public policy

List of freely available datasets with up to 18 public metrics of cities within the U.S. (e.g., crime, zoning, health inspections, transit)

List of freely available datasets about police-citizen interactions within U.S. cities

List of turnstile usage data for metro stations in New York City

Blog post from Stanford’s Computational Journalism Lab that includes a list of freely available data sources

Repository of datasets from Yahoo (e.g., search, image, news)

Repository of data released by San Francisco city and county

Data from numerous Pew surveys

Repository of data related to child abuse and neglect from a wide range of related areas (e.g., law, health, psychology, public policy)

Repository of databases on a government information on a wide range of topics