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OEC: The Observatory of Economic Complexity

OEC: The Observatory of Economic Complexity
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The 50 Best Free Datasets for Machine Learning - Gengo AI What are some open datasets for machine learning? We at Gengo decided to create the ultimate cheat sheet for high quality datasets. These range from the vast (looking at you, Kaggle) or the highly specific (data for self-driving cars). First, a couple of pointers to keep in mind when searching for datasets. A dataset shouldn’t be messy, because you don’t want to spend a lot of time cleaning data.A dataset shouldn’t have too many rows or columns, so it’s easy to work with.The cleaner the data, the better — cleaning a large data set can be very time consuming.There should be an interesting question that can be answered with the data. Let’s get to it! Dataset Finders Kaggle: A data science site that contains a variety of externally-contributed interesting datasets. UCI Machine Learning Repository: One of the oldest sources of datasets on the web, and a great first stop when looking for interesting datasets. General Datasets Public Government datasets Finance & Economics Images Sentiment Analysis

The World Bank - Statistik World Development Indicators 2016 World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is a collection of time-series data for 214 economies, with many indicators going back more than 50 years. WDI provides cross-country comparable statistics about development and people’s lives around the globe. International Debt Statistics 2016 Focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing and advanced economies (data from Quarterly External Debt Statistics and Quarterly Public Sector Debt databases). Atlas of Global Development, Fourth Edition: A Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Challenges Published in association with Harper Collins, the completely revised and updated fourth edition of the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today. Data Visualization Tools: Data Visualizer Bubble Chart Check out Data Visualizer Mobile Applications: DataFinder for iOS and Android

La lettre du CEPII - Carnet de bal des accords commerciaux régionaux Carnet de bal des accords commerciaux régionaux Lionel FontagnéGianluca Santoni Les difficultés du multilatéralisme ont renouvelé l’intérêt pour le régionalisme en matière d’accord commercial. Avec quels partenaires un pays a-t-il un intérêt économique à signer un accord ? The Psychology of Social Media: Why We Like, Comment, and Share Online What would happen if you were to “like” everything you saw on social media? The developer Rameet Chawla found out when he built a script that liked every photo that passed through his Instagram feed. He grew his followers by about 30 a dayHe got invited to more partiesHe got stopped on the street by people who recognized him from InstagramHe got message after message from friends encouraging him to post more. He said it was “almost like they were frustrated, like they were longing for something to like in return.” The likes, comments and posts we share on social media can often seem inconsequential, but they matter. What if we could understand the psychology of social media and use that knowledge to bring customers closer, give them more of what they want, and create better relationships? I had the supreme privilege of talking about just that topic at Mozcon, a super fun and crazy informative marketing conference put on by our friends at Moz. Social media biology: Dopamine and oxytocin

• Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies En 2015 en France, 1,8 million d’emplois dans les entreprises sous contrôle étranger - Insee Focus - 109 L’emploi sous contrôle étranger se concentre principalement dans des ETI... En 2015, 28 100 entreprises au sens unités légales et entreprises profilées sont sous le contrôle de firmes multinationales étrangères en France. Ces entreprises représentent moins de 1 % des entreprises en France, dans les secteurs marchands non agricoles et non financiers (figure 1). Leur part dans l’emploi est beaucoup plus élevée : elles emploient 1,8 million de personnes (salariés et non-salariés), soit 11 % des effectifs de fin d’année des entreprises présentes sur le sol français. La moitié de l’emploi en France des firmes multinationales étrangères se concentre dans des entreprises de taille intermédiaire (ETI). Parmi les 118 pays étrangers contrôlant des entreprises en France, 16 représentent 95 % de l’emploi en France sous contrôle étranger. tableau Figure 1 - Contribution des différents types de firmes à différents agrégats en % tableau Figure 2 - Emplois sous contrôle étranger, par pays d'origine

Preserving Team Knowledge in the Gig Economy Do you remember your parents or grandparents staying in the same job for their entire lives? Or at least staying with the same company? Though it seems odd today, there was a time when it wasn’t uncommon for a person to begin a job with a company and retire from that same company decades later with the ubiquitous parting gift of a gold watch. Business teams work much differently now. Business moves far more rapidly than ever before, and the workforce is changing at a similar pace. In corporate America, up to 40 percent of employees are now contractors. Even for full-time “permanent” employees, the average tenure in a single company dropped to 4.2 years in 2016. What shared memory means to business teams It doesn’t matter how big your business is. Now, it’s easier than ever to forget completed work. Bypassing the chaos Meet Nicole Hanusek. Nicole created a series of business processes and templates in Evernote Business, which she and any of her team members can access from anywhere.

The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency People from nearly every country share information with CIA, and new individuals contact us daily. If you have information you think might interest CIA due to our foreign intelligence collection mission, there are many ways to reach us. If you know of an imminent threat to a location inside the U.S., immediately contact your local law enforcement or FBI Field Office. In addition to the options below, individuals contact CIA in a variety of creative ways. If you feel it is safe, consider providing these details with your submission: Your full name Biographic details, such as a photograph of yourself, and a copy of the biographic page of your passport How you got the information you want to share with CIA How to contact you, including your home address and phone number We cannot guarantee a response to every message. Internet: Send a message here. Mail: Inside the U.S., send mail to the following address: Central Intelligence Agency Office of Public Affairs Washington, D.C. 20505

Union européenne : quels sont les gains de l'intégration commerciale ? CEPII. Juillet 2018. Cette Lettre du CEPII estime les effets de l'intégration commerciale européenne sur le commerce intra-européen de biens et services et sur le PIB des pays membres de l'UE depuis 1957. "L'Union européenne : combien a-t-on gagné à la faire (et combien perdrait-on à la défaire)", Lettre du CEPII n°389, juin 2018. par Thierry Mayer, Vincent Vicard, Soledad Zignago. Résumé Le processus d'intégration européenne fait aujourd'hui l'objet d'une remise en cause sans précédent dans un contexte global de défiance envers la mondialisation. Sommaire Le marché unique a multiplié par deux le commerce intra-européen Un effet positif sur le PIB, plus ou moins grand selon le taux d'ouverture et la taille de chaque pays L'effet domino du Brexit Source : Lettre du CEPII n°38, juin 2018

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