Online Statistics Resources:
- Applets and simulations
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STAT-ATTIC (STATistics Applets for Teaching Topics in Introductory Courses)
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Simulations at Rice - Java applets
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CAUSE - Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education: Datasets, activites, fun (cartoons, jokes), etc.
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SOCR - Statistical Online Computing Resources
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WISE - Web Interface for Statistics Education at Claremont Graduate University
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ARTIST - Assessment Resource Tools for Improving Statistical Thinking
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Emerging Technologies - A variety of online resources
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Websites from Experienced AP Stats Teachers
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STATS - Thinking about the numbers behind the news
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Statlit.org - Statistical Literacy
- Datasets (useful for projects)
- The Open Data Philly project
- ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- Publicly available Health-related datasets
- National Center for Health Statistics
- NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey)
- HHS (Dept of Health and Human Services)
- NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
- Free Data from the National Climatic Data Center
- Sports Data (google around - there are many sites)
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DASL - Data and Storage Library
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FedStats.gov - A link to numerous federal databases
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MathForum has a number of datasets as well
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(Please let me know if you find any other good links that provide raw data)
- My page of Statistical Quotes
- Videos on Statistical Concepts
- Battling Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- The Magic of the Placebo by Eric Mead
- The Best Stats You've Even Seen by Hans Rosling
- How Statistics Can Fool Juries by Peter Donnelly
- Promoting Open Data
- Statistics instead of Calculus as the pinnacle of Mathematics Education by Art Benjamin
- Race and Politics by Nate Silver
- The Truth About HIV by Hans Rosling
- Global Health - 200 Years, 200 Countries, 4 minutes by Hans Rosling
- The Magic Washing Machine by Hans Rosling
- Population Growth Explained with IKEA Products by Hans Rosling
- Using Statistics to find The Optimal TED Talk
- Common Mistakes in Interpreting Statistics by Peter Donnelly
- Chance Video lecture series
- Entertainment Videos about statistics:
- ASA Youtube competition site has many videos
- Statz Rappers (psych stats)
- This is why we plot (scatterplots)
- Christmas Carols - 12 days of statistics and Stats Christmas Carols
- Fun way to learn statistics (Chi-squared goodness-of-fit)
- Disney (two sample proportion)
- Basketball shooting (two sample proportion using TI)
- Street Crossing - Teens vs. Adults (two sample t-test)
- Stats with Ms. Psycho (time plots)
- Statistically Speaking (statistical reporting humor)
- Are JCL Convention goers Nerdier - A Statistics Project (one sample t-test)
- Statistics Survey Project (sampling design, good to discuss in class)
- History of Statistics (2007 Best Stat Video Award Recipient)
- How juries get fooled by statistics
- Predicting Future Statistics (lists many interesting statistics)
- A Statistical Experiment of the Deadliest Chemical Ever (doing a science experiment)
- Paintball Experiment (no results)
- The Minitab Song
- Stephen Colbert's shows with statistical content:
- Wide Margin of Error - Satellite to Hit Earth
- Know Your Funding Source - Men's Wearhouse Ad
- Statistics in Politics - Predicting the 2008 Election with Nate Silver
- Politicians Misquoting Statistics - "Remark was not intended to be a factual statement"
Journals on Statistics Education:
Statistical Software:
- SAS Institute, Inc. (Cary, NC) and other SAS-related websites - UCLA, sconsig, and statsci
- R at The R Project for Statistical Computing - open source and free version of S+
- Fathom - Dynamic Data Software
- Minitab
- SPSS (now PASW from IBM)
- Stata
Professional Organizations:
- American Statistical Association
- Mathematical Association of America
- International Association for Statistics Education (IASE)
- Math Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia
- National Numeracy Network
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from the American Statistical Association
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Special Interest Group (SIGMAA) on Statistics Education from the Mathematical Association of America
Other:
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This
American Life - Nov. 3, 2006 (go to 11/3). This program is a nice
description of data
gathering efforts to estimate the number of people who died in Iraq.
Websites to help you find Statistics jobs: