A range of high quality resources for finding datasets, and to learn about data (including Andy Wills' training on R) can be found below
A list of publicly available data sets and repositories compiled by the American Psychological Association.
A digital repository of research data produced by University of Edinburgh researchers. Data is associated with an existing or forthcoming publication, or which has potential use for other researchers.
Statistics covering a range of Health & Social Care topics.
This is a public link to Andy Wills' webpage of resources on using R
re3data has become the resource of information about research data repositories. It indexes and provides extensive information about more than 2450 research data repositories
An online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal. It provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organisations and government institutions.
Statistical thinking for the 21st century is a really great ebook giving an introduction to statistics (including R)
The UK's largest collection of social, economic and population data for over 50 years