Academia
Nobel Prizes, by Academic Affiliation
The lifetime academic affiliations of every Nobel laureate, broken out by alma mater and institution. A laureate appears in both columns where applicable. Moungi Bawendi (2023), for instance, earned his PhD at UChicago and teaches at MIT. Accuracy is bounded by Wikipedia.
github.com/frishberg/Nobel-Prizes-by-Academic-Affiliations →
Rankings
An Archive of U.S. News College Rankings
Every U.S. News national college ranking since the practice began. Collected from several sources with Python and Selenium; roughly six thousand datapoints, published in .csv, .json, and .xlsx for portability.
github.com/frishberg/Archive-of-US-News-College-Rankings →
Finance
Ivy Plus Endowment Data
Endowment values for every Ivy Plus school (Ivy League plus UChicago, Stanford, Duke, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, and MIT) across the past decade, compiled by hand. Useful for anyone interested in the financials of elite universities, or of universities in general.
github.com/frishberg/Ivy-Plus-Endowment-Data →
Rankings
U.S. College Ranking Data
A composite dataset on the top universities in the United States: Niche ratings across food, safety, and professors; acceptance rates; average SAT scores; Nobel counts; international and computer-science rankings. Compiled over weeks with Selenium and Requests.
github.com/frishberg/US-College-Ranking-Data →
Music
Record Labels of the Billboard Top 100
The current Billboard Top 100 artists paired with their record labels, refreshed daily at midnight UTC by a GitHub Action. Wikipedia‑sourced, so accuracy is approximate but current.
github.com/frishberg/Record-Labels-of-the-Top-100-Artists →
Reference
University Hex Colors
Primary hex color codes for more than two thousand U.S. universities, compiled by pointing Perplexity's AI API at the Department of Education's Scoreboard list. Published as .json for portability. Also used to tint the graphs in the U.S. News ranking tool.
github.com/frishberg/University-Hex-Colors →