I wonder if the evidence gets free shipping? I'd
like to know more about their review process. What makes them say
no?
Amazon
Releases First Transparency Report: Here Are The Numbers
… During the six-month period between January
and May this year, Amazon says
[pdf] it received a total of 813 subpoenas and provided all the
information requested in 542 of them. One hundred and forty-five
subpoenas did not receive any response from the e-commerce firm.
Amazon says it also received 25 search warrants
and fully responded to 13 of them, while court orders numbered 13, to
which Amazon provided full information to only four of them.
National security requests numbered between zero and 249, but Amazon
does not state how many of these it complied with.
Rave review, so I'll read the article to see what
I can steal.
What I
learned by reading Businessweek's incredible 38,000-word article on
code
Bloomberg Businessweek has devoted an entire issue
to a single article: Paul Ford's "What
is Code?"
… It takes something both very important and
hard to understand, and makes it understandable to an audience of
smart but non-expert readers. It does this incredibly well. It
mostly feels like fun, not work.
It also contains the best use of interactive
elements in a story that I've ever seen. The demos aren't just there
to show off. They're embedded in the story and make it better
For my Risk Management students.
FEMA
Launches New Data Visualization Tool
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jun 13, 2015
[June 11, 2015] “the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) launched a new data visualization tool that
enables users to see when
and where disaster declarations have occurred across the
country. As hurricane season kicks off, the tool helps provide
important information about the history of hurricanes and other
disasters in their communities and what residents can do to prepare.
The data visualization tool is accessible at
fema.gov/data-visualization
and allows users to view and interact with a wide array of FEMA data.
… The data visualization tool builds on FEMA’s
commitment to transparency by making it easy to convert historical
data – already available via the OpenFEMA initiative – into a
readable and interactive map.
Should I make my classes tweet?
Research –
How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Idea
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jun 13, 2015
New
research suggests that employees with a diverse Twitter network —
one that exposes them to people and ideas they don’t already know —
tend to generate better ideas: “Can Twitter make employees
more innovative? In particular, does having a greater diversity of
virtual Twitter connections mean that good ideas are more likely to
surface, as in the face-to-face world? To answer this question, we
used a technique called organizational network analysis (ONA) to
create visual representations of employee Twitter networks. We
studied ten employee groups across five companies in a range of
industries.”
Is
it a true improvement if WolframAlpha now returns song lyrics?
Where's the math in that?
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