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Looks like funding cuts are coming down hard on the US Census according to this NYTimes Editorial – Putting the Census at Risk Whether the Census Bureau has the means to ensure the accuracy of...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/26/us-census-under-threat/

CODATA has just released the following special journal issue – Open Data for Global Science Lots of great FREE articles from a variety of perspectives – Public policy, standards, case studies...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/24/access-to-science-data-codata/

A great post on Michael Geist’s blog about really really checking the numbers! Read – Misleading RCMP Data Undermines Counterfeiting Claims.

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/18/checking-the-s/

An excellent article by CBC online today – Mixed-race identity: The Current looks at the growing number of mixed-race Canadians.  It is a great look at how statistics and social change are w...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/13/statistics-mixed-race-identity-less-weddings-same-sex-couples/

Our friends at freeourdata.org.uk have an article about abolishing Crown Copyright in the UK. Canada suffers under the same of copyright policy on government documents and data, while in the USA,...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/13/crown-copyright/

There is a interesting article in the Globe today by Eric Sager a professor of history at the University of Victoria about access to the names of Census respondents of Censuses gone by and those ...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/12/census-privacy-implied-vs-informed-consent/

Dam! Just-in-time delivery manufacturing meets data! Newsknitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data. The prod...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/06/wearable-knitted-data-i-want-one/

Very cool! Albeit in flash and some ui issues when trying to see the map, the legend and there is no way to link to the docs or access explanations associated with the timeline at the bottom but ...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/05/superfund-365-toxic-data-visualization/

A NYTimes Editorial What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You, discusses the real cost of not having information and the politics of the US Census. Just before the break, the House of Representativ...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/04/us-reduces-spending-on-economic-census/

This is a bit off-topic, but spiritually related to the mission of datalibre.ca … MoveMyData.org. From the “about”: Your content and data should be yours to manage and do with as you please...

https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/09/03/movemydataorg/