Datasets and Statistics: resources & tools

DASL (pronounced "dazz We hope to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that will be interesting to their students. Use DASL's powerful search engine to locate the story or datafile of interest.

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Our mission is to provide researchers high-quality, domain-specific training covering the full lifecycle of data-driven research. our focus is on the introductory computational skills needed for data management and analysis in all domains of research.

Free online course offered by Stanford "Luganita" which follows closely the text "An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R" (James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani - Springer 2013). This textbook is available for free online.

These guides can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. New guides will continually be added and topic areas expanded. An Instructors Guide to DDLGs is also available.

Blog/database designed to promote the field of data journalism. The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy believes that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims.

The Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) provides free assistance to academic, government and non-profit researchers interested in using Medicare and/or Medicaid data for their research.

Regression Using Stata and Logistic Regression Using Stata

Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for those web-scraping projects.

Gephi is a tool for data analysts keen to explore graphs, make hypothesis and discover patterns.

an open source data wrangling utility to view and batch process large datasets. Correct and normalize your data fields.

Overview is an open-source platform that will read and analyze documents quickly. It includes full text search, visualizations, entity detection, topic modeling, and more.

a free web based tool that allows you to paste your data and explore a wide array of visualizations. You can export the viz as SVG, PNG, etc. It is also very valuable as an exploratory tool for selecting the best viz for your project.

Originally a mapping tool for the Decennial Census it now includes a wider array of datasets. Create a personal account to save your work online.

Make a story map now. StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. It is a new tool and has a friendly authoring tool. StoryMap comes in two variants, classic and giga...

extract, liberate, some pdf files are really databases incognito. Take a look at the MedPAC Data Book. (tabula will need Java also if you are using Windows or Linux.)

Topicgraph is a topic modeling tool built by JSTOR Labs as part of its Reimagining the Monograph project. It helps researchers understand at a glance the topics covered within a book and then navigate directly to those pages.

Ushahidi is a crowdsourcing GIS tool headquartered in Nairobi, with a global team. It allows the gathering of crowd-sourced data such as SMS texts through a gateway.