Great data from the web
The web is heaving with data, but it is sometimes difficult to find good data, and to extract it usefully. Douglas Butler offers ways of using Excel and Autograph to bring it to life.
Sites for creating and sharing data
UK Census @ School project
- UK Census @ School project
- Random Data Selector
- Census at School (International)
- International Data Selector: data from UK, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
Australian Census @ School project
Sites that deliver raw data
NOTE: Some data sets on the web are already in Excel’s XLS format. Some are nicely organised in tables, and so will copy and paste directly into Excel. Others will paste annoyingly into a single column in Excel. For these, and with the data still selected, use the Data => Text to Columns option => Delimited => Space usually does it, then ‘Finish’.
- OzDASL (University of Queensland)
- DASL: USA Data and Story Library (1996 - a bit old now, but still good data)
- The Data Library (Math Forum) USA, created in 2006
- Historical UK Weather data
- UK Lotto: useful data on ‘All Winning Numbers’ page
- UK Premier Football results and statistics
- Athletics World Records
There are further xls data resources on the TSM Useful Files page, including:
Sites that deliver information
- Wind statistics from around the world
- Names and their history
- Who drives on the LEFT and who on the RIGHT?
- World Bank: Data
- Data Visualizer: similar to Gapminder
- World Bank: Data by topic
- World Bank: Data by country
- World Population
- CIA Fact Book
- Information is Beautiful: David McCandless, The Guardian, London
- General World Statistics
