Research sources

Hey, today I'm gonna give you a glimpse of my database. I use it daily for news, inspiration and deeper research.
At last I have some Social Media research tips and Datajournalism-tools.

Archive org https://archive.org/
ARDA - The Association of Religion Data Archives: This website has also got its own GIS Maps section where users can plot religious data sets over neighborhood and/or world maps. http://www.thearda.com/
Census.gov: The US Census Bureau’s website holds the most recent version of the US census which is freely downloadable for visitors. They also have a data visualizations gallery where they spotlight infographics and maps in which Census Bureau data sets have been used. http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html
CIA World Factbook: The World Factbook, is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency and provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2034rank.html
Data.gov: The Data.gov website has 210,912 datasets that are open and freely available for download and use. Many of the data sets are viewable via interactive maps. http://www.data.gov/
EU http://europa.eu/geninfo/atoz/en/index_1_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/audio/audioByDate.cfm?sitelang=en
eurostat http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?Eurostat: Eurostat’s mission is to be the leading provider of high quality statistics on the European Union and candidate countries. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/
Global Health Observatory: This collection has over 50 datasets on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Millennium Development Goals (child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected diseases, water and sanitation), non communicable diseases and risk factors, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, equity among others. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main
Harvard Dataverse Network: This is a repository for sharing, citing and preserving research data; open to all scientific data from all disciplines worldwide. It includes the world’s largest collection of social science research data. http://thedata.org/
HUD.gov: The U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development offers quite a few downloadable data sets. http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/HUD_data_matrix.html
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Data: The IMF (International Monetary Fund) publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators. http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
NYC Open Data: This collection has over 800 sets of data pertaining to New York City, most of which can be viewed as an interactive map. Sets include graffiti locations, locations of toilets in public parks, wifi hotspot locations, subway entrances, and more. https://nycopendata.socrata.com/
Search, archive & analyze real-time social media content across multiple sources, from any location in the world, with a single click. http://geofeedia.com/
The Roper Center: This open collection has 19,000 datasets reflecting public opinion and social trends including Gallup polls dating back to 1936, Roper Reports and more. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/data/dataset_collection.html
The World Bank Data Collection: The Data Catalog provides download access to over 8,000 indicators from World Bank data sets, searchable by country, indicators, or topic. http://data.worldbank.org/
Twittertopstories http://digg.com/
UNdata: Datasets http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx?d=WDI
UNdata: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community to provide free access to global statistics. http://data.un.org/
wikileaks https://cablegatesearch.wikileaks.org/search.php
Type the topic in any language to check out real time results of Who's Talking on Social Media Sites http://whotalking.com/
GTI Global Terrorism Index https://www.google.at/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=gti%20global%20terror%20index
Global Terrorism Database http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
Mediawatch: Politik USA http://www.politifact.com/
SITE - US Islamistensuche https://news.siteintelgroup.com/

Social Media Research tools:
With this powerful Facebook-Search you can search for pictures and comments from users you are not friends with: http://graph.tips/beta/

Find out more about the owner of a website threw domaincheck: whois https://www.whois.net/
Website is down? Through archive.org you can see screenshots of past records of the site http://archive.org/web/web.php

Tracker:
tracking ships: Marinetraffic https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:33.6/centery:34.5/zoom:10
tracking flights: Flighradar https://www.flightradar24.com/48.2,16.35/7

Some Datajournalim-tools:
Tabula (http://tabula.technology/): extracts excel sheets out of pdf
Excel, Access, Google Refine (https://code.google.com/p/google-refine/)
R (http://www.r-project.org/), RStudio (http://www.rstudio.com/): Analyse data
Datawrapper (https://datawrapper.de/): visualize data

I have tons of other sources. Tell me what you are interested in:
Research, Factchecking, investigave journalism, datajournalism,