Analyzing Big Data on a Shoestring Budget
Big data has opened a new world for demographers and public health scientists to explore. But is analyzing big data practical and affordable?
Big data has opened a new world for demographers and public health scientists to explore. But is analyzing big data practical and affordable?
Lessons from my experience at a climate change conference in Cape Town, South Africa
(2006) As the population of the United States grew from 200 million to 300 million from 1967 to 2006, some fast-growing major metropolitan areas scored big time in the major league sports arena. Phoenix went from zero to four major sports teams.
(2008) There has been increasing international news coverage of the excess of young boys in India resulting from the abortion of female fetuses.1
Project: KIDS COUNT
(2014) The index disaggregates data by racial and ethnic group and by state in order to measure the "impact of a child’s race on his or her opportunity for success in adulthood," according to the foundation.