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Management 300 & 404: Naar

Datasets

ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research)
This database "provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use." ICPSR also hosts several special topic archives, sponsored by agencies external to ICPSR, which focus on the archiving of data in specific subject areas.
Data.gov
A U.S. government website that aims to improve public access to high value, datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The site is a repository for federal, state, local, and tribal government data, made available to the public.

Datahub.io
Datahub covers a variety of topics from climate change to entertainment. Its main focus is areas like stock market data, property prices, inflation, and logistics. Most datasets are free to use. There is no registration requirement for access.
Pew Research Center Datasets
Pew Research Center's datasets cover topics like politics, social media, journalism, the economy, online privacy, religion, and demographic trends. The data is free to use; however, you must register on the site.
Amazon Web Services Open Data Registry
50+ public data sets ranging from IRS filings to NASA satellite imagery to DNA sequencing to web crawling. Includes usage examples, so you can see how others are using the data.
Google Trends
Explore statistics on search volume for almost any search term since 2004.
Census data
Information is Beautiful
Data from the visualizations on Information is Beautiful- made available in a Google Spreadsheet.
Tableau Data Gallery
Pre-existing data visualizations from Tableau.

Free Data Visualization Tools

Other Resources

Mappnig & Visualization tools from Hunter Library
This research guide houses information specific to geographic mapping and data visualization.
NCSU Data Visualization Guides and Tools