Research Guides: Data, Datasets, and Statistical Resources: Data of Current Interest

Current Events Data

Librarians often learn of new data sources as they emerge with unfolding events in society. This page is for listing new and interesting data sources of potential interest to the Carleton community because of their timeliness.

Political and Social Uprising, Black Lives Matter, and Antiracism

Black Lives Matter: 80 Years of Black Americans' Public Opinion and How the U.S. Public Views Black America
Public opinion data from the Roper Center, pulled together to highlight Black opinion expressed in the archives' surveys, and opinion data on race relations in the U.S.
Police Use of Force Against Protestors
These 68 videos show clear apparent instances of police officers escalating violence during protests. Most departments refused to share details about investigations and discipline or even officers’ names. ProPublica followed up on each.
Police Brutality During Protests
Google Sheet that documents numerous incidences posted to Twitter of police using force against protestors.
ICPSR's Civic Activism / Policing Datasets
From 2020 Data Resources Guide. Scroll down halfway.

Data on Police Reform

Datasets

Fatal Force - Washington Post
A log of every fatal police shooting since 2015 kept by The Washington Post.
Mapping Police Violence
Interactive maps and visualizations and with the dataset available for download.
Replication data: Militarization and Police Violence: The Case of the 1033 Program
A dataset on police violence, police spending, military transfers of equipment, and civilian casualties. See the associated article here.
Police Union Contract Project
A database of police union contracts and a dataset of policy language and related impacts with assigned categories. Scroll down on the main page for the source data or the Summary Report.
Replication data: Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime
“Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime.” 2017. Sharkey, Patrick, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa and Delaram Takyar. American Sociological Review 82(6):1214-40. See the article.
Replication data: Shot by Cops and Forgotten
This is the GitHub repository of the data and code behind the VICE News investigative report. See also the Google Sheet data.

Qualitative Data

Use of Force Policy Database
See the associated research report.

Emerging Research with No Datasets Posted Yet

DC Body-Worn Camera Evaluation
High level replication data available, but the incident-level and officer-level data are withheld for privacy reasons. See the article Yokum, Ravishankar, and Coppock (2019). "A randomized control trial evaluating the effects of police body-worn cameras" PNAS 116 (21) 10329-10332.
Campaign Zero - Research
A collection of research on police accountability from the advocacy organization Campaign Zero.

Covid Vaccine Data

Covid Vaccine Development Tracker (Milken Institute)
Nicely visualized vaccine tracker. Highlights the specific type of vaccine being developed (live virus, mRNA, etc.)
Vaccine Development Tracker (RAPS)
From Regulatory Focus, shows the status of all known vaccines in development. Information includes phase, sponsoring institution, funding source, style of study, and projected distribution date.
Covid Vaccine Tracker (US)
Johns Hopkins provided dashboard of real-time tracking of doses administered in U.S. states.
Vaccine Doses by State (New York Times)
Up to date information the number of doses administered.

COVID-19 Data

See the Research Data section of the library's COVID-19 Resources guide.

Public Opinion Poll Questions on COVID-19
Poll questions about Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Roper archive organized by week.
COVID-19 Dashboards
A set of dashboards updated multiple times daily.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Datasets - World Bank
Datasets selected by the World Bank for their use in analysis, response or modelling for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Our World in Data - Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)
Well documented interactive data visualizations updated daily.
The COVID Racial Data Tracker
A collection of up-to-date race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 in the. US from the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
The COVID Tracking Project
A volunteer organization collecting and posting data on COVID-19 testing and patient outcomes, emerging from The Atlantic and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
Data Collaboratives in Response to COVID-19
A crowdsourced list of data sources created by The Governance Lab at New York University.
COVID-19 Pandemic in Locations with Humanitarian Response Plan
COVID-19 Data Hub - Open Data Saves Lives
A collaboration out of the University of Leeds to document and share open data relevant to the coronavirus pandemic.
Dan's COVID Charts
Creative and powerful visualizations of COVID-19 data.

2020 General Election Data

U.S. Elections Project : 2020 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Detailed state statistics and analyses from reporting states on early voting, including absentee ballots requested and returned, where available.
Presidential Transition Index
The new research program aims to identify potentially weak areas of the presidential transition process and to provide the public with an ongoing, near real-time assessment of the 2020 transition.
Pew Election 2020
Contains election analysis and some post-election survey results.
Roper 2020 Topic Tracker
"Discover what the U.S. public thinks about key election issues and how this compares to 2016."

Wildfires 2020

2020 Wildfire Maps
An ArcGIS StoryMaps Collection incorporating multiple sources of data for specific active wildfires in the western United States.
Wildfire Public Information Map
From Esri's Disaster Response Program, an active map that "displays current wildfire locations as reported by responding agencies and other sources of information related to wildfires. "