michaelstepner

• IPUMS
• Statistics Canada Public Use Microdata on Health topics
• Afrobarometer
• Our World in Data
• Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
• Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) data repository
• Data is Plural, a weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets
• USAID DHS Program: Demographic and Health Surveys
  • Access to real data requires application that takes a few days to process

hadley

If you were to give recommendations to your "little brother/sister" on things that they need to do to become a data scientist, what would those things be?

I think the "Data Science Venn Diagram" (http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram) is a great place to start. You need three things to be a good data scientist:

• Statistical knowledge
• Programming/hacking skills
• Domain expertise

Statistical knowledge

josecarlosgonz

Using Google Maps API and R

This script uses RCurl and RJSONIO to download data from Google's API to get the latitude, longitude, location type, and formatted address

library(RCurl)
library(RJSONIO)
library(plyr)