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Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space, by Kalev H. Leetaru. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 9 – 5 September 2011. “News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western …
Via WSJ: Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. This essay is adapted from his new book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” published by Viking. “Believe it or not, the world of the past was much worse. Violence has been in decline for thousands of …
Microsoft Becomes First Corporate User of Standard XML-Based Bank Statements ‘Microsoft collaborated with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi and SWIFT to develop a unified format that lets it receive electronic bank statements from all its banking providers in the same format. Extensible Markup Language is a way of formatting, parsing and tagging data such …
The Skills, Tools, and Perspectives Behind Great Data Science Groups, DJ Patil, 2011 OReilly Media “Everyone wants to build a data-driven organization. Its a popular phrase and there are plenty of books, journals, and technical blogs on the topic. But what does it really mean to be data driven? My definition is: A data-driven organization …
The Digital Revolution and Higher Education College Presidents, Public Differ on Value of Online Learning, By Kim Parker, Amanda Lenhart and Kathleen Moore. August 28, 2011 “As online college courses have become increasingly prevalent, the general public and college presidents offer different assessments of their educational value, according to a new Pew Research Center report. …
News release: “Symantec Corp. announced the findings of its 2011 Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey which examined how enterprises manage their ever-growing volumes of electronically stored information and prepare for the eventuality of an eDiscovery request. The survey of legal and IT personnel at 2,000 enterprises worldwide found email is not the primary source of …
The Global Biomedical Industry: Preserving U.S. Leadership Executive Summary & Research Findings – Ross C. DeVol, Armen Bedroussian, and Benjamin Yeo, September 2011 “Biomedical innovation is an intricate process that begins in the lab and spans years of effort to transform scientific discoveries into vaccines, diagnostics, devices, and therapies that improve patients lives. Overthe past …
Economic Policy Institute: A lost decade – Poverty and income trends continue to paint a bleak picture for working families, By Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz | September 14, 2011 “Between 2009 and 2010, an additional 2.6 million people slipped below the poverty line, as the poverty rate increased from 14.3 percent to 15.1 percent. …
Bayesian Dynamic Factor Analysis of a Simple Monetary DSGE Model, Maxym Kryshko, September 01, 2011 “Summary: When estimating DSGE models, the number of observable economic variables is usually kept small, and it is conveniently assumed that DSGE model variables are perfectly measured by asingle data series. Building upon Boivin and Giannoni (2006), we relax these …
Future of the First Amendment 2011 Survey of High School Students and Teachers, Commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – September 2011 “There is a clear, positive relationship between student use of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr to get news and information and greater support for free …
Growth Spillover Dynamics from Crisis to Recovery, Hélène Poirson and Sebastian Weber, September 2011 “Summary: Can positive growth shocks from the faster-growing countries in Europe spill over to the slower growing countries, providing useful tailwinds to their recovery process? This study investigates the potential relevance of growth spillovers in the context of the crisis and …
CRS: Social Media and Disasters: Current Uses, Future Options, and Policy Considerations, Bruce R. Lindsay, Analyst in American National Goverment, September 6, 2011 “In the last five years social media have played an increasing role in emergencies and disasters. Social media sites rank as the fourth most popular source to access emergency information. They have …
