Potential datasets for next release

[lmullen]

• Methodist data
• Geography of the Post: https://github.com/stanford-history/geographypost/tree/master/data
• Overland Travels: https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/
• The library data I scraped for Miriam Posner, if it has an open license.

[lmullen]

• List of datasets on GitHub: https://github.com/datasets
• @hepplerj, global temperature data: https://github.com/hepplerj/global-temp
• Voyages data used by Ben Schmidt?

[todrobbins]

Likely some good ones in here: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

• http://www.historicalstatistics.org/

I'll update this comment as I identify good candidates.

[mdlincoln]

Data on European urban populations 1500-1800: https://github.com/mdlincoln/europop

[lmullen]

@mdlincoln Thanks for the suggestion. You've already put that data in its own package on CRAN right? If you want me to just include it in historydata I'm happy to do so; otherwise, I think I'll just point people to your package.

[lmullen]

Mack Holt's early modern French price series.

[lmullen]

WPA Former Slave narratives. The text files as a list of character vectors. The data on the people as a spreadsheet.

[lmullen]

Potential network data:

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/visualizing/

[lmullen]

Prison records via Slate's The Vault. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2017/05/02/datasets_hold_information_from_admissions_books_for_philadelphia_s_eastern.html

[hepplerj]

I have a Superfund sites data package I've started putting together, but happy to fold that in here, too, if it's of interest. It'll have site names, lat/long, descriptions, HRS scores, URLs to EPA reports where possible, and dates they were proposed/added/reviewed/deleted.

[lmullen]

@hepplerj Sure. Want to send a PR?

[hepplerj]

Will do! It'll probably be next week.

[daranzolin]

Would texts from the Perseus Digital Library be relevant to this package?

[lmullen]

https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201634

[lmullen]

Magazine of Early American Datasets. https://repository.upenn.edu/mead/

[maximromanov]

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/24747

This is replication data for the following study: Bosker, E. Maarten, Buringh, Eltjo, and van Zanden, Jan Luiten (2013) "From Baghdad to London: Unraveling Urban Development in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, 800-1800." Review of Economics and Statistics 95:4, 1418-1437.