The top 10 datasets of 2018
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 3:38 am
As we approach the new year it’s always a great time to look back and take stock of the road we have traveled over the last 12 months. This year in datasets, we continued to ride the political roller coaster with everything from gerrymandering to social media botnets, saw passionate debate around climate science, and continued to watch the explosion of data science, especially around topics like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Here at data.world, in addition to our own continued growth as a company, we passed several interesting milestones like 150,000 open datasets in our community and over 50 integrations to other tools ranging from R and Python to Tableau and Microsoft Power BI. As we looked back we also wanted to highlight some of our team favorites when it came to notable or interesting open datasets. These are our top ten:
10. Video Games Global Sales in Volume 1983-2017
As we continue to watch the growth of platforms like Twitch and see the advent of more online games and digital sales, it is interesting to watch the decline of units of physical game sales. One brazil whatsapp number data community member imported data from vgcharts to look at the trend across the EU, NA, and JP sales numbers.
9. FIFA World Cup 2018
In the excitement leading up to the World Cup, FiveThirtyEight created a prediction tool and shared the associated data, which we then added to data.world. Did your favorite teams perform better or worse than predicted?
8. Sports Viz Sundays 2018
A growing community on data.world, the SportsVizSunday crew are working hard to help people improve their visualization skills through the appreciation of all kinds of different sports stats. This includes everything from Formula 1 to NBA and Boxing. Drop by one of these weeks and try your hand at building a new and unique sports viz!
7. Chicago Crime Dataset
While there wasn’t a ton of information around provenance or methodology, this Chicago Crime Dataset proved to be a very interesting, and robust, dataset to play with. Weighing in at almost 350,000 rows with tons of detail it could be a great resource for those who are wishing to stretch their data science chops a bit. Take a look and let the author know what you think in the comments!
Here at data.world, in addition to our own continued growth as a company, we passed several interesting milestones like 150,000 open datasets in our community and over 50 integrations to other tools ranging from R and Python to Tableau and Microsoft Power BI. As we looked back we also wanted to highlight some of our team favorites when it came to notable or interesting open datasets. These are our top ten:
10. Video Games Global Sales in Volume 1983-2017
As we continue to watch the growth of platforms like Twitch and see the advent of more online games and digital sales, it is interesting to watch the decline of units of physical game sales. One brazil whatsapp number data community member imported data from vgcharts to look at the trend across the EU, NA, and JP sales numbers.
9. FIFA World Cup 2018
In the excitement leading up to the World Cup, FiveThirtyEight created a prediction tool and shared the associated data, which we then added to data.world. Did your favorite teams perform better or worse than predicted?
8. Sports Viz Sundays 2018
A growing community on data.world, the SportsVizSunday crew are working hard to help people improve their visualization skills through the appreciation of all kinds of different sports stats. This includes everything from Formula 1 to NBA and Boxing. Drop by one of these weeks and try your hand at building a new and unique sports viz!
7. Chicago Crime Dataset
While there wasn’t a ton of information around provenance or methodology, this Chicago Crime Dataset proved to be a very interesting, and robust, dataset to play with. Weighing in at almost 350,000 rows with tons of detail it could be a great resource for those who are wishing to stretch their data science chops a bit. Take a look and let the author know what you think in the comments!