No more daTOR

A new academic year brings us a new web page at Trinity College and, thus, a new way to find data resources. Our new version of Trinity Online Resources (TOR) incorporates resources that cover the gamut in terms of format: journal article databases, scholarly websites, audio and visual resources and yes: data! Take a look and let us know what you think!

Region specific data

In a class offered this semester at Trinity, students will be asked to experiment with data visualization (read: Edward Tufte). Since the students will be working with the Hispanic Health Council here in Hartford, they are going to need health data--specifically on cancer rates for Hispanics--in the Hartford region.

I have found that getting regional data of this sort can be complicated, so it's worth documented what I found to be useful for the kind of basic charts and tables these students may be making...

• the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System allows you to sort look at preventative behaviors, sorted by state and ethnicity
• the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System allows you to do something similar for adults
• the National Women's Health Indicators Database, despite its name, gives detailed data for women and men, sorted by state, county, ethnicity, and type of cancer (bladder, breast, etc.)