Comments on: Data and Salt http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3409 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: WilliamConnolley http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3409&cpage=1#comment-927 WilliamConnolley Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:12:20 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3409#comment-927 It looks like you're right. I followed one link at random - household survey data - and it offered to let me download the raw data. How does science fare? A lot of the IPCC TAR model data is available from the DDC: http://www.mad.zmaw.de/IPCC_DDC/html/SRES_TAR/index.html. In many cases you can't have the model code (can you get the treasury model code?) but you can have the output. There is even some AR4 data there. An openness intercomparison would be interesting (my other intercomparison project for an interested party would be: which are more reliable, climate models or economic models?). It looks like you’re right. I followed one link at random – household survey data – and it offered to let me download the raw data. How does science fare? A lot of the IPCC TAR model data is available from the DDC: http://www.mad.zmaw.de/IPCC_DDC/html/SRES_TAR/index.html. In many cases you can’t have the model code (can you get the treasury model code?) but you can have the output. There is even some AR4 data there. An openness intercomparison would be interesting (my other intercomparison project for an interested party would be: which are more reliable, climate models or economic models?).

]]> By: Roger A. Pielke, Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3409&cpage=1#comment-926 Roger A. Pielke, Jr. Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:20:45 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3409#comment-926 William- Thanks for your comment. This would make for a great thesis project for an aspiring science policy analyst. It could even involve a comparison across countries. It looks to me like the U.S. Federal Reserve makes all of its economic data available here: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/ -------------------- It does have some exceptions to what is released: -------------------- http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/foia/exemptions.cfm -------------------- The original studies that produce the data are here: http://www.frbsf.org/publications/fedinprint/index.html And here: ----http://www.bea.doc.gov/ William- Thanks for your comment. This would make for a great thesis project for an aspiring science policy analyst. It could even involve a comparison across countries. It looks to me like the U.S. Federal Reserve makes all of its economic data available here:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/

——————– It does have some exceptions to what is released:

——————– http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/foia/exemptions.cfm

——————– The original studies that produce the data are here:

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/fedinprint/index.html

And here:

—-http://www.bea.doc.gov/

]]> By: William Connolley http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3409&cpage=1#comment-925 William Connolley Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:50:42 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3409#comment-925 "Democratizing science does not mean settling questions about Nature by plebiscite, any more than democratizing politics means setting the prime rate by referendum". That might be a useful basis for comparison. Are the data used for setting the prime rate made available to the sort of detail that is proposed for the science data? In the UK, the minutes of the monetary policy committee are relseased, delayed, but I'm less sure that the background info is. “Democratizing science does not mean settling questions about Nature by plebiscite, any more than democratizing politics means setting the prime rate by referendum”.

That might be a useful basis for comparison. Are the data used for setting the prime rate made available to the sort of detail that is proposed for the science data? In the UK, the minutes of the monetary policy committee are relseased, delayed, but I’m less sure that the background info is.

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