I recently chanced upon “Data Is Plural” – an email newsletter, currently on issue 370. Each week it provides a list and some commentary on “useful/curious datasets”. There’s a ton of links in each issue for anyone who wants data to play or work with to get stuck into.
To give a taster of what they’re about, here’s their summary of the content from the last three editions at the time of writing.
2024.04.17 • Unregulated water contaminants, border crossings, earthquakes felt, automated decision-making in government, and aerial obstacles.
2024.04.10 • Opioid settlement payouts, groundwater wells, work-injury laws, colonial empire timelines, and objects launched into outer space.
2024.04.03 • Power outages, European Parliament activity, candid animals, LLM data provenance, and deaths in plague-era London.
Within the newsletter itself, each topic has a paragraph of commentary along with links to the freely available datasets concerned.
They also have a podcast that I look forward to giving a go.
Dabbling with Data 