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Insights from the City of New Orleans’ analytics unit, NOLAlytics, about using data to improve city services: An interview with Oliver Wise, Director, Office of Performance and Accountability, City of New Orleans – Episode #114

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011. He is the founding director of the Office of Performance and Accountability. An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011.

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Why World Backup Day is relevant everyday

Open Access Government - Technology News

It started as a post on Reddit in 2011 and has grown to see up to half a million people visiting the official website each March 31st. Advance fee fraud, where a large sum of money is promised in return for a small upfront fee, accounted for 17%.

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

in 2011-2015 and 0.09 While we include county fixed effects to account for county-specific time-invariant unobservable characteristics, we do not explicitly analyze the relationship between ethnicity and pollution within counties the way we have for income. in the period 2006-2010. percent decline in exposure. for 2016-2020.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

The project offers first- hand accounts from the citizens most impacted in Puerto Rico and St. Similarly, the ACRL Framework was influenced by metaliteracy and provides a shared focus on learners as ethical information producers as well. Thomas V.I. References ACRL Association of College and Research Libraries. American Library Association.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

She attended housing court to hold inspectors and policymakers accountable and spent every spare moment providing opportunities for her neighbors to learn job skills, from baking to data entry. The condemned Carpenters Hall at Kinsman Road in 2011. Source: Google Maps The same lot in 2016.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. This was more than just a recovery from the severe downturn of the financial crisis.

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Government failure in Texas: electricity generation in extreme cold weather (reprint)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Texas’ grid operator on Friday released its predictions for peak electricity use in Texas for this winter that showed steep shortfalls in power capacity in an extreme event, despite not accounting for February’s deadly freeze. So what's up for Texans this winter?

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