Sample Data Files

These files are intended to be used with in-class activity. These files were all obtained/edited/created by myself using techniques discussed in this class. The raw data, however, comes from elsewhere. Please do not distribute.

Florida Memory - WPA Church Survey

A survey of all known churchs from Florida, conducted by the Works Projects Administration in the 1930's.

• wpa_churchs.csv

Executions in North America

From the ESPY Database, includes most known executions in N.A. going back to the 1600's. Also contains a raw version, so that you can compare how one might approach narrowing down the number of total categories.

• espy_executions.csv
• espy_executions_raw.csv

War Diaries - Baghdad 2004-2005

An excerpt from the WikiLeaks 'War Diaries' database, includes only data from Baghdad Jan 1 2004 - Dec 31 2005, as well as a number of txt files containing the incident reports.

• war_diaries_baghdad_2004_2005.csv

USF in the News 2014

All news stories published about USF worldwide from 2014 in raw form. Text passages require scrubbing before use.

• usfnews_2014_raw.xlsx

Herodotus

The text for Herodotus' Historia, with full citation data for each passage. Text passages require scrubbing before use.

• herodotus_raw.csv

Florida Postcards

Raw data concerning a number of Florida Postcards, in need of serious cleaning.

• fl_postcards.xlsx

Eleusis Inscriptions

Abridged data from the inscriptions of the ancient Athenian sanctuary of Eleusis

• eleusis_abridged.xlsx