Data Story Ideas for Reporters

Free, public open datasets you can download.

A list of publicly available datasets.

Explore user-created datasets.

Explore datasets from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

From Stanford University.

Free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners, including historical 311 complaints by neighborhood.

A tool for viewing and querying overlapping administrative boundaries in NYC, from BetaNYC.

Online mapping and data tool of indicators by Community District, created by the nonprofit Measure of America with funding from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

Links to NYC Data repositories created by BetaNYC

Public data from NYS agencies.

Via the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association

Includes teacher and staff demographic data for schools.

A searchable federal open data portal.

From Syracuse University, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse tracks data and reports on the enforcement activities of the federal government.