I've found the data used here in various places online. Sources are listed here:
strikeouts.csv
downloaded 26 Sept 2016 from http://amendelson.github.io/line-chart/strikeouts.csvmeasles_incidence.csv
downloaded 26 Sept 2016 from https://github.com/blmoore/blogR/blob/master/data/measles_incidence.csvmemory_price.csv
downloaded 25 Sept 2015 from http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update/births.csv
downloaded 27 Sept 2016 from https://github.com/jakevdp/data-CDCbirths and then cleaned (day, month, year combined into date)airports.csv
downloaded 14 Oct 2016 from http://ourairports.com/data/ and then cleaned (columns extracted)