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topic: "Data Sources"
desc: "sources of interesting data to use in your projects"
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# Data Sources

This page describes several places where you might look for interesting data to use in your SPIS projects.

Here is an overview, followed by more specific information about each one.

* Julian McAuley's Amazon Data sets: [http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/](http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/)
* The CORGIS datasets for Python: [https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/python/index.html](https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/python/index.html)

* New York Times Data Journalism: [http://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot](http://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot)
* Nate Silver's Election analysis and more: [http://fivethirtyeight.com/](http://fivethirtyeight.com/)
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* Reddit Data Visualization: [https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/)<commit_msg>Update data_sources.md<commit_after>---
topic: "Data Sources"
desc: "sources of interesting data to use in your projects"
---

# Data Sources

This page describes several places where you might look for interesting data to use in your SPIS projects.

Here is an overview, followed by more specific information about each one.

* Julian McAuley's Amazon Data sets: [http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/](http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/)
* The CORGIS datasets for Python: [https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/python/index.html](https://think.cs.vt.edu/corgis/python/index.html)

* New York Times Data Journalism: [http://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot](http://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot)
* Nate Silver's Election analysis and more: [http://fivethirtyeight.com/](http://fivethirtyeight.com/)

* Reddit Data Visualization: [https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/)
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