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• NCCP 50-State Demographics Wizard ( More about this ) - Creator of custom tables about low-income children. Creator: NCCP/Research Connections/ICPSR Submitted on: 02/18/2010 Subject: children, education, educational attainment, policy, demography Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• GapMinder ( More about this ) - Graphical mapping of a wide variety of statistics. Creator: Gapminder Foundation Submitted on: 09/22/2009 Subject: economics, government, demography, population Education Level: High School Type: Instructor Guide/Manual, Interactive Simulation, Lesson/Lesson Plan Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Many Eyes ( More about this ) - A collection of visualizations and data sets covering a multiplicity of different social science topics. Creator: IBM Submitted on: 09/22/2009 Subject: comparative, population Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Illustration, Map, Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Gapminder for Teachers ( More about this ) - Gapminder uses animated graphs to demonstrate trends in human and economic development and the relation. This is the main page for teachers who want to use Gapminder in their teaching and has links to the main Gapminder interface as well as ways to use Gapminder offline. Creator: Gapminder Submitted on: 06/28/2010 Subject: economics, public health, trend Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Fiscal Balance Projections ( More about this ) - Time plot showing budget deficits in industrialized countries -- the Euro-zone average, Japan, the United States and the OECD average. Demonstrates that all rich countries have structural budget imbalances but that deficits have doubled during the economic crisis. Can be used to discus the differences between structural and Keynesian budget deficits. Creator: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Submitted on: 05/12/2010 Subject: economics, debt, credit, budget Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• US Education, Income and Minority Firm Ownership ( More about this ) - Scatterplot showing a nearly perfect linear relationship between percentage of each state with a bachelor's degree and state per capita income in 2003. The size of the dots is determined by the percentage of businesses owned by minorities, but that can be ignored. Can be used to demonstrate the importance of education to economic development. Through dropdown menus the user can compare many other facts about states in scatter plots. The data are available here: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/state-quickfacts-2/versions/1 Creator: ManyEyes Submitted on: 05/11/2010 Subject: economics, education, higher education, educational attainment, minorities Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• US City pop sum rank % log discrete decending ( More about this ) - Graph plotting the cumulative percentage of Americans living in metropolitan areas in the 121 largest metropolitan areas. The graph shows a logrithmic increase representing the fact that each successive metro area, by definition, adds less population than the previous one. The graph is useful for showing what percentage of Americans live in large cities -- for instance it demonstrates that 50% of Americans live in one of the 33 largest cities. The raw data are available here: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/us-rank-pop-metro-area-w-pop-and/versions/1 Creator: ManyEyes Submitted on: 05/11/2010 Subject: cities, metropolitan areas, urban areas Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Scatterplot: Obesity/Income ( More about this ) - Scatterplot between median income of a state and obesity rate shows a moderately strong negative correlation which suggests that in the developed world obesity is a disease of poverty. Can be used to talk about the american agricultural system, poverty, food security, and/or correlation as a statistical concept. The data are available here: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/median-income-and-obesity-by-state-s/versions/1 Creator: ManyEyes Submitted on: 05/11/2010 Subject: income, poverty, public health, obesity Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• 1990-2007 Federal Outlays By Select Functions ( More about this ) - Stacked time plot showing the increase in nominal government spending by category since 1997. Shows that the composition of federal spending has changed only slightly -- over the entire time, spending on social security, medicare debt service and defense predominated but that entitlement programs are increasingly costly. The data are available here: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/federal-outlay-in-billions-of-dollar/versions/1 Creator: ManyEyes Submitted on: 05/11/2010 Subject: government, budget, congress/senate Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Imports and exports bar form ( More about this ) - Bar graph showing US imports, US exports and US trade balance from 1960 to the present day. Can also be used to show only trade in goods or only trade in services. The graph can be used to demonstrate the exponential rise in international trade and the increasing US trade defecit. The data are available here: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/dollars-in-millions-2/versions/1 Creator: ManyEyes Submitted on: 05/11/2010 Subject: trade, commerce, business, economics, corporations Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance