Data Sites
Where the data flows free
The following is a list of sites containing data I believe to be
useful for, amoung other things, statistical education. I've given a brief,
and certainly not exhaustive, description of the contents of each site.
I welcome your comments/suggestions and encourage any additional sites
you can provide. Reply to leslie at mystery dot com
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Data Set Sites
- Indiana Business Research
Center Homepage
- Economic and demographic data for Indiana.
- USDA's
gopher
- Nutritional information.
- gopher://cyfer.esusda.g...1/CYFER-net/statistics/
- Costs of food at home, births to teens, child death rates, and some
4-H statistics are provided here.
- FSU Factbook
- Provides admission statistics from Florida State University.
- FAA
Administrators Fact Book
- Information related to air safety, busiest airports, and types of aircraft
flown.
- NESDIS NOAA's
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
- Provides links to such data sites as the
- The
Voyager Data Page - MIT Space Plasma Group
- Contains solar wind data (speed, density) recorded by the voyager probes.
In addition there are some ready made graphs of the data.
- Powerball Statistics
- Provides information pertaining to the multi-state lottery. Most frequently/infrequently
drawn numbers as well as a history of all the lottery draws. Winners by
state are also given.
- StatLib Index
- An exceptional site containing both a wide variety of data sets as
well as macros and statistical programs to aid in analysis. Information
related to various statistical organizations is also given.
- DES -
Home Page
- Census Bureau's Data Extraction System. Provides a menu driven system
for extracting census data. As the files are coded and formated, this sight
is tor those more familiar with data analysis and manipulation.
- U.S. Census Data
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- gopher://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/
- A variety of data sets provided by the United States Department of
Agriculture. Such subjects as food consumption and expenditures, various
crop and livestock data, and land value and usage are only a few topics
covered here.
- Free datasets
available via ftp
- I'm not too sure about this site.
- Regional
Economic Information System, 1969-1993
- Population and various types of income can be generated by country,
state, or county.
- Journal
of Statistics Education Data Archive
- Data sets from The Basic Practice of Statistics, by David S. Moore.
Additional data sets include 1993 new car data, airport data, university
average salary information to name a few.
- The U.S.S. Voyager
- This site gives information about the show, ship, and crew among other
things. Weekly Nielsen ratings are also given.
- Housing and Household
Economic Statistics Division
- Health insurance, labor force, wealth, vacancy rates, homeownership
and affordability are only a samling of the topics coverd here.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Lots of time series data available here: Employment, CPI, average price,
occupation injury and illness. Information detailing how the data is coded
is located in a file separate from the data.
- The DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS) - the Internet Home of the DOT BTS
- Provides links to several transportation related sites containing completed
reports. ...
- DOE's Alternative Fuels Data Center
- MathSearch
-- search a collection of mathematical Web material
- Statistics and
Statistical Graphics Resources