In this page, you will find resources for understanding statistics, finding statistics and manipulating statistics.
Understanding Statistics
- A statistics textbook from UC Berkeley, freely available online
- Statistics primers from the UK Parliament
Finding Statistics
- Census Data at American FactFinder
- FedStats: statistics from over 100 US agencies
- Google Public Data Explorer
- Gallup Poll Data Trends
- Economic Research Service from the USDA
- Data Store at The Guardian (UK)
- Data from The World Bank
- Freebase: a database of information about almost anything
- Library of Congress list of data resources
Analyzing and Presenting Statistics
- Google Docs: Google spreadsheets function list
- Excel: Quick Reference Card
- Display of Statistics Data
- Google Fusion Tables
- Visualization/Infographic examples
- FlowingData
Slides
The slides are available as a PDF, with some shortened Presenter Notes