Sentences with phrase «data about the nation»

The drama stars Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the controversial title character, who infamously leaked classified data about our nation's surveillance program to the media.

Not exact matches

Yet according to data from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unitred Nations (FAOSTAT), Americans eat about 3,600 calories daily — a 24 % increase from 1961.

But, if you give a data scientist a really challenging problem like identifying the ideology of a nation or an issue, a model or something, it's about solving the problem.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

If the data from the rest of the nation fit that pattern, abortions increased nationwide in 2002 by about 24,000 a year, reversing the dramatic decreases of the 1990s.

Jeff Haley writes about basketball, booze, and Twitter for Burnt Orange Nation, a blog about Texas Longhorns athletics, and operates the website hoop-math.com, which presents unusual college basketball statistics derived from play - by - play data.

At one of this year's many data - focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter - targeting technologies: that's it's less about the data itself, and more about creating a culture of letting the information in...

Let's ask Netroots Nation to post data about how many trade unionists attended, and make it a goal to exceed that number in 2012.

In an analysis of nearly 50 years of data on bees from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, researchers found that domesticated honeybee populations have increased about 45 percent, thanks in large part to expansion of the bees into areas such as South America, eastern Asia and Africa.

Yet the instruments are installed only in about 1,000 of the nation's 3,141 counties, and budget cuts have forced states to reduce the number of sensors or staff who maintain them and analyze the data.

Using data from about 730 families that participated in a survey of Early Head Start programs at 17 sites across the nation, the researchers investigated the effects of parents» stress and mental health problems such as depression on their children.

About 30 other nations — including China, Cuba, South Korea and Angola — filed preliminary data this month to beat the deadline.

The NCI estimates it will take about two years to collect sufficient data and material on 2,400 patients across the nation with early onset of the six cancers who are black, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native or white.

As part of Sanford Health, the largest rural non-profit health care system in the nation, we can integrate research and patient care so that information flows seamlessly — translational genomic research discoveries are accelerated into clinical applications, such as new treatments and diagnostics to benefit patients, and clinical data about patient response flows back to the labs to inform more discoveries.

Recent data indicates that 13 % of the Israeli nation is vegetarian (among the highest in the world), and after a speaking tour of Israel in late 2013, dairy and meat sales fell by about 5 %.

About 22 percent of Mississippians live below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census data, compared with 15 percent of the nation's population as a whole.

Looking beyond U.S. borders, most of Failing Our Brightest Kids reports what we learned about how 11 other nations educate gifted students, based on conventional research, site visits, on - the - ground correspondents, pummeling the data, and taking advantage of expert pummeling by others (especially Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, and Ludger Woessman).

Any doubt about the progress being made by the public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nation.

Excerpts of their post appear below: To get a glimpse of the social studies teacher workforce in the U.S., we look to data from the 2011 - 12 Schools and Staffing Survey Read more about The State of the Nation's Social Studies Educators -LSB-...]

Some of these consequences / connectors are also at the source of the now 15 lawsuits occurring across the nation because of the low - to - high stakes consequences being attached to these data (see information about these 15 lawsuits here).

The pilot takes place in multiple countries, all part of the broad initiative called the HP National Education Technology Analytics Project (HP NETA)-- an ambitious data analytics effort that will assist nation and state - level education leaders by providing insights about the impact of education technology on learning, society, and the economy.

SP SnapShot ™, the Council's latest data tool developed in partnership with Etraffic Solutions, gives detailed analysis and information about achievement, school - by - school, student - by - student, teacher - by teacher throughout the nation.

The data analyzed covered about 85 % of the nation's public school students.

Our nation is investing enormous sums in generating more data than ever before about teachers, schools, and students.

The latest Census Bureau data for Hispanic students alone show they make up about a quarter of the nation's public school enrollment.

While the vast majority of parents are blind to the issue, one of the most serious problems associated with the transformation of the nation's education system is the creation of massive databases that track a broad array of data about children and how a variety of public and private entities mine that data for various uses including marketing to children and parents.

As House and Senate negotiators work in conference committee to reconcile competing overhauls of our federal education law, let's not forget that our nation needs quality testing data to make well - informed decisions about how well all public schools are working for our children.

«California is really behind compared to the rest of the nation when you think about data systems and the ability to use data to improve practice,» said Samantha Tran, of the nonprofit advocacy group Children Now.

-- H. L Mencken We have overwhelming data that while our nation's high schools serve some students well, they serve yet more students poorly, and many others not at all: About 70 percent of the nation's ninth graders graduate from high school four years later, but

The results, based on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly known as the nation's report card, were unearthed from online data by researchers at the American Federation of Teachers — which has historically supported charter schools but has produced research in recent years raising doubts about the expansion of charter schools — who provided them to The New York Times.

We are fortunate to have had Denver Public Schools leading the state and nation for over a decade in data transparency and providing information to families about the quality of schools through the School Performance Framework (SPF).

A) Critics make personal attacks against me because they can't refute the data and documentation in my book about the harm done by testing and choice to our nation's public education system.

Borders» move to close about one - third of its stores earlier this year increased the collective vacancy rate of shopping centers that contained a Borders to 9.3 percent from 4.2 percent, estimated Chris Macke, senior real estate strategist at CoStar Group, the nation's largest provider of real estate data.

Nielsen BookScan gathers point - of - sale book data from about 12,000 locations across the U.S., representing about 75 % of the nation's book sales.

Nielsen BookScan, which monitors the English - language book industry worldwide, gathers point - of - sale book data from about 12,000 locations across the U.S., representing about 75 % of the nation's book sales.

Then they took their findings about those two subgroups and compared them against data from more than 30 banks, including many of the nation's largest depository institutions.

* For some time, the UAH satellite data's chief significance is that they appeared to contradict the United Nations» IPCC predictions about global warming.

The Fort McKay First Nation just downstream from Suncor said it has tried to get details from the Alberta government about which chemicals were released, but the data «hasn't materialized,» said Daniel Stuckless, manager of environmental and regulatory affairs for Fort Mackay.

As the interpretation of infinity in economic climate models is essentially a debate about how to deal with the threat of extinction, Mr Weitzman's argument depends heavily on a judgement about the value of life... A lack of reliable data exacerbates the profound methodological and philosophical difficulties faced by climate change economists... The United Nations conference in Paris this December offers a chance to take appropriate steps to protect future generations from this risk... http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/07/climate-change (MOST COMMENTING ARE NOT AT ALL IMPRESSED)

These cuts spell a 46 percent decline in data about the Earth's conditions that these new satellites were designed to provide, and the Government Accountability Office report concluded that because of the trouble - plagued satellite program, «our nation's ability to understand climate change may be limited.»

After an equal share of electric power was generated from coal and natural gas in April 2012, EIA's most recent preliminary data through March 2013 show coal has generated 40 % or more of the nation's electricity each month since November 2012, with natural gas fueling about 25 % of generation during the same period.

Climatologist Dr. Ross McKitrick, one of the authors and an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, believes that the United Nations agency promoting the global temperature graph has made «false claims about the quality of its data.»

In a 2004 report to the United Nations, the last time India published detailed emissions data, the government said total greenhouse gas emissions were 1.228 billion metric tons, or about 1.3 tons per person, in 1994.

Turning to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, he found data about the price of wheat that varied with the sunspot cycle.

Many public safety groups and insurance companies work hard to compile data and publish reports about the safety of our nation's public roads and highways.

Data collected by the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that about 81 percent of drivers across the nation buckled up in 2006 while almost 90 percent of motorists in New Mexico wore a seat - belt.

But, if you give a data scientist a really challenging problem like identifying the ideology of a nation or an issue, a model or something, it's about solving the problem.

It's caught the eye of lawmakers across the world — Zuckerberg has been summoned by Parliament in the UK and asked to testify in Congress by multiple senators; Facebook is now under an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission about its mishandling of Cambridge Analytica data; and across the world, company executives are getting skewered by governments in nations like the UK and, worse, Singapore, where officials suggest the company has lost their trust.

Its findings, based on two years of research and data, were grim: It saw growing social inequities and the curtailing of the rule of law and political freedoms in about 40 nations, including some countries with rather advanced democracies.

You've likely heard about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) going into effect for EU nations on May 25.