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://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/stateis.html 1990 Census of Population & Housing

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/www/econ_cen.html Economic Census

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

http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.Center/cenindex.html Uof Mich Census Data Locator

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

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