REVITALISE
Data and Vis Scavenger Hunt
DATA
1. Find a list of monthly closing prices for IBM stock from 1962
through the present
2. From www.fedstats.gov , find a table of life expectancy in the US by
age, race and gender
3. From http://www.seattlecentral.org/qelp/Data.html find data on the
distribution of the lengths of the wings of houseflies
4. From http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus/type.html find a state by
state list of the mortality rates for pancreatic cancer
5. Find bald eagle population data for your home state
6. Find a list of National Basketball Association statistics including
points, rebounds and assists for 2003-2004
7. Find a list of the most popular baby names of the 1990s
8. Find a list of mink pelts produced in the US for the last 20 years
as recorded by the USDA.
9. Find a source of genetic data for a non human warm-blooded organism.
10. Find a digital chart listing latitude and longitude points defining
the outline of your home state.
11. Starting at http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/ find a list of the
populations of the worlds largest cities from 2000 BC to the present
VISUALIZATIONS
12. From the link on http://www.roe.ac.uk/info/srss.html determine the
phase of the moon on the date you were born.
13. Find an image of Saturn from http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
14. Find a map of global earthquake activity for the last month.
15. Find a chart of precipitation data for the last 365 days for
Dublin, Ireland
16. Using the site http://precip.fsl.noaa.gov/hourly_precip.html ,
identify a location in the US with at least 1/4 “ of rain on this past
Monday.
17. Find the Cape Hatteras lighthouse (NC) on
http://terraserver-usa.com/
18. Find an animation of mitosis in cell biology.
19. Find online images and data of the visible human
20. Find YOUR HOUSE or STREET using either
http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/index.html or http://terraserver-usa.com/