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GAO has YouTube channel, two Twitter feeds
The official YouTube channel of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO): youtube.com/user/usgao. Twitter feed for: reports and testimony. Twitter feed for: Legal Decisions and Opinions. more: GAO Joins YouTube, Twitter, Congress Daily, "Tech Daily Dose," July 7, 2009. Continue reading
Legistalker
Legistalker - The latest online activity of Congress Members.
Legistalker makes it easy for you to stay on top of what your elected officials say and how they vote. Legistalker was created by Forum One Communications as an entry for the Apps for America competition. The ever-growing database is updated every 20 seconds, and relies on data from Twitter, YouTube, Capitol Words, literally hundreds of different news sources, and others.Continue reading
Update on Data.Gov
Sunlight Labs has an update on the status of data.gov: Data.gov gets an update, by Clay, Sunlight Labs, June 19 2009.
Data.gov has given itself a slight upgrade, adding a bunch more feeds. To compensate, Data.gov has turned itself into three subcatalogs: A raw data catalog, a tool catalog and a geodata catalog.Continue reading
National Archives now on YouTube
www.youtube.com/USNationalArchives Thanks and a tip of the hat to Kate. Continue reading
The Census and Politics
This article does an excellent job of explaining the issues involved in picking someone to head the Census Bureau.
- Census Pick Illustrates Broader Obama Strategy, by Michael J. O'Neil, The Huffington Post, June 15, 2009.
If you need a non-statistician's explanation of why sampling and estimation is as accurate as an actual enumeration, consider your last blood test: did they remove and test ALL your blood?. These matters are beyond any scientific dispute. Yes, sampling is theory -- the same way gravity is theory.Continue reading
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