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cream?” “How many pets do you have?” “Do you have a dog?”
These kinds of questions are all examples of easy survey questions
we can ask. They are easy to count up and graph. We’ll use survey
data in the rest of this book.
Got your data? Great! Let’s look at ways to visualize it.
It may not be until you reach high school that you need to find
data online. When you do, here are some good places to start.
You might want to ask an adult at home, a librarian, or your
teacher for help figuring out which data is best for your project.
• U.S. Census American Fact Finder (https://factfinder
.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml) is a good source
for data on U.S. population, incomes, and communities.
• Data.gov ( www.data.gov) is the U.S. government’s main
source for data of allkinds.
• TheWorld Factbook ( https://www.cia.gov/library/publications
/resources/the-world-factbook/index.html) is the U.S. ­Central
Intelligence Agency’s source for data about size, population,
income, and more for countries around the world.
• The World Bank (data.worldbank.org) is useful for
international data about poverty and otherglobal issues.
• Wolfram Alpha ( www.wolframalpha.com) is a search
engine that loves looking for data.
Finding Data Online