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The following data is used in tutorials.

Country Level Data

World Bank Health Indicators

Selected health-related indicators from the World Bank

Selected Country-Level Data

Country political boundries with names suitable for joining with World Bank and UN data. Selected data including population, GDP, Gini Index, HDI and Gross National Happiness.

US National Data

Refineries

This is a point dataset representing all operable petroleum refineries located in the US from the Energy Information Administration.

Power Plants

Operable electric generating plants in the United States by energy source from the Energy Information Administration. This includes all plants that are operating, on standby, or short- or long-term outof service with a combined nameplate capacity of 1 MW or more.

Nuclear Plants

A list of current and former nuclear power reactors from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Wikipedia.

Interstate Highway Traffic

Estimated mean annual average daily traffic for 2011 from the FHWA

2019 Major League Baseball Parks

Georeferenced data from Wikipedia

US State-Level Data

2013-2017 American Community Survey State-Level Data

Selected demographic, housing, and economic data from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-year estimates:

2012 and 2016 Presidential Election Results

State-level electoral results and analysis from the 2012 and 2016 US presidential elections.

2015-2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use and abuse and mental disorders in the U.S. civilian, non-institutionalized population, age 12 and older. The survey generates estimates at the National, state, and substate levels.

2017 CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data

The BRFSS is a continuous, state-based surveillance system that collects information about modifiable risk factors for chronic diseases and other leading causes of death.

2017 Sexually-Transmitted Disease Surveillance

CDC data on chlamdia, gonorrhea, and syphilis rates by state:

2011-2015 CDC State Cancer Profiles

State Cancer Profiles, Incidence Rate Report for United States by State, 2011-2015 from the Centers for Disease Control:

2016 CDC Chronic Disease Indicators

State-level prevalence and mortality rates for nine leading chronic diseases from the CDC:

2016 National Vital Statistics System Births and Leading Causes of Death

State-level counts and rates for the ten leading causes of death plus transport and assault

US County-Level Data

2013-2017 American Community Survey County-Level Data

Selected demographic, housing, and economic data from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-year estimates:

2017 National Vital Statistics System Natality

County-level birth, fertility, and maternal information

2012 and 2016 Presidential Election Results

County-level electoral results from the 2012 and 2016 US presidential elections with selected demographic data.

2010-2014 Cancer Incidence

State Cancer Profiles, Incidence Rate Report for United States by County, from the Centers for Disease Control.

2016 County Business Patterns

Number of establishments, employees, and annual payroll by sector by county from the USCB's 2016 County Business Patterns survey.

US ZIP-Code-Level / CBSA-Level Data

2013-2017 American Community Survey ZIP-Code-Level Data

Selected demographic, housing, and economic data from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-year estimates:

2013-2017 American Community Survey Core-Based-Statistical-Area-Level Data

Selected demographic, housing, and economic data from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-year estimates

Local Data

2013-2017 American Community Survey New York State Tract-Level Data

Selected demographic, housing, and economic data from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-year estimates:

2012-2016 New York State Cancer Incidence and Mortality by County

Cancer incidence and mortality data by site and county from the New York State Cancer Registry

2010-2014 New York State Cancer Incidence by Census Tract

The census tract lists show the number of people who developed the specific type of cancer while living in the census tract area between 2010 and 2014. The lists also show the number of people who might have been expected to get cancer in that time period, based on the size and age distribution of the population of the census tract.

2016 New York State Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data

2019 New York City Historic House Trust Sites

Buildings that are part of the NYC's Historic House Trust, an organization that works with the city and the non-profit boards of each house to restore, interpret, and promote these sites spanning 350 years of New York City life.

2019 Long Island New York Elevation

Elevation data derived from the USGS National Map 3DEP Downloadable Data Collection, 1/3rd arc-second Digital Elevation Models (DEMs).

2019 Branches of the Long Island Railroad

Passenger branches of the Long Island Railroad (New York) created from their GTFS data.