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See Ron Larson’s weekly blog posts featuring the data available in Wisconsin InfoLink.
Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources of the sort that reporters tend to need. It’s compiled by Ron Larson (now a part-time blogger for WisconsinWatch.org) who spent most of his professional life organizing information and helping reporters find facts and data as the library director at the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times.
Click on the headings below to see the resources. Entries marked “InfoLink” are curated and kept by Ron Larson at WisconsinWatch.org. Other links lead to external websites.
- Aviation accidents – InfoLink table
- Fatal boating accidents – statistics at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Snowmobile accidents – InfoLink table
- Wisconsin traffic accidents by year – InfoLink table
- Worst single traffic accidents – InfoLink list
- Agriculture links
- Dairy farming links
- Farm census – InfoLink table
- Food safety – Wisconsin Department of Trade and Consumer Protection site
- Wisconsin’s agricultural production – InfoLink table of national rankings
- Art and craft fairs – listed at the Wisconsin Arts Board
- Art and culture links
- Grant links
- Museums and galleries – table at Travel Wisconsin (Wisconsin Department of Tourism)
- Wisconsin local arts directory – searchable list at WisconsinArts.org
- Wisconsin music archives – special collection at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mills Music Library
- Gas prices at wisconsingasprices.com
- Weather forecast at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Wisconsin driving conditions and road construction at the Department of Transportation
- Wisconsin travel information, including trip planning, at 511wi.gov
- Bureau of Labor statistics on Wisconsin at bls.gov
- Business links
- Business Wizard at wisconsin.gov: determine licensing, permitting, regulatory requirements and other resources
- Forward Wisconsin, a State of Wisconsin site encouraging businesses to come to Wisconsin – includes tax comparisons with other states
- Resources for Wisconsin businesses at the state Department of Trade, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- Small-business resources for Wisconsin from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Wisconsin online business services – ways to interact with state agencies online (e.g. online permit applications, new hire registrations)
- Wisconsin TechSearch – a document delivery and research service using University of Wisconsin collections and other sources
- American Factfinder (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Badgir – online data from UW-Madison’s Center for Demography of Health and Aging, Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) and the Data and Information Services Center (DISC)
- Historic census data – InfoLink table
- Data on Demand – census population estimates curated by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Demographic Services – population estimates and projections from the state Department of Administration
- Public-Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) – census samples of housing units, with information on the characteristics of each unit and each person in it
- QuickFacts (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Wisconsin Census Records (U.S. Census Bureau)
- WisStat – create tables and maps with demographic information at the Applied Population Lab, UW-Madison
- ZipSkinny – demographic summaries by zip code
- Multiple murders in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Circuit Court records, aka CCAP
- Wisconsin crime rates – rates from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports at disastercenter.com
- Wisconsin crime statistics at the state Office of Justice Assistance
- Prison population by year
- BadgerLink – Department of Public Instruction free resource of 20,000 full-text magazines, journals, newspapers, reference materials and other specialized information sources
- Dane County Schools
- Department of Public Instruction
- University of Wisconsin links
- Wisconsin education fact sheet
- Wisconsin education links at wisconsin.gov
- Wisconsin Technical College System
- Government Accountability Board of the state Elections Division
- Wisconsin Campaign Finance Database at the nonprofit Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
- Wisconsin Campaign Finance Information System – government site
- Wisconsin Presidential Voting – InfoLink table
- Earthquakes felt in Wisconsin – InfoLink table
- Great Lakes facts on InfoLink
- Great Lakes WATER Institute – freshwater research at UW-Milwaukee
- Mississippi River links
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Wisconsin State Herbarium
- Wisconsin Water Facts from the University of Wisconsin’s Water Library
- Woodland Plant Database at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum
- Wisconsin cabinet appointments – InfoLink table
- Eye on Lobbying – overview from the state
- Government Accountability Board, part of the state Elections Division
- Stimulus funds: Following the Money (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Wisconsin Cities, Towns and Villages – list from wisconsin.gov
- Wisconsin Democracy Campaign – nonprofit watchdog tracking campaign finance
- Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing
- More Wisconsin government links
- Wisconsin birth and death rates since 1910 – Infolink table
- E-Journal RSS feeds by topic – subscribe to 3000+ biomedical and health sciences journals
- Wisconsin Health Links
- Wisconsin health statistics from the Department of Health Services
- Wisconsin facts – InfoLink list
- Wisconsin Geology
- Wisconsin 100 Facts on InfoLink: basic facts everyone should know
- Wisconsin Heritage Online – searchable collections on Wisconsin history, culture, government and industry
- Wisconsin Historic Sites
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Wisconsin History Day by Day (Ron Larson’s site) – a daily bite of Wisconsin history
- Access Dane – Dane County land and geographic information site
- Brown County Land Information Office
- La Crosse County Land Records
- Milwaukee Property Records
- Real estate records by county – from the Wisconsin Register of Deeds Association
- Wisconsin Land Information Grant Program – statewide program that provides financial assistance to local governments for land records modernization efforts
- Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records – original field notes and plat maps
- Wisconsin newspaper archives
- Wisconsin Daily Newspapers – InfoLink table
- Wisconsin Magazines – InfoLink table
- Wisconsin Radio Stations at radio-locator.com
- Wisconsin Television Stations – InfoLink list
- Military links
- Wisconsin soldiers killed in U.S. wars – InfoLink table
- Wisconsin’s Afghanistan casualties – InfoLink table
- Wisconsin’s Iraq casualties – InfoLink table
- Libraries and Wisconsin’s Public Records Law at the Department of Public Instruction
- How to get public records from the Department of Justice (PDF)
- Wisconsin free public records
- Wisconsin Public Records Law at the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council
- Wisconsin Vital Records Services at the Department of Health Services
- Mississippi River links
- Top Wisconsin destinations – InfoLink list
- Wisconsin historic sites – InfoLink list
- Wisconsin Parks
- Current Weather and Forecast from NOAA
- Snow – records, notable storms and annual snowfall on InfoLink
- State Data-National Weather Service
- Tornadoes – InfoLink stats and list
- Weather Central
- Wisconsin Travel Information
- Wisconsin Weather Online
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[...] Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources compiled by Ron Larson. Each week on the WisconsinWatch blog, Larson introduces us to some of these gems. [...]
[...] Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources compiled by Ron Larson. Each week on the WisconsinWatch blog, Larson introduces us to one of these gems. [...]
[...] Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources compiled by Ron Larson. Each week on the WisconsinWatch blog, Larson introduces us to one of these gems. [...]
[...] Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources compiled by Ron Larson. Each week on the WisconsinWatch blog, Larson introduces us to one of these gems. [...]
[...] Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources compiled by Ron Larson. Each week on the WisconsinWatch blog, Larson introduces us to one of these gems. [...]
[...] Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources compiled by Ron Larson. Each week on the WisconsinWatch blog, Larson introduces us to one of these gems. [...]