A number of government agencies, research institutes, and universities make their data available to the public on-line. This page is designed to expose you to the available avenues for accessing on-line data. Depending on what you need, scroll below for resources on broad searches for data and those more specific to public health.
If you just want to see what's out there, try the links below!
Data archive hosting 16 specialized data collections in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other social science fields.
A nonpartisan think tank publishing public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis, and other data-driven social science research.
Online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information.
Journalists and social commentators are increasingly using infographs and data visualization to express trends, relationships, and to make sense of the abundance of available data. Infographics are familiar visual representations and illustrations of single variables measured across time or location. Data visualizations often express more complex relationships within larger data sets. Some of the best data visualizations allow users to interact with the visualization in order to ask their own questions of the data.
The list of links below directs you to some of the best infographs and data visualizations on the web.
