homework

Graphing Data from the Web

Find data on the web about a topic that interests you. Take that data and portray it in a visual way that best illustrates the point being made.

Your task:

1) To find data that can be used to “tell a story” that is nuanced and allows for analysis of a situation.

2) Provide a visual that is engaging and uses multiple data sets to compare and/or contrast information.

Suggested sites with data include the following:

census.gov

pew research(http://www.pewresearch.org/)

ClickZ
https://www.clickz.com
FEDSTATS (links to 70 U.S. government agencies)
https://fedstats.sites.usa.gov/

United Nations Environment Program
http://na.unep.net/siouxfalls/datasets/datalist.php
Pew Research

www.pewresearch.org