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Comment author: UngnsCobra 27 May 2013 09:47:56PM 3 points [-]

I'm not confident this is the right outlet (and if so I apologize) but does anyone have tips on good data sources for ex; poultry statistics - trying to get hold of data for each individual country the amount of eggs produced on a year by year, country by country basis. appreciate any tips! Where do you go to find your data? (choose to make this an open question)

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 29 May 2013 05:12:07AM 2 points [-]

The UN has those numbers. I've only used the old version.

Comment author: UngnsCobra 30 May 2013 03:13:12PM 0 points [-]

Thank you I have come across FAO - proved to be very useful!

Comment author: feanor1600 29 May 2013 03:50:01AM 2 points [-]

1) Find academic papers on the subject, see where they got their data 2) Data-only search sites like Zanran, or set google to search only for .xls 3) Question and answer sites, like r/datasets

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 28 May 2013 11:34:16PM 0 points [-]

WolframAlpha has access to a lot of this kind of data. Example search.