Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Following is a small taste of what's available for the topic of your choice.
Geography
Do you have mapping software, but no geographic data? You're in luck.
Plenty of shapefiles and other geographic file types are at your disposal.
a
www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/)
—From the Census Bureau,
probably the most extensive detailed data about roads, railroads,
rivers, and ZIP codes you can find
OpenStreetMap (
TIGeR (
a
www.openstreetmap.org/)
—One of the best examples
of data and community effort
Geocommons (
a
www.geocommons.com/)
—Both data and a mapmaker
Flickr Shapefiles (
a
www.flickr.com/services/api/)
—Geographic
boundaries as defined by Flickr users
Sports
People love sports statistics, and you can find decades' worth of sports
data. You can find it on
Sports Illustrated
or team organizations' sites, but
you can also find more on sites dedicated to the data specifically.
a
www.basketball-reference.com/
)—Provides
data as specific as play-by-play for NBA games.
Baseball DataBank (
Basketball Reference (
a
http://baseball-databank.org/
)—Super basic
site where you can download full datasets.
databaseFootball (
a
www.databasefootball.com/
)—Browse data for NFL
games by team, player, and season.
World
Several noteworthy international organizations keep data about the world,
mainly health and development indicators. It does take some sifting
though, because a lot of the datasets are quite sparse. It's not easy to get
standardized data across countries with varied methods.
a
Global Health Facts (
www.globalhealthfacts.org/
)—Health-related
data about countries in the world.
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