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• Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse

  Offsite — The Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse, also known as the DC Data Catalog, is a comprehensive collection of government activity data from the District of Columbia.

• New York City Sign Permit Actions

  Offsite — Applications for sign permits in New York City. Published by the New York City Department of Buildings in Microsoft Excel format.

• Enron Email Mailbox PST Dataset

  Offsite — This refined version of the CALO Enron Email Dataset is available as 148 PST files, complete with original folder structure, to preserve user information associated with the emails. Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.submitted by: John Wang

• National Center for Education Statistics

  Offsite — Tables and figures on education in the U.S., including state-specific tables. Downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

• Federal Aviation Administration Data & Statistics

  Offsite — U.S. aviation data, downloadable in ASCII text and Microsoft Excel formats.

• FARAdb: Foreign Agent Registration Act Database

  Offsite — The Foreign Agent Registration Act requires the U.S. Justice Department to maintain detailed reports of lobbying firms hired by foreign governments and by organizations controlled by foreign governments. FARAdb is a database of these reports, searchable by lobbying firm, client or member of Congress’s office contacted. Data downloadable in CSV format. A project of ...

• U.S. Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance

  Offsite — U.S. political campaign finance data, downloadable in comma-delimited ASCII text. See also the Maplight API and New York Times Campaign Finance API.

• The Federal Reserve Board Statistics

  Offsite — Releases and historical data from the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Most tables available in tab-delimited text and/or CSV formats.

• FedSpending.org

  Offsite — Access to U.S. government spending information. Data can be downloaded in comma-delimited ASCII text, tab-delimited ASCII text and XML, and there’s an API as well.

• FedStats

  Offsite — Comprehensive source of U.S. statistical data.

• Follow the Money API

  Offsite — Web framework for accessing the National Institute on Money in State Politics’ database of all campaign contributions to political campaigns at the state level. See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research

• Federal Reserve Economic Data API

  Offsite — RESTful API for retrieving economic data from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) and ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data (ALFRED) websites hosted by the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Requests can be customized according to data source, release, category, series and other preferences. API key required.

• Google Flu Trends

  Offsite — Download Google’s weekly influenza-like illness (ILI) estimates for the United States in plain text or CSV format. Data is provided for each individual state, the nine influenza surveillance regions, and the entire United States.

• U.S. Copyright Renewal Records

  Offsite — U.S. copyright renewal records, downloadable as a single XML file. By Google software engineer Jarkko Hietaniemi. Public domain.

• GovTrack Government Activity Data

  Offsite — A directory of the datasets that power GovTrack.us. RDF, CSV and XML formats. Learn more about the GovTrack backend.

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development D

  Offsite — Downloadable datasets from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Policy Development and Research office, including data on fair market rents, the American Housing Survey, USPS vacancies and Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE). Microsoft Excel format.

• Law Commons

  Offsite — Source files and information on AltLaw.org, the full-text searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports. Case reports are downloadable via FTP.

• Legislative Council of California Bill Index

  Offsite — California legislative data, available in ASCII text.

• Libre Map Project

  Offsite — Free U.S. digital maps and geographic information system (GIS) data. Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 license.

• LittleSis API

  Offsite — The LittleSis API exposes the raw data used on the LittleSis website, and consists of basic information about powerful individuals and organizations (“entities”), and the relationships between them. Returns results in XML or JSON. API key required.