ben
Data science + noisy music | he/him
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- Here's one of my best friends (who, before being illegally fired, was the data scientist at NEH) showing just how much money NEH could distribute back out to US taxpayers based on their lifetime contributions. Get ready to make it rain with thousands of pennies y'all!
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- Ben shows that if you've been paying taxes since NEH's founding in 1965, your total lifetime tax contributions to the only agency dedicated to funding the humanities in the United States could instead have covered a single tank of gas in your car. Ben was NEH's data scientist until last month.
- Indeed, this overestimates your lifetime contributions to NEH! I believe @btskinner.io divided NEH budget across the total US population, but the nation's top 25% of earners pay 90% of its taxes, and income tax accounts for only half of US income. Thus, most of us pay 1/20th of Ben's $ estimates!
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- Sounds like folks are worried about losing data access during a possible government shutdown, so I quickly whipped up this Education Data Portal with all the major datasets on schools, districts, and colleges: educationdata.urban.org/documentation/
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