I just finished watching a two-part NISO webinar on research data curation and am excited to get going being more intentional about communication with people on our campus about these big questions about data big and otherwise. The Research Data Alliance is having its second plenary meeting right now in Washington D.C. In a couple…
As is obvious by the date-stamp on the next most recent post, this blog is on a hiatus. With a leave and a great deal less free time in the past year, I have had to set blog writing aside for a spell. I’ll be back, though, so don’t delete your feed or bookmark.
(this post is an update of a 2007 post of the same name) Global Development Finance is an annual report from the World Bank on the external debt of developing countries on a loan-by-loan basis. GDF dataBank contains data on the external debt of 128 countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt under the…
STAT-USA, a long-time standby, one stop shop for information released by government agencies publishing trade and economic information (such as the Census Bureau, Treasury Department, BLS, Federal Reserve, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Commercial Service, Department of State, EIA, etc) will close its virtual doors on September 30, 2010. By August 15, a resources page pointing…
Two free seminars on the 2007 Economic Census and related statistics will be held on August 31, 2010 at the University of Minnesota, Anderson Library. From the Program Description: Andy Hait and Bob Marske from the Census Bureau will introduce you to new information about the American economy. Attendees will gain skills in accessing Economic…
Influenza Activity – Minnesota Department of Health Every year the Minnesota Department of Health publishes an influenza activity report. Today, the H1N1 Epidemiology report was released for 2009-2010. The archive page contains the annual statistical reports from 2003 to the present. Format: mostly PDF, but occasionally Excel Good for: numbers of patients hospitalized for influenza,…
World Bank’s Open Data at data.worldbank.org. In April, the World Bank announced their open data initiative and made all of their data products freely available in a new interface, which includes API access for developers, dramatically increasing the availability and reach of this information. A quick how-to guide to the new site. Overview information of…
Disability and Use of Time (DUST): 2009 Since a fascinating talk by Suzanne Bianchi here at Carleton earlier this spring, there has been a resurgence of interest in time use studies. Some new data from the PSID used time diaries to collect information from older couples about disability, time use, and well being. From the…
Preliminary results from the 2009 Minnesota Health Access Survey show a significant increase in uninsurance in the state. The Minnesota Health Access Survey is a large-scale health insurance survey conducted jointly by the Health Economics Program (of the Minnesota Department of Health) and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
One more reason you’ll be happier if you remember to look for working papers… As much as I emphasize using the indexes and abstracts of journal literature in the social sciences, it is also important, especially when looking for emerging research, to look at the research being published by the major NGOs, IGOs and think…