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“Urbanization continues to drive increased congestion in many major cities worldwide. Strong economies, population growth, higher employment rates and declining gas prices have resulted in more drivers on the road – and more time wasted in traffic. The INRIX 2015 Traffic Scorecard analyzes and compares the state of traffic congestion in countries and 100 major …
CRS report via FAS – FY2017 Budget Documents: Internet and GPO Availability, Jared C. Nagel, Senior Research Librarian. March 10, 2016. “Every year the President submits a series of volumes to Congress containing the President’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. The President’s submission is required on or after the first Monday in January, …
Via Fox News: “EXCLUSIVE: Six months after giving birth to a cluster of nebulous Sustainable Development Goals that aim to dramatically change the economic, social and environmental course of the planet, the United Nations is working on a drastic renovation of global data gathering to measure progress against its sweeping international agenda. The result that emerged late last …
McKinsey & Company – March 2016 – From waterfall to agile: How a public-sector agency successfully changed its system- development approach to become digital, Martin Lundqvist and Peter Braad Olesen. “Government agencies around the world are under internal and external pressure to become more efficient by incorporating digital technologies and processes into their day-to-day operations. …
Army Data Strategy, February 2016 – Information Architecture Division, Army Architecture Integration Center HQDA CIO/G-6 Version 1. “As an architectural paradigm, the Army network, which is the Army’s portion of the DoD Information Network, is changing from a loose federation of stove piped IT systems to a single, integrated, service- oriented, information – sharing environment. …
“The Consumer Action Handbook is a free resource guide that provides general information on shopping for goods and services and tips about your consumer rights. The Handbook has information to help you file a complaint about a purchase and includes a sample complaint letter that you can use and send to a company. It also includes a consumer assistance …
Via LLRX.com – You Say Aggregate, I Say Curate…– Zena Applebaum, a law firm competitive intelligence director, defines an important development in the way that critical business information is shared within laws firms and similar organizations. Applebaum defines and aligns the role of “content curation,” a practice and skill wherein information from all the content …
Via LLRX.com – The Mediachain Project: Developing a Global Creative Rights Database Using Blockchain Technology – Alan Rothman’s article focuses on a creative, innovative effort to deploy the blockchain as a form of global registry of creative works ownership – specifically a global rights database for images. The co-founders of a new metadata protocol they …
GPlates Portal – [via The university of Sydney] 3D Visualisation of Geophysical and Geological Data – Interactive Plate Tectonic Reconstructions – Interactive Surface Dynamic Topography – PyGPlates Reconstruction Services “The EarthByte Group in the School of Geosciences of The University of Sydney is one of the world’s leading research groups for global and regional plate …
von Shoshana Zuboff, March 3, 2016: “Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. Is there nothing we can do?…Google is ground zero for a wholly new subspecies of capitalism …
“If you walk around Barcelona, don’t forget to look down from time to time: you may be standing on a marvel of design. The City of Marvels is how writer Eduardo Mendoza called the coolest city of the Mediterranean in one of his novels. The book is set at the turn of the 20th century, …
“Test your knowledge of the relative populations of different geographic areas by participating in the Census Bureau’s version of “March Madness.” The Census Bureau’s Population Bracketology is an interactive data visualization allowing you to fill out your own bracket based on comparisons of state and metro area population. The objective is to pick the larger …
