Public data, already put together.

Why we built this

The answers were always out there. Putting them together took weeks.

We've spent our careers in IT, on projects that kept coming back to the same questions: where things are, what they're doing, and what could go wrong. Which cell towers overlap when two phone companies merge? Where is it safe to build a data center? Where should a new factory go? How do schooling and internet access line up with chronic illness? And from our time in the Guard and Reserve: who is in harm's way when a disaster hits, and how do you plan for it?

The answers were in public data every time. But putting it together took weeks, and it never fit in one spreadsheet. Data Doughnut is the tool we wanted on every one of those projects.

Why “Data Doughnut”?

Same good base. A little glaze and sprinkles.

A doughnut is a doughnut: the same good base every time. Public data is like that. What makes it even better is what you add. We add the joins that line up a county across every source, plain words, and a few scores of our own. And we always tell you which part is the doughnut and which part is our frosting.

Who we are

A small, independent company in Southeast Missouri.

Data Doughnut is based just outside Sikeston, Missouri. We're a small team of data people with long careers in IT, and we'd rather show you our sources than ask you to trust us. Questions or ideas? Write to us at support@datadoughnut.com.

Who it’s for

People who work with places.

Planners and economic developers, lenders, hospital and nursing home operators, site selectors, emergency managers, and grant writers. Each desk is built around one of those jobs.

What you can count on

Our promises.

• Plain English We explain things in everyday words, not agency codes and jargon.
• Real sources The facts come from public agencies, and we tell you which one. You can see it all in our catalog.
• Our own numbers are labeled Some numbers are ours: risk scores, ZIP fit scores, job estimates, the kind-of-place label, and our list of hospitals that closed. We build them from the public data, and we mark them as ours wherever they appear.
• Connected by place A county means the same county everywhere on our site, so facts from different sources line up.

What we won’t do

We respect people’s privacy.

• No personal names in previews Some public records list individual owners or doctors. We leave those names out of our free previews.
• We don’t sell your information We don’t sell personal information or share it with advertisers or data brokers. See our Privacy Policy · What is Data Doughnut?.