Centre for Public Management Inc.

11/25/2014

Article: How Big Data Analytics Creates Order Out Of Chaos

11/20/2014

Article: How Graph Analytics Can Connect You To What's Next In Big Data

07/10/2014

changes in accuracy of phone based surveys

By increasing the number of wireless phones dialed, pollsters get a more representative sample, one that includes all demographic groups.

06/25/2014

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10202324392657527&id=1423113825

A new research paper finds that typical debt burdens have not risen significantly over the last two decades.

11/04/2013

so daylight saving time... Ben Franklin's joke suggestion? e.g. save 64 million pounds of wax ... http://gizmodo.com/ben-franklins-daylight-saving-time-proposal-was-writte-1456363759

Today I found out Ben Franklin’s proposal of something like daylight saving time was written as a joke.

11/01/2013

interesting representation of population change--briths deaths by location in 'real' time. Nice visual display of quantitative information:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/a-real-time-map-of-births-and-deaths/280609/

This simulation gives an eerily omniscient vantage on the world as it fills.

12/14/2011

We love end-of-the-year lists (especially from economists!) December is list month!

Newsnight asked top economists to each select a graph which they considered key to the economic story of 2011. Here those experts show us which graphs they chose and explain why.

12/13/2011

We wonder what triggers these flare-ups about elite recruitment.

Reading Lauren Rivera's 'Ivies, Extracurricular and Exclusion: Elite Employers' Use of Educational Credentials' is a revelation -- and shocking.

12/10/2011

In the 1950s the U.S. federal government drafted regulations for Yeti searches. Yep, those Yetis. The-Abominable-Snow-Man Yetis. It was either this or Melissa Black. Slow news day.

Feds endorsed rules for catching the abominable snowman.

12/07/2011

Congress hosts first ever Hack-a-thon! Don't worry, we got the same knotty, "Dad-tries-to-like-rap" feeling you did!

DUELING TAX-CUT PLANS DEFEATED

12/06/2011

University of Cali has some useful enterprise risk management tools, if you're into that sort of thing.

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is defined by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) as "a process, effected by an entity's board of directors, management and other personnel, applied in strategy-setting and across the enterprise, designed to identify potential events that may affect the ...

12/05/2011

Great "small data" collection for the U.S.! Any data sources like this for the Great White North?

The Kaiser Family Foundation presents statehealthfacts.org, an innovative resource for free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states.