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Fondren Library Data Visualization Short Course
Excel, R, Tableau, ArcGIS
Archive of Data@Rice Workshop Materials
R, Python, Data Management, etc

Crime Victimization in the US
Datasets used: DOJ-National Crime Victimization Survey, 1992-2005: Concatenated Incident-Level Files
Finding all ICPSR learning guides of stand-alone excercises

Voting Behavior: The 2020 Election
2020 American National Election Study (ANES), sponsored by the University of Michigan and Stanford University. Funding for the 2020 ANES came from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The study interviewed a total of 8,280 respondents before and after the election, but we include only 7,453 respondents who completed both pre-election and post-election interviews.
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SPSS

Statistics LibGuide by Kent State University

Sunlight Academy

Sunlight Academy
This is a collection of interactive tutorials for journalists, activists, researchers and students to learn about tools by the Sunlight Foundation and others to unlock government data.

Excel: Find guide books and ebooks at Fondren

Excel 2019 for Business Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems Quirk, Thomas J. 2nd ed. 2020. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Excel 2019 for health services management statistics : a guide to solving problems Thomas J. Quirk, Simone M. Cummings.
Excel VBA macro tutorial for engineers
Excel-VBA : from solving mathematical puzzles to analysing complex engineering problems By Tariq Muneer and Stoyanka Ivanova.
Introduction to biostatistical applications in health research with Microsoft Office Excel and R By Robert P. Hirsch.
Physics with Excel and Python. Volume I, Basics, exercises and tasks : using the same data structure 2022. By Dieter Mergel.
Spreadsheets for librarians : getting results with Excel and Google Sheets By Bruce White.
Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling : a Practical Guide By Fairhurst, Danielle Stein. Third edition. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, 2019

Use Fondren Library OneSearch online catalog to find more similiar books to learn basics to advanced, and for all kinds of disciplines. Search tip: subject = Microsoft Excel.
Suggest an Excel book: jax2@rice.edu

In addition, you may consider to take Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel (Rice Course available on Coursera). The course is also part of the Business Statistics and Analysis Specialization, Rice University.

Tableau

GIS

Census

More Data Training Resources by Government

NIH: Finding and Using Health Statistics
FRED: Finding and Using FRED Economic Data
Learn to search, browse, download, understand, graph and mapping these data sets.
NASA Earth Data Webinars and Tutorials
NASA STEM Resources and Opportunities
1000+.
NASA Teaching Materials
Activities, resources, programs, workshops
NCES Online Data Courses
The National Forum on Education Statistics has created online courses based on some of its best practice publications. These courses, which include multimedia videos, PowerPoint™ presentations, notes, quizzes, and other supporting materials, offer the education community an opportunity to learn about important education data issues. These resources can be used to train at many levels.
Tutorials / National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Offers tutorials, background materials and other resources for working with large spatio-temporal datasets like those offered by the NEON project.
Open Nighttime Lights - Tutorial / World Bank (2020)
-Remote Sensing Data
-Python
-time series charts, histograms, statistics
Fondren Library Data Repository for Data Science Education and Experiential Learning
-The first sub-project (1_mental_health_project) used the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse survey to explore correlates of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
-The second sub-project (2_education_demographics_project) used the National Center for Education Statistics' National Household Education Survey and Common Core of Data along with the Texas Education Agency's graduation data to explore relationships among educational outcomes, student and family demographic variables, and county demographic diversity within the 12th grader population.
-The third sub-project (3_economics_employment_project) used the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and a wide range of financial data (COVID-related spending, Medicaid spending, GDP, and minimum wage) to explore the relationship beteen government fiscal relief measures and employment during recessions.

The three sub-project folders include clean datasets, code for cleaning and analyzing the data, and interpretation of the results. These materials are suitable for a range of learners within data science, including both novices and those with advanced statistical skills.