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Using the OpenAlex R package to identify research literature
The OpenAlex R package enables users to query, explore, and analyze research data directly in R, providing a way to integrate bibliometric information into your data science workflows.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) data
Overview of BLS API and access to data.
Subsetting General Social Survey (GSS) data
This file will help you subset data from the gssr package. The gssr R package provides a useful set of tools to efficiently access, manipulate, and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) dataset.
Fatal police interactions in the United States
Data from the Washington Post's fatal force database on fatal police interactions since 2015.
Data on veterans in the U.S.
Public-use data on U.S. veterans.
Foreign-Born Population
Census data on foreign-born population.
Data on homelessness in the U.S.
Various data sets related to homelessness in the United States.
ADD Healtlh: Parent Survey, 2015 - 2017
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) Parent Study, 2015-2017 data
Survey of Business Owners Public Use Microdata Sample
2007 Survey of Business Owners Public Use Microdata Sample
U.S. Census Data surveys
Data available in the tidycensus() package.
State and global incarceration rates
Data replication from the Prison Policy Initiative on U.S. state and global incarceration rates and violent crime rates.
Bail Reform Synthetic Data
Presented here are some set up files to produce synthetic data on bail reform efforts.
Police Response Time
Data is provided to analyze police response time in Dallas, TX for the years 2017-2022. The user may modify the data to identify variables of interest. The data provided is only for Dallas, TX and come from the open access crime data at https://www.dallasopendata.com.
National Health Expenditures (NHE)
This is the parent site for data extraction on NHE.
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data
To access the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data, utilize the resources available on the MEPS website. The page provides quick access and data wrangling on a sample public use file that include information on healthcare utilization, expenditures, and insurance coverage for the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population. Users can download the datasets directly from the MEPS data files section, which offers other variables.