UNdata
Do keyword searches to find statistics from the United Nations on many topics including "Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism,
Trade, as well as the
Millennium Development Goals Database.
DataHub
8000+ free datasets from the Open Knowledge Foundation. Varied topics. Includes many large datasets from national governments and numerous datasets related to economic development.
Quandl
Offers a free platform with hundreds of free data sets from "central banks, exchanges, brokerages, governments, statistical agencies, think-tanks, academics, research firms and more. "
You must create a free account on the site to download data. Use Sign Up to create account. EMU does not have access to the premium data on this site, but there are many free data sets.
EconData.net - Guide to Regional Economic Data on the Web
"EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and substate socioeconomic data." Categorizes 750+ links to data sources by subject and provider. Subject areas include demographics, employment, occupation, income, output & trade, prices, economic assets, quality of life, industry sectors, and firm listings. Also offers a "free 100-page guide to finding and using economic data to understand your regional economy."
"A portal for statistical science, the discipline of statistics" offers a long list of links to data sets for teaching, as well as other resources on statistics.
re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories
re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines.
"DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. We hope to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that will be interesting to their students." Datasets can be browsed by topic or searched by keyword.
A list of datasets, or sources of datasets, that can be used for BI/Analytics/Visualization projects and explorations (not limited or specific to any tools). These come in different formats, and some may need to be cleaned up. Please do read the restrictions and EULAs that come with each of the links/sources.
