Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Data Mining
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists) Data Mining: An Overview (PDF; 100 KB)
"Data mining is emerging as one of the key features of many homeland security initiatives. Often used as a means for detecting fraud, assessing risk, and product retailing, data mining involves the use of data analysis tools to discover previously unknown, valid patterns and relationships in large data sets. In the context of homeland security, data mining is often viewed as a potential means to identify terrorist activities, such as money transfers and communications, and to identify and track individual terrorists themselves, such as through travel and immigration records."
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Higher Education--United States--Statistics
Source: National Science Foundation
New, Graduate Enrollment in Science and Engineering Programs Up in 2003, but Declines for First-Time Foreign Students (NSF 05-317)
"The 2003 Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (S&E) shows S&E graduate enrollment increasing 4 percent and academic postdoctoral appointments increasing 6 percent since 2002. Sixty percent of postdoctoral appointees had temporary visas. Enrollment grew in all demographic groups and in all major S&E fields and subfields except computer sciences. For the second consecutive year, first-time, full-time enrollment of temporary-visa holders decreased (8 percent), mostly among men. Tables show 1993-2003 trends."
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Internet--United States--Statistics
Internet in the Workplace--United States
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Computer and Internet Use At Work Summary
"In October 2003, 77 million persons used a computer at work, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. These workers accounted for 55.5 percent of total employment. About 2 of every 5 employed individuals connected to the Internet or used e-mail while on the job. These proportions were slightly higher than those measured in the prior survey conducted in September 2001."
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Population--United States--Statistics
Source: US Census Texas Becomes Nation's Newest 'Majority-Minority' State
"Texas has now joined Hawaii, New Mexico, and California as a majority-minority state, along with the District of Columbia, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. Five states -- Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Arizona -- are next in line with minority populations of about 40 percent. (The minority population includes all people except non-Hispanic single-race whites. According to July 1, 2004, population estimates, Texas had a minority population of 11.3 million, comprising 50.2 percent of its total population of 22.5 million. In comparison, 77 percent of Hawaii's population was minority. In New Mexico and California, the proportions were 57 percent and 56 percent, respectively, while the District of Columbia was 70 percent minority."
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
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Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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