Recommended Data Collections

Whether you are looking for research data, or looking to practice your data science skills, below are some data collections we recommend.

Source	Description	Access and Notes
UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository	The UCI Machine Learning Repository is a collection of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community for the empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms.	Managed and hosted by UC Irvine. Free and open access.
Kaggle.com	Kaggle is an online community that hosts competitions for machine learning. Kaggle also holds a collection of datasets, open for public use, although it requires users to create an account. Kaggle was acquired by Google in 2017.	Requires user email address to create an account.
Tidy Tuesday	A weekly data project aimed at the R programming language ecosystem. As this project was borne out of the `R4DS Online Learning Community` and the `R for Data Science` textbook, an emphasis was placed on understanding how to summarize and arrange data to make meaningful charts with `ggplot2`, `tidyr`, `dplyr`, and other tools in the `tidyverse` ecosystem. Datasets are posted each week and available on the R for Data Science GitHub.	Free and open access. UCLA Library Data Science Center periodically hosts Tidy Tuesday welcoming all to practice working with data together.
UCLA Dataverse	Collection of research data and findings from the UCLA research community.	Free and open access.
GitHub Awesome Public Datasets	Curated lists of public datasets on GitHub.	Free and open access.
The General Index	The General Index consists of 3 tables derived from 107,233,728 journal articles.	Free and open access.

Additional Information

Data Science Center

Submit a Request

This service is available to

All
Library Staff	*
UCLA	*
Campus-Affiliated
Other

Service not available for you

If this service is not available to you, and you have questions, please send an email to techhelp@library.ucla.edu for more information.

Please visit the Data Science Center
portal to raise a request.

See also

A-Z Index

Filter by label

There are no items with the selected labels at this time.

Browser not supported