Thursday is data day, and I’m pointing you to some data from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. They have looked at the major stories of 2011, measuring the percentage of the newshole for its week of occurance. Their analysis identified five times when a [...]
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September 22nd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Sources
Are We Still Reading?
I probably spend more time thinking about, looking for, and working on the Thursday data source IGaDs than the other four days put together. Data is cool and it’s a huge part of just about every institution’s conversation today. The term, data-driven decision making, has almost becom[...]
April 7th, 2011 - 1:01 pm § in Data Sources
UNESCO Institute for Statistics – ..education data from around the world
This is a broad set of data describing education around the world. Example of tables include: Demographic and economic data Enrollment by grade Repeaters by grade Teaching Staff School Life Expectancy ..and much more. There is a somewhat difficult to decode method for customizing your tables, but I [...]