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The Evolution of Technology

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Philosophy, Myspace, Sociology, Email, Twitter, Facsimile, Psychology, Skype, Smoke Signals, Facebook, Morse Code, Telegraph, Text Messaging, Telephone, Neuroscience, Web, Data, Mobile Phone, Evolution, Technology, Gui, Technology News
Dr. Jim Taylor

Have you ever thought about how far we've come in our ability to connect with others and how far we'll go? I've been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we may be going in the future.

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Calling All Databrains: Local Government Needs You

Halle Tecco | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Iphone, Data, iPhone Apps, Michael Bloomberg, Living News
Halle Tecco

San Francisco and New York City are providing public sets of raw data for developers and data visualists to sink their teeth into. Their hopes are to put sets of municipal data -- which usually collect dust -- out to the public in the form of websites and iPhone apps.

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Obama Poll Watch: Obama Halts His Slide

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

This month, the news for Obama fans is not bad. It's not get-up-and-cheer good, either, but it's a lot better than the news has been for the past two months.

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The Washington Post--Union Buster?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media

Read More: School Reform, Arne Duncan, Washington Post, Research, Data, Charter Schools, Media News
Gerald Bracey

Is a new study favoring charter schools remarkable? Are the results on charter schools in? The short answers are "no" and "no."

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Kyle Orton best NFL quarterback and other misinterpretations of data

Big Green Boulder | Big Green Boulder | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Environment, Global, Climate, Warming, Study, Denver, Energy, Data, Pollution, Home News

If you are a Coloradan and concerned about the environment, firstly, thanks for reading and, secondly, we're worried that you may have c...

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OpenCongress: Congressional Data Is Defective By Design

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Transparency, Congress, Legislation, Data, Government Data, Home News

Today’s launch of the “Baucus Bill”— aka “America’s Healthy Future Act”, aka the “mark” version ...

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Obama Poll Watch [August 2009] -- Obama's Base Support Erodes

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The news for Obama fans continues to be bad this month. There may be a faint glimmer of a spark of hope in the numbers -- but that's about all I can promise here, sorry about that.

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The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future Is Now

Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Internet, Law, Publishing, Data, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Legal Research Online, Lexisnexis, Media News
Peter Schwartz

Legal research, once the province of desks, books, and binders, is now online, data-driven, and real-time. This poses serious challenge to old publishing stalwarts like Westlaw and LexisNexis.

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Counting What Counts: Accurate Data Leads to Effective Policy

Michael Laracy | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Child Indicators, Census, Children, State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2009, Politics, Congress, Child Poverty, Political News, National Academy of Sciences, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, Policy, Poverty Measure, Poverty, Data, Kids Count, Politics News
Michael Laracy

It's time to update the poverty measure. The current U.S. poverty measure is a 1960s creation -- needless to say a lot has changed since then.

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Obama Poll Watch, July 2009: The Honeymoon's Over

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The news this month for Obama fans is not particularly good, as Obama has definitely ended his "honeymoon" period (which virtually all first-term presidents go through).

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Obama Poll Watch (June 2009) -- Obama v. Clinton (Second Term)

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama's poll numbers have dropped this month -- a whopping one-and-a-half percentage points. Reports that the sky is falling may be overblown.

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Obama Poll Watch [May 2009] -- Obama v. Clinton (First Term)

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The stability of Obama's numbers (especially the approval rating) continued in May, which is remarkable compared to other presidents during the same time period in their terms.

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On Education, the Obama Administration Veers Off Course

Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Obama, Statistics, Duncan, Assumptions, Data, Misinterpretation, US Education, Obama Education, Naep, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

How can the Obama administration get it right in education when its data are all wrong and its assumptions about its faulty data are flawed?

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Bono To Merge Anti-Poverty Groups Into One Organization

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bono, DATA, ONE Campaign, Entertainment News

Anti-poverty groups the ONE Campaign and DATA, both co-founded by rock star Bono, will merge in the United States to form a single organization in tac...

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