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Numbeo is a collection of Web pages containing numerical data, designed to enable anyone to contribute or modify content. Numbeo provides statistical analysis of collected data, calculates various indexes using aggregate data and periodically publishes analysis of collected data. This site lets you compare cost of living between cities around the globe. The site currently holds data for 293 major cities worldwide, and presents you detailed reports reflecting prices in areas such as Market, Transportation, Utility, Rent Per Month, Buy Apartment Price, Salaries, Restaurants and Financing.

Swivel features more than 15,000 data sets for users to play with in various categories ranging from Economics to Health to Technology. From the data, users have created hundreds of thousands of graphs, charts and infographics, including the one below that visualizes the amount of rainfall in California since 1870. You can get started by copying and pasting your data or uploading an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file to the site. Once you've create your visualization, you can embed it anywhere on the web.\n

EOS-WEBSTER provides free, customized Earth Science data. Our data holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or by keyword, freetext, or collection name. We have distributed almost 700,000 data products to our users world-wide since 1999.

Verifiable allows users to upload, mash and visualize data. Verifiable just launched earlier this year and has fewer publicly available data sets, but it does offer greater flexibility on how the data is styled and presented. Graphic designers will appreciate the ability to change and tweak the presentation and add details like custom labels and shading. Verifiable is free to use if you keep your charts public, but also has a inexpensive pricing plan for those who want to keep their work private.\n

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the executive branch of the federal government.

Socrata is an online space for data lovers to browse datasets as well as create new visualizations to share with others. The data itself can be visualized in a number of ways including, charts, maps, graphs and tables. The site has hundreds of datasets to choose from which can be mashed and downloaded into a variety of file formats including CSV, PDF and XML. \n

Widgenie lets users upload data from a variety of sources such as Excel spreadsheets, CSV files or Google Spreadsheets and using a drag and drop interface to create custom charts and graphs. Once the data has been arranged and styled, it is presented as a widget that can be embedded in web sites and social networks. Widgenie also has a premium service that offers unlimited widgets and branding opportunities.

PollSnack is the easiest online tool for polls & surveys, allowing you to create and conduct market questionnaires without having to learn complicated software. Also, the reporting is very simple and straightforward, with results being displayed in real-time. With PollSnack you can: - customize the look of your poll and survey widgets - create polls and surveys in any language you wish - embed polls in your website - store your data securely for an indefinite amount of time - export your data as CSV

Data visualization tool.

There are a lot of cool things about DataMasher: the available datasets, the community built around that data, the unique visualization tools, and the easy-to-use interface of the site. What is truly intriguing about the site is the way users take two different datasets and create visual hypotheses. For example, to visualize the Most Reproductive States (US), one user combined the number of US births witH population figures from the 2008 US Census.

Collection of case studies in science -- great resource for science teachers looking for relevant real-world data.

Collection of case studies in science -- great resource for science teachers looking for relevant real-world data.

Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1890 - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com; click on a ethnic group and it will show where they've settled. You can also use the time slider across the top to see when the immigration occurred.

This is a good explanation about the trail of data on the web, what some call our footprint, that each of us have. It would be good for teaching internet safety.

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe. Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.

This study focused on the flows of the international economy as they affect the prospects for economic growth in this country, with particular attention to the effects on employment and income of advancing technology and the rise of countries that can offer high skills at low wages. The study addressed eight areas, in the following sequence: * Estimated the contributions of education and innovation (such as patents, R&D spending) to U.S. and global economic growth * Analyzed the relationship between education and access to middle-class status since 1967 and projected to 2012 * Projected the supply and demand for education in the United States to 2012 * Analyzed the relationship between educational attainment and occupational competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, work styles, work contexts, values, and interests) based on the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*Net) data * Measured educational adequacy against criteria that included employability and middle-class jobs * Estimated the vulnerability of U.S. jobs to offshoring based on the characteristics of the jobs and the skills of current job holders, as reported in O*Net * Estimated the stock and growth of the global supply of educated workers

Nicely done...but use the link next to Play the flash version to see the exact clip. (The link at the top goes to the Internet Move Data Base --- one of my personal favs for movie info.)

"Practice guides provide practical recommendations for educators to help them address the everyday challenges they face in their classrooms and schools. Developed by a panel of nationally recognized experts, practice guides consist of actionable recommendations, strategies for overcoming potential roadblocks, and an indication of the strength of evidence supporting each recommendation." PDF files such as: Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making...

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