The dataset, compiled by the Centre for Whale Research in the US, contains birth and death dates as well as details of the genetic and social relationships in two populations of killer whales, which share their menopausal trait with only humans and pilot whales.
Drawing on the rarely used, restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners CBOO) dataset compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, Fairlie and Robb examine in particular why Asian-owned firms perform well in comparison to white-owned businesses and black-owned firms typically do not.
They used a large dataset compiled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and they worked closely with Lauren Patterson from the Water Policy Program at Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
We use a dataset compiled by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement that reflects a BMI screening program for public school children in the state of Arkansas.
While comprehensive data on the victims of drug-related violence is not available, analysis of a subsample of drug-related crimes reported in newspapers between 2006 and 2012 provides an idea of the civilian cost (the Violence and Victims Monitor dataset, compiled by the Trans-border Institute).
Many Americans falsely believe that Europe is more equal than the U.S., but a new dataset compiled by the economist James Galbraith and the University of Texas Inequality Project shows inequality between countries and regions across Europe for the first time -- and they find that Europe has had higher inequality than us since the 1970s.
A list of the UK government's "National Information Infrastructure" datasets compiled by Boswarva shows that only four sets of data are included from the agency - and that only one, showing administrative boundaries for water management areas, is "open" so that it can be freely reused.
"At first I really, really felt it was a robot, but when going more deeply into the interview I totally forgot that she's not human". But robots are programmed by humans, analyse datasets compiled by humans, and learn from human behaviour, so couldn't they inherit some of our biases?
Take, for example, the difference in the Nino 3 Index Reconstruction by Cook, that uses tree ring data, and the classic dataset compiled by Quinn updated in the early 90 s (Quinn et al. 1987, 1992, 1993) based on historic records.
We used the method proposed by Taylor et al. [ 13], as described briefly in Methods, in the dataset (the Wang dataset) compiled by Wang et al. [ 28] and in the dataset (the Desmedt dataset) compiled by Desmedt et al.[ 29].
