Luke's Data Hoard
106 datasets across 12 categories: published collections, local working data, and planned additions. Featured repeats nine of them at the top.
Featured
13 datasetsSources of truth published on GitHub, Hugging Face, or Kaggle. Includes interactive explorers, data poems, and Jupyter analysis notebooks.
Strange Places v5.2
Public354,770 georeferenced mysterious phenomena (UFOs, Bigfoot, haunted places). Canonical source for all quirky geospatial research.
Joshua Project Global Peoples
PublicDemographic and linguistic data for 16,382 people groups. Powering the 'Souls' visualization series.
Accessibility Atlas
PublicGlobal disability demographics and web accessibility metrics (WebAIM Million 2025).
US Inequality Atlas
PublicCounty-level metrics for food deserts, healthcare access, housing affordability, and demographics.
Steam Universe Network
Public25K+ games connected by 861K shared-reviewer edges. Includes full game metadata (2005-2025).
US Disasters Mashup
PublicUnified dataset of NOAA storms, USGS earthquakes, NTSB accidents, and EPA Superfund sites.
US Attention Data (2020-2025)
PublicDigital attention metrics from Wikipedia, Google Trends, and GDELT events.
Etymology Atlas
Public4.2M linguistic relationships and cognate sets covering global language evolution.
World Languages
Public7,130 languages integrating ISO 639-3, Glottolog, speaker populations, and endangerment status.
Witnessed Meteorite Falls
PublicNASA catalog of meteorite falls witnessed and recorded by observers, with coordinates, mass, and classification.
US Housing Affordability Crisis
PublicCounty-level housing affordability analysis with median rents, household incomes, cost burden, and homelessness data.
Bluesky Social Export
PublicBluesky post data export for sentiment analysis and social network research.
Large Meteorites (1kg+)
PublicNASA meteorite catalog filtered to the 4,871 specimens of 1 kg or more, with coordinates, mass, classification, and year.
Accessibility & Assistive Tech
5 datasetsSAP (Augmentative Communication), WLASL (Sign Language), ACS disability data, WebAIM web compliance, WHO global health, and accessibility audit tools.
Accessibility Atlas
PublicDisability demographics (3,222 US counties, 185 WHO countries), web accessibility compliance (WebAIM Million 2025, screen reader survey), ADA lawsuits, Section 508 federal compliance, VizWiz blind user VQA, and WLASL sign language index.
Census Communication Disability Data
Locally CachedCensus ACS data on communication disabilities by state, covering hearing, vision, cognitive, and self-care difficulty rates.
WLASL (Word-Level American Sign Language)
Locally CachedWord-level American Sign Language video dataset with annotations, glosses, and metadata for sign language recognition research.
ACS Disability Statistics
Locally CachedAmerican Community Survey disability data with prevalence rates for hearing, vision, cognitive, ambulatory, self-care, and independent living disabilities.
Accessibility Audit Tools
Locally CachedAccessibility error counts for the 92 most-popular websites, drawn from the WebAIM Million analysis. Each row gives the domain, its WAVE and popularity rank, total detected errors, error density, and a sample issue.
Civic & Urban
6 datasetsNYC 311, GDELT events, parking tickets, restaurant inspections, Wikipedia activity, and Bluesky social.
NYC 311 Service Requests
Locally CachedA 1,000-record sample of NYC 311 service requests: noise complaints, street conditions, housing issues, and response times by neighborhood. The full feed runs to 30M+ records on NYC Open Data.
US Attention Data (2020-2025)
PublicCross-platform attention metrics tracking global focus on the United States. Combines Wikipedia pageviews, GDELT global event mentions, and Google Trends search interest on a weekly cadence from 2020-2025.
GDELT Global Events
Locally CachedGDELT Project's global event database tracking political, social, and conflict events worldwide from news media coverage.
Wikipedia Pageviews
Locally CachedWikipedia pageview statistics showing trending articles, search patterns, and attention flows across topics and languages.
Bluesky Social Posts
PublicAnonymized Bluesky posts with VADER sentiment analysis. SHA-256 hashed DIDs/URIs, 44K unique authors. Dec 2-25, 2025. CC-BY-4.0 license.
Parking Tickets (NYC)
Locally CachedNYC parking violation data with ticket types, fine amounts, vehicle types, and issuance locations for spatial and temporal analysis.
Disasters & Extremes
7 datasetsAirplane crashes, shark attacks, lightning strikes, storms, temperature anomalies, wildfires, and disaster mashups.
Airplane Crashes & Fatalities (1908-2009)
Local DataHistorical record of airplane crashes and fatalities worldwide from the first recorded airplane fatality (1908) through 2009. Includes operator, aircraft type, route, and casualty details.
Global Shark Attack File (GSAF)
Local DataShark attack records from the Shark Research Institute covering provoked, unprovoked, and boat attacks with species, activity, and outcome details.
NOAA Lightning Strikes (2018)
Local DataDaily lightning strike counts with geographic center points from NOAA's National Lightning Detection Network. Preprocessed data available for heatmap, monthly, and state-level analysis.
US Disasters Mashup
PublicCombined disaster dataset merging NOAA storms, USGS earthquakes, NTSB aviation accidents, and EPA Superfund sites across the US.
NOAA Significant Storms
PublicCurated significant US storm events from NOAA with geographic coordinates, event types, and descriptions.
Temperature Anomalies (NASA GISS)
PublicNASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis showing global temperature anomalies relative to 1951-1980 baseline with monthly and annual data.
Wildfire Incidents
Locally CachedNational Interagency Fire Center data on wildfire incidents including location, size, containment status, and fire perimeters.
Economics & Commerce
5 datasetsBillionaires, market caps, World Bank GDP, retail locations, and NYC housing.
Forbes Billionaires
Locally CachedForbes billionaire rankings with net worth, source of wealth, age, country, and industry classification.
World Bank GDP Data
Locally CachedHistorical GDP data from World Bank with total GDP, per capita GDP, and growth rates for countries worldwide.
Corporate Market Capitalizations
Locally CachedMarket capitalization data for major corporations including Dow Jones Industrial Average components and Fortune 500 companies.
Retail Store Locations
Locally CachedRetail store location data for major chains including Walmart, Target, Kroger, CVS, Walgreens, and regional chains.
NYC Housing Analysis
Local DataCensus tract-level housing data for all five NYC boroughs: median rent, household income, rent burden, and tenure (owner vs renter). Includes borough and neighborhood GeoJSON boundaries with data joined.
Entertainment & Pop Culture
6 datasetsGaming, film, music, and satire datasets
Steam Games Catalog
Public SourceSteam game catalog with titles, release dates, pricing, and platform availability
Steam User Reviews
Locally Cached41 million Steam user game recommendations. File is 1.9 GB and gitignored.
Steam Users
Locally Cached14 million Steam user profiles. File is 185 MB and gitignored.
Bond Girls
Locally CachedBond franchise companion characters with actress/Bond actor ages, film financials in actual and inflation-adjusted USD
Boy Bands
Locally CachedBoy band discography with members, active years, and chart performance
Food & Culture
14 datasetsCheese, wine, edible insects, OpenFoodFacts, baby names, emoji, street art, social norms, food access, SNAP, and grocery density.
World of Cheese
Locally CachedCheese database with varieties, countries of origin, milk types, aging processes, and flavor profiles.
Wine Varieties & Regions
Locally CachedWine varieties with regional classifications, grape composition, flavor profiles, and production statistics.
Edible Insects Database
Locally CachedEdible insect species with nutritional profiles, regional consumption patterns, and sustainability metrics.
USDA Food Access Atlas
Locally CachedUSDA atlas measuring food access by census tract with low-income/low-access designations and SNAP usage statistics.
Food Desert States Summary
Locally CachedState-level aggregation of USDA Food Access Atlas data showing percentage of population in food deserts and low-access areas.
SNAP Participation & Benefits
Locally CachedSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program data showing participation rates, benefit amounts, and coverage gaps by county.
Grocery Store Density
Locally CachedGrocery store density measurements by county showing stores per capita and accessibility metrics for fresh food.
Emoji Data
Locally CachedComplete Unicode emoji dataset with categories, release dates, names, and historical evolution of emoji standards.
Baby Names (SSA)
Locally CachedSocial Security Administration baby name data showing popularity trends, regional variations, and cultural naming patterns.
OpenFoodFacts Database
Locally CachedA 50-product sample from Open Food Facts, with nutrition facts, ingredients, allergens, labels, and Nutri-Score ratings. The full open database holds 2M+ products.
Chocolate Origins
Locally CachedChocolate bar ratings with company, bean origin, cocoa percentage, and tasting notes
Hot Sauces & Peppers
Locally CachedHot sauces and peppers with Scoville ratings, origins, and species
Hot Pepper Varieties (PepperScale)
Locally Cached175 hot pepper varieties with Scoville heat unit ranges, origin countries, flavor profiles, and common uses. Covers everything from Bell peppers (0 SHU) to Carolina Reapers (2.2M SHU). Source: PepperScale comprehensive pepper list.
Social Norms Graph
Locally CachedNetwork graph of social actions and moral judgments from the Social Chemistry 101 dataset
Geography & Demographics
10 datasetsCounty analysis, SCARS, country centroids, election results, geology, county boundaries, air quality, infrastructure (submarine cables, satellites, internet topology), and endangered languages.
US County Reference (FIPS)
Locally CachedStandardized FIPS county codes with names, state associations, land area, population, and geographic centroids for spatial joins.
SCARS (Standardized County Analysis & Research System)
Locally CachedUnified county-level dataset integrating economic, demographic, health, housing, and infrastructure indicators for comparative analysis.
Country Centroids
Locally CachedGeographic centroids for all countries with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2/alpha-3 codes, names, and population-weighted centers.
US Presidential Election Results by County
Local DataCounty-level presidential election results with total votes, party breakdown, and vote margins. Mergeable with other FIPS-keyed datasets.
US Geological Features
Local DataGeological regions, mineral deposits, Cretaceous-era arc boundaries, and Deep South historical timeline features. Part of the SCARS project mapping geology against socioeconomic data.
US County & State Boundaries (GeoJSON)
Local DataCounty and state boundary polygons in GeoJSON format, including simplified versions for web rendering and full-resolution versions with data attributes joined.
EPA Air Quality Index
Locally CachedEPA Air Quality Index data with daily measurements for PM2.5, PM10, ozone, and other criteria pollutants by monitoring station.
Submarine Cable Map
Locally CachedGlobal submarine telecommunications cable routes with landing points, capacity, owners, and ready-for-service dates.
Satellite TLE Data
Locally CachedTwo-Line Element (TLE) data for active satellites from CelesTrak with orbital parameters and classification.
Endangered Languages
Locally CachedUNESCO Atlas of Endangered Languages with vitality assessments, speaker populations, and documentation status.
Health & Housing
7 datasetsHousing affordability, HUD PIT counts, eviction, CMS hospitals, Medicaid, hospital closures, and food access.
US Inequality Atlas
PublicCounty-level inequality data for all ~3,200 US counties, keyed on 5-digit FIPS codes. Covers food deserts, healthcare access, housing affordability, hospital infrastructure, and veteran demographics. All from Census ACS, CMS, USDA, and HRSA.
US Housing Affordability Crisis
PublicCounty-level housing affordability analysis with median rents, household incomes, cost burden percentages, and homelessness data.
Eviction Data
Locally CachedEviction Lab data showing eviction filing rates, judgment rates, and temporal trends across US counties.
CMS Hospital Database
Locally CachedCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services hospital data with quality ratings, ownership, emergency services, and patient experience scores.
Medicaid Enrollment
Locally CachedState-level Medicaid enrollment data with monthly trends, eligibility categories, and managed care penetration.
Healthcare Deserts
Locally CachedHealthcare desert identification using provider-to-population ratios, travel distances, and HRSA shortage area designations.
HRSA Shortage Areas
Locally CachedHealth Resources and Services Administration shortage area designations (HPSA) for primary care, dental, and mental health.
Language & Linguistics
8 datasetsWALS, PHOIBLE, Glottolog, ISO 639-3, World Languages, CLMET, Historical Lemma, Language Families, Brown Corpus, COCA API, Historical Corpora, Joshua Project languages, and etymology atlas.
World Languages Integrated
PublicLanguage database integrating ISO 639-3, Glottolog, native names, speaker populations, endangerment status, and geographic distribution.
World Languages Endangerment (Silence)
Locally Cached6,998 world languages with endangerment status on a scale from extinct to safe. Data integrates Glottolog, UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, and Ethnologue classifications. Powers the "Silence" data poetry visualization.
WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures)
Locally CachedTypological feature database covering phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon across languages worldwide.
PHOIBLE (Phonetics Database)
Locally CachedPhoneme inventory database with IPA symbols, features (consonant/vowel/tone), and cross-linguistic phonological patterns.
Glottolog Languoids
Locally CachedLanguage classification with family hierarchies, geographic coordinates, and historical relationships.
ISO 639-3 Language Codes
Locally CachedOfficial ISO 639-3 three-letter language codes with mappings to ISO 639-1 (2-letter) and ISO 639-2 (bibliographic) codes.
Etymology Atlas
PublicEtymological database from Lexibank CLDF data with cognate relationships, word forms, and language evolution patterns.
Joshua Project Global Peoples
PublicDemographic, linguistic, and religious data for 16,382 people groups worldwide from the Joshua Project API. Includes Bible translation status, evangelical percentages, and enriched Parquet files for fast analysis.
Nature & Earth Science
18 datasetsMeteorites, earthquakes, solar flares, waterfalls, volcanoes, planets, moons, and aurora forecasts.
Large Meteorites (1kg+)
PublicNASA's meteorite catalog filtered to the 4,871 falls and finds of 1 kg or more, with coordinates, mass, classification, and year. The local CSV is the full NASA Meteorite Landings table (45,716 records).
USGS Significant Earthquakes
PublicMagnitude 4.5+ earthquakes across North America from the USGS catalog, 2000 to 2025, with date, magnitude, depth, and location.
Solar Flares & Space Weather
Locally CachedNOAA space weather data including solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and geomagnetic storm forecasts.
Waterfalls Worldwide
PublicNotable waterfalls worldwide with height, flow rate, location, and accessibility information.
Global Volcanism Program
Locally CachedSmithsonian Institution's database of active and potentially active volcanoes with eruption histories and hazard assessments.
Solar System Planets
Locally CachedSolar system planet data: mass, diameter, orbital period, distance from sun, and atmospheric composition.
Natural Satellites (Moons)
Locally CachedNatural satellites in our solar system with parent planet, orbital characteristics, physical properties, and discovery information.
NOAA Ovation Aurora Forecast
Locally CachedNOAA Space Weather Prediction Center's Ovation aurora forecast model with predicted viewing probabilities by location and time.
Lighthouses Worldwide
Locally CachedLighthouse locations from OpenStreetMap with height, year built, operator
Caves Worldwide
Locally CachedCave locations from OpenStreetMap with access info, tourism status, descriptions
Shipwrecks
Locally CachedShipwreck locations from OpenStreetMap with year sunk, type, Wikipedia links
Megaliths
Locally CachedMegalithic site locations from OpenStreetMap including dolmens, menhirs, stone circles
Fossils (PBDB)
Locally CachedFossil occurrence records from the Paleobiology Database with taxonomic classification, age, and coordinates
Deep Sea Specimens
Locally CachedDeep sea organism occurrences (depth >1000m) from OBIS with full taxonomic hierarchy
Bioluminescence
Locally CachedBioluminescent organism occurrences from OBIS with taxonomic classification and coordinates
Tornadoes (NOAA SPC)
Locally CachedUS tornado records from NOAA Storm Prediction Center with magnitude, injuries, fatalities, path data
NOAA Atmospheric Weather Alerts
Locally Cached571 NOAA weather alert records covering 43 event types including ball lightning, waterspouts, mammatus clouds, volcanic lightning, nacreous clouds, fire whirls, derechos, and sprites. Combines current NOAA alerts with documented rare atmospheric phenomena.
Paranormal & Anomalous
5 datasetsGhost sightings, UFO reports, Bigfoot encounters, cryptids, and crop circles.
Strange Places v5.2
Public354,770 georeferenced mysterious phenomena from NASA, NOAA, USGS, BFRO, NUFORC, OpenStreetMap, the Megalithic Portal, and the Shadowlands Haunted Places Index. Tornadoes, caves, UFOs, megaliths, meteorites, ghost towns, storms, haunted places, thermal springs, bigfoot sightings, earthquakes, shipwrecks, fireballs, and volcanoes.
Ghost Sightings Database
Locally CachedGhost sighting reports from The Shadowlands archive with location data, descriptions, and regional analysis.
UFO Sightings Analysis
Locally CachedDetailed breakdowns of UFO sightings from NUFORC data with aggregations by state, shape classification, region, year, and cross-tabulations.
BFRO Bigfoot Sightings (Full Scrape)
Locally CachedEvery report from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, scraped county by county across all 50 US states and 7 Canadian provinces. Includes Class A/B/C classification, date, county, and description for each sighting. Phase 2 enrichment adds GPS coordinates, season, and nearest town from individual report pages.
Policy & Governance
11 datasetsExecutive orders, tariff policies, federal workforce changes, market sector performance, and geopolitical events.
Social corpus file URLs and checksums (JSON)
Truth Social Iran Reactions (Kaggle v5)
PublishedMuhammet Akkurt's selected Iran-conflict posts and replies, release 5. The original CSV archive is 65,283,451 bytes. The local JSON contains source posts and captured-reply counts; it is not the full reply-text corpus. The collection has no manual stance labels.
Notre Dame Truth Social Archive (v2)
PublishedPatrick Gerard, Nicholas Botzer and Tim Weninger's early-platform archive. Local aggregates deduplicate internal record IDs and retain unknown dates outside the time plots. The original 165,451,938-byte ZIP includes truths and related tables; its reported headline count differs from the recovered file.
The Reddit Politosphere: r/The_Donald
PublishedValentin Hofmann, Hinrich SchΓΌtze and Janet Pierrehumbert's full-text archive covers 605 political subreddits from 2008 through 2019. The local JSON summarizes the exact r/The_Donald selection. Complete originals remain on Zenodo in monthly files, totaling 38,744,661,669 bytes with the archive's other files.
Scored Lite: c/TheDonald
PublishedThe iDRAMA research group's Scored archive includes the off-site c/TheDonald community. Its five text-only source files total 21,989,970,415 bytes and stay upstream. This study serves aggregates for 2020 and 2021, without raw Scored quotations. The authors state license version 4.0; Zenodo's identifier says 2.0.
Make Reddit Great Again: r/The_Donald Metadata
PublishedAmaury Trujillo and Stefano Cresci's moderation-study data contains activity timestamps and IDs, with no comment bodies or submission titles. The local JSON provides daily activity counts. The original subreddit SQLite file is 415,838,208 bytes; its last captured activity predates the collection window's end.
Executive Orders Database
PlannedNot yet populated. This will hold executive orders issued by U.S. presidents with issue date, Federal Register number, title, status, and policy areas. The downloadable placeholder documents the planned schema and sources.
Tariff Timeline
PlannedNot yet populated. This will hold historical and current tariff rates by product category, country, and time period, with weighted average rates and trade impact analysis. The downloadable placeholder documents the planned schema and sources.
DOGE Workforce Cuts
PlannedNot yet populated. This will hold Department of Government Efficiency proposed workforce reductions by federal agency, with personnel counts and policy rationale. The downloadable placeholder documents the planned schema and sources.
Market Sector Performance
PlannedNot yet populated. This will hold economic sector performance indices tracking technology, finance, healthcare, energy, and other major market sectors over time. The downloadable placeholder documents the planned schema and sources.
Geopolitical Actions Timeline
PlannedNot yet populated. This will hold a timeline of significant geopolitical events including military actions, diplomatic incidents, and international policy changes. The downloadable placeholder documents the planned schema and sources.
Global Sentiment Survey (Pew Research)
Locally CachedUS favorability ratings and presidential confidence across 15 countries from the Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Survey (2020-2025). Tracks international perception of the United States over the Trump and Biden administrations.