BMA Datasets

A list of public datasets to be used in tutoring Data Science to attendees at the Black Male Achievement Oakland Hackathon.

Datasets

• Public Health Data
  • Tulane's Long List
  • CDC WONDER
  • CDC BRFSS: The BRFSS, administered and supported by CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Branch, is an ongoing data collection program designed to measure behavioral risk factors for the adult population (18 years of age and older) living in households
  • Community Health Status Indicators:The Community Health Status Indicators Project (CHSI) 2008 provides 16-page reports for the 3141 counties in the United States, each of which includes more than 300 county-specific data items related to chronic and infectious diseases, birth characteristics or outcomes, causes of death, environmental health, availability of health services, behavioral risk factors, health-related quality of life, vulnerable populations, summary measures of health, and health disparities.
  • Medicare Hospital Data
  • Kaiser State Health Facts

• Education
  • data.gov Education Data (long list)
  • Grockit Test Data
  • Public School Database (2010)
  • State Mathematics Assessments
  • Awards and Degrees
  • Post-secondary Centers
  • State Education Profiles
  • State High School Completion/Dropout Data
  • Public School Finance Data

• Census
  • Bulk 2010 Census Data

• Government
  • Sunlight Foundation APIs
  • Executive Orders 1994-2012

• Economics
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Import/Export Applications (2013)

• Municipal
  • SF Data

• Oakland
  • data.oaklandnet.com
  • OpenOakland
  • Oakland Unified School District
  • Oakland Budget
  • Community Gardens
  • 2010 Census Data for Oakland

• Prison Data
  • National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

Tools

• Mapbox