Via the Commonwealth Fund: “This analysis draws upon data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other cross-national analyses to compare health care spending, supply, utilization, prices, and health outcomes across 13 high-income countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2016
NOAA releases redesigned site as new digital front door
“Welcome to the new NOAA.gov. This site was redesigned with you in mind. Based on your feedback, we re-engineered the site with the theme of “At Your Service.” We’ve made big changes to help you more quickly and easily find the NOAA news, data and information you’ve come to expect. We’ve also made it easier to… Continue Reading
FCC Proposes to “Unlock the Box”
“The Federal Communications Commission [February 18, 2016] approved a proposal that would tear down anti-competitive barriers and pave the way for software, devices , and other innovative solutions to compete with the set-top boxes that a majority of consumers lease from pay-TV providers today. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) will create a framework for… Continue Reading
The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs
Via As You Sow – “CEO pay grew an astounding 997% the past 36 years, vastly outpacing growth in the cost of living, the productivity of the economy, and the stock market. The second report in the series, The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs: Are Fund Managers Asleep at the Wheel? highlights the forces behind disproportionate… Continue Reading
The European Data Portal
“The European Data Portal harvests the metadata of Public Sector Information available on public data portals across European countries. Information regarding the provision of data and the benefits of re-using data is also included. What is Open Data? Open (Government) Data refers to the information collected, produced or paid for by the public bodies (also referred… Continue Reading
From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
“Collaborative knowledge bases that make their data freely available in a machine-readable form are central for the data strategy of many projects and organizations. The two major collaborative knowledge bases are Wikimedia’s Wikidata and Google’s Freebase. Due to the success of Wikidata, Google decided in 2014 to offer the content of Freebase to the Wikidata… Continue Reading
The Origins of the Superrich: The Billionaire Characteristics Database
The Origins of the Superrich: The Billionaire Characteristics Database, Caroline Freund and Sarah Oliver. Peterson Institute for International Economics, February 2016. “This working paper presents a new dataset on the sources of billionaire wealth and uses it to describe changes in extreme wealth in the United States, Europe, and other advanced countries. The data classify… Continue Reading
Is Gender Diversity Profitable? Evidence from a Global Survey
Is Gender Diversity Profitable? Evidence from a Global Survey by Marcus Noland, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Tyler Moran, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Barbara Kotschwar, Peterson Institute for International Economics, February 2016. “Analysis of a global survey of 21,980 firms from 91 countries reveals the relative dearth of women in high leadership… Continue Reading
FY2017 Defense Budget Request: In Brief
FY2017 Defense Budget Request: In Brief – Lynn M. Williams, Analyst in U.S. Defense Budget Policy; Pat Towell, Specialist in U.S. Defense Policy and Budget. February 12, 2016. “The Administration’s FY2017 budget request includes $619.5 billion for national defense of which $590.6 billion is for the Department of Defense (DOD). Of the DOD total, $523.9… Continue Reading
McKinsey – Managing waste in emerging markets
Managing waste in emerging markets – Hauke Engel, Martin Stuchtey, and Helga Vanthournout: “Economic growth in emerging economies is bringing prosperity, rising living standards, and overdue relief from poverty, but increased consumption typically increases resource use—especially the use of plastics—and waste production….the rapid surge in waste volumes since 2007 is straining waste-management systems in many… Continue Reading
Males Under-Estimate Academic Performance of Their Female Peers in Undergraduate Biology Classrooms
Grunspan DZ, Eddy SL, Brownell SE, Wiggins BL, Crowe AJ, Goodreau SM (2016) Males Under-Estimate Academic Performance of Their Female Peers in Undergraduate Biology Classrooms. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0148405. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148405. Published February 10, 2016. “Women who start college in one of the natural or physical sciences leave in greater proportions than their male peers. The… Continue Reading
The Public Domain Review
“Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. In particular, as our name suggests, the focus is on works which have now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright… Continue Reading
