Guides: AMM 3550 Data Analytics for Fashion Business: Data Analysis Project

Data sources & tools

US federal government agencies

BLS Data Labs
Data on the labor market, inflation, consumer spending, and productivity. BLS Data Finder searches by keyword across multiple data sets all at once. Industry Productivity Finder searches by NAICS 4-digit industry codes. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Dept of Labor).
Census Bureau: American Fact Finder
Data about people, housing, business, and industry in the U.S.
Census Bureau: List of business surveys
Data from 130+ surveys. Includes the nation's largest business survey, Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS).
Data.gov
Official portal to data produced by the US federal government. Tens of thousands of available data sets.
EDGAR: Company Filings
Find publicly traded companies' government-mandated operations and financial information. Search filings by company name, ticker symbol, or CIK. From the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
STAT-USA Library Guide
This guide serves as a portal for all of the links formerly available through STAT-USA (Dept of Commerce) which ceased to exist September 2010. When it existed, STAT-USA pulled together many different data sources, some of which are available from other US government websites.
USDA Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System (ESMIS)
Over 2,000 reports and datasets covering U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Sourced from five USDA agency partners: Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Economic Research Service (ERS), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB). Cornell University's Mann Library developed and maintains the site.

Library databases

ABI/INFORM Complete
Business news and analysis. Peer-reviewed research. Industry reports by country. Part of Proquest Databases. Read more about this resource or visit the help page.
Mergent Online
Financial information on 10,000+ publicly traded companies on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges, including EDGAR/SEC filings. Also includes industry analysis and private companies. Read more about this resource.
SimplyAnalytics
GIS tool for creating custom maps and tables using U.S. datasets. Data available: people (demographics, consumer expenditures, market segments, sales potential), businesses (establishments, employees, retail sales), consumer price index, crime, and weather. Geographies available: states, congressional district, counties, cities, zip code, census tract, block groups, and street address. Not all data available in all geographies.

AMM 3550 Data Analytics for Fashion Business

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Data sources & tools

US federal government agencies

Library databases

Publicly traded apparel retailers