Summary findings from the ethnicity facts and figures website: “This report provides an overview of the main findings from the first release of data from the Race Disparity Audit. As well as a review of each topic on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website, the report presents an overview of disparities that have most impact… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Emails – Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument
The New York Times: “Even before President Trump officially opened his high-profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show. The debate started as early as March 2017, when an… Continue Reading
Future Workforce Report – How Companies are Embracing Remote Teams to Get Work Done
“With freelancers predicted to become the U.S. workforce majority in the next decade, companies are thinking beyond their city limits to access the talent they need to compete. This report, conducted by an independent research firm and commissioned by Upwork, surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. hiring managers to show how businesses are adapting to the… Continue Reading
11% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
“For many Americans, going online is an important way to connect with friends and family, shop, get news and search for information. Yet today, 11% of U.S. adults do not use the internet, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data. The size of this group has changed little over the past… Continue Reading
The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
Scientific American – Scott Barry Kaufman – March 1, 2018: “What does it take to succeed? What are the secrets of the most successful people? Judging by the popularity of magazines such as Success, Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur, there is no shortage of interest in these questions. There is a deep underlying assumption, however, that… Continue Reading
People With Disabilities Are Finding More Work, But There’s A Long Way To Go
FastCompany – “While the vast majority of Americans with disabilities want to work, just over one-third are able to find jobs, according to a recent survey from RespectAbility, a nonprofit that works to empower and increase opportunities for people with disabilities. That creates a major societal problem: Without gainful employment, more than 12 million people… Continue Reading
600 million years – visualizing how the continents have shifted
A globe which lets you see how the continents have shifted during the last 600 million years… [Via Simon Kuestenmacher] – “What an amazing piece of work! This interactive globe shows the ancient earth throughout #history. Great way to better understand plate tectonics. A must for everyone interested in #geology and #geography.” Continue Reading
The Data Culture Project – Use our videos, guides to run one activity a month at brown bag lunches in your org
“Today, my colleague Rahul Bhargava and I are pleased to launch the Data Culture Project. This is the latest evolution of our DataBasic.io work, now focused on helping organizations build a data culture in creative, hands-on ways. We often talk about data literacy as if it’s an individual capacity, but what about data literacy for… Continue Reading
What happened to US diplomats – On Cuba, Diplomats, Ultrasound, and Intermodulation Distortion
Manuscript. March 1, 2018. On Cuba, Diplomats, Ultrasound, and Intermodulation Distortion. University of Michigan Tech Report CSE-TR-001-18 Chen Yan, Kevin Fu and Wenyuan Xu, Department of Systems Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan – “This technical report analyzes how ultrasound could have led to the AP news recordings of… Continue Reading
ABA Journal – Cyberthreats 101: The biggest computer crime risks lawyers face
“Cyberattacks are on the rise, both in the number of incidents and the costs associated with the attacks. According to the ABA’s 2017 Legal Technology Survey Report, 22 percent of responding firms had been breached—an increase of 8 percentage points from the previous year’s survey. According to the ABA report, about 27 percent of firms… Continue Reading
Tracking the Journeys of Migratory Birds
Data Innovation: “National Geographic has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how migratory birds make their thousand-mile flights to follow the “green wave”—the seasonal growth of vegetation around the planet. The maps demonstrate how the birds often take the most direct path, despite the prevalence of storms and predators, to conserve energy. The animations… Continue Reading
An AI just beat top lawyers at their own game
Mashable: “The nation’s top lawyers recently battled artificial intelligence in a competition to interpret contracts — and they lost. A new study, conducted by legal AI platform LawGeex in consultation with law professors from Stanford University, Duke University School of Law, and University of Southern California, pitted twenty experienced lawyers against an AI trained to… Continue Reading
