Politwoops archive of politicians’ deleted tweets uploaded to Internet Archive
In August, 2015, Twitter shut down the Politwoops service and its sister site Diplotwoops that tracked politicians’ deleted tweets. Twitter revoked access to its API for all Politwoops sites in 30 countries around the world, citing terms of service violations. In a move to preserve all of those deleted tweets, Open State has uploaded its […]
Bernard A. Barton Jr.: New CIO of the Library of Congress
8 Tough Questions for the New CIO of the Library of Congress, By Hallie Golden, NextGov (September 14, 2015). As the newly appointed chief information officer of the Library of Congress, Bernard A. Barton Jr. says excelling in the digital age is going to depend a lot on making smart predictions.
College Scorecard
College Scorecard is the new U.S. Department of Education website that provides detailed comparative information about colleges. (The Department has abandoned its earlier attempt to rate colleges.) The site includes both a user-friendly front end of statistics and graphs and a separate data site (College Scorecard Data) with data behind the College Scorecard, as well […]
CIA Rebuttal to Senate Torture Report
A new, commercially-published book provides official responses from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to 2014 Senate Torture Report. REBUTTAL: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program, Bill Harlow, Editor, U.S. Naval Institute. Sep 2015. 418 pp. Introduction and essays © 2015 Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Contents: […]
Using Government Data to Create A Statistical Portrait of Government Student Loans
An interesting paper that uses government administrative data to analyze student loans. A crisis in student loans? How changes in the characteristics of borrowers and in the institutions they attended contributed to rising loan defaults, by Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. BPEA Conference Draft, September, 2015. This paper examines the […]