Where to find height dataset, or datasets in General Hi there smart people,

I am new to data  Science and wanted to take my first few steps. Unfortunately I struggle to find datasets or any data at all regarding my topics of interest.

For example, I wanted to build a simple program that takes a person's height and predicts the likely height of his/her child.
(greetings from Galton)

But even for this relatively famous topic I am unable to find data.

Are there any good websited or something that list a lot of datasets for specific topics?  A database of datasets, so to speak.

I mean, I am on the Internet, it should not be that difficult to find some data ;)
The Galton Height dataset seems to be exactly what you're looking for.

There are a ton of repositories of open datasets online.  For beginners, I often see the UCI Machine Learning Repository.  It has quite a few datasets which are easy to work with.

Some other resources for datasets:


Kaggle - hosts data science competitions, but you can download all the datasets without participating in a competition.
Data.gov - You can freely download data from US govt agencies
AWS Open Data - You need a AWS account, but these datasets are free-to-download