Open Data Study Substantial social and economic gains can be made from opening government data to the public. The combination of geographic, budget, demographic, services, education, and other data, publicly available in an open format on the web, promises to improve services as well as create future economic growth. This approach has been recently pioneered by governments in the United States and the United Kingdom (with the launch of two web portals, www.data.gov and www.data.gov.uk respectively) inspired in part by applications developed by grassroots civil society organizations ranging from bicycle accidents maps to sites breaking down how and where tax money is spent. In the UK, the data.gov.uk initiative was spearheaded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. The report finds that in both the U.S. and U.K., a three-tiered drive was at play. The three groups of actors who were crucial to the projects' success were:
Color Survey Results « xkcd Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. —Herman Melville, Billy Budd Orange, red? I WILL EAT YOUR HEART WITH A FUCKING SPOON IF YOU AKS ANY MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT COLORS —Anonymous, Color Survey Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey. First, a few basic discoveries: If you ask people to name colors long enough, they go totally crazy. Overall, the results were really cool and a lot of fun to analyze. Sex By a strange coincidence, the same night I first made the color survey public, the webcomic Doghouse Diaries put up this comic (which I altered slightly to fit in this blog, click for original): Basically, women were slightly more liberal with the modifiers, but otherwise they generally agreed (and some of the differences may be sampling noise). Okay, pretty flowery, certainly. Map
society & values Usage share of web browsers Most used web browser by country as of February 2014 according to StatCounter. The usage share of web browsers is the proportion, often expressed as a percentage, of visitors to a group of websites that use a particular web browser. Web browser usage share varies from region to region as well as through time. Accuracy[edit] Measuring browser usage in the number of requests (page hits) made by each user agent can be misleading. Overestimation[edit] Not all requests are generated by a user, as a user agent can make requests at regular time intervals without user input. Certain anti-virus products fake their user-agent to appear to be popular browsers. Underestimation[edit] It is also possible to underestimate the usage share by using the number of requests, for example: Differences in measurement[edit] Summary table[edit] The following tables summarize the usage share of browsers for the indicated month. Historical usage share[edit] StatCounter (July 2008 to present)[edit] Older reports[edit]
Legal British Marine Federation Home Science and technology policy OECD Home › Science and technology › Science and technology policy › Science, Technology and Innovation for the 21st Century. Meeting of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy at Ministerial Level, 29-30 January 2004 - Final Communique 1. The OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy met at Ministerial level on 29 30 January 2004. Mr. Peter McGauran, Minister for Science of Australia, chaired the meeting, with Ms. 2. 3. 4. 5. Connecting science to innovation 6. 7. 8. 9. Adapting IPR regimes 10. 11. 12. Building a highly skilled and mobile scientific workforce for the future 13. 14. 15. International co-operation in science and technology 16. Access to research data 17. Sustainable development 18. Biotechnology 19. Global Science Forum 20. High-energy physics 21. Neuroinformatics 22. Enhanced safety and security 23. Areas for further OECD work 25. adopted on 30 January 2004 in Paris ___________ (1) Including the European Community
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