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The Data and Statistics guide provides an overview on how JCCC students can access statistical data in a wide variety of formats.

FiveThirtyEight
"We use data and evidence to advance public knowledge — adding certainty where we can and uncertainty where we must." An ABC News Internet Venture
Gale Opposing Viewpoints
Access articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. A major strength of this full text source is the pairing of essays representing contrasting views on current social issues.
Google Public Data Explorer
Easily access a wide variety of open data sets from the World Bank, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OECD, IMF and more. Use the visualization tool to experiment with the data sets you find.
Kaggle
Community Published Datasets
Statista
Over 1 million statistics from over 600 areas of study, including: marketing data, consumer data, revenue figures, and trends.
U.S. Census Data
The U.S. Census Bureau is the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
Writing with Statistics
Information from the Purdue Owl about how to use statistics in your writing.

Use the search box above to explore the various books and articles that the library has available for your research on data and statistics.

Suggested Search Terms

Data AND your topic of study

Statistics AND your topic of study

"Original Research" AND your topic of study