Datasets

For R users of the prostate dataset, put library(chron) into effect to handle date variables. A simpler approach is to just convert the one date variable to the built-in R format by running the command prostate$sdate <- as.Date(prostate$sdate).

Note: To make csv files from R save files do the following:

load(url('http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/DataSets/foo.sav'))
ls() # find name of data frame just loaded (here assumed 'foo')
write.table(d, file='foo.csv', sep=',', col.names=NA)

Other Datasets Available from the Web

• Data and Story Library from Carnegie Mellon University - This is a treasure trove of datasets. The data are found inside HTML documents, so you may wish to click on File & Save as with your browser to save the data into a plain text file. Once inside an editor, click on the data documentation and copy it to another file. Edit the resulting .txt file to leave only the data. Many of the datasets delimit the columns of data using tabs. R and S-Plus will readily import such data.
• Australasian Data and Story Library, containing a large number of interesting datasets, many pertaining to Australia
• Other datasets from the StatLib Repository at Carnegie Mellon University. The Plasma_Retinol dataset is available as an annotated R save file or an S-Plus transport format dataset using the getHdata function in the Hmisc package
• Datasets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository
• Datasets from the Dartmouth Chance data site
• Datasets from the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Data from the Centers for Disease Control
• Data from the NIH. You have to request the data, but the site is immediately valuable as a source of data collection forms used in clinical (especially cardiovascular) studies.
• Data from the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center of the University of Virginia. See especially the City and County Data Books
• Data from the Peace Science Society, Penn State University (war casualties, etc.)
• Data from the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
• Mike Dowling's Interactive Table of World Nations, containing gross domestic product and several descriptor variables for all countries in the world.
• Data from the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network Dataset Guide
• Data from Arizona Elementary School Districts
• Statistical Society of Canada's archived case studies
• Datasets for research use from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health
• A wonderful set of links to various dataset sources from Key Curriculum Press
• Links to other dataset repositories and tips on surfing the web for data, by Robin Lock, Mathematics Dept., St. Lawrence University
• Datasets from Exploring Data from Education Queensland
• Data from Statistical Science Web
• Datasets from Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Repeated Measurements by Charles S. Davis
• Datasets from the UCLA Department of Statistics
• Datasets from Early (and Late) Phases of Drug Research by Thomas E Bradstreet
• Datasets from Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis by Swayne, Cook, Buja, Hofmann, Lang
• Datasets from IBM's Many Eyes visualization project
• Swivel
• Datasets from The Statistical Sleuth
• Name Voyager