Sources for Data - Grinnell College

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Free online data:
Sports
CBS Sportsline (http://cbs.sportsline.com) The CBS sportsline gives lots of data on all sorts of sports.
The link will provide major league baseball statistics.
Sports Illustrated (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
Baseball Reference (http://www.baseball-reference.com)
NFL Statistics (http://www.nfl.com/stats) NCAA Football Statistics
(http://www.ncaa.org/stats/football/footballMenu.html)
Automobiles
Autoweb (http://www.autoweb.com) Information about new and used cars. Includes prices,
horsepower, mileage, etc.
Cars.com, (http://www.cars.com) Information about new and used cars. Includes prices, horsepower,
mileage, etc.
Colleges & Universities
American Universities
(http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html) As home pages are found for American
Universities granting bachelor or advanced degrees, they are added here, one page per university.
The College Board (http://www.collegeboard.com) The College Board administers the SAT and the AP
tests.
ACT, Inc. (http://www.act.org) ACT, Inc. administers the ACT test.
Consumer Information
Consumer Reports Online (http://www.consumerreports.org) An online version of the popular
magazine and buying guides.
Foreign Currency Exchange Rates (http://www.x-rates.com) The Consumers Price
Index(http://www.bls.gov/cpi/) From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, information about the consumers
price index. It also includes an inflation calculator.
CIA World Fact Book:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/rankorderguide.html
The US Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov)
The National Center for Health Statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/) The U.S. governments principal
heath statistics agency.
Fedstats (http://www.fedstats.gov) More than 100 agencies in the United States Federal Government
produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by
these agencies for public use.
General Social Survey (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/index.html)
Statistics Canada (http://www.statcan.ca) State Governments
(http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/State_Government)
Miscellaneous
Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com) The Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
Information about movies including lists of top grossing movies and top rentals in the U.S. and U.K.
Newspapers and Magazines
New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com) USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com) Politics and Polls
The Gallup Organization (http://www.gallup.com) The Gallup Organization site give results from many
of the polls they conduct. This site is good if you are looking for data dealing with proportions.
CNN (http://www.cnn.com)
ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com)
MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com)
http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx
Olympic: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0106472.html
Just Plain Data Analysis: Companion Website (http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jpda/sections/finding_the_data.htm)
This companion site to a textbook has a number of links that could lead you to some useful data sets.
StatLib (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu) StatLib, a system for distributing statistical software, data sets, and
information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW.
Electronic Dataset Service (http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~statdata/statdata/) A collection of links
to datasets organized by statistical methods (multiple regression, time series, etc.). Housed at the
University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
Journal of Statistics Education Data Archive
(http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_data_archive.html)
Jason Project (http://www.jasonproject.org) The JASON VIII project consist of Old Faithful Geyser
data, prediction chart that the rangers use, etc.
CUWU Statistics Program (http://www.stat.uiuc.edu/~stat100/cuwu) From the University of Illinois correlation activity, roulette, the Monty Hall Problem, and more activities. This site includes Florida
Election Data by County.
Math Forum (http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/data.set6.html)
UCLA Dept. of Statistics
(http://www.stat.ucla.edu/data/) http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/allmethods.html
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