There's a new data set that may be of interest to development-minded folks: Do you want to know how much the U.S. invested in education...

We've featured Hans Rosling and his cool data visualizations on this blog multiple times . Now he's got his own BBC show, "The ...

The World Freedom Atlas is a nice interactive online tool for visualizing a lot of measures relevant to social scientists, students, and jo...

Hans Rosling's TED talks are always fun, and we've hyped them repeatedly here . Well, he's got a new one on the Millennium Devel...

Another new dataset that might be of some interest to readers: The National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy series: The National E...

A new data set that might be of interest to some readers: the World Treaty Index . It's in its beta version, and currently includes all ...

The World Bank's World Development Indicators data set is now free and open to the public. To celebrate, somebody put together this han...

From Alex Tabarrok at MR: Even when every dataset is nicely formatted and documented it can be time consuming to merge two or more datasets ...