Today, the National Center for Education Statistics released a new Data Point that compares the postsecondary enrollment of high school graduates who earned a minimum number of credits in a single career and technical education (CTE) field (CTE concentrators) with those who did not concentrate in CTE. Findings include:
The National Center for Education Statistics has released two new Data Point Reports examining the education goals of public school principals by charter status, school level, and community type. When comparing the top three education goals of public school principals:
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the Statistics Department is again offering a Free
Statistical Consulting Service in Spring 2020, just as in previous academic
Quarters.
Under the supervision of a senior faculty member, statistics doctoral candidates
and experienced master's students provide assistance in areas such as:
Pick from a full slate of MONTH webinars – brought to you free from SAS experts and our partners. Choose the ones that best fit your needs and interests.
Some webinar titles:
[O]ur team has had to quickly adapt to a fast changing world in the last few weeks. We’ve been doing our best to meet Stanford faculty and students with their academic software needs. As a result, we have launched the checkout-cluster program https://cluster-checkout.stanford.edu/ that allows users to use the cluster machines remotely for both macOS and Windows. We’ve also worked with stakeholders and software vendors to open up the use of a subset of VPTL purchased licenses and VPTL hosted license for Stanford affiliat
Don’t have Stata installed on your local laptop? In this workshop, you will learn to run Stata remotely on the Farmshare servers using X-windows, as well as get a basic introduction to using Stata. X-windows provides the Stata point and click interface (GUI) available on a Windows, Mac, or Linux installed version. You will also learn to navigate the remote server and securely transfer your data, do, and other Stata files between Farmshare and your local computer.
When: Tuesday (5/12/2020) | 2-4pm
Digitizing 18th Century Editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica
The National Library of Scotland has released a dataset that digitizes the first eight editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which publishers issued between 1768 and 1860. The dataset contains over 155,000 image and XML file pairings and nearly 167 million words.
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Registration is now open for the upcoming VIRTUAL MEPS Hand-on webinars for SAS and STATA users. The sessions will be held on April 29 and 30, 2020. A separate registration is required for each session. You can register for both if you wish. For registration and more information, visit the Workshops & Events page on the MEPS Web site at: https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/about_meps/workshops_events.jsp.
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released a new resource page on Census.gov to help federal agencies, businesses, and communities make decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Similar to the Census Bureau’s resources pages created during natural disasters, this resource page includes information on population demographics, economic indicators and businesses.
