…occurred in co-offending networks containing less than 6 percent of the city’s population. Furthermore, 89 percent of those victims were contained in a single social network of 107,740 unique individuals.”…
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…Open Data; to state, county and city data hubs; to NGO efforts such as the work of the Sunlight Foundation and the Texas Tribune’s government salaries explorer. At the same…
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…there are myriad technical challenges that the report digs into. Diakopoulos calls for greater capacity-building within journalism to explore these new problems and for new norms to be produced. “The…
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…of electricity. EIA: Crude oil production and stocks data covers petroleum and other liquid fuels. EIA: Renewable energy market data, released monthly in PDF form, shows short- and long-term trends…
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…from 2009 to 2013. A 2014 paper by Willem Van Zandweghe, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, finds that the economic downturn and the population getting…
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…respectively. These women’s average exposure to BC was 5.2 μg/m3; higher than the daytime BC level in Beijing, Mexico City and some Brazilian cities, ranging from 1.9 to 4.8 μg/m3….
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…gap. Using recent U.K. estimates, Wendy Olsen, Hein Heuvelman and Pierre Walthery of the University of Manchester; Vanessa Gash of the City University London; and Leen Vandecasteele of the University…
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…children attending Head Start preschool programs. Two hundred eighty-eight predominantly African American families from a small southern city were included in this study. Parent satisfaction with the program was high,…
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…Job Training Help? Evidence from an Innovative Intervention in New York City” looks at the effectiveness of a job-training program for welfare recipients in the early 1990s. Keywords: poverty…
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…averages can mislead and “regression to the mean.” Authored by Connie St. Louis, City University, London. Robert Niles also provides a very helpful general resource with “Statistics Every Writer Should…
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