| Year | What is it? | Relevant publication | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Sociolinguistic data: what fraction of the population speaks each language over time. | D.M. Abrams and S.H. Strogatz. "Modelling the dynamics of language death," Nature 424 (6951), 900 (2003). [doi:10.1038/424900a] | alllanguagedata4 | Nine folders: Alsacien, Bolivia, Brunei, Canadafrench, Irish, Quechua, Scotch, Singapore, Welsh |
| 2007 | Oil production data: volume produced and number of wells by year for four large fields | R.H. Wiener and D.M. Abrams, "A physical basis for Hubbert's decline from the midpoint empirical model of oil production," WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 105, 377 (2007). [doi:10.2495/ESUS070371] | oil data and code to share | |
| 2009 | LIDAR data sets used in study of seepage-driven channel growth. | Abrams et al, "Growth laws for channel networks incised by groundwater flow," Nature Geoscience 2, 193 (2009). [doi:10.1038/ngeo432] | (file "unfilt_LIDAR_squares3_vert_corr_v2.zip" to big, to be added later) | orig = original LIDAR data, ref = reflown (assumed better). |
| 2011 | Historical changes in rate of religious affiliation in a variety of countries and/or regions around the world | D.M. Abrams, H.A. Yaple, and R.J. Wiener, "Dynamics of social group competition: Modeling the decline of religious affiliation," Physical Review Letters 107, 088701 (2011). [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.088701] | religion_data_to_share | This is just the extracted data. Original census record scans that data came from total ~750 MB and are available upon request. |
| 2012 | Data on fraction left-handed among top batters throughout history of Major League Baseball. | D.M. Abrams and M.J. Panaggio, "A model balancing cooperation and competition can explain our right-handed world and the dominance of left-handed athletes," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 09 (75), 2718-2722 (2012). [doi:10.1098/rsif.2012.0211] | baseball_data | Note that other data from the paper are contained in a supplementary table published with the paper. |
| 2014 | Korean internal migration data by family name | S.H. Lee, R. Ffrancon, D.M. Abrams, B.J. Kim and M.A. Porter, "Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match: Migration of populations via marriages in the past," Physical Review X 4, 041009 (2014). [doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041009] | (to be compiled) | |
| 2015 | Smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption data by country, over time | J.C. Lang, D.M. Abrams, and H. De Sterck, "The influence of societal individualism on a century of tobacco use: modelling the prevalence of smoking," BMC Public Health 15:1280, 1-13 (2015). [doi:10.1186/s12889-015-2576-6] | (included as supplement to publication, to be added here) | |
| 2016 | Animal ornament size samples (various species) | S.M. Clifton, R.I. Braun, and D.M. Abrams, "Handicap principle implies emergence of dimorphic ornaments," Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283, 1970 (2016). [doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.1970] | Clifton Braun and Abrams - Handicap principle implies emergence of dimorphic ornaments - RSPB 283, 1970 (2016) - data | Also archived with publication. Publication's ESM contains details of sources and some additional summary data. |
| 2017 | Data on obesity rates and year-year BMI changes in the US | J.C. Lang, H. De Sterck, and D.M. Abrams, "The statistical mechanics of human weight change," PLOS ONE 12, 0189795 (2017). [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189795]. | Get data files (csv) from https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7f140. Code is published with paper and here. | Data are too big for Wordpress at the moment, but available at Dryad (see link). |
| 2019 | Annual crimes committed by type and by size of MSA | V.C. Yang, A.V. Papachristos, and D.M. Abrams, "Modeling the origin of urban-output scaling laws," Physical Review E 100, 032306 (2019). [doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.100.032306]. | urban_productivity_scaling_laws_data_and_code | The same set of files is also available from Vicky's Github (referenced in paper). |
| 2020 | US legislator ideological positions over time | V.C. Yang, D.M. Abrams, G. Kernell, and A.E. Motter, "Why are US parties so polarized? A 'satisficing' dynamical model," SIAM Review 62(3), 646-657 (2020). [doi:10.1137/19M1254246]. | satisficing_election_model_data_and_code, House_and_Senate_legislator_data_file, and House_and_Senate_legislator_data_file_headers | The same set of files is also available from Vicky's Github (referenced in paper) and the paper's supplementary material. |