Civic data
This page curates everything from open government data to visualization tools to data standards to algorithmic implementation. The only common thread is that all these data and data products share a commitment to civic interests.
Open for Good Alliance
Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond
New York City Directories
Archive of New York City directories
Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers
showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.
AidData Replication Datasets
AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is n...
All In: Data for Community Health
All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborat...
Code Hopper
Code Hopper is a repository to share code across the progressive community. Currently it consists of data wrangling functions, and our goal is to continually expand its scope.
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
Book by Sarah Williams -- How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.
Tiszta Szavazás
API access for the data of Hungarian ballot-offices, the candidates and results
Climate Data Hub
Climate Data Hub is a dataset exploration and discovery tool for data-driven technologists and entrepreneurs. Our visualizations will help you examine datasets in context – geospatial, bioregional, s...
Avalanche Insights
Synthesize qualitative data
AidData
A collection of open data about development, China, the UN SDGs, and aid effectiveness.
OneCity
OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.
Open State Foundation
open data, transparent society
NepalMap
Explore Nepal Using Data
Justice Counts
Actionable data to bolster public safety
The Data Nutrition Project
The Data Nutrition Project is an independent research organization focused on data integrity that creates a "nutrition label" standard for datasets, conducts independent research, and provides educati...
Responsible Data Resource List
This list of resources is curated and maintained by MERL Tech and The Engine Room.
Analytics Exchange
A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.
NYC Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA)
The Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) works with City agencies and their data to help serve New Yorkers more equitably and effectively.
Hyperobjekt
We are a digital agency focused on innovative work for social good.
ImpactMapper
Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.
Dryad
Publish and preserve your data
'Shared Data,' a short story from an alternate future
A Popular Science piece with key takeaways educational section
A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration
This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.
Ad Watch
ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.
2020 Political Atlas
Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.
Accela Civic Insight
See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.
HAYAT
Hayat Technologies is a specialised health-tech analytics and digital solutions provider
AAPI Data
Demographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
A qué precio?
Este observatorio de compras públicas en Salud recopila datos sobre los precios que pagan diferentes organismos estatales por medicamentos para permitir su análisis y transparentar la información gube...
data.org Resource Library
Practical information and inspirational ideas to help social impact organizations use data science to solve the world's biggest problems.
The Verifier
The only comprehensive data set of voting equipment down to the precinct level of the United States, going back to 2006.
Vote Visualizer
Compare and visualize voting count data across many levels of US elections
Open Gazettes South Africa
Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open...
MPR (Medicine Price Registry)
MPR can be used to find out what you can expect when your doctor prescribes you something; find out if there are cheaper generics that you can use instead; and make sure that you aren't being overchar...
Analyzing GoC Contract Spending
A volunteer-led, public, historical analysis of Canadian federal government contract spending at a whole-of-government level, based on scraping work to unify data from numerous departmental websites.
WhoWasInCommand
WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.
WeGovNYC Databook
We collect and join datasets together to create a data-driven view of New York City government.
Atlas of Urban Expansion
Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.
X-Road
X-Road, the data exchange layer for information systems, is a technological and organizational environment enabling a secure Internet-based data exchange between information systems.
Community Initiatives
Community Initiatives is a dedicated fiscal sponsor whose sole purpose is to provide best-in-class infrastructure for nonprofit leaders.
Security Force Monitor
We are a non-profit research group that analyzes thousands of public records to create a simple searchable database of the commanders and the command structures, locations, and areas of operations of...
Data Visualisation Catalogue
Best ways to communicate your data.
Centre for Humanitarian Data
Connecting people and data to improve lives
The Narrative Observatory
With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative p...
OpenRefine
OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.
Privacy Principles for Mobility Data
The Privacy Principles for Mobility Data are a set of values and priorities intended to guide the mobility ecosystem in the responsible use of data and the protection of individual privacy.
Tackling the climate crisis with data: what the built-environment sector can do
ODI & ARUP report and call to action
Helping organisations navigate ethical concerns in their data practices
The ODI's white paper on ethical data policies
mySidewalk
mySidewalk gives you the tools and insights you need to build a better world.