Social Security Administration, Google I/O, National Parks, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 13, 2024

NEW RESOURCES NextGov: SSA launches public data hub for customer service goals. “Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O’Malley has been on the job for over 100 days, and now the public has the opportunity to follow along with his work against stated agency goals on how SSA serves customers. This week, SSA launched a page dedicated to showcasing data around O’Malley’s top priorities…

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Irish Civil War Fatalities, App Inventor, Archives New Zealand, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, May 13, 2024

NEW RESOURCES University College Cork: Landmark research on Irish Civil War fatalities launched. “The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project is a ground-breaking research and digital mapping project that covers one of the most complex periods in Ireland’s history. For decades, historians of the Irish Civil War have resorted to estimates when surveying the human cost of the conflict. Now a rigorously…

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MisinfoDay, Save our Graves Weekend, Google Photos, More: Sunday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 12, 2024

EVENTS University of Washington: Media literacy coalition in California brings MisinfoDay, first developed in Washington state, to the Golden State. “Inspired by the annual MisinfoDay co-organized through a statewide partnership between the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public and Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, a local media literacy…

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Government Technology Hackathons, Bluesky, Google Sheets, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, May 12, 2024

EVENTS California Department of Technology: When 200 hackers took on California’s digital government. “The California Digital Government Technology Hackathon, held on March 7-8 and hosted by UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Wtech international community for women leaders in technology and online business, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, and facilitated by the California…

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Kansas Historical Photography, Virtual Exchange Hackathons, Stack Overflow, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 11, 2024

NEW RESOURCES KSAL (Kansas): Library Launches Digital Archives. “Salina Public Library has launched an online Digital Archive giving the public virtual access to images ranging from the late 1800s to early 1900s from the collection of over 5,000 historic photos housed in the Campbell Room of local history. These images will be displayed in an online digital archive through the library’s…

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American Chinatowns, Ocean Microplastics, Bing, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, May 11, 2024

NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Time travel through the past, present and future of America’s Chinatowns. “Today, Chinatowns remain at risk, their existence imperiled by economic hardship and encroaching gentrification: which is why I am pleased to share that the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Google Arts & Culture, and over 14 organizations across the country have partnered to create a new…

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OpenAI, Australia Media, WordPress, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 10, 2024

TWEAKS AND UPDATES ZDNet: OpenAI’s new tool can detect its own DALL-E 3 AI images, but there’s a catch. “AI-generated images can be used to trick you into believing fake content is real. As such, ChatGPT developer OpenAI has developed a tool that aims to predict whether or not an image was created using its own DALL-E 3 image generator. The image detection classifier’s success rate, however,…

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Sweden Business History, UK Vernacular Place Names, Georgia Boards of Elections, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, May 10, 2024

NEW RESOURCES Centre for Business History (Sweden): Our digital reading room is open! . “The Centre for Business History in Stockholm manages over 85,000 linear meters of historical material on behalf of Swedish companies. The parts of the archives that are digital, either scanned or born digital, are now made accessible via a ‘digital reading room,’ a new web service.” UK Ordnance Survey: New…

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Close-Circuit Telegram Vision, LEXamples, UK DoD, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 9, 2024

NEW RESOURCES 404 Media: This Tool Shows Some Telegram Users’ Approximate Physical Location. “A recently launched tool allows anyone to search a specific set of coordinates for Telegram users that have a certain setting enabled, and then plot their approximate physical location on a map, according to 404 Media’s own tests. The tool, dubbed ‘Close-Circuit Telegram Vision’ or CCTV, piggybacks off…

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Hurricane Evacuation Orders, "Napoleon's Atlas", Utrecht University, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, May 9, 2024

NEW RESOURCES University of Virginia: First-Ever Hurricane Evacuation Order Database May Hold Keys to Future Readiness. “Our database includes evacuation orders issued by official state and local agencies in response to hurricanes that impacted the United States between 2014 and 2022 (25 hurricane events in total). We collected archival orders from multiple sources, including official websites…

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Wordle, Apple, Kendrick Lamar, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 8, 2024

NEW RESOURCES TechCrunch: NYT Games launches a Wordle archive with access to more than 1,000 past puzzles. “The New York Times Games announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a Wordle archive, offering subscribers access to more than 1,000 past Wordle puzzles. The company has started rolling out the Wordle archive on mobile and desktop to ‘Games’ and ‘All Access’ subscribers, but notes that the…

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Get Any Plant, Chrome, Online Extremism, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, May 8, 2024

NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Boing Boing: Site tells you where you can order 6,000 species of plant. “Get Any Plant is an online aggregator of nurseries and online stores with some 6,000 species of plant to buy. It has Venus Fly Traps, handsome Echevaria, beautiful Salpiglossis, and many more. They’re organized by type (flowing, carnivorous, pet safe, etc) and it offers fast facts about many…

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New Zealand School Attendance, Snapchat, Winamp, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 7, 2024

NEW RESOURCES Government of New Zealand: Daily school attendance data now available. “A new online data dashboard released today as part of the Government’s school attendance action plan makes more timely daily attendance data available to the public and parents, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. The interactive dashboard will be updated once a week to show a national average of…

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Singapore Parliamentary Records, Seth Thomas Catalog, Bluesky, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, May 7, 2024

NEW RESOURCES The Straits Times: AI-powered search engine makes S’pore Parliament debates more accessible. “An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search engine has been launched that makes combing through decades of parliamentary records more fruitful for the public, and which could raise understanding of how issues evolve in Singapore’s top law-making body. Called Pair Search, the website… is…

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Google, Google Maps, TikTok, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 6, 2024

TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Land: Google’s huge search market share loss wasn’t real: Data revised. “Google has 90.91% search market share, according to Statcounter’s revised data. This is down from 91.38% in March and down from 92.82% YoY. Google’s highest search market share during the past 12 months globally was 93.11% last May.” 9to5 Google: Google Maps redesign back in testing with more…

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Maine Housing, STL DataFest, Google, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, May 6, 2024

NEW RESOURCES WGME: State hopes new resources will help ease Maine housing crisis. “To dive into how much housing is needed where, the state launched the Maine Housing Data Portal. The state’s data shows that housing availability across the state has dropped by over 9,000 units within ten years. And as the options have decreased, the median home price has gone up nearly…

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TransCare+, FathomVerse, Ukraine Cultural Heritage, More: Sunday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 5, 2024

NEW RESOURCES Xtra: Inside TransCare+, a new Canadian directory of trans health resources. “Transitioning can be an act of ritual—a series of movements made to renew long-severed connections to heart, body and soul. But for many, it’s also a stressful and arduous process. Trans people survive by building each other up: we share knowledge, solidarity and tender care. It’s this collective spirit…

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