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Gabriel is taking requests, and someone wants to know where to get data.
Request #10: Data Sources
Starting on the requests. Today, Mike request (comment #10):
There are a number of key macroeconomic indicators generally used, such as GDP, CPI, and others I can’t begin to name. Is there some master list of who publishes what, and when, [...]

I get asked the “which hard drive” question a lot, for whatever reason (and no, this is not in response to my own recent drive failure, but the same question asked of me by several people recently). Let me begin by saying that I am no expert on hard drives. They are extremely complicated, sensitive [...]

I’ve had the opportunity to do some original research on terrorism and intra-national civil violence and its ‘root causes.’ While I was digging through newspapers, entering data into a spreadsheets, and reviewing the author’s chapters, I learned quite a bit. Namely, most of the common beliefs about terrorists are utterly unsubstantiated in any dataset you [...]

The company says that customers who do not want their CPNI data shared need to call 1-800-333-9956 to “opt-out.” Failure to opt out will be interpreted by Verizon Wireless as “consent” for sharing your call records with certain other parties.
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