Data Sets

These data sets may be used in courses and are available for download from my GitHub. Thanks to Professor David Gerard of AU for sharing some of these data sets. In some cases, the Open Data has been pre-processed or curated to keep the data sets below the GitHub Large File limit of 100MB while still supporting the course learning outcomes.

Civil War Battles

Data: Civil War Battles
Data Source: A table from a Wikipedia page thanks to David Gerard
Description: The table contains the 384 battles that were classified by the…

College Scorecard (USDOE)

College Scorecard Extract
Data Source: An extract from the US Department of Education College Scorecard at the institutional level. There are two data sets: one from…

Crime Data Sets

Estate Data

Johns Hopkins Covid 19 Data

Other

Data
Data Source: Federal Reserve Statistical Release
Description: Information about insured US-Chartered commercial banks that have consolidated assets of $300 million…

Word List Data Sets

Data
Data Source: Google site
Description: The word list used as the official dictionary for the Words with Friends app.
Filename: enable1.txt
Variables: no header
Records…