Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Feb 3 07:57:34 CST 2004
Hi Mark I have anonymized a 15.000 record table covering some nationwide statistics and "cab'ed" it to your e-mail address. As I don't join the OT list I would be pleased if you bring your observations here - if the moderators allow? /gustav > Hello All, > I am currently doing a project around the 80 / 20 principle. Specifically, I am looking at ways to utilise the phenomenon of the 80 / 20 principle (also know as the Pareto Principle). For those > of you that have not heard of it, is states that 80 of the results achieved are usually attained by 20% of the inputs. There is loads of info on Google if you want more. > Anyway, in the work that I wish to do, I need some decent sets of data. Obviously I can synthesise a set of sales figures for a company, with multiple sales people / departments / geographic > regions / products etc. But what I really need is real world data, as the analysis I wish to complete has to be based on real data that occurred in normal day to day life. > I am fully aware that most people do not want to release their private data, hence my difficulty in acquiring working material. I posted the request to the list a few weeks ago, but understandably > I got no replies! > So this is just another request for the same thing. I am looking for any old sets of data that you may have. They can be > sales orders and products, > items purchased by department, > voters and the geographic region they came from, > patients and their final bill, > auto parts in inventory and the stock movements, > financial stocks and their values over time, > horses win / loses by jockey / racecourse > or any such data. I will not disclose the data to anyone other than myself, but I guess that should go without saying. I do not need to know the actual products, or company that sold them. > Secondly, I would be very interested in any opinions or experience that you have on the 80 20 phenomenon ? > If you want father details email me back, I do not mind posting anything on either list, but I think that further discussions should probably be on the OT list. > Thanks in advance for your help, > Mark Breen > Ireland > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com