Information Visualization

A community-curated database of well-known people, places, and things

Repositories of datasets

Umbrella site for all data collected by federal government departments and agencies, including the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the International Trade Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"A project coming out of the M.I.T. Media Lab [ . . . ] seeks to ease that challenge and to make the value of government data available to a wider audience. The project, called Data USA, bills itself as “the most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data.” It is free, and its software code is open source, meaning that developers can build custom applications by adding other data."

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and region

NYC Open Data makes public data generated by various New York City agencies and other City organizations available for public use.

Provide access to all the statistic collected by the United Nations

World Bank Open Data: free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.

Data from Gallup polls and primary research

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.