Curious to explore the datasets mentioned above?
Ultimate Soccer Dataset: baselight.app/u/blt/datase...
FEMA Disaster Data: baselight.app/u/fema
CDC Social Vulnerability Index: baselight.app/u/cdc/datase...
Explore them on Baselight: baselight.app
Another week of growth, +3 billion new rows covering sports analytics, disaster response, and public health.
Platform Scale
- Rows: 407.8B (+3B)
- Tables: 439,321 (+898)
- Datasets: 68,898 (+382)
Highlights
- Ultimate Soccer Dataset expansion
- FEMA
- CDC / ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
For those curious about what you can do with the data, here are a few ready-to-use insights built on top of the Ultimate Soccer Dataset:
• Cristiano Ronaldo scoring rate by age
baselight.app/u/pjsousa/qu...
• World Soccer Scoreboard
baselight.app/u/pjsousa/da...
We've just significantly expanded the Ultimate Soccer Dataset with:
- Historical match results extended back to the 1990s for major leagues
- New league coverage across multiple countries, including: Austria, China, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Romania, Scotland, Turkey
Dive into billions of rows of research, funding, and public data: baselight.app
Grounded AI starts with grounded data.
This week, Baselight added 7 new public data sources - expanding coverage across research, innovation funding, public spending, and global standards.
New sources now live:
• OpenAIRE
• US Grants
• SBIR
• NIH
• NSF
• USAspending
• ISO reference datasets
Explore the analysis yourself.
We made the full NIH funding datasets queryable in Baselight, where you can:
• explore funded projects and institutions
• analyze funding distribution and trends
Everything is grounded in real, traceable data with full provenance: baselight.app
Where does $36 billion of biomedical research funding actually go?
We analyzed NIH funding data for FY2025 using Baselight.
Top funded research areas:
• Cancer: $4.9B (7K+ projects)
• Infect. diseases: $4.7B (6K+ projects)
• Aging: $3.8B (4K+ projects)
• Heart, lung & blood: $3.4B (~6K projects)
You can explore and query the data directly.
Try the Baselight AI chat: baselight.app
Access directly all EU Funding & Tenders datasets: baselight.app/u/eufundingt...
Includes:
• Open grants and tenders
• Historical grants and tenders
• Grant updates
• Funding & Tenders FAQs
We’ve just crossed another major milestone in our mission to organize the world’s structured data.
This week’s scale:
• 400.9 billion rows (+5B)
• 437,747 tables (+1K)
• 68,445 datasets (+272)
We also added the EU Funding & Tenders Portal - making funding and research data more accessible.
Want to see the numbers behind the plot?
baselight.app/u/pjsousa/qu...
Fork the query and adapt for any match or team comparison.
Pre-match insight powered by Baselight.
Benfica vs Real Madrid - recent form, wins, goals scored, goals conceded.
Structured data → instant insight → game time.
Let’s see who proves the numbers right tonight. ⚽️
Context is all you need, and Baselight is ready to provide it right where you need it! Imagine the possibilities when you can stop relying on web search and you can leverage structured data from reliable sources (including your private data)
Link to post: adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-a...
Curious about how Baselight can power your agents? Our CTO @adlrocha wrote this week a post on his newsletter describing how Baselight enabled him to implement his personal financial assistant, Mr.Malone, with a few prompts, and how Baselight data is key for the Mr.Malone's operation.
For anyone who wants to explore some of the new sources directly:
• Bureau of Indian Affairs — baselight.app/u/bia
• Gun Violence Archive — baselight.app/u/gunviolenc...
• Florida Dept. of Education — baselight.app/u/fldoe
• CIA World Factbook — baselight.app/u/cia/datase...
🌍 5 billion new rows of global intelligence - in just one week.
Baselight’s data graph keeps expanding across governments, geopolitics, education, and mobility:
Scale
• Rows: 395,255,364,002 ▲ +5B
• Tables: 436,795 ▲ +5K
• Datasets: 68,173 ▲ +2K
If it’s actionable data, it belongs in Baselight.
The last Letter from @adlrocha was in 2025. Since then? We’ve been heads-down scaling Baselight for the enterprise. 🛠️
The wait is over. The first update of 2026 is LIVE, packed with a month’s worth of major breakthroughs.
Check your inbox or read it here👇
For those who want to explore the new data directly 👇
- FBI Crime Data (violent crime, property crime, hate crimes, arrests, homicide reports, and more): baselight.app/u/fbi
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (U.S. nonprofit tax filings by state): baselight.app/u/propublica
Weekly Data Update: Baselight keeps scaling.
📈 Platform scale
- Rows: 389,907,641,711 (▲ +5B)
- Tables: 431,381 (▲ +107K)
- Datasets: 65,850 (▲ +91)
💾 Storage
- 74.9 TB (▲ +1.6 TB)
🆕 New high-impact public data sources
- FBI Crime Data
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer: U.S. nonprofit tax filings
Because at scale, quantity only matters if it compounds into quality.
More data.
More context.
Better answers.
The next phase is still about adding more tables - a lot more.
But it’s also about adding them with intent:
- More coverage across domains
- Better structure and metadata
- Stronger grounding for AI and analytical workflows
All through the same query layer, over structured, versioned, trusted data.
We’re getting close to being able to say:
"If it’s data you’d trust to make decisions or ground AI, it’s in Baselight."
Which means Baselight can already answer questions like:
- How do macroeconomic shifts correlate with health, education, and inequality?
- How do markets, blockchains, and prediction platforms react to real-world events?
- How do climate, demographics, and public policy intersect over time?
🌍 Climate, Environment & Geography
- Our World in Data (OWID)
- Gapminder
- GeoNames
- Open-Meteo (historical & forecast weather)
📚 Research & Aggregators
- Data Commons
- Kaggle
🗓️ Time & Contextual Data
- Global Public Holidays
🏥 Healthcare, Education & Social Indicators
- CDC
- HRSA
- County Health Rankings
- America’s Health Rankings
- KIDS COUNT
- Monitoring the Future
- Population Reference Bureau
- National Center for Education Statistics
- United For ALICE
- Barro-Lee Education Attainment
🏛️ Public Policy, Government & Official Statistics
- US Census Bureau
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Eurostat
- Data Europa
- Data Gov
- INE (Statistics Portugal)
- Natural Resources Canada
- US Energy Information Administration
📈 Markets, Finance & Prediction Markets
- Yahoo Finance
- FRED
- IMF
- World Bank
- OECD
- People’s Bank of China
- SEC filings
- FiveThirtyEight
- Polymarket
- Kalshi
- ForecastEx
- Limitless
⛓️ Crypto & Blockchains
- CoinDesk
- DefiLlama
- Portals
- ProbeLab
- EVM blockchains
- XRPL blockchain
Baselight now brings together actionable data across an unusually wide range of domains:
⚽ Sports & Gaming
- Soccer worldwide
- Basketball worldwide
- NFL
- NFL Fantasy Football
- LoL Esports
Baselight went from zero to 431K tables in its first year.
That growth matters less for the number than for what it represents: broad, actionable coverage across sports, finance, macro, public policy, healthcare, climate, demographics, blockchains, and research.
