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Dr. B's Wide World of Web Data
Overview
This archive is a set of links to data and depcitions of data from throughout the world. It is organized by topic areas. We hope instructors will use these data for examples in classes AND set students loose to find data that THEY find interesting.
Interface
Click on the subject listings on the left to see annotations and links to the appropriate sites.
Design Philosophy
We have striven to make this resource especially useful by providing top level links to information servers (such as an agency's name) as well as annotated descriptions and links to specific files and subdirectories. This was done to allow you to sample the contents of a server and avoid having to repeat all of the searching and evaluation we have alr eady done. The top level links, however, do allow you to search as thoroughly as you would like. In sum, this is not an exhaustive list of possible links, but our current list of what we consider "good" links -- interpretable data, interesting data, and manageable data. Just because a site says it has data, does not mean the data is web accessible. This list avoids those sites.
Files will come into your viewer as text, unless noted otherwise. These can be saved to disk using "Save As" under the File menu (or the closest facsimile). Often this will require some cleaning in a word-processor to take out he aders etc. A good introduction to real world data.
These links are controlled by people all over the world and change frequently. If you cannot connect somewhere, please let us know. In addition, be aware that this service is only in its infancy with the expectation that new links will be added often. If you have a favorite easily usable link, let us know that too.
History
Dr. B's Wide World of Web Data was a stand-alone statistical education tool created at Arizona State University in the Fall of 1994. During the summer of 1996 it was updated to be part of the Statistical Instruction Internet Palette.
Copyright © John Behrens.
