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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:#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@01CEA275.B3A15090" alt="https://www.dmanalytics1.com/open?d=X9WY8Y3Z-Y4Z7-418Z-9Y13-U6ZXXVY2U11X&e=djones%40tarleton.edu&a=UYY43609-0U5U-4ZYV-Y7YW-0U98U0275673"></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><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>