Category: Data Governance

After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting
Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com

Hold­ing an elec­tion is com­pli­cat­ed. Hold­ing an elec­tion eight days after a his­tor­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant dis­as­ter? Prob­a­bly expo­nen­tial­ly so. This is the cir­cum­stance in which the state of New Jer­sey will find itself…

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Why telecommuting saves costs, time and your health

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

The Perks of Working From Home
Jennifer Shore, mashable.com

If you’re part of the 86% who drive to work every day, you can devise ways to lower your gas costs, save time and improve your health — by telecom­mut­ing.

The cur­rent work­force totals more than 128 mil­lion peo­ple, and while eight out of 10…

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Hurricane Sandy: another climate wake up call

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future
Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org

Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY

If you ask cli­mate sci­en­tist Radley Hor­ton, it’s dif­fi­cult to say that Hur­ri­cane Sandy was direct­ly caused by cli­mate change, but he sees strong con­nec­tions betw…

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See what the world will look like without power

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

New York City in post-storm darkness: photos by Randy Scott Slavin
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net

NYC UNPLUGGED, a series by pho­tog­ra­ph­er Randy Scott Slavin doc­u­ment­ing the dark­ness in New York City after Hur­ri­cane Sandy caused wide­spread power out­ages:

New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, ligh…

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156 years of election data at your finger tips info graphic

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Knowledge Management

Infographic: 156 Years Of Election Data At Your Fingertips
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

An interactive chart visualizes party affiliations, congressional and presidential elections, and more, sorted state-by-state, year-by-year, since 1856. Prepare to lose an afternoon.

Pol­i­tics are a game of strat­e­gy. And while we often think …

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Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Saying Hurricane Sandy Affected Decision

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Systems Science

Awareness of science, environment and climate change is increasingly moving voters towards Obama.

English: Animated global map of monthly long t...
English: Animated global map of monthly long term mean surface air temperature (Mollweide projection). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Saying Hurricane Sandy Affected Decision – NYTimes.com.

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Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout
Byron Tau, politico.com

The Obama cam­paign emails sup­port­ers in Penn­syl­va­nia this handy graph­ic remind­ing them to find out some sim­ple infor­ma­tion about elec­tion day.

The email seems straight­for­ward enough, but it’s actu­al­ly an exact clone of a social…

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TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Security & Privacy

TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones
Chris Morran, consumerist.com

Image from a backscat­ter machine

Accord­ing to reports, the TSA is remov­ing backscat­ter full-body scan­ners, which use very small amounts of ion­iz­ing radi­a­tion, from major air­ports and replac­ing them with less-controversial mil­lime­ter…

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The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills
Eliza Barclay, npr.org

Sure­ly you’ve heard of crowd fund­ing sites like Kick­starter that have helped thou­sands of film­mak­ers, musi­cians and painters lever­age Face­book and Twit­ter to raise money for cre­ative projects.

But crowd fund­ing isn’t just for hip­ste…

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Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings
Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com

Online real estate ser­vice Zil­low is expand­ing its real estate list­ings today by adding “pre-market inven­to­ry” — specif­i­cal­ly, homes that have either been fore­closed or are in the fore­clo­sure process.

Increas­ing the selec­tion of…

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GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have been altered.

Genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied…

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The digital campaign

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

The Digital Campaign: How Obama And Romney Are Targeting You
Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com

Hors­es and bay­o­nets may have become the lat­est Inter­net meme to come from the last of the sur­pris­ing­ly comedic pres­i­den­tial debates (see also: binders), but as a metaphor for how candidates—who, as of yes­ter­day, were locked in a dead…

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