Lifecycle of Data Science Project

The Lifecycle Summarized

1. Identify & Define the problem
2. Define and document data sources
3. Statistical data profiling
4. Implementation
5. Sharing and collaboration
6. Maintenance & Support

http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/life-cycle-of-data-science-projects

Plus M&Ms, Jackknife (Swiss Army Style?) logistic and linear regression.
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/jackknife-logistic-and-linear-regression

Plus jackknifing your results in @ 4 lines of R code.
http://ryouready.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/r-jackknife-the-coefficients-of-a-linear-regression-model/

Random Forests in Tableau with R
http://boraberan.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/decision-trees-in-tableau-using-r/

Finally, using a jackknife to cut down some Hidden Decision Trees.
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/hidden-decision-trees-revisited

Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets

No, it's not Software-As-A-Service.  SASS is a CSS extension language that makes CSS coding more efficient and readable.  It compiles into standard CSS markup.

http://sass-lang.com/guide

Demos
http://cssdeck.com/labs/sass-demo
https://github.com/kianoshp/SASS-Intro-Demo

Playground
http://sassmeister.com/

Training
http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/better-css

Frameworks
http://gumbyframework.com/
http://compass-style.org/
http://bourbon.io/
http://sass.fffunction.co/

FRED Add-In for Excel and some Torontoist Centric Economic Data

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data (FRED) Add-In is free software that will significantly reduce the amount of time spent collecting and organizing macroeconomic data. The FRED add-in provides free access to over 210,000 data series from various sources (e.g., BEA, BLS, Census, and OECD) directly through Microsoft Excel.

Get it here
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred-addin/

Are you looking for GDP, CPI, or microeconomic data from the US FED?  Stats Canada?

Some interesting visualizations and interpretations of this type of data.

How much you make vs. how much it really feels like per US city with the supporting data released April 2014.

Canadian Cities Where An Average Income Will No Longer Buy You a House 

Numbeo, Cost of Living In Canada

It will cost you about 6% more to eat at McDonalds in Barrie vs. Toronto.
It costs 90% more to buy a bag of potatoes in Oshawa than Toronto.

There must be a potato famine in Oshawa... or people there really like french fries.