Data Bloom: Data Viz Resources

Jupyter Notebook is an open, free web application for creating and sharing computational documents. It supports over 40 programming languages, including Python, R, Julia, and Scala. Apache, Spark, pandas, scikit-learn, ggplot2, and TensorFlow can all be used within Jupyter Notebooks. 

RStudio is free program which uses the open-source programming language R. It can be used to analyze and visualize data, and RStudio is consistently creating new tools for R. The RStudio website has many guides and tutorials on how to use R. Modern Data Science with R is a great free textbook that can help you learn the basics of R. 

Tableau Public is a free data visualization software that requires no coding. It can be easily be used to share your data visualizations online. The Tableau Public website has many resources and guides to help you learn on to use Tableau Public. 

ArcGIS is an Esri web-based mapping software. Build interactive maps that explain your data and encourage users to explore. Map your own data and gain perspective by adding the authoritative location-based data included in ArcGIS Online. Use smart mapping to guide your data exploration and visualization. You can set up a free public account or contact our GIS Specialist to request University of Rochester institutional access to ArcGIS.

National Data 

Census - Census Bureau data is the data dissemination platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. 

American Housing Survey - The survey has been the most comprehensive national housing survey in the United States since its inception in 1973, providing current information on the size, composition, and quality of the nation’s housing and measuring changes in our housing stock as it ages.  

New York State 

NYS Open Data - Free public data that spans departments across NYS. 

NYC Open Data - Free public data that spans departments across NYC. 

Local Data 

ROC Open Data  

Free public data that spans departments from across the City of Rochester. 

Tree Dataset - Every official tree in the City of Rochester.  

311 Case Dataset – Record of 311 calls / online request by location and department. 

RPD Open Data Portal - Public data portal maintained by the Rochester Police Department 

Measures For Justice - Measure for Justice is a non-profit based in Rochester that works with various communities and jurisdictions to make crime data public and accessible.  

Monroe County Prosecutor Commons 

Reconnect Rochester has a helpful list of local maps and data relating to transportation 

RocHealthData via URMC 

Core10 Data Collection

This is a list of diverse datasets that students and faculty can use in their coursework or projects.

Developed as a project through the River Campus Libraries Internship Program in collaboration with Data Services, this collection serves as a resource to students who may be unfamilar with data analytics, data discovery or are curious to learn new skills!