Years ago I was studying how to use Power Pivot and wanted a large dataset to test. I discovered the Public Use Microdata Sample data (Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)). This data provides curated results from millions of questionnaires sent out each year by the US Census bureau. These files are generated from the survey […]
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In a previous post, I introduced my readers to the data.gov (Data.gov a catalog for USA data). Why should a data engineer be interested in government data? Our plates are full with our own company’s data. We also have so much technology that we need to learn. Where is the time for such a side
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The USA government produces and gathers a lot of data, but how to find it? Over the last decade, the United States executive branch and later Congress have required the government to publish the data on the web. data.gov provides a search engine for accessing that data. The OPEN Government Data Act makes Data.gov a
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