myownmoses t1_iysd9jc wrote on December 3, 2022 at 8:05 PM

Question: Where are good places to find raw data?

I am a high school math teacher in Michigan teaching my first stats class. I'd like to do more authentic assignments where students are working with real sets of data answering questions about the real world. Doing our own gathering was cool, but we are in a very small alternative school so we end up with small data sets which just isn't as cool for doing some types of visualizations, etc. If there is another subreddit altogether for something like this, I'd love recommendations there too. Thank you!

LolitaZ t1_iysj5sd wrote on December 3, 2022 at 8:46 PM

https://ourworldindata.org

https://hraf.yale.edu/tag/data/

https://cces.gov.harvard.edu

For some real life datasets

If you want them to gain experience cleaning data, you could always throw in some NAs and other weirdness.

myownmoses t1_iz1p8sj wrote on December 5, 2022 at 8:37 PM

Awesome, thank you!

OfficialWireGrind t1_j0ibb3p wrote on December 16, 2022 at 9:15 PM

data.gov is another source. There's also /r/datasets/, which might be a good place to ask this.

For me, sourcing raw data is actually part of the problem, and finding it can involve some amount of creativity. A lot of it is hiding in plain sight, but it has to realized as such.

myownmoses t1_j0pp48r wrote on December 18, 2022 at 2:26 PM

Oh I had no idea about r/datasets. Thank you!