probability and statics

MATH 1223 Some Resources for Data Sets

A word of caution! Not all data sets out their are created equal. Remember you are looking for something that meets the criteria outlined in the assignment. Case names (something that is different for every entry) will not work as a variable. You should look for excel files (xlsx or xls) or csv files (which can be opened by excel and saved as xlsx).

1. Sports

(a) Soccer

(b) Basketball

(c) Football

(d) Hockey

(e) Baseball

2. Public Policy

(a) Federal Database

(b) Propublica (some of these are not free but there are some)

(c) National Bureau of Economic Research

3. General Interest

(a) Locke5 Textbook Data

(b) Kaggle a Data Science Competition website

(c) R statistical software Data sets

(d) NASA

(e) A Collection of Some of my Favorite Cultural Data sets

4. Data Set Search Tools and a Meta-List

(a) Google Data Set Search

(b) 50 Datasets