Social Sciences

The Authoritarian Ruling Elites Database (ARED) is a collection of biographical and professional information on the individuals who constitute the top elite of authoritarian regimes, generally referred to as the ruling or winning coalition. The sample coverage includes regimes identified by Geddes…

Open dataset documenting book bans and challenges worldwide, with a source citation for every ban. Covers books, countries, years, reasons and authors. Permanent DOI on Zenodo.

4,180 books ranked from about 1.7 million reader ratings merged from Open Library, Hardcover and Google Books and matched with Wikidata, plus 765 book series, 1,573 reading orders and 1,332 authors. Direct CSV and NDJSON downloads and a static JSON API with an OpenAPI file, rebuilt daily.

Daily 0-100 index measuring the volume and quality of verified constructive/positive news, aggregated from per-article scores (hope, reach, verification) with breakdowns by topic category and country. CSV/JSON downloads of index history, category trends, and anonymized reading patterns. Public…

Conflict Trends, Polities, State Fragility, etc

121 consecutive years of the Chinese sexagenary (ganzhi) cycle, each row giving the heavenly stem, earthly branch, zodiac animal and five-element class for the year whose Lunar New Year falls in that Gregorian year. The derivation is published with the data - 1924 anchored as Jia-Zi Wood Rat, then…

aggregated data

Verified federal and national government employee pay tables for 17 countries (US OPM GS/SES/FS/JUD, UK Cabinet Office SCS, Canadian Treasury Board core public service, Australian APSC, Japanese Jinjiin, Korean civil service, German BBesG/TVoeD, Brazilian SIAPE, Indian CPC, and others)…

​​​For five decades, the General Social Survey (GSS) has studied the growing complexity of American society. It is the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States.

A comprehensive, accessible database that contains records of over 260k US gun violence incidents from 2013 to the present.

Structured bias scores for 212 news outlets across 37 framing dimensions (fear, credibility, political lean, etc.). Model-derived source-level scores from analyzed article corpora. Reproducible fear-vs-extremism finding (r≈0.85) with Colab notebook.

Daily composite travel-safety scores (1-10) and five risk pillars (conflict, crime, health, governance, environment) for 248 countries, derived from public sources including the Global Peace Index, INFORM Risk Index, ReliefWeb, GDACS, and US/UK/CA/AU government travel advisories. Full dataset…

Open data behind knowyourfaceshape.com, a browser-based face-shape detector. Two parts - (1) the classification rule set, i.e. seven face-shape prototypes as anthropometric ratios plus jaw angle, per-feature tolerances and weights on two measurement scales, with disclosed limitations; (2) 27 dated…

The Mass Mobilization (MM) data are an effort to understand citizen movements against governments, what citizens want when they demonstrate against governments, and how governments respond to citizens. The project codes protests against governments - the data cover 162 countries between 1990 and…

Demographic, economic, education, and energy data for up to 237 countries and territories. 147 indicators sourced from UN Population Division, IMF, UNESCO, and EIA, with coverage varying by category.

The Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph is a large RDF data set with over eight billion triples with information about scientific publications and related entities, such as authors, institutions, journals, and fields of study. The data set is licensed under the Open Data Attributions license.

A global database of persons and companies of political, criminal, or economic interest.

Aggregated, anonymised demographic profile of 686 women registered with a Moscow-based international matchmaking agency, compiled 1 July 2026. Covers age distribution, education level, occupation, language proficiency, marital status, children, partner age range sought and nationality. Every…

A 12-month Google Trends analysis (May 2025 – April 2026) of US consumer interest in 30 top designer, niche, and celebrity fragrances, broken down by state. Each row identifies the single fragrance with the highest average Google search interest in each US state plus DC. Open consumer-research…

Aggregate statistics on registered sex offenders in the United States, compiled from all 58 US registries (every state, DC and the territories) into one normalized index. Free CSV downloads of counts by state and by city with per-1,000-resident rates, plus per-state and per-capita rankings and…

The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.

Worldwide human population distributions

Open dataset of 100,437 verified U.S. veteran-services resources spanning all 56 jurisdictions (50 states, DC, and 5 territories). Includes VA medical facilities, county veteran service offices, accredited representatives, housing programs, crisis lines, employment resources, and survivor benefits…

62 datasets on disability in the US and globally — demographics, employment, web accessibility compliance, assistive technology usage, healthcare, housing, and transportation. Sources span Census Bureau, BLS, WHO, OECD, World Bank, CDC, and more. Includes 10 Jupyter notebooks.

A live, daily-refreshed public-domain ranking of influential living people. Each row is a named person with a rank and tier, a concise biography in 15 languages, a Wikidata Q-ID and Wikipedia / official links, country of citizenship (ISO 3166-1), birth year and sex. Continuously updated; offered as…

16,382 people groups across 238 countries with 7,134 language entries. Covers ethnicity, religion, language family, population estimates, and geographic distribution. Sourced from the Joshua Project.

1,279 records comparing meteorite fall/find reports with UFO sighting reports to study detection and reporting bias by time of day, US state, and physical characteristics. Combines NASA and NUFORC data.

FIPS-keyed county-level US inequality data spanning food deserts, healthcare access, housing burden, veteran status, and poverty rates. Sources include Census ACS, CMS, USDA, and HRSA.