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Daily Archives: March 23, 2016

Google takes Cloud Machine Learning service mainstream

Google Cloud Platform Blog: “Hundreds of different big data and analytics products and services fight for your attention as it’s one of the most fertile areas of innovation in our industry. And it’s no wonder; the most amazing consumer experiences are driven by insights derived from information. This is an area where Google Cloud Platform has invested almost two decades of engineering, and today at GCP NEXT we’re announcing some of the latest results of that work. This next round of innovation builds on our portfolio of data management and analytics capabilities by adding new products and services in multiples key areas…”

  • Related – see also Google BigQuery Public Datasets – “A public dataset is any dataset that is stored in BigQuery and made available to the general public. This page lists a special group of public datasets that Google BigQuery hosts for you to access and integrate into your applications. Google pays for the storage of these data sets and provides public access to the data via BigQuery. You pay only for the queries that you perform on the data (the first 1 TB per month is free, subject to query pricing details).”

Fiscal sustainability and the financial cycle

Bank for International Settlements – Working Paper – Fiscal sustainability and the financial cycle by Claudio Borio, Marco Jacopo Lombardi and Fabrizio Zampolli, Working Papers No 552. March 2016. “A frequently neglected aspect of financial booms and busts – financial cycles – is their impact on fiscal positions. And yet, the latest financial crisis and… Continue Reading

Access to Government Information in the United States: A Primer

Via FAS – CRS Report – Access to Government Information in the United States: A Primer, Wendy Ginsberg – Analyst in American National Government; Michael Greene, Information Research Specialist. March 18, 2016. “…This report offers an introduction to the four access laws and provides citations to additional resources related to these statutes. This report includes… Continue Reading

Infographic: A Digital Nation

“The latest Census Bureau statistics shows more American households own computers and use high-speed Internet than ever before. A collection of visualizations presents data from the Current Population Survey and American Community Survey. The infographic illustrates high-speed Internet use by age, race, income and educational attainment by household. In addition, maps are provided for household high-speed Internet use by state and… Continue Reading

GPO working to make Jefferson’s Manual and Rules of House of Representatives available in XML

“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is working with the House of Representatives Committee on Rules, the House Parliamentarian, and the Clerk of the House to make Jefferson’s Manual and the Rules of the House of Representatives available in XML format using the United States Legislative Markup (USLM) schema. USLM is an XML information model… Continue Reading

GAO Report – Security and Privacy Controls

Healthcare.gov: Actions Needed to Enhance Information Security and Privacy Controls, GAO-16-265: Published: Mar 23, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2016: “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported 316 security-related incidents, between October 2013 and March 2015, affecting Healthcare.gov—the web portal for the federal health insurance marketplace—and its supporting systems. According to GAO’s review… Continue Reading

International Criminal Court – What are War Crimes?

“War crimes” include grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict and in conflicts “not of an international character” listed in the Rome Statute, when they are committed as part of a plan or policy or on a large scale. These prohibited acts… Continue Reading