
In this Data Dan video, Dan uses data from the Equity in Athletics data set from Title 9 Participating schools to look at fringe sports at colleges across the country.
The U.S. Census recently released its 2015 Nonemployer Statistics. This data is the companion data set to the County Business Patterns. Nonemployer Statistics is an annual data set that provides county economic data for businesses that have no paid employees and are subject to federal income tax. The data consist…
Villanova clearly dominated Michigan on the basketball court and has now won the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament two of the last three years. But how has that success translated to other sports and to the athletic costs in general. The Equity in Athletics data is released annually by the…
One of my favorite movie lines is from the movie “A Christmas Story”. After the Bumpus dogs demolish the Thanksgiving turkey, Ralphie’s dad says, while holding a half-eaten drumstick, “we are going out to eat”. We Americans love to eat our food out, as evidenced by the fact that 1…
Critical Infrastructure Accounts for 60% of Jobs as the Rest Open Up The stay-at-home orders under the COVID-19 pandemic separated “essential” from “non-essential”. Businesses deemed essential stayed open. Those that were not essential shut down. Sometimes those lines were very blurred with individual states and even communities making those choices…
Sierra Vista, AZ and Hinesville, GA probably don’t seem to have much in common. One is in eastern Arizona and the other is in southeast Georgia. They are both very small cities with populations of around 40,000. What they have in common is a market concentration for computer occupations with…
Programs offered through distance education or what we might conventionally refer to as online programs actually declined as a percentage of all programs from 10.8% to 10.5% in 2017 and 2016 respectively. This was the first time that distance education has actually declined since this data started being collected by…