Data Literacy

The project website includes a blog, the forthcoming book, and the archived web conference.

Source for data visualizations.

Author Kaiser Fung highlights good and bad visualizations.

Posts often include data, statistics, and visualizations.

For help with design models of data literacy.

Source for analysis of data, statistics, polls, and visualizations.

Source for visualizations, how to create visualizations, and analysis of why visualizations work well or not.

Flowing Data put together this guide, updated in 2016, about finding data by topic.

The British data journalist and information designer David McCandless offers elaborate visualizations and tips on data visualization.

Teaching resources for quantitative literacy.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan think tank. It publishes the results of research and polls to inform the public.

A project that demonstrates how correlation does not mean causation.

In addition to census data, the homepage has a "Stat of the Day," which can be useful for prompting class discussion or starting a lesson by analyzing it.

The goal of this University of Illinois project is to understand bees by collecting data about them from citizen scientists.

This government website offers a list of citizen science projects, resources, and community.

Since 2002, this project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society has been gathering data about birds via citizens.

This long-term project for citizens to count birds in December and January contributes to the study and understanding of North American bird populations.

A platform for citizen science projects. It was made popular by the Galaxy Zoo project to crowdsource the classification of galaxies in images.

One of many citizen science projects that is part of Zooniverse.