Interesting Data: Address Change Cards

Sometimes you cross already compiled (or almost compiled) data sets that would be interesting to work with, even if you do not have an existing research project. An example of this I recently came across is address change cards.

I stumbled upon it while reading the “Noted” column in The Week, one of my new favorite magazines and the pedestrian (in a good way!) version of The Economist. In the current issue, one of the entries is this:

“Of the 325,000 households that have filed an address change as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 59 percent have remained within a day’s drive, or 300 miles, from their homes. Only 13 percent moved outside the Gulf states. “Los Angeles Times

If you know of research using address change data, let me know; I am interested in seeing what they have been used for. Also, if you know what restrictions are in place that might limit usage, leave a comment.

Album Reviews

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Terrible——–>Fantastic

5
Mark One 3deck Set
Markie, Biz Weekend Warrior

4
Bad Company UK Book of the Bad
Can Ege Bamyasi
Can Future Days
Can Tago Mago
Clever Breakbeat Science Exercise, Volume 05
Craig, Carl 200510 Mix
Fabio and Grooverider Drum & Bass Arena (CD1)
Glass, Philip North Star OST
Jackie-O Motherfucker Flags of the Sacred Harp
Orb, The Okie Dokie It’s The Orb on Kompakt
Prodigy, The Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
Strokes, The First Impressions of Earth
Various Artists Welcome to Violence

3
Craig, Carl Fabric 25
Depeche Mode Playing the Angel
Green Day American Idiot
Various Artists Impulsive Revolutionary Jazz
Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First
Hella Total Bugs Bunny On Wild Bass
I Am The World Trade Center Cover Up, The
King Missile III Royal Lunch
KMFDM A Drug Against War
Laibach Laibach
Lanterna Highways
Les Georges Leningrad Sur Les Traces de Black Eskimo
Reggie and the Full Effect Greatest Hits ’84-’87 Reissue
Skinny Puppy Greater Wrong of the Right, The
Sonic Youth + ICP + The Ex In The Fishtank
Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant Sister Phantom Owl Fish

2
Beck Guerolito
Giffoni, Carlos Welcome Home
Loki Enforcer (December) Mix, The
Saint Germain Des Pres Café, Volume 07
Singh, Talvin Back to Mine
Anti-Flag Terror State, The
Go Betty Go Worst Enemy
Hanalei We Are All Natural Disasters
Helio Sequence Love And Distance
Lali Puna Faking The Books
Law Biting Citizens Keep A Candle Burning
Sushiobo Light-Fingered Feeling of Sushirobo, The
Total Chaos Punk Invasion

1
Pussycat Dolls, The PCD
Statue Filter the Infection
Younglao, Malene Live @ Monster Island
Harper, Ben & the Innocent Criminals Live from Mars (CD2)
Hot Water Music New What Next, The
Mooney Suzuki, The Alive & Amplified
Nields, The Gotta Get Over Greta
Night On Fire VHS or BETA
Old Hickory Other Eras…Such As Witchcraft
Ornato, Walton California Suite
Pro-Pain Run for Cover
Schwartz, Paul State of Grace II – Turning to Peace
Sister Machine Gun Nothing
Sister Machine Gun Torture Technique, The

Book Review: Ambient Century By Mark Prendergast

The Ambient Century : From Mahler to Moby–The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age
Mark Prendergast
2003
Bloombury USA
$19.95
500 pp.

Ambient Century is an encyclopedic history of ambient music that actually lives up to the media snippets on the jacket. The lengthy history is encylopedic because it both exhaustively traces the evolution of ambient music and the information is presented in entry form, with each entry explaining a specific musician or band. As the title suggests, it begins with Mahler and closes with Moby, which should be enough range, temporarlly and musically, to satisfy anyone interested in this distinctively 20th century type of music.
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