Find some great resources here!
Competitions anyone? How about some money for doing stats?
The Siemens Competition also gives away thousands of dollars per year.
There is no one place to find good data for statistics projects, but here are some of my favorite places to look (in no particular order).
If you need random numbers, here is the Rand Corporations text, A Million Random Digits!
The Pew Internet Center has amazing research, but even better, they are posting their ORIGINAL DATA SETS! in .csv format! This could be amazing for use in AP Stats.
If you would like some data on cell phone and texting behaviors, the most recent Pew study is available.
If you just want the report: 2010's report in PDF format.
Or some research on Texting and driving. Article 1 and Article 2. Article 2 is about how dangerous Texting and driving is, and it shows the research, while Article 1 is a news story. The Texting and Driving issue gets more info: Article 3.
If you just want data and research on Vehicles & Safety, try Monash University's Vehicle Research Center.
How to beat scratch off tickets? Yup, a statistician figured out how!
An article on how statistics don't lie, people do when they don't pay attention.
How about an article from the NYTimes on the DATA Driven Life? It is worth the read.
And if you really want something to worry about, watch this video on the 1918 Flu epidemic.
Stats.org from George Mason University is a terrific site that reviews articles from many other sites.
Want a job? How about as a sports statistician? many jobs available!
Or you just want more baseball statistics than you ever wanted?
All the data in the world will not help you if you do not visualize the data well, however. Below are some sites for good and bad (and some really bad) data visualizations.
How to make good graphs, but get bad information (from JunkCharts)
And of course, there are some statistics organizations that can help as well.
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Data and Articles