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Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality – New Report and Infographic, the Berkman Center, by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin Malik, & Ashley Lee. “Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age …
“The volume of data that businesses collect is exploding: in 15 of the US economys 17 sectors, for example, companies with upward of 1,000 employees store, on average, more information than the Library of Congress does. New academic research suggests that companies using this kind of big data and business analytics to guide their decisions …
News release: “In March 2011, for the first time ever, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults 25 and older had at least a bachelor’s degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. As recently as 1998, fewer than one-quarter of people this age had this level of education. From 2001 to 2011, the number of …
“The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education distills the results of studies to examine the state of education in the United States. In particular, the report focuses on education policy, student learning measures, trends on achievement test scores and education reform outcomes.” How Well Students Are Learning – With sections on predicting the effect …
Who Gives A Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value, Paul André – Carnegie Mellon; Michael Bernstein – MIT, and Kurt Luther – Georgia Tech, February 2012 “While microblog readers have a wide variety of reactions to the content they see, studies have tended to focus on extremes such as retweeting and unfollowing. To understand the broad …
News release: “OCLC Research has made FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) available for bulk download, along with some minor improvements based on user feedback and routine updates. As with other FAST data, the bulk downloadable versions are available at no charge. FAST is an enumerative, faceted subject heading schema derived from the Library of …
“Fewer Americans got their health insurance from an employer in 2011 (44.6%) than in 2010 (45.8%), continuing the downward trend Gallup and Healthways have documented since 2008. As employer-based health insurance has declined, the percentage of Americans who are uninsured has increased, rising to 17.1% this year, the highest seen since 2008. The 25.2% of …
“ArchiveGrid connects you with primary source material held in archives around the world. You will find historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. ArchiveGrid also helps researchers contact archives to request information, arrange a visit, and order copies. ArchiveGrid includes archival collection descriptions from WorldCat bibliographic records and from finding aids harvested from ArchiveGrid …
“The unique convergence of five emerging technology forces analytics, mobility, social, cloud and cyber security provide the opportunity for businesses to accelerate performance in 2012, according to Deloittes 3rd annual Tech Trends report Elevate IT for Digital Business, released February 6, 2012. The Deloitte report identifies the top 10 technology trends that will …
Via The Age of Big Data by Steve Lohr, New York Times: “Analyzing large data setsso called big datawill become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus as long as the right policies and enablers are in place. Research by MGI and McKinsey’s Business Technology Office examines …
“On the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, we present this commemorative issue featuring Atlantic stories by Mark Twain, Henry James, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, and many more.” James Bennet editor of The Atlantic: “It is possible, in these pages, to enter into both the humanity of figures consecrated …
Fostering innovation-led clusters – A review of leading global practices. A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, December 2011. “There are few economic development policies as popular as clusters. It is hard today to find a country, region, or even city that is not trying to develop a network of complementary and competitive firms. The …
