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Business Programming and Technology – Computer Science Teacher Connect

Business Programming and Technology

Business Programming and Technology in the Classroom:

Business Tools:

  • Google for Education – focus on Sheets
  • Microsoft Office – focus on Excel
  • mySQL
  • php
  • SQL
  • XQuery
  • XML

Big Data and Available Datasets:

There are numerous datasets available from government agencies, organizations, and individual researchers. Try these sources to find these:

  • ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window

    ICPSR provides access to a large archive of social science data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS or SPSS. Includes some public opinion polls. Creating a MyData account with ICPSR permits you to download data available only to ICPSR members. Tutorials are available on YouTube.

  • iPoll (Roper Center) This link opens in a new window
  • Public opinion survey data from the Roper Center at the University of Connecticut. iPoll is organized at the question level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys, 1935 to present. Includes RoperExpress (offers downloads of over 20,000 datasets from over 100 countries to use with statistical software to conduct bivariate and multivariate analysis) and Roper Explorer (online analysis of several hundred studies allowing cross-tabulations without specialized statistical software). To download datasets, register to create an account and agree to their terms about confidentiality, etc. Roper provides educational material for using their tools and learning the basics about polling and analysis.