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Hello colleagues, Anyone here have experience migrating SAS datasets into Parquet format? I may need to do this for many very large datasets. I would appreciate any expertise. Tools, workflows, etc. Also would love to hear from anyone doing app ...
Since Beth is trying to take a well deserved day off, I will go ahead and post this for her. Her new piece -- together with Jae June and myself -- on what was covered about the impact of the Commerce DAO at JSM by the Census Bureau, as well as what ...
Proposed new rule for 2030 Census would (according to the TPM summary) "exclude undocumented immigrants, but also foreign students, H1-B visa holders, and many others from the count" AND would prohibit collecting data on race, ethnicity, and sexual ...
Since the 2025 administration change, disappearing federal datasets have sparked widespread concern – and confusion. Today, dataindex.us published the Federal Data Terminations Tracker – the most policy-relevant, verified source of federal ...
Trump administration's order delays release of data from the largest survey on American life countofcounting.substack.com Sent from my iPhone
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