Top 5 Reasons to Use Kidsdata.org: Reason #4 – Share Your Data

Once you’ve found the exact data you need on kidsdata.org – and customized it how you want – there’s no need to keep it all to yourself, right? After all, with kidsdata.org, our foundation’s goal is to help promulgate data about how kids are faring, in order to help elevate the visibility of children’s issues in California.

So reason number 4 of the top 5 reasons to use kidsdata.org? You can share your results instantly using the tools in the top right corner of every data page.

For whatever data you’ve chosen, you can copy your customized graph or chart into a Word document or Powerpoint slide. Or, you can download the data directly into Excel – either just the data you’re looking at or the entire dataset – to create your own graph.

And, you can share the graph you’ve created with your friends and colleagues instantly via Facebook, Twitter, bookmarking sites such as Digg and Reddit, or via e-mail.

Finally, using the “<embed>” button, you can take a customized graph from kidsdata.org and put it directly on your website. Then, the graph on your site will automatically update when we add new data to kidsdata.org.

For example, this blog post on greatschools.net uses an embedded graph from kidsdata.org to show the rise in autism diagnoses over time.

Posted by Felicity Simmons

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