The editorial by Ira Byock (1) commenting on the report from van den Block et al (2) correctly says that only 22 cases of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) occurred (1.3% of all 1690 non-sudden deaths), suggesting that this means these actions ‘occur relatively infrequently’. However, there were a further 26 cases of 'life ending drugs without patient request'. Readers should know that this latter category consists of doctors who answered the same question in the same way as the doctors who are counted as having provided euthanasia or PAS, except that in a subsequent question the doctors indicated that the patient had not asked for euthanasia at the time.
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Professor Lesley Gourlay, University College London, Dr Carlo Perrotta, Monash University, Professor Paul Prinsloo, University of South Africa Chair: Dr Ibrar Bhatt, Queen's University Belfast
OONI is the Open Observatory for Network Interference and its aim is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software (FL/OSS) to share observations and data about the kind, methods and amount of surveillance and censorship in the world
This is a human rights observation project for the Internet. OONI seeks to observe levels of surviellance, censorship, and networked discrimination by networked authoritarian power structures.
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University of Virginia Library. This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read their latest case study: A Canadian Printer Leaves its Servers in Illinois. Thumbnail image for Cirrus_clouds2.jpgIn our last post on data journalism, we ran across a number of tools that would be helpful for anyone who is interested in how to make sense of data. The tools represent a renaissance in how we make sense of our information culture. They provide context and meaning to the often baffling world of big data. This is a snapshot of what is available. We are relying on the work done by Paul Bradshaw, whose blog is an excellent source about the new world of data journalism.
It is back-to-school time, and here are some papers to keep you busy this school year. All the papers are free. This list is far from exhaustive, but these are some important papers in data science and big data. Google Search PageRank - This is the paper that explains the algorithm behind Google search. Hadoop…
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December 7-8, 2007—This weekend, 30 open government advocates gathered to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting, held in Sebastopol, California, was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy.
The Internet is the public space of the modern world, and through it governments now have the opportunity to better understand the needs of their citizens and citizens may participate more fully in their government. Information becomes more valuable as it is shared, less valuable as it is hoarded. Open data promotes increased civil discourse, improved public welfare, and a more efficient use of public resources.
The group is offering a set of fundamental principles for open government data. By embracing the eight principles, governments of the world can become more effective, transparent, and relevant to our lives.
The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) is a university-based organization that creates demographic media, such as user guides, web sites, and hands-on classroom computer materials that make U.S. census data accessible to policymakers, educators, the media, and informed citizens. SSDAN is directed by demographer William H. Frey and utilizes facilities at the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
The Data Strategy provides departments and agencies a roadmap for a more strategic use of their data, and guides the federal government’s efforts to improve how it collects, accesses, manages, uses and governs data.
A recent assertion from a team at Argonne National Laboratory proposed a simple yet still “fringe” answer to an increasingly pressing question for scientists in data-intensive fields. Before we get there, however, it might go without saying that all scientific disciplines are data-intensive now, especially following the explosion in sensors and data collection gear sparked by the era of limitless mobility...
Adrian Pohl arbeitet seit 2008 im Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz). Seit Juni 2010 ist er Koordinator der Arbeitsgruppe der Open Knowledge Foundation zu Open Bibliographic Data. Im Interview berichtet Pohl über die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Aktiven aus Wissenschaft und Bibliothekswelt.
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