White House – Science, Technology, Society

White House spends millions to train more data scientists

Posted on December 1, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

White House To Universities: We Need More Data Scientists
BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcompany.com

New York University, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Washington are launching a $37.8 million project to boost the numbers of American data scientists.

It’s official: America needs more data scientists. This week, a…

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UC Berkeley BIDS Launch and Conscilience (pafnuty.wordpress.com)
Big Data Grant from Moore, Sloan Aims to Make Pi-Shaped Scientists (xconomy.com)
QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More Useful (chronicle.com)
Data science institute on campus to facilitate multidisciplinary research (dailycal.org)
Grant will support interdisciplinary, data-intensive research at UW (washington.edu)
Busy Week for Big Data (cni.org)
Program Seeks to Nurture ‘Data Science Culture’ at Universities (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Big turnout for launch of big-data center (newscenter.berkeley.edu)
New data science institute to help scholars harness ‘big data’ (newscenter.berkeley.edu)

Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

Posted on December 14, 2012April 15, 2013 by timbatchelder

25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control
Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com

Update: The petition has reached 25,000 signatures

Almost immediately following the tragic school shooting in Connecticut, over 16,000 people have signed an official White House WeThePeople petition to “Immediately…

RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control http://flip.it/rYqC0 by @ferenstein http://flip.it/5wgja

Obama speaks with Mass. officials after bombing (wvgazette.com)

A taxonomy of Mitt’s fabrications

Posted on December 10, 2012April 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

A taxonomy of Mitt Romney’s lies – Salon.com
By Benjamin Wheelock, salon.com

A close look at the most diverse and resilient species this side of the Galapagos

“Jeep — now owned by the Italians — is thinking of moving all production to China.”

“The president said he’d cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he…

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How information science empowered Obama’s reelection

Posted on December 10, 2012April 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

When the Nerds Go Marching In
James Fallows, theatlantic.com

How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama’s reelection

The Obama campaign’s technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong.

Josh Thayer…

When the Nerds Go Marching In – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic http://flip.it/Msvvi http://flip.it/KjEIC

Real journalism: The Atlantic’s James Fallows defends publication of obvious Fox News Photoshop (twitchy.com)
Study finds what Twitter majority says doesn’t reflect popular opinion (digitaltrends.com)

Obama victory and tech industry

Posted on November 28, 2012April 8, 2013 by timbatchelder

What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech
Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com

Barack Obama’s victory last night has far-reaching fiscal, social, and military implications, all of which are familiar to anyone who kept at least one eye open during any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech…

What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech http://flpbd.it/R2n2u

The Next Frontier for the Tech Industry: The Brain and the Ocean (digidame.wordpress.com)

Obama tech crippled Romney campaign

Posted on November 27, 2012April 7, 2013 by timbatchelder

How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

Despite running a campaign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, President Barack Obama’s campaign under-spent Romney’s on IT products and services by $14.5 million, putting the…

Obama’s Budget Would Cap Romney-Sized Retirement Accounts – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Money, Money Everywhere (evergreeninstitute.wordpress.com)
Time For Some Comedy: Chris Wallace’s Mitt And Ann Romney FULL Interview – March 3, 2013 (theobamacrat.com)
Man who leaked Romney’s ’47 per cent’ video speaks out (cbc.ca)
No Wonder Romney Lost (pjmedia.com)

Mitt Romney Facebook page loses fans

Posted on November 13, 2012April 7, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via Mitt Romney’s Facebook page is losing fans by the minute.)

If Mitt Romney hadn’t been secretly filmed with his “47%” comment and won the presidency, we’d already be in WW3 by now. (alterman47.org)
Mitt Romney Announce Plans to Run for Pope (godshmod.wordpress.com)
Romney Called Tesla a “Loser” In the 2012 Presidential Debates. About That… – Six months after Mitt Romney called electric auto company Tesla a “loser,” Tesla is posting profits, expects to pay back the Dept. of Energy five years ahead of schedule, and wo (thedailydolt.com)
Mitt Romney: “It kills me” to not be in the White House (cbsnews.com)
Barack Obama’s Budget Will Contain A Massive ‘Screw You’ To Mitt Romney (businessinsider.com)

Obama data geeks

Posted on November 13, 2012April 7, 2013 by timbatchelder

Obama’s data geeks add up to four more years
John Naughton, guardian.co.uk

Mastery of the numbers game meant the president’s team was able to exploit its database more effectively than Romney, reeling in £1bn in donations

Some years ago I went to a lecture given by Professor David MacKay, who in addition to being a…

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Property: Canary Wharf welcomes geeks bearing gifts (standard.co.uk)
The White House shows us how to recover from a geek gaffe (io9.com)
Obama Loses Geek Cred After “Jedi Mind Meld” Comment, White House Makes Up for It (geekosystem.com)
Bill Gates addresses cybersecurity threats, then gets hacked (geekwire.com)

Linguistic analysis decodes true messages of Obama and Romney

Posted on November 6, 2012March 31, 2013 by timbatchelder

Gesture analysis reveals what Obama and Romney care about
By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk

Science

An analysis of the body gestures of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the presidential debates suggests that how candidates speak could reveal what they really care about and affect whether or not voters believe what they…

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Mitt Romney Still Bragging About Winning White People, Blaming Minorities (mediaite.com)
CLUELESS! Mitt Romney Still Doesn’t Get Why He Lost (1800politics.com)
Ann Romney: ‘I’m Happy to Blame the Media’ (weeklystandard.com)
WATCH: Jimmy Fallon’s 7 Best Political Impressions (mediaite.com)

Knode attempts to compete with LinkedIn in biotech networking

Posted on November 5, 2012March 31, 2013 by timbatchelder

Knode: The Next Stage of the Internet is About What You Know
Alex E. Weaver, bostinno.com

Predicting what’s “next” for the Internet can be a lot like surfing the web itself: daunting, frustrating and often pointless. There’s a lot of information swirling around out there, after all, and people are interacting with it in…

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Social Media News, Week of 3/25: Children’s Online Privacy Concerns, Cop’s Racists Post, Safer Social Networking Tips, Data Scooping, and 5 Brands that Effectively Engage Through Infographics (sgrouples.com)
Young people hate LinkedIn (successfulworkplace.com)
Viratech Corp. Launches Cancer.im Cancer Patient Support Social Network (socialmediaportal.com)
Facebook Vs. LinkedIn: who has more staying power? (soshitech.com)
European Biotech Patent Law Webinar (patentdocs.org)
3 Reasons Buffett Hates Biotech (dailyfinance.com)

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