IRS: Turn Over A New Leaf, Open Up Data
blog.okfn.org
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: The following post is co-authored by Stefan Verhulst and Beth Noveck. It is cross-posted from Forbes. com. If you’d like to learn more about tax data, check out our data expedition on tax evasion and avoidance on the 6th June! The core task for Danny Werfel, the new acting commissioner of the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is to repair the agency’s tarnished reputation and achieve greater efficacy and fairness in IRS investigations. Mr. Werfel can show true leadership by restructuring how the IRS handles its tax-exempt enforcement processes. People filing tax forms at the IRS in 1920. One of Mr.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Federal Government, IRS, Open Data, Story, taxes
Salesforce.com inks license deal for access to nearly 40,000 patents
www.zdnet.com
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: Salesforce. com now has access to a huge library of patents thanks to a new deal with Intellectual Ventures. See also: Salesforce Q1 earnings: in line; $893m revenue| Salesforce intros mobile apps for federal, state and local gov't response
Intellectual Ventures, which invests in and works with investors and technology businesses to drive innovation and invention, owns the rights to a portfolio of nearly 40,000 patents. The most important points to know about these patents is that they cover products, solutions, and ideas from more than 50 technology verticals.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, API-Voice, patent, SalesForce
Sunlight Foundation: House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
by Daniel Schuman May 24, 2013, noon
Yesterday, the House of Representatives hosted its 2013 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. More than 100 people attended, with speakers from inside and outside government discussing how legislative information can be improved to meet the needs of internal and external uses.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Citizen scientists tag bug collections online
www.futurity.org
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: "Through Calbug, our goal is to make at least some of those records, which are normally inaccessible to the public, available to people around the world," says Rosemary Gillespie, principal investigator of the Calbug project. "And by converting those labels into electronic records, it will be possible for us to track any changes in range for different species, and that provides insight into how animals react to changes in the environment.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Crowdsourcing, Science
Sunlight Foundation: Oversight Committee Endorses Public Access to Agency Reports to Congress
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. Oversight Committee Endorses Public Access to Agency Reports to Congress
by Daniel Schuman May 23, 2013, 2:16 p. m. Legislation that would require virtually all agency reports to Congress be available online in one central location advanced out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday on a voice vote. The Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, originally sponsored by Rep.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Sunlight Foundation: The Landscape of Municipal Zoning Data
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. The Landscape of Municipal Zoning Data
by Alisha Green May 23, 2013, 10:30 a. m. Zoning impacts the most physical elements of communities and impacts people's daily lives. When it comes to being transparent about the zoning process and its outcomes, many local governments are posting information -- one way or another -- on their websites.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, City Government, Data, Municipal, Zoning
Congress demands answers from Google over Glass privacy concerns
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Credit: Rachel King/ZDNetA group of Congress members have sent a letter to Google seeking answers to privacy and data concerns caused by Google Glass. The letter (. pdf), addressed to CEO Larry Page, was sent by eight members of Congress led by U. S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas. The members of the Congressional bipartisan Privacy Caucus say they are concerned about possible misuse of information gathered by Google's new product, and whether Google Glass will "infringe on the privacy of the average American. "
The headset, which is able to record video footage and take photos based on voice commands, has already been jailbroken within the developer phase.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Congress, Google Glasses
Google Hangouts Drops Support for XMPP
eschnou.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Google, XMPP
I want to work with more women.
blog.dwolla.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: I can’t find enough women to work with and that’s really frustrating. I’ve been trying to understand how to change that. Last week at Big Omaha, I had the awesome opportunity to listen to Cindy Gallop speak about women in the workplace, as well as have a great conversation with Sally Nellson Barrett from Malone & Company on the subject. A few things stuck out to me, and I started thinking about my own life. I was basically raised by two women, my grandmother and my mother. They created a lot of structure in my life, and I arguably have been trying to figure that out for myself since I moved out of the house. Their work ethic and personality traits were truly unbelievable.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Female, Women
Lemma what? A guide to Text Processing and Machine Learning API terms
blog.mashape.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: After we posted the a list of NLP , Sentiment Analysis , and Machine Learning APIs a while ago, we noticed that some API descriptions require a little bit of digging into, to fully appreciate what these APIs can do. Here’s an example:
Text analysis API including wordnet synsets,relation extraction,named entity recognition and classification,lemmatization,part of speech tagging,tokenization, and semantic role labeling.
If you’re not familiar with these words, you could totally miss the features that this API is capable of. To help with that, we have listed below an explanation to some of these words in the NLP/Machine Learning context; as well as APIs (represented as numbered links) whose descriptions mention these terms.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Machine Learning, Terms of Service, Terms of Use
Excerpt: Salesforce. com now has access to a huge library of patents thanks to a new deal with Intellectual Ventures. See also: Salesforce Q1 earnings: in line; $893m revenue| Salesforce intros mobile apps for federal, state and local gov't response Intellectual Ventures, which invests in and works with investors and technology businesses to drive innovation and invention, owns the rights to a portfolio of nearly 40,000 patents. The most important points to know about these patents is that they cover products, solutions, and ideas from more than 50 technology verticals.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, API-Voice, patent, SalesForce
Sunlight Foundation: House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
by Daniel Schuman May 24, 2013, noon
Yesterday, the House of Representatives hosted its 2013 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. More than 100 people attended, with speakers from inside and outside government discussing how legislative information can be improved to meet the needs of internal and external uses.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Citizen scientists tag bug collections online
www.futurity.org
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: "Through Calbug, our goal is to make at least some of those records, which are normally inaccessible to the public, available to people around the world," says Rosemary Gillespie, principal investigator of the Calbug project. "And by converting those labels into electronic records, it will be possible for us to track any changes in range for different species, and that provides insight into how animals react to changes in the environment.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Crowdsourcing, Science
Sunlight Foundation: Oversight Committee Endorses Public Access to Agency Reports to Congress
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. Oversight Committee Endorses Public Access to Agency Reports to Congress
by Daniel Schuman May 23, 2013, 2:16 p. m. Legislation that would require virtually all agency reports to Congress be available online in one central location advanced out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday on a voice vote. The Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, originally sponsored by Rep.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Sunlight Foundation: The Landscape of Municipal Zoning Data
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. The Landscape of Municipal Zoning Data
by Alisha Green May 23, 2013, 10:30 a. m. Zoning impacts the most physical elements of communities and impacts people's daily lives. When it comes to being transparent about the zoning process and its outcomes, many local governments are posting information -- one way or another -- on their websites.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, City Government, Data, Municipal, Zoning
Congress demands answers from Google over Glass privacy concerns
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Credit: Rachel King/ZDNetA group of Congress members have sent a letter to Google seeking answers to privacy and data concerns caused by Google Glass. The letter (. pdf), addressed to CEO Larry Page, was sent by eight members of Congress led by U. S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas. The members of the Congressional bipartisan Privacy Caucus say they are concerned about possible misuse of information gathered by Google's new product, and whether Google Glass will "infringe on the privacy of the average American. "
The headset, which is able to record video footage and take photos based on voice commands, has already been jailbroken within the developer phase.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Congress, Google Glasses
Google Hangouts Drops Support for XMPP
eschnou.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Google, XMPP
I want to work with more women.
blog.dwolla.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: I can’t find enough women to work with and that’s really frustrating. I’ve been trying to understand how to change that. Last week at Big Omaha, I had the awesome opportunity to listen to Cindy Gallop speak about women in the workplace, as well as have a great conversation with Sally Nellson Barrett from Malone & Company on the subject. A few things stuck out to me, and I started thinking about my own life. I was basically raised by two women, my grandmother and my mother. They created a lot of structure in my life, and I arguably have been trying to figure that out for myself since I moved out of the house. Their work ethic and personality traits were truly unbelievable.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Female, Women
Lemma what? A guide to Text Processing and Machine Learning API terms
blog.mashape.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: After we posted the a list of NLP , Sentiment Analysis , and Machine Learning APIs a while ago, we noticed that some API descriptions require a little bit of digging into, to fully appreciate what these APIs can do. Here’s an example:
Text analysis API including wordnet synsets,relation extraction,named entity recognition and classification,lemmatization,part of speech tagging,tokenization, and semantic role labeling.
If you’re not familiar with these words, you could totally miss the features that this API is capable of. To help with that, we have listed below an explanation to some of these words in the NLP/Machine Learning context; as well as APIs (represented as numbered links) whose descriptions mention these terms.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Machine Learning, Terms of Service, Terms of Use
Excerpt: "Through Calbug, our goal is to make at least some of those records, which are normally inaccessible to the public, available to people around the world," says Rosemary Gillespie, principal investigator of the Calbug project. "And by converting those labels into electronic records, it will be possible for us to track any changes in range for different species, and that provides insight into how animals react to changes in the environment.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Crowdsourcing, Science
Sunlight Foundation: Oversight Committee Endorses Public Access to Agency Reports to Congress
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. Oversight Committee Endorses Public Access to Agency Reports to Congress
by Daniel Schuman May 23, 2013, 2:16 p. m. Legislation that would require virtually all agency reports to Congress be available online in one central location advanced out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday on a voice vote. The Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, originally sponsored by Rep.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Sunlight Foundation: The Landscape of Municipal Zoning Data
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. The Landscape of Municipal Zoning Data
by Alisha Green May 23, 2013, 10:30 a. m. Zoning impacts the most physical elements of communities and impacts people's daily lives. When it comes to being transparent about the zoning process and its outcomes, many local governments are posting information -- one way or another -- on their websites.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, City Government, Data, Municipal, Zoning
Congress demands answers from Google over Glass privacy concerns
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Credit: Rachel King/ZDNetA group of Congress members have sent a letter to Google seeking answers to privacy and data concerns caused by Google Glass. The letter (. pdf), addressed to CEO Larry Page, was sent by eight members of Congress led by U. S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas. The members of the Congressional bipartisan Privacy Caucus say they are concerned about possible misuse of information gathered by Google's new product, and whether Google Glass will "infringe on the privacy of the average American. "
The headset, which is able to record video footage and take photos based on voice commands, has already been jailbroken within the developer phase.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Congress, Google Glasses
Google Hangouts Drops Support for XMPP
eschnou.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Google, XMPP
I want to work with more women.
blog.dwolla.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: I can’t find enough women to work with and that’s really frustrating. I’ve been trying to understand how to change that. Last week at Big Omaha, I had the awesome opportunity to listen to Cindy Gallop speak about women in the workplace, as well as have a great conversation with Sally Nellson Barrett from Malone & Company on the subject. A few things stuck out to me, and I started thinking about my own life. I was basically raised by two women, my grandmother and my mother. They created a lot of structure in my life, and I arguably have been trying to figure that out for myself since I moved out of the house. Their work ethic and personality traits were truly unbelievable.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Female, Women
Lemma what? A guide to Text Processing and Machine Learning API terms
blog.mashape.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: After we posted the a list of NLP , Sentiment Analysis , and Machine Learning APIs a while ago, we noticed that some API descriptions require a little bit of digging into, to fully appreciate what these APIs can do. Here’s an example:
Text analysis API including wordnet synsets,relation extraction,named entity recognition and classification,lemmatization,part of speech tagging,tokenization, and semantic role labeling.
If you’re not familiar with these words, you could totally miss the features that this API is capable of. To help with that, we have listed below an explanation to some of these words in the NLP/Machine Learning context; as well as APIs (represented as numbered links) whose descriptions mention these terms.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Machine Learning, Terms of Service, Terms of Use
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. The Landscape of Municipal Zoning Data by Alisha Green May 23, 2013, 10:30 a. m. Zoning impacts the most physical elements of communities and impacts people's daily lives. When it comes to being transparent about the zoning process and its outcomes, many local governments are posting information -- one way or another -- on their websites.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, City Government, Data, Municipal, Zoning
Congress demands answers from Google over Glass privacy concerns
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Credit: Rachel King/ZDNetA group of Congress members have sent a letter to Google seeking answers to privacy and data concerns caused by Google Glass. The letter (. pdf), addressed to CEO Larry Page, was sent by eight members of Congress led by U. S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas. The members of the Congressional bipartisan Privacy Caucus say they are concerned about possible misuse of information gathered by Google's new product, and whether Google Glass will "infringe on the privacy of the average American. "
The headset, which is able to record video footage and take photos based on voice commands, has already been jailbroken within the developer phase.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Congress, Google Glasses
Google Hangouts Drops Support for XMPP
eschnou.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Google, XMPP
I want to work with more women.
blog.dwolla.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: I can’t find enough women to work with and that’s really frustrating. I’ve been trying to understand how to change that. Last week at Big Omaha, I had the awesome opportunity to listen to Cindy Gallop speak about women in the workplace, as well as have a great conversation with Sally Nellson Barrett from Malone & Company on the subject. A few things stuck out to me, and I started thinking about my own life. I was basically raised by two women, my grandmother and my mother. They created a lot of structure in my life, and I arguably have been trying to figure that out for myself since I moved out of the house. Their work ethic and personality traits were truly unbelievable.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Female, Women
Lemma what? A guide to Text Processing and Machine Learning API terms
blog.mashape.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: After we posted the a list of NLP , Sentiment Analysis , and Machine Learning APIs a while ago, we noticed that some API descriptions require a little bit of digging into, to fully appreciate what these APIs can do. Here’s an example:
Text analysis API including wordnet synsets,relation extraction,named entity recognition and classification,lemmatization,part of speech tagging,tokenization, and semantic role labeling.
If you’re not familiar with these words, you could totally miss the features that this API is capable of. To help with that, we have listed below an explanation to some of these words in the NLP/Machine Learning context; as well as APIs (represented as numbered links) whose descriptions mention these terms.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Machine Learning, Terms of Service, Terms of Use
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Google, XMPP
I want to work with more women.
blog.dwolla.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: I can’t find enough women to work with and that’s really frustrating. I’ve been trying to understand how to change that. Last week at Big Omaha, I had the awesome opportunity to listen to Cindy Gallop speak about women in the workplace, as well as have a great conversation with Sally Nellson Barrett from Malone & Company on the subject. A few things stuck out to me, and I started thinking about my own life. I was basically raised by two women, my grandmother and my mother. They created a lot of structure in my life, and I arguably have been trying to figure that out for myself since I moved out of the house. Their work ethic and personality traits were truly unbelievable.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Female, Women
Lemma what? A guide to Text Processing and Machine Learning API terms
blog.mashape.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: After we posted the a list of NLP , Sentiment Analysis , and Machine Learning APIs a while ago, we noticed that some API descriptions require a little bit of digging into, to fully appreciate what these APIs can do. Here’s an example:
Text analysis API including wordnet synsets,relation extraction,named entity recognition and classification,lemmatization,part of speech tagging,tokenization, and semantic role labeling.
If you’re not familiar with these words, you could totally miss the features that this API is capable of. To help with that, we have listed below an explanation to some of these words in the NLP/Machine Learning context; as well as APIs (represented as numbered links) whose descriptions mention these terms.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Machine Learning, Terms of Service, Terms of Use
Excerpt: After we posted the a list of NLP , Sentiment Analysis , and Machine Learning APIs a while ago, we noticed that some API descriptions require a little bit of digging into, to fully appreciate what these APIs can do. Here’s an example: Text analysis API including wordnet synsets,relation extraction,named entity recognition and classification,lemmatization,part of speech tagging,tokenization, and semantic role labeling. If you’re not familiar with these words, you could totally miss the features that this API is capable of. To help with that, we have listed below an explanation to some of these words in the NLP/Machine Learning context; as well as APIs (represented as numbered links) whose descriptions mention these terms.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Machine Learning, Terms of Service, Terms of Use
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