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...first stop in an epic attempt to count everyone in America. Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution calls for an "actual Enumeration" of the population every 10 years in order to determine how many Representatives each state gets in the House. The survey has also collected data on occupations, education and housing, among other subjects. The first Census, in 1790, was mainly a head count of free, white, draft-eligible men. Later queries were sometimes absurdly specific: in 1850, data collectors were instructed to "ascertain if there be any person in the family deaf, dumb, idiotic, blind, insane...
Despite the evolution of data gathering, miscounts have occurred, particularly among the urban poor. Democrats tend to say sampling--the extrapolation of data from smaller groups--is more accurate, but Republicans, suspicious of overcounting in left-leaning areas, argue that the Constitution's use of the word actual mandates a nose count. Getting it right is important: in addition to its role in doling out congressional seats, the Census influences the allocation of more than $400 billion in federal funds that affect the lives of some 300 million Americans. How many, exactly? It'll tell us that...
...been rushing to come up with their own ways of achieving what the health care industry calls rapid learning. In October, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), an influential advisory group, hosted a rapid-learning conference at which experts discussed some of the obstacles to aggregating and applying cancer-care data in real time, including privacy issues...
...Meanwhile, while the Commission continues to analyze data to make recommendations for how to improve the national warning systems, Australia prepares for the somber anniversary. On Sunday, Victoria will observe a minute of silence for last year's victims. Pictures of Marysville in the Melbourne Age show charred trees peppered with green shoots, and community websites show temporary housing constructed amidst the rubble. But the area has a long way to go before a tourism industry can begin to flourish there again. Marysville, once a favorite weekend getaway for people living in Melbourne, will probably not recover...
Italian espressos had become weak office coffees, and I had traded in cheap flights on Ryanair and my passport for a commute on the Green Line and a CharlieCard. I wasn’t sure how a month of memorizing insurance policy numbers and coding data would compare to strolling through Roman ruins and learning to make tortellini from scratch...