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databases

Publically Available Databases for Research

by Richard Pak
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This is just a placeholder post to collect Anne’s collection of publicly available safety data:

Data visualization tools
Occupational safety
Aviation safety
Mining safety

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Database Three: Mining safety data

by Anne McLaughlin
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This post is part of a series on free data available to curious researchers and professionals:
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
This database contains more searching capability than browsing. You need the specific geographic location of a mine before searching (state, county).
Once you zero in on a particular mine, the types of reports available are:

Overview
Inspections
Accidents
Violations
VPID ( Violations Per Inspection Day)
Health Samples
Mine [...]

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Database Two: Aviation safety data

by Anne McLaughlin
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This post is part of a series on free data available to curious researchers and professionals:
The Aviation Safety Network Database
The ASN Safety Database, updated every week, contains descriptions of over 12,200 airliner, military transport category aircraft and corporate jet aircraft safety occurrences since 1943.
Here is a link to their recording of the recent landing on the Hudson river by a [...]

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Pssssst! Free occupational safety data!

by Anne McLaughlin
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Do you love databases? Especially if you are interested in safety, there are a number of carefully archived databases of events out there. A couple of years ago, I found one of these while trying to answer the question “What kinds of human factors interventions would be most increase agricultural safety?” Six months of coding later, I had some [...]

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Data visualization tools

by Richard Pak
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Foreshadowing Anne’s upcoming series of posts on large, public, and free data sets, here are two interesting tools to help you visualize massive quantities of data. First, my grad student Margaux informed me of Google Fusion Tables (shown above). The site lets you upload data and visualize it in different ways. The website has some samples.
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