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As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.
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As a publication, The State of Open Data will address the development of the open data movement over the past 10 years from a multitude of…
Social movements drive economic, social, political, and cultural change. But who – or what – makes movements? This chapter argues that…
Professor Linda Bilmes discusses ways to honor US veterans.