[dundee] New Government Statistical Data Repository Web Site

[gordon dunlop]

2010/1/22 Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>

>
> Ray Panko's work (http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/index.htm) is
> particularly interesting, especially the paper "What we know about
> spreadsheet
> errors" and his point that the high error rates in spreadsheets are
> consistent
> with (human) error rates in other domains.
>
> Panko's paper was used in the Msc. IT course at Abertay for group
> discussions on "do you use a spreadsheet or do you use a database?". This
> paper was really eye opening.
>

  Gordon

>
> RJL
>
>
>
> > 2010/1/22 Marcel Hecko <marcel at shmu.org.uk>
> >
> > >  The next step would be to provide all the information in an open
> format.
> > > Just a very quick (random) search for some statistics pointed me to
> this
> > > page with XSL data only, which is kind of sad.
> > > http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1918.html
> >
> >  True Marcel, but the NHS uses Microsoft Office for storing research data
> > and documents (or a database), which is why I have an XP partition as my
> > wife is involved in NHS research.  At least the XSL data can be viewed
> >  using OpenOffice Calc which means she can look at the data using Fedora.
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> > > Dissapointing :(
> > >
> > > m.
> > >
> > >
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