Statistics in Action
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FiveThirtyEightThis site uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics and life.
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Simply Statisticsblog
Find Data
Some selected sources:
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GapminderCountry comparisons
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Kaggle Data Science Competitionsfind data sets
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UCI Machine Learning RepositoryMore than 300 datasets
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Adventures in Analytics and Visualizationblog includes visualizations of data, R resources
Find datasets on Google
As a last resort, sometimes an advanced Google search can turn up research data which is not yet in a repository.
Guidelines for searching:
- Try starting at the Google dataset search page, rather than the general page.
- Try "site:.gov" or "site:.edu" to pull information from government or higher education websites
- Try "filetype:.csv" for excel files or "filetype:.pdf" for pdf summaries.
- If you can't find a topic in the databases above, try searching for "Tokyo railway dataset" or "Tokyo railway data" (in multiple languages, if necessary). "open data" "research data" or "dataset" may all be good terms to use.
Books
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Springer Texts in Statisticsseries of paper and ebooks owned by Colby, 1985+
