First: Catch your data! Here are some places to fish for data
- Federal data http://www.data.gov/open-gov/
- NY State data https://data.ny.gov/
- Long Island http://www.longislandindex.org/
- The Census http://www.census.gov/
- Drill down http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
- Drill down http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
- Drill down http://censtats.census.gov/
- Immigration Stats http://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics
- FBI crime reports http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr
- Geek heaven https://usa.ipums.org/usa/
- College Navigator http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
- More education data http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/landing.jhtml
- Campaign finances http://www.opensecrets.org/
- Dollars for Doctors http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
- Labor statistics http://www.bls.gov/
- EPA data http://www.epa.gov/enviro/
- Public data from Google http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
- Worldwide data http://enigma.io/
Extract your data from horrible PDFs and/or scraping
- Scraper Wiki Scraper Wiki
- Comet Docs CometDocs
- Importio Import.io
- Tabula http://tabula.technology/
Tidy your data
Google/Open Refine Download here http://openrefine.org/download.html
- Open Refine Text tutorial
- http://schoolofdata.org/handbook/recipes/cleaning-spending-data-open-refine/
- Open Refine Video tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B70J_H_zAWM
Use the Power Tools add-on in Google to make cleaning columns a breeze.
Visualize your data (work in progress)
Infographics
- Canva https://www.canva.com/templates/infographics
- Easelly http://www.easel.ly/
- Infogram https://infogr.am/
- Venngage https://venngage.com/
- Visually http://visual.ly/
- Visualize Me http://vizualize.me/
Maps
- Google Maps Google Maps
- Batch Geo Batch Geo
- Geocoding data http://geocod.io/
Charts
- Google Charts https://developers.google.com/chart/
- Piktochart http://piktochart.com/
Random links
http://schoolofdata.org/online-resources/
https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/184641?hl=en&ref_topic=1652595
