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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There were a series of articles by smaller communities, about how the quality of their city as an events-sports destination was high, despite the size of the community or whether or not they actually had a sports team, for example Fort Worth doesn't (" Here’s why Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena was named Billboard’s No. 1 venue in the world."

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon Web Services’ ( AWS) 12 th annual re:Invent conference offers a variety of events that educate attendees about cloud-related topics. This includes keynotes, leadership discussions, technical sessions, training opportunities, and more. This year, AWS is introducing Innovation Talks , which are deep dives hosted by AWS thought leaders.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it.

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Is The Wisdom of Crowds Prone to Exaggeration? Evidence from Metaculus

The Lowe Down

Ever since Iowa Electronic Markets outperformed experts and polls in predicting election results from 1988 to 2004, the academic community has been particularly excited about leveraging the wisdom of crowds (Surowiecki, 2005), or how the “many are smarter than the few.” If you forecast 100% and an event occurred, your Brier score would be 0.

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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Davis recalled that their legacy communication system made it nearly impossible to coordinate rescue efforts. “We Now, Davis and his colleagues feel confident that his team can respond effectively in the event of a disaster. “We It’s our job to bring the needed resiliency through technology.”

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.

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How Xavier University of Louisiana’s migration to AWS is creating a “technology renaissance”

AWS Public Sector Blog

University leaders knew that housing important data onsite in servers left the university vulnerable to a complete shutdown in the event of a power outage or hurricane. The university IT infrastructure had not been updated or improved since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.