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"88.2% of statistics are made up on the spot." - Vic Reeves The inevitable hot links, all of which have some mathematical interest. All links last verified on 11 February 2007 by LinkScan. Statistics and data Most of these sites are based in education, some are commercial. A number of sites offer complete online statistics courses. There are good sources of real data increasingly becoming available, though often it is not in an immediately useable form. The first section is based on an article in MicroMath magazine and catalogues sources of "Top 10" type data. If you know of any good similar sites on the Net, please submit it.   The biggest, fastest, wealthiest, healthiest… Fantasy league Schools version Billboard "Hot 100 singles" in USA This week’s position, last week’s, weeks in chart, peak position The Official UK charts from CIN This week’s position, last week’s, weeks in chart World's richest people Name, country, net worth, main source of wealth Track and field Comprehensive data on track and field events for men and women Movies that have grossed 100 million dollars Total box office takings, and more Council of Mortgage Lenders How the cost of housing is increasing each year Home Office statistics These are "pdf" files which you need Acrobat Reader to interpret World Health Organisation A huge searchable database of information on health issues from life expectancy to mortality rate. Office for National Statistics Searchable data on economics and crime The UK National Lottery Frequencies of all the balls   Other sites ASA The American Statistical Association, includes education pages and datasets Buffon's needle Needs Java Simulation of Monte Carlo method CAST Needs Java Computer Assisted Statistics Teaching, a complete online course, free for 2000 Central Limit Theorem Needs Java Java simulation of stats concept Chance and data in the news Australian news articles and related statistics Chance database This data base contains materials designed help teach a Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course. CIMT datasets Various sets of data, including athletics and Olympics. Confidence intervals Needs Java a simulation of the statistics concept CTI Statistics on the Net DASL The Data and Story Library, DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. Discus Discovering important statistical concepts using spreadsheets Fathom Statistics project resource for high school and college instructors who teach statistics, probability, and data analysis Gallup opinion Polls HyperStat Online an online statistics text book Inferential statistics Concepts and applications - a full length stats text book Interactive Stats Detailed links to sites using Java to illustrate statistics The Journal of Statistics Education K-12 Statistics a list of resources including lessons and data sets, organized to follow the NCTM Standards Normal approximations Needs Java Normal approximation to the Binomial distribution Rice Virtual lab in Statistics Extensive online statistics course, including an online statistics book with links to other statistics resources on the web; simulations/demonstrations using Java applets that demonstrate various statistical concepts; case studies of examples of real data with analyses and interpretation; analysis lab containing some basic statistical analysis tools Royal Statistical Society Seeing Statistics An on-line course, linked to a textbook. Simulations Extensive set of simulations of statistical concepts Statistics on the Web a huge list of statistics links stats4schools The Office for National Statistics is launching a new website to support the delivery of data handling within all areas of the National Curriculum. "The aim was to develop a free resource that uses real data and provides opportunities to integrate ICT into pupil's work. Working with real data highlights the true nature of statistics, and allows pupils to draw useful and meaningful conclusions. The Office for National Statistics has a wealth of data that can be used to provide an interesting context for pupils to investigate their own hypotheses. For example, 'Do boys or girls read more?' or 'Is it true that the older you get the longer it takes you to travel to school?'" The site includes lesson plans and resources on a number of different themes, which cover a number of curriculum areas. There are large datasets on topics like smoking. These were produced to enable pupils to manipulate large amounts of data, in practice for GCSE Handling Data coursework. There is a 'links' section in which teachers can directly link to other useful sites and resources, relevant to teaching, census and statistics. StatLib a datasets archive STEPS The Statistical Education through Problem Solving Project surfStat.australia online Statistics textbook UNICEF data Up My Street Compare UK areas for exam results, council tax, house prices, crime rates and more The U.S. Census Bureau VassarStats Website for statistical computation WorldClimate Annual rainfall figures WWW Virtual Library of Statistics Your-Nation Compare statistics of nations.

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