I love newsletters, and I love reading through them in my email! One of my favorites is a pretty bare-bones setup, called Data is Plural.

(As a researcher, it always make me chuckle, because this is a standard way new grad students can set themselves apart from non-researchers by pretentiously saying “Actually, it’s ‘data are’ not ‘data is’ to show you know what you are doing. You need a few pretentious tools when you are a scared, brand-new researcher!)

This weekly newsletter is produced by Jeremy Singer-Vine. He gathers together all kinds of interesting databases, each filled with information that would be very useful to you – sometime, in some situation. There is always something fun to browse, and I enjoy just looking at things that I never knew were being collected!

This is a link to one week of the newsletter, with these topics and a link to sign up for it yourself:

• Supreme Court transcripts. Oyez.org bills itself as, among other things, “a complete and authoritative source for all of the [Supreme] Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.”
• Federal corporate prosecutions. The revamped database includes “detailed information about every federal organizational prosecution since 2001,
• Business owners. The Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons “provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.”
• Antibiotic resistance. ResistoMap is an interactive visualization of antibiotic drug resistance, based on more than 1,500 bacteria genome samples from people’s intestinal tracts.
• L.A. pot dispensaries. The Los Angeles City Controller has released a map of the city’s openly-operating medical marijuana businesses.