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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to n...
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Memorial University is the only university in Newfoundland and Labrador, with almost 19,000 students in six faculties and seven schools. The faculty complement numbers 1,000, many of whom are available as expert commenta...
Université de Moncton
Canada's largest entirely French-speaking university outside Québec. Student enrollment of 6,000 students. Campuses in Moncton, Edmundston and Shippagan. La plus grande université canadienne entièrement de langue frança...

New Releases

Science for Peace Opposes Cancellation of the Long-Form Census
2010-07-23
Science for Peace
The decision to cancel the long-form census represents an attack on evidence-based research and is undemocratic. Science for Peace urges the government to reverse the decision.
Sources welcomes Steven Goldhar, President and Founder of Sundance Media Inc.
2009-08-04
Steven Goldhar, President and Founder of Sundance Media Inc.
Sources welcomes a new member, Steven Goldhar, President and Founder of Sundance Media Inc.

Sources Select Resources

Cluster Analysis (in Marketing)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
A class of statistical techniques that can be applied to data that exhibit 'natural' groupings. Cluster analysis sorts through the raw data and groups them into clusters.
Science for Peace Opposes Cancellation of the Long-Form Census
Sources News Release
Article
2010
Science for Peace
The decision to cancel the long-form census represents an attack on evidence-based research and is undemocratic. Science for Peace urges the government to reverse the decision.

Sources Bookshelf

Beautiful Evidence
Tufte, Edward
Book
How to produce and consume evidence presentations. How seeing turns into showing, empirical observations turn into explanation and evidence.
The Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Ziliak, Stephen T.; McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Book
2008
An analysis of how modern testing has fixed on statistical significance as the benchmark of significance, often to the detriment of the relevant significance. Basically, statistical significance focu...
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Baillargeon, Normand
Book
2005
What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from...
Telling the Truth
Socialist Register 2006
Panitch, Leo; Keys, Colin (eds.)
Book
2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
The Visual Evidence of Quantitive Information
Tufte, Edward
Book
A classic book on statistical charts, graphs, and tables.
Visual Explanations
Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Tufte, Edward
Book
About pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative.

Government Ministries & Agencies

Industry Canada
Industry Canada's mission is to foster a growing, competitive, and innovative knowledge-based Canadi...
Statistics Canada
Canada's central statistical agency.


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