The GeoMed/Epi Project:

GeoMed Data Availability Page

We want you to get acquainted with the variety of data available through this course and via the web. Below we have a list of some major data resources as well as specific data sets. As we will see in this course, it is often one thing to have the data, and another altogether to know what to do with it, how to get your software to understand it, or how to analyze it appropriately.

Some of this data will appear in the course at some point. In the meantime, explore, and have fun!

Specific data files:

ASCII Site data

John Snow's 1854 data

French Influenza data

Oyster disease data

Waller's California Leukemia data

New York Leukemia data used by in CASE STUDIES IN BIOMETRY, Lange, Nicholas, Louise Ryan, Lynne Billard, David Brillinger, Loveday Conquest, Joel Greenhouse. Chapter 1. Spatial Pattern Analyses to Detect Rare Disease Clusters Lance A. Waller, Bruce W. Turnbull, Larry C. Clark, and Philip Nasca. Wiley. 1994.
You may be interested in other data from Case Studies in Biometry (from StatLib).

Waller's Sweden data

Los Alamos Lung Cancer data

Los Alamos Brain Cancer data

mumps and tuberculosis data from statlib

US Mortality data. U.S. Mortality data on CD.

Cancer Mortality Atlas, from NCI.

Jacquez's illinois cancer data

Dr. Uriel Kitron's Malaria data

Dr. Luc Anselin's SpaceStat data sets

Dr. Peter Diggle's web site, with links to a variety of data resources (geostatistical, Point Patterns, and longitudinal)

Wilson's Rabies data

1849 London cholera data (still need to digitize)

Wilson's Malaria in Kenya data

Wilson's Lyme's Disease data

China Center data for Chinese Data

ASCII vector data

USGS: Geo Data

A huge World Map for use in S (and SPlus). This might come in handy for those working on data from outside the US.

ASCII Raster data

Shape Files (for ArcView):

Columbus Crime Data

Coal Ash Data

Bird Population Data

South Carolina Population Data

More U.S. Mortality data. Originally published in the Atlas of United States Mortality. Includes Meta Data.

General Data Resources:

USGS: US Geo Data	including 1:250000 DEMs (Digital Elevation Model), and a variety of DLGs (Digital Line Graphs), plus some 1:250,000-Scale and 1:100,000-Scale Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) data. This can all be downloaded, but you may quickly run out of disk space if you get too excited. More DEMs.	A fantastic database of US features from the National Weather Service
USGS: World Geo Data	Environmental Data-Sets Available On-Line GTOPO30: Global Topographic Data in DEM format, for the entire world. These are monsterous files: look out!
Monthly Precipitation data	Data for the U.S., for all available weather stations is give by state, or for all states, in ASCII format. The station list (with latitudes and longitudes) is about 10 Megs (uncompressed), and can be used to pinpoint the station locations. To go crazy on weather information, try NOAA.
NHANES	and other data sets are available from the CDC.
the USDA	livestock and crops by county are just some of the data sets available. Someone interested in Crypto, for example, might be interested in checking this one out.
Census Bureau	The CDC provides census info in convenient form, as does CIESIN. This site has census blocks and tracts for the U.S. available as shape files, and this site has lots of good free (MapInfo, but also ASCII!) data, including State and county boundaries (but also Metro Areas, Places (e.g. cities), etc.). Thanks to Richard Hoskins for the URLs. American Indian/Alaska Native Areas Cartographic Boundary Files in ArcInfo format. ESRI has 1995 Tiger Data (e.g. roads, rivers, etc.) for the US available for free.
Superfund Data	Download txt or dbf files. Get a map Data Dictionary (lat/long for mapping fields are included) Another contributor noted "Don't go to EPA, go to www.rtk.net. Then, BOOKMARK it. They have all the data you need." Richard Hoskins
Directions Magazine	Free data in many areas, including health, demographics, elevation, etc.
ESRI Data	ESRI provides massive amount of data from http://www.esri.com/data/online/index.html

File format and conversion resources:

SDTS-EP Creation	Software SDTS-ep, available for Window (freely available)
DAK - the Data Automation Kit	Allows one to pass between a variety of common formats (commercial product).

More spatial data sets...

Website maintained by Andy Long. Comments appreciated.

longa@nku.edu