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From the STIP Compass Website The STIP Compass is an initiative of the European Commission and the OECD to collect together in one place quantitative and qualitative data on national trends in science, technology and innovation (STI) policy. The portal supports the continuous monitoring and analysis of countries’ STI policies and aims to become a […]
From The Hill: Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) on Wednesday re-introduced companion versions of the “Do Not Track Kids Act” in the Senate and House respectively. The bills were also sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.). “The Do Not Track Kids Act puts parents in control of their children’s information and contains […]
Research Tools: The New “City Health Dashboard” Provides Access to Key Neighborhood-Level Health Data For the 500 Largest U.S. Cities
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|From the Department of Population Health at New York University (NYU) Langone Health: The City Health Dashboard—an online resource with community-level health, social, and economic data for the nation’s 500 largest cities—was launched today by the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and in partnership with NYU’s Robert F. Wagner […]
Research Tools: Harvard’s Ash Center Launches New Searchable Database of Government Data Visualizations and Maps
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|From the Ash Center/Harvard: Data-Smart City Solutions, a program of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, today [April 24, 2018] launched a searchable public database comprising cutting-edge examples of public sector data use. The “Solutions Search” indexes interactive maps and visualizations, spanning civic issue areas such as transportation, public health, and housing, that […]
From a Post by Alex Howard, Sunlight Foundation: To engage in a monumental understatement, it’s a big deal for the public’s information to be altered or disposed of without justified intention and public notice of the removal. In spring 2018, for the first time the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) has begun using the Internet […]
New Data From NEA and BEA on the Economic Impact of Arts in the U.S.; Arts Contribute More Than $760 Billion to the U.S. Economy (National and State Data)
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|From the NEA and BEA: New data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers an insightful picture of the impact the arts have on the nation’s economy. The arts contribute $763.6 billion to the U.S. economy, more than agriculture, transportation, or warehousing. The […]
From the Wikimedia Blog: The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is releasing a monthly clickstream dataset. [Clip] Aggregate data on how readers browse Wikipedia contents can provide priceless insights into the structure of free knowledge and how different topics relate to each other. It can help identify gaps in content coverage (do readers stop browsing when they can’t […]
From the Wikimedia Blog: Wikistats 2 builds on the success of Wikistats, the project started more than 15 years ago by Erik Zachte. Wikistats has been the canonical source of statistics about the reach and impact of the Wikimedia movement for many years. It offered a quantitative mirror to the Wikimedia communities to reflect on their growth, […]
1. FCC Launches New Online Dashboard and Upgrades FOIA Page (via Radio World) 2. Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society (via The Verge) 3. It’s Official: Apple Buys Shazam to Boost Apple Music (via Bloomberg) 4. Beginning January 1, 2018 Cornell University Press Will Report to Cornell University Library
Business Tax Breaks: First National Database of Incentive Programs for Film and TV Production (via USA Today Network) The USA Today Network surveyed every state in the nation on its film-incentive program and created the first national database that shows how much each film and show received in tax breaks and incentives. Thirty-five states allocate […]