Links to Data Sets:

Link to a collection of data sets collected by Prof. Robin Lock of St. Lawrence University. Scroll down to the section “ Data, Data and More Data”.

Compiled by Duncan J. Murdock, Chance Magazine (Vol. 13, No. 1)

1.) StatLib (Use the Link: Get Data)

2.) US Bureau of Labor Statistics

3.) State of Connecticut Statistics (Use the link Research Data on the Left)

4.) Journal of Statistical Education (Use the Link: Data Archive on the Left)

5.) Virtual Library of Statistics

6.) Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

7.) Time Series Data Collection (maintained by Rob Hyndman and Muhammad Akram).

8.) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

9.) Ecological Society of America’s ECOED.Net (requires (free) account to access data and teaching resources)

10.) You can also use your favorite web search engine to locate data sets. But be sure to critique the source of the data.

Online Tools and Demos:

1.) Chance Database (Cool examples and student projects)

2.) Rossman-Chance (Statistical) Applets

3.) UCLA Statistics Calculators (neat online tools)

4.) Vassar’s Online Calculators and Stat Resources

5.) Causation or Correlation (by Jon Mueller)

6.) Research Randomizer (for random sampling and random number generation)

7.) Histogram Applet (exploring how bin size affects shape of the histogram, published by R. Webster West and R. Todd Ogden)