Data Science Resources

Here are some resources and data sources that I have found interesting or useful:

Software

R

• R-bloggers
• R Packages : A great resource for learning to create your own packages in R. I highly recommend reading chapter 1 “The Whole Game” and following along with the examples on your own computer.

Python

Quarto

• https://quarto.org/

• Tutorial on Creating a Data Science Portfolio with Quarto

• Markdown basics

Data

Geospatial

• Denver Open Data Catalog contains a variety of geospatial datasets for Denver.

• HIFLD : HIFLD curates and provides access to geospatial data on U.S. critical infrastructure

• {tidycensus} is a R package to download and work with US Census Bureau data.

• {tigris} is a R package to download shapefiles from the US Census Bureau for states, counties, census tracts etc..

• Free Environment & Related Data - A list of environmental data and resources compiled by Ariel Chamberlain

Weather/Environment

• CoAgMet

  • https://github.com/andypicke/rcoagmet
  • https://andypicke.quarto.pub/portfolio/posts/rcoagmet/rcoagmet.html

• https://doi-usgs.github.io/dataRetrieval/

• https://bluegreen-labs.github.io/snotelr/

Energy

• HIFLD : HIFLD curates and provides access to geospatial data on U.S. critical infrastructure

  • The Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open-Data site contains spatial data (ie shapefiles) relevant to energy including including Balancing Authorities (Control Areas) and Transmission Lines.

• Alternative Fuels Data Center

• U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

  • https://github.com/ropensci/eia

• Our World in Data

• Ember is “an independent energy think tank that aims to accelerate the clean energy transition with data and policy”. Data is available to download or through an API.

  • https://github.com/andypicke/emberr
  • https://andypicke.quarto.pub/portfolio/posts/emberr/emberr.html

• GridStatus provides data on the US electric grid from various sources. You can explore the data on their website, and they also have a API.

  • https://github.com/andypicke/rgridstatus
  • https://andypicke.quarto.pub/portfolio/posts/rGridStatus/rGridStatus.html

• https://globalenergymonitor.org/

• https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uspvdb/

  • https://andypicke.quarto.pub/portfolio/posts/USPVDB/USPVDB_Analysis.html

• https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/

Other

• Data Is Plural
• Tidy Tuesday

Miscellaneous

• A guide to standard HTTP Status Codes that may be returned when requesting data from an API.