Sources of Data

Last updated: 2014-01-30 20:31

Open Science Data Cloud
Registry of Research Data Repositories - re3data.org
HSRIC: Health Services Research Information Central - NLM/NIH resource.
HealthData.gov
Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics Datasets
UCI Machine Learning Repository
Academic Torrents >1.66TB of data
DRYAD data repository
UCSF CTSI Large Dataset Inventory
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) -- (I think you need to sign a data use agreement to obtain the data)
Data Repositories wiki page - Open Access Directory @ Simmons College
Atul Butte's lab page with resources and data from publications:
Vanderbilt Library's Health Care Data Sets page.
rOpenSci Packages: has R packages for interacting with different data sources.
... see also rOpenGov and rOpenHealth
RDataMining.com R and Data Mining Free Datasets
KDNuggests - List of Free Public Datasets
ImmPort: Bioinformatics for the Future of Immunology. Hosted by NIAID/NIH.
OHSU Public Data Sets page
CDC Ambulatory Health Care Data. FTP Site
MLData.Org

Publishing Data

Book: Implementing Reproducible Research: +Free chapter on open science and the role of publishers.
Mozilla + Figshare + GitHub Mozilla Science Lab, GitHub and Figshare team up to fix the citation of code in academia
Upload your Code and Thesis to Figshare

Philip Bourne: Some Early Thoughts: internal NIH presentation to BISTI (Talk date: 2014-04-01)
Philip Bourne: Where is Open Going? SPARC Annual Meeting Keynote, Kansas City (Talk date: 2014-03-01)
Blog post: 3 Simple Things GitHub can do for science
Blog post: How the Rise of the "R" Computer Language is Bringing Open Source to Science
Joppa LN, McInerny G, Harper R, Salido L, Takeda K, O'Hara K, Gavaghan D, Emmott S. Computational science. Troubling trends in scientific software use. Science. 2013 May 17;340(6134):814-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1231535. PubMed PMID: 23687031.
Morin A, Urban J, Adams PD, Foster I, Sali A, Baker D, Sliz P. Research priorities. Shining light into black boxes. Science. 2012 Apr 13;336(6078):159-60. doi: 10.1126/science.1218263. PubMed PMID: 22499926.
See this BMJ - Open Data page with citations discussing their policy regarding data sharing.