QMB 3302 - Business Analytics

Business Analytics  Sources for Datasets

The following list of datasets sources is by no means exhaustive but is intended as a starting point.  

Library Databases

Energy

U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) -homepage

• Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update - prices by region and state; frequency, week and monthly; generally for the period 2003-2021.
• U.S. energy- State Energy Data System (consumption, production) by source, 1960-2019
• International data (collected by the EIA)

Energy-related topics

• Bureau of Transportation Statistics - Statistical Products and Data - covers different aspect of transportation, including border crossing.
  • Hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles sale (2000-2020, length of time varies)*
  • Alternative fuel vehicle and hybrid electric vehicle models, by manufacturer, (1991-2019)

*Keep in mind, hybrid cars have only been around since 1997.

Library database

Real Estate, available from FRED

• Median sales of homes sold by financing type
• Home ownership rates, 1980-2021 (quarterly)
• Houses sold by region, 1963-2020 (regions not described)
• Median and Average Sale Price of Houses Sold, (1963-2021; quarterly, monthly)
• New Residential Construction, (1959-2021; housing starts, by units, privately owned, more)

*Check Census-defined regions to see how the Census defines a region.

U.S. Economic Indicators

• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) - once you select your chosen economic indicator, click  Interactive Data for dataset options:
• Consumer Spending
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP by industry, state, county)

• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) -- there is a variety of historic data on this searchable site:
  • Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, (1947-2021)
  • Real disposable personal income, (per capita, 1959-2021)
• Interest rates (various)
  • U.S. Certificates of deposit interest rates (as far back as 1964-2021)
  • Commercial paper rates (daily, 30-day, 90-day; as far back as 1998-2021)
  • Mortgage loan rates (30-year fixed, 15-year fixed, delinquency rates; from as far back as 1971-2021)
  • Interbank rates- the rate of interest charged on short-term loans made between U.S. banks (30, 60, 90,120 day loans;  as far back as 1964-2021)

Education/employment/salaries

• Digest of Education Statistics -- compilation of statistical information about American education, from pre-k through graduate school.
• Personal savings rates (1960-2021)
• U.S. Wages & Salaries (1959-2021)
• U.S. unemployment (1948-2021) 

COVID-19 

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - click View Historic Case and Death data to see more than seven (7) days of data. Click the View Data (blue) button. From there, select Filter.
  • Click the gray Add a New Filter Condition button for the time/date option. Enter date--use the dropdown menu to change the default setting to submission date (is after).
  • Clidk the gray Add a New Filter Condition button for the state--make selection(s) using the two-letter state abbreviation(s). Multiple states may be entered. Press enter after each.
  • Click Export and select CSV for Excel to download
• Florida vaccination data - Select Filter.
  • Click the gray Add a New Filter Condition button for the time/date option. Enter date--use the dropdown menu to change the default setting to submission date (is after).
  • The easiest way to limit to Florida (or any one state) is to enter the two-letter abbreviation in the Find in this Dataset box located above the table.
  • Click Export and select CSV for Excel to download.
• Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center; vaccine tracker (virus timeline by state; international)
• Worldometer (international)

**Note that since June 2021, some states, including Florida,  have stopped or slowed COVID reporting. 

Library database

Florida

• Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (state employment statistics)

Workforce statistics
Local Area Unemployment statistics - this page allows the user to customize datasets;  includes historical data

• Health
• Florida Agriculture
• Florida Real estate (commercial prices, loans and delinquency rates, homeowner equity)

Sports

• Major League Baseball (MLB) -- hitting and pitching stats from 1903-present
• NASCAR
• National Basketball Association (NBA) -- (1997-2021, regular season)
• National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) -- Statistics 
• National Football League (NFL) (1970-2021); Super Bowl history (1967-2021)
• Sports facilities

Motor vehicle accidents

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration --Fatality Analysis Reporting System
  • Traffic Safety Facts Annual Report Tables – Chapter 1-Trends – this folder includes various aspects of traffic-related accidents and dates as far back as 1966, although most datasets cover the period 1982-2019.
• Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles  - by county, city, jurisdiction

Workplace fatalities

• Occupational injuries/fatalities

Social topics

• Marriage and divorce
• Population