Jerome Cukier

The United States are the only western country without a centralized data office. Instead, official statistics are produced by well over 100 agencies. This makes obtaining official US data difficult, and that’s somewhat of a paradox because in most cases, these data are public and free. Of course, with data coming from so many sources, [...]

To solve any problem with data, there are 5 things you need to do in sequence.  First, find the relevant data source. Then, access it and get the numbers you need.  Then, process those numbers to make them answer your question.  Present the results, for instance, as a data visualization,  and, optionally, share your analysis with [...]