Date:         Tue, 9 Apr 1996 09:28:59 -0500
Reply-To:     Jonathan Fry <jon@SPSS.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jonathan Fry <jon@SPSS.COM>
Organization: SPSS Inc.
Subject:      Re: Public Datasets etc.

Graham Todd wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was wondering if anyone had expereince with some good WWW or FTP sites
> from whence publicly available data could be downloaded and analyzed
> using SPSS?  What about macros for converting Excel files?  Does SPSS Inc
> maintain a site with "sample files"?  I teach using SPSS and I'm getting
> tired of the good old BANK.SYS file and don't want to waste too much time
> getting students to enter data.  Besides it makes for a nice "pedagogical
> extension" of an assignment to have students use the internet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham Todd, York University  gtodd@yorku.ca[snip]
--
Try the Data and Story Library at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/, or the
Statlib datasets archive, http://www.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/.
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Jonathan Fry
SPSS Inc.
jon@spss.com