Data Sources Page
Datasets:
Collection of Datasets:
- 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 countires.
- Baby names
(popularity by year and state), compiled by the Social Security
Administration
- DASL is the Dataset and Story
Library – a collection of datasets and related documentation which may be
searched by data subjects or by statistical techniques
- DASL in Australian
- 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
- Handbook
of Small Datasets by Hand, Lund,
McConway, & Ostrowski. Raw data
files are stored at UCLA, but
you’ll need the book for descriptions of the data.
- The Basic
Practice of Statistics – datasets from David Moore’s
textbook. Available in ASCII format
in the JSE
Data Archive
- FEDSTATS links to Web access to data
produced by the US Government agencies
like:
- USDA Economics and
Statistics System at Cornell
University provides additional
USDA data.
- Sports Data Page
- Statistical Resources
on the Web – part of the on-line documents center at the University
of Michigan
Search for Your Own Data:
- C-Net’s Search – lets you pick from among
many of the most popular searches
- YAHOO! -- one of the original
search engines
- Alta Vista – one of the most
comprehensive search engines
- Google – one of the most efficient
search engines
- Random Yahoo! Link – choosen
from Yahoo’s extensive list of URLs.
(Lets you study the web itself.)