Guides: BUS 425: Data Analytics: More Resources

Dataset Search Engines

Google Dataset Search
Google Dataset Search is much like a standard Google. Enter the topic you wish to receive datasets for in the search bar. Dataset search will then bring up all of the datasets it can find on the subject.
Kaggle
Kaggle is an open-access community run dataset hub. There are datasets available on nearly every topic. You can use the search bar or browse their collection by category.

Statistics Canada
The Daily (by Statistics Canada)
You can read the Daily in several ways, e.g. “Releases by subject” with 32 subject categories.
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Established in 2007, (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard.
Historical Climate Data (Government of Canada)
Data.Gov
Home of the U.S. Government's open data website. Contains over 330,000 datasets.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) - CDC
Collects data in all 50 states regarding health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventative services. Surveys more than 400,000 adults each year.

IMF Data (International Monetary Fund)
Worldwide data from the IMF
Eurostat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union
International Labour Organization: Statistics and Databases
Labour statistics from the ILO.
MIDAS: Market Information Data Analytics System (SEC)
From the SEC, this contains very rich and complete intra-day financial market (averaged by the stock-day) statistics for thousands of securities. It also describes the methodology behind every variable.

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SEC MIDAS (Market Information Data and Analytics System) contains Individual Security Metrics published by SEC MIDAS. It provides market trading metrics for over 8,000 securities (stocks and exchange-traded portfolios).

SEC MIDAS also contains proxies for daily Algorithm Trading (AT) and High Frequency Trading (HFT) activities. For example:
- Cancel-to-Trade ratio,
- Trade-to-Order ratio,
- Odd Lot Ratio.

Other daily trading summaries include:
- Total Trade Volume,
- Hidden Order Volume,
- Trades and Trading Volume against Hidden Orders,
- Hidden Rate, etc.
OECD: Data
Click on the top right "Explore" to see an updated version of the website.

UN Data
Data and statistics from the UN
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Education, science, culture, communication, technology stats
UNICEF Data
UN - Food and Agriculture Organization
Key resources include "FAOStat" and "SDG Indicators." Scroll down for these and more resources

The ARDA
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers.
IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
Primary source for information on U.S. colleges, universities, and technical and vocational institutions.
NHL - Stats
Hockey Reference
Basketball Reference
Premier League - Statistics