Resources

Sites with Data

• DASL, the Data and Story Library. A great collection, recently remastered.
• kidscount.org. Great stuff about kids from the Annie E Casey foundation. Not microdata, but still good.
• State health facts from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
• FARS. Terrifying microdata (use their query tool) from NHTSA’s Fatal Accident Reporting System.
• NHANES (at eeps). National health survey data from 2002–2003. Choose attributes and sample size, and download or do the magic Fathom drag!
• ACS (at eeps). American Community Survey data. 20,000+ Californians from 2013.

News Articles

• NY Times about social mobility, 22 July 2013. Includes cool interactive graphics and a link to the underlying study. Not clear how much it depends on linear modeling; relationships appear smoother than I would expect.

Blog

• Secrets of the Fathom Masters, where I record Fathom techniques to try to fill in what some perceive to be a gap in the documentation.

Scholarly Articles

• George Cobb’s article, A Ptolemaic Curriculum. This lays out the idea that we should teach beginning inferential statistics using randomization.

Web-based Software

• CODAP, the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (project) (just open it)
• Tuva  The Data Literacy Company
• Desmos graphing calculator
• Data Games, KCP Technologies

Installed software

• Fathom, The Concord Consortium
• TinkerPlots, Key Curriculum Press

Textbooks

• Chance & Rossman, Workshop Statistics
• Starnes & Yates, The Practice of Statistics
• Olsen, Devore, Peck, Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
• Freedman, Statistics

Books of Activities and Problems

These are all by me, so it’s really easy for me to use them.

• Data in Depth
• Fifty Fathoms
• The Model Shop, Volume 1 (formerly EGADs): Functions from Geometry. Amazon. From eeps!.
• The Fathom Guide to The Practice of Statistics
• United We Solve. Math problems for groups.
• Get It Together. More math problems for groups.
• A Den of Inquiry. Data- and math-rich labs for physics.