Finding and Using Data

This website accompanies a course entitled “Calling Bull” at the University of Washington in Seattle. The class was created by two faculty members, Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, to teach critical thinking, analytical skills, and how to construct an argument. The website includes the course syllabus, readings, case studies, and other tools.

This nonpartisan, nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by U.S. political players, including politicians, TV ads, debates, interviews and news releases.

This nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit website run by the Center for Responsive Politics tracks how much and where candidates get their money.

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.