Awesome Data – Social Sciences
A curated subset of the Awesome Data project focused on social sciences datasets, including political conflict, legal information, surveys, religion, and violence data. The listed resources (e.g., ACLED, Correlates of War, GDELT, General Social Survey, etc.) are part of a broader awesome-style meta collection of high-quality open datasets for researchers and practitioners.
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Awesome Data – Social Sciences
URL: https://github.com/awesomedata/apd-core/tree/master/core/SocialSciences
Category: Themed Directories
Tags: datasets, social, research
Brand: awesome-data
Overview
Awesome Data – Social Sciences is a curated subset of the broader Awesome Data project, focused specifically on open datasets for the social sciences. It aggregates high-quality, research-grade data sources related to politics, law, society, religion, conflict, and violence, serving as a meta-directory for researchers, analysts, and practitioners.
Features
- Curated subset of Awesome Data: Part of the larger Awesome Data ecosystem, but scoped to social sciences topics.
- Focus on social science domains:
- Political conflict and international relations
- Legal and judicial information
- Public opinion and survey research
- Religion and belief data
- Violence, conflict, and security datasets
- Collection of major social science datasets: Includes references to widely used resources such as (examples mentioned):
- ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data)
- Correlates of War
- GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone)
- General Social Survey (GSS)
- Meta-directory structure: Functions as an "awesome-style" list, linking out to primary dataset providers rather than hosting data itself.
- Open data orientation: Emphasis on openly accessible, high-quality datasets suitable for academic and applied research.
- For researchers and practitioners: Organized to support use in empirical research, policy analysis, and data-driven social science projects.
Data & Content Types
- Event-level political conflict data (e.g., protests, violence, wars)
- Country- and dyad-level conflict and war data
- Large-scale public opinion and social survey datasets
- Legal and institutional data (laws, court decisions, legal systems)
- Religion and belief system indicators
- Violence and security-related metrics and event records
Use Cases
- Academic social science research and replication
- Policy and governance analysis
- Conflict and peace studies
- Survey-based social and behavioral analysis
- Building training/evaluation datasets for social-science-related ML models
Pricing
- Not applicable (GitHub-based curated list of open datasets; no pricing information provided).
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