“In honor of Women’s History Month in March, the U.S. Census Bureau released today a new table showing median earnings by detailed occupation from the 2014 American Community Survey. The table shows ratios indicating the percentage of women in an occupation, as well as the male-to-female earnings ratio in the occupation for full-time, year-round workers in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2016
2014 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey
“In 2014, U.S. businesses (nonfarm) invested $1.6 trillion in new and used buildings, structures, machinery, and equipment (including computer software), up $110.8 billion (7.4 percent) from 2013. Investment spending in the mining sector totaled $228.7 billion in 2014, up $26.5 billion (13.1 percent) from 2013, with the oil and gas extraction industry accounting for $196.0… Continue Reading
Food-Associated Calling in Gorillas in the Wild
Luef EM, Breuer T, Pika S (2016) Food-Associated Calling in Gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla) in the Wild. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0144197. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144197 “Many nonhuman primates produce food-associated vocalizations upon encountering or ingesting particular food. Concerning the great apes, only food-associated vocalizations of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) have been studied in detail, providing… Continue Reading
Discover Earth Science Data
“Search NASA Earth Science data by keyword and filter by time or space.” “The Earth Observing System Data and Information System is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program. It provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA’s Earth science data from various sources—satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and various other programs.” Continue Reading
CRS Report – Music Licensing in the 21st Century
Via FAS – Money for Something: Music Licensing in the 21st Century, Dana A. Scherer, Analyst in Telecommunications. January 19, 2016. “The laws that determine who pays whom in the digital world were written, by and large, at a time when music was primarily performed via radio broadcasts or distributed through physical media (such as… Continue Reading
One third of food goes to waste globally – insight into critical change
National Geographic – “Across cultures, food waste goes against the moral grain. After all, nearly 800 million people worldwide suffer from hunger. But according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, we squander enough food—globally, 2.9 trillion pounds a year—to feed every one of them more than twice over. Where’s all that… Continue Reading
Report tracks status of Open Government Partnership
Civil Society Report on Implementation of the Second US National Action Plan, February 2016: “This report provides an assessment of the progress made on the United States’ Second National Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership (OGP), spanning the period from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015. It encompasses the evaluations from civil society… Continue Reading
The Demographics of Innovation in the United States
Information Technology and Innovation Institute -“This study provides a detailed portrait of individuals who are driving technological innovation in the United States—including their gender, ethnicity, countries of origin, education, and age—as well as the settings and circumstances in which they are creating their innovations, such as the institution (or institutions) behind the advances, the commercial… Continue Reading
The Data Journalism Handbook
Data Journalism Handbook 1.0 BETA “What is data journalism? What potential does it have? What are its limits? Where does it come from? In this section we look at what data journalism is and what it might mean for news organizations. Paul Bradshaw (Birmingham City University) and Mirko Lorenz (Deutsche Welle) say a bit about… Continue Reading
Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT, February 2016
“The purpose of this report is to provide an extensive overview on the status of undergraduate women at MIT. The findings are supported by data from the MIT Office of Institutional Research, focus groups, and the Undergraduate Experience Survey, a survey implemented specifically for this report. We hope that the findings of this report and its recommendations… Continue Reading
Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data Open Data Portal
“This site provides National foundation-level geospatial data within the open public domain that can be useful to support community preparedness, resiliency, research, and more. HIFLD Open represents the initial evolutionary first step to provide online access to HIFLD Data. HIFLD Open provides publicly available datasets previously contained in HSIP 2015. These 270+ public domain datasets… Continue Reading
A Theory of Operational Risk
Basak, Suleyman and Buffa, Andrea M., A Theory of Operational Risk (February 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2737178 “We study the dynamic decision making of a financial institution in the presence of a novel implementation friction that gives rise to operational risk. We distinguish between internal and external operational risks depending on whether the… Continue Reading
