July 21, 2009
Help me please?

I have been staring at the computer screen for the past two days working on two projects with deadlines at the end of the month. Occassionally I take a break to see what's happening on the Internets and I came across this link to state-by-state breakdowns on the stimulus spending (via Resource Shelf).

I tried to sort the data by the amount "made available" and obtained the following:

Perhaps my brain is muddled but it seems to me that I have requested that the data be sorted from greatest to least (as witnessed by the little downward pointing arrow in the upper right corner of the second column of data) and yet the result seems all messed up. A similar problem occurs if you try to sort from least to greatest or if you change the sorting in any of the other two columns of data.

I am sure there is a simple coding error that can be attributed to some sleep deprived government contractor, but one wonders if this reflects a more systemic problem with government's ability to handle numbers - at least numbers with less than nine figures.

Posted by Craig Depken at 03:05 PM in Economics

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Posted by: JohnTerez at July 22, 2009 07:41 AM

It sorted correctly for me. I'm not sure what the problem is.

Posted by: MnM at July 22, 2009 12:50 PM

How ironic that he's quick to blame the government but it's likely his standards incompliant market produced browser to blame.

Posted by: Steko at July 23, 2009 08:06 PM

I'll cop to the browser comment. I use opera, which is generally very good and fast. I admit to not going through the rigor of testing multiple browsers. That said, I wasn't blaming govt for the mistake - that was tounge in cheek.

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