Data Sources

• Stock data: Go to http://finance.yahoo.com/ and search for a symbol that you care about (e.g., "DIS" for Disney Corp.) Then, click on Historical Prices. Do a search for the date range that you wish to study, then click on the "Download to Spreadsheet" link.

• Everything you ever wanted to know about worldwide wine production. These are HTML tables that you'll probably have to put into Excel, then save out as CSV files to process. http://www.wineinstitute.org/communications/statistics/worldstats.htm

• Lots of sources: Here's a catalog of various on-line "raw data" sources – on crime, seismology, gene data, air pollution levels. http://www.landmark-project.com/page.php?stamp=&pn=4&psn=&cat=22

• Baby names: For the US, you can grab the data from the Social Security Administration in a variety of ways. http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

• World Economic Data: http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php

• The CIA World Factbook: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

• Historical weather data (as measured by ocean buoys): http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/hmd.shtml

• Oxford city data: http://www.oxford.gov.uk/council/oxford-statistics.cfm
  • Southeast England public health data: http://www.sepho.org.uk/
  • Oxford city air pollution data: http://www.oxford-airwatch.aeat.co.uk/

• US FDA food nutrient database: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

• Project Gutenberg – over 1000 free complete textbooks. http://www.gutenberg.org/

Some Data Sets I Pulled Out

• pops-2000.csv
• us-uk-1990-2000.csv
• BritishPetroleum-BP-table.csv
• Exxon-Mobile-XOM-table.csv
• advancement-learning-bacon.txt
• essays-bacon.txt
• macbeth-shakespeare.txt
• romeo-juliet-shakespeare.txt
• USLaborCostsChange.csv
• Dow Jones averages monthly for the 1989 to 2001: DowJones-1989-2001.csv
• CollegeGPA.csv
• USunemploymentRate.csv