Learning Public Data Sets

2h 1mBeginner2019-07-12

Authors

Curt Frye

President of Technology and Society, Incorporated

Course details

Discover how to find free, public sources of data on a variety of business, education, and health issues and download the data for your own analysis. Instructor Curt Frye introduces several US government resources—from the US Census Bureau to the US Patent and Trademark Office—and surveys datasets from international agencies such as the World Bank and United Nations. Plus, he goes over data search engines, web services, and even language resources like the Ngram Viewer for Google Books. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll be better equipped to find the information you need for your scholarship and data analysis efforts.

Learning objectives
Working with US census data
Using data from the Securities and Exchange Commission
Accessing education and labor data from US agencies
Finding international sources of data
Gathering data from search engines and data portals

Skills covered

Data EngineeringMicrosoft ExcelData AnalysisLearningData ScienceBusiness Analysis and StrategyBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoft

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Use public data sets to perform analyses
02 - What you should know

1. US Census Bureau and Securities and Exchange Commission

03 - US Census Bureau population data
04 - US Census Bureau maps and visualizations
05 - US Census Bureau industry data
06 - US Census Bureau geographic data sets
07 - US health data
08 - EDGAR

2. Other US Government Agencies

09 - Bureau of Justice Statistics
10 - Internal Revenue Service migration data
11 - Bureau of Economic Analysis
12 - US Federal Reserve Board
13 - US Department of Education Data and Research
14 - Bureau of Labor Statistics
15 - Bureau of Transportation Statistics
16 - US Patent and Trademark Office
17 - National Centers for Environmental Information

3. Data Sources for Non-US Entities

18 - World Bank
19 - CIA World Factbook
20 - United Nations
21 - UNICEF
22 - Statistics Canada
23 - Eurostat
24 - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
25 - UK National Health Service NHS Digital

4. Data Search Engines and Portals

26 - Google Finance
27 - Google Trends
28 - Google Public Data Explorer
29 - Amazon Web Services Public Data Sets
30 - Data.gov
31 - Google Ngram Viewer
32 - The Corpus of Contemporary American English
33 - University of California, Irvine, Center for Machine Learning
34 - Pew Research Center

Conclusion

35 - Next steps