3. Identify Useful Search Terms
Keywords are the words and phrases we use to describe and search for the main concepts, ideas, people, events, and issues we are researching. Identifying the keywords that accurately describe your topic is a critical step for finding information. In addition to defining your topic keywords, the added terms below may help in surfacing data.
[topic] statistics
[topic] data
[topic] datasets
Pro Tip: When seeking data, an important keyword specific to data, are the units of measure. For example,
For datasets on the noise level of outdoor concerts, the unit of measure for sound is; dB Decibels.
When used in your search, results will highlight instances of data reported with that unit of measure.