Use the following sources to begin your data search:
1. Penn Data Resource Guides - Portals to a wide variety of digital and print resources at Penn as well as search and discovery strategies for data. For data in Penn Libraries' collections, see this guide.
2. OpenDataPhilly: catalog of open data in the Philadelphia region. In addition to being the official open data repository for the City, it includes data sets from many organizations in the region. catalog of open data in the Philadelphia region.
3. Data links in this guide: While this list is not comprehensive, we've tried to include some commonly used, free, Internet sources for data. Some data is in .shp file format and some is tabular. Hover on the "Finding data" header on the left to see additional categories.43. OpenStreetMap: This crowd-sourced map is a good place to look for data that you can't find elsewhere. It often contains basic infrastructure data for places such as transportation, building outlines and location, natural features, and points of interest. To download the data as shapefile, consider using MetroExtracts.
4. ProQuest statistical insight - Statistical Insight Collection spans millions of full-text reports and more than 1 million published tables on thousands of different topics. It provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983.
5. Social Explorer - A suite of online tools and data that allow users to visually explore hundreds of thousands of data indicators across demography, economy, health, religion, crime and more. Users can visualize and interact with data, create reports and downloads for offline processing. Data are curated, organized and processed for ease of use.
SPSS is a statistical package produced by IBM, is known for its easy-to-use point-and-click interface.
Stata is a powerful statistical software that enables users to analyze, manage, and produce graphical visualizations of data. It is primarily used by researchers in the fields of economics, biomedicine, and political science to examine data patterns.
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