Adam B Kashlak: Datasets

UFO/UAP Related Datasets

The following is a list of datasets that may or may not be related to the number of reported UFO sightings to NUFORC, the National UFO Reporting Center.

• Counts of NUFORC reports, monthly, Jan 1990 to Jul 2021
• Global Temperature Anomaly, monthly, Jan 1990 to Jun 2021 from NOAA
• Google Trends for 'UFO', monthly, Jan 2004 to Jul 2021
• NUFORC reports, USA internet coverage, Sunspots, annual, 1990 to 2019

YouTube Videos on these datasets:

• UFOs: The Cause of Global Warming
• NUFORC Data: Time Series Analysis and Changepoint modeling
• NUFORC Data: Internet Acess and Sunspots

Vowel Phoneme Dataset

This dataset consists of vowel phonemes processed into log base-10 periodograms. It also includes the Latin squares used to collect the data and the collection of spoken words from where the phonemes came.

More information on this data set can be found in chapter 4 of the article Analytic Permutation Testing via Kahane-Khintchine Inequalities.

Democratic Candidates' Age Data

This dataset contains 18 entries for presidential elections from 1948 to 2016 with the entries for the age is days of both the Democrat and Republican candidates on the day of the election. It also includes the percentage of the popular vote and an indicator variable for whether or not one of the candidates was an incumbant running for reelection.

Some R code for analyzing this data using the package geepack for fitting generalized estimating equations.

Frequency of America Data

Dataset comprised of total word counts and number of America's in each US presidents' state of the union and inaugural address.

This dataset was produced from the corpus of speeches and writings available thanks to the American Presidency Project

Some R code for analyzing this data using logistic and Poisson regression.

Oscars Length Data

Dataset with 72 entries referring to Academy Awards broadcasts from 1942 to 2017 containing wordcounts for Best Picture, Leading Actor, and Leading Actress speeches as well as total budget, number of "thanks" in the speech, and total broadcast runtime.

Dataset with 24 entries recording the total wordcounts for 24 different Oscar speeches in both 2016 and 2017 with the goal of determining whether or not Jimmy Kimmel's offer of a jet ski for the shortest speech had any statistically significant effect on the speech lengths.

These dataset was produced from the corpus of speeches available thanks to the Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database as well as Wikipedia for the runtimes, IMDB for the total budget, and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for the historic inflation rate.