Data sources for recipes in this book
Here are some of the sample data sets from Tableau Public's Resources page (https://public.tableau.com/s/resources):
Top Baby Names in the US
Cat vs Dog Popularity in the US
Startup Venture Funding
Global Burden of Disease
Global Sport Finances
Summer Olympics Medalist Dataset
NFL stats, 1999-2013
Hollywood's Most Profitable Stories
Significant Volcanic Eruptions
Global Active Archive of Large Flood Events
Magnitude 6+ Earthquakes
Now let us look at ample data sets from other resources:
New York Open Data – Restaurant Inspections: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/DOHMH-New-York-City-Restaurant-Inspection-Results/xx67-kt59/data
NBA Basketball Data Set 2009: http://www.databasebasketball.com/stats_download.htm
Open Flights: http://openflights.org/data.html
Our Airports: http://ourairports.com/data/
Spatineo: http://directory.spatineo.com/
Gapminder: https://www.gapminder.org/data/
BC Stats Population Projection: http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/StatisticsBySubject/Demography/PopulationProjections.aspx
World Bank – World Development Indicators: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
City of Vancouver Open Data: http://vancouver.ca/your-government/open-data-catalogue.aspx
Canada Open Data: http://open.canada.ca/en
National Water Quality Monitoring Council – Water Quality Data: http://www.waterqualitydata.us/portal/
World Health Organization: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.home