Research Guides: PREDICT_420-DL: Database Systems and Data Preparation: Getting Started

Software Available @ NU

Resources for Data Analysis
This guide provides info about where to access various software applications (R, Stata, SPSS, SAS, MatLab, NVivo, Atlas.ti, and ArcGIS). Also provides tutorials and books to learn more about these applications.

Getting Assistance

Please use this email address to ask for assistance locating data or with statistical analysis software. We have a small team with complimentary expertise monitoring this address to serve you better.

datalibrarian@northwestern.edu

We look forward to hearing from you!

Data Resources

Social Science Data Resources
Business Guides
This page provides links to several guides to business resources, organized by topic and industry.

ProQuest Statistical Insight
ProQuest Statistical Insight provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. PQSI brings together a massive collection of statistical data in a single easy-to-use search interface, with additional features such as descriptive abstracts, detailed indexing, full-text PDFs of source documents, tables, and downloadable spreadsheets containing table data.

R3Data.org
Registry of Research Data Repositories - a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines.

Bureau of Economic Analysis
The Bureau of Economic Analysis provides data on the economy from a national, regional and international perspective. It also produces the Survey of current business which has articles and statistics about the state of business in the United States.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. Be sure to check out their Publications section for recent reports and lots of topical articles.
Census Bureau
The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. In addition to the decennial census of the U.S. population, the Census Bureau also conducts major surveys such as the American Community Survey, American Housing Survey, Survey of Income and Program Participation, Current Population Survey, Economic Census, and Census of Governments. To access a wealth of Census data, check out the American FactFinder site.
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
Economic information portal from the St. Louis Fed's Research Department. Provides economic information from the Federal Reserve System, government agencies, and other data providers.
HUD Datasets
Provides links to several resources comprising the "State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)".
U. S. Census - IPUMS
Public use samples of individual-level data from the U. S. census.
api.data.gov
Documentation for web services available from federal agencies.
Federal Agency APIs for Developers: Data.gov
Federal Agency APIs for Developers: USA.gov
Federal Agency APIs: GSA
GSA = General Services Administration

International Resources by Theme
UNEP Environmental Data Explorer
The authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners . . . Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.

Geographic Data for Use With (or Without) GIS
Organized by geographic area, much of the data linked to this guide can be used in conjunction with or independently from a geographic information system (GIS).
National Historical GIS
Hosted at the University of Minnesota, provides both online mapping and access to tabular data 1790 to present and geographic boundary files. See the chart on this page for the files available for various time periods

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Anne Zald

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Anne Zald
Subjects: Government Information; Social Science Data; Regulatory Compliance
Main Library Room 1214
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anne.zald@northwestern.edu

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Subjects: Chicago Area, Data and Data Management, Government Information, International Studies, Regulatory Compliance