Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Webinar: HHS Office of Minority Health Resource Center – Advanced Online Catalog Searching – Data and Statistics

Details: Last Updated: March 24 2016; Published: March 24 2016

A live training webinar, "HHS Office of Minority Health Resource Center – Advanced Online Catalog Searching – Data and Statistics," will be presented on Tuesday, April 12, 2016.

Register today for “HHS Office of Minority Health Resource Center – Advanced Online Catalog Searching – Data and Statistics”

Start time: 2:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Duration: 60 minutes
Speaker: Faye Williams, Knowledge Center Manager, Office of Minority Health Resource Center
Learning outcomes: This webinar will demonstrate advanced search techniques for using the Knowledge Center online library catalog, a reference tool for locating information on the health status of minority groups. This is a follow-up to the introductory webinar presented in January 2015. The webinar will use data and statistical content as a focus point for finding documents and data in the catalog and from the agency website. Participants will learn unique search syntax and see how to identify subject terms from the Minority Health Subject Thesaurus.
Expected level of knowledge for participants: No prerequisite knowledge required

Closed captioning will be available for this webinar.

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Monday, March 28, 2016

What's New From OECD March 2016

Tackling poverty and inequality in Greece is crucial to recovery from crisis:

OECD Economic Outlook Greece

Health workers with right skills in right places needed:
Health Worker Policies in OECD Countries

Committing to Effective Whistleblower Protection:

New ICPSR March Studies

Updates

36128 Census of Jails, 2013
http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36128.v3

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Uncharted has created a Visualizing the Flow of Anonymous Data Around the World Data

TorFlow was created by Uncharted as a data visualization of traffic on Tor, an international network of servers where users browse the Internet relatively anonymously. It includes browsing of unlisted websites frequently used to facilitate illicit transactions, known as the “dark net"
By clicking on the timeline traffic can be observed on a particular day and correlated with major events.

Monday, February 1, 2016

New from the Census:Business Statistics at the Congressional District Level

Announcement from the Census Department and Department of Commerce: "The newly updated My Congressional District Web application includes County Business Patterns data at the congressional district level. This Web application, designed primarily for Congressional audiences and the public, now combines both economic and demographic characteristics. Combined with the American Community Survey (ACS) data, the app displays demographic, socioeconomic and housing statistics for the nations' communities providing a comprehensive portrait of America's congressional districts.

The County Business Patterns data, provide the only detailed annual information on the number of establishments, employees, and annual payroll for nearly 1,200 industries at the national, state, county and now congressional district levels." "