In Your Research Era: Taylor Swift in Bunch Library Resources

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Sometimes, you'll want to support your research with data and statistics. There's two ways to go about finding data for your research.

1 - you can find an original research study in a peer-reviewed journal article. Oftentimes, scholars will conduct a study on a topic and publish their findings in an academic journal. If you find a peer-reviewed article about your topic, it may have some of the data you need to make your point. 

Or 2 - you can look in a database of data or statistics! The chart below is one I pulled from Statista, one of our most helpful data and statistics databases.