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South Dakota lobbying data
A more complete dataset of public and private lobbyists in South Dakota.
south-dakota-pistol-permit-stats.csv
A CSV file with snapshots of concealed carry permit totals by type in South Dakota, courtesy of the Wayback Machine. (GitHub repo)
spearfish-building-permits.csv
A CSV file with data extracted from monthly building permit reports published by the City of Spearfish as PDFs. (GitHub repo)
south-dakota-motor-vehicle-stats.csv
A tidy CSV file with data extracted from motor vehicle registration reports published by the South Dakota Department of Revenue. (GitHub repo)
james-beard-awards.csv
A CSV file with details on James Beard Awards winners, semifinalists and nominees. (GitHub repo)
South Dakota legislative data archive
A pile of JSON files with data about the South Dakota Legislature -- sessions, legislators, bills and committees -- from 1997 to present. Updated daily during the session.
sd-voter-registration-data.csv
A tidy CSV with snapshots of county-level voter registration data in South Dakota, broken down by party when available, from 1976-present. Updated monthly. (GitHub repo)
earth-impact-craters.geojson
Data scraped from the Earth Impact Database website maintained by the Planetary and Space Science Centre at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Also available as a CSV. (GitHub repo)
sd-boards-and-commission-members.csv
Members of state boards and commissions in South Dakota (GitHub repo).
fda-food-defect-levels.json
A JSON file with entries from the FDA's handbook on food defect levels, which allows you to answer questions like: How much drosophila maggots can be in your canned tomatoes before it's considered contaminated? (GitHub repo)
celestial-almanac.csv
Datetimes of solar and lunar eclipses, full moons, and solstices and equinoxes, 1550-2649. See also individual files for full moons, lunar eclipses, solar eclipses and equinoxes/solstices. (GitHub repo / Google calendar)
American Voices 💙
A Google Sheet with data collected from The Onion's "American Voices" series, 1996-08-07 to present. Updated regularly.
sd-general-election-2022-precinct-unofficial-results.csv
Unofficial precinct-level results from the 2022 general election in South Dakota, assembled 2022-11-09 with data from the Secretary of State's election results website.
hotdog-contest.csv
Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest results, 2002-2021. Updated annually.
co-cannabis-sales.csv
County-level cannabis sales in Colorado, 2014-present (see this notebook). Updated monthly.
tx-death-row-media-list.csv
A list of journalists who witness executions in Texas (scraper). Updated whenever there's an execution.
animal-count-nouns.csv
A tidy CSV from a Wikipedia table listing count nouns for animals.
meatball-surgery.csv
Every time the phrase "meatball surgery" was spoken during an episode of the hit TV show M*A*S*H.
scrabble.csv
Scrabble tile frequency and values.
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