Statista
Another new resource for the Library this year is Statista, a great resource for market research and statistics on a wide variety of topics.
Statista features:
- Over 1.5 million statistics (400-500 new statistics added each day)
- Covering more than 80,000 topics of information
- Over 1,500 Infographics
- Over 18,000 sources of information
Library Journal : Best Reference 2015
Statista was named as a Best Reference 2015:
"Statista is an online statistics aggregator providing business, marketing, demographic, and economic data. The company has supplemented statistical information with company dossiers, topical reports, and high-quality infographics.
With an international focus, the resource offers statistics on a wide variety of industries and topics such as communications, education, health care, and tourism. While much of the government data is freely available on other websites, Statista makes this information easy to find and use. As the site mixes this freely available knowledge with proprietary industry facts (from industry reports and other sources), it creates a powerful tool for researchers.
Subscribers also have easy access to the more than 1,400 infographics produced by the company over the past four years, in addition to reports about various businesses and dossiers on particular companies. The ability to download this information swiftly lets users combine information sets, do their own analyses, and develop their own graphics.
Academic business and social science programs would benefit from this easy-to-use source of statistical data as will special libraries associated with many types of businesses."
Library Journal, Best Databases | Best Reference 2015