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2020 BDC Data Portal
2020 BDC Data Portal
General Data Portal- Use these portals to search for your data sets
● Government of Canada Open Data
○ The Health and Safety section includes 1588 Open Data that is relevant to Canadians
● Google Dataset Search
● Kaggle
○ Kaggle is a subsidiary of Google LLC, an online community of data scientists and
machine learning practitioners.
● Geodata
○ The Environmental Data Explorer is the authoritative source for data sets used by
UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other
integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500
variables, such as national, subregional, regional and global statistics, covering
themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health
and GDP
● Gapminder
○ Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden,
that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United
Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of
statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental
development at local, national and global levels
● World Bank
○ World Bank Climate Change
○ World Bank Urban Development
○ World Bank Health
○ Data Portal
○ The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and
grants to the governments of poorer countries for the purpose of pursuing capital
projects. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development, and the International Development Association.
● STEM Base
● CHDS: Child Health and Development Studies datasets are intended to research how disease and
health pass down through generation. It contains datasets for research into not just genomic
expression but how social, environmental, and cultural factors play into disease and health
● Biobank: Integrated within the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS), the biobank is
designed to produce a nationally representative cohort to facilitate the progress of new and
innovative health research projects. The biobank currently holds biospecimens (blood,
urine and DNA) collected from over 22,000 consenting Canadians between the ages of 3 to
79 years. Additionally, respondent privacy and confidentiality is of upmost importance and
are upheld by Statistics Canada governance and responsibilities under the Statistics Act.
● Centre for Health Informatics and Analytics (CHIA): The Center for Health Informatics and
Analytics (CHIA), based at Memorial University, provides next generation health informatics
and data analytics hardware and software platforms to facilitate the rapid interrogation and
integration of complex clinical and research data from multiple partner organizations.
● Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN): The CRDCN offers access to over 300 data
cycles collected by Statistics Canada that include social, economic, and health determinants.
For example, health information is available from the Canadian Community Health Survey,
Healthy Aging Survey, Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada, Canadian Survey
on Disability, and Mental Health Survey.
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Images
● OASIS:
○ Description: Open Access Series of Imaging makes neuroimages of the brain freely,
hoping to foster research and new advances in both basic health and clinical
neuroscience
● OpenfMRI:
○ Other imaging data sets from MRI machines to foster research, better diagnostics, and
training. It includes 95 datasets from 3372 subjects with new material being added as
researchers make their own data open to the public.
● CT Medical Images:
○ This one is a small dataset, but it’s specifically cancer-related. It contains labeled
images with age, modality, and contrast tags. Again, high-quality images associated
with training data may help speed breakthroughs.
● Deep Lesion:
○ One of the largest image sets currently available. CT images released from the NIH to
help with better accuracy of lesion documentation and diagnosis. It includes over 32,000
lesions from 4000 unique patients.