Discovering Statistics and Data, Third Edition
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Data Visualizations

Gapminder
Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics.

Google Trends
The Google News Lab works with the best designers around the world to tell stories with data — and make the results open source.

Gallery of Data Visualization
The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics.

Data is Beautiful
This YouTube channel takes viewers on a fun trip down memory so they can relive the colorful events they've all experienced.

Data Viz Project
A website trying to present all relevant data visualizations, so you can find the right visualization and get inspired how to make them.

Our World in Data
Our World in Data is an online publication that shows how living conditions are changing.

amCharts
A go-to library for data visualization when you need a simple yet powerful and flexible drop-in data visualization solution.

Tableau Public
Stunning data visualization examples from across the web created with Tableau Public.

United States Census Bureau
A weekly exploration of Census data.

National Center for Health Statistics
Data Visualization Gallery.

Storytelling with Data
Storytelling with Data gallery of featured blog posts.

Visualizing Urban Data Idealab
Visual ways to clarify urban data.

Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
A collection of methods of visual representation presented as a periodic table of the elements

Makeover Monday
Makeover Monday offers inspiration and a giant dose of perspective for those who communicate data

What's Going On in This Graph?
Graphs, maps and charts from The Times and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

United States Census Interactive Gallery
Data Visualization and Infographics bring Census Bureau data to life with interactive tools.

How to make “bar chart race” visualisations without coding
Animated bar charts are taking social media by storm. You can now make one in seconds by uploading a spreadsheet to Flourish.

35 Years Of American Death
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation chronicle mortality rates for leading causes of death in every U.S. county from 1980 to 2014.

Census Academy
The United States Census Bureau's Hub for Learning Data Skills

Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
TSHS' mission is to promote excellence in the teaching of statistics in the health sciences through the dissemination of peer-reviewed/approved teaching materials that are centrally archived in a public domain website.

Data.gov
Data.gov is a federal open government data site containing data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
Statistics in the News

COVID-19 #Coronavirus Data Pack
About a dozen graphs that give a clear picture as to various aspects of the Coronavirus.

Coronavirus in the United States: Mapping the COVID-19 outbreak
Up to date data on the confirmed number of cases and deaths from the Coronavirus in the US presented graphically at the state and county levels.

Notable maps visualizing COVID-19 and surrounding impacts
A collection of resources to explore a wide variety of Coronavirus data visualizations.

Sorry, wrong number: Statistical benchmark comes under fire
Dr. Scott Solomon's promising results had run afoul of a statistical concept you may never have heard of: statistical significance.

What is the Pizza Capital of the US?
Ranked cities and counties based on their most popular cuisine.

What Music Do Americans Love the Most? 50 Detailed Fan Maps
A complete set of fan maps of music fandom and culture in the United States, listed in order of YouTube views.

Every McDonald's in the US
Google Image search featuring maps displaying every McDonald's restaurant in the United States.

Where Irish Eyes are Smiling
Irish ancestry as a percentage of each state's population.

Why are countries creating public random number generators?
A Science Magazine article investigating countries that are set to unveil public random number generators, or beacons.

Visualizing the Hidden ‘Logic’ of Cities
Some cities' roads follow regimented grids. Others twist and turn. See it all on one chart.

Here's How America Uses Its Land
The 48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures that Americans use to feed themselves, power their economy and extract value for business and pleasure.

Top Cornell food researcher and p-hacking
Well known researcher Brian Wansink accused of p-value hacking and has had 13 studies retracted.

Scientists rise up against statistical significance
From Nature, March 2019. Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.

99% Invisible Episode 226: On Average
In many ways, the built world was not designed for you. It was designed for the average person.

Measuring Humidity in Condensing Environments
In Chapter 1 we discuss sensor data. This article highlights points out an example of a practical challenge in obtaining accurate readings via sensors.

United States Census Stats for Stories
Profile America's Stats for Stories provides links to timely story ideas highlighting the Census Bureau's newsworthy statistics that relate to current events, observances, holidays, and anniversaries.
Useful Videos
Code Resources

Dash Gallery
Dash is ideal for building data visualization apps with highly custom user interfaces in pure Python.

Data-Driven Documents
A JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.

R Graph Gallery
Hundreds of distinctive graphics made with the R programming language, always with the reproducible code snippet.

RStudio
Shiny User Showcase, designed for fully interactive visualization using JavaScript libraries like d3, Leaflet, and Google Charts.

seaborn Example Gallery
A Python visualization library based on matplotlib. It provides a high-level interface for drawing attractive statistical graphics.

ZoomCharts
ZoomCharts is the world's most interactive cross-platform HTML5 charts library for creating interactive visual data discovery interfaces.

USU Statlets
Java Applets for Statistical Analysis and Graphics
Stats and Stories

Stats + Stories Podcast
A podcast about the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics

Stats + Stories Episode 43:
Why Don't People Like My Graphs?
Statistics Comics

P-Hacking comic
An XKCD comic that pokes fun at a common misunderstanding of a p-value.
From the Book
Formulas and Statistical Tables – The fold-out summary sheet from the Discovering Statistics and Data textbook.
Statistical Tables – Statistical tables used in the Discovering Statistics and Data textbook and software.