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Data Storytelling

This guide supports research and deeper study in data storytelling and data visualization.

Library-provided Tools

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Government Sites

Chicago Data Portal
Illinois Data Portal
Civil Rights Data Collection
Education Data Collected from public schools across the United States
Explore Census Data
U.S. Census
Library of Congress Datasets

Nonprofit Organization Sites

Pew Research Center datasets
Pew provides downloadable datasets in a variety of areas.
Humanitarian Data Exchange
MisEducation by ProPublica
The Opportunity Atlas
UNICEF for Every Child

Commercial Sites

Additional strategies

Finding raw datasets on some topics can be challenging, depending on the topic.

Some places to try:

Organizational web pages (Try searching Google for your topic and and "organization" or "association".
Published reports (Try searching your topic and "data" or "statistics" or "report".
Books or eBook chapters (Use the Library search at https://library.colum.edu and search for your topic to try to find books or book chapters that may use statistics.)

Pew Research Center datasets
Pew provides downloadable datasets in a variety of areas.
Google Dataset Search