Smart Cities on 27 January 2016 at 16:19PM Twitter is going to be a major data source for the NEXUS project, as it is for almost every other project studying social media data. Twitter is extraordinarily generous in terms of making its data available, and this generosity has sparked huge research interest. One of the problems of relying on third party data is, however,… Read More » [...]
The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 27 January 2016 at 16:10PM The Digital Agenda presented by the European Commission proposes to realize the potential afforded by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to encourage innovation, economic growth, and progress1. The Agenda constitutes one of the seven pillars of the Europe… Continue Reading → [...]
Suju Rajan at Yahoo Labs: “Data is the lifeblood of research in machine learning.
Ben Miller at GovTech: “As government data collection expands, and as more of that data becomes publicly available, more people are looking to maps as a means of expressing the information.
Las actividades de la muestra "Hasta las masas: Diez años de revolución estudiantil" enmarcadas en la Iniciativa Bicentenario de revitalización de las Humanidades, Artes, Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación, incluirán dos instancias de debate sobre archivos y memoria de los movimientos sociales y producción gráfica del movimiento estudiantil, en las que distintas agrupaciones compartirán sus experiencias desarrolladas a lo largo de los últimos diez años de manifestaciones.La exposición
Este año, el 54 por ciento del total de beneficiados con la gratuidad son mujeres. En la reunión, las autoridades relevaron su importancia histórica en la educación y las oportunidades que deben asegurárseles para desarrollarse como futuras profesionales.
Del total de inscritos durante este primer período, que concluyó este miércoles 13 de enero, 1.541 estudiantes tenían la gratuidad, lo que equivale a un 92 por ciento de los convocados con este beneficio (1.698). El segundo período de matrícula para estudiantes en lista de espera se extenderá entre el jueves 14 y el viernes 15 de enero.“Hemos tenido un equipo de monitores que ha estado trabajando intensamente y largas horas para acompañar a nuestros futuros estudiantes, tanto a través del chat como de la mesa telefónica.
IPEP16: Agenda of workshop on Internet Policy in Eastern Partnership
March 8, 2016, 10:00 – 18.00
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Senatssaal (HG 109), Main Building
Workshop poster for download is here (pdf).
This blog post is a call for accelerator programs to be more transparent regarding their performance and more rigorous in gathering data on the progress of their startups. Along with... MORE
Każdego roku, wraz z pierwszym dniem stycznia, do domeny publicznej przechodzi twórczość kolejnych artystów. Rozrastanie się tego rezerwuaru naszego wspólnego dziedzictwa świętujemy podczas Dnia Domeny Publicznej – w tym roku 29 stycznia w Solec 44. Zaczynamy o 15:30, świętujemy do późnego wieczora.
Richard Nisbett at the Edge: (VIDEO) “…The thing I’m most interested in right now has become a kind of crusade against correlational statistical analysis—in particular, what’s called multiple regression analysis. Say you want to find out whether taking Vitamin E is associated with lower prostate cancer risk. You look at the correlational evidence and indeed it turns out that men who take Vitamin E have lower risk for prostate cancer.
Designing a Public Sector Innovation Lab
MindLab, existing since 2002, is the longest living public sector innovation lab. MindLab runs design-led projects to create policies and services that deliver better outcomes for people and society. Through the use of ethnography and design methods, like rapid prototyping and testing, MindLab involves citizens in the development of new public sector solutions, and brings an out-side-in perspective to organizations.
danah boyd at Points: “….Knowing how to use data isn’t easy. One of my colleagues at Microsoft Research — Eric Horvitz — can predict with startling accuracy whether someone will be hospitalized based on what they search for. What should he do with that information? Reach out to people? That’s pretty creepy.
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with Berkman Fellow, Shannon Dosemagen
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Building on civic technology and grassroots community science methods, we’ll examine how open, online communities can support the goals of local groups as they engage with environmental decision-making processes that affect their communities.
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50 researchers from more the 30 countries were discussing online chances, risks and challenges for children and adolescents in Europe last week in Hamburg. The research network EU Kids Online (since 2006) is planning a second international representative survey, which allows comparative analysis with the data from the first survey (2010) and from the Net Children Go Mobile project (2013/2014).
50 researchers from more the 30 countries were discussing online chances, risks and challenges for children and adolescents in Europe last week in Hamburg. The research network EU Kids Online (since 2006) is planning a second international representative survey, which allows comparative analysis with the data from the first survey (2010) and from the Net Children Go Mobile project (2013/2014).
Maeve P. Carey for the Congressional Research Service: “Federal agencies issue thousands of regulations each year under delegated authority from Congress. Over the past 70 years, Congress and various Presidents have created a set of procedures agencies must follow to issue these regulations, some of which contain requirements for the calculation and consideration of costs, benefits, and other economic effects of regulations.
Allison Shapiro in Pacific Standard Magazine: “In 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio decided to adopt Vision Zero, a multi-national initiative dedicated to eliminating traffic-related deaths. Under Vision Zero, city services, including the Department of Transportation, began an engineering and public relations plan to make the streets safer for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists.
