Data for Articles and Infographics
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I have several ideas for articles and infographics, but I am having a hard time finding reliable statistics to include. What resources do you use for this? Do you have a company you recommend for hiring to help develop this data? I appreciate any help. Thanks!
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1 At the top end you have research guys like Forrester research, Boston consulting group or even Econsultancy's paid reports.
2 Banks like Merrill Lynch & Capgemini publish the yearly World's Wealth Report and in general banks have a high output of financial and commercial papers.
3 Doing Google searches like japan report inurl:.pdf can provide a lot of papers on a topic.
4 Mendeley.com is a good place for finding scientific papers and connecting directly with scientists if you want a quote or specialist research done
5 Roll your own report with a surveymonkey survey
I could go on all day talking about data sources, but without knowing what you need its not much use - the data source is dependent on the project, there is no one place to go
S
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Only believe data you've collected yourself
That said there are a lot of things that are reasonably quantifiable. If you were to get stats on various world records I'd be happy that those listed in the Guiness Book of World Records were accurate and the same can be said for most things taken 'from the horses mouth'.
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Thanks for the quick response, Stephen. I guess I am interested in both. I can probably get some approved for purchase, but for sure not all.
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Well depends on the data you need and how big your budget is. I can give a number of examples, but there's no point unless we know more
Do you mean "how do I find this in Google" or do you mean "were do you buy a $5000 research paper from"?
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