I am absolutely NOT above pandering to undergraduates. For example, I use beer-related examples to illustrate t-test s,   correlation/regression , curvilinear relationships , and data mining/re-purposing . Here is some more. This data was collected to estimate how much more participants would pay for their beer if their beer was created in an environmentally sustainable manner. The answer? $1.30/six pack more. And 59% of respondents said that they would pay more for sustainable beer. NPR talked about it , as well as ways that breweries are going green. Here is a link to the original research . How to use in class: 1) The original research is shared via an open source journal . So, an opportunity to talk about open source research journals. 2) They data was collected via mTurk, another ancillary topics to discuss with your budding research methodologists. 3) The authors of the original study shared their beer survey data ! Analyze to your heart's content. 4) How c...

Our World in Data is an impressive, creative-commons licensed site managed by Max Roser . And it lives up to its name. The website provides all kinds of international data, divided by country, topic (population, health, food, growth & inequality, work, and life, etc.), and, when available, year. It contains its own proprietary data visualizations, which typically feature international data for a topic. You can customize these visualizations by nation. You can also DOWNLOAD THE DATA that has been visualized for use in the classroom. Much of the data can be visualized as a map and progress, year by year, through the data, like this data on international human rights. https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights/  https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights/ There are also plenty of topics of interest to psychologists who aren't teaching statistics. For example, international data on suicide: Data for psychology courses...https://ourworldindata.org/suicide/ Work...

Data USA draws upon various federal data sources in order to generate visualizations about cities and occupations in the US. And it provides lots of good examples of simple, descriptive statistics and data visualizations. This website is highly interactive and you can query information about any municipality in the US. This creates relevant, customized examples for your class. You can present examples of descriptive statistics using the town or city in which your college/university/high school is located or you could encourage students to look up their own hometowns. Data provided includes job trends, crime, health care, commuting times, car ownership rates...in short, all sorts of data. Below I have included some screen shots for data about Erie, PA, home of Gannon University: The background photo here is from the Presque Isle, a very popular state park in Erie, PA. And, look, medians!