Section 10 Resources

10.1 Data

Here is a non-exhaustive list of data resources for environmental studies.

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Forest+Fires

Region URL Topics
World Cities http://www.worldclimate.com/ Temperature, Rainfall, Sea-level
US https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/ Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
US https://data.census.gov/cedsci/ Census surveys
US https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen/download-ejscreen-data Environmental justice
US https://www.data.gov/ Agriculture, Climate, Consumer, Ecosystems, Education, Energy, Finance, Health, Local Government, Manufacturing, Maritime, Ocean, Public Safety, Science & Research
US https://simplyanalytics.com/ Demography, Business, Health, Marketing
US https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools Climate, Weather
US https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data Air quality
US https://www.americancommunities.org/methodology/ Communities
US https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/products.html Sea water levels
US https://www.waterqualitydata.us/ Water quality
US https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/qw Water quality
US https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/ Agriculture, Borders, Boundaries, Chemicals, Commercial, Communications, Education, Emergency Services, Energy, Finance, Food Industry, Geonames, Government, Law Enforcement, Mail Shipping, Mining, National Flood Hazard, Natural Hazards, Public Health, Public Venues, Transportation Air, Transportation Ground, Transportation Water, Water Supply
OECD https://data.oecd.org/ Agriculture, Development, Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Government, Health, Innovation and Technology, Jobs, Society
Multpile https://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html Multiple
Multiple https://www.kaggle.com/datasets Multiple
Multiple https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/ Multiple
Global https://csssi.yale.edu/ Yale CSSSI
Global https://yceo.yale.edu/image-sources Yale Center for Earth Observation
Global https://osf.io/ Multiple
Global https://data.worldbank.org/ Development
Global https://data.humdata.org/ Humanitarian
Global https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data Geospatial data resources
Global http://chelsa-climate.org/downloads/ Climate predictions, timeseries
Global https://ourworldindata.org/ Health, Demographic Change, Food and Agriculture, Education and Knowledge, Energy and Environment, Innovation and Technological Change, Poverty and Economic Development, Living conditions, Community and Wellbeing, Human rights and Democracy, Violence and War
Global http://aqicn.org/data-platform/register/ Air quality
Global https://globalfishingwatch.org/datasets-and-code/ Fishing
Global https://www.gbif.org/ Biodiversity occurences
Global https://data.globalforestwatch.org/ Forest Change, Land Use, Conservation, People, Forest Cover
Global https://resourcewatch.org/data/explore Food, Climate, Energy, Water, Forests, Ocean, Society, Cities
Europe https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps Air pollution, Biodiversity – Ecosystems, Chemicals, Climate change adaptation, Climate change mitigation, Energy, Environment and health, Industry, Land use, Marine, Policy instruments, Resource efficiency and waste, Soil, Specific regions, Sustainability transitions, Transport, Water and marine environment
Coastal https://data.unep-wcmc.org/ Ecosystem, Biodiversity

10.2 EDS Course Map

Here are the suggested courses at Yale and tracks to improve your data science skills.

EDS Course Map