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One of our colleagues, Mark Busse from Industrial Brand Creative, is helping to organize what looks to be a very….interesting event: “The plan is to have all sorts of speakers speak about all sorts of stuff. Not brands, advertising, blogging and twitter but interesting, unexpected, original things. I’m hoping to find fascinating people and to just [...]
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(Update 20091005 – I gave the same talk at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and Barcamp Vancouver 2009, in case you end up on this page from either source) We recently presented at the Turning Statistics Into Knowledge conference, jointly organized by the US Census Bureau, the OECD and the World Bank, on July 15-16 [...]
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We’ve held back on going fully AWS as trying to get terabytes of data over to them would have been a colossal waste of time/money over a network connection. Today, Amazon web services announced they can receive USB 2/esata devices up to 8U high if you want to load up large data sets into [...]
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Vancouver received, well, alot of snow for Vancouver. People always say we get alot of rain. Think of that rain in a “snow-like form” and you get a sense of the volume/intensity. So, needless to say it was a gong-show out there. Those coming to work from further afield naturally called to say [...]
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Over the past year we’ve been involved with several projects and initiatives that will have a global impact on aid transparency and effectiveness. They revolve around high level flows of funds from donor to recipient countries, even to the specific projects that are happening. It’s pretty heady stuff. With the holidays we [...]
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