Data Sources
Every dashboard and tool on this site is built on public data. Here’s the full ledger — provider, the slice used, how often it refreshes, and which surfaces it feeds. Making the complex obvious means showing the receipts.
Gallup World Poll / UN SDSN, via Our World in Data
Self-reported life satisfaction on a 0–10 ladder, the headline metric of the World Happiness Report. Feeds the tidy country-year core panel (happiness-suicide-panel.csv). The latest snapshot uses the 2023–2025 mean to match the WHR 2026 three-year window; the per-country factor decomposition comes from the official WHR 2026 “Data for Figure 2.1” download, which carries every edition 2011–2025.
World Bank (SH.STA.SUIC.P5) · WHO age-standardized estimates
Deaths from self-harm per 100,000 population, every year the indicator carries. Merged with the Cantril ladder into the tidy country-year core panel (happiness-suicide-panel.csv) that the happiness views derive from. The IHME/OWID series is license-blocked from CSV redistribution, so the World Bank indicator is used.
Kaggle / UN SDSN
The original combined file — happiness score, six explanatory factors, plus suicide rate, Gini, and life expectancy — behind the 2019 snapshot of the Relative Deprivation dashboard.
World Bank (NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD)
Purchasing-power-adjusted income per person, used to test whether happiness tracked economic growth over the decade.
World Bank (SP.DYN.LE00.IN)
Years a newborn is expected to live, cross-referenced against happiness change (the window includes the COVID-era drop).
FRED — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Treasuries, mortgage rates, employment, housing, and market series behind the live economic dashboard. Per-series provenance is shown in the dashboard’s own Data Table view.
Public listing sites (scraped)
Rent and for-sale listings across the Ogden, UT metro, geocoded and merged into a cumulative catalogue with days-on-market and price history.
levels.fyi
Crowd-sourced total-compensation data by title, company, and experience, behind the salary explorer.
FIFA, via Wikipedia
The 48 qualified nations and each knockout round, cross-checked against CBS Sports and Yahoo Sports, plus every champion since 2006. Powers the World Cup lens on the happiness paradox chart — each round becomes a country grouping with its own extremes, cluster mix, and trend vs. the world — and the "does winning make a country happier" strip. England and Scotland join to United Kingdom data.
A note on method
Where a dashboard needs a field the source computes in-flight — a percentile, a cluster, a ratio — it’s re-derived by a committed, deterministic script so the result is reproducible. Each dashboard links back here, and to its original where one exists.