Web-based Statistics:
Lecture 14
Thursday, June 1, 2000

Electronic / Web-based Data Collection



Who is interested?
  • Graduate students (for research projects)
  • Researchers / Statisticians
  • Business
  • Government (local, federal, e.g., TAX)
  • Web Researchers / Web Engineers
  • Universities / Schools
Advantages:
  • Fast acces to data (no more paper, no more interviewers)
  • Cheaper
  • Widely distributed sources
  • Immediately updated data
  • Available 24 hours
  • Immediate data verification
  • (+/-)Additional (non-related) information
Disadvantages:
  • More "nonsense" data (in some cases)
  • Biased towards people / companies that are experienced with Web / posses technology
  • Low-end common Web technology
  • Reduced accessability / Overload
  • Security


Homework 12 (10 points, due 06/05/00):

Individual work:
Several papers and reports on electronic / Web-based data collection have been distributed in class. Choose ONE of these papers and write a brief report (one page) that summarizes the main points of the paper.