Tools for starting your search
Some websites have tables of data already in Excel format. Others will require you to cut and paste them into Excel. Tables pasted in Excel can often be arranged in columns using the "Text to columns" tool under the "Data" tab. Ask another classmate or Bridger is you need help with this, or use the help function in Excel. You might still have to do some manual tweaking to get all of your data to line up.

To make comparisons, in some cases, you may have to find source data from several places and combine it in your Excel spreadsheet.

Below are some places to look for data for the Graph from data assignment.

• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Factbook
• US Department of Defense Presonnel and Military Casualty Statistics
• World Health Organization: WHO Global InfoBase: Data for Saving Lives
• National Center for Education Statistics
• See the statistics links at the eeoc page
• Census homepage
• EEO data
• Economic data
• American Community Survey
• Data Tools
• Statistics about child welfare in the US
• Foreign Goverment data sources
• FDA food nutrient data
• Computing Research Association data

Possible sujects to look for

• Ethnicity of Secondary School Teachers in the US
• Gender in the Dentistry Field
• Ethnicity and Gender in Mechanical Engineering
• High School Drop Rates in Oregon
• Rates of AIDS in developing countries
• Mean world temperatures over the last 100 years
• Increases in computer proccessing speeds over the last 30 years
• World food production since 1800
• something different which you are interested in

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