Online Databases
Jeff Klingner's List of Online Databases
- Counting California
- Information on "Agriculture and Natural Resources; Banking,
Finance and Insurance; Business and Industry; Crime, Law
Enforcement & Criminal Justice; Education; Elections;
Energy and Public Utilities; Health and Vital Statistics;
Housing Characteristics and Costs; Income, Poverty, and
Cost of Living; Land, Water and Climate; Population and
Demographics; Public Finance, Government & Taxes;
Social Services and Public Assistance; Transportation; and
Work, Labor, and Employment"
Excel files & PDFs.
- USDA PLANTS Database
- The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the
vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S.
and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists,
distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant
links, references, crop information, and automated tools.
Displays tables in response to html form queries, downloadable as CSV
- NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) Scientific and Technical Databases - Lots
of data. High-level catergories are: Analytical Chemistry; Atomic and
Molecular Physics; Biometrics; Biotechnology; Chemical and Crystal
Structure; Chemical Kinetics; Chemistry; Communications; Construction;
Environmental Data; Fire; Fluids; International Trade Law Enforcement;
Materials Properties; Mathematical Databases, Software and Tools;
Optical Character Recognition; Physics; Product Design; Surface Data;
Text and Video Retrieval; Thermophysical and Thermochemical
various formats
- United Nations Statistics Division
- Global social and economic data. High level categories are
Demographic & Social, Energy, Environment, Industry, National
Accounts, and Trade.
HTML tables displayed, downloadable as CSV
- UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Site
- This site contains the reference sequence for the human and C.
elegans genomes and working drafts for the mouse, rat, Fugu,
Drosophila, C. briggsae, and SARS genomes. It also contains the CFTR
(cystic fibrosis) region in 13 species.
various standard bioinformatics sequence ASCII formats
- LexisNexis Statistical Universe - Just about everything. Be sure to check the box that says "Limit to Documents with Excel Spreadsheets".
GIF tables, excel files
subscription index, works from Stanford campus
- Baseball Statistics
- The Lahman baseball database, 1871-present. Table titles are MASTER,
Batting, Pitching, Fielding, All-Star, Hall of Fame, Managers, Teams,
BattingPost, PitchingPost, TeamFranchises, FieldingOF, ManagersHalf,
TeamsHalf, Salaries, SeriesPost, AwardsManagers, AwardsPlayers,
AwardsShareManagers, and AwardsSharePlayers.
ms access, CSV
- Statistical Science Data Sets - Large index of data sets from fully processed to raw, including the Breakfast Cereal Data Set.
various formats
last updated 3 Jan 2004