This week I had to check out a few websites that contained statistical data on a variety of topics. I prefer this type of research and analysis of information much more than figuring mean/median/mode and standard deviations of sets of numbers! :) I have my students use two sites on a regular basis that collect data/information. They include the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the CIA World Factbook. In fact, my students are currently doing a project on research varioud countries and examining the economic, cultural, and business etiquette factors. The main resource for the economic data is the CIA World Factbook. I like that this source provides the information (like unemployment, inflation, GDP, etc) but then also compares that country's information to the other 265 countries that it gathers information for.
Google Trends & Google Insights are neat tools to examine to check out the search trends for topics. The results can be broken down regions, cities, languages, etc. Here are the results I got from the Google Trends on "Brett Favre" - it is surprising that you can see the huge peaks in searches for him. These were most likely the times when he was announcing his retirement....unretirement....retirement....unretirement....etc. :)
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