KELO-TV notes that, two weeks after lifting its mask mandate, and after two consecutive weekends of hosting high school basketball tournaments, Sioux Falls is surging…
Tag: statistics
Another black mark of Trumpism was erased yesterday as the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service issued its Agricultural Labor Survey. Last September, the Sonny Perdue…
An eager reader turns my attention to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Covid-19 Nursing Home Dataset, and I get to spend my waking…
Happy New Year! Let’s celebrate with the traditional year in statistical review of Dakota Free Press in 2020! I published 1,261 posts in 2020, drew 17,055…
SDSU epidemiologist Dr. Bonny Specker posts some disturbing graphs of South Dakota’s overall fatality rates in this dreadful year. According to Dr. Specker’s graphing of…
In normal times, if seventeen residents of one nursing home died in less than a month from some preventable malady—botulism, food poisoning, whatever—we’d be freaking…
SDSU epidemiologist Dr. Bonny Specker posted a graph yesterday showing the weekly average of new coronavirus cases per day per 100,000 population in the ten…
South Dakotans cast 219,074 absentee ballots in the 2020 general election, more than twice the number cast early in the 2016 general election. More than…
The South Dakota Department of Education has posted Fall 2020 enrollment figures for our K-12 schools. Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, our 149 public school districts…
The early coronavirus supply-chain disruption hasn’t stopped the dairy industry from increasing production this year. USDA reports that South Dakota squeezed 12% more milk from…