rwebdb RIP
It’s time to pull the plug.
It’s time to pull the plug.
The project heads toward a release date and a welcome supplement to recent macro-level analysis of college costs that has received broad attention and some contentious disbelief.
Institutional revenues for the early years of the postsecondary education time series now reside in rpeds.
The rpeds time series now contains data on student charges.
Progress report on the development of a postsecondary education time series, which now also has a tentative name.
A new integrated data structure, additional flexibility, initial test results, and plans for continued development.
Understanding something and knowing how to proceed can be two different things.
The rwebdb data warehouse now contains 31 variables. Of these, 16 are new, including several pricing variables on undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees. The post also provides a peek ahead.
On tearing apart programs, queasiness, and reassembling them, all the while testing and re-testing for query performance changes. Along with lots and lots of verification that no logic errors get introduced in the process.
A boatload of new enrollment variables, including the dreaded full-time equivalent enrollments. Gratifying results.