This is just a sample of the various public datasets that are freely available online.
- Data is Plural Archive - https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/ - each entry provides a set of data sources and additional context
- Awesome Public Datasets - https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
- ProPublica's data store - https://www.propublica.org/datastore/datasets
- fivethirtyeight.com datasets - https://data.fivethirtyeight.com
- BuzzFeedNews datasets - https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything
- Virginia Department of Health - https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/
- Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data in the United States, New York Times - https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
- State-level social distancing policies in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus in the US - https://github.com/COVID19StatePolicy/SocialDistancing
- US Government data - https://www.data.gov
- US employment - https://www.bls.gov/data/
- US demographics - https://www.census.gov/data.html
- FBI Crime Data - https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr/
- US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - https://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/index.html
- UK Government data - https://data.gov.uk
- World Bank data - https://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
- water levels - https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
- Hampton Roads tide predictions - http://coastalslr.blogspot.com/2017/12/hampton-roads-tide-predictions.html
- climate - https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools
- hurricanes - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/analysis_tools.php
- other weather events over time - https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access
- Internet Archive's TV News Archive - https://archive.org/details/tv