Potential datasets for next release

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Potential datasets for next release #7

Open lmullen opened 8 years ago

lmullen commented 8 years ago

Methodist data
Geography of the Post: https://github.com/stanford-history/geographypost/tree/master/data
Overland Travels: https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/
The library data I scraped for Miriam Posner, if it has an open license.

lmullen commented 8 years ago

List of datasets on GitHub: https://github.com/datasets
@hepplerj, global temperature data: https://github.com/hepplerj/global-temp
Voyages data used by Ben Schmidt?

todrobbins commented 8 years ago

Likely some good ones in here: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

http://www.historicalstatistics.org/

I'll update this comment as I identify good candidates.

mdlincoln commented 8 years ago

Data on European urban populations 1500-1800: https://github.com/mdlincoln/europop

lmullen commented 8 years ago

@mdlincoln Thanks for the suggestion. You've already put that data in its own package on CRAN right? If you want me to just include it in historydata I'm happy to do so; otherwise, I think I'll just point people to your package.

lmullen commented 8 years ago

Mack Holt's early modern French price series.

lmullen commented 8 years ago

WPA Former Slave narratives. The text files as a list of character vectors. The data on the people as a spreadsheet.

lmullen commented 7 years ago

Potential network data:

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/visualizing/

lmullen commented 7 years ago

Prison records via Slate's The Vault. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2017/05/02/datasets_hold_information_from_admissions_books_for_philadelphia_s_eastern.html

hepplerj commented 7 years ago

I have a Superfund sites data package I've started putting together, but happy to fold that in here, too, if it's of interest. It'll have site names, lat/long, descriptions, HRS scores, URLs to EPA reports where possible, and dates they were proposed/added/reviewed/deleted.

lmullen commented 7 years ago

@hepplerj Sure. Want to send a PR?

hepplerj commented 7 years ago

Will do! It'll probably be next week.

daranzolin commented 6 years ago

Would texts from the Perseus Digital Library be relevant to this package?

lmullen commented 6 years ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201634

lmullen commented 6 years ago

Magazine of Early American Datasets. https://repository.upenn.edu/mead/

maximromanov commented 4 years ago

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/24747

This is replication data for the following study: Bosker, E. Maarten, Buringh, Eltjo, and van Zanden, Jan Luiten (2013) "From Baghdad to London: Unraveling Urban Development in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, 800-1800." Review of Economics and Statistics 95:4, 1418-1437.