Featured Data Sets
Women’s March Madness
This data set tracks every NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament appearance since 1982 up until 2018. It includes team seeds, results, bid types, season and conference records, and regional placements. Useful for analyzing team success, seeding impact, conference strength, and historical trends in women’s college basketball over four decades.
BC Indigenous Businesses
The BC Indigenous Business Listings data set, compiled in 2025 by the Government of British Columbia, offers a detailed snapshot of Indigenous-owned businesses throughout the province. It includes information on the Indigenous entrepreneurship in urban and rural areas. This data set highlights economic activities across various traditional territories and sectors.
How Couples Meet and Stay Together
This data set contains information from a 2022 survey of people across the U.S. to understand how couples meet and stay together. It focuses on how relationships were influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and offers insight at modern relationships, including changes in dating habits and how couples adapted during a challenging time.
Wildfire
This data set on Canadian wildfires includes data on fire size, cause, location, detection method, response, and weather. Collected from official sources, it supports wildfire risk assessment and response. It also highlights social and geographic disparities, emphasizing impacts on remote and underserved communities facing climate-related and infrastructure challenges.
Gender Assessment
The Gender Assessment data set from the World Benchmarking Alliance evaluates nearly 2,000 of the world’s most influential companies on gender equality. Covering data from 2023 and 2024, the data set highlights early corporate actions and progress on gender issues. It serves as a benchmarking tool for identifying gaps and holding companies accountable for advancing gender equality.
Global Rights
This data set provides yearly, country-level information on LGBTQ+ rights, economic indicators, and education spending. The data is compiled from Our World in Data, with primary sources including Equaldex, the World Bank, and other open-access data sets.
Install diversedata
To install the diversedata R package from GitHub, follow these steps:
Prerequisites
Ensure you have R installed (download from CRAN)
Install
devtoolspackage, if needed:
install.packages("devtools")Installation
Install diversedata directly from GitHub using:
devtools::install_github("diverse-data-hub/diversedata")Loading the Package
After installation, load the package into your R session:
library(diversedata)Usage
Once installed, you can explore the available data sets and their documentation:
# List available data sets
data(package = "diversedata")
# View documentation for a specific data set
?wildfire
# To load a data set into the environment:
data("wildfire")License
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