers to enable the citing of datasets in research. The repository search covers a broad range of subjects.
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Datasets List (UI Libraries)This is a broad set of datasets compiled by librarians at the University of Iowa. Try filtering the list by subject.
Contests
Contests
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kaggle datasetsPublic datasets for machine learning projects. "Everything from avocado prices to video game sales."
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NumeraiHedge fund quality data that allows users to build a model using example Python and R scripts.
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DrivenData Competitions"AI competitions with social impact."