Day archives: July 13th, 2015

Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes

Marks, Alexia Brunet and Moss, Scott A., What Makes a Law Student Succeed or Fail? A Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes (July 6, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2627330 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2627330 “Despite the rise of “big data” empiricism, law school admission remains heavily impressionistic; admission decisions based on …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

NY Fed – U.S. Economy in a Snapshot

“Overview of the July 2015 Snapshot Real consumption expenditures are showing signs of a pickup from the weakness during the first quarter. Business equipment spending continued to be sluggish compared to its pace in the second and third quarters of 2014 There recent has been moderate improvement in housing market conditions June payroll growth was …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Cities leverage open data to share wealth of info with citizens

Bianca Spinosa, July 10, 2015: “Government agencies have no shortage of shareable data. Data.gov, the open-data clearinghouse that launched in May 2009, had more than 147,331 datasets as of mid-July, and state and local governments are joining federal agencies in releasing ever-broader arrays of information. The challenge, however, remains making all that data usable. Obama …

Subjects: E-Government, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Filmmaker Laura Poitras suing to shine light on travel detainment

Via The Intercept: “Over six years, filmmaker Laura Poitras was searched, interrogated and detained more than 50 times at U.S. and foreign airports. When she asked why, U.S. agencies wouldn’t say. Now, after receiving no response to her Freedom of Information Act requests for documents pertaining to her systemic targeting, Poitras is suing the U.S. …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

NSA collected and stored social media, email, chats of non targeted Americans

Via The Atlantic – “The Washington Post’s latest article drawing on Snowden’s leaked cache of documents includes files “described as useless by the analysts but nonetheless retained” that “tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes. The daily lives of more than 10,000 …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Census reports on Living Arrangements of Adults

“A new table looks at the living arrangements of the adult population 18 years and older. Table AD-3 describes the living arrangements of people in the United States by age and sex since 1967.

Subjects: Uncategorized

Joint Staff Report: U.S. Treasury Market on October 15, 2014

“Staff from the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a joint report analyzing the significant volatility in the U.S. Treasury market on October 15, 2014. Using …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

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