It is laughable how much time I spend hunting for datasets. For reasons beyond understanding, datasets tend to reside in the dark, unindexed, unvisited alleys of the internet. Finding a dataset is akin to discovering the Northwest Passage. For this reason I am happy for a growing number of sites offering to help.
The latest contender in this field is Infochimps, which claims help “find any dataset in the world”. The reality falls far short. War and Health maintains a active list of relevant datasets with links to help fellow researchers. My attempts to find some of those datasets on Infochimp failed completely. Now, I am up for giving them the benefit of the doubt, they are still in beta. Overall, I am just excited to see a new wave to these dataset search engines to hit the internet.
Good luck Infochimps, I will keep an eye on your progress.
Christopher R. Albon is a political science Ph.D. specializing in armed conflict, public health, human security, and health diplomacy.
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Thanks a lot! We will try to load your data in soon. I’ll send you an invite code when our beta features are ready.
Hey Chris, have you checked out GeoCommons, its geospatial specific, but i think we share a lot of the same interests. while we don’t claim to have all the data in the world, we’ve got some good stuff on there and we’re adding more all the time. let me know if you’ve got any data you’d like to see on there.
Bill Greer
FortiusOne
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