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Eric Swanson

@EricVSwanson

Director of Research, Open Data Watch, Cyclist, Sailor, Grandfather

 Gig Harbor, Washington, USA
Joined February 2014
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Please retweet. It's out. "Work placements, internships and applied social research". Theory and practice case-study based book on how to find, do, reflect on and use work-placed learning. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/wor…
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Many are setting up COVID data portals & pretty dashboards 👍GOOD. But must do better on data quality & accessibility and ease of use. A must have feature is to download data 👎 As @EricVSwanson @OpenDataWatch says: Data dashboards without downloads are attractive nuisances ! – at Bethesda, MD
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Friend and former colleague, Neil Fantom, has taken up his new position. teapawt.net/Stats_SHG/status/87746…
St Helena Statistics (@Stats_SHG) profile pictureSt Helena Statistics@Stats_SHG21 Jun 2017
St Helena welcomes their new Statistician: sainthelena.gov.sh/new-stati…
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Lovely theunboundedspirit.com/imagi…
Thanks to data archivists and those who care & know data is the base of knowledge to understand the world around us grist.org/briefly/chicago-ju…
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That's what I call evidence-based decision making. cnn.com/2017/05/12/health/ve…
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The best thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else Thank you @brianglanz for sharing #OpenData #OpenKnowledge
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The 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: a new visual guide to data and development tinyurl.com/ktbm69e via @worldbankdata

The 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: a new visual guide to data and development

The World Bank is pleased to release the 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals. With over 150 maps and data visualizations, the new publication charts the progress societies are making towards...

blogs.worldbank.org
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Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has spent $10 million looking at how the US government spends taxes businessinsider.com/ex-micro… via @sai
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OUT NOW! @Worldbank 2017 Atlas of the SDGs – a new visual guide to data and development. wrld.bg/sG0R30aUoSN #SDGAtlas #WDI2017
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Very good news for Deep Springs and for women! California appeals court rules Deep Springs College may admit women ihenow.com/2pJOH00

California appeals court rules Deep Springs College may admit women

insidehighered.com
Timely piece, calling for greater investment in vaccines and diagnostics #openknowledge hbr.org/2017/03/the-world-is…
The World Is Completely Unprepared for a Global Pandemic

The World Is Completely Unprepared for a Global Pandemic

The threat of another deadly pandemic remains dangerously overlooked. A runaway contagion seeded by an uncontrolled outbreak or bioterror attack  could kill over 30 million people . As the Ebola and...

hbr.org
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Enrico Bisogno, Head of Data & Dissemination Development Unit of @UNODC speaks of need for Victimization Surveys. bit.ly/2oVOsTk
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Jenna Slotin@jslotin5 Apr 2017
Inspired by the vision and leadership of Ghana's VP and Fin Minis who crave data to reduce inequality #SDGDataGhana @Data4SDGs
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Skeptical about statistics? Here's a good talk over the subject. ted.com/talks/mona_chalabi_3…
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#SDGDataGhana teapawt.net/d4dinsights/status/849…
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discussion here at #sdgdataghana reminded me of this #interoperability @pthigo teapawt.net/clairemelamed/status/8…
Claire Melamed (@clairemelamed) profile pictureClaire Melamed@clairemelamed17 Jan 2017
#interoperability #UNDataForum
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If you are interested in @Joinedup_Data, read @TomOrrell86's latest blog on principles for data interoperability. bit.ly/2nJCA2U teapawt.net/EricVSwanson/status/84…
Eric Swanson (@EricVSwanson) profile pictureEric Swanson@EricVSwanson6 Apr 2017
Tom Orrell speaks on data interoperability @sdgdataghana @aidtransparency
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Ghana is committed to meeting the SDGs - Ken Ofori-Atta - goo.gl/alerts/lwYHI @data4sdgs @globalgoals
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Audrey Ariss speaks on open data for business @sdgdataghana @odenterprise
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