Gallup Poll: “The percentage of Greeks who rate their lives so poorly that they are considered “suffering” has more than tripled to 24% in 2011, from 7% in 2007. Greeks are more likely to be suffering than “thriving,” a reality uncommon in the developed world…Greeks’ current life evaluation — with 14% thriving, 62% struggling, and 24% suffering — is also low compared with ratings in other European countries surveyed so far in 2011. More Greeks are now classified as suffering than those living in several other European nations, including those in other countries hard hit by the financial and economic crisis such as Ireland and Italy. Suffering is higher only in Hungary (29%), Romania (30%), and Bulgaria (42%), and thriving is significantly lower only in Bulgaria.”
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Daily Archives: September 25, 2011
Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space
Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space, by Kalev H. Leetaru. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 9 – 5 September 2011. “News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western… Continue Reading
Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information
CRS – Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information, Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney. September 8, 2011 “The online publication of classified defense documents and diplomatic cables by the organization WikiLeaks and subsequent reporting by The New York Times and other news media have focused attention on whether such publication violates U.S. criminal… Continue Reading
IMF: 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration
Aid Effectiveness 2005-10: Progress in Implementing the Paris Declaration, September 2011 “When developed and developing countries committed themselves to the 2005 Paris Declaration principles for achieving more effective aid, they agreed not only to a set of principles, but also to meeting a set of measurable targets by 2010. This is an important feature of… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Releases 2010 American Community Survey Single Year Estimates
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau today released findings from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS), the most relied-on source for up-to-date socioeconomic information every year. The release covers more than 40 topics, such as educational attainment, income, health insurance coverage, occupation, language spoken at home, nativity, ancestry and selected monthly homeowner costs. The estimates… Continue Reading
New Book by Harvard Professor of Psychology Documents the Decline of War
Via WSJ: Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. This essay is adapted from his new book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” published by Viking. “Believe it or not, the world of the past was much worse. Violence has been in decline for thousands of… Continue Reading
Census Bureau – Commuting in the United States: 2009
Commuting in the United States: 2009, a report that provides additional layers of analysis about commuting patterns for the nation and metro areas. Based on the 2009 American Community Survey Reports (ACS), the analysis gives a historical perspective of the nation’s commuting patterns. It also looks at how our commutes differ based on how we… Continue Reading
BTN: Microsoft Becomes First Corporate User of Standard XML-Based Bank Statements
Microsoft Becomes First Corporate User of Standard XML-Based Bank Statements ‘Microsoft collaborated with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi and SWIFT to develop a unified format that lets it receive electronic bank statements from all its banking providers in the same format. Extensible Markup Language is a way of formatting, parsing and tagging data such… Continue Reading
