Indian Agriculture, Environment, and Development
- DevInfo
- IndiaStat – all data available through IndiaStat’s sector-specific associate sites (e.g., through IndiaAgriStat and IndiaEnergyStat) is also retrievable from the main IndiaStat site
- ICRISAT – Village Dynamics in South Asia
- NCAER ARIS-REDS
- India Human Development Survey – NCAER & UMD
- India WaterTool
- datameet – India’s open data community, on Google Groups
NCAER ARIS-REDS – Rural Economic and Demographic Survey, Round 2006
- Crop listing codes (converted from Appendix-2) – category groupings are blank in the “CODE” column and include all crops until the next category (XLSX format)
- NCO_Codes_2006 (converted from Appendix-2) – unsure which vintage of NCO codes these are drawn from, but this is the tabular form [converted using smallPDF.com] of the PDF documentation (XLSX format)
India – Labor Data
- National Classification of Occupations, 1968 (NCO68) – 3-digit/1-digit occupation codes (XLS)
- NCO-1968 to NCO-2004 conversion table: 1-digit/3-digit occupation (PDF)
India – Geographic Resources
- Mapping Indian Districts Across Census Years, 1971-2001 (Kumar and Somanathan 2009, PDF)
- State and District Boundary Changes in India, 1961-2001 (Kumar and Somanathan 2015, PDF)
Python & Programming
- FuzzyWuzzy and a FuzzyWuzzy Python/Stata tutorial on string matching across datasets (files)
- Sublime Text 3 – my Python editor of choice
- Atom – all-purpose text editor with great add-on capabilities
- Seaborn – attractive alternative to matplotlib and pyplot for data visualization
- Homebrew – the best Mac OS package manager
- pythex – Python regular expressions tester
Survey Data Analysis and Visualization
- SuAVE: Survey Analysis via Visual Exploration
- Color Brewer 2.0: Color Advice for Cartography
- Colorpicker: Brings Gregor Aisch’s recommendations within reach
Climate Data Tools
- Climate Data Operators (CDO) – indispensable suite of statistical tools for working with climate data; Python bindings by Try2Code
- netCDF Operator (NCO) tools – command-line tools for working with netCDFs
- Panoply – straightforward visualization tool for netCDF/HDFx/GRIB files
Economic Development – General Resources
- Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS Program)
- Markus Eberhardt’s incredibly-helpful Development Economics data link dump
- BREAD’s list of resources
- Poverty Probability Index
- Mark Schreiner’s comprehensive listing of all Simple Poverty Scorecard poverty assessment tool surveys
Food and Agriculture Data
- CountrySTAT
- OneSoil – AI detected field boundaries and crop identification
US Data
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID; University of Michigan)
- IPUMS (University of Minnesota)
Data [General]
- Google Dataset Search – search hosted datasets