Data Sources Page

Datasets:

• Bodyfat, and example of one of the many datasets at Statlib. The file contains documentation followed by the raw data
• US News & World Report’s College / University Data
• Food Composition Dataset is provided by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). This large (125K) comma-delimited ASCII file gives detailed nutrition breakdown for 908 food items. A key to interpreting the data coding can be found in the Food Composition Documentation file.

Collection of Datasets:

• CAUSEweb data http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=5
• Data formatted to use in R http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/support/announcements/2013/03/icpsr-releases-new-datasets-in-r-format
• Finding Data on the Internet http://www.inside-r.org/howto/finding-data-internet
• State Health Facts: http://www.statehealthfacts.org/
• gapminder.org – a fascinating website with amazing graphics (social and economic data broken down by country). Click on the spreadsheet links to download the data.
• Wolfram/Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/ )-- This is billed as a computational search engine. Put in "nachos" you get a detailed nutritional analysis, put in "GDP of Albania"and you get several forms of GDP, a historical graph and other economic variables, put in your favorite college and get lots of info (including number of degrees in mathematics in 2009, location on a map and link to a satellite view of campus). While the case by case data display is not so convenient for building datasets there are pretty good links to the sources that Wolfram is pulling data from. For example, the Wolfram/Alpha page of info on a college or university has a data source link at the bottom to the National Center For Educational Statistics website where you can download your own custom data files from the IPSEDS (Integrated Post Secondary Education Data System) - want to know the average faculty salary by rank for all the schools in your comparison group? or the nacho search gives a link to the USDA's National Nutrient database and a few clicks later I've got a spreadsheet with data on 50+ nutrients in 7400+ foods (and that's the abbreviated data!)
• Many Eyes (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/) This is billed as a wiki for data and visualizations of data. Users can contribute datasets and graphics as well as comment on what others have contributed. Some of the "visualizations" are pretty bizarre - others are interesting, e.g. I'm not sure where else I could find different datasets (e.g. current average home rental prices) from counties in Ireland and display the data by shading a map of Ireland with the variable I choose and have a link to the report where the data appear. A search with keyword "golf" produced 14 hits - including several of which referred to the Volkswagen Golf, a couple where individual golfers posted datasets with their own scores (and quite detailed info for each round), listings of the length and price to play golf courses in the Toronto area, the World Gold Rankings Top 250 golfers (from 2007) and data on PGA Tour golfers (from ESPN) for the 2007 season.
• http://timetric.com/ -- time-series data sets, uploaded by users.
• http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html -- UC Irvine’s Machine Learning Repository
• Journal of Statistics Education Data Archive – datasets contributed by statistics teachers. Raw data are given in a .dat file with explanations of the variables in an accompanying .doc file. Several of these datasets are tied to longer JSE articles discussing their use in statistics classes. For example, try televisions.dat, televisions.txt, and Rossman article for some data on life expectancy and numbers of televisions in various countries.
• Baby names (popularity by year and state), compiled by the Social Security Administration
• DASL is the Data and Story Library – a collection of datasets and related documentation which may be searched by data subjects or by statistical techniques
• DASL in Australia
• Statlib Dataset Archive – one of the original sources for archived data
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) education data sets
• CHANCE Project Datasets – data from recent media coverage of current events. Only a few datasets here, but many excellent references to teaching applications of statistics in the news can be found at the main CHANCE page
• Electronic Dataset Service – a collection of links to datasets organized by statistical methods
• Data – a collection of datasets from the book DATA by Andrews and Herzberg, stored at Statlib
• FEDSTATS links to Web access to data produced by the US Government agencies like:
• The Census Bureau
• Statistical Abstract of the United States – including tables ranking states for all sorts of variables
• Data ranking urban areas can be found from the County and Cite Data Book
• Sports Data Page
• Statistical Resources on the Web