LibGuides: COM 115: Oral Communication: Data Visualization Speech

Data Visualization Speech: finding and evaluating statistics

Data Visualization Speech PowerPoint Slides
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Statista - A little bit of everything

Statista
Statista is an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries.

Visual Capitalist
Focused on topics including markets, technology, energy and the global economy, this resource highlights the bigger picture through data-driven visuals.

Goverment Resources

"open gov data venn diagram" by justgrimes is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Data.gov
Over 100,000 open datasets from federal government agencies.
Census Bureau
"The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy."
Bureau of Economic Analysis
"BEA produces economic accounts statistics that enable government and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public to follow and understand the performance of the Nation's economy."
Bureau of Labor Statistics
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics."
Bureau of Justice Statistics
BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
Wayback Machine
Archive of older versions of websites.

Polls & Surveys

Gallup
Provides access to survey results on contemporary news topics, economics, politics, and public opinion.
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is an independent, non-partisan public opinion research organization that studies attitudes toward politics, the press and public policy issues. In this role it serves as a valuable information resource for political leaders, journalists, scholars and citizens.
NY Times Surveys
Collection of NY Times/CBS News polls and surveys. Includes raw data of surveys along with articles about the survey topic.

International Organizations

"Global Network" by fdecomite is licensed under CC BY 2.0

The World Bank
"The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world."
UNdata
Portal to 32 United Nations-sponsored databases covering education, energy, finance, agriculture, and more.
data.census.gov (formerly American Fact Finder)
The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.

"With no data releases in American FactFinder after June 2019, this platform will be the primary way to access data from the 2018 American Community Survey, 2017 Economic Census, 2020 Census, and more!"

Professional Organizations

Your topic may have a larger professional organization associated (NCAA, American Marketing Association, American Library Association, etc.) with it that has data and/or infographics that may be helpful to your presentation.

For example, if the topic were about banned books, I could look for statistics that the American Library Association has publicly available related to banned books.

Another example, if your topic is related to D-III college athletes, you could look at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) D-III website if there is data or information that supports your call to action. When searching in Google, adding words like "facts," "figures," and "data."

Articles

ProQuest One Academic
Extensive collection of journals, ebooks, dissertations, news, video and primary sources from 1970 to the present. Includes ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Academic Complete, and Academic Video Online.

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