As a new semester approaches (in Europe at least, our friends in the US are already hard at work) I have been approached by several Professors about the possibility of new data sets for their students to use in their projects for the coming year.
Despite the wealth of data sources out there, it is difficult to know what data you should start with when considering a project or problem to solve. Do you begin with the outline of your project? defining the issues to solve, only to find the data you require doesn't exist or only available on a paid database, or do you find the data you would like to use and begin to ask questions of it
Either way, I have put together 5 interesting data sets and their websites for possible data analysis;
1. Ecological - Mapping magpies and Blackbird numbers throughout Europe.
