Quantitative Reasoning Across the Curriculum: Web Resources

http://www.online.csuhayward.edu/Ms/ICPSR-Panel.doc

Excel Tutorial (also Word, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage) http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/excel/

An excellent introduction to the concept of spreadsheets and the basics of setting them up in Excel, plus ways of customizing Excel pages.

Between the Sheets – a Gentle Introduction for the Novice

http://www.bized.ac.uk/stafsup/options/sheets/sheet_guide.htm

Downloadable spreadsheets and supporting materials for Economics http://www.bized.ac.uk/stafsup/options/sheets/econ_index.htm

A Primer in Statistics

http://www.margaret.net/statistics/syllabus.htm

Easy to read and understand very basic descriptive statistics. Web exercises with immediate response (if incorrect, shows method and correct answer). Uses text, visuals, and formulas.

Statistics Every Writer Should Know

http://nilesonline.com/stats/

Nice refresher or friendly intro to mean, median, etc. plus sample size

Probabilities Marble Game

http://udel.edu/~bkinney/marbles/

Start this running at the beginning of your class or workshop session.

Against All Odds

http://www.learner.org/progdesc/series65.html

Start with “Describing Relationships”

Learning Objects for Statistical Decision Making (applet library)

http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~harsham/Business-stat/otherapplets/Javastat.htm

See Descriptive Statistics, Histogram

Create a Graph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/

Create a variety of graphs or charts using your own data

The Aid Game – for Demography classes

http://www.cbc.yale.edu/courseware/ms/aidgame.html

Set parameters for various types of aid, run or step through scenarios.

Also see the Human Demographics Simulation http://www.cbc.yale.edu/courseware/demographics.html

Regional Economic Conditions

http://www2.fdic.gov/recon/

Choose a state, then county or MSA

Amber Waves

http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/

Online version, regularly updated, of a magazine published 5 times a year by the US Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. Colorful graphs and charts for practice in interpretation. Good source for instructor created practice exercises.

Small Business Administration – Links to Online Courses and Tutorials

http://www.sba.gov/training/courses.html

Social Security Administration – Popular Baby Names

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://stats.bls.gov/

Use fun data such as “On the Job Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities,” “Mass Layoffs,” and “Foreign Labor Costs.” Try the “Inflation Calculator.” Go to “Regional Resources” and choose your state.

Covered Employment & Wages

http://stats.bls.gov/cew/home.htm

A quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, MSA, state and national levels by industry.

Census 2002

http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

ZIP codes: 98039 [BG]

Public Use Presentation Library

http://www.census.gov/mso/www/pres_lib/index2.html

PPT slides you can view or download

Teacher Materials Grades 9-12

http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/schtm03.html

Census – Facts for Features

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/factsheets.html

The latest Fun Factsheet is on “Dialing for Dollars” – telemarketing factoids.

American Fact Finder (Census.gov)

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet

Go to the left menu, Site Tour

IDB Population Pyramids

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html

Choose “Dynamic” and “Large” plus a country

Population Reference Bureau/AmeriStat

http://www.ameristat.org/

Very simple tables and graphs, but with links to original source.

Population Reference Bureau – Educator’s Page

http://www.prb.org/template.cfm?Section=Educators

Census Scope (U Mich, SSDAN)

http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_65plus.html

Very visual – click on a State, see Pop’n pyramids; “Most Common Race”

American Religious Identification Study

http://www.gc.cuny.edu/studies/coverage.htm

NARA Exhibit Hall

http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/index.html

Public Policy Institute of California

http://www.ppic.org/main/series.asp?i=14

Nice graphics for beginning chart reading and analysis

Ed Nelson’s Research Methods (SOC 175)

http://blackboard.csufresno.edu/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_21592_1&frame

VERY useful – start with Assignments, Research Paper

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834: Statistical Search

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org.uk/search/stats/

Read the transcripts of over 45,000 trials; calculate pie charts, bar charts, and tables using crimes/ offenses, verdicts, punishments, defendant or victim genders. Also see Tasks for Students.

Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a Graphical User Interface

http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/stark/SticiGui/index.htm

Librarian’s Index to the Internet

http://lii.org/

America Transformed – 9/11/01 NPR Coverage

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/

Audio, text.

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web

http://web4.si.edu/sil/onlineexhibitions/oe_search2.cfm

American Religion Data Archive

http://www.thearda.com/test_main.asp?Show=Home

GSS 2000 http://www.thearda.com/file_main.asp?FILE=GSS2000&Show=Description Microcase download, also SPSS *.por file; Codebook – click on variable name for Frequencies OR use “Search/Analyze”

Indicators of School Crime and Safety

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/schoolcrime/

PEW Internet & American Life Project

http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/index.asp

Population Reference Bureau

http://www.prb.org/

Go to PRB Library, then click on 2003 World Population Data Sheet (pdf format)

http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/Content/ContentGroups/Datasheets/2003_World_Population_Data_Sheet.htm

Go to Educators, then The Demography of Sports Franchises

http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=LessonPlans&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=4676

World Economics Using the Price of a Big Mac

http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml

What is a Dollar Worth?

http://minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/index.cfm

Rand Review – Back Issues

http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/backissues.html

Free Online Full Text Articles

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

Historical Voices

http://www.historicalvoices.org/

History Wired

http://historywired.si.edu/index.html

Resources on Nonconsensual Human Experimentation

http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment.html

Episim – Simulation of an Epidemic

http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/episim/

Help control SARS outbreaks; cohort, case control, and ecological studies.

WHO Data About SARS

http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/

Sim Forest

http://ddc.hampshire.edu/simforest/software/software.html

Students can plant trees from a pool of over 30 New England species, set environmental parameters such as rain fall, temperature, and soil conditions, and watch the forest plot grow and evolve over many years. Graphing and analysis tools are provided within the programs for collection of hard copy data.