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The Starting Point: General Databases
Use these databases as a starting point for your research. Their holdings are broad, which means many topics can be found in these databases.
EBSCOHost ebooks
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An eBook can provide a well-rounded foundation on which to build your search strategy, including terms that may help you search for articles. Check here before searching for articles.
CQ Researcher
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Provides in-depth, unbiased reports on today's current and controversial issues. Each lengthy report covers a single topic and includes summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more.
Library Search
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Search nearly all the databases, journals, ebooks and resources that the library provides. Millions of scholarly articles, trade publications, popular magazine, books, book chapters, video clips, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations are represented in Library Search.
Laws and Legislation
Congress.gov
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Congress.gov offers access to a wide range of legislative information on the U.S. Congress, including the full text of the Congressional Record and bills for the 93rd to the present Congress, House and Senate roll call votes, legislative action on Presidential nominations and treaties, committee reports, and days-in-session and House floor calendars. Classroom activities, lesson plans, and links to primary resources designed for use by teachers are also offered.
HeinOnline
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HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
PA Supreme Court Cases from 1754
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Search state Supreme Court decisions from Pennsylvania.
US Code : Popular Names of Acts
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Laws are often referred to by popular names--but sometimes they are not easy to locate using these name. This site will help you translate the popular name into the formal citation information.
Statistics & Data
PolicyMap
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PolicyMap is an online data and mapping application that gives you access to over 15,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs and more. Data is available at all common geographies (address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) as well as unique geographies like school districts and political boundaries. Data comes from both public and proprietary sources.
Policy Map Quick Start Video
The quick start video will walk users through the basic tools of this database, how to make a map, as well as customizing data layers and points.
PolicyMap Tutorials & Documentation
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Help docs that include links to articles to advanced processes in Policy Map, such as custom regions, multi-layer maps, & reports.
American Community Survey
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The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing statistical survey that samples a small percentage of the population every year -- giving communities the information they need to plan investments and services.
Center for Workforce Information & Analysis
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The "Home of PA Work Stats" for Pennsylvania's job seekers, employers, education and training providers, counselors, news media, and workforce professionals.
Data and Statistics about the USA ( from usa.gov )
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Provides access to the the full breadth of Federal statistical information without having to know which Federal agency to search. Covers: economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, energy, farm production, and more.
PA State Data Center
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Pennsylvania's official source of population and economic statistics.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
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The indispensable reference for "statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included." Current and previous editions are available.
US Census Data
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Official U.S. Census Bureau data covering the state, county, or city levels for population, housing, economic and geographic data.
Polling / Survey Resources
ICPSR : Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
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The vast majority of ICPSR data holdings are public-use files with no restrictions on their access. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Harris Poll
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The Odum Institute
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The Odum Institute has a large archive of public opinion data, including more than 1,000 Harris Polls from as early as 1958, the National Network of State Polls collection (775 studies from more than 25 states), the Carolina Poll (1977–2005), Monmouth University Polling Institute polls (2011+), the Southern Focus Poll (1992–2001), and some USA Today polls (1984–1993).
Pew Research Center
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Pew Research Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
PollingReport.com
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<> PollingReport tracks U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, hot U.S. House contests, the presidential race, ballot initiatives and referenda, and major issues.
<> New surveys are added as they are released. Data are from primary sources only -- not from wire stories, blogs or tip sheets.
<> Portions of most polls are freely accessible, some data requires a subscription.
Company and Industry Information
North American Industrial Classification System ( NAICS )
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The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.
EDGAR : US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) Filings
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IMPORTANT : WHEN viewing results, use the CLASSIC version - upper right corner of the results. It is much easier to get ALL the financials from a filing vs. one a a time with the new version.
The SEC’s EDGAR database provides free public access to AS REPORTED corporate financial information. All public companies (except foreign companies and companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR.
Survey of Current Business
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Definitive resource for statistical information (International aspects, National, Regional, Industry) along with explanatory narrative about the current state of the US economy.
United States Remediation Services Industry Report
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Barnes Reports publishes thousands of U.S. and Worldwide reports on hundreds of industries each year.
Public Records
NCJRS Abstracts ( National Criminal Justice Reference Service )
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The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 210,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.
Open Secrets
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Collected Resources Made for Journalists
The Journalist’s Resource
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Created & maintained by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
The Journalist's toolbox
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Created & maintained by Society of Professional Journalists
Data Journalism
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Created and maintained by the European Journalism Centre.
Related Guides
Statistics & Data
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Government Documents
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Newspapers and Magazines
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Transcripts
Newspaper Source
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Newspaper Source provides full-text access to U.S. regional newspapers, TV and radio news transcripts, and selected international newspapers. Available publications include: USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Times (London) plus transcripts from CNN, National Public Radio, CBS News, Fox News, CNBC, etc.
Regional Business News
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Radio and television news transcripts
US Newsstream
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US Newsstream searches current US news content, and archives back into the 1980s. Features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
Sports
American Statistical Association - Sports Data Resources
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Page of links to locate sports stats. Some links are dead. Some resources seem less reliable than others. Last updated in 2011.
Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool
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From the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. Use this tool to create customized reports for research relating to equity in athletics data. The data are drawn from the OPE Equity in Athletics Disclosure Website database, which consists of athletics data submitted annually as required by the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA), by all co-educational postsecondary institutions that receive Title IV funding (i.e., those that participate in federal student aid programs) and that have an intercollegiate athletics program.
International Sports Federations
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A comprehensive listing of international sports federations provided by the International Olympic Committee.
LPGA Stats
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Major League Soccer Stats
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MLB Stats
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NBA Stats
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NCAA Stats
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NFL Stats
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NHL Stats
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NWSL
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PGA Stats
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WNBA Stats
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WTA Stats
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Resources to Assist with Information Visualization
Turn numbers into pictures!
Ever struggled with making sense of data? Data visualization turns hard to understand data into eye-catching visuals like charts and graphs that even your grandma could understand!
Have you ever noticed colorful infographics or informative news charts? That's data visualization at work. Data visualisation can aid in decision-making and communication. Explore data viz with these resources we've curated for you!
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19 Innovative Ways to Use Information Visualization Across a Variety of Fields
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Helpful blog post by VisMe providing simple to understand ways to incorporate data visualizations and when its best to use the 19 types explained in the post.
10 Steps to Creating an Infographic
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Stephanie B. Wilkerson (Contribution by)
ISBN: 1071817302
Publication Date: 2023-08-15
This book provides step-by-step guidance for developing high-quality infographics. outlines a user-friendly process for developing infographics with a clearly defined purpose and powerful message. The book’s "how-to" approach makes infographic creation accessible for anyone who doesn’t have a background in graphic design or a budget for a graphic designer. Author Stephanie B. Wilkerson breaks down the complex task into a series of steps and models each step through a book-long example of the evolution of an infographic.
Better Data Visualizations : A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
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Jonathan Schwabish
ISBN: 9780231550154
Publication Date: 2021
Readers everywhere are overwhelmed with a flow of data, news, and text. Visuals can cut through the noise and make it easier for readers to recognize and recall information. Yet many researchers were never taught how to present their work visually. This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations.
Data Visualization
by
Robert Grant
ISBN: 9781138553590
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
Gives an overview of a wide range of techniques and challenges, while staying accessible to anyone interested in working with and understanding data. Focusses on concepts and ways of thinking about data rather than algebra or computer code. Features 17 short chapters that can be read in one sitting. Includes chapters on big data, statistical and machine learning models, visual perception, high-dimensional data, and maps and geographic data.
Design for Information
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Isabel Meirelles
ISBN: 9781592538065
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
The visualization process doesn't happen in a vacuum; it is grounded in principles and methodologies of design, cognition, perception, and human-computer-interaction that are combined to one's personal knowledge and creative experiences. Design for Information critically examines other design solutions —current and historic— helping you gain a larger understanding of how to solve specific problems. This book is designed to help you foster the development of a repertoire of existing methods and concepts to help you overcome design problems. Learn the ins and outs of data visualization with this informative book that provides you with a series of current visualization case studies. The visualizations discussed are analyzed for their design principles and methods, giving you valuable critical and analytical tools to further develop your design process.
Infographics
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Jason Lankow; Ross Crooks; Josh Ritchie
ISBN: 9781118314043
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
With DIY functionality, Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling will teach you how to find stories in your data, and how to visually communicate and share them with your audience for maximum impact. Infographics will show you the vast potential to using the communication medium as a marketing tool by creating informative and shareable infographic content. Learn how to explain an object, idea, or process using strong illustration that captures interest and provides instant clarity Discover how to unlock interesting stories (in previously buried or boring data) and turn them into visual communications
Infographics for Dummies
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Justin Beegel
ISBN: 9781118792384
Publication Date: 2014-06-30
the book focuses on the how-to of data, design, and distribution to create stunning, shareable infographics. Step-by-step instruction allows you to handle data like a pro, while creating eye-catching graphics with programs like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. The book walks you through the different types of infographics, explaining why they're so effective, and when they're appropriate. Ninety percent of the information transmitted to your brain is visual, so it's important to tickle the optic nerves to get people excited about your data. Infographics do just that. Much more exciting than a spreadsheet, infographics can add humor, interest, and flash while imparting real information. Putting your data in graphic form makes it more likely to be shared via Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and other social media sites, and the visual interest makes it less likely to be ignored.
Introduction to Information Visualization
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Gerald Benoit
ISBN: 9781538118344
Publication Date: 2019-02-08
This book is for anyone interested in the art and science of communicating data to others. It shows readers how to transform data into something meaningful - information. Applying information visualization in research, service, teaching, and professional life requires a solid understanding of graphic design and the aesthetic along with hands-on skills and knowledge of data principles and software. This book is applicable to students in all domains, to researchers who need to understand how to create graphics that explain their data, and to professionals and administrators for professional development training.
The Power of Data Storytelling
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Sejal Vora
ISBN: 9789353282905
Publication Date: 2019-04-30
The book focuses on various methods of converting dry facts and figures into interesting characters, events and relaying them in the form of a story to enable company's decision-making. The book covers all data story related aspects—art of storytelling, building, writing and visualizing. The book reflects practical corporate examples from varied fields and how data storytelling enabled the decision-making process. It does not require knowledge of sophisticated tools and introduces new, simple and application-oriented methods at every stage to take data storytelling forward.
Visual Insights
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Katy Borner; David E. Polley
ISBN: 9780262526197
Publication Date: 2014-01-24
A guide to the basics of information visualization that teaches nonprogrammers how to use advanced data mining and visualization techniques to design insightful visualizations. In the age of Big Data, the tools of information visualization offer us a macroscope to help us make sense of the avalanche of data available on every subject. This book offers a gentle introduction to the design of insightful information visualizations.
The Noun Project
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The Noun Project houses one of the largest collections of freely available icons. These can be a useful resource when designing info graphics
Sample Resources for Class Instruction - Beer Industry Associations
Brewers Association
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Beer Institute
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NBWA: America's Beer Distributors
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The Data Journalism Handbook
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Basile Simon (Contribution by); C. W. Anderson (Contribution by); Liliana Bounegru (Editor); Jonathan Gray (Editor); Aaron Williams (Contribution by); Aika Rey (Contribution by); Andy Kirk (Contribution by); Anita Say Chan (Contribution by); Ankur Paliwal (Contribution by); Barbara Maseda (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9789462989511
Publication Date: 2021-03-23
This book offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the news, serving as both a textbook and a sourcebook for this emerging field. With more than 50 chapters from leading researchers and practitioners of data journalism, it explores the work needed to render technologies and data productive for journalistic purposes. It also gives a'behind the scenes'look at the social lives of datasets, data infrastructures, and data stories in newsrooms, media organizations, startups, civil society organizations and beyond. The book includes sections on'doing issues with data','assembling data','working with data','experiencing data','investigating data, platforms and algorithms','organizing data journalism','learning data journalism together' and' situating data journalism'.
Interactive Journalism
by
Nikki Usher
ISBN: 9780252040511
Publication Date: 2016-10-13
ebook
History of the impact of digital technology on reporting, photojournalism, graphics, and other disciplines that define interactive journalism. An eyewitness study of the field's evolution and accomplishments ranges from the interactive creation of Al Jazeera English to the celebrated data desk at the Guardian to the New York Times' Pulitzer-endowed efforts in the new field.
Bearing witness while Black : African Americans, smartphones, and the new protest #journalism
by
Allissa V. Richardson
ISBN: 0190935545
Publication Date: 2020
Tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement--through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities--using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women and children at disproportionate rates. This groundbreaking book reveals how the perfect storm of smartphones, social media and social justice empowered Black activists to create their own news outlets, which continued a centuries-long, African American tradition of using the news to challenge racism. Bearing Witness While Black is the first book of its kind to identify three overlapping eras of domestic terror against African American people--slavery, lynching and police brutality--and explain how storytellers during each period documented its atrocities through journalism.
Privacy and the Media
by
Andrew McStay
ISBN: 9781473924932
Publication Date: 2017-05-05
ebook
Privacy and the Media equips students to do just that, providing a comprehensive overview of both the theory and reality of privacy and the media in the 21st Century. Offering a rich overview of this crucial and topical relationship, Andy McStay: • Explores the foundational topics of journalism, the Snowden leaks, and encryption by companies such as Apple • Considers commercial applications including behavioural advertising, big data, algorithms, and the role of platforms such as Google and Facebook • Introduces the role of the body with discussions of emotion, wearable media, peer-based privacy, and sexting • Encourages students to put their understanding to work with suggestions for further research, challenging them to explore how privacy functions in practice.
The Millennials
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New Strategist Press Editors (Prepared for Publication by)
ISBN: 9781940308814
Publication Date: 2015-01-15
ebook
provides a demographic and socioeconomic profile of the Millennial generation, which spanned the ages of 20 to 37 in 2014, and it includes a special supplement on the iGeneration—the population under age 20.
"Online Journalism"
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By clicking this link you will run a search of the eBooks available using the subject heading "Online Journalism". This ensures you are seeing the most up-to-date list of eBook resources.
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