Sources for Wisconsin related data

General Wisconsin Data (Census)

• Census Wisconsin QuickFacts

City of Milwaukee

Health inspections

• Food establishment inspection reporting system
  • Current food inspections can be found at this site (which doesn't look very official).
  • Past inspections can be found here.

Weather

General

• NOAA Climate Data Online
  • Data tools
  • Monitoring stations

Great Lakes

• Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL): Forecasts
• NWS Great Lakes: Wave height
• Buoys
• UWM - Freshwater Sciences
• NOAA CoastWatch data

Snowfall

• Daily U.S. Snowfall and Snow Depth, 2015 - today
• National Snowfall Analysis and its FTP
• SNODAS and FTP: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02158/

Counties

• Wisconsin County Centers
  • The zoom levels are for Google Maps, but subtract 1.5 for use with Mapbox.

Wind

• GLERL: wind and air temperature from Milwaukee lakeshore (2-minute-interval)

Politics

State Legislature

• A micro script to parse state legislature info from website
  • State Assembly
  • State Senate

Elections

• Campaign finance:
  • Federal Election Commission (FEC)
  • campaign finance data includes expenditures, disbursements, loans for candidates, super PACs, etc.
  • See NICAR tipsheet by Chris Schnaars, Wagging the Dog, to see what's available and caveats
• How elections are administered:
  • Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS)
  • Contains information on voter registration, absentee voters, polling place workers (things like age and difficultly in finding workers), voting machines.
  • Most states report at the county-level. Wisconsin reports at the ward-level.

State

Natural area map data

• DRN GIS data