Places to Find Data

Search Engines

• Google Data Search
• Data.gov
  
• Healthdata.gov
  
• World Health Organization Data Repository
  
• Temperate Reefbase
  
• Data Dryad
  
• Dataportals.org
  
• World Bank Datasets
  
• Data One
  
• Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
  
• Registry of Research Data Repositories
  
• Pangea

Data Sets

• Reef Check
  
• City of Boston Data Portal
  
• Massachusetts Ocean Resource Information System
  
• NOAA Fisheries Datasets
  
• Neotoma Paleoecology Database
  
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  
• CDC Wonder Database

Data Sets with R Packages

• R EBird Interface
  
• RNOAA interface for NOAA datasets
  
• HAD CRU Global Climatology Data
• tidyhydat - historical hydrometric data
  
• US Federal Geospatial Data via FedDat
  
• Electronic Health Record Data
  
• Open Fisheries
  
• Every tropical cyclone since 1998
  
• Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) General Circulation Models (GCM) data
  
• R Interface for Ocean Biogeographic Information System
  
• R Sample Datasets
  
• Fivethirtyeight - very heterogeneous!
  
• tidycensus - Interface for US Census data that returns tidy data frames
  
• A Few Biological Marine Timeseries
  
• Interface with PANGEA database - many varied datasets
  
• Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation
  
• R National Phenology Network interface
• Weather data from Environment and Climate Change Canada
  
• nomisr - Bemographic and Census data from the UK
  
• fingertipsR - Public heath data from England
• inat - iNaturalist data access
  
• rAvis - citizen science bird counts in Spain