WSJ.com: “You can learn a lot about a candidate by looking at where he or she draws the most contributions. Campaign-finance reports are always studied for who raised the most money and who is struggling for support. But looking at a campaign’s fundraising footprint tells a tale all its own. The Wall Street Journal took… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Homeland Security Advisory Council-New Tasking
August 14, 2015 Federal Register Notice: “The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Jeh Johnson, tasked his Homeland Security Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee entitled Cybersecurity Subcommittee on August 6, 2015. The Cybersecurity Subcommittee will provide findings and recommendations to the Homeland Security Advisory Council on best practices sourced from industry, state… Continue Reading
CDC Surveillance Strategy
CDC – A strategy for improving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s activities in public health surveillance. February 24, 2014 “Public health surveillance guides efforts to detect and monitor disease and injuries, assess the impact of interventions and assist in the management of and recovery from large-scale public health incidents. Today’s ever – present,… Continue Reading
Library of Congress – The Path a Book Takes
“The Path a Book Takes – August 14, 2015 by Erin Allen (The following story is featured in the July/August 2015 issue of the LCM, which you can read in it’s entirety here. The story was written by Susan Morris, assistant to the director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access.) Follow the journey taken by each… Continue Reading
Central American Deportation Cases Dominate U.S. Immigration Courts
“Persons from Central America continue to outnumber those from Mexico when DHS seeks deportation orders in Immigration Court, according to the latest government data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). During the first ten months of fiscal year 2015, 42 percent of DHS filings involved individuals from Central America, primarily Guatemala, El Salvador… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Releases Commuting Report and Table Package
“Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report, Who Drives to Work? Commuting by Automobile in the United States, 2013, which looks at commuting by private vehicle. The report highlights differences in rates of automobile commuting by population characteristics such as age, race, ethnicity, place of birth and the types of communities in which workers… Continue Reading
US Federal Customer Experience Index, 2015
A Benchmark Of Federal Government Agencies, Highlighting The Drivers Of Great Federal CX August 13, 2015 By Rick Parrish with Harley Manning, Carla O’Connor, Kara Hartig. “Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™), US Consumers Q1 2015, shows that federal agencies are still providing substandard experiences — and their poor CX performance is hurting both agency… Continue Reading
OCLC – Looking inside the Library Knowledge Vault
“How do we ascertain truth on the web? That’s a question being pursued by researchers at Google who have articulated a flow of data that generates discrete statements of fact from countless web sources, relates those statements to previously assembled stores of knowledge, and fuses these mathematically to identify which statements may be more “truthful”… Continue Reading
Reducing Mass Incarceration Requires Far-Reaching Reforms
The Prison Population Forecaster – Ryan King, Bryce Peterson, Brian Elderbroom, and Elizabeth Pelletier – “Roughly 2.2 million people are locked up in prison or jail; 7 million are under correctional control, which includes parole and probation; and more than $80 billion is spent on corrections every year. Research has shown that policy changes over… Continue Reading
Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?
Pratt, Gill A. 2015. “Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(3): 51-60. DOI: 10.1257/jep.29.3.51 “About half a billion years ago, life on earth experienced a short period of very rapid diversification called the “Cambrian Explosion.” Many theories have been proposed for the cause of the Cambrian Explosion, one of the… Continue Reading
How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
Google Research Blog – [July 28, 2015] “we announced that the Google Translate app now does real-time visual translation of 20 more languages. So the next time you’re in Prague and can’t read a menu, we’ve got your back. But how are we able to recognize these new languages? In short: deep neural nets. When… Continue Reading
US Database of the Deceased
As cybercrime has had a significant impact on tens of millions of our lives, whether we are: in the federal work force and all (yes all) of our personal (the definition of the word ‘personal’ needs to be modified soon) data was compromised (or more accurately, it was stolen, siphoned off, hacked…over days, weeks, months,… Continue Reading
