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Census Reduces Data for Mid-Sized Places

Here is a story about how diminishing Census data will affect rural areas in the United States. The story describes the effects of the Census Bureau’s cut to the American Community Survey. It says that, for nearly a third of U.S. counties it will mean “getting a murkier picture of their people and economies.” The […]

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U.S. Census Bureau launches Instagram account

As D.B. Hebbard at Talking New Media says, this is “a sure sign the either 1) everyone is doing it, or 2) Instagram will be the next My Space.” u.s.censusbureau at instagram

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Lunchtime Listen: Future Crimes

Lunchtime Listen: Book Discussion on Future Crimes, C-SPAN, Book-TV (February 25, 2015). Marc Goodman talks about his book, Future crimes: Everything is connected, everyone is vulnerable, and what we can do about it (New York : Doubleday, 2015), about how criminals, corporations, and governments use technology to disrupt the lives of people around the world. […]

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Data and Goliath

If you don’t keep up with privacy issues, this is the book you should read to catch up. Data and Goliath : the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier, New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] ©2015. And here are a couple of quick overviews of […]

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The Rise of the Chief Data Officer

More and more federal government agencies are getting a “chief data officer” (CDO). NextGov interviewed five recently appointed agency CDOs. These are very brief overviews of the vast amount of data being managed by the government (the CDO for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notes that they are adding about a billion records […]

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