Data Science Learning Path / evidence register
Data Science evidence catalogue
Audit the source before borrowing the result. All 80 records carry their access boundary, verification state, teaching route, scoring inputs, and curriculum links.
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- Blocked
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Canonical registry / DS001-DS080
Eighty sources, one inspectable register
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DS001 World Bank / Economy & development
World Development Indicators
current
License / access: Coverage/revisions vary; most indicator pages state CC BY 4.0—capture per-series metadata.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://data.worldbank.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- World Bank
- Domain
- Economy & development
- Geography
- 200+ economies
- Coverage
- Mostly 1960–present
- Cadence
- Annual / rolling
- Access / format
- REST API; CSV; Excel; DataBank
Teaching route
Concepts- Panels
- ISO joins
- missingness
- normalization
Article hookGermany is rich—but is it still converging with the frontier?
Coding routeFetch via API; validate country codes; transform PPP/per-capita series.
Suggested visualSlopegraph / small multiples
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.45 / 5
Related modules
DS002 IMF / Macroeconomics
World Economic Outlook
current
License / access: Forecasts are not observations; preserve vintage because history is revised.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.RES%3AWEOMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- IMF
- Domain
- Macroeconomics
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- 1980–present + 5-year forecasts
- Cadence
- April / October
- Access / format
- Portal; Excel; API
Teaching route
Concepts- Forecast errors
- vintages
- scenarios
Article hookHow often is the consensus wrong about next year?
Coding routeImport two vintages; compute forecast error and revision matrices.
Suggested visualVintage heatmap / fan
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.50 / 5
Related modules
DS003 OECD / Economy & policy
OECD Data Explorer
current
License / access: Complex dimensions; API limits and OECD terms apply.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://data-explorer.oecd.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- OECD
- Domain
- Economy & policy
- Geography
- OECD + partners
- Coverage
- Dataset-dependent
- Cadence
- Dataset-dependent
- Access / format
- SDMX REST; CSV; JSON; XML
Teaching route
Concepts- SDMX
- productivity
- comparable indicators
Article hookWhich wealthy countries convert hours into prosperity most efficiently?
Coding routeQuery SDMX dimensions; calculate output per hour; retain metadata.
Suggested visualQuadrant / dumbbell
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.35 / 5
Related modules
DS004 European Commission / EU economy & society
Eurostat Database
current
License / access: Keep flags, breaks, adjustment status, and changing EU composition.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/databaseMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- European Commission
- Domain
- EU economy & society
- Geography
- EU/EEA; NUTS regions
- Coverage
- Long panels; series-dependent
- Cadence
- Monthly / quarterly / annual
- Access / format
- JSON-stat; SDMX; TSV; bulk
Teaching route
Concepts- Multidimensional data
- regions
- quality flags
Article hookIs Europe one economy—or 200 regional economies moving apart?
Coding routeQuery API; parse flags; build region-year panel.
Suggested visualRegional small multiples / map
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS005 Destatis / German official statistics
GENESIS-Online
current
License / access: Free registration/token; hierarchy and revision metadata matter.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.destatis.de/EN/Service/OpenData/api-webservice.htmlMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Destatis
- Domain
- German official statistics
- Geography
- Germany; national to local
- Coverage
- Series-dependent
- Cadence
- Varied
- Access / format
- CSV/JSON web service; POST; token
Teaching route
Concepts- Administrative data
- local detail
- categories
Article hookWhere is Germany aging—and where is it renewing itself?
Coding routeAuthenticated POST; validate regional keys; map population change.
Suggested visualDistrict map
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.05 / 5
Related modules
DS006 Deutsche Bundesbank / Money & finance
Bundesbank Time Series
current
License / access: Series keys, frequencies and adjustment flags require metadata.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.bundesbank.de/en/statistics/time-series-and-real-time-dataMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Deutsche Bundesbank
- Domain
- Money & finance
- Geography
- Germany / euro area
- Coverage
- Long series
- Cadence
- Daily to annual
- Access / format
- SDMX REST; CSV
Teaching route
Concepts- Financial time series
- spreads
- regimes
Article hookWhat did the interest-rate regime change do to German finance?
Coding routeFetch SDMX; resample; compute spreads and lags.
Suggested visualYield-curve / annotated line
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.35 / 5
Related modules
DS007 European Central Bank / Money, credit & payments
ECB Data Portal
current
License / access: Units, seasonal adjustment, area composition, and breaks matter.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://data.ecb.europa.eu/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- European Central Bank
- Domain
- Money, credit & payments
- Geography
- Euro area
- Coverage
- Series-dependent
- Cadence
- Daily to quarterly
- Access / format
- SDMX 2.1 REST; CSV
Teaching route
Concepts- Monetary transmission
- mixed frequency
Article hookHow quickly do ECB decisions reach households and firms?
Coding routeAPI fetch; align rates and credit; estimate lags.
Suggested visualRate/credit panels
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.35 / 5
Related modules
DS008 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis / Macro & finance
FRED
current
License / access: FRED republishes other providers; retain original source and vintage.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Domain
- Macro & finance
- Geography
- US + international
- Coverage
- Varied
- Cadence
- Daily to annual
- Access / format
- JSON/XML API; CSV; key
Teaching route
Concepts- Rapid prototyping
- lead/lag
- recession
Article hookWhich indicator saw the slowdown first?
Coding routeUse API; calculate rolling correlations; add recession periods.
Suggested visualAnnotated multi-series line
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.90 / 5
Related modules
DS009 BEA/BLS / Productivity
Integrated Industry-Level Production Account
current
License / access: Growth-accounting estimates depend on classifications and vintage.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.bea.gov/data/special-topics/integrated-industry-level-production-account-klemsMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- BEA/BLS
- Domain
- Productivity
- Geography
- United States
- Coverage
- 1997–2024 current release
- Cadence
- Annual
- Access / format
- Excel workbooks
Teaching route
Concepts- KLEMS
- TFP
- contributions
Article hookWhere did American productivity growth actually come from?
Coding routeRead Excel; calculate factor contributions and residual productivity.
Suggested visualStacked contribution bars
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS010 US Bureau of Labor Statistics / Labor & prices
BLS Public Data API
current
License / access: Series IDs and seasonal flags must be documented.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.bls.gov/developers/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Domain
- Labor & prices
- Geography
- United States
- Coverage
- Long series
- Cadence
- Monthly / quarterly / annual
- Access / format
- JSON API; bulk; key for higher limits
Teaching route
Concepts- Labor
- CPI
- productivity
- API batching
Article hookAre wages beating inflation—and for whom?
Coding routeBatch fetch; deflate wages; compare worker groups.
Suggested visualIndexed lines / small multiples
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.15 / 5
Related modules
DS011 LUISS / EU KLEMS consortium / Productivity & intangibles
EU KLEMS & INTANProd
current
License / access: Cite release; availability and revisions vary.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://euklems-intanprod-llee.luiss.it/download/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- LUISS / EU KLEMS consortium
- Domain
- Productivity & intangibles
- Geography
- European countries
- Coverage
- 1995–latest release
- Cadence
- Annual release
- Access / format
- CSV; Excel; Stata; R
Teaching route
Concepts- Growth accounting
- intangible capital
Article hookEurope’s productivity problem may be an intangible-investment problem.
Coding routeDecompose industry contributions; compare tangible/intangible investment.
Suggested visualStacked bars / Marimekko
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.55 / 5
Related modules
DS012 GGDC / Growth & productivity
Penn World Table 11.0
current
License / access: Constructed variables and PPP assumptions require documentation and citation.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- GGDC
- Domain
- Growth & productivity
- Geography
- 185 countries
- Coverage
- Through 2023
- Cadence
- Major releases
- Access / format
- Excel; Stata
Teaching route
Concepts- PPP
- frontier gaps
- production functions
Article hookWhat separates the productivity frontier from everyone else?
Coding routeCalculate frontier gaps and convergence trajectories.
Suggested visualConvergence scatter with paths
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.50 / 5
Related modules
DS013 GGDC / Long-run growth
Maddison Project Database 2023
current
License / access: Ancient/early values are reconstructed estimates, not modern accounts.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2023Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- GGDC
- Domain
- Long-run growth
- Geography
- 169 countries
- Coverage
- 1 CE–2022
- Cadence
- Irregular major release
- Access / format
- Excel; Stata; Dataverse
Teaching route
Concepts- Log scales
- historical uncertainty
Article hookThe chart that changes how you see two millennia of prosperity.
Coding routeBuild log GDP-per-capita timelines and annotate measurement regimes.
Suggested visualLogarithmic timeline
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.75 / 5
Related modules
DS014 International Labour Organization / Labor
ILOSTAT
current
License / access: Do not mix national observations and modeled estimates uncritically.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- International Labour Organization
- Domain
- Labor
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Series-dependent
- Cadence
- Annual / quarterly
- Access / format
- Bulk CSV; SDMX; R tools
Teaching route
Concepts- Comparability
- weights
- underutilization
Article hookLow unemployment can conceal weak labor utilization.
Coding routeJoin metadata and calculate broader labor-underuse measures.
Suggested visualDashboard / distribution
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS015 World Bank / Firms & business climate
Enterprise Surveys
current
License / access: Confidentiality agreement; survey weights; no identification/redistribution.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/dataMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- World Bank
- Domain
- Firms & business climate
- Geography
- Developing economies
- Coverage
- Country waves
- Cadence
- Country waves
- Access / format
- Excel indicators; microdata after registration
Teaching route
Concepts- Firm heterogeneity
- surveys
- constraints
Article hookWhat do firms say is really stopping them from growing?
Coding routeWeighted firm analysis; model constraint outcomes.
Suggested visualRanked constraints / coefficients
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS016 United Nations / Trade
UN Comtrade
current
License / access: Free-tier limits; mirror differences; classifications change.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://comtradeplus.un.org/TradeFlowMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- United Nations
- Domain
- Trade
- Geography
- Global bilateral
- Coverage
- Long series
- Cadence
- Monthly / annual
- Access / format
- REST API; CSV; key
Teaching route
Concepts- Large APIs
- product codes
- dependencies
Article hookHow dependent is Europe on one supplier once products are disaggregated?
Coding routePaginate API; store Parquet; calculate partner/product concentration.
Suggested visualNetwork / heatmap / Sankey
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS017 World Trade Organization / Trade policy
WTO Statistics
current
License / access: Definitions and reporting coverage differ.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://apiportal.wto.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- World Trade Organization
- Domain
- Trade policy
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Series-dependent
- Cadence
- Monthly / quarterly / annual
- Access / format
- API; CSV/JSON; free key
Teaching route
Concepts- Tariffs
- services
- policy indicators
Article hookThe tariff headline is rarely the tariff firms actually face.
Coding routeCalculate trade-weighted tariff profiles.
Suggested visualTariff heatmap / ridgeline
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.85 / 5
Related modules
DS018 OECD / Global value chains
Trade in Value Added
current
License / access: Input-output estimates are modelled and lagged.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.oecd.org/en/tiva.htmlMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- OECD
- Domain
- Global value chains
- Geography
- 80 economies (2025 edition)
- Coverage
- Edition-dependent
- Cadence
- Periodic
- Access / format
- OECD Data Explorer / SDMX
Teaching route
Concepts- Input-output
- value-added trade
Article hookYour largest import partner may not be your largest dependency.
Coding routeBuild country-industry value-added dependency matrix.
Suggested visualChord / value-added Sankey
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS019 Eurostat / EU merchandise trade
Comext
current
License / access: Large queries; classifications and confidential values matter.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/international-trade-in-goods/databaseMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Eurostat
- Domain
- EU merchandise trade
- Geography
- EU reporters/partners
- Coverage
- Detailed monthly
- Cadence
- Monthly
- Access / format
- SDMX/JSON/CSV
Teaching route
Concepts- Product trade
- volume/value
- rerouting
Article hookWhat did Europe stop buying from Russia—and what merely changed route?
Coding routeQuery tight subsets; compare unit values and quantities.
Suggested visualAlluvial / indexed lines
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS020 WIPO / Innovation
IP Statistics Data Center
current
License / access: Patent counts do not equal quality; office/family counting choices matter.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.wipo.int/en/web/ip-statisticsMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- WIPO
- Domain
- Innovation
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Long annual panels
- Cadence
- Annual
- Access / format
- Interactive downloads; files
Teaching route
Concepts- Innovation proxies
- skew
- specialization
Article hookIs Europe inventing less—or filing differently?
Coding routeNormalize filings; create revealed technology specialization.
Suggested visualBump chart / heatmap
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.40 / 5
Related modules
DS021 FAO / Food & agriculture
FAOSTAT
current
License / access: Retain estimates and imputation flags; quality differs.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.fao.org/faostat/en/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- FAO
- Domain
- Food & agriculture
- Geography
- 245+ countries/territories
- Coverage
- Often 1961–present
- Cadence
- Annual / monthly by domain
- Access / format
- Bulk CSV; API
Teaching route
Concepts- Balances
- yields
- material flows
Article hookWhat does food security look like before a crisis becomes a headline?
Coding routeFilter flags; construct food balance and yield gaps.
Suggested visualSankey / small multiples
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.95 / 5
Related modules
DS022 Global Carbon Project / Climate & carbon
Global Carbon Budget 2025
current
License / access: Land-use and recent-year estimates carry substantial uncertainty.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://globalcarbonbudget.org/datahub/the-latest-gcb-data-2025/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Global Carbon Project
- Domain
- Climate & carbon
- Geography
- Global + countries
- Coverage
- 1750–present
- Cadence
- Annual
- Access / format
- Excel/CSV; Zenodo-linked
Teaching route
Concepts- Stock-flow
- uncertainty
- Kaya
Article hookWhy falling emissions in one region do not yet bend the global curve.
Coding routeKaya decomposition with uncertainty.
Suggested visualWaterfall + ribbon
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.50 / 5
Related modules
DS023 European Commission JRC / Emissions
EDGAR
current
License / access: Inventory models differ from national submissions; attribution required.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- European Commission JRC
- Domain
- Emissions
- Geography
- Global; country/sector/grid
- Coverage
- Edition-dependent
- Cadence
- Annual editions
- Access / format
- Excel/CSV; raster ZIP
Teaching route
Concepts- Sector emissions
- grids
- accounting
Article hookWhich sectors make a climate promise difficult?
Coding routeDecompose country-sector emissions or aggregate raster cells.
Suggested visualStacked area / map
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS024 Ember / Electricity
Ember Electricity Data Explorer
current
License / access: Coverage/estimates vary; CC BY 4.0 attribution.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Ember
- Domain
- Electricity
- Geography
- 200+ geographies
- Coverage
- Multi-year; monthly majors
- Cadence
- Monthly / annual
- Access / format
- CSV
Teaching route
Concepts- Mix
- shares vs levels
- intensity
Article hookSolar grows exponentially—but is fossil generation falling?
Coding routeCalculate marginal mix shifts and emissions intensity.
Suggested visual100% area + absolute line
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.60 / 5
Related modules
DS025 Bundesnetzagentur / German electricity
SMARD Market Data
current
License / access: Limited windows; DST/missingness/categories; CC BY 4.0 attribution text.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.smard.de/en/downloadcenter/download-market-dataMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Bundesnetzagentur
- Domain
- German electricity
- Geography
- Germany
- Coverage
- High-frequency current/history
- Cadence
- Near-real-time
- Access / format
- CSV download center
Teaching route
Concepts- High-frequency
- prices
- intermittency
Article hookAnatomy of one extraordinary day in the German power system.
Coding routeResample quarter-hour data; join generation, load, price.
Suggested visualLayered hourly area/line
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.55 / 5
Related modules
DS026 ENTSO-E / European electricity
ENTSO-E Transparency Platform
current
License / access: Time zones, bidding zones, reporting quality, and API complexity.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://transparency.entsoe.eu/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- ENTSO-E
- Domain
- European electricity
- Geography
- Europe
- Coverage
- High-frequency
- Cadence
- Near-real-time / hourly
- Access / format
- XML REST; downloads; token
Teaching route
Concepts- Grid flows
- congestion
- outages
Article hookEurope’s electricity grid is a physical network—and a political bargain.
Coding routeNormalize UTC; build cross-border flow network.
Suggested visualDirected flow map
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS027 AG Energiebilanzen / German energy
Energy Balances
current
License / access: Balance conventions and revisions; some tables provisional.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://ag-energiebilanzen.de/daten-und-fakten/auswertungstabellen/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- AG Energiebilanzen
- Domain
- German energy
- Geography
- Germany
- Coverage
- Long annual series
- Cadence
- Annual / provisional
- Access / format
- Excel/PDF tables
Teaching route
Concepts- Energy accounting
- unit conversion
Article hookElectricity is only one part of Germany’s energy transition.
Coding routeHarmonize PJ/TWh and construct a balance.
Suggested visualEnergy-flow Sankey
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS028 US Energy Information Administration / Energy
EIA Open Data
current
License / access: Facets/revisions vary; US depth exceeds international.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.eia.gov/opendata/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- US Energy Information Administration
- Domain
- Energy
- Geography
- US + international
- Coverage
- Varied
- Cadence
- Hourly to annual
- Access / format
- JSON/CSV API; key; bulk
Teaching route
Concepts- Energy economics
- nowcasting
Article hookWhat energy data reveal before official GDP does.
Coding routeFetch facets; align storage, price and demand.
Suggested visualEvent-study / phase plot
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.95 / 5
Related modules
DS029 Copernicus C3S / Climate
ERA5 Reanalysis
current
License / access: Model-observation synthesis; large files; Copernicus attribution.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-single-levelsMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Copernicus C3S
- Domain
- Climate
- Geography
- Global grid
- Coverage
- 1940–present hourly
- Cadence
- Monthly + near-real-time products
- Access / format
- CDS API; NetCDF; GRIB; registration
Teaching route
Concepts- xarray
- anomalies
- climate normals
Article hookHow unusual was Europe’s heat relative to the climate people grew up with?
Coding routeDownload subset; compute local anomalies and normals.
Suggested visualCalendar heatmap / map
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.95 / 5
Related modules
DS030 NASA GISS / Climate
GISTEMP v4
current
License / access: Baseline and processing choices; distinguish land/ocean variants.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- NASA GISS
- Domain
- Climate
- Geography
- Global / regional
- Coverage
- 1880–present
- Cadence
- Monthly
- Access / format
- CSV; NetCDF; maps
Teaching route
Concepts- Anomalies
- smoothing
- baselines
Article hookWhy an anomaly is more useful than average temperature.
Coding routeFetch CSV; rolling average; compare baselines.
Suggested visualAnomaly stripe / line
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.15 / 5
Related modules
DS031 NOAA NCEI / Climate
Climate at a Glance
current
License / access: Store version, area, base period, and smoothing parameters.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/global/time-seriesMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- NOAA NCEI
- Domain
- Climate
- Geography
- Global to regional
- Coverage
- Many records from 1850
- Cadence
- Monthly
- Access / format
- CSV web/API queries
Teaching route
Concepts- Parameterized queries
- baseline sensitivity
Article hookThe same trend, four honest visual stories.
Coding routeFetch parameterized series; compare baseline and smoothing choices.
Suggested visualBaseline small multiples
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.05 / 5
Related modules
DS032 CRED / Disasters
EM-DAT
current
License / access: Non-commercial terms; early/poorer-country reporting incomplete; thresholds matter.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.emdat.be/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- CRED
- Domain
- Disasters
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- 1900–present
- Cadence
- Ongoing
- Access / format
- Excel after registration
Teaching route
Concepts- Events
- reporting bias
- extremes
Article hookAre disasters more frequent—or more visible?
Coding routeNormalize by population; test different start years and thresholds.
Suggested visualTimeline / hexbin
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.05 / 5
Related modules
DS033 NASA / Active fires
FIRMS
current
License / access: Detection is not burned area; sensor/cloud effects and attribution.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- NASA
- Domain
- Active fires
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Near-real-time + archive
- Cadence
- Near-real-time
- Access / format
- CSV/JSON/KML/SHP/WMS API; key
Teaching route
Concepts- Event geodata
- confidence
- clustering
Article hookWatch a fire season unfold from space.
Coding routeQuery API; grid/H3 aggregate; filter confidence.
Suggested visualAnimated density map
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.40 / 5
Related modules
DS034 World Resources Institute / Forests
Global Forest Watch
current
License / access: Tree-cover loss ≠ deforestation; layer-specific terms/confidence.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://data.globalforestwatch.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- World Resources Institute
- Domain
- Forests
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Mostly 2000–present
- Cadence
- Annual + frequent alerts
- Access / format
- Portal; raster/tile APIs
Teaching route
Concepts- Raster change
- definitions
- alerts
Article hookThe definition of forest loss changes the conclusion.
Coding routeAggregate rasters; compare definitions and alert confidence.
Suggested visualMap + cumulative line
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.95 / 5
Related modules
DS035 GBIF / Biodiversity
GBIF Occurrence Data
current
License / access: Record-level licenses vary; spatial/observer bias is severe.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.gbif.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- GBIF
- Domain
- Biodiversity
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Historical to current
- Cadence
- Continuous
- Access / format
- Search API; DOI downloads
Teaching route
Concepts- Large data
- sampling bias
- dedupe
Article hookA biodiversity map can be a map of where scientists live.
Coding routeDownload by DOI; deduplicate; correct for observation effort.
Suggested visualEffort-corrected richness map
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 3 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.80 / 5
Related modules
DS036 European Environment Agency / Air quality
European Air Quality Data
current
License / access: Station type, verification, coverage; CC BY 4.0.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.eea.europa.eu/en/datahub/datahubitem-view/778ef9f5-6293-4846-badd-56a29c70880dMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- European Environment Agency
- Domain
- Air quality
- Geography
- Europe
- Coverage
- Broadly 2013–present
- Cadence
- Near-real-time + annual verified
- Access / format
- Parquet ZIP; API; WMS/WFS
Teaching route
Concepts- Sensors
- spatial-temporal aggregation
Article hookThe clean-air average hides street-level inequality.
Coding routeRead Parquet; join stations/regions; aggregate with coverage rules.
Suggested visualCalendar heatmap / map
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.40 / 5
Related modules
DS037 EEA / European Commission / Industrial emissions
European Industrial Emissions Portal
current
License / access: Thresholds/reporting practices create censoring and discontinuities.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://industry.eea.europa.eu/industrial-emissions/datasetMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- EEA / European Commission
- Domain
- Industrial emissions
- Geography
- Europe; facilities
- Coverage
- Annual with lag
- Cadence
- Annual
- Access / format
- Downloads; map
Teaching route
Concepts- Facility data
- thresholds
- Pareto
Article hookEurope’s pollution can be traced to individual facilities.
Coding routeJoin facilities to regions; analyze reporting thresholds and concentration.
Suggested visualFacility map / Pareto
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.55 / 5
Related modules
DS038 European Commission JRC / Urbanization
Global Human Settlement Layer
current
License / access: Modelled grids; resolution/epoch definitions; attribution.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/datasets.phpMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- European Commission JRC
- Domain
- Urbanization
- Geography
- Global grid
- Coverage
- Epochs from 1975
- Cadence
- Periodic
- Access / format
- GeoTIFF; CSV; GIS
Teaching route
Concepts- Raster-vector joins
- urbanization
Article hookUrbanization is visible from space before statistics.
Coding routeCalculate built-up/population change by region.
Suggested visualUrban expansion map
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.95 / 5
Related modules
DS039 Earth Observation Group / Remote-sensing economy
VIIRS Nighttime Lights
current
License / access: Product terms; flares, snow, saturation and electrification distort GDP proxy.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Earth Observation Group
- Domain
- Remote-sensing economy
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- 2012–present
- Cadence
- Monthly / annual
- Access / format
- GeoTIFF; registration may apply
Teaching route
Concepts- Economic proxy
- raster validation
Article hookCan Europe’s economic shocks be seen at night?
Coding routeMask artifacts; zonal aggregate; validate against regional GDP.
Suggested visualDifference map + scatter
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.40 / 5
Related modules
DS040 USGS / Geophysics
Earthquake Catalog API
current
License / access: Detection completeness changes; filter comparable magnitudes.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- USGS
- Domain
- Geophysics
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Historical + live
- Cadence
- Real-time
- Access / format
- GeoJSON; CSV; QuakeML API
Teaching route
Concepts- Event APIs
- logarithms
- clustering
Article hookMagnitude rises by one; energy does not rise by one.
Coding routeQuery events; calculate energy proxy and completeness threshold.
Suggested visualDepth/magnitude map
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 3 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.30 / 5
Related modules
DS041 Global Fishing Watch / Oceans & vessels
Global Fishing Watch
current
License / access: AIS gaps and model classification bias; source licenses vary.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://globalfishingwatch.org/datasets-and-code/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Global Fishing Watch
- Domain
- Oceans & vessels
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Roughly 2012–present
- Cadence
- Dynamic
- Access / format
- Downloads; authenticated APIs
Teaching route
Concepts- Trajectories
- geofencing
- uncertainty
Article hookWhat disappears when fishing vessels switch off transponders?
Coding routeAggregate vessel activity in EEZs/protected areas; flag coverage gaps.
Suggested visualRoute-density map
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 3 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.80 / 5
Related modules
DS042 United Nations / Demography
World Population Prospects 2024
current
License / access: Projection variants are scenarios; recent values may be estimates.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://population.un.org/wpp/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- United Nations
- Domain
- Demography
- Geography
- All countries
- Coverage
- 1950–2100
- Cadence
- Major revisions
- Access / format
- Excel/CSV
Teaching route
Concepts- Cohorts
- pyramids
- scenarios
Article hookDemography is slow—until strategically unavoidable.
Coding routeCalculate dependency ratios and compare variants.
Suggested visualPopulation pyramid / fan
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.45 / 5
Related modules
DS043 United Nations / Urbanization
World Urbanization Prospects 2025
current
License / access: National urban definitions and agglomeration boundaries differ.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://population.un.org/wup/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- United Nations
- Domain
- Urbanization
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Historical + projected
- Cadence
- Multi-year revisions
- Access / format
- Excel/CSV
Teaching route
Concepts- Classification sensitivity
- city growth
Article hookUrban does not mean the same thing everywhere.
Coding routeCompare definitions and city trajectories.
Suggested visualRanked city trajectories
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.95 / 5
Related modules
DS044 UN DESA / Migration
International Migrant Stock 2024
current
License / access: Stock ≠ flow; foreign-born/citizen definitions differ.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/content/international-migrant-stockMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- UN DESA
- Domain
- Migration
- Geography
- 233 countries/areas
- Coverage
- Periodic years
- Cadence
- Periodic
- Access / format
- Excel
Teaching route
Concepts- Stocks/flows
- bilateral matrix
Article hookHeadlines are flows; societies are shaped by stocks.
Coding routeBuild origin-destination matrix and normalize by population.
Suggested visualChord / heatmap
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS045 UNHCR / Displacement
Refugee Data Finder / Global Public API
current
License / access: Definitions/revisions differ; dataset-specific terms.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.unhcr.org/what-we-do/reports-and-publications/data-and-statistics/global-public-apiMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- UNHCR
- Domain
- Displacement
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Historical + current
- Cadence
- Annual + operational
- Access / format
- Open JSON API; downloads
Teaching route
Concepts- Humanitarian stocks/flows
- networks
Article hookDisplacement is global; responsibility is concentrated.
Coding routeBuild origin-asylum panel/network; distinguish categories.
Suggested visualFlow map
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.10 / 5
Related modules
DS046 WHO / Health
Global Health Observatory
current
License / access: Modeled estimates may differ from national data; legacy OData deprecated after 2025.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.who.int/data/ghoMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- WHO
- Domain
- Health
- Geography
- 194 member states
- Coverage
- Series-dependent
- Cadence
- Rolling / annual
- Access / format
- Current Data Hub/OData; CSV
Teaching route
Concepts- Metadata
- age standardization
Article hookLife expectancy is an outcome; causes sit in several systems.
Coding routeUse current endpoints; join metadata; compare standardized measures.
Suggested visualDecomposition / bubble
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.50 / 5
Related modules
DS047 OECD / Education microdata
PISA 2022 Database
current
License / access: Plausible values and replicate weights are mandatory.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/pisa-2022-database.htmlMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- OECD
- Domain
- Education microdata
- Geography
- Participating economies
- Coverage
- 2022 wave
- Cadence
- 3–4 year waves
- Access / format
- SAS/SPSS public-use files
Teaching route
Concepts- Complex surveys
- multilevel data
Article hookThe league table is the least interesting part of PISA.
Coding routeUse plausible values/replicate weights; estimate socioeconomic gradients.
Suggested visualCoefficient plot
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.80 / 5
Related modules
DS048 DHS Program / Health & households
DHS Program
current
License / access: Research-purpose approval; no redistribution; displaced geolocation.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://dhsprogram.com/data/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- DHS Program
- Domain
- Health & households
- Geography
- LMIC country surveys
- Coverage
- 1980s–present waves
- Cadence
- Country waves
- Access / format
- Microdata after project approval
Teaching route
Concepts- Survey weights
- privacy
- multilevel
Article hookNational averages conceal household mechanisms.
Coding routeWeighted microdata model; document recodes and privacy limits.
Suggested visualConcentration curve / coefficients
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 3 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 3 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.05 / 5
Related modules
DS049 IPUMS / Census microdata
IPUMS International
current
License / access: Strict confidentiality/no redistribution; comparability varies.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://international.ipums.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- IPUMS
- Domain
- Census microdata
- Geography
- 104 countries
- Coverage
- 656 samples
- Cadence
- Ongoing additions
- Access / format
- Custom extracts after application
Teaching route
Concepts- Harmonization
- weights
- large extracts
Article hookOne harmonized variable can reveal a century of change.
Coding routeBuild extract; query with DuckDB/Polars; cohort profiles.
Suggested visualCohort profile
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 3 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.50 / 5
Related modules
DS050 HMD / Mortality
Human Mortality Database
current
License / access: Country concentration; derived data CC BY 4.0 with source rights caveat.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.mortality.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- HMD
- Domain
- Mortality
- Geography
- Participating countries
- Coverage
- Long historical
- Cadence
- Ongoing / annual
- Access / format
- Files after free registration
Teaching route
Concepts- Life tables
- cohorts
- excess mortality
Article hookLife expectancy can rise while one generation worsens.
Coding routeBuild cohort and period mortality curves.
Suggested visualLexis heatmap
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.05 / 5
Related modules
DS051 UNESCO UIS / Education
UIS Data Browser
current
License / access: Missing reports and system differences; old SDMX endpoint retired.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- UNESCO UIS
- Domain
- Education
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Series-dependent
- Cadence
- Periodic / annual
- Access / format
- CSV/Excel; current API
Teaching route
Concepts- Education inputs/outcomes
- missingness
Article hookEducation spending is an input; learning is an outcome.
Coding routeUse current docs; compare spending/outcome frontiers.
Suggested visualFrontier scatter
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 2 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.60 / 5
Related modules
DS052 ESS ERIC / Values & society
European Social Survey
current
License / access: Weights, country participation, modules, and non-commercial terms.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data-portalMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- ESS ERIC
- Domain
- Values & society
- Geography
- Europe
- Coverage
- Rounds since 2002
- Cadence
- Approx. biennial
- Access / format
- Portal; statistical files; registration
Teaching route
Concepts- Opinion
- weights
- cohort-age-period
Article hookEurope’s trust divide is not simply East versus West.
Coding routeWeighted comparisons and multilevel model.
Suggested visualRidgeline / coefficients
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS053 WVS Association / Values & institutions
World Values Survey
current
License / access: Coverage, weights, translations and question comparability.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSEVStrend.jspMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- WVS Association
- Domain
- Values & institutions
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- 1981–2022 trend
- Cadence
- Multi-year waves
- Access / format
- SPSS/Stata/SAS/R/Excel
Teaching route
Concepts- Latent constructs
- culture
- panels
Article hookModernization does not make values converge uniformly.
Coding routeBuild documented indices; test sensitivity and clustering.
Suggested visualCultural map / profiles
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.35 / 5
Related modules
DS054 European Commission / GESIS / EU public opinion
Eurobarometer
current
License / access: Embargoes, weights, and changing questions.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.gesis.org/en/eurobarometer-data-serviceMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- European Commission / GESIS
- Domain
- EU public opinion
- Geography
- EU
- Coverage
- 1970s–present
- Cadence
- Multiple waves/year
- Access / format
- SPSS/Stata via GESIS; registration
Teaching route
Concepts- Repeated cross-sections
- opinion change
Article hookSupport for transition can coexist with rejection of instruments.
Coding routeHarmonize repeated questions; model cohort/period differences.
Suggested visualSmall multiples / term shift
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS055 Uppsala Conflict Data Program / Conflict
UCDP Datasets
current
License / access: Fatality evidence thresholds; cite version; CC BY 4.0.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program
- Domain
- Conflict
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- 1946/1989–present by product
- Cadence
- Annual + candidate events
- Access / format
- CSV/Excel; JSON API
Teaching route
Concepts- Events
- thresholds
- duration
Article hookConflict counts can fall while risk geography expands.
Coding routeGrid events and calculate intensity/diffusion.
Suggested visualConflict diffusion map
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS056 ACLED / Political violence
ACLED
current
License / access: Access/redistribution terms; fatalities estimated; media bias.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://acleddata.com/conflict-data/data-export-toolMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- ACLED
- Domain
- Political violence
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Current + historical
- Cadence
- Frequent
- Access / format
- CSV/API via account
Teaching route
Concepts- Near-real-time events
- actors
- bias
Article hookProtest is not instability, but data can blur them.
Coding routeClassify event/actors; create weekly nowcast with caveats.
Suggested visualEvent-density map
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 3 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.50 / 5
Related modules
DS057 SIPRI / Defense
SIPRI Military Expenditure
current
License / access: Estimates/comparability vary for opaque states and history.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.sipri.org/databases/milexMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- SIPRI
- Domain
- Defense
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- 1949–latest
- Cadence
- Annual
- Access / format
- Excel
Teaching route
Concepts- Inflation
- burden sharing
- uncertainty
Article hookRearmament looks different in euros, GDP share and per capita.
Coding routeRebase/normalize spending and compare burden measures.
Suggested visualConnected dots / quadrant
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.30 / 5
Related modules
DS058 V-Dem Institute / Democracy
V-Dem Dataset
current
License / access: Expert-coded latent estimates with uncertainty; never mix versions silently.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- V-Dem Institute
- Domain
- Democracy
- Geography
- Nearly all countries
- Coverage
- Long historical
- Cadence
- Annual editions
- Access / format
- CSV/R/Stata/SPSS
Teaching route
Concepts- Composite indices
- uncertainty
- panels
Article hookDemocracy erodes across institutions, not on one day.
Coding routeUse uncertainty and subindices; identify erosion patterns.
Suggested visualInstitutional fingerprint
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS059 World Bank / Governance
Worldwide Governance Indicators
current
License / access: Perception-based aggregates and margins; methodology revised in 2025.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/worldwide-governance-indicatorsMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- World Bank
- Domain
- Governance
- Geography
- 200+ economies
- Coverage
- 1996–2024
- Cadence
- Annual
- Access / format
- CSV/Excel/DataBank
Teaching route
Concepts- Latent measurement
- rank uncertainty
Article hookA governance rank without uncertainty is false precision.
Coding routeSimulate rank uncertainty from reported intervals.
Suggested visualInterval dot plot
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS060 AidData / Development finance
Global Chinese Development Finance 3.0
current
License / access: Open-source triangulation; uncertain values/status; cite methodology.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.aiddata.org/data/aiddatas-global-chinese-development-finance-dataset-version-3-0Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- AidData
- Domain
- Development finance
- Geography
- 165 LMICs
- Coverage
- 2000–2023 coverage
- Cadence
- Major releases
- Access / format
- Project + geospatial downloads
Teaching route
Concepts- Project microdata
- finance
- geocoding
Article hookChina’s overseas finance is thousands of heterogeneous projects.
Coding routeClean projects and aggregate by sector/location/status.
Suggested visualFlow map / timeline
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.10 / 5
Related modules
DS061 United Nations / Harvard Dataverse / Geopolitics
UN General Assembly Voting Data
current
License / access: Treat abstention/absence separately; ideal points are modeled.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- United Nations / Harvard Dataverse
- Domain
- Geopolitics
- Geography
- UN member states
- Coverage
- Long roll-call history
- Cadence
- Irregular / annual additions
- Access / format
- UN records; CSV/R/Stata academic set
Teaching route
Concepts- Similarity
- blocs
- ideal points
Article hookThe map changes when countries vote rather than speak.
Coding routeBuild vote matrix; cluster similarity; compare agendas.
Suggested visualAlliance network / 2-D map
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.40 / 5
Related modules
DS062 GDELT Project / News & events
GDELT
current
License / access: Media attention ≠ ground truth; duplication, volume and automated coding bias.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.gdeltproject.org/data.htmlMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- GDELT Project
- Domain
- News & events
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- 1979–present
- Cadence
- 15-minute current feeds
- Access / format
- Bulk CSV; BigQuery; APIs
Teaching route
Concepts- Big data
- events
- media bias
Article hookA geopolitical risk index may be an attention index.
Coding routeQuery BigQuery; dedupe and normalize by source volume.
Suggested visualAnomaly chart
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.10 / 5
Related modules
DS063 Stanford HAI / AI ecosystem
AI Index 2026
current
License / access: Composite of many sources/licenses; track original metadata per series.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-reportMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Stanford HAI
- Domain
- AI ecosystem
- Geography
- Global
- Coverage
- Current + historical indicators
- Cadence
- Annual
- Access / format
- Report-linked raw data/GitHub
Teaching route
Concepts- Indicator synthesis
- benchmark audit
Article hookAI accelerates, diffuses, and becomes harder to measure.
Coding routeReproduce one headline chart from original inputs; separate metrics.
Suggested visualSmall-multiple evidence board
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS064 Epoch AI / AI models
Notable AI Models
current
License / access: Missing fields may be estimates; cite inclusion/estimate method.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://epoch.ai/data/ai-modelsMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Epoch AI
- Domain
- AI models
- Geography
- Global organizations
- Coverage
- Rolling model history
- Cadence
- Rolling
- Access / format
- Download/data explorer
Teaching route
Concepts- Scaling
- compute
- cost
- concentration
Article hookThe frontier is getting better, costlier, and more concentrated.
Coding routeFit log trends with estimate flags; build frontier envelope.
Suggested visualCompute/performance frontier
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.50 / 5
Related modules
DS065 LM Arena / AI evaluation
LM Arena Preference Data
current
License / access: Selection, prompt mix, position effects, privacy filtering; Elo is relative.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://lmarena.ai/how-it-worksMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- LM Arena
- Domain
- AI evaluation
- Geography
- Global self-selected users
- Coverage
- Rolling snapshots
- Cadence
- Rolling
- Access / format
- Public samples/datasets
Teaching route
Concepts- Pairwise comparison
- Bradley–Terry
Article hookA leaderboard is a voting system—who votes matters.
Coding routeFit Bradley–Terry; bootstrap rank intervals; test position effect.
Suggested visualRank uncertainty
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 3 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.90 / 5
Related modules
DS066 Stanford CRFM / AI evaluation
HELM
current
License / access: Scenario/dataset licenses vary; exact model/prompt version matters.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Stanford CRFM
- Domain
- AI evaluation
- Geography
- Models/scenarios
- Coverage
- Versioned
- Cadence
- Versioned / rolling
- Access / format
- Open code + raw results
Teaching route
Concepts- Multi-metric evaluation
- Pareto
Article hookThere is no best model—only a stated objective.
Coding routeNormalize metrics and identify Pareto-efficient models.
Suggested visualParallel coordinates / Pareto
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.25 / 5
Related modules
DS067 Hugging Face / Open AI ecosystem
Hugging Face Hub Metadata
current
License / access: Repo licenses vary; downloads are requests, not unique users.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://huggingface.co/docs/hub/apiMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Hugging Face
- Domain
- Open AI ecosystem
- Geography
- Global platform
- Coverage
- Current
- Cadence
- Continuous
- Access / format
- REST API; Python/JS clients
Teaching route
Concepts- Heavy tails
- metadata
- APIs
Article hookOpen-source AI is a long tail with a very short head.
Coding routePaginate API; calculate task/language concentration and Zipf fit.
Suggested visualZipf plot / treemap
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.50 / 5
Related modules
DS068 GitHub / Software ecosystems
GitHub Innovation Graph
current
License / access: Public activity only; small counts suppressed.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://innovationgraph.github.com/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- GitHub
- Domain
- Software ecosystems
- Geography
- Economies worldwide
- Coverage
- Quarterly panels
- Cadence
- Quarterly
- Access / format
- CSV repository; explorer
Teaching route
Concepts- Digital proxies
- suppression
- networks
Article hookWhere software is built is not where firms are headquartered.
Coding routeCalculate language specialization and collaboration links.
Suggested visualHeatmap / network
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.80 / 5
Related modules
DS069 GH Archive / Open-source events
GH Archive
current
License / access: Excludes private work; schema changes; query costs and bot noise.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://www.gharchive.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- GH Archive
- Domain
- Open-source events
- Geography
- Global public GitHub
- Coverage
- 2011–present hourly
- Cadence
- Hourly
- Access / format
- gzip JSON; BigQuery
Teaching route
Concepts- SQL at scale
- events
- bots
Article hookCan generative AI be seen in open-source work rhythms?
Coding routeQuery BigQuery; filter bots; event-study adoption patterns.
Suggested visualCalendar heatmap
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.40 / 5
Related modules
DS070 Stack Overflow / Developer workforce
Stack Overflow Developer Survey
current
License / access: Voluntary sample; changing questions and population.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://survey.stackoverflow.co/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Stack Overflow
- Domain
- Developer workforce
- Geography
- Global respondents
- Coverage
- 2011–2025 public files
- Cadence
- Annual
- Access / format
- CSV
Teaching route
Concepts- Survey bias
- categorical data
Article hookAdmired technology is not necessarily hireable technology.
Coding routeNormalize compensation and build technology migration flows.
Suggested visualAlluvial
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 3 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 3 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS071 Python Packaging Authority / Google / Software adoption
PyPI Download Statistics
current
License / access: Downloads ≠ users; CI, caching, bots, mirrors; possible query costs.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://packaging.python.org/guides/analyzing-pypi-package-downloads/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Python Packaging Authority / Google
- Domain
- Software adoption
- Geography
- Global requests
- Coverage
- Current
- Cadence
- Daily
- Access / format
- BigQuery public dataset
Teaching route
Concepts- Adoption proxies
- SQL
- changepoints
Article hookWhich AI tools moved from hype into workflows?
Coding routeQuery daily counts; filter known noise; detect breaks.
Suggested visualIndexed adoption curves
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.50 / 5
Related modules
DS072 Responsible AI Collaborative / AI risk
AI Incident Database
current
License / access: Report selection, duplicate reports, evolving definitions, copyrighted sources.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/research/snapshots/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Responsible AI Collaborative
- Domain
- AI risk
- Geography
- Global reported incidents
- Coverage
- Current snapshots
- Cadence
- Weekly
- Access / format
- JSON/MongoDB/CSV snapshots
Teaching route
Concepts- Taxonomy
- entity resolution
- bias
Article hookAI risk is not one category—and counts can mislead.
Coding routeCluster reports into incidents; multilabel taxonomy; show coverage bias.
Suggested visualIncident matrix / timeline
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.40 / 5
Related modules
DS073 MLCommons / AI systems performance
MLPerf Results
current
License / access: Compare only same suite/task/division/version; systems highly optimized.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://mlcommons.org/benchmarks/inference-datacenter/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- MLCommons
- Domain
- AI systems performance
- Geography
- Submitted systems
- Coverage
- Versioned rounds
- Cadence
- Versioned
- Access / format
- Dashboards; CSV/repo artifacts
Teaching route
Concepts- Benchmarks
- Pareto
- versioning
Article hookThe fastest system depends on what ‘fast’ means.
Coding routeFilter exact benchmark; calculate latency-throughput-energy frontier.
Suggested visualPareto frontier
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.35 / 5
Related modules
DS074 METR / AI agents
AI Task Time Horizons
current
License / access: Task suite, scaffolding and success threshold drive horizon.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://metr.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- METR
- Domain
- AI agents
- Geography
- Evaluated software tasks
- Coverage
- Research releases
- Cadence
- Research cadence
- Access / format
- Report-linked files/repos
Teaching route
Concepts- Capability curves
- extrapolation
Article hookCapability may grow in task length, not benchmark score.
Coding routeRecreate success/time fit with uncertainty.
Suggested visualLog-time trend
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 3 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.20 / 5
Related modules
DS075 Common Crawl Foundation / Open web
Common Crawl
current
License / access: Copyright, privacy, robots and jurisdiction still apply; incomplete crawl.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://commoncrawl.org/get-startedMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Common Crawl Foundation
- Domain
- Open web
- Geography
- Global web
- Coverage
- 2008–present
- Cadence
- Several crawls/year
- Access / format
- WARC/WAT/WET/CDX on cloud
Teaching route
Concepts- Web scale
- streaming
- sampling
Article hookThe public web is not the world—and less is public.
Coding routeSample CDX; stream WET; classify domain/language composition.
Suggested visualTreemap
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 3 / 5
- Story potential
- 4 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 3 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.35 / 5
Related modules
DS076 OurResearch / Science & knowledge graph
OpenAlex
current
License / access: Metadata/entity matching imperfect; API budget; CC0.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://openalex.org/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- OurResearch
- Domain
- Science & knowledge graph
- Geography
- Global scholarly system
- Coverage
- Historical + current
- Cadence
- API daily; snapshot quarterly
- Access / format
- REST API; JSONL/Parquet snapshot
Teaching route
Concepts- Bibliometrics
- networks
- entity resolution
Article hookWho creates AI knowledge—and who converts it into influence?
Coding routeUse API/snapshot in DuckDB; build institution-country citation graph.
Suggested visualCitation network
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.70 / 5
Related modules
DS077 Wikimedia Foundation / Public attention
Wikimedia Pageviews
current
License / access: Attention ≠ approval/knowledge; bots, redirects, languages and aggregation.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://doc.wikimedia.org/generated-data-platform/aqs/analytics-api/Metadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Domain
- Public attention
- Geography
- All Wikimedia projects
- Coverage
- May 2015–present
- Cadence
- Hourly / daily
- Access / format
- Analytics API; dumps
Teaching route
Concepts- Attention
- events
- multilingual
Article hookWhen does an issue enter consciousness—and how fast does it decay?
Coding routeQuery pages/languages; normalize event windows and seasonality.
Suggested visualAttention curves
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 4 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.45 / 5
Related modules
DS078 Cloudflare / Internet & security
Cloudflare Radar
current
License / access: Cloudflare-observed traffic is not the whole internet; check endpoint terms.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://radar.cloudflare.com/aboutMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- Cloudflare
- Domain
- Internet & security
- Geography
- Global/country
- Coverage
- Current
- Cadence
- Daily / near-real-time
- Access / format
- Dashboard; exports; authenticated API
Teaching route
Concepts- Internet observability
- outages
Article hookWhat an Internet shutdown looks like before the statement.
Coding routeFetch/export; build country baseline and anomaly alerts.
Suggested visualTraffic-index event chart
Priority inputs
Difficulty I
- Schym fit
- 5 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 4 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 4 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.50 / 5
Related modules
DS079 OpenSky Network / Aviation
OpenSky Network
current
License / access: Uneven receivers; access generally non-commercial scientific under terms.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://opensky-network.org/data/scientificMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- OpenSky Network
- Domain
- Aviation
- Geography
- Global ADS-B
- Coverage
- Live + archives
- Cadence
- Live / research
- Access / format
- JSON API; research DB/Trino
Teaching route
Concepts- Trajectories
- telemetry
- spatial bias
Article hookWatch business travel recover aircraft by aircraft.
Coding routeQuery states; derive routes; quantify receiver coverage.
Suggested visualRoute-density map
Priority inputs
Difficulty A
- Schym fit
- 4 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 3 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 5 / 5
- Derived priority
- 3.90 / 5
Related modules
DS080 NASA / Space & rare events
Asteroids NeoWs
current
License / access: Hazard label ≠ impact probability; discovery/orbit estimates evolve.
Canonical HTTPS sourcehttps://data.nasa.gov/dataset/asteroids-neows-apiMetadata, teaching route, scores, and modules
Source coverage
- Provider
- NASA
- Domain
- Space & rare events
- Geography
- Near-Earth objects
- Coverage
- Current + approach history
- Cadence
- Continuous
- Access / format
- JSON REST API; free key
Teaching route
Concepts- Rare events
- scientific notation
- risk
Article hookHow close is near Earth—and why counts are poor risk measures?
Coding routeQuery approaches; scale to lunar distance; simulate communication choices.
Suggested visualRisk matrix / timeline
Priority inputs
Difficulty B
- Schym fit
- 3 / 5
- Story potential
- 5 / 5
- Reproducibility
- 5 / 5
- Novelty
- 5 / 5
- Cleaning effort
- 2 / 5
- Derived priority
- 4.30 / 5
Related modules