The 2013 Federal Open Data Policy requires all government created data to be made available in machine-readable formats. Privacy and security is maintained while also making the data available.
Data.gov contains over 210,000 datasets on a wide range of topics. Datasets are organized by topic or can be searched using keywords. Data is deposited by all governmental agencies in addition to states, cities, and other organizations.
Data.census.gov replaces the American FactFinder as the repository of census data. Additional resources are available through the library to help with visualizing census data.
Federal Enterprise Data Resources is an online repository of policies, schema standards, tools, best practices, and case studies to provide agencies a one-stop shop for resources related to federal data management and use.
Data supplied by the agencies within the Health and Human Services including datasets on environmental health, medical devices, Medicare & Medicaid, social services, community health, mental health, and substance abuse.
FRED Economic data provides comprehensive economic data, including banking & finance, population, employment, labor market, national accounts, production & business activity, prices, international data, U.S. regional data, and academic data. This database is governed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
The FBI's Crime Data Explorer (CDE) aims to provide transparency, create easier access, and expand awareness of criminal, and noncriminal, law enforcement data sharing; improve accountability for law enforcement; and provide a foundation to help shape public policy with the result of a safer nation. Use the CDE to discover available data through visualizations, download data in .csv format, and other large data files.
This team at Stanford is gathering, analyzing, and releasing records from millions of traffic stops by law enforcement agencies across the country. Data is freely downloadable as R and CSV files and they include tutorials, the ReadMe file, and a citation to include in research using their data.
Pew makes the datasets they gather to create their analyses and reports freely available to researchers after a period of time. Coverage includes politics, religion, social and demographic trends, internet and technology usage, and more.
