Data Resources: Data Learning Resources
This guide provides links to data resources on a wide variety of topics and administrative levels (international, national, state, county, and local).
More Data Learning Resources by Government
- FRED: Finding and Using FRED Economic DataLearn to search, browse, download, understand, graph and mapping these data sets.
- NASA Teaching MaterialsActivities, resources, programs, workshops
- NCES Online Data CoursesThe 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.
ICPSR Teaching and Learning
- Crime Victimization in the USDatasets used: DOJ-National Crime Victimization Survey, 1992-2005: Concatenated Incident-Level Files
- Voting Behavior: The 2020 Election2020 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.
Sunlight Academy
- Sunlight AcademyThis 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.
Data Training at Fondren Library
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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 : from solving mathematical puzzles to analysing complex engineering problems By Tariq Muneer and Stoyanka Ivanova.
- 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.
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