National Science Foundation in Texas

NSF awards tagged to Texas

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Texas as place-of-performance: 2,401 records summing to $2,795,848,569.06. A National Science Foundation award coded outside TX is out. An award in Texas from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Texas (TX) excludes Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A Norman-coded award is Oklahoma even if a Texas co-PI appears in folklore.

Two thousand four hundred one awards is a research-scale NSF file: thicker than a 200-row Energy cell, thinner than a HUD voucher flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,401 as 2,401 unique unique principal investigators, publications, or named universities. The overlay National Science Foundation in Texas is the both-keys table. Texas federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without a TX filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Austin, College Station, and Houston campuses are unpublished. Do not treat the award count as unique labs. Correlation is not causation: Texas did not “cause” $2,795,848,569.06 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × TX only.

Not a census of principal investigators

$2,795,848,569.06 does not measure unique principal investigators, publications, or named universities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and a TX place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,401 awards as a census of unique principal investigators, publications, or named universities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Texas federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $2,795,848,569.06 and 2,401, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the National Science Foundation obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov records $2,795,848,569.06 across 2,401 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Texas tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique principal investigators, publications, or named universities. National Science Foundation in Texas is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,795,848,569.06.

Is $2,795,848,569.06 a measure of unique principal investigators, publications, or named universities?

No. The packet publishes $2,795,848,569.06 and 2,401 awards for agency 049 inside TX coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this NSF file have 2,401 awards?

That is the award-record count for 049 × TX. Combined with $2,795,848,569.06, the average is about $1.16 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,401 is not unique unique principal investigators, publications, or named universities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

National Science Foundation in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending and National Science Foundation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,795,848,569.06. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.