Data from Teaching with data.org

http://www.teachingwithdata.org/

TeachingWithData.org is a portal where faculty can find resources and ideas to reduce the challenges of bringing real data into post-secondary classes. Using real data is a great way for students to become more engaged in the content of a course, but significant barriers, largely in terms instructor preparation, exist that can make using data a challenge. TeachingWithData.org allows faculty to introduce and build students' quantitative reasoning abilities with readily available, user-friendly, data-driven teaching materials. Including data early and often throughout the curriculum not only allows students to practice quantitative skills such as reading tables or translating numbers into graphs or charts, but their interest in and understanding of course material can be piqued by the excitement of doing empirical work. Additionally, opportunities to see how social scientists examine issues and draw conclusions should lessen the disconnect many students experience between substantive and methods/statistics courses. with the content of a course, to experience the work of social scientists, and strengthen valuable skills that will useful in everyday life, even if they do not take another social science course.

TeachingWithData.org is a partnership between the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN), both at the University of Michigan. The project is funded by NSF Award 0840642, George Alter (ICPSR), PI and William Frey (SSDAN), co-PI.

Data from Gephi; Social Networking data visualizer

https://gephi.org/

Gephi is a tool for data analysts and scientists keen to explore and understand graphs. Like Photoshop™ but for graph data, the user interacts with the representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and colors to reveal hidden patterns. The goal is to help data analysts to make hypothesis, intuitively discover patterns, isolate structure singularities or faults during data sourcing. It is a complementary tool to traditional statistics, as visual thinking with interactive interfaces is now recognized to facilitate reasoning. This is a software for Exploratory Data Analysis, a paradigm appeared in the Visual Analytics field of research.



From http://sna433.weebly.com/network-analysis.html:

I learned 3 major things from visualizing and analyzing my  social network:1. I have a few important central nodes and connectors. For example, I have 68 common friends with my best friend2. I have a large community of UBC friends and smaller communities within this network. For example, I have friends from Jump Start (leadership program for 1st year intl students), friends I know from Marine Drive, classmates, UBC clubs and other communities within my large UBC cluster.
3. This graph helped me to easily detect outliers and people I don't have close connections with (Perhaps, I know how to easily clean my Facebook friends now?)

From http://forum-gephi.org/viewtopic.php?t=5905 :

this is a graph i made yesterday with the network of facebook pages "friends" of Donald Trump.  As you can see, i would like to show some labels, just the most important

Data from U of Michigan's Monitoring the Future - Data on Teens and behaviors, attitudes, values

http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/

Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Each year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students are surveyed (12th graders since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991). In addition, annual follow-up questionnaires are mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial participation. The Monitoring the Future Study has been funded under a series of investigator-initiated competing research grants from theNational Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health. MTF is conducted at the 
Survey Research Center in theInstitute for Social Research at theUniversity of Michigan.

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