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  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    Thanks, I belong to some forums where even posting completely free websites or tools (if you have any association) is prohibited. Again I love data and dashboards of all types, am working on 41 years of Life expectancy for every county in the country ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    I think the key issue is whether the free data is free, which seems to be the case here. The ad is buried at the bottom and not intrusive. It doesn't appear to be a marketing push. What I've found more distracting in the past is over-posting of unnecessary ...

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  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    Hi Aidan, I'm not an expert in this topic, but the lopsided distribution seems plausuble, assuming a lot of Grand Rapids households have modest incomes. One thing you might consider: the ACS has a variable called GRPIP that already calculates rent ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    Hello all! I am a student who is still learning the ropes of using federal data. I have been trying to construct a distribution of what people in Grand Rapids, Michigan could reasonably afford in rent using the 5-year American Community Survey (sourcing ...

  • Posted in: Federal Data Users

    Are you seriously suggesting that because someone has a data-related business, they shouldn't be allowed to post about federal data to a federal data forum? I read the post you're criticizing, and I saw ONE small plug for Ari's course at the very end. ...

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