National Science Foundation in Wyoming

A thinner NSF file on a Wyoming tag

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Wyoming as place-of-performance: 90 records summing to $104,501,020. A National Science Foundation award coded outside WY is out. An award in Wyoming from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Wyoming (WY) excludes Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, and Nebraska. A Fort Collins-coded award is CO even if a field site sits in Wyoming. Directorates inside awarding agency 049 stay unpublished on this Wyoming cell.

Ninety records against $104,501,020 is an even thinner NSF file than many plains cells: fewer rows, a higher implied mean. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 90 as 90 unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. The overlay National Science Foundation in Wyoming is the both-keys table. Wyoming federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without a WY filter. All spending ties lists other joins. The University of Wyoming is ordinary speech here, not a published share of $104,501,020. Unique PIs are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Wyoming did not cause $104,501,020 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × WY only.

Not a mountain-campus ranking

$104,501,020 does not measure unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and a WY place-of-performance tag. Directorates inside awarding agency 049 stay unpublished on this Wyoming cell.

Do not treat 90 awards as a census of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Wyoming federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $104,501,020 and 90, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota NSF joins are other pairs, not addends. Ninety is a record count. Continuations can add rows without each row being a new PI.

Questions

How much has the National Science Foundation obligated in Wyoming?

USAspending.gov records $104,501,020 across 90 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Wyoming tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. National Science Foundation in Wyoming is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $104,501,020.

Is $104,501,020 a measure of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses?

No. The packet publishes $104,501,020 and 90 awards for agency 049 inside WY coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. Keep both keys.

Does 90 NSF awards mean 90 Wyoming researchers?

No. 90 is the award-record count for 049 × WY. Combined with $104,501,020, the average is about $1.16 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 90 is not unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NSF–Wyoming table?

National Science Foundation in Wyoming is the overlay. Wyoming 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 $104,501,020. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.