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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Sep 25, 2008
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We've discussed metadata and data integrity issues before -- see especially this blog post for the drunks+lamppost analogy -- and have been advocating for better metadata standards generally. Now Swivel launches a discussion of the authenticity of data that reminds us why this topic is so...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Aug 20, 2008
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I'm pretty excited about the announcement by USA TODAY that they are providing a geographically-searchable database of hospital outcomes. If you go to U.S. Hospital Death Rates , you can see how well hospitals in your state or your community treat heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Jul 30, 2008
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Here's a couple of updates from stuff we've talked about earlier: 1. PolicyMap ( www.policymap.com ) has just added new data sets: - Presidential Campaign Contributions as of June 20, 2008 - 4th Quarter 2007 Home Sale Statistics - Fair Market Rents (FMR) for 2008 by bedroom size: efficiencies,...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Jul 21, 2008
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You've seen the lists -- Top 25 Hottest Cities. Top 25 Cities for Singles. Top 25 Coolest Cities. Top 25 Cities to Live. Top 25 Friendliest Cities. Each of them develops some set of indicators as criteria, adds a trendy label, and then ranks a bunch of cities according to the desired index....... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Jul 21, 2008
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We've talked about Walk Score before and its use of walkability indicators for communities. Now they've come out with new rankings for America's Most Walkable Neighborhoods -- and they illustrate their article with a picture of my hometown. So I have to talk about it again, right? If you're...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Jul 17, 2008
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The American Human Development Project is an interesting data resource and attempt to create a national indicator set to "stimulate fact-based public debate about and political attention to human development issues in the United States and to empower people to hold elected officials accountable...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: May 9, 2008
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Last night I was talking to someone who expressed the same frustration many of us have felt in finding good data for smaller communities -- in his case, a small-population mostly-rural county. We pointed out an excellent resource a couple of months ago that just came out in January to help with...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Apr 8, 2008
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Robert Kosara, on EagerEyes, announces that "Data is being set free: the United Nations have started a new website called UN Data to share the data collected by a number of UN agencies." He analyzes the interface, then adds: I immediately thought, "this would be perfect in combination...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Apr 4, 2008
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Here's a note from the good people at DataPlace . For those unfamiliar with the site, it provides a great deal of data (much of it housing-specific) with some interesting tools to support your community indicators initiative. We've talked about them before , and recommended them for...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Apr 1, 2008
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You'll remember our conversation about Freebase last September . Freebase.com describes itself as "a uniquely structured database that you can easily search, add to and edit; you can also use the data in it to power your own projects. It’s a data commons in the way that a public square is a...... [view]
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Posted By: BenWarner
Posted On: Mar 20, 2008
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More information to share: DATA IN ACTION http://www.childhealthdata.org/ Upcoming MCH Epidemiology Training Click Here to Apply Click Here for an Overview The MCHB and CDC are offering a Training Course in MCH Epidemiology as part of their ongoing effort to enhance the analytic...... [view]
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