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Peter J. Woolley 03.26.2012 For many observers, the key to its outcome is in the pens of the five Republican-appointed justices who, it is thought, are far more likely...
General Social Survey
The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource.The General Social Survey ( GSS ) is a sociological survey used to collect data on demographic characteristics and attitudes of residents of the United States . The survey is conducted face-to-face with an in-person interview by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago , of a randomly-selected sample of adults (18+) who are not institutionalized. The survey was conducted every year from 1972 to 1994 (except in 1979, 1981, and 1992).
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Are you a teacher, professor, or student? Young people across America are learning about Data.gov and we want you to be part of getting data into the classroom. As the Web of linked documents evolves to include the Web of linked data, we’re working to maximize the potential of Semantic Web technologies to realize the promise of Linked Open Government Data. We and our collaborators at the Tetherless World Constellation at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are helping to lead the way in this exciting area!
Data.gov
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk repository, and wanted to explore putting some of the information contained within into people’s hands in a form that is accessible, timely, and relevant. It’s a prototype of a service for people moving into a new area. In our exercise we imagined you might receive it after paying your council tax for the first time. It’s not just data from central government – we also scraped TFL for travel times, and ITO generated us a bespoke spider map of transport options in our area.
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Data.gov.uk Newspaper: Opening Up Local Information as a Newspap
The data.gov.uk Newspaper [newspaperclub.co.uk] is a tangible prototype of a potential service targeting people who recently moved into a new area, and shows information about the area, such as local services, environmental information, crime statistics, travel times, transportation options, education and healthcare. The current project acts as a prototype / working demonstration of the creative and original possibilities that are possible when governments would open some of the valuable datasets they have currently in their position. It also hopes to encourage some more data to get opened up to the public.
PatentStorm: U.S. Patents
PatentStorm offers full-text U.S. patents and patent applications from the U.S. Patent Office, providing advanced search capabilities and full image retrieval in handy PDF format.Base de données provenant de l'institut américain des brevets. by Jan 5
Compare What Your Senators and Reps are Talking About With Congr
There's a lot of talking in congressional meetings, but what are your state senators and representatives talking about? Design group Periscopic explores what congress men and women said from 2007 to 2008 in this tongue-in-cheek comparison tool with talking heads. The best part about the tool is that behind the humor is actually something useful. Compare word distributions of senators, of states, of a senator to a state, or representatives, so on and so forth. We get breakdowns by gender, number of words spoken, and by state. All data come from public records.
Congress Speaks: All Words Spoken in the 110th US Congress - inf
Congress Speaks [congressspeaks.com] is a light-hearted exploration of the more than 14,548,598 words spoken in the 110th United States Congress . It explores who has being doing all this talking, and more importantly, what they have been saying. The website allows the comparison of individual legislators or states, or even states with legislators.USGovXML.com: Home
US Government Web Services and XML Data Sources Welcome to USGovXML. USGovXML is an index to publicly available web services and XML data sources that are provided by the US government. USGovXML indexes data sources from all 3 branches of government as well as its boards, commissions, corporations and independent agencies. USGovXML documents, in one place and in a uniform manner, the web services and XML data sources that are provided by the US government. It includes detail information about the data source (i.e. name, description, links to documentation, tech support, etc.) as well as source code snippets (written in C#) to help developers better understand how the data sources can be used.
Twitter is currently echoing the excitement of open data advocates and data geeks alike, due the release of data.gov , an open and free web repository that aims to provide public access to US Federal Government datasets. Or, in official terms: " The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government ". However, while this means that the data has finally become freely available, it is certainly not yet accessible or even understandable for lay people. The huge homepage banner " Discover.
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USAspending.gov is a new US governmental website designed in accordance to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act): it is a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award: The data is largely gathered from the Federal Procurement Data System , which contains information about federal contracts, and the Federal Assistance Award Data System , which contains information about federal financial assistance such as grants, loans, insurance, and direct subsidies like Social Security. The underlying technology for USAspending.gov was developed by OMB Watch with the support of The Sunlight Foundation and is used on OMB Watch's website located at FedSpending.org . Most of the visualizations are displayed in the Federal IT Dashboard . For instance, the current illustrates government spending in the form of charts and lists ranking the largest government contractors (e.g.
USAspending.gov: Where Americans Can See where their Money Goes
OpenSecrets Blog May 22 - If President Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney's long career at Bain Capital are a liability, as some Democrats now worry, they don't seem to bother many of Romney's old colleagues: Employees of Bain Capital and Bain & Company have given more than $152,000 to Obama's campaign and the joint fundraising operation he runs with the Democratic National Committee. May 22 - A new poll shows that mitt Romney may have narrowed the gender gap between himself and Barack Obama somewhat in terms of voters -- he's only behind by about 7 percentage points, instead of 19 as he was earlier this year -- but the enthusiasm isn't translating to dollars for the campaign. May 21 - It was a bear market last month in terms of Wall Street's investment in the presidential race -- candidates and super PACs alike.