Okay, I’ll bite because this is too funny. What is your scenario where you need detailed, tabular American labour and economics primary source data on the go and google won’t suffice?
When I’m sitting on the shitter talking to you. Or any time I’m traveling and don’t want to bring a whole ass laptop? Formatting for mobile isn’t exactly hard. You’re not asking for months of work. And data about our economy is exactly the kind of data that needs to be as open as possible.
I think this is what you are fundamentally misunderstanding. BLS data is for doing actual analysis and is designed people like me who actually work with data can easily grab and compare from a couple dozen highly specialized tables at once. They have tens of thousands of tables and datasets as they track literally the entire economy.
Their website does not and should not sacrifice that just so you can hunt down data while you poop. That’s why I asked what sort of question requires primary source data rather than google. What question do you imagine answering on your phone that google couldn’t handle? (Or, that the BLS’ “top data” section couldn’t handle?)
Oh only for the blessed? Everyone else doesn’t matter? No one else deserves to know what’s going on? When you could just hook up a report generator?
How are you okay with being spoon fed information instead of pulling your own reports if you’re a researcher? Seriously I’ve never met a researcher who was happy to let other people slice their data. And all of this of defense of them not doing a bog standard query generator. They could still cut the crust off your bread for you. It’s not an either/or situation. And it’s certainly not the standard in any other academic field.
So you can only access data on desktop computers? That’s really the gatekeeping line you’re drawing?
In terms of BLS priorities? Yeah, ignoring mobile seems pretty reasonable.
“Quick, I need to see seasonally adjusted farmworkers by gender while I’m in line for groceries! For reasons!!!”
Lol
Sure. That’s the exact scenario…
Okay, I’ll bite because this is too funny. What is your scenario where you need detailed, tabular American labour and economics primary source data on the go and google won’t suffice?
When I’m sitting on the shitter talking to you. Or any time I’m traveling and don’t want to bring a whole ass laptop? Formatting for mobile isn’t exactly hard. You’re not asking for months of work. And data about our economy is exactly the kind of data that needs to be as open as possible.
I think this is what you are fundamentally misunderstanding. BLS data is for doing actual analysis and is designed people like me who actually work with data can easily grab and compare from a couple dozen highly specialized tables at once. They have tens of thousands of tables and datasets as they track literally the entire economy.
Their website does not and should not sacrifice that just so you can hunt down data while you poop. That’s why I asked what sort of question requires primary source data rather than google. What question do you imagine answering on your phone that google couldn’t handle? (Or, that the BLS’ “top data” section couldn’t handle?)
Oh only for the blessed? Everyone else doesn’t matter? No one else deserves to know what’s going on? When you could just hook up a report generator?
How are you okay with being spoon fed information instead of pulling your own reports if you’re a researcher? Seriously I’ve never met a researcher who was happy to let other people slice their data. And all of this of defense of them not doing a bog standard query generator. They could still cut the crust off your bread for you. It’s not an either/or situation. And it’s certainly not the standard in any other academic field.
What serious researcher is doing said serious research on their phone!?!?! Are you high?