Data
The following data is used in the tutorials on this site.
World Data
2022 World Bank Indicators
Selected demographic, economic, and public health indicators sourced from the World Bank
2019 World Energy Indicators
Energy-related indicators from the EIA, World Bank, and other sources.
2019 World Agriculture Indicators
Agriculture indicators from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2023 World Indices
A collection of economic, political, and health indices from a variety of sources.
2012 World Religion
Country-level data on religious prevalence and religious tolerance from the Pew Research Center.
2020 Cartograms
Continuous and noncontinuous cartograms for US states and world countries scaled based on population.
- US states continuous GeoJSON
- US states noncontinuous GeoJSON
- World countries continuous GeoJSON
- World countries noncontinuous GeoJSON
- Metadata
2023 Graticule
Graticule as 20° polygons with 10° vertex separation, -180° to +180° longitude and -80° to +80° latitude.
Natural Earth Polygons
Natural Earth large scale (1:10m) polygons for world countries (Admin 0 - Countries)
GeoJSON has minimal columns to facilitate clean joins with tabular data: NAME, FORMAL_EN, and ISO_A3.
2015 - 2019 US American Community Survey Demographic Data
Selected demographic, housing, and economic data from the 2015 - 2019 American Community Survey 5-year estimates:
State-Level Data
County-Level Data
Core-Based-Statistical-Area-Level Data
Census Tract Data
Illinois Census Tract Data
Illinois Census ZIP Code (ZCTA) Data
US Electoral Data
Electoral results and analysis from the 2012, 2016, 2020 US presidential elections, along with a handful of demographic variables relevant to electoral analysis.
2012 / 2016 / 2020 State-Level Data
2012 / 2016 / 2020 County-Level Data
2022 US House District Level Data
US Energy Data
2019 US State Energy Profiles
State-level energy production and consumption data from the US Energy Information Administration.
2017 US Refineries
This is a point dataset representing all operable petroleum refineries located in the US from the Energy Information Administration.
2022 US 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 out of service with a combined nameplate capacity of 1 MW or more.
2018 US Present, Past, and Planned Nuclear Plants
A list of current and former nuclear power reactors from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Wikipedia.
2011 US Interstate Highway Traffic
Estimated mean annual average daily traffic for 2011 from the FHWA
Health Data
2020 US Hospitals
2016 - 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides substance use and mental illness estimates for the US civilian, non-institutionalized population ages 12 years or older in 406 substate regions.
2013 - 2017 County Cancer Profiles Five-Year Averages
County-level five-year age-adjusted cancer incidence rates from the US Centers for Disease Control.
National Vital Statistics System
The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) is a CDC program that provides data on births and deaths in the United States.
2021 Mortality
County level counts and rates for the 15 leading causes of death
2022 Natality
County level counts and rates for births and maternal health.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a continuous, state-based surveillance system that collects information about modifiable risk factors for chronic diseases and other leading causes of death. Because surveys are administered by individual states, available data and levels of aggregation vary by state.