Mining Data


 

In many of the units, I provide some “canned” data that you can use to practice the technique under discussion.  But I encourage you to “go beyond the information given.”  You might have access to data of your own (first make sure you are authorized to share it).  And the Web contains a wealth of data, just waiting for someone to access it and use it.  If you see the opportunity to pursue a question that is more interesting to you that the sample problems I provide, go for it! 

 

Here are some data sites that you might find interesting:

http://www.fedstats.gov/  FesStats—Master link to all Federal Government data

http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en  American Fact Finder

http://socds.huduser.org/ HUD’s “State of the Cities” datasystem

http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/cpsmain.htm  Current Population Survey

http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html  County Business Patterns

http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/  Economic Census

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/  National Center for Health Statistics

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census  Historical Census of the US

http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/chouse/mndata.html Minnesota’s Land Management Information Center

http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/icpsropen.html  Berkeley’s archive of ICPSR data

 

 


 

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© 1996 A.J.Filipovitch
Revised 11 March 2005