ProPublica – As it scrambled to compete in the internet world, the once-dominant tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias. “As the world’s dominant technology firm, payrolls at International Business Machines Corp. swelled to nearly a quarter-million U.S. white-collar workers in the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2019
Corruptions Perceptions Index 2018
“The 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released today by Transparency International reveals that the continued failure of most countries to significantly control corruption is contributing to a crisis of democracy around the world. “With many democratic institutions under threat across the globe – often by leaders with authoritarian or populist tendencies – we need to… Continue Reading
Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies (Second Edition)
Administrative Conference of the United States: “…The purpose of this volume is to make government work better, which is the overall mission of the Conference. For agency general counsels, congressional staff, executive officials, and members of the judiciary, this is the place to broaden understanding of how agencies are organized. For those involved in reorganization… Continue Reading
An introduction to tools for creating infographics, timelines and other data visualizations
Jess Rios – Harvard Law School Library – “Particularly when we talk about large numbers, it can be difficult to fully understand their impact. With an ever-increasing amount of data and information available to us, data visualization is becoming more important to help people truly understand the meaning of the information that is collected. Whether… Continue Reading
OECD – Trends Shaping Education 2019
Trends Shaping Education 2019 – Centre for Educational Research and Innovation – “Did you ever wonder whether education has a role to play in preparing our societies for an age of artificial intelligence? Or what the impact of climate change might be on our schools, families and communities? Trends Shaping Education examines major economic, political,… Continue Reading
Helping AI Answer Real Google Search Queries
Natural Questions: a Benchmark for Question Answering Research – “We present the Natural Questions corpus, a question answering dataset. Questions consist of real anonymized, aggregated queries issued to the Google search engine. An annotator is presented with a question along with a Wikipedia page from the top 5 search results, and annotates a long answer… Continue Reading
webster’s 1913
No more copyright restriction – “Connoisseur’s reference to American English – a dictionary for writers and wordsmiths.” https://www.websters1913.com/ Continue Reading
Meet the man behind a third of what’s on Wikipedia
CBSNews.com – “Steven Pruitt has made nearly 3 million edits on Wikipedia and written 35,000 original articles. It’s earned him not only accolades but almost legendary status on the internet. The online encyclopedia now boasts more than 5.7 million articles in English and millions more translated into other languages – all written by online volunteers.… Continue Reading
Shoot Someone In A Major US City, And Odds Are You’ll Get Away With It
“A yearlong investigation by The Trace and BuzzFeed News, based on data obtained from 22 cities, has found that: In cities from coast to coast, the odds that police will solve a shooting are abysmally low and dropping. Homicides and assaults carried out with guns lead to arrests about half as often as when the… Continue Reading
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029
“CBO regularly publishes reports presenting projections that indicate what federal deficits, debt, revenues, and spending—and the economic path underlying them—would be for the current year and for the next 10 years if existing laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged. This report is the latest in that series. Deficits. In CBO’s projections, the federal… Continue Reading
The Effects of the Partial Shutdown Ending in January 2019
“CBO has estimated the effects of the five-week partial shutdown of the government that started on December 22, 2018, and ended on January 25, 2019. This report presents CBO’s findings, which include the following: CBO estimates that the five-week shutdown delayed approximately $18 billion in federal discretionary spending for compensation and purchases of goods and… Continue Reading
What it used to be like to look things up
Flash back 9 years – What it used to be like to look things up – by James Somers, February 12, 2010: “Yesterday a paper I was reading made reference to a “Galtonian composite photograph.” From the context I had a vague idea of what the phrase referred to, but I wanted to learn more.… Continue Reading
