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Math: Data

Data Sources

Statistics Canada
Huge amounts of data on Canada. Can sometimes be hard to find.
United Nations Data
World Fact Book
Lots of data on almost all countries.

Books about Math

Factfulness by Hans Rosling; Ola Rosling; Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Call Number: 155.9 ROS
ISBN: 9781250107817
Publication Date: 2018-04-03
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Call Number: 305.4 PER
ISBN: 9781419729072
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
The mathematical universe : an alphabetical journey through the great proofs, problems, and personalities by William Dunham
Call Number: 510.92 DUN
ISBN: 9780471176619
The infinite book : a short guide to the boundless, timeless, and endless by John D. Barrow
Call Number: 111 BAR
ISBN: 9781400032242

Links

Estimating Statistics
Spurious Correlations
Useful examples of odd correlations that are not related.
Gapminder
Lots of Data, Tools to graph it and some great videos.
Stand-up Maths
YouTube channel on Maths
E=MC2 and all that
A physics blog but has some interesting math. Check out the How humans measured the size of the sky.

More Books

The golden ratio : the story of phi, the world's most astonishing number by Mario Livio
Call Number: 516.2 LIV
ISBN: 0767908163
A history of mathematics by Carl B. Boyer ; revised by Uta C. Merzbach
Call Number: 510.92 BOY
ISBN: 0471543977
Incompleteness : the proof and paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein
Call Number: 510.92 GOL
ISBN: 0393327604
Beautiful geometry by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost
Call Number: 516 MAJ
ISBN: 9780691150994

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