Analysis Dataset Options
If you do not have a dataset or research problem that you are bringing to the course, below are some options. If you have previously completed BDA, you can use your dataset/project - as long as you are meaningfully expanding on the analyses and research question.
Note that some datasets have been overused, and that the following ones are forbidden in this course (more can be added to this list so make sure to check it regularly):
- extremely common datasets like
titanic,mtcars,iris,penguins(Palmer Archipelago, n=344) - Baseball batting (used by Bob Carpenter’s StanCon case study).
- Datasets used in the BDA course demos like
bodyfat,diabetes,roachesetc.
metafor Analysis Examples
The website for the metafor R package provides a large list of datasets and references for meta-analyses: Analysis Examples
metadat R Package
The metadat package also provides a large range of meta-analysis datasets: metadat
‘Awesome Public Datasets’ Repository
The ‘Awesome Public Datasets’ GitHub repository provides a large number of datasets from multiple fields and study types: Awesome Public Datasets
Minimum Wage Study (Causal Inference)
This is a classic example from economics in which interest lies in the causal effect of unemployment benefits on employment: here a link to a vignette that that replicates the original paper’s analysis
medicaldata R Package
The medicaldata package provides several medical datasets: medicaldata