Data
Bibliographies
- Datasets - Environmental Engineering - Research Guides at Georgia Institute of Technology
- A Plethora of Open Data Repositories (i.e., thousands!) - Data Science Central
Portals
- UNEP Environmental Data Explorer - Environmental Database (search | map | graph | download)
- Data.gov, USA
- Climate Change Atlas, USA for 147 birds and 134 trees
- Climate Change Knowledge Portal, WorldBank
- Environment Data, WorldBank
- Datasets — European Environment Agency
- Free GIS Datasets - Categorised List
- Data - Developer Central | US EPA
- Quick Links | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) formerly known as National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
- Downloads | Natural Earth
- Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center | SEDAC
- UNEP Environmental Data Explorer - The Environmental Database (search | map | graph | download)
- GeoNetwork - The portal to spatial data and information
- NASA Earth Observations (NEO)
- Download data by country | DIVA-GIS
- Data — Geospatial Consulting @ UC Davis
- Global Administrative Areas | Boundaries without limits
- WorldClim - Global Climate Data | Free climate data for ecological modeling and GIS
- Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data | GBIF.org
- CGIAR-CSI SRTM 90m DEM Digital Elevation Database
- Digital Data | UCSB Library
- Spatial data: by location | UCSB Library
- Geoportal
- CNRA Download
- USGS TNM 2.0 Viewer
- Census.gov Data
- Summary File 1 - Census Product Catalog - U.S. Census Bureau
- Governments - Census Product Catalog - U.S. Census Bureau
- Developers
- Population Estimates and Projections (2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012)
- Health Insurance Statistics: CPS, SIPP, ACS and SAHIE
- Available APIs
- Spatial Data: by Type | UCSB Library
- Spatial Data Services | UCSB Library
- Data Catalog of Santa Barbara County
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
CSV datasets
Data Packages Listing - Frictionless Open Data | okfn
R API packages
Also see datasets in R, by package.
See rOpenSci - Packages. Here’s a few particularly noteworthy ones:
-
ecoretriever: R interface to the EcoData Retriever with these datasets, including Gentry’s forest transects
- rdataone: R interface to DataOne with over 170K ecological datasets
- dvn: R interface to Harvard Dataverse with over 60K datasets
- rnoaa tutorial: R interface to many NOAA data sources
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rWBclimate tutorial: R interface for the World Bank climate data used in the World Bank climate knowledge portal
- expersso/hdr: Interface to the UNDP Human Development Report API for R
- quandl/quandl-r to Quandl curated data
- rbison: Interface to the ‘USGS’ ‘BISON’ ‘API’, a ‘database’ for species occurrence data on the web
- Rblpapi: R Interface to Bloomberg
- rdatamarket: Fetches data from DataMarket.com
- RDSTK: R interface to Pete Warden’s Data Science Toolkit (datasciencetoolkit.org)
- Rfacebook: Facebook API via R
- rgbif: programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ridigbio: interface to iDigBio’s search API that allows downloading specimen records
- rinat: programmatic interface to the API provided by the iNaturalist website
- ropensecretsapi: API to OpenSecrets.org center for responsive politics
- rorcid: ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier
- rplos: Interface to the Search ‘API’ for ‘PLoS’ Journals
- rtimes: Client for New York Times ‘APIs’ including Congress, Campaign Finance, Article Search, and Geographic APIs
- RWeather: programmatic access to Yahoo! Weather and NOAA APIs
- rwunderground: R Interface to Weather Underground API
- ukgasapi: live UK gas market information via National Grid’s API
- walkscoreAPI: Walk Score and Transit Score API
- WikidataR: API client for the ‘Wikidata’ store of semantic data
- Ironholds/WikipediR: R API wrapper for MediaWiki
- acs: data from the US Census American Community Survey
- censusr: US Census API to collect summary data tables for SF1 and ACS datasets at arbitrary geographies
- noncensus: various regional information determined by the U.S. Census Bureau along with demographic data
- tigris: TIGER/Line shapefiles from the United States Census Bureau and load into R as Spatial DataFrames
- UScensus2010: US Census 2010 shape files and additional demographic data from the SF1 100 percent files
- blsAPI: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics API
- ckanr: access to CKAN.org, the world’s leading open-source data portal platform
Specific Datasets
- Landsat on AWS
- NASA NEX
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CCAFS-Climate Data - AWS Public Data Set: IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report (AR5), which includes a complete dataset of GCM for four Representative Concentration Pathways and four time periods (2030s, 2050s, 2070s and 2080s) that can reach resolutions as fine as 1km
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NEON Spatio-temporal Series Teaching Data Subsets | Figshare
- lake temps (Chris Lortie, Sapna)
- ca alternative fuels (Cameron Gray)
- Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection