Recent Data-Related News

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Who Cares About Federal Economic Statistics? (Dismal Scientist, This Week's Economy, October 30, 2009)

Census Predicts Fall In Response Rate (USA Today, October 19, 2009)

60% Of Kids Exposed To Violence In Past Year: Justice Survey (NPR News Blog, October 7, 2009)

Census: 150,000 same-sex couples say they're in marriage relationships — more than legal count (The Star Tribune, September 22, 2009)

Uninsured by the Numbers (San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, 2009)

Visualization tools improve transparency by making sense of raw data (Government Computer News, August 24, 2009)

IBM's Purchase of SPSS Ends Era (Chicago Tribune, July 29, 2009)

About One in Six U.S. Adults Are Without Health Insurance (Gallup, July 22, 2009)

Senate Confirms Obama's Pick to Lead 2010 Census (Washington Post, July 13, 2009)

Milwaukee Edges Up In Population: City Bucks Rust Belt Trend, While Madison Leads State In Growth Rates (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, July 1, 2009)

White House Looks to Include Same-Sex Unions in Census Count (Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2009)

U.S. Census Sparks Feud Over the Counting of Illegal Immigrants (Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2009)

With 2010 Census Looming, Obama Chooses Survey Expert to Run Bureau (Washington Post, April 3, 2009)

Agriculture Census Shows More Farms in Wisconsin (Chicago Tribune, February 4, 2009)

How to Count the "Invisibles" (Christian Science Monitor, January 14, 2009)

Calculating the Geography of Crime (Science News, January 8, 2009)

Amazon Hopes to Cash in on Research Market (public data) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 8, 2008)

Unhappy People Watch More TV Than Happy People, U-Md. Researcher Finds (Washington Post, November 23, 2008)

Big Ten Professors Create Election Poll (Daily Collegian -- Penn State, October 24, 2008)

For 2010 Census, Counting Gets Tougher (USA Today, October 10, 2008)

Census Data Show Troubling Trends for Uninsured (Kansas City Star, August 26, 2008)

Married Folks Still the Healthiest (NHIS) (US News & World Report, August 11, 2008)

Census Won't Count Gay Marriages (Washington Post, July 18, 2008)

Researchers to Give Wisconsin a Physical Exam (Wisconsin State Journal, June 7, 2008)

Environment Gets High Marks in Badger Poll (The Capital Times, May 2, 2008)