Macdonald-Kelce Library: College Algebra: MAT160: Datasets

Suggested Datasets

Below are a few sources for datasets. We have hundreds more available at our Datasets and Statistics guide. Some resources are easier to use than others. The ones below are pretty straight-forward in locating and downloading data.

If you find a resource you want to work with, but are having trouble downloading the data, contact David Davisson for assistance.

Data.gov
Almost 300,000 data sets available from the US federal government.
FBI Crime Statistics
General Social Survey
"The only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States."
Harvard Dataverse
Over 180,000 datasets.
Zillow Datasets
Zillow makes a lot of its home value data available for researchers.

Statista This link opens in a new window
Many (but not all) charts and graphs available through Statista allow you to download the underlying data.
Within this database one can find company information about business plans, sales data, employment figures, reports, statistics and market outlooks.