No I’m angry they’ve put arbitrary limits on how they collect and give data. And over specifying is a form of obfuscation. You say you like tiny little slices pre made but any competent database query system will create any slice you want in seconds. Instead you’re reduced to searching for the basic information among thousands of these slices. Or trying to put each slice together to stitch the data together.
This is not neglect, that would look like an abandoned data set or a data set with nothing but a 90’s query. This is not benevolence, that would look like the CDCs query system. This is by design. Someone made the system shitty for anyone who wants to work outside their pre-made crumbs of data. What you’re seeing isn’t someone who wants pretty little graphs. It’s someone who wants a million lines of data in a hundred tables with a query system that’s worth a damn.
I’ve never had cause to play with the cdc data but from what I’m looking st in wisqars, it seems lile you’re limited to a si goes query at a time and to .csv output, so are you manually putting those hundred tables together or is there another site or…?
For the bls, as with most organizations that do this sort of thing, there’s a handy API so you** can easily** pull all the data and tables you’d like. Also, of course, they have most of their data available in large, admittedly flat, data files for the odd cross section of people who want to get down and dirty with the data but don’t have the skills to pull JSON requests. Simply follow the original link I gave you, select all the groups/data of interest and to format options.
It really seems like you’re just searching for a reason to be angry. At first you were railing because as far as I can tell, you blamed the BLS for free news sites being clickbaity. Then were raging about the unemployment number because you didn’t understand how people were counted. Then got angry about having trouble finding the most basic info and when it was shown, are now angry it doesn’t come in database format???
No I’m angry they’ve put arbitrary limits on how they collect and give data. And over specifying is a form of obfuscation. You say you like tiny little slices pre made but any competent database query system will create any slice you want in seconds. Instead you’re reduced to searching for the basic information among thousands of these slices. Or trying to put each slice together to stitch the data together.
This is not neglect, that would look like an abandoned data set or a data set with nothing but a 90’s query. This is not benevolence, that would look like the CDCs query system. This is by design. Someone made the system shitty for anyone who wants to work outside their pre-made crumbs of data. What you’re seeing isn’t someone who wants pretty little graphs. It’s someone who wants a million lines of data in a hundred tables with a query system that’s worth a damn.
I’ve never had cause to play with the cdc data but from what I’m looking st in wisqars, it seems lile you’re limited to a si goes query at a time and to .csv output, so are you manually putting those hundred tables together or is there another site or…?
For the bls, as with most organizations that do this sort of thing, there’s a handy API so you** can easily** pull all the data and tables you’d like. Also, of course, they have most of their data available in large, admittedly flat, data files for the odd cross section of people who want to get down and dirty with the data but don’t have the skills to pull JSON requests. Simply follow the original link I gave you, select all the groups/data of interest and to format options.
It really seems like you’re just searching for a reason to be angry. At first you were railing because as far as I can tell, you blamed the BLS for free news sites being clickbaity. Then were raging about the unemployment number because you didn’t understand how people were counted. Then got angry about having trouble finding the most basic info and when it was shown, are now angry it doesn’t come in database format???