5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year: “Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools. In both cases though it brings data — which is oftentimes cryptic — to the masses and shows that data is more than a bucket… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
National Auto Fraud and Theft Prevention System Goes Live
News release: “The U.S. Department of Justice announced the availability of an on-line computer system to help protect states and consumers from automobile fraud and to provide law enforcement with new tools to investigate fraud, theft, and other crimes involving vehicles. The National Motor Vehicle Title Information System, or NMVTIS, will be available for consumers… Continue Reading
COP Report: Modernizing the American Financial Regulatory System
The Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) – “COP released its special report on regulatory reform today. The report discusses how regulation would have averted the crisis that we are in today, and how the implementation of smart regulation will help the United States can prevent another financial crisis and determine our economic success in the years… Continue Reading
CBO: Addressing the Ongoing Crisis in the Housing and Financial Markets
Addressing the Ongoing Crisis in the Housing and Financial Markets, January 28, 2009, Testimony before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate. “…the ongoing crisis in the U.S. financial system has significantly depressed economic activity during the past year and a half, and it poses a serious threat to the nations ability to quickly… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Border Initiative Fence Construction Costs, Traumatic Injury Insurance Program, USPS
Secure Border Initiative Fence Construction Costs, GAO-09-244R, January 29, 2009 Brain Injury: Better DOD and VA Oversight Can Help Ensure More Accurate, Consistent, and Timely Decisions for the Traumatic Injury Insurance Program, GAO-09-108, January 29, 2009 U.S. Postal Service: Deteriorating Postal Finances Require Aggressive Actions to Reduce Costs, GAO-09-332T, January 28, 2009 Continue Reading
Treasury Announces New Policy To Increase Transparency in Financial Stability Program
News release: “Building on President Barack Obama and Secretary Tim Geithner’s commitment to increase transparency and accountability in the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), the U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced a new policy of posting investment contracts for future completed transactions to the Department’s website within five to 10 business days. For contracts… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Collaboration Through Wikis at Hicks Morley
Collaboration Through Wikis at Hicks Morley – Heather Colman explains how wikis were an ideal KM solution for her law firm. Quick and easy to set up, requiring little IT support, wikis support central data repositories and provide features including search capabilities, email, RSS, and also allow users to create a taxonomy of subject tags… Continue Reading
Pew Survey: Generations Online in 2009
News release: “Over half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old. But larger percentages of older generations are online now than in the past, and they are doing more activities online, according to surveys taken from 2006-2008. Contrary to the image of Generation Y as the “Net Generation,” internet users… Continue Reading
2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure
2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, Produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers News release: “The Report Card is an assessment by professional engineers of the nation’s status in 15 categories of infrastructure. In 2009, all signs point to an infrastructure that is poorly maintained, unable to meet current and future demands, and in… Continue Reading
Google Announces open platform to deploy Internet measurement tools
Google Public Policy Blog: When an Internet application doesn’t work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether there is a problem caused by your broadband ISP, the application, your PC, or something else? It can be difficult for experts, let alone average Internet users, to address this sort of question… Continue Reading
Peanut Corporation of America Expands Nationwide Recall of Peanut Products
FDA posted this corporate news release today: “Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) is voluntarily recalling all peanuts and peanut products processed in its Blakely, Georgia facility since Jan. 1, 2007. Previously, PCA announced a recall of peanut butter and peanut paste. PCA sells its products to institutional and industrial users for service in large institutions… Continue Reading
Women in U.S. Management
From Catalyst Inc. Quick Takes, this new data: Women in U.S. Management. Note: 15.7% of Fortune 500 Corporate Officer Positions are Held by Women, but Women Comprise 46.4% of the U.S. Labor Force. And another data set from Catalyst – this pyramid of Women in U.S. Information, January 2009. Continue Reading
