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# Data Sources and How to Access Them {#datasources}
## Introduction
What is data science without _data_? Here's a few indexes and compendiums of data sources, including R packages that conveniently either bundle those data or provide mechanisms to access data from remote sources.
* Kim, A. Y, Ismay, C., & Chunn, J. (2018). The fivethirtyeight R Package: "Tame Data" Principles for Introductory Statistics and Data Science Courses. _Technology Innovations in Statistics Education_, 11(1). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rx1231m
## Sources
### listings
University of Alberta Libraries, Economics: [List of databases](http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/c.php?g=329741&p=2334221)
Simon Fraser University Library: [Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Information Resources: Facts & Data](http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/subject/gsws/factsdata)
### open data sources
#### socio-economic
[SDG Tracker](https://sdg-tracker.org/) -- "a free, open-access resource where users can track and explore global and country-level progress towards each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals" established by the United Nations.
* The database is compiled by [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/) ("Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems"). Data are available through curated links.
[United Nations Population Prospects](https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/) - detailed country population data
* [populationpyramid.net](https://www.populationpyramid.net/) uses this data
[OECD world data, by country](https://data.oecd.org/)
[Gapminder](https://www.gapminder.org/data/) - all indicators displayed in Gapminder World
[Data sources for Canadian economists](https://worthwhile.typepad.com/stephen/data/index.htm), compiled by [Stephen Gordon](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/author/stephen-gordon)
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Anyone know of a good migration dataset? Ideally # of people moving from country i to country j by year</p>— Savage Jim (/@/jim_savage_) <a href="https://twitter.com/jim_savage_/status/1094672164928802816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
#### science
[NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies](https://data.giss.nasa.gov/)—a plethora of data including climate simulations and impacts, Earth observations, and other planets.
#### other
[FiveThirtyEight: Our Data](https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/) -- "the data and code behind some of our articles and graphics".
* [GitHub repo](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data)
## R packages
### `{bcdata}`
[bcdata](https://bcgov.github.io/bcdata/) -- An R package 📦 for searching & retrieving data from the B.C. Data Catalogue.
### `{cancensus}`
[Census of Canada (including the National Household Survey)](https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus)
### `{cansim}`
**package**
[github](https://github.com/mountainMath/cansim)
**articles**
Dmitry Shkolnik (2018-08-01) [The CANSIM package, Canadian tourism, and slopegraphs](https://www.dshkol.com/2018/cansim-package-tourism-slopegraphs/)
### `{CANSIM2R}`
[CANSIM2R: Directly Extracts Complete CANSIM Data Tables](https://cran.r-project.org/package=CANSIM2R)
github: [CANSIM2R](https://github.com/MarcoLugo/CANSIM2R)
* Andrew Clarke (2017-08-09) [StatCan API's Discovered](https://www.mytinyshinys.com/2017/08/09/statcanapi/)
### `{fivethirtyeight}`
[fivethirtyeight](https://fivethirtyeight-r.netlify.com/articles/fivethirtyeight.html)
### `{gapminder}`
[gapminder: Data from Gapminder](https://cran.r-project.org/package=gapminder) An excerpt of the data available at [Gapminder.org]. For each of 142 countries, the package provides values for life expectancy, GDP per capita, and population, every five years, from 1952 to 2007.
### `{Lahman}`
[Lahman: Sean 'Lahman' Baseball Database](https://cran.r-project.org/package=Lahman/) Provides the tables from the 'Sean Lahman Baseball Database' as a set of R data.frames. It uses the data on pitching, hitting and fielding performance and other tables from 1871 through 2018, as recorded in the 2016 version of the database.
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