Understanding Data
Government and publicly funded research organizations share data through their websites. This may be already synthesized and interpreted data (statistics) or raw data.
Here are some open data websites that you may find useful:
| AWS Data Exchange | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/data-exchange/ |
| British Library Data Service | https://data.bl.uk/ |
| Google Dataset Search | https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ |
| Google Trends | https://trends.google.com/trends/explore |
| NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre | http://www.hscic.gov.uk/home |
| Open Data (UK government) | https://www.data.gov.uk/ |
| UNICEF | https://data.unicef.org/resources/resource-type/datasets/ |
| UK Data Service | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/ |
| World Health Organization | https://www.who.int/data |
The data is often downloadable into a CSV file which can be converted into an Excel file.
If you would like to know more about working with data sets, try the LSH module Working with Data.