Data Sources

Some popular data sources are freely available on the web.

United States Census

http://www.census.gov/

Explore the "Data" tab - raw data, visualizations, etc.


Some specifics on American Fact Finder:

General Demographic Characteristics

http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

Selected Economic Characteristics

http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_14_5YR_DP03&src=pt


Gapminder

https://www.gapminder.org/

Click on Gapminder World and explore the bubble chart

Click on Data to find and download data from countries all over the world!


Bureau of Labor Statistics

We will explore the Consumer Expenditure study tables from the BLS. Here's a starting point.

http://www.bls.gov/cex/tables.htm#annual

The statistics presented in some tables include Standard Error and Coefficient of Variation. Data definitions are available here:

http://www.bls.gov/cex/ce_midyear_announce.htm

By the way, the BLS has a whole section just for students - including games!

http://www.bls.gov/k12/games.htm