Spatial Datasets
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Finding GIS DataAn Oklahoma-based guide listing many of the resources below and more.
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GeoNames"Database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge."
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Physical maps available at Youngblood Energy LibrarHow to find maps in the Youngblood Energy (Geology) Library in Sarkey's Energy Center.
Global data
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DataONEGeographic search, indexing scientific research studies. Some have GIS data, some do not.
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ESRI Open Data HubOpen Data Portal hosted by the publisher of ArcGIS.
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Native Land"Native Land Digital is a Canadian not-for-profit organization, incorporated in December 2018. Native Land Digital is Indigenous-led, with an Indigenous Executive Director and Board of Directors who oversee and direct the organization. [...] Maps potentially function as colonial artifacts and represent a very particular way of seeing the world – a way primarily concerned with ownership, exclusivity, and power relations."
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IPUMS (Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation)"Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space."
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Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (sedac)"SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, is one of the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Focusing on human interactions in the environment, SEDAC has as its mission to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and earth science data and to serve as an "Information Gateway" between earth sciences and social sciences."
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Gapminder"Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics."
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PANGAEA. Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science"The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the hosting institutions."
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WorldPop"Within the WorldPop project a range of open geospatial datasets are combined in a flexible regression tree framework to reallocate contemporary aggregated spatial population count data."
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Encylopedia of Life"Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource."
United States
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Geospatial Data GatewaySponsored by the USDA and Natural Resources Conservation Service
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PolicyMap"An idea in 2007 to make geographic data easily accessible and understandable to policy makers grew into what is now PolicyMap: a data warehouse of over 50,000 indicators accessible through a state-of-the-art mapping and analytics platform."
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Mapping Police Violence"This information has been meticulously sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database." Provides map and infographics as well as raw data download as spreadsheet.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationSearch within the research areas on the site for GIS data specific to your needs.
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NHGISNational Historic Geographic Information System
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U.S. Geological SurveyLinks to National Map, National Atlas and Geospatial One Stop
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US Bureau of Land ManagementEach office has their own data centers.
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Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America"Redlining directed both public and private capital to native-born white families and away from African American and immigrant families. As homeownership was arguably the most significant means of intergenerational wealth building in the United States in the twentieth century, these redlining practices from eight decades ago had long-term effects in creating wealth inequalities that we still see today. Mapping Inequality, we hope, will allow and encourage you to grapple with this history of government policies contributing to inequality." The data are available as shapefiles and GeoJSON, and are searchable by description, transcription, city, and state.
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Data 4 Black Lives: COVID-19 Data"D4BL has worked to consolidate state level data to explore the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black people in the US. The D4BL COVID-19 Dataset captures state-level COVID-19 cases and deaths for Black people in the United States. D4BL established a team of volunteer data scientists to develop a codebase for automating the data extraction from state websites and storing it into this dataset."
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Inuit Siku (sea ice) Atlas"A group of Inuit experts, community researchers, and university researchers, have worked together over the past several years to document specialized Inuit knowledge about sea ice. Inuit elders and hunters are the local experts on sea ice. Through long term observation and experience with the sea ice, they have developed deep and rich understandings of the marine environment"
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Environmental and Sustainability Datasets
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Chemical Effects in Biological Systems (CEBS)NIEHS supported public data sets.
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Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI)Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a freely available dictionary of molecular entities focused on ‘small’ chemical compounds. (European Bioinformatics Institute)
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Comparative Toxigenomics Database (CTD)CTD illuminates how environmental chemicals affect human health.
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DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth)Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.
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Environmental Genome ProjectThe NIEHS Environmental Genome Project is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative effort focused on examining the relationships between environmental exposures, inter-individual sequence variation in human genes and disease risk in U.S. populations.
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IASSIST Data SourcesInternational Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology data sources.
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences DatabasesLinks to 12 science related data sets supported by NIEHS.
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OpenDOARDirectory of Open Access Repositories.