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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I am teaching a Business Intelligence class this semester and have looked at the data sets and downloaded some of them from Quandl. I have also exchanged emails with Tammer. If you are asking whether this is a “valid site”, I would have to answer “yes”. I have not found any hidden “gotcha’s”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jerry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F81BD'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F81BD'>"No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a large number<br>of electrons were slightly inconvenienced..."</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F81BD'><br>Dr. Jerry Flatto, Professor, Information Systems Department - School of Business</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F81BD'>University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:jflatto@uindy.edu" target="_blank">mailto:jflatto@uindy.edu</a></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Confidentiality Notice: This communication and/or its content are for the sole use of the intended recipient, and may be privileged, confidential, or otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and then delete all copies of it. Unless you are the intended recipient, your use or dissemination of the information contained in this communication may be illegal.</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jones, Dr. Dennis G.<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 26, 2013 5:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [AISWorld] FW: Professor, I've created an open and free data resource for academics like yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'>Recently, I received the following communication. Does anyone have any experience working with data sets provided by quandl.com?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Tammer Kamel [<a href="mailto:tammerk@quandl.com">mailto:tammerk@quandl.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:34 AM<br><b>To:</b> Jones, Dr. Dennis G.<br><b>Subject:</b> Professor, I've created an open and free data resource for academics like yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Professor,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>I have developed a platform for data tailored for researchers, and especially students. The site is open and free, and has over 7 million economic, demographic, social, and more time series datasets available for downloading. Importantly, the ease by which a user can find, trim, transform, merge, and download time series data from Quandl is -in my opinion- unmatched elsewhere.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>My hope is that you will visit the site briefly, and perhaps offer me some feedback. I've provided more information here:</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://quandl.dmanalytics1.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quandl.com%2Facademics&i=1&d=X9WY8Y3Z-Y4Z7-418Z-9Y13-U6ZXXVY2U11X&e=djones%40tarleton.edu&a=UYY43609-0U5U-4ZYV-Y7YW-0U98U0275673"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>www.quandl.com/academics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>I have also begun to create tutorials to help teach students how to easily use Quandl in their work. If you have a request for a specific tutorial, I can create it to help with your course materials.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The first is an introduction to using R -the open source statistical software- and Quandl - <a href="http://quandl.dmanalytics1.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quandl.com%2Flearn%2Fworking-with-quandl-and-r&i=2&d=X9WY8Y3Z-Y4Z7-418Z-9Y13-U6ZXXVY2U11X&e=djones%40tarleton.edu&a=UYY43609-0U5U-4ZYV-Y7YW-0U98U0275673">http://www.quandl.com/learn/working-with-quandl-and-r</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>with thanks,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Tammer</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>--</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Tammer Kamel</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:tammerk@quandl.com"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>tammerk@quandl.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://quandl.dmanalytics1.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quandl.com&i=4&d=X9WY8Y3Z-Y4Z7-418Z-9Y13-U6ZXXVY2U11X&e=djones%40tarleton.edu&a=UYY43609-0U5U-4ZYV-Y7YW-0U98U0275673"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>www.quandl.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://quandl.dmanalytics1.com/click?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Ftammerkamel%2F&i=5&d=X9WY8Y3Z-Y4Z7-418Z-9Y13-U6ZXXVY2U11X&e=djones%40tarleton.edu&a=UYY43609-0U5U-4ZYV-Y7YW-0U98U0275673"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>www.linkedin.com/in/tammerkamel/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01CEA27F.1B765810" alt="https://www.dmanalytics1.com/open?d=X9WY8Y3Z-Y4Z7-418Z-9Y13-U6ZXXVY2U11X&e=djones%40tarleton.edu&a=UYY43609-0U5U-4ZYV-Y7YW-0U98U0275673"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'>Dr. Dennis G. Jones, Professor</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'>Computer Information Systems [Box T-0170]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'>College of Business Administration, Room 165<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'>Tarleton State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'>Stephenville, TX 76402<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'>Voice: 254.968.9820<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#7030A0'>Fax: 254.968.9345<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#7030A0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>