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Data.gov Celebrates Third Anniversary

Data.gov

May 21, 2012 marks the third anniversary of the U.S. government’s open data site, Data.gov. The first national open data site, Data.gov led the way in opening government data around the world. Now 30 countries host open data sites and … Continued. The post Data.gov Celebrates Third Anniversary appeared first on Data.gov. Meta - The Data.gov Blog

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10 Big Data Sites to Watch – By Gil Press | Foreign Policy

Data.gov

Data.gov, which was launched by the Obama administration as part of its Open Government Initiative in 2009, offers access to data generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Enterprising government agencies and private citizens have built on the … Continued. The post 10 Big Data Sites to Watch – By Gil Press | Foreign Policy appeared first on Data.gov. Meta - The Data.gov Blog

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A Primer on Machine Readability for Online Documents and Data

Data.gov

The post A Primer on Machine Readability for Online Documents and Data appeared first on Data.gov. Developers

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Challenges

Data.gov

Winners Announced. The post Challenges appeared first on Data.gov. Energy

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Data.gov CKAN Catalog

Data.gov

Data.gov is pleased to announce the launch of a new data catalog on an open source data management system called CKAN used by the data portals of the U.K., Germany, Brazil, and a number of other governments around the world. … Continued. The post Data.gov CKAN Catalog appeared first on Data.gov. Meta - The Data.gov Blog

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Over 100 Interview Questions for Summer Camp Hiring

Summer Camp Programming

Back in 2012 I posted 15 of my favorite interview questions. In this article I’m going to add to those and include questions other camp professionals suggested. If you have a favorite interview question, leave it in the comments.

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Professional resume writing services near me

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

There’s a great options ResumesGuaranteed top resume writing services near me.com — it’s not great employee, and weak points and follow-up letters top resume writing services near me. There is a tool, and beyond. Where It Falls Short As excellent resume writing services will have a kind.

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Street Smarts: Jacksonville Forges a High-Tech Future in Mass Transit

State Tech Magazine

Roughly two years after Nathaniel Ford became Jacksonville Transportation Authority CEO in 2012, JTA launched what Ford refers to as “a very aggressive approach related to technology.”

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2022 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Not a big year for libraries though I did get to one new one in Fairlee. Kimball (56) – Once the library opened, it stayed open.

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Street Smarts: Jacksonville Forges a High-Tech Future in Mass Transit

State Tech Magazine

Roughly two years after Nathaniel Ford became Jacksonville Transportation Authority CEO in 2012, JTA launched what Ford refers to as “a very aggressive approach related to technology.”

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Season 5 Episode 12 - Energizing Sustainable Change with GSA's Data Center Optimization Initiative

GovCast

From 2012 to 2021, data center closures and optimization brought government an estimated 6.6 billion in cost savings and avoidances. Data center and energy management also play a key role in sustainability targets and the Biden administration’s goal to hit net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Q&A: In Florida, JTA CEO Nathaniel Ford Champions Public Transit

State Tech Magazine

Since 2012, Ford — whom the American Public Transportation Association selected as Outstanding Public Transportation Manager in 2020 and President Barack Obama named a White House Champion of Change in 2015 — has served as the Jacksonville Transportation

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2021 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Only my regulars this past year. I picked up shifts at my local library and did a few months at Chelsea Public Library while they searched for a full-time librarian.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here was the twitter thread of what I read last year. I’ll be posting on Mastodon this year instead.Find me there at [link].

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Nuclear Power Stations Transitioning to IPAWS

VDEM (Virgina Department of Emergency Management)

FEMA implemented wireless emergency alerts in 2012.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here was the twitter thread of what I read last year but I should note, it has two 46es on it. I read about the same this year.

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Advancing connector technologies for multicore optical fibres

Open Access Government - Technology News

The first practical optical connector for MCF was the MU type MCF connector developed in Japan during 2012 (1) (Fig. 2012).

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Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The reality is that then successful districts like Friendship Heights and Georgetown still faced voracious competition, but from the suburbs (" Turnabout is fair play: why Topher Matthews/GGW is wrong about TIF incentives for a department store in Georgetown ," 2012).

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As it happens, for economic reasons that these days are mostly theoretical, I am not against raising DC's Height Limit.

2012 52
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Girls in data: Inspiring the future of female data science

Open Access Government - Technology News

I remember reading an article in Harvard Business Review back in 2012 where data science was dubbed the “ Sexiest Job of the 21st Century ”.

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Does Mail-in Voting Actually Increase Election Participation?

The Lowe Down

Since 2012, a majority of California citizens have voted by mail in US presidential elections, and most California counties offer a mix of in-person and mail-in voting options to cast one’s ballot. Article By Noah Hendelman.

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. DC did that in 2009. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City."

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Insights from nearly a decade of CountyStat: An interview with Dave Gottesman, CountyStat Manager, Montgomery County, Maryland – Episode #173

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

He’s been the CountyStat manager since 2012. Montgomery County, located just north of Washington D.C. is a leader in the use of performance management, including through its CountyStat initiative , drawing on the model of other PerformanceStat efforts.

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Retaining Generation X and Generation Z federal employees: Three ways Congress can help

Partnership for Public Service

Specifically, we considered Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980)—which is the future of federal senior leadership—and Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012)—which represents the future of the federal workforce.

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Gen Z has fewer Black federal employees than other generational groups

Partnership for Public Service

Those in Gen Z were born between 1997 and 2012, making them less than 25 years old in 2021. In 2021, Generation Z had fewer Black federal employees than the average for all age groups, and those employees saw higher rates of attrition than their Gen Z counterparts of other races.

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Revisiting yet again the Capital Crescent Trail underground tunnel debacle: Bethesda/Purple Line light rail

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I haven't been writing so much lately because I am in a depressed phase where it seems to me that the capacity of government to be innovative is minimal. I was talking about my writing the other day and I said, half the pieces are about innovation, the other half are about poor decision making.

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Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment.

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " The Howard and Lincoln Theatres: run them like the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust/Playhouse Square Cleveland model ," 2012, and the discussion of "transformational projects action planning," " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced?

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Reporting on Logistics Trends with Paul Page

First State Insights

He came to the Journal from Congressional Quarterly, where he was economic policy editor from 2012 to 2015. He came to the Journal from Congressional Quarterly, where he was economic policy editor from 2012 to 2015.

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CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

A Library Writer's Blog

2012, 6) Teaching has become a core activity in academic libraries over the last decades, but librarians may find their teaching role to be a complicated one. The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (CJAL) invites submissions to our special issue on the place of teaching in academic librarians’ work. CJAL is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL). Librarians teach.

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

The suspension rate data and juvenile imprisonment data were merged by county and year, adjusting the imprisonment year so that it aligned with suspension rates academic year (2012 became 2011-12). Article by Julia Garbee. A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2012, 2019 (2017). 519, 535-36 (2012). Steve Friedman , Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many aspects of our lives have been severely altered and restricted in the name of public health. The extent of the states' police power is currently being tested amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and one such legal battleground involves the freedom of religious practice.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. I have zero experience with transit in South Florida.

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities.

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Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Kageyama is an author, whose book For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places was recognized in 2012 as a Top 10 Book in urban planning, design and development. On today’s episode, we’re talking with Peter Kageyama, one of the 2018 NRPA Annual Conference keynote speakers.

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012).

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

In 2012, Patrick Overeem wrote a forensic investigation [a la CSI-style] book hinting to a comeback in the making, particularly in the United States. 2012). Overeem, Patrick (2012).

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Bicyclist deaths-bicycle safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice on Times Square in New York, June 20, 2012.

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Regulations carving out a path for new businesses? They may be less important than you think.

The Lowe Down

From 2012 to 2020, Wyoming and Mississippi had the largest annual growth in new business applications while North Dakota and Kansas had the lowest. Article by Abbas Seltzer. Regulations carving out a path for new businesses? They may be less important than you think.

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