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Statscan makes on-line research easier
By JACK KAPICA
Globe and Mail Update
High-school students cringe when asked to use statistics in their homework.
Crunching those kinds of numbers is not a process for the uninitiated.
But Statistics Canada, one of the world's most reputable collectors
of census data, is making its vast trove of numbers available in a way
those students will find easier to understand.
In a project called E-Stat, Statscan is offering their services in
a pilot project to 8,000 high schools, colleges and universities full
interactive access to census data.
Using a data publishing, analysis and reporting software from Ottawa-based
Databeacon Inc., Statscan is hoping to make the process of studying
the census statistics a lot less painful.
With Databeacon, Statscan hopes students will find it easier to conduct
their research on-line, and manipulate the data to draw their own conclusions.
Databeacon's software has been added to E-Stat to provide a new output
format for site visitors interested in drilling down to do analysis
of multidimensional charts and graphs as well as statistical analysis
of data tables.
"Students and teachers from thousands of Canadian and international
schools can experience data publishing, analysis and reporting,"
Databeacon president and CEO Andy Coutts said in announcing the project.
It is "is something we hope will help us demonstrate our value
proposition for many other e-government applications," he added.
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