Research Library

Tools, data & maps for risk research

A curated directory of the resources we rely on — and recommend — for rigorous, reproducible work on risk and policy. Links open the current home of each third-party resource; the collection is reviewed and refreshed periodically.

Tools & Readings

Software and references for climate analysis, statistics and computation, forensics, archiving, and disciplined risk practice.

Google BigQuery Sandbox Query terabyte-scale public datasets in the cloud, free, with no credit card required. Math & Computational Science (NIST) NIST's gateway to mathematical, statistical, and computational-science software and references. Image Forensics (FotoForensics) Error-level analysis and metadata inspection to test whether an image has been manipulated. Software Carpentry Foundational computing skills for researchers — the shell, version control, and programming. Web Archiving Tools A maintained catalog of tools for capturing, storing, and replaying web content. Working In Uncertainty Free, practical writing on risk management and decision-making under uncertainty. EPA Carbon Footprint Calculator Estimate and compare household greenhouse-gas emissions and reduction options. Naval Safety Command Mishap data, safety advisories, and risk-management resources from the U.S. Navy. NIST AI Risk Management Framework NIST's voluntary framework for managing AI risk across the lifecycle, organized around Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage. MIT AI Risk Repository A living database and taxonomy of AI risks and AI risk-management frameworks from the MIT AI Risk Initiative.

Readings — free, complete texts

A shelf of freely available books on statistics, machine learning, decision analysis, and risk.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning The Elements of Statistical Learning Information Theory, Inference & Learning Algorithms A Course in Machine Learning Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts Bayesian Methods for Hackers Think Bayes Deep Learning (Goodfellow, Bengio & Courville) Dive into Deep Learning Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics Algorithms for Decision Making Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Sutton & Barto) Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society Handbook of Applied Cryptography Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Data

Datasets and repositories spanning census, security, environment, public health, and the global economy.

U.S. Census Bureau Data Search and extract American Community Survey, decennial, and economic data (successor to DataFerret). DocumentCloud Upload, analyze, annotate, and publish primary-source documents. Gapminder Data Global development indicators — health, income, population — with interactive visualizations. FracFocus Chemical Registry The U.S. registry of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, by well and operator. Earth — nullschool A live, animated visualization of global weather, ocean, and air-quality conditions. Harvard Dataverse An open repository for sharing, citing, and preserving research datasets. Global Terrorism Database START's open database of terrorist events worldwide, 1970 onward. TEVUS Database Terrorism and extremist violence in the United States, from START at the University of Maryland. AWS Open Data Registry Large public datasets hosted on AWS — satellite imagery, genomics, climate, and more. ProPublica Data Store Cleaned datasets behind ProPublica's investigative journalism. Google Ngram Viewer Track the frequency of words and phrases across millions of digitized books over time. KDnuggets Datasets A long-running directory of datasets for data mining and machine learning. Public.Resource.Org Free public access to government records, laws, and safety standards. BYU FHSS Research Support Guides and support for collecting your own data, including from the web. CDC Vital Statistics U.S. birth, death, and mortality microdata from the National Center for Health Statistics. PubMed / MEDLINE The National Library of Medicine's index of biomedical literature. World Inequality Database Global wealth and income inequality data (successor to the World Top Incomes Database). World Bank Open Data Free global development indicators and analytical tools. UC Irvine ML Repository A classic collection of datasets for machine-learning research. UK Open Government Data The United Kingdom's central open-data portal. Austin Open Data City of Austin, Texas municipal open-data portal. Chicago Open Data City of Chicago municipal open-data portal. DataSF (San Francisco) City and County of San Francisco open-data portal. Seattle Open Data City of Seattle, Washington municipal open-data portal.