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World: Corruption Perceptions Index 2011 | ReliefWeb
2011 – a crisis in governance: Protests that marked 2011 show anger at corruption in politics and public sector Berlin, 1 December 2011 – Corruption continues to plague too many countries around the world, according to Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index released today. It shows some governments failing to protect citizens from corruption, be it abuse of public resources, bribery or secretive decision-making. Transparency International warned that protests around the world, often fuelled by corruption and economic instability, clearly show citizens feel their leaders and public institutions are neither transparent nor accountable enough. “This year we have seen corruption on protestors’ banners be they rich or poor. Whether in a Europe hit by debt crisis or an Arab world starting a new political era, leaders must heed the demands for better government,” said Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International.
President Barack Obama may be down in the ratings, but he still has a steady hold on social media popularity. In December, Socialbakers – a social media analytics firm – tracked Facebook-page interactions of the eight key candidates from the Republican and Democratic parties to gauge changes in popularity and monitor fan engagement. Obama led the pack with the most overall interactions on the site, including comments, fan engagement and viral reach. President Barack Obama also has the most Facebook fans – a whopping 24 million, far more than the Republican candidates — but many were collected during the 2008 election period.
Which Politician is Most Popular, Engaging on Social Media Sites?
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Interactive | State of Working America
Use the sliders on the timeline to select a timespan , and see how growth in average income was shared between the richest 10% and the other 90% of Americans. All figures are in 2008 dollars. Calculations: All incomes are in 2008 dollars.
A few days ago I received an email from Thomas Watkins, who is an avid reader of this blog and a past participant in one of my Visual Business Intelligence Workshops. He asked my opinion of this infographic, which recently appeared in the New York Times . It looks a bit like a solar system with really strange orbits.
The Euro Crisis Is Less Complicated Than It Appears
If a country is spending more than it is raising through taxation in a year then it has an annual deficit. If it is raising more than it is spending then it has an annual surplus. Continue reading the main story This chart shows that surplus (a number above zero) or deficit (less than zero) as a proportion of GDP (the total value of goods and services produced by the economy). EU rules say that countries using the euro are not allowed to have an annual deficit of more than 3% of GDP, but several countries have failed to keep to that rule in recent years.
Eurozone in crisis in graphics: Deficit
BBC News - What really caused the eurozone crisis?
And that was in the year that featured the Arab Spring, the Japanese tsunami and the death of Osama Bin Laden. What's more, 2012 looks set to be not much different. But as eurozone governments hammer out new rules to limit their borrowing, are they missing the point of the crisis? Eurozone leaders have agreed to a tough set of rules - insisted on by Germany - that will limit their governments' "structural" borrowing (that is, excluding any extra borrowing due to a recession) to just 0.5% of their economies' output each year. It will also limit their total borrowing to 3%. These rules are supposed to stop them accumulating too much debt, and make sure there won't be another financial crisis.
[DATA] Budget 2012 : 366 milliards, mais pour financer quoi ? | Voila le travail
Emploi, travail, économie, mais aussi éducation, défense, sécurité, logement... Combien l'Etat français dépense-t-il pour ses citoyens ? Ce graphique représente les grandes politiques publiques du budget 2012 qui va bientôt être voté au Parlement.
(french) Discours d’investiture de la cinquième : essai de text mining » OWNI, News, Augmented
Les six discours d'investiture des Présidents de la République sont passés à la moulinette: quels présidents étaient les plus bavards? Quels mots revenaient le plus dans leurs discours? Lequel parle le plus souvent de lui? Billet initialement publié sur le datablog d’OWNI Pour ce test, j’ai choisi les discours prononcés par les présidents de la Vème République lors de leur (première) investiture afin de pouvoir comparer des textes énoncés dans un même contexte. Premier élément à comparer : la longueur des discours, dont la différence saute aux yeux une fois le nombre de mots extrait grâce au logiciel de traitement de texte.Public spending by UK gov
How does the government spend our money? The Guardian's data team has gathered the key facts about British public spending. Click on each circle to see how each department breaks down
The Conservatives could have been within striking distance of an overall majority had the 2010 general election been held under England's new boundaries, early Guardian analysis suggests. The Labour party could have netted 14 fewer seats, the Liberal Democrats 10 fewer, while the Conservatives, who dominate England, might have lost just six seats. The UK's only Green MP, Caroline Lucas, would not have been able to win her seat, according to the preliminary figures. The initial analysis, carried out by the Guardian data team, is based on figures released by the boundary commission, showing the makeup of each of England's 502 new constituencies – breaking down exactly which previous constituencies voters came from.
Boundary changes: Labour and Lib Dems set for losses
England riots: suspects mapped and poverty mapped | UK news | guardian.co.uk
What part did poverty play in the riots that spread across England? We have mapped suspects' addresses with poverty indicators. See what it showsIf this visualization looks familiar to you it’s because you follow the career of David McCandless far too closely. It is, in fact, based on his design for Where Does My Money Go? (WDMMG) but has been re-imagined by Gregor Aisch .
Hierarchical Data with Bubble Tree
What is oeGOV? oeGOV is making and publishing W3C OWL ontologies for eGovernment. This initiative is born out of the idea: "Use small OWL ontologies to model recovery and deploy across all government" posted at TheNationalDialogue.org and Tim Berners-Lee's vision of "Linked Open Data" . oeGOV is an initiative started by TopQuadrant .
Ontologies for e-Gov
Simpler/gov is a platform that connects people and data. It is available to every local government that wants to share data and connect with the public. Refugee Flow Uses Hans Rosling's Trendalyzer Software to Display Time-Series Asylum Grantee Data by Country Against GDP Per Capita Values and Freedom House's "Civil Liberties" Scores govpulse The Federal Registry at your fingertips.
Apps for America
Explore Wikipedia to learn more about Real GDP Wikipedia is a free, web-based and collaborative multilingual encyclopedia, born in the project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 13 million articles (2.9 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website. Note: Because of Wikipedia's collaborative nature - i.e. any "expert" can update articles - information read from there should be double checked. Recent news about Real GDP (via Google News)