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Urban Gems/Happiness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/28/urban-gemshappiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2012 http://urbangems.org/ A new academic project that aims to crowd source what citizens like about cities and what makes them happy.
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Tweeting #OWS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/05/tweeting-ows/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2012 http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University. Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected.
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TV News Search Borrow
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/17/tv-news-search-borrow/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2012 http://archive.org/details/tv Internet Archive site. This service is designed to help USA citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S.
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Bloomberg: Credit Default Swaps
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/bloomberg-credit-default-swaps/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Since the European Union ban on naked sovereign CDS in November, the volume of sovereign CDS trades has plummeted while the volume on financials CDS has increased, according to DTCC data.
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Bloomberg guide on corporate governance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/bloomberg-guide-on-corpoarte-governance/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 With the 2013 annual general meeting season underway, attention is being given to corporate governance issues, with companies taking an increasingly proactive role in engaging with...
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Bloomberg: offshore yuan values
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/bloomberg-offshore-yuan-values/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The offshore yuan weakened on May 6 by the most since 2011 after Chinese regulators announced a probe of export data and new restrictions on loans.
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Longer lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.
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US Presidential Papers online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/us-presidential-papers-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Now available from the GPO online from 1991 – They include statements, speeches and remarks. Other great presidential resources.
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Find health and social care statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/find-health-and-social-care-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 Sources of Social Statistics: Health Services and Public Health Where can you find the latest data on a range of UK social welfare and topics? This useful briefing...
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Religious and Ethnic Groups Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/religious-and-ethnic-groups-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups Data Free access the University of Illinois to statistical data which provides information on religious and ethnic diversity in over 100 nations...