Library Guides: Text Mining & Computational Text Analysis: Data Repositories

Data Repositories

Awesome Public Datasets
Check out the Natural Language category for a list of text corpora and ngrams for text analysis.
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)
A free resource of over 47,000 scholarly articles, including over 36,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses
Data.gov
Catalog of hundreds of thousands of public data sets created at the city, state and federal levels.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
ICPSR receives, processes, and distributes data on social phenomena in countries across the world. ICPSR maintains a data archive of on topics in the social and behavioral sciences, including specialized collections in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Includes survey data, census records, election returns, economic data, and legislative records.

Direct download access to data sets requires the creation of a personal account. In addition, analysis of ICPSR data sets requires the use of specialized software. For more information on this process, please consult the ICPSR Get Help page or schedule an appointment with the Library Data Lab.

Programmable Web API Directory
Search over 15,000 APIs, or browse by categories, such as:
reddit Datasets
A subreddit for sharing and discussing datasets.

In UC Library search, enter your keywords and run your search. From the Resource Type filter to the left of the results, choose Datasets.