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From the Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department. Datasets from articles and books, and other sets submitted by readers. |
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I'd say that data sets will be more useful if they relate to how a family and small community |
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will use information to change their lives. While knowing some things may be interesting in the abstract, |
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a family where each has one shirt and maybe one meal per day, will be more interested in how this |
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technology will help them change that situation. So, knowlege sets should be structured to enable |
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families to understand usable technology that can enable their available resources. A knowlege of |
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medicinal plants and illness will be more useful than knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry. A |
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knowledge of AIDS transmission as well as malaria, etc, will be more useful than a knowledge of |
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"Live AID", etc. A knowlege of soil biology will be more useful than the history of Con-Agra, etc. |
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Knowledge is not really trivia, but instead understanding how physical and social process work. So, |
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what is probably needed is a guide to useful knowledge appropriate to the particular social situation. |
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That means that guides should show how knowledge is related, and structure knowledge aquisition from the |
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general, common knowledge the community already has, to new, specific applications of that knowledge using |
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the tools the computer can bring or link to. Teaching tools related to environment and human impact and energy efficiency deal with long-term changes that must start small. Appropriate technology such as creative use of fiber, metals, and other materials will be useful. How to make bio-gas generators and paper would be useful. |
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An extremely large number of people deal with these issues everyday, and the computerized information can help them see relationships and provide technical guidance that they can use. |
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You are talking about knowledge and this page is about data sets/tables |
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Revision as of 19:42, 14 September 2007
For other ideas, see Educational content ideas
Interesting Data Sets
I know of Internet resources that present interesting data sets. But I don't undestand copyright laws enough to know if these sets can be incorporated into the OLPC project, so I'll just give examples of what I mean:
- Positions of Stars in the sky
- Contours of continents (GIS data)
- The value of PI to 10000 places
- http://mondragon.angeltowns.net/paradiso/ValorDePi.html
- Table of Prime factors
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_prime_factors
- Common Names of People
- http://wiki.gleducar.org.ar/wiki/Nombres_Propios_de_Personas
- Spanish last names
- http://wiki.gleducar.org.ar/wiki/Lista_de_Apellidos
- Solar System Planet statistics
- http://wiki.gleducar.org.ar/wiki/Datos_sobre_los_Planetas
- Geopolitical Statistics
- http://www.xist.org/default1.aspx
- UNICEF Maps concerning children (spanish)
- http://www.unicef.org/spanish/sowc05/maps.html
- Dinosaurs Data files
- http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/about-teachers.dsml (not open)
- Nutritional Content of Different types of food
- http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964
- Roller Coaster Stats (to study energy conversion)
- Species Evolution Trees
- Species Statistics
- estimated numbers of individuals, geographic location
- The Powers of 10 tutorial
- http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
- Natural Disasters Statistics
- Type, How many people affected, Affected regions, Dates (is "disaster" the right word?)
- Properties of Elements and Natural Substances
- uses
- Most often used words in a language
- Words that rhyme
- Collections of words with ortographic or phonetic properties
- Timelines
- technology advances, evolution, life forms, creation of continents, planetary formation, human evolution, philosophycal movements. Like: the Histomap of World History, Compact timeline of global history
- Heights of Skyscrapers
- http://www.skyscraperpage.com/ (might be insulting to poor countries)
(Or localized alternatives)
- connectives (prepositions, pronouns, and the like)
- web2- Webster's Second International English wordlist
- web2a- Webster's Second Internations appendix english wordlist
- propernames- some common proper names
- airport- list of three letter codes for some major airports
- birthtoken- traditional stone and flower for each month
- inter.phone- international country telephone codes
- cities.dat- geographic coordinates of many major cities
- postal.codes- postal codes for US and Mexican states and
- languages- two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639
- currency- currency abbreviations and names
- countries- country abbreviations and names and capital cities
- jargon.html- The Jargon file (same as the _Hacker's_Dictionary_)
- us-constitution- The Constitution of the United States of America
- us-declaration- The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
Other Data Sets available
Collaborative Projects to Join
- Science and Math Projects from CIESE
- http://www.k12science.org/collabprojs.html
Collaborative and real time data projects for K-12 science and math education. Includes the following projects for Spring and Fall:
- Down the Drain: How Much Water Do You Use?
- The International Boiling Point Project
- Human Genetics: A Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait
- The Global Water Sampling Project
- The Global Sun/Temperature Project
- Square of Life: Studies in Local and Global Environments
- Bucket Buddies
- Take a Dip
- Mission to Eros: Rendezvous with an Asteroid
- Noonday Project: Measuring the Circumference of the Earth
General
- Central Intelligence Agency
- http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
The World Fact Book 2002. Collect and analyze data about different counteries.
- U.S. Census Bureau
- http://www.census.gov/
Excel files throughout the site depending on the topic you are looking for.
- Federal Reserve, Economic Data
- http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred/
- FedStats
- http://www.fedstats.gov/
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
- StatLib
- Datasets Archive:http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/
From the Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department. Datasets from articles and books, and other sets submitted by readers.