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Real-time crime index, USA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/real-time-crime-index-usa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 An initiative to provide real-time updated data and mappings of crime in the USA. It has been built by AH Datalytics and supported by Arnold Ventures .
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ACLED Conflict Index 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/acled-conflict-index-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 ACLED Conflict Index 2024 Get reputable data from the team who measure and assess political violence worldwide using indicators based on deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic...
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Twitter: 10th anniversary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/twitter-10th-anniversary/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 See a collection of significant tweets in this short history from Wired magazine. Read also the Guardian debate on whether you love or hate it.
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How has social media usage changed 2005-15?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/how-has-social-media-usage-changed-2005-15/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 Find out by checking the results from the latest Pew Internet research report which covers the USA.
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International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 IDAHOT 2016 was celebrated on May 17 th . Find out why this day was chosen and why it continues to be needed with this blog posting from the LSE.
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Open Observatory of Network Interference: Tor Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/open-observatory-of-network-interference-tor-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 A free software, Global Observation Network, for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet.
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Stonewall 50th commemoration web archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/stonewall-50th-commemoration-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Just launched by Columbia University, a searchable web archive of 50 th anniversary commemorations of the Stonewall uprising. The Stonewall uprising a key event in LGBT history.
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Free data journalism handbook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/free-data-journalism-handbook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Released by European Journalism Centre: http://datajournalismhandbook.
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We need more women in science.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/we-need-more-women-in-science/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 The UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science was celebrated on 11 February.
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Bloomberg: effects of QE in fixed income markets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/07/bloomberg-effects-of-qe-in-fixed-income-markets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2013 Quantitative easing has increased the level of liquidity in financial markets and helped drive down yields in government bond markets.