Statistics Sunday: Data Discovery

For today's (late) Statistics Sunday post, I was going to dig into FiveThirtyEight's Thanksgiving data, to find the real reason people in the West eat so much salad at Thanksgiving. As I was inspecting the data and readme file, I clicked back in the directory and found that FiveThirtyEight has shared a ton of data on GitHub. So instead of analyzing Thanksgiving data, I clicked through readme files of other data they had available.

Yes, I became distracted by new data.

Some favorites among the list:

• Marvel Comics characters who have been part of the Avengers
• Halloween Candy Power Ranking
• Every guest Jon Stewart had on the Daily Show
• An analysis of characters and their intersections in Love Actually
• Marriage (and divorce) trends in the US
• A huge multi-file set of media coverage of the Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria
• Scrabble tournament data