Data Sources on Older Americans (DSOA) highlights the contents of government-sponsored surveys and products containing statistical information about the older population. All Federal agencies are invited to contribute to this report and participate in the Forum. Starting in 2009, DSOA includes some non-federal data sources. T he Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics
PowerStats provides access to nine postsecondary datasets and the thousands of variables they contain. PowerStats is an addition to the NCES Data Lab. NCES Data Lab Consists of the Following Tools (Descriptions from NCES Web Site): QuickStats + Create a simple table quickly + View your output as a chart or table + Choose from many data sets each with about one hundred variables + Select from postsecondary studies PowerStats + Produce complex table + Run linear and logistic regressions + Choose from many data sets each with thousands of variables Library + Search existing tables and figures to find answers to your questions. Visit NCES Tables and Figures. + Coming soon: Thousands of published tables created using PowerStats and QuickStats.
The Authority's statutory objective is to promote and safeguard the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It is also required to promote and safeguard the quality and comprehensiveness of official statistics, and ensure good practice in relation to official statistics.
The National Association of Counties (NACo) is the only national organization that represents county governments before the Administration and Congress. NACo provides essential services to the nation's 3,068 counties.
Data on Academic Workforce and a survey to gather more data. view historic information about staffing patterns at individual institutions of higher education. view the numbers and percentages of tenure-track, full-time non-tenure-track, and part-time faculty members at institutions in 1995 and in 2009.
The Common Metadata Framework is divided into four parts, each of which concentrates on different practical and theoretical aspects of statistical metadata systems, and provides vital knowledge for anyone working with statistical metadata. Part A - Statistical Metadata in a Corporate Context, Part B - Metadata Concepts, Standards, Models and Registries , Part C - Metadata and the Statistical Business Process, Part D - Implementation. The development of a framework for statistical metadata was initiated by national delegates to the February 2004 meeting of the Joint UNECE-Eurostat-OECD Work Session on Statistical Metadata (METIS)
LexisNexis™ Statistical DataSets is a new online service that enables researchers to build statistical tables and charts from multiple sources in a single interface. This online interactive statistical solution aggregates over 580 licensed and public domain datasets provided by 50 sources. The DataSets product makes 12.0 billion data points accessible within a single interface.
GAO Report GAO-05-1. GAO studied a diverse set of key indicator systems that provide economic, environmental, social and cultural information for local, state, or regional jurisdictions covering about 25 percent of the U.S. population—as well as several systems outside of the United States. GAO found opportunities to improve how our nation understands and assesses its position and progress.
The Bank has compiled and organized over 1,000 searchable statistics and indicators for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, creating a comprehensive dataset for the region.
On April 17, 1761, English mathematician and Presbyterian minister Thomas Bayes passed away. He is best known as name giver of the Bayes' theorem, of which he had developed a special case. It expresses (in the Bayesian interpretation) how a subjective degree of belief should rationally change to account for evidence, and finds application in in fields including science, engineering, economics (particularly microeconomics), game theory, medicine and law.
Google has perhaps more than any other company become "The Internet Company." It's grown hand in hand with the internet and its entire business model has from the start been totally focused on the internet as a delivery platform. And let's face it, Google is a pretty interesting company. In fact, we think it's so interesting that we put together this infographic with a ton of facts and figures about Google. We've been digging through Google's SEC filings, news articles and the trusty old Wikipedia to get plenty of interesting data to include. We hope you like it!
An annual report from the World Trade Organisation, with statistical data in PDF and Microsoft Excel formats. This site also provides acces to selected historical time-series data
Online book to take your R (programming) skills to the next next level. The authors is quite influencial in the R community and "knows what he's talking about". This is for advanced R users!
Der chinesische Export erreicht immer neue Rekordmarken und läßt nun den deutschen weit hinter sich. Dabei hat sich Chinas Anteil an der Weltindustrieproduktion seit 1996 von unter 5 % auf über 20 % mehr als vervierfacht und ist an den USA vorbei auf die Weltspitzenposition vorgerückt. Industriproduktion in 2012 in Mrd US$: USA 2064: CHINA 2168. Exporte von Industriegütern in die EU in Mrd € (2011) : aus Deutschland 312; aus China 294.
Data science, also known as data-driven decision, is an interdisciplinery field about scientific methods, process and systems to extract knowledge from data in various forms, and take descision based on this knowledge. A data scientist should not only be evaluated only on his/her knowledge on mahine learning, but he/she should also have good expertise on statistics. I will try to start from very basics of data science and then slowly move to expert level. So let’s get started.
I have a major pet peeve that I need to confess. I go insane when I hear programmers talking about statistics like they know shit when it’s clearly obvious they do not. I’ve been studying it for years and years and still don’t think I know anything. This article is my call for all programmers…
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