October 26, 2009
Class Blog
Participants will make a blog entry as part of this workshop. If preferred, this can be done as a joint project among several participants. To gain access to the blog, please send a message to Lee Ridley (ljridley@umich.edu).
Instructions for making an entry into the blog are below:
Writing in Blogger
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October 24, 2009
American FactFinder Exercises
Choose the exercises below that interest you - either by topic or by the geography they cover:
Exercises
Measuring Poverty: Which cities have the highest poverty rates in 2008?
Warning: ACS Data Quality
Census Tracts: Using data from the 2000 census to examine vacancy in the Cleveland metro area
Bulk downloads of zip code data to examine racial differences in median income in the United States
Testing Significance of Economic Change in a State or Metropolitan Area
Downloading Data for all Places in a State to Look at Economic Change
Extras
Excel Tip Sheet
"College town 'poverty' exposed"
Stephen Koff and Bill Sloat | Cleveland Plain Dealer
September 17, 2006
Looking at Poverty with ACS Summary Data
Exercises from a Quantitative Reasoning Class
Looking at Current Events (circa 2005)
Guide to Looking at Current Events
Data Consultant (circa 2007)
Guide to Data Consultant
Excel file [A03 Iraq War Deaths.xls]
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October 20, 2009
PDQ Exercises
Six Examples presented by Ren Farley
PDQ Examples from the Seeded Scenarios
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