Ideas for New Datasets

[flannery-denny]

When our dataset library is usable for teachers to translate into action steps, provide scaffolding for actions they could take with their classes.

Old thoughts on this: The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies Should be considered in the context of #688

US Bus Depot Environmental Justice Dataset from the electric school bus initiative ` The Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) is a first-of-its-kind tool that leverages high-resolution, large-scale data to reveal how cities perform at the intersection of environment and social equity.

Perhaps there's something useful from RadicalMath or Subak Climate Data Coperative

There's a lot of interesting stuff in https://redis.com/blog/datasets-for-test-databases/ (FIFA! Star trek! Astronomy! World Music! Diamonds! So much more!)

Kathi offered to reach out to folks at Brown (Choices, Slavery & Justice) Shriram offered to reach out to https://www.datacommons.org/

• Banned Books - identifier = booktitle-decade
• Brown University connections to slavery
• Brown University response to diversifying society
• LA Homeless arrests
• Immigrants in the US work force - for a single year, detailed across sector
• Diversity in Hollywood
• River gauge Data
• average class sizes / zipcode / median and mean income of zipcode / money spent per student / student-teacher ratio / access to music / art / shop / CS education in schools around the country
• wealth gap - annual earnings / equity / hours worked...

  Perhaps no statistic better illustrates the enduring legacy of our country’s shameful history of treating black people as sub-citizens, sub-Americans, and sub-humans than the wealth gap.

• predatory lending (see #702 for more ideas on this)
• Dreamers
• Dollar street from Gapminder.org wage calculations
• professional sports earnings injuries / by age / sex / race / geography / education / coach v player v ref v sportscaster etc.
• Environmental justice - NYC data asthma rates / bus depot location / vegetable access
• Haitian Revolution
• military veterans
• aids funding pre class action lawsuit?
• Reparations
• Planets
• knox county - miseducation
• US DOE Civil Rights Data
• Something about the size / demographics of coding teams for various projects
• 350.org data
• Demographics of world leaders
• Social media usage
• Racial bias in sentencing data used in the article from our ethics & privacy lesson on github. I haven't had a chance to dig in yet, but these graphs/stats from the article make me think that we should be using this dataset for something, may even be a good real example of simpson's paradox.

Resource with targeted & cleaned datasets: https://dataclassroom.com/ - there's a photosynthesis dataset

Passengers on the Titanic

Incomplete Datasets from Jen/Ed that could be finished

• amusement park injuries
• soccer
• climate normals

Possible Long Haul Covid resource: survivorcorps

[flannery-denny]

Hello, while I understand Bootstrap is US-based, it would be great for more datasets to be less US-centric, also for the benefit of students in the States and their worldview. In talking to colleagues, it is also evident that many teach students who have recently come to the US from other places and would perhaps find something more relevant to their interests in a wider variety of datasets, and perhaps a way to share more about themselves and contribute more domain knowledge to the class discussion.

For example, World cities & Pollution/Living standard/Traffic/Density/Cyclists & Cycle paths/Housing prices & availability/… Countries & Gun policies/Drug policies/Shooting deaths/Crime/Incarceration rates Countries & Voting rates/Democracy rating/Press outlets & restrictions/Social media use & restrictions Countries & Budget spending %ages/PISA performance/Happiness index/Immigration UEFA Champions League soccer & Team budgets or World Cup teams & Player earnings/Club info or World ATP Tennis stats

Thanks for considering!

[flannery-denny]

i enjoy graphs from new york times weekly discussion forum about social justice, climate change, and historic to modern trends.

My students are all for mental health, nutrition and spreading rates of viral content.

[flannery-denny]

chicago & nyc real estate tax case study from ASDA https://ethos.academicdatascience.org/case-studies/paying-your-share-how-a-data-centered-journalistic-investigation-revealed-corruption-opaque-and-unfair-tax-practices-in-major-cities-in-the-usa/

[schanzer]

Shriram forwarded this resource, which has tons of assessment data from across the US: https://www.zelma.ai/