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Celebrating data-driven innovation in Brussels
Sylwia Giepmans-Stepien is a Public Policy and Government Relations Analyst for Google in Brussels. We now create as much information every two days as we did from the dawn of civilization up until...
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California Civic Innovation Project Report Released
Back in March, Rachel Burstein of the New America Foundation wrote about some of the findings from their research on civic innovation in California. The full report is now available for download, and...
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Visualization: TweetMap
Harvard University’s Center for Geographic Analysis has released an incredible map-based visualization of global tweets, called TweetMap ALPHA (via Information Aesthetics). From the project site:...
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DataEDGE: A New Vision for Data Science
Steven Weber is a professor in the School of Information and Political Science department at UC Berkeley. It’s commonly said that most people overestimate the impact of technology in the short term,...
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International Broadband Pricing Study: Updated Dataset
Derek Slater is a Policy Manager at Google. Last year, we hired a respected consultancy, Communications Chambers, to produce an international dataset of retail broadband Internet connectivity prices....
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Better Permits, Better Cities: How Hacking City Policy Can Improve the Public...
Jake Levitas is a civic designer, organizer, and activist based in San Francisco. Cross-posted from Medium.com. Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only...
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Do We Count?
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London. This blog celebrates useful data on how people use new media or employing communications to support policy initiatives. But...
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America’s businesses are growing. The web is helping.
A common theme of this blog is the economic impact of the Internet, particularly how independent entrepreneurs flourish using online tools. Today, Google released its Economic Impact Report for 2012,...
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Visualizing Online Takedown Requests: Challenge Winners!
Alexandra Pappas is Community and Events Coordinator at Visualizing.org. In our latest challenge, designers and creative coders visualized Google’s Transparency Report with the aim of adding context or...
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Research explores how to lift barriers to Internet access in Africa
Jennifer Haroon is Access Principal at Google. Without Internet access, how would life be different? We go online to find a new doctor, research the best schools, and find creative inspiration. In...
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