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ACLED-Religion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/acled-religion/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 ACLED-Religion A new project collecting data on religious repression, disorder and violence. Coverage begins at the end of January 2021.
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USA 2016 elections: New York Times Resource
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/usa-2016-elections-new-york-times-resource/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Good use of technology from the New York Times: its Election 2016 bot can send users live news updates.
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How much is an Oxbridge degree worth?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/how-much-is-an-oxbridge-degree-worth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 Released this week- interesting data in the Earning by Degree report from the Sutton Trust which considers differences in earnings from graduates from different universities and in...
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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...
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Mapping English inequality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/mapping-english-inequality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 The English Indices of deprivation examine and rank multiple deprivation in England.
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Bloomberg: WAAC
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/09/bloomberg-waac/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 9, 2013 One of the most popular Bloomberg functions in corporate evaluation and investment banking is WACC – Weighted Average Cost of Capital.
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Bloomberg: stock valuations with historical context
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/04/bloomberg-stock-valuations-with-historical-context/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2013 EMC Corp. announced a quarterly dividend on May 30 and expanded its stock buyback plan at a time when it was trading 15 percent below its 12-month high.
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Bloomberg: Comparing Croatia’s Economic Forecasts With the Euro
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/08/bloomberg-comparing-croatias-economic-forecasts-with-the-euro/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2013 Croatia became the European Union’s 28th member on July 1st.
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Bloomberg: Mergers and acquisitions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/bloomberg-mergers-and-acquisitions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Starboard Value LP is urging Smithfield Foods Inc. to consider alternatives to the company’s pending $4.7 billion acquisition by Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd.