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</a>  <div class="archive_element archive_byline_and_date"> <div class="archive_byline">By <span class='meta_info'>TIME Labs</span></div> <div class="archive_date"><span>Published <span class='meta_info'>July 2, 2015</span></span></div> </div> <div class="archive_element archive_excerpt"><p>The Federal Election Commission keeps a record of vote tallies for all Presidential and Congressional elections going back to 1982. But trying to make sense of these records is a headache because the format changes just about every year. The vagaries of state election laws also mean it’s not always simple to figure out how […]</p> </div> </div> <div class="toc toc_data_sheet"> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/natural-disasters/"><div class='image_container no_background_image'></div></a> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/natural-disasters/"> <div class="archive_element archive_headline"> <span>Natural Disasters</span> </div> </a>  <div class="archive_element archive_byline_and_date"> <div class="archive_byline">By <span class='meta_info'>TIME Labs</span></div> <div class="archive_date"><span>Published <span class='meta_info'>June 22, 2015</span></span></div> </div> <div class="archive_element archive_excerpt"><p>The聽National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a聽storm events database that聽contains 42 types of natural disasters, ranging from rip tides to heavy fogs. Separately,聽NOAA keeps a聽significant earthquake archive. Dealing with natural disaster data can be tricky.聽All events are not equally dangerous. Hurricanes have claimed over a thousand lives in the U.S. since 1996 while wildfires have […]</p> </div> </div> <div class="toc toc_data_sheet"> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/health-across-america/"><div class='image_container no_background_image'></div></a> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/health-across-america/"> <div class="archive_element archive_headline"> <span>County Health Rankings</span> </div> </a>  <div class="archive_element archive_byline_and_date"> <div class="archive_byline">By <span class='meta_info'>TIME Labs</span></div> <div class="archive_date"><span>Published <span class='meta_info'>April 27, 2015</span></span></div> </div> <div class="archive_element archive_excerpt"><p>Every spring, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute releases a massive Excel file of health data for every county in America. The data has everything from traditional risk factors like smoking and obesity to information on health insurance coverage, access to healthy foods, exercise, and mental health</p> </div> </div> <div class="toc toc_data_sheet"> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/the-solar-system/"><div class='image_container no_background_image'></div></a> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/the-solar-system/"> <div class="archive_element archive_headline"> <span>The Solar System</span> </div> </a>  <div class="archive_element archive_byline_and_date"> <div class="archive_byline">By <span class='meta_info'>TIME Labs</span></div> <div class="archive_date"><span>Published <span class='meta_info'>April 20, 2015</span></span></div> </div> <div class="archive_element archive_excerpt"><p>When it looked like the comet ISON had the potential to light up the night sky in late 2013, we immediately set out to see if it would be possible to track its progress and trajectory directly on TIME.com. This posed a small technical challenge since the universe has three spatial dimensions, while TIME.com only has two. This means we had to choose an angle from which to view the solar system and project it onto the screen.</p> </div> </div> <div class="toc toc_data_sheet"> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/the-census/"><div class='image_container no_background_image'></div></a> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/the-census/"> <div class="archive_element archive_headline"> <span>The Census</span> </div> </a>  <div class="archive_element archive_byline_and_date"> <div class="archive_byline">By <span class='meta_info'>TIME Labs</span></div> <div class="archive_date"><span>Published <span class='meta_info'>April 13, 2015</span></span></div> </div> <div class="archive_element archive_excerpt"><p>Anyone who has tried to get basic data from the Census Bureau understands the unique pain of navigating their website. Locating something as simple as “Median income by age, 2000-2010” requires crawling through an infinite series of pre-generated tables, figuring out which geographies the data is available for, and downloading the file–only to discover that […]</p> </div> </div> <div class="toc toc_data_sheet"> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/baby-names/"><div class='image_container no_background_image'></div></a> <a href="https://labs.time.com/data-sheet/baby-names/"> <div class="archive_element archive_headline"> <span>The Social Security Administration’s Baby Names Data</span> </div> </a>  <div class="archive_element archive_byline_and_date"> <div class="archive_byline">By <span class='meta_info'>TIME Labs</span></div> <div class="archive_date"><span>Published <span class='meta_info'>April 9, 2015</span></span></div> </div> <div class="archive_element archive_excerpt"><p>Every year around Mother’s Day, the Social Security Administration publishes the frequency of first names for every child born in the previous calendar year, down to any name that appeared at least five times that year. 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