This is an amazing website which would definitely have what you want, probably in many ways. *http://www.gapminder.org/*
There are a wealth of data sources, and the GUI is very intuitive and interesting. I encourage you to view a few samples to get an idea of what you can do with the "trendanalyizer" software, and then make your own. Here is an example that I found very powerful. It's not related to income and education, however it shows a good example of how to use the website: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/breast-cancer-statistics/ Of course you can do the same things in R, and in fact I think there was a discussion about it here in r-help about a TED presentation that used gapminder. However, this particular website has a lot of pre-loaded information data, and a pretty simple interface. -Gene On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Mark Dalphin <mark.dalp...@peblnz.com>wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I don't have a good answer to your request, but you might find something > looking around the US Department of Labor's site: "Overview of BLS Wage Data > by Area and Occupation" (BLS = Bureau of Labor Statistics). > > http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm > > A quick glance doesn't show me "education" associated with these data, but > I am not looking hard. Most of the rest of the information you want appears > to be present. > > Regards, > Mark Dalphin > > > Paul wrote: > >> I'm sorry for the way OT post, but here goes. I'm an informatics >> specialist, and R user. My wife is a secondary school maths teacher. >> >> My wife recently tried to explain to her class the link between education >> and potential salary, and I would love to be able to show this graphically, >> however, I cannot find any freely available data for this. Does anyone know >> of a suitable dataset, or where I might find one ?Ideally salary, maximum >> education level, age, sex, industry and some form of geographic location >> would be amazing. Alternatively, are you aware of any public organisations >> that would have this information and might divulge it under the freedom of >> information act ? >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Paul. >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
