Economist Intelligence Unit – Worldwide Cost of Living 2011 Which city is the most expensive to live in? Which city is the cheapest? “Tokyo holds the dubious honour of once again being the worlds most expensive city. Until 2006, Tokyo had been at the top of the global cost-of-living ranking for 14 uninterrupted years before… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Measuring Broadband America A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in the U.S.
Measuring Broadband America – A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in the U.S., FCCs Office of Engineering and Technology and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau “This Report presents results of the first nationwide performance study of residential wireline (or fixed, as opposed to mobile) broadband service in the United States using measurement technology deployed… Continue Reading
Google Hotel Finder – an "experiment"
Google hotel finder launched as an “experiment”: Find the perfect hotel – choose location, dates, price, hotel class and user rating. Continue Reading
Brookings: How Were Doing as the Economy Falters
How Were Doing as the Economy Falters – Ted Gayer, Co-Director, Economic Studies and Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution and The Washington Post As the dust settles from the partisan fight over the debt ceiling, the recovery continues to falter, the labor market remains weak, the stock market… Continue Reading
CRS – Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation
Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation – John D. Moteff, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, July 11, 2011: “This report discusses in more detail the evolution of a national critical infrastructure policy and the institutional structures established to implement it. The report highlights five issues of Congressional concern: identifying critical assets; assessing vulnerabilities and… Continue Reading
HHS: Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults
Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults – Prepared for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July 2011 “Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a relatively common disorder in the United States that affects people of all ages, but is most prevalent among the middle-aged and elderly.… Continue Reading
Direct Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Year 2010
Direct Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Year 2010, August 1, 2011 “This report responds to a November 2010 request to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) from U.S. Representatives Roscoe G. Bartlett, Marsha Blackburn, and Jason Chaffetz for an update to a 2008 report prepared by EIA that provided a snapshot… Continue Reading
Where on earth is everybody? The evolution of global bilateral migration: 1960-2000
Where on earth is everybody? The evolution of global bilateral migration: 1960-2000, Çağlar Özden, Christopher Parsons, Maurice Schiff, Terrie Walmsley, 6 August 2011 “Until recently, efforts to construct bilateral migration datasets focused on the OECD countries as the destinations (OECD 2002, 2008), often including some disaggregation by other correlates such as age of entry, education,… Continue Reading
Commentary – When Data Disappears
Dr. Kari Kraus, University of Maryland, via NYT: “..if were going to save even a fraction of the trillions of bits of data churned out every year, we cant think of digital preservation in the same way we do paper preservation. We have to stop thinking about how to save data only after its no… Continue Reading
CBO's 2011 Long-Term Projections for Social Security
CBO’s 2011 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: “CBO’s first infographic, released in conjunction with CBO’s 2011 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information, summarizes some of the agency’s most recent projections for Social Security and provides background information on the program, including the number of beneficiaries and their distribution (among retired workers, disabled workers, and… Continue Reading
First Periodic Review of Cancer for the WTC Health Program
First Periodic Review of Cancer for the WTC Health Program, Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, July 2011 The review is based on three information sources. First, a systematic search was conducted for peer-reviewed findings on exposure and cancer resulting from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that have been published in the scientific… Continue Reading
CBO Monthly Budget Review, July 2011
Monthly Budget Review, Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for June and the Daily Treasury Statements for July 2011: The federal budget deficit was about $1.1 trillion in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2011, CBO estimates $66 billion less than the roughly $1.2 trillion deficit incurred through July 2010. Revenues were about… Continue Reading
