Tag: Data
Emily Oster on How Parents Became Obsessed With Data
Emily Oster is a popular target for irrational hatred. When I was reporting a story on how progressive communities have approached COVID-19 lockdown restrictions this spring, she showed me an email she got from a random person who had written to all of her bosses at Brown University, accusing her of promoting genocide. To be clear, Oster does no such thing: She’s an economist who has become semi-famous for her books on data and parenting decisions. Recently, she has also
Deutschland hinkt bei E-Government, Open Data noch weit hinterher – EURACTIV.com
In Deutschland bleiben E-Government und Open Data trotz enormer wirtschaftlicher Chancen und als Grundvoraussetzung für smartere Städte noch weitgehend ungenutzte Potenziale, so eine aktuelle Studie der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung. EURACTIV Deutschland berichtet.
Deutschland hinkt laut der am 9. Juli veröffentlichten Studie im Bereich Digital Government weit hinterher. Es belegte Platz 24 von 29 untersuchten Ländern, hinter Chile, Kolumbien und Brasilien. Im Bereich des datengetriebenen öffentlichen Sektors belegt Deutschland den letzten Platz mit dem niedrigsten Wert unter den
Gamers Are Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud
In the competitive pursuit of speedrunning, gamers vie to complete a given video game as quickly as humanly possible. It’s a sport for the nerdier among us, and it’s amazingly popular: Videos streaming and recording speedruns routinely rack up seven-figure view counts on Twitch and YouTube. So when one very prominent speedrunner—a U.S. YouTuber with more than 20 million subscribers who goes by the nom de game “Dream”—was accused in December 2020 of faking one of his world-record runs of
How climate change will widen Europe’s divides – POLITICO
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This is the first chapter in The Road to COP26 series.
Climate change isn’t just coming for Europe. It’s coming for the European Union.
Europe’s north will struggle with floods and fires, even with warming at the lowest end of expectations — the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 or 2 degrees above the pre-industrial global average. But the south will be hammered by drought, urban heat and agricultural decline, driving a wedge
The Portuguese presidency’s policy efforts, marked – POLITICO
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Portugal’s presidency of the Council of the EU started with empty press centers, fresh Brexit headaches and a slew of problematic policy fights that had been prolonged by the pandemic.
As the six-month stint closes Wednesday, the country was celebrating a mega-deal on the bloc’s agricultural subsidies, a coronavirus vaccine travel passport coming July 1 and agreements on a host of other tricky issues.
The easing of pandemic restrictions lent a helping hand,