Data Sources

This list needs cleaning.

General Data related resources

• Guide to Open Data Publishing & Analytics - A good article describing best practices for publishing data openly. Is also a good read for those who want to analyze other’s data.

• A short list of data related R packages - packages that either access data or include data

• Google’s Data Search Engine

• Reddit forum related to data sources

Some data Sources

(listed in no particular order)

• Kaggle Data - A growing number of datasets used in Kaggle data analysis contests and available for any other use.

• Nasdaq Data Link - mainly finance related data

• NHANES - longstanding and thorough survey done by CDC

• SEER - Cancer data

• CDC WONDER - list of mainly CDC online databases

• Healthy People Website - contains among other things links to various data sources

• HCUP - collection of health related databases, focusing on US wide and state-specific samples of ER and hospital visits. Not free, but not too expensive.

• Clinical Study Data Request - a way to get (tedious) access to clinical trial data

• EMA Clinical Data Portal - looks like a way to get access to some clinical trial data for EMA registered studies.

• MIMIC - a free and open database of critical care patient visits to a Boston hospital.

• Data.gov - federak government data platform.

• Analyze Survey Data for Free - Step by Step Instructions to Explore Public Microdata from an Easy to Type Website

• Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)

• Global Health Data Exchange / IHME

• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

• National EMS Data (NEMSIS)

• Data from the UN

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) - access to various social and behavioral sciences data.

• Federal Reserve in Atlanta Data Center

• Database to search health related government data

Infectious disease specific

General

• Project Tycho - infectious disease data
• http://www.viprbrc.org
• http://eupathdb.org
• ClinEpiDB - a database of (a few) clinical epidemiology studies, focusing on infectious diseases.
• ImmPort

Influenza

• http://www.fludb.org
• WHO Flunet
• gisaid.org
• http://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/FLU.html
• SystemsInfluenza.org

TB

• OTIS on CDC WONDER: http://wonder.cdc.gov/tb.html