WSJ.com: “Most New York City public-school students will head back to class Monday after missing an entire week. But city officials say some 65 schools have suffered severe damage and will close through the end of the year requiring the relocation of approximately 38,000 students. This list shows schools affected by the storm, including those that were flooded, lost power, had boiler or electrical problems and those that were severely damaged. Data are as of Nov. 2, 2012”
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Daily Archives: November 2, 2012
EFF Launches New Transparency Project
News release: “From cell phone location tracking to the use of surveillance drones, from secret interpretations of electronic surveillance law to the expanding use of biometrics, EFF has long been at the forefront of the push for greater transparency on the governments increasingly secretive use of new technologies. With the launch of our new Transparency… Continue Reading
TRAC – DOJ Inspector General Overly Critical of EOIR Statistics
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC): “The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Justice Department has just released a report criticizing the statistics of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). Lost in the news coverage of the OIG’s report are several important points: First, in criticizing the EOIR numbers, the OIG’s report doesn’t acknowledge… Continue Reading
MIT – Predicting what topics will trend on Twitter
Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office: “At the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks at MIT in November, Associate Professor Devavrat Shah and his student Stanislav Nikolov will present a new algorithm that can, with 95 percent accuracy, predict which topics will trend an average of an hour and a half before Twitters… Continue Reading
What time do the polls close?
What time do the polls close? All times are Eastern Time Continue Reading
