I came across this yesterday and want to pass this along here --
This site gives a breakdown of federal funding for education, and you can drill down into the data and look at individual districts.
Moreover, a breakdown of how the site was built is available here: http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/may/13/opening-education-data-funding-demographic-and-achievement-data
The site is built using Drupal, and the blog post linked above describes how some of the data import and visualizations were done. There is a significant amount of data import that needs to go on to build and maintain a site like this, and what is particularly interesting is how easy it is becoming to get massive amounts of relational data into other tools using open standards. This has implications for everything from transferring open content to migrating from one piece of web management software to another.
And, to make this very clear: we had no role in building this site. I came across it yesterday, and was immediately struck by the various ways in which this could be useful.
I wonder how many activities for Statistics classes there could be based on a site like this?
Cheers,
Bill
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