In preparation for Blog Action Day, and with a nudge from a piece I read by The Numbers Guy, I thought I'd talk about measuring poverty.

Last year we participated in Blog Action Day. We will be doing so again this year on October 15. The topic for 2008 is Poverty. Here's more information if you would like to get involved:

Aerophile.com has proposed a new way of displaying data in real time for community benefit. They're putting air pollution data up in the air so that people can see it from 20 kilometers away.

Here's a press release updating the latest survey results from the Data Quality Campaign. I thought you might be interested and want to get involved on your state level pushing for better data quality. Each year, the Data Quality Campaign (DQC)...

<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Introducing the PolicyMap 'Widget'! <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- PolicyMap.com, a national...

Tuesday this week I met with representatives of the Fórum Desenvolve Londrina (roughly the Londrina, Brazil Development Forum). Londrina is a city of about a half-million people in the state of Paraná, Brazil.We had gone down to Paraná a few years...

Check out this report from the Palladium-Item (which is one of the odder names for a local newspaper I've ever seen) about the RICHMOND INDICATORS: A Community and Economic Benchmark Report (PDF). They're hosting a televised program with interactive...

Thought you might appreciate this opportunity to give feedback -- Message from Dr. William Thompson regarding the US Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy People objectives: Dear All, Every 10 years, the U.S. Department of Health and...