Archive for March 2013
Unemployment, 2000, for U.S. metropolitan areas: a surprising distribution
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: March 26, 2013
My colleague Keith Resendes (@histogramma1) is very interested in U.S. unemployment rates, utilizing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. After some data munging, I got unemployment data, 2000-2013, by metropolitan area,  from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website into R. From there, extracting subsets of the data is straightforward. Here is the histogram – over U.S. metropolitan areas – for 2000: and here are the basic descriptive statistics: Mean = 4.2 […]
When is a date not a date?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: March 26, 2013
