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In this course, you will :
- Learn how to find free, public data sources on a wide range of business, education, and health issues, and how to download the data for your own analysis.
- introduces a number of US government resources, ranging from the US Census Bureau to the US Patent and Trademark Office, and surveys datasets from international organisations such as the World Bank and the United Nations.
- goes over data search engines, web services, and even language resources like Google Books' Ngram Viewer
- After completing this course, you will be better equipped to locate the information you require for your scholarship and data analysis efforts.
Syllabus :
1. US Census Bureau and Securities and Exchange Commission
- US Census Bureau population data
- US Census Bureau maps and visualizations
- US Census Bureau industry data
- US Census Bureau geographic data sets
- US health data
- EDGAR
2. Other US Government Agencies
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Internal Revenue Service migration data
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- US Federal Reserve Board
- US Department of Education Data and Research
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- National Centers for Environmental Information
3. Data Sources for Non-US Entities
- World Bank
- CIA World Factbook
- United Nations
- UNICEF
- Statistics Canada
- Eurostat
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- UK National Health Service NHS Digital
4. Data Search Engines and Portals
- Google Finance
- Google Trends
- Google Public Data Explorer
- Amazon Web Services Public Data Sets
- Data.gov
- Google Ngram Viewer
- The Corpus of Contemporary American English
- University of California, Irvine, Center for Machine Learning
- Pew Research Center
