Datasets

This appendix provide a guidance on how to select a dataset for the course project.

Collect Data

Unfortunately, collecting you own data in his course via for example surveys is not feasible–it requires a lot of paperwork, time, and effort.

Have Dataset

If you learned about or collected a dataset in another course, internship, etc., you can use it as long as you have not used it in any other courses.

No Project Idea

If you are looking for a project idea, explore the dataset repositories below for inspiration:

• TidyTuesday
• Awesome Public Datasets (includes links to other data repositories at the end)
• Kaggle
• Data World
• Pro Publica
• Sports Data Sets by Ohio State U
• Large collection of repositories and datasets linked in this Trello board

Have Project Idea

If you already have a project idea but would like to find a suitable dataset, check the search engines below:

• Google Dataset Search
• U.S. Government’s Open Data
• OpenML
• FiveThirtyEight.com Dataset Repository
• BuzzFeedNews Dataset Repository
• Kaggle Search
• Typical search engines with search operators such as
  • filetype:csv: return only csv files that match the keywords searched–common file types that can be easily processed in R are csv, .tsv, .xls, .xlsx, and .rds.
  • site:data.gov: limit results to those from data.gov