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For the first time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will provide interrelated statistics on wage levels, benefit costs, rates of change in employer costs for compensation, benefit plan incidence, and detailed benefit provisions.
The National Compensation Survey (NCS) has evolved from several existing programs, but takes those programs in new directions. There had been a lack of coordination among these programs that can limit their usefulness for certain types of analysis.
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BOISE, Idaho — On the outside, their houses and shelters may appear to be havens for dozens or hundreds of homeless and unwanted companion pets and other animals.
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Why would people who profess to love animals so much keep them in such deplorable conditions? Researchers say there are more than 2,000 new cases of animal hoarding reported each year in the United States. Analysis of a national database of animal cruelty shows a five-fold increase in reported cases from 2000 to 2006, according to a Boston veterinarian who has studied the problem for 20 years.
Numerous hoarding cases have grabbed headlines in the past 10 years. Some involve dozens of animals, others hundreds. It's not the quantity of animals that's of concern. It's the lack of proper care.
"I think of these as little animal concentration camps. It's disturbing," said Dr. Jeff Rosenthal, executive director of the Idaho Humane Society. "The animals suffer horribly." One of the most notorious cases involved Barbara Erickson, an elderly woman arrested twice in seven years on animal cruelty charges. The first time, authorities seized nearly 300 dogs at a Midvale, Idaho, house rented by Erickson and her husband, Robert Erickson. The second time, they seized about 550 dogs at a house she rented in eastern Oregon.
Animal hoarders fail to see what most others find repugnant. Investigators found a decomposing cat under a sofa and 12 other cats in the freezer of Gale McVay's Garden City, Idaho, home during a seizure of about 136 cats in 2005. The home was covered in urine and feces, and many of the cats were gravely ill.
"I'm outraged. They're my life. I love my cats. I've done the very best for them," McVay said then.
Experts say a common misconception about animal hoarders is that they are people who simply took on too much and fell behind, or got overwhelmed, by the care and feeding of the animals they rescued from certain death.
In reality, hoarders compulsively collect animals and/or allow them to reproduce even as conditions deteriorate. They lack awareness and sympathy for the creatures they inadvertently torture in the name of rescue, said the Boston vet, Dr. Gary Patronek.
"This is not about helping animals at all; it's about helping themselves," he told the Idaho Statesman. "It's about helping fill their own bucket of need through animals." Animal hoarding is believed to borne of mental illness, but there hasn't been enough study of the problem for medical experts to agree on the underlying causes or possible triggers.
Hoarding has been associated with a number of psychological disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, and borderline personality disorder, though Patronek said the latest research indicates that animal hoarding may not be linked to OCD after all.
Celeste Killeen of Boise, who works at a small, private social services agency, hoped to gain some insight into the problem by researching and writing a book about Erickson.
"I thought that if we could hear from Mrs. Erickson about her life and her perspectives, we could learn something," said Killeen, who wrote a book, "Inside Animal Hoarding: The Case of Barbara Erickson and Her 552 Dogs," recently published by Purdue University Press.
Whatever the underlying disorders turn out to be, counseling and monitoring are necessary to prevent the behavior from recurring. The recidivism rate is close to 100 percent, experts say.
Studies of hoarding cases have revealed that many hoarders describe traumatic childhoods, neglectful or absent parents, and companion pets that offered perhaps their only stable and nurturing relationship.
Patronek co-authored a paper on hoarding in the April issue of Clinical Psychology Review. The pathological accumulation of animals was first described in published research in 1981, but the term "animal hoarding" wasn't coined and defined until 1999.
Animal hoarders can be men or women, young or old, and they come from all walks of life, including volunteers who work for animal rescue groups.
But studies show that the majority of cases involve women. Most are unmarried and live alone.
Rosenthal said municipalities in other states have tipped him off to animal hoarders who have moved to Idaho.
"These folks bebop around from state to state," Rosenthal said. "When they get too much notorietx, they move." The Ericksons certainly fit that profile, moving numerous times in Idaho and Oregon. When they were between homes, they lived in their camper, Killeen said.
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- More than 130 faculty members have been hired for Georgia Gwinnett College's fall semester.
The faculty is currently undergoing an orientation program to familiarize themselves with the young institution before the arrival of more than 5,000 students on the first day of classes, according to a news release.
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Theological Exegesis
Jim West
Quartz Hill School of Theology
August 2010
Since the late 19th century, the historical-critical method has held sway in biblical scholarship. Students entering university track careers or the pastorate have been taught – if not how to do, at least what they are – form criticism, text criticism, redaction criticism, source criticism, and all the rest of the "critical methodologies." These tools, we are told, are useful for addressing the "who, what, and when" of the Bible and thus deepening our comprehension.
But have the various methodological tools really assisted scholars in untangling the textual web or have they left their practitioners with more questions than answers? And if they simply provoke more questions, then what is their ultimate purpose or "end game"?
In my opinion, these are important questions which more and more scholars are asking.1 Where have textual criticism and redaction criticism alone gotten us, for instance? Are we any more certain of the text of Matthew, say, than we were 200 years ago? Are we any more convinced that the Synoptic Problem has finally been solved or that there is even a probable solution or consensus concerning a solution? Is biblical scholarship inching forward incrementally or is historical criticism simply running in circles with solutions to problems offered and debated and re-offered and re-debated in an endless and eternal cycle? We are all doubtlessly aware that theories concerning, for example, the Synoptic problem, have appeared, been embraced, fallen out of favor, and then been "rediscovered'" and revamped by a later generation2. Too, the same questions about the historicity of the Patriarchs and the conquest and other Old Testament events have made the rounds for ages. Either solutions aren't possible or if possible, they remain unconvincing to many.
It seems to me, at any rate, that biblical studies cannot move forward any further along the historical-critical path alone. Furthermore, it seems to me that the only useful approach to biblical studies which can move us forward is theological exegesis. And, to be honest, returning to our roots in theological exegesis as practiced most efficiently in the Reformation writings of Zwingli, Luther, and Calvin.
Since I doubt that my simply stating that fact will persuade anyone, I'll, in what follows, choose a passage, show how the Reformers "theologically exegeted" it, and then offer an example from a modern commentary and you, the reader, will be free to decide which methodology actually "gets at" the meaning of the text and which lies flat.
I've chosen to approach the subject of exegesis in this way because it is my view that the purpose of all exegesis is understanding. Understanding "who, what, and when" (the historical critical questions) is essential but without answering the 'why and how' (the theological questions), exegesis remains unfinished and the text therefore unexplained (which may be precisely why so much historical-critical work has been weighed in the balances and found wanting).
To say it a bit differently, historical-critical tools are useful but in and of themselves inadequate. Theological exegesis is the missing link in most modern biblical scholarship. The "cold dry facts" which historical criticism provides us are just that: cold, dry, and lifeless. Something more is needed or the Bible simply becomes a relic of the past: a collection of "memories" without meaning.
In his exposition of Romans 1:28, Huldrych Zwingli writes:
For if they will not retain God in their knowledge, or nourish their hungry soul with a sweet hope in God, God the righteous Judge will undoubtedly fill their hearts with the foreboding, fear and anguish of eternal torment, so that not having the desire to enter now upon eternal life in quiet expectation, they begin to experience already that eternal perdition which in the world to come they will fulfill eternally. So then, though they have no concern for eternal blessedness, they have a concern about eternal loss. And for our present purpose it is enough that they do experience within themselves some concern for eternity, whether it be eternal torment or eternal felicity.3
Zwingli here presents not simply the "who, what, and when" of the verse, but the "why and how." He penetrates the mere letter of the text to the heart of the text, which is precisely what theological exegesis is capable of doing and which is precisely what historical-criticism is incapable of doing.
John Calvin writes of Romans 1:28:
There is an evident comparison to be observed in these words, by which is strikingly set forth the just relation between sin and punishment. As they chose not to continue in the knowledge of God, which alone guides our minds to true wisdom, the Lord gave them a perverted mind, which can choose nothing that is right. And by saying, that they chose not, (non probasse - approved not,) it is the same as though he had said, that they pursued not after the knowledge of God with the attention they ought to have done, but, on the contrary, turned away their thoughts resignedly from God. He then intimates, that they, making a depraved choice, preferred their own vanities to the true God; and thus the error, by which they were deceived, was voluntary. To do those things which were not meet As he had hitherto referred only to one instance of abomination, which prevailed indeed among many, but was not common to all, he begins here to enumerate vices from which none could be found free: for though every vice, as it has been said, did not appear in each individual, yet all were guilty of some vices, so that every one might separately be accused of manifest depravity. As he calls them in the first instance not meet, understand him as saying, that they were inconsistent with every decision of reason, and alien to the duties of men: for he mentions it as an evidence of a perverted mind, that men addicted themselves, without any reflection, to those vices, which common sense ought to have led them to renounce. But it is labor in vain so to connect these vices, as to make them dependent one on another, since this was not Paul's design; but he set them down as they occurred to his mind. What each of them signifies, we shall very briefly explain.4
Calvin too probes beneath the surface of the text to the meaning. And he does so in a thoroughly engaging way. It is not the mere relation of facts which Calvin is concerned with but with true explanation, true exegesis. Calvin's explanation shows us in a remarkably clear way how far short simple historical-critical exegesis falls by comparison.
Our third exemplar of theological exegesis is Martin Luther, who observes concerning our verse:
And since they did not see fit, tried or tested it negligently, to acknowledge God, so that their heart would not become blind through the loss of the knowledge of God; to this, I say, they did not pay much attention. Therefore: God gave them up, by a fitting punishment and through just condemnation, to a base mind, a perverse mind, to have a taste for and be influenced in the direction of things perverse, to do those things which are not proper, which are unworthy of human beings. 5
Luther is not as detailed as Calvin but his meaning is nonetheless clear and his exegesis not only historically accurate (in terms of what the historical critics might tell us) but theologically insightful.
Fortunately the fine science of theological exegesis didn't end with the Reformation. In more recent years, Adolf Schlatter has written some extraordinarily important theological commentaries on the entire New Testament6. And, as mentioned above, Baker has begun publishing the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. Even more recently Eisenbrauns has instituted the Journal of Theological Interpretation. Hence, what I am suggesting is not new. But theological exegesis still has not, in my estimation, been granted its rightful place in the universe of biblical studies, and in fact, it is looked down on in some quarters. If this were not so, special commentaries and journals devoted to it wouldn't be necessary and its practice would be standard.
Is theological exegesis, though, nothing more than eisegesis? Most certainly not. Theological exegesis is dependent upon a text correctly established, words correctly defined, and Sitz im Leben as clearly delimited as possible. Theological exegesis is simply the opposite side of the coin of hermeneutics. Historical criticism resides on the obverse side of the coin, and theological exegesis on the reverse. And just as a coin is no coin apart from possessing two sides, exegesis is no exegesis apart from possessing the two sides of historical criticism and theological interpretation. These methods are not mutually exclusive but mutually interdependent.
Nevertheless, is a purely historical-critical approach all that bad? After all, it seems to have served the needs of many academics well enough for a very long time now. Pulling a commentary from your shelf will generally offer plenty of evidence of that fact. Entire series have been based upon a purely historical approach. For instance, the International Critical Commentary, the Anchor Bible Commentary, the Old Testament Library (the volumes by American contributors especially- the older German contributions actually offering a good bit of theological reflection) and of course Hermeneia all focus almost exclusively on historical issues with nary a glance towards the theological significance of the text.
Returning to our test text, Romans 1:28, a leading commentator (James Dunn)7 exegetes the verse phrase by phrase and describes all manner of contemporary evidence concerning words and their meanings. When he does turn to an explanation (in a completely separate section of the commentary), he does a fine job of it theologically. But herein lies the problem of modern exegesis: the commentary is organized in such a way that historical-critical issues are separated from theological observations as though the one were distinct from the other. Why? The Interpreter's Bible followed the same procedure as those familiar with it will remember. At the top of the page historical-critical issues were discussed and at the bottom theological exegesis was offered. The New Interpreter's Bible follows the same procedure with the theological exegesis moved to the end of each textual unit. The Word Biblical Commentary too adopts this methodology. The problem, however, is that by dividing historical criticism from theological exegesis an unnecessary bifurcation is introduced.
It is for this reason that the approaches of Schlatter and Calvin and other theologically adept and exegetically competent scholars are to be preferred, since those scholars combine linguistic (historical) analysis with theological interpretation. And they do so because they have recognized that one must be set beside the other and not separated out and segregated from each other. Or, to borrow a fine phrase from another, theological interpretation is:
… a recovery of ways of reading the Bible that, while not dismissing historical and literary concerns, go on to engage the word of God and thus to tear down the iron curtain that has for too long separated biblical studies and systematic theology.8
Commentators should be urged to follow the methodology of combining historical analysis with theological interpretation so that readers of their volumes learn that exegesis is both historical and theological in nature. Historical exegesis alone is insufficient because it lacks explanatory power, and theological exegesis alone is without proper foundation in an accurate understanding of scripture.9 This, of course, means that theologians have to become exegetes and exegetes have to become theologians. But that discussion is for another time.
1 Think, for example, of the recently inaugurated Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
2 Mark Goodacre's work is a case in point.
3 Huldrych Zwingli, On the Clarity and Certainty of the Word of God, in Zwingli and Bullinger, ed. G. Bromiley. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1953, p. 60.
4 John Calvin's Commentary on Romans, accessed online at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom38.v.vii.html on 26 July, 2010.
5 Martin Luther, (1999, c1972). Vol. 25: Luther's works, vol. 25 : Lectures on Romans (J. J. Pelikan, H. C. Oswald & H. T. Lehmann, Ed.). Luther's Works (25:13). Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House.
6 Adolf Schlatter, Erläuterungen zum Neuen Testament (10 volumes): Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1961.
7 James D.G. Dunn, Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 38a: Romans 1-8. Dallas: Word Books, 1988.
8 Kevin J. Vanhoozer, on a 'blurb' for the Journal of Theological Interpretation website, http://www.eisenbrauns.com, accessed 27 July 2010.
9 Anyone who reads Karl Barth's famous 'Romans' knows full well what happens when theology is cut loose from scripture's historical moorings: one learns a lot about the theology of the author and nothing about the theology of the Scriptures.
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Thank you for an insightful article. I pick it up as a dialogue partner on my blog:
I consider two issues. First, is it enough to simply state that Theological exegesis is the other side of the coin of hermeneutics? Second, rather than dismissing him, might Karl Barth be a helpful ally for West?
#1 - Bacho - 08/03/2010 - 11:18
Thanks for a thought-provoking article. But I think you're giving way too much to historical criticism when you say it can give us the "who, what and when" of a given text. You start by noting the limited agreement amongst historical critics about major problems such as the Synoptic Problem. I come from a Hebrew Bible background and am at present working on a paper on 1 Sam 16-17, the intro of David. I find no consensus on who wrote (one or more authors, editors or such) this text (a unity, a compilation, a hodge-podge) when (from 9th c to 2nd c including the possibility of stages over time). I can still read the text although it is an exercise in wrestling with diversity and ambiguity. Given these so-called "facts of the text," I don't see how a theological exegesis will address them or add insight into them.
#2 - Peter Miscall - 08/03/2010 - 13:55
I think that Smyth and Helwys Bible Commentary Series is going into this direction. I'm currently reading one. :-)
Thanks for this mind-stirring post.
#3 - Michael Janapin - 08/04/2010 - 02:20
I would think that the first level of analysis should be literary. In the Romans passage, Paul is asking us to respond to a word play - edokimasan, adokimon: because they did not think fit to hold God in their minds, God left them with a mind not fit to think. Then there's literary history: is P accusing the Greeks of not holding to a task that they had once accepted? Would he be thinking of passages like Theocritus' 'ek Dios archomestha'? Then there's the more straight historical question of what was the situation where Paul thought that the wrath of God was being revealed from on high - something to do with gathering tensions in Judaea?
Then there's the question of what is Paul's train of thought, the question of historical theology. The premise is that thought not fixed on God falls into general disorder and the conclusion is going to be not the expected 'we have no excuse for anything but harsh judgement' but the totally unexpected 'those who judge have no excuse', a brilliant and effective piece of rhetorical reversal. I would think that an effective commentary would analyse how this is done and done so grippingly.
Finally there's the question of autonomous theology by the commentator. The Reformers (whom I enormously admire) cut to this chase rather quickly - I would have thought showing us how not to do it. Their theological comment is little more than repetition of what they think they read: not thinking on God is a sin (is it?) and disordered thought, leading to immoral actions, a fitting punishment (really? don't we risk making God seem to react with pique?). I think they rather miss Paul's sense that the disorder of thought is an automatic consequence rather than a just punishment. Zwingli's emphasis on foreboding and fear of divine punishment is hard to justify from Paul's word.
If we were talking about Samuel and David our autonomous theology might be drawn into a political direction, and perhaps any political view that influences the commentator ought to be stated openly. On the other hand most readers would be looking for the political view or views that contributed to the story, rather than those that contributed to the commentary, to take centre stage.
#4 - Martin Hughes - 08/07/2010 - 09:31
I consider two issues. First, is it enough to simply state that Theological exegesis is the other side of the coin of hermeneutics? Second, rather than dismissing him, might Karl Barth be a helpful ally for West?
Thanks for this mind-stirring post.
Then there's the question of what is Paul's train of thought, the question of historical theology. The premise is that thought not fixed on God falls into general disorder and the conclusion is going to be not the expected 'we have no excuse for anything but harsh judgement' but the totally unexpected 'those who judge have no excuse', a brilliant and effective piece of rhetorical reversal. I would think that an effective commentary would analyse how this is done and done so grippingly.
Finally there's the question of autonomous theology by the commentator. The Reformers (whom I enormously admire) cut to this chase rather quickly - I would have thought showing us how not to do it. Their theological comment is little more than repetition of what they think they read: not thinking on God is a sin (is it?) and disordered thought, leading to immoral actions, a fitting punishment (really? don't we risk making God seem to react with pique?). I think they rather miss Paul's sense that the disorder of thought is an automatic consequence rather than a just punishment. Zwingli's emphasis on foreboding and fear of divine punishment is hard to justify from Paul's word.
If we were talking about Samuel and David our autonomous theology might be drawn into a political direction, and perhaps any political view that influences the commentator ought to be stated openly. On the other hand most readers would be looking for the political view or views that contributed to the story, rather than those that contributed to the commentary, to take centre stage.


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"Cody is my handsome 4-month-old yellow Labrador Retriever. I had dogs all my life until my beloved Golden Irish Emmy died 2 years ago. I was working on obtaining my Master's degree at the time and knew that besides not being ready for another companion just yet, I didn't have adequate time to devote to another dog. I started biting at the chomp a few months before finishing school and could hardly wait to find my new best friend. I think I was more looking forward to getting a new dog than graduating! Cody was my graduation present to myself and came home on May 12, 2009, at 10 weeks of age.
"The float photo was taken when he was 12 weeks old and the life vest photo was when he was 14 weeks. Even as a water-loving breed, Lab puppies still need to learn how to swim, and for his safety, I got him a life vest for swimming in deeper waters such as lakes and rivers. He loves playing in shallow water and is quickly learning to love the pool. He can't stand for me to be in it without him!
"Cody is such a joy. He has a very calm temperament and trains easily. From the first day I had him he sat for treats without command and was totally housebroken within 2 weeks. He already retrieves the newspaper from the mailbox and drops it in my hand on command every morning. Pretty good, I think! He goes to Puppy Kindergarten every week to learn good manners and be socialized. He will become a certified therapy dog and enrich the lives of others, just as he has mine.
"I have watched "Dog Whisperer" and have used several of his techniques in training Cody. I think the most important thing I've learned is the need to be "pack leader." I'm convinced that this is the basis of having a well-trained, happy and secure dog. Another thing I have put into practice is generating the kind of energy I want Cody to have. He will react to situations based on the vibes he receives from me, so I must be diligent in projecting the correct energy. I have never put this much work into training a dog before, but I already see the rewards of my efforts.
"Cody is growing so fast that he barely resembles a puppy anymore. Sometimes it seems sad that he is no longer that small little fur ball, but it is so much fun to see him grow and watch him develop. It is especially nice to see those razor puppy teeth falling out! I look forward to enjoying many more years of companionship with him!"
Cody the yellow Lab at 14 weeks old wearing his life vest
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Logan the yellow Lab puppy at 3½ months old
Ripley the silver Labrador Retriever at 11 months old
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You all know that I love doing data driven posts. But I found myself frustrated that it would make me literally hours to create even simple blog posts doing what I figured was very basic analysis like putting up something about what happened in the latest Census estimates release. There was just tons of tedious work involved.
It can be surprisingly difficult to answer seemingly basic questions about cities, like:
- Which large metro areas grew their GDP the most in the last year?
- How does Chicago benchmark against New York on job creation?
- What counties in Indiana increased their Hispanic population share in the last decade by the most?
- How did the population growth rate in the city of Chicago compare to Cook County, the metro area, state, and nation last year?
- Where do the people who move to Indianapolis come from?
Answering these questions can involve lots of drudge work to download raw data, manipulate it in Excel to find what you want, then to type it into an HTML table or put it into a chart you can use in a post, presentation, or document. It take literally take hours, sometimes days.
There are tons of free tools that let you access data, but every one I've seen is almost useless for real data analysis. They more or less only let you look up facts – like the population of Chicago – or display grids of numbers. It's telling that the Census Bureau's tool is actually called "Fact Finder." If they create graphs, it's mostly what they want to show, not what you to, and almost invariably only in Flash, so that you can't take it out of their system without doing a screen shot.
Conversely, there are tons of pro tools that do fantastic stuff, programs like SAS, ArcGIS, or Moody's Economy.com. The problem is that these cost huge amounts of money, are aimed at high end power users doing hard core statistical analysis and the like, or both; and are often hard to use as a result. There's a reason that there's an entire job category out there called "GIS Analyst".
So I gave up in my search to find something that met my needs, and instead decided to build my own private database and query tools. Then I discovered that's what half the world is doing, which seems like a waste. So I figured if this is so valuable to me, which it is, maybe it's valuable to others and they might use it too.
And so my latest venture, the Telestrian data terminal was born. (See www.telestrian.com). For people who work with data about cities, counties, regions, and states, Telestrian is all about providing three bigtime benefits:
- Huge time and money savings. I can honestly say that having Telestrian for my own use during development has reduced the amount of time I spend on many data analysis tasks by over 95%. I'm serious. Stuff that would have taken me hours or been nearly impossible before I can now do in a few seconds. And as we all know, time is money.
- New capabilities. Notice that I've been posting more maps lately? That's because I can actually make them now. And with Telestrian, so can you – and a lot more.
- New revenue opportunities. If you are a consultant, I'll show you how Telestrian can power new types of engagements you can sell. In fact, I originally thought it would make a nice proprietary tool for my own consulting business.
And if you're wondering whether this is the system with the IRS migration data, the answer is Yes! so read on.
You can read more about the benefits and walk through a few examples in my white paper, A Better Way to Find, Look At, Analyze, and Display Civic Data. I'll highlight a few examples of the benefits in action.
Massive Time Savings
You've seen lots of studies that rate metro areas on college degree attainment, like Brookings' wonderful State of Metropolitan America. Let's say we're doing an update to that study for them, and want to look specifically at growth in the share of people who have professional or graduate degrees. Which of the top 100 metros areas had the greatest change in their percentage of population with graduate or professional degrees?
With the Telestrian system, you can answer that question in about 30 seconds. We just go do that data element and do it. Telestrian gives you a common toolset on every data element. The Query tab is what most people gravitate to, since it is what lets you look up data by geography and date like other sites do. But that's arguably the least powerful thing in the system. If you go to Analyze, you can run powerful parameterized queries that let you mine the data in a snap. Here's the query you want. You can click to enlarge this screen shot:
Note that we set a threshold to only look at places greater than 510,000 people in population. This gives us the top 100, which is what Brookings looks at.
Bam, here's the answer:
You'll note that on the left there are a ton of options for working with the results. Maybe we want to dump that into a blog post like this one in a form you can actually read, for example. In just a couple clicks we can export an HTML table that we can paste right here:
|Change in % of Total Adult (25+) Population
|Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
|607,122 (19.1%)
|820,534 (22.6%)
|Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY
|74,319 (9.5%)
|96,625 (12.5%)
|Baltimore-Towson, MD
|201,072 (11.9%)
|267,724 (14.8%)
|Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH
|455,971 (15.4%)
|574,092 (18.3%)
|Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY
|41,647 (10.5%)
|57,859 (13.3%)
|Worcester, MA
|50,857 (10.3%)
|70,294 (13.1%)
|Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
|96,943 (12.5%)
|123,378 (15.3%)
|St. Louis, MO-IL
|158,331 (9.0%)
|220,061 (11.6%)
|Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME
|34,082 (10.2%)
|46,163 (12.8%)
|Columbia, SC
|37,534 (9.1%)
|55,623 (11.6%)
Or maybe put these into a bar chart. Voilà!
Yes, Telestrian system even truncates those overly long metro area names if you want it to. At this point we've spent about one total minute in the system.
If you've worked with this data at all, you'll know that it comes from two completely different data sets. The 2000 data comes from Census 2000 and the 2009 data comes from the American Community Survey. So you'd have to manually extract both, merge them, merge in the population data somehow, trim it down to the top 100 metros, calculate the percentage attainment, calculate the percentage point change, sort on that, then hand create the tables or charts. But what's worse, you may remember that the Census 2000 data is distributed in that old 1990's era CMSA/PMSA stuff that isn't comparable with today's metro area definitions. So you have to download the county data and manually re-aggregate all the 2000 data to current metros yourself, unless you find a source that did it for you already.
Or you can just spend about a minute in the Telestrian tool.
Beyond change in the percentage of a parent data value, there are several other functions you can use in your search too, such as total raw value, total change, percent change, density, and location quotient. The Telestrian data terminal can almost turn you into a one man Brookings Institution.
New Capabilities
Calculating data like the above is tedious, but conceivably doable. But there are some things that are almost impossible to do yourself without the right tools. One of them is to create thematic maps of your results, like those red-blue election maps. Most people create those with ArcGIS, but if you don't have or can't use it, or don't have a graphic designer on call, making one can be almost impossible. I sure didn't know how to make them.
Using ArcGIS to make a simple thematic map is like using a tactical nuclear weapon to get rid of the spider in your bath tub. That's why I built it right into the system, letting you render almost any of those Analyze queries directly to a thematic map. We do that in the app on the Map tab, which is similar to analyze but gives you some other options. Let's just map our same query for all US metros:
In blues, we see places where the percentage of people with graduate degrees increased, in reds those where it actually decreased. I could have picked my own thresholds for coloring, but decided to go with one of the built in algorithms, in this case a 5 bucket sort. This took about 30 seconds total to create by the way, so don't think that just because I filed this under "new capability" it doesn't mean it wouldn't save you lots of time too even if you already have and can use ArcGIS.
By the way, these maps are images files (PNG), not Flash, so you can actually right click and save them to use them as you see fit. And you can make them pretty much as big or small as you want with no resolution loss or distortion. To see an example of what I mean by that, just click here.
Make More Money
This one also saves time and gives you new capabilities, but additionally it enables consultants to make more money too. Cities and states spend hundreds of millions of dollars on human capital and "brain drain" initiatives. But frankly very few places have much of a clue about their human capital networks. Where do people who move in come from? Where do people to leave go? How much money and how big of families are they taking or leaving?
A big problem is the data. The Census Bureau only publishes net migration, but doesn't talk about where people come from or go to. The IRS publishes that in its migration data, but it is super painful to use. For one thing, other than the last handful of years, the data only comes in the form of over 3,500 Excel spreadsheets. (They will mail those to you on a CD for $500). And the data only tracks state-state and county-to-county when often what we really care about is metro-metro or metro-state. Unless you have and can use (sparse matrix, anyone?) a tool like SAS (which is thousands of dollars a year and doesn't come with any data) and crack the code on data import, it's virtually hopeless.
But with Telestrian, all that data has been processed for you, and presented not just at the county-county and state-state level, but also at the metro-metro, and metro-state level. And there are tons of summary metrics taken from the IRS files, as well as other bespoke calculations of things like migration rates and intra-metro migration (e.g., core to suburb moves). Over 100 items in all.
Want to know where the money is going when it leaves Atlanta and how much of it ends up there? Here you go, looking at 2000-2008:
Of course this data is available in raw form, exportable to Excel if you want it. Again, it's about 30 seconds or so to make this.
This only scratches the surface of what you can do with migration. I hope it is easy to see that there are huge market opportunities for consultants to use this to start helping cities and states map out their human capital networks and find ways to take advantage of them. Much more on this later.
So What Is Telestrian?
So what does Telestrian actually do? A full feature summary is available for your perusal, but in brief, Telestrian provides the following.
- Data Repository. It contains an aggregated data repository of over 600 data elements, including core data such as population, sex, age, race, migration, education, immigration, commuting, highway congestion, health data, labor force and unemployment, jobs and wages, GDP, personal and household income, poverty, and more. I consider this a "starter set" and there's virtually unlimited room to expand, which I have big ambitions to do.
- Common Analysis Toolset. Run parameterized queries to mine the data and analyze results sets. Includes things like filtering by state or population; applying functions like percent change, total change, or location quotient; and calculating CAGR, index values, percentage of parent, and much more.
- Task Automation. In addition to automatically applying functions like the above, Telestrian also automatically applies rollups of regions, allows saving of commonly used geography lists so you don't have to recreate them over and over, defining custom regions, etc. The various components of the system are also integrated to enable rapid end to end processing.
- Visualization. Render results to bar, column, area, line, and pie charts (Flash or image), or export to Excel/CSV or HTML tables. Thematic maps can be made at the national level for states, counties or metros, or at the state level for counties.
The focus of the system is data about cities, counties, regions (MSA, CSA, EA, etc), and states, though national level data is also available.
Pricing is currently on an annual basis at only $495/year (a bit over than $40 a month). But for a limited time to my loyal readers who work for organizations who might be able to use this, I am offering it at $395/year (less than $35/month). If you use it for one project like that grad degree one, it already paid for itself. I might offer a monthly plan in the future, but it will be at a price premium to the annual, and not include access to IRS data. A free trial is available with no credit card required and no obligation so you can try it for yourself without risk. IRS data is not included in the trial.
Consider that just to have the IRS send you their raw data on a CD – in the form of over 3,500 spreadsheets – is $500 by itself. You'd pay well over $300/year just for GIS free mapping with something like Indiemapper. To say nothing of the untold thousands you could spend on high end products.
For those of you who work as consultants, planners, journalists, analysts, economic developers, agency staffers, etc. who work with this data and need to do more than just look up simple facts, I'd ask you to take a look, and if you see the value – which I'm confident you will – please buy.
Since this is the official launch day, I'd ask that you please be gentle if we run into performance or other type issues right here at the start. I will increase site capacity as fast as I can if need be, and of course candid feedback is always welcome. Again, the link is www.telestrian.com.
I'll wrap up with a couple more fun examples, but before I do I want to tell you a few problems Telestrian is NOT designed to solve:
- If you need statistical analysis like multi-variate regressions, you need SAS or SPSS or something.
- If you need data at the zip code, Census tract, or other level below city or county, you need tools from ESRI or one of the many specialist providers who will help you decide where to locate your store or whatever else you need.
- If you need to look at detailed breakdows like jobs at the 4-digit NAICS code or black-female-and-hispanic, look for something like Moody's Economy.com
- If you need to know the unemployment rate the minute it hits the wire, get a Bloomberg terminal.
- If you need non-US data, again go get Moody's Economy.com
If you have problems like these that involve very detailed, complex, or time sensitive considerations, I'm sorry. You probably do need to spend a lot of money and hire some specialists.
Fun With Data
Here are a couple more fun pieces of data analysis.
First, a comparison of job growth in New York vs. Chicago vs. the US. I actually go through how to do this example in the Telestrian User's Guide (yes, the system actually has documentation).
This is a great example of how you can query data at any geography level simultaneous if the data supports it, and the use of indexes for comparison of regions with very different sizes. If you're familiar with the Current Employment Statistics, you'll also know that the US data and Metro data come from two separate data sets, but I allow you to query them together.
By the way, I created every single chart in my Chicago vs. New York blog post from last fall combined in about five minutes using a development version of the system. If you at all benchmark or compare cities, I think you're in the sweet spot of the product. That's doubly true if you compare places at different geographic levels (such as metro vs. nation or county vs. state, etc) since Telestrian puts no arbitrary restrictions on what geographies you can query together.
One more. Here's a national county map of unemployment rates for October 2010 (not seasonally adjusted):
It's a cool graphic, but I especially posted it because data visualization guru Nathan Yau wrote a long blog post at his widely read blog Flowing Data that explained how to a create a map almost like this in 14 easy steps – easy if you know how to program in Python that is. As he put it, "There are about a million ways to make a choropleth map. You know, the maps that color regions by some metric. The problem is that a lot of solutions require expensive software or have a high learning curve…or both." Yau's solution requires you know to know how to write computer software. Telestrian is almost de minimis in cost to any real organization and only requires you to know how to surf the net. With that, about 30 seconds later you can have your map.
You can also check out my recent metro GDP post, or my Chicago Census post, which used this system to power the data analysis.
Thanks so much for reading and I hope you'll check it out and decide to buy – remember, it's www.telestrian.com. It's a great way to support the work I do – but much more importantly I'm confident the business value is very real and significant because I'm enjoying it every day myself.


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For 6 Steaks (can be multiplied easily)
Adapted from Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volume I
The filet mignon comes from the loin of the cow. It is the tenderest cut but also the most expensive. It is also very lean, but without any marbling to give it flavor, the filet needs a sauce to be at its best.
This recipe takes about 15-20 minutes to make. It is not hard. It can be made on any weeknight and served with steamed vegetables and a green salad. It can also be served as part of a more formal dinner (see The Julia Child Tribute Dinner) where your entree is just one course in the meal. I think it is one of the safest bets for any type dinner party. Most people love a good steak.
Note: My children go crazy when I cook this! To make it more affordable, I buy a whole beef tenderloin and cut it into individual steaks. I freeze what I don't need raw for later.
6 crustless rounds of bread, French or Sourdough, about 2 ½ inches in diameter and ¼ inch thick
3 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
½ lb fresh mushrooms, whole if very small, quartered if large
2 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 Tbsp minced shallots
¼ tsp salt
Pinch of pepper
6 filet steaks 1 inch thick and 2 ½ inches in diameter, each wrapped in a thick piece of bacon secured with a toothpick
2 Tbsp butter, more if needed
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 or 2 heavy skillets just large enough to hold the steaks easily
½ cup beef stock or broth
1 Tbsp tomato paste
¼ cup Madiera mixed with ½ Tbsp cornstarch
2 Tbsp minced parsley, tarragon and chervil, or parsley only
Heat olive oil and melt butter over MEDIUM HIGH heat. When hot and bubbling, add bread rounds and sauté to brown lightly on each side. Reheat them for a minute in a 350° oven just before serving.
Heat olive oil and melt butter over MEDIUM HIGH heat. When hot and bubbling, add mushrooms and sauté to lightly brown, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to MEDIUM and stir in shallots. Cook 2-3 minutes more. Season and set aside.
Dry steaks on paper towels. Heat olive oil and butter over MEDIUM HIGH heat. When butter foams and then begins to subside, add steaks and sauté to medium rare, 3-4 minutes on each side. Remove from heat immediately. Discard bacon and season steaks with salt and pepper. Place each steak on a piece of bread and keep warm while making the sauce.
Pour fat out of skillet then stir in the stock and tomato paste. Boil rapidly and using a wooden spoon, scrape up the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Reduce the sauce to 2-3 Tbsp. Add the starch and wine mixture to the sauce and boil rapidly until the alcohol evaporates and the sauce thickens, about 1 minute. Add sautéed mushrooms and simmer for 1 minute more. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
To serve: Plate the bread and steak canapé. Spread mushroom sauce over the steaks and sprinkle with herbs.
Note: Put a dab of the sauce on the side for the children in your group who don't like different foods to touch.