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"Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information. Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to them. They can make inferences by comparing places to other locations. In addition, students can learn about the world through rich layers of mappable data offered by Google's server and a great deal of third-party content. They can also create and display their own data."

"The Maps & Data section of the U.S. Census Bureau's website is a good place to find that data in a visual format. In the Maps & Data section of the U.S. Census Bureau's website you can explore thematic maps about the population of the United States. " This is from Richard Byrne.

use with google maps. Collect data in a spreadsheet import the url of the data into the map visualization tool and create a visualized timeline.

"Wolfram|Alpha has the ability to compute some interesting information about school districts. You can now use Wolfram|Alpha to analyze and compare data on student-teacher ratios, expenditures, revenues, and salaries in more than 18,000 public school districts in the United States."

Not strictly for social studies; could be useful for analyzing ed data

Explore your world with map themes, data, and tools for customizing your map MapMaker Interactive Explore your world with map themes, data, and tools for customizing your map"

Very interesting site for data analysis

This could be easier to use than google earth. You may want to check this out!

"Smarter Research With All Statistics In Your Hands" Great site with loads of data! Topics include: crime stats, demographics, environment, poverty, transportation and more!

very interesting interactive map which shows varying data

Great visual representation of data.

data visualization sties.

"Assuming you're not working for a media corporation with huge graphics and statistics departments at your disposal, you may want to create some infographics for your own articles. With today's flood of information, infographics allow readers to quickly digest and understand complex data. A good infographic will not only inform readers, but will also create interest and convince people to read your article similar to how good headlines and photos attract readers. In contrast, both boring and overly complex graphics will quickly convince readers to ignore your article."

"Search the web for statistical images: graphs, maps, data tables, scatterplots, figures and statistics."

"We have developed computational methods to measure historical significance through analysis of Wikipedia and other data sources. We rank historical figures just as Google ranks webpages, by integrating a diverse set of measurements about their reputation (including PageRank, article length, and readership) into estimates of their fame, explained by a combination of achievement (gravitas) and celebrity. We correct for the passage of time in a principled way, so we can fairly compare the significance of historical figures of different eras."

Wufoo is a web application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun.

new web 2.0 tool that could be useful in the classroom.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used. "

Interactive spreadsheets with mapping capability

C-SPAN Classroom has developed a lesson to help your students research and learn about their members of Congress. Using the accompanying presentation and handouts, students will identify their members of Congress, determine the committees on which they serve and explain their purpose, distinguish who their contributors are, examine their voting records and bills, evaluate the collected data, and explain how they serve their constituents.

"A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. The data were compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities."

check out election returns from 1787 to 1825. Searchable by year, candidate, office or state

Presentation from the New Jersey State Data Center Network Meeting June 9, 2011.

Lots of information from the census

Free data base of images

excellent presentation on info overload and how to manage overwhelming amounts of data.

Although this is geared towards librarians the presentation has much valuable information for everyone