Data

Large collections

• Python libraries statsmodels, sci-learn and seaborn and R itself have build-in datasets.

• gretl has extensive selection of datasets, including data from key textbooks.

• Well known dataset repository is UCI.

• Kaggle obviously has plenty of datasets.

• Sheffield University made a good listing of datasets for teaching.

• Australian National Centre for Econometric Research website has a useful Data and code section.

• Google Dataset search is not yet as good as main Google search, but will surely improve.

• FRED, Quandl and dbnomics are standard sources for macroeconomic data. My own effort for clean Russian macro time series - mini-kep.

Individual datasets

• Tidy Tuesday publishes weekly datasets and accompanying articles.

• Nick Huntington-Klein provides a variety of extra examples of data importable into R.

• I extracted a small, but illustartive dataset about lightbulb survival rate.

• Sunspot data is listed at variety of sources.