Some useful resources.
R resources
- Quick R A great how-to resource on getting started in R if you’re an SPSS user
- R general guides Getting started with R general guides.
SPSS resources
- About SPSS General SPSS resources.
- Quick R A great how-to resource on getting started in R if you’re an SPSS user
Databank
- A City of Toronto web app allows you to look at and combine various indicators about neighbourhood wellbeing in the City of Toronto. A City of Toronto web app allows you to look at and combine various indicators about neighbourhood wellbeing in the City of Toronto.
- Chance Database Interesting data sets from current events in the news
- Child Trends A nonpartisan research centre that collects and creates data on the welfare of children in the US and internationally
- Data.Gov A lot of US data – sometimes on really interesting trends
- DataFerrett Data ferrett: customized data and tabulations from the US Census
- Factlab Factlab collects official stats from around the world, bringing together the World Bank, UN, the EU and the US Census Bureau.It’s brought to you by the Guardian
- Gapminder Extensive data and data visualization on some of the world’s most important trends
- Girls Discovered A beautiful source of interactive maps highlighting important indicators by sex and age. Spreadsheets of the data behind the maps are downloadable
- Google Public Data Explorer Beautiful and versatile public data visualization. Lots of datasets.
- Laborsta Labour market data and metadata from over 200 countries
- Ohio State University’s Criminal Justice Research Center A huge dataset of 40 years of time series crime data. Link will begin download immediately. It’s a large file.
- US Jobless Data by State Interactive maps as well as downloadable data on joblessness by state. Includes longitudinal data.
Other statistical resources
- United Nations Statistical Databases Some free, some expensive. Some simple, some complicated. Lots of data.
Clients
- MGAM Marilyn Gilbert Artists Management.
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