LibGuides: Information Visualization: Data Sources

Library Databases with Raw Data Sets

Passport (Euromonitor) This link opens in a new window
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Provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers.
MRI-Simmons Insights This link opens in a new window
A profiling system to gain insights and to understand consumer’s media and product usage.
Access is limited to ten (10) concurrent users.
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Demographics Now This link opens in a new window
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Provides demographic data for any location in the United States, from the national level down to a specific neighborhood
Vivvix This link opens in a new window
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Monitors advertising expenditures and occurrence information for 3+ million brands across 18 media.
Access is limited to ten (10) users at a time.
Mintel Reports This link opens in a new window
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Original market research on product categories, consumer groups, and general trends. Mostly US and Europe-focused.
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Data.gov
Umbrella site for all data collected by federal government departments and agencies, including the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the International Trade Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Data USA
"A project coming out of the M.I.T. Media Lab [ . . . ] seeks to ease that challenge and to make the value of government data available to a wider audience. The project, called Data USA, bills itself as “the most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data.” It is free, and its software code is open source, meaning that developers can build custom applications by adding other data."
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Lohr, Steve. “Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through.” The New York Times 4 Apr. 2016. NYTimes.com. Web. 13 Apr. 2016.
Eurostat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and region
KDNuggets - Free Public Datasets
NYC Open Data
NYC Open Data makes public data generated by various New York City agencies and other City organizations available for public use.
United Nations Statistics Division
Provide access to all the statistic collected by the United Nations
World Bank Group
World Bank Open Data: free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.

Gallup
Data from Gallup polls and primary research
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
PollingReport.com
An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion
The Association of Religion Data Archives
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion
World Values Survey
The World Values Survey is organised as a network of social scientists coordinated by a central body, the World Values Survey Association.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
A primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories

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