Finding Data & Statistics: Free Data Sources

Bunch Library does not have a subscription to PolicyMap. However, some data maps are offered free to the public--choose Open Map for these. PolicyMap includes data from a very long list of government sources and some proprietary data sets and covers topics such as health, crime, economics, education, environment, religious affiliations, and real estate statistics.

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government." Offers numerous free data sets in a searchable database.

Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful.

Do keyword searches to find statistics from the United Nations on many topics including "Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals Database.

"DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. 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." Datasets can be browsed by topic or searched by keyword.

Create visualizations of public data using this tool from Google. Includes data from international organizations, national statistical offices, non-governmental organizations, and research institutions.

8000+ free datasets from the Open Knowledge Foundation. Varied topics. Includes many large datasets from national governments and numerous datasets related to economic development.

Free access to a variety of Michigan geospatial datasets.

Offers a free platform with hundreds of free data sets from "central banks, exchanges, brokerages, governments, statistical agencies, think-tanks, academics, research firms and more. "
You must create a free account on the site to download data. Use Sign Up to create account. Bunch Library does not have access to the premium data on this site, but there are many free data sets.

re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines.

"A portal for statistical science, the discipline of statistics" offers a long list of links to data sets for teaching, as well as other resources on statistics.

Free and open access to global development data

Data stories with data sets that can be searched by specific statistical methods.

The publisher of this textbook provides some data sets organized by data type/uses, such as:
*data for multiple linear regression
*single variable for large or samples
*paired data for t-tests
*data for one-way or two-way ANOVA
* time series data, etc.