Data on the Web

Resources:

• Exploring Data contains activities, worksheets, overhead transparency masters, datasets and assessment to support data exploration.
• Finding Data on the Internet - A Journalist's Guide by Robert Niles.
• Other libraries of data sets
• The Data and Story Library is an online library of data files and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods.
• The Data Library has data sets that can be downloaded as Clarisworks spreadsheets.
• The Chance Database contains materials designed to help teach a Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course.
• The StatLib Datasets Archive contains interesting data sets and collection of data from books.
• Online World-Wide Track and Field Statistics.
• A collection of about 500 time series from Monash University, Australia.

• Links to data sets
• Dr. B's Wide World of Web Data
• DataSurfing

Software:

• Kalkulator is a powerful yet simple to use calculator and numerical Swiss army knife for Windows with features making it especially suitable for scientific and engineering users. Also does nonlinear regression.
• CurveExpert is a comprehensive curve fitting system for Windows. XY data can be modeled using linear and nonlinear regression models.