How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 11, 2016
government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. We thought getting data would be pretty easy.
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