Sentences with phrase «open data efforts»

The juxtaposition highlights how open data efforts are generally considered contributions to freedom of information and the advance of human liberty, but occasionally thought of as dangerous incursions into... [more]

The juxtaposition highlights how open data efforts are generally considered contributions to freedom of information and the advance of human liberty, but occasionally thought of as dangerous incursions into privacy or threats to public safety.

The strategies outlined in our first three Open Government Plans align with the requirements of the Open Government Directive as well as the Open Data Policy and have been at the core of our open data efforts over the last six years.

Listening to FOIL: Using FOIL Requests To Guide Agency Open Data Efforts Case Study: An analysis of NYS DEC FOIL Logs The advent of the Internet and inexpensive information technology have created enormous opportunities for proactively disclosing public records and digital information or «data.»

Not exact matches

Just in case the French Open isn't enough to fill your tennis fix, this data visualization effort by Corona and ad agency JWT Spain will make any sports nerd giddy with tennis tech joy.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

Advocates joined the applause, and expressed appreciation at the city's efforts to fulfill the spirit of the March 7th, 2013 deadline for posting all data already on city websites in the city's open data portal or explaining why this wasn't possible.

The other partners in the effort are the Sunlight Foundation, good government group Citizens Union, Socrata, web - developer coder training program Dev Bootcamp, and Ontodia, an open data solutions firm that has experience working with scraping PDFS and making them machine - readable.

Now, a study, recently published in the open access Biodiversity Data Journal, suggests that the latest advances in both digitization and machine learning might together be able to assist museum curators in their efforts to care for and learn from this incredible global resource.

Another example of using government data to help make people's lives better was after the Nepal earthquakes and the incredible grassroots effort by data scientists around the world to use open data to help first responders and aid workers better understand the situation around them.

«We have deposited all the data and the toolkit in a public platform, which will help researchers identify and validate the functions of their genes of interest,» says Auwerx, placing the project within the context of EPFL's ongoing efforts to advance open science.

To achieve its mission, the Project is developing a Bioinformatics Hub as an open - source, multidisciplinary effort with the overarching goal of providing an enabling infrastructure to support the data processing, analysis and knowledge extraction procedures required to translate high throughput, high complexity human immunology research data into biomedical knowledge, to determine the core principles driving specific and durable protective immune responses.

As long as research data is obtained through hypotheses posed in testable terms and nested in a body of established theory; as long as the data collection and analytical methods permit direct investigation of the question; and as long as the study results are open to replication and professional scrutiny, we will have a professional body of research on which to base reform efforts.

Building on their prior work — a January 2014 report describing the first year of open online courses launched on edX, a nonprofit learning platform founded by the two institutions — the latest effort incorporates another year of data, bringing the total to nearly 70 courses in subjects from programming to poetry.

But it was already backing away from that effort by the time Olympic's small schools opened in 2006, citing lack of data that such splits made a difference.

The authors observed four shared strategies used by the groups in this process: 1) public conversations — open forums for deliberation among a range of stakeholders, leading to problem solving and commitments to action; 2) monitoring programs and policies — gathering and analysis of data to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement efforts; 3) participating in the public arena — building political will through get - out - the - vote campaigns and meetings with elected representatives; and 4) joint ownership and relational culture — developing «public» relationships that lead to collective action.

Our fourth Open Government Plan highlights our ongoing efforts to build an effective open data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does businOpen Government Plan highlights our ongoing efforts to build an effective open data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does businopen data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does business.

This fourth Open Government Plan highlights our ongoing efforts to build an effective open data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does businOpen Government Plan highlights our ongoing efforts to build an effective open data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does businopen data program and make public engagement a core part of the way the Department does business.

DOT has launched two efforts to build national geospatial data assets by federating and compiling local, open authoritative data sources.

In an effort to increase competition within the real estate market, the Competition Bureau argued for open, easy access to housing data — data that lives on the Multiple Listings Service (MLS), a suite of services that enables a seller to market their property to multiple buyers in the open market.

In this issue: A national effort to track shelter animal data; how certain pet stores are replacing puppy mill dogs with rescued pooches; a 101 on making your adoption forms better, easier and less intimidating; a Rescue Central on the power of open adoptions; a story about treating ear mites in shelter kitties, and more.

So all the more reason to put their best case forward to us «non-aligned non-academics» — an effort that starts with open debate and full disclosure on the data that underpins their research.

It builds on the World Bank's Open Data initiative and seeks to: improve disaster and climate change resilience; ensure streamlined data sharing and collaboration among government agencies, the private sector, academia and civil society; and encourage data collaboration with humanitarian effoData initiative and seeks to: improve disaster and climate change resilience; ensure streamlined data sharing and collaboration among government agencies, the private sector, academia and civil society; and encourage data collaboration with humanitarian effodata sharing and collaboration among government agencies, the private sector, academia and civil society; and encourage data collaboration with humanitarian effodata collaboration with humanitarian efforts.

The GFDRR's Open Data for Resilience (OpenDRI) was launched in 2010 to support such efforts.

Going forward, we will be making this extraordinary data set more widely available outside of Audubon, both to further effective, targeted conservation efforts and to combine it with other open data sets to enable others to create powerful visualizations.

Instead of an open debate, a picture is emerging of selective use of data, efforts to silence critics, and particularly a refusal to share data and methodologies.»

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

No small feat but certainly recent culture - change efforts from the University of Victoria's Access to Justice Centre for Excellence (UVicACE) and Ontario's Open Data Directive are encouraging.

In pursuit of this goal, this website is a citizen - led effort to promote open data and help share data that has already been liberated.

This week, Mactaggart penned an open letter to Zuckerberg, in which he referenced the Cambridge Analytica mess — the apparent misuse of 50 million Facebook users» personal information by a data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's presidential campaign — and called the Facebook CEO out for funding an effort to defeat his measure.

Microsoft took the stage at the Open Compute Summit to announce Project Denali, an effort to develop a Solid State Drive specification tailored for flash storage in large scale data centers.

As Gigaom's Stacey Higginbotham noted in May while covering the announcement of the open switch effort, the networking layer is arguably the last bastion of proprietary dominance in the data center.

Deloitte analysts write that the Evolution study is «an effort to better understand the development of blockchain and its ecosystem,» and «we have conducted an extensive data analysis of blockchain projects in an open - source environment.

Democratic lawmakers in recent days had demanded that Facebook be more open about what it knows and to dig more deeply into its troves of data to analyze the propaganda effort, which the company has acknowledged involved at least 470 fake accounts created by a shadowy Russian company that spent more than $ 100,000 targeting U.S. voters.

Reviewed threat data from various sources and developed custom signatures for Open Source IDS «es and other custom detection capabilities in an effort to mitigate vulnerabilities.

• Installed, configured, and managed multiple web sites supporting global e-commerce and e-business credit in technical environments comprised of Solaris 8 - 10 (LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, ZONES, CONTAINERS), Aix 6.1 - 7.1, Linux 4.0 - 5.5, Web Sphere MQ, Apache, Jboss, ATG, DB2, Oracle, MySQL and VMware • Optimized data security through close cooperation between Network Administration, Unix System Administration, NT Administration, DBA, and Backup and Recovery Administration teams • Installed Emulex LPFc, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas cluster server, Veritas File system, Veritas Net Backup etc. and archived original configuration • Utilized expertise in managing and performance tuning major RDBMS Oracle / Sybase / SQL / Informix / DB2 / ATG / SAP • Built and configured IBM, HP and Sun servers, EMC, TSM and Sun SAN • Architected Disaster Recovery System, conducted testing, observed fail errors, and reset the systems • Compiled opensource applications and packages as necessary for the source of both Solaris and RPM packages • Installed and configured Nagios, Cacti and MRTG graphing tool to monitor and visualize servers and network devices • Managed Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, DHCP, DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, Apache, Tomcat, Web Sphere, BMC Patrol, HP Open View, and Nagios • Coordinated efforts among Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production, Support, Network Administration, and Applications groups for project completion ahead of schedule and under budget • Planned and developed projects, performed user acceptance tests, and applied patches to fix bugs • Served as liaison with vendors multiple vendors including Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, Red Hat Linux, Oracle, Sun, and Symantec resolving hardware and software issues in a timely and professional manner

Regional Restaurant Management — Duties & Responsibilities Lead through example with consistent work ethic, attitude, and professionalism, supervising the facilitation of food sales, overseeing restaurant operations and promoting a high - quality, memorable customer dining experience Participate in all phases of strategic store - level planning with other management professionals, including local staffing, service - related concerns, inventory control, merchandising, sales and revenue projections, and local competition Employ various strategies to manage and reduce food, beverage and labor expenses Supervise all store opening and closing functions, including the acquisition and sale of all equipment, state and county inspections, general contractor relations, hiring and terminations, and financial data transmission Perform continuous assessment of all operational aspects while furnishing oversight and guidance regarding the effective application and execution of critical internal policies and procedures to standardize restaurant offering across markets Meet and exceed customer satisfaction benchmarks while tracking progress versus established branch and corporate guidelines Identify and utilize talent among team members with focused training efforts, targeted professional hiring, job fair management and the promotion of a performance - based work environment that leverages individual talents for group benefit Provide relevant administration and oversight with respect to all HR - related functions, including payroll and compliance tasks Oversee the management of daily, weekly and monthly food and supply inventories, in addition to alcohol products, while holding responsibility for the development of weekly P&L statements and internal store audit execution Address local management and staff queries and resolve them in an expedited manner, promoting sustained revenue growth through relationship development and the leveraging of both talent and resources at all locations Collaborate and communicate effectively with all store personnel as well as with members of corporate management Execute all marketing and sales strategies while tracking progress versus established internal and external industry benchmarks, focusing on both revenue generation, customer acquisition and brand loyalty development Maintain a strong working knowledge of product and services as well as related industry considerations, including pricing and regulatory trends, service - related issues and local competitor operations