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Women in Congress, 1917-2016: Biographical and Committee Assignment Information, and Listings by State and Congress, Jennifer E. Manning, Information Research Specialist; Ida A. Brudnick, Specialist on the Congress. November 7, 2016. “One hundred eight women currently serve in the 114th Congress: 88 in the House, including four Delegates (65 Democrats and 23 Republicans), and 20 in the Senate (14 Democrats and 6 …
Intelligence Community Spending: Trends and Issues, Anne Daugherty Miles, Analyst in Intelligence and National Security Policy. November 8, 2016. “This report examines Intelligence Community (IC) funding over the past several decades, with an emphasis on the period from 2007-2017—the period in which total national and military intelligence program (NIP and MIP) spending dollars have been publicly disclosed on an …
Joint Center for Housing – Harvard University: The State of the Nations Housing 2016: “By many measures, the US housing market has recovered substantially from the crash. According to CoreLogic estimates, nominal home prices were back within 6 percent of their previous peak in early 2016, although still down nearly 20 percent in real terms. The uptick …
“To help make the upcoming presidential and congressional transitions as informed as possible, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has launched a new mobile app that provides users easy access to the watchdog agency’s priority recommendations for improving government operations. “GAO has organized its work to help President-elect Donald Trump and the next Congress tackle critical …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “The latest Immigration Court data show the growth in the court’s crushing backlog of cases continued through the first month of FY 2017. During the month of October, the court’s backlog rose by 5,645 cases, and reached 521,676. In California, the backlog rose to a total of 95,801 cases as of …
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Harvard Gazette – For HLS team digitizing Nuremberg documents, ‘a haunting effect’: “In 1949, four years after the Nuremberg war crime trials began, the library received the most complete set of documents from the Nazi prosecutions outside that of the National Archives. Over the years, individuals who participated in the 13 trials have also donated their …
Ecological Marine Units – GIS Provides Better Understanding of Ocean Ecosystems: “A healthy ocean can reduce poverty, combat hunger, limit the impacts of climate change, and improve the global economy. To achieve these ideals and support ocean sustainability, it is necessary to have a baseline method for understanding of the ocean’s ecosystems and a framework to detect …
Boyd, William, Environmental Law, Big Data, and the Torrent of Singularities (Novemeber 7, 2016). 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 544 (2016); University of Colorado at Boulder, Economics Department Paper No. 16-9. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2866570 “How will big data impact environmental law in the near future? This Essay imagines one possible future for environmental law in …
Judging a Book By its Cover, Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida. [v1] Fri, 28 Oct 2016. arXiv:1610.09204 “Book covers communicate information to potential readers, but can the same information be learned by computers? We propose a method of using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to predict the genre of a book based on the visual …
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