The following resources were shared by panelists and participants during the panel discussion for Big Data: What's in it for High School Students? event held on Dececmber 5th, 2013.
Google Flu Trends project - For use as an example of exciting data: look at search terms to predict flu trends. Topic familiar to students and interesting to those interested in health fields.
Statista - site for data sets
Data.gov - site contains data sers and social graph data
USDA - offers an interesting dataset on food access
NodeXL - free tool for data cleaning
Tableau Public - free, easy to use tool for data visualization. Data set becomes part of the public record.
TinkerPlots - used in education and education ressearch, for data visualizaions
Open Refine
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) - Need to know python to use it
Wordnet
Stanford Parser - students can play with the web demo
Submitted by mperryActivity Level:
1,882
Submitted on: 27 Dec 2013 - 11:53Tags: dataGroup: Teaching Data
