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Havin' Imaginary Fun on Navy Pier

WBEZ assembled a group of hilarious details from the Navy Pier redevelopment renderings. Elsewhere on Gapers Block Right Now: A/C Matter Dance Company Presents Spectrumby Caitlin Bergh A/by Steve ProkopyBook Club Statistician Nate Silver Speaks at Spertus ... [Published Gapers Block - 1 hour ago]
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Teens who text while driving likely to engage in other risky behaviors

Teenagers who text while driving are also more likely to engage in other risky activities, such as riding with an intoxicated driver or not wearing a seatbelt, a new study suggests.Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.gov) ... [Published Main Line Life - 1 hour ago]
First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 reports

Gains in China New-Home Prices Signal Growth Challenge for Li

China’s new-home prices rose last month in 68 out of 70 cities tracked by the government, indicating Premier Li Keqiang will need to maintain efforts to cool the property market even as economic growth slows.Increases in Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai ... [Published Bloomberg - 1 hour ago]
First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

From the files May 19, 2013

8:00 am 0 commentsNo paper published.Thursday, May 19, 1988CHICAGO — If you’ve got a big brain, a yen for the indoors and little love of glamour or rawboned rigor, then America has just the right job for you, according to the publishers of “The Jobs Rated ... [Published Keene Sentinel - 4 hours ago]
Entities: Deadline, Chicago, Roofer
First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Working women numbers don’t add up

A drop in 2009-10 official employment count reveals self-employed Indian women often brush aside contributions to family income. Statisticians are now revising survey methods to tot up their toil ... [Published Times of India - 15 hours ago]
Entities: Statistician
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 6 reports

Countdown to Red Line South

Don't forget (and if you're affected, how could you?), the Red Line South Reconstruction Project begins on Sunday. If you haven't figured out an alternative route yet, the CTA's trip planner might help. Elsewhere on Gapers Block Right Now: A/C Matter ... [Published Gapers Block - May 17 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Statisticians zone in on distinction between travel, tourism

TURKEYEN, Greater Georgetown, Guyana (CARICOM) -- Travel is not equivalent to Tourism.This was a key message that was impressed upon participants at a Regional Workshop on Travel and International Tourism Consumption, hosted by the Central Statistics ... [Published CaribSeek - May 17 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Statistician Nate Silver @ Spertus Institute

By Every few mornings, my mom will e-mail me my horoscope.It's not that we take serious stock in the just-vague-enough-to-be-accurate predictions. We know it's silly. It's just a nice tradition; our kooky way of keeping in touch. I don't believe in what ... [Published Gapers Block - May 17 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Energy costs hike producer prices

New Zealand producers' input and output prices have posted the biggest gains in almost two years in the first quarter, driven by a rebound in electricity prices and higher prices for dairy manufacturers.Producer input prices, which are a measure of wholesale ... [Published MSN New Zealand - May 17 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

America gets lotto fever with two large jackpots this weekend

As we head into the weekend, both the Powerball and Mega Million jackpots are soaringwe've never seen a pair like this at the same time.On Friday morning, at least $740 million are up for grabs in back-to-back jackpots. First up is Friday night's Mega ... [Published KSFY - May 17 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Fall in full time workers, but more staff in area with degrees

Employment in the Borders fell by more than five per cent between 2008 and 2012, a report by Scotland?s chief statistician has revealed. It also showed that in the same period there has been a six per cent fall in the number of people working in full ... [Published Southern Reporter - May 17 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

The statisticians of religion: 5-17-13

No doubt someone could earn a Ph.D. doing research on statistics about religion -- how they're compiled, by whom, their reliability, their purposes and on and on ... [Published Kansas City Star - May 17 2013]

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"Anything that takes their attention away from the task of driving, it can wait" she said
"The market expectations on rising home prices have not changed fundamentally and the property tightening measures are still at a critical stage for strict enforcement" Liu said
Work was also in full swing to finally create the long-awaited Canberra lake. "The lake scheme is estimated to cost some £2.5 million spread over five years and it is expected that the major lake construction works will be completed by 1963" the statisticians calculated. History records Lake Burley Griffin was finally inaugurated in October 1964
"Though the average home price across the country will increase by 3 to 8 percent in 2013, the price hike in key cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou could hit 20 percent" said Nicole Wong, regional head of property research at CLSA

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Havin' Imaginary Fun on Navy Pier [Published Gapers Block - 1 hour ago]
Teens who text while driving likely to engage i... [Published Main Line Life - 1 hour ago]
Gains in China New-Home Prices Signal Growth Ch... [Published Bloomberg - 1 hour ago]
Tier-one cities see house prices jump [Published Global Times - 2 hours ago]
From the files May 19, 2013 [Published Keene Sentinel - 4 hours ago]
Farm briefs: May 19, 2013 [Published Press-Republican Online - 5 hours ago]
Old Canberra: another country [Published Melbourne Age - 5 hours ago]
No Bull Market, Just a Cattle Stampede [Published Live Trading News - 5 hours ago]
China's home prices rise slower in April [Published Yahoo Philippines News - 11 hours ago]
St helena Explores The Joy of Stats [Published SARTMA.com - 12 hours ago]
New York milk production increased in 2012 [Published Arcade Herald Warsaw's Country Courier - 13 hours ago]
Working women numbers don’t add up [Published Times of India - 15 hours ago]
Home prices rise slower as tightening takes effect [Published Eastday.com - 15 hours ago]
Report documents inmate sex abuse in US [Published ABC15.com - 18 hours ago]
Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US [Published Whittier Daily News - 18 hours ago]
The Rise of the Technical Marketer [Published Tech Vibes - May 18 2013]
First UI claims down 10 pct. in Ga., up sharply... [Published Access North GA - May 18 2013]
China April Housing Inflation Accelerates Despi... [Published International Business Times UK - May 18 2013]
Jim Goodnight on SAS in-memory analytics and th... [Published SearchBusinessAnalytics.com - May 18 2013]
Bus-ted [Published Weekly Standard - May 18 2013]
Report: Marion, Ripley county jails have high r... [Published Indianapolis Star - May 18 2013]
Powerball and Mega Millions Jackpots Soar [Published WGNO - May 18 2013]
China April housing inflation quickens [Published Sharenet - May 18 2013]
Data science: A crash course [Published SearchCIOMidmarket.com - May 18 2013]
Sanjay Dutt has paid dearly for his erratic ways [Published Mail Online UK - May 18 2013]
The feminist, pro-father, and pro-child case ag... [Published LifeSite - May 17 2013]
Countdown to Red Line South [Published Gapers Block - May 17 2013]
Lubbock jobless rate dips below 5 percent [Published Lubbock Online - May 17 2013]
Goodbye, Purple Hotel [Published Gapers Block - May 17 2013]
Fighting Teen Pregnancy with Strange Ads [Published Gapers Block - May 17 2013]
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Data Science Is Now a Job Market Based Entirely... [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 17 2013]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum’s Techwise Conversations. When you need to hire a professional these days—a programmer, a doctor, a lawyer—it can be hard to choose. They sort of rank themselves, ...
UK Census: the toll of being an unpaid carer [Published News: Datablog | guardian.co.uk - May 16 2013]
5.78 million people in Britain do it, but what is the impact of providing unpaid care? As part of its continuing work after the 2011 census, the Office for National Statistics has taken a look• Get the data •  More data journalism and data visualisations ...
UB study finds passenger car drivers more likel... [Published Green Car Congress - May 15 2013]
A new University at Buffalo (UB) study of crashes involving cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) has found that in head-on collisions between passenger cars and SUVs, drivers in passenger cars were nearly 10 times more likely to die if the SUV involved ...
What’s ‘Significant’ about the Oregon Medicaid ... [Published The Corner on National Review Online - May 14 2013]
Anyone interested in the debates about the future of American health-care policy has paid acute attention to the Oregon Medicaid experiment , whose second round of results was released at the beginning of this month. The study arose from a natural experiment ...
What Are The Feds Hiding? Let's Ask The Declass... [Published ReadWriteWeb - May 14 2013]
Each year, the U.S. government declassifies thousands of documents and releases them to the public through collections like the Declassified Document Retrieval System (DDRS) and the CIA's FOIA Reading Room . Some, however, contain "redacted" information ...
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Listening Post - Feature - Predicting the next ... [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 13 2013]
Nate Silver predicts March Madness [Published CNN.com - Video - Mar 19 2013]
Nigeria Inflation and Economic Outlook 2013 - 2016 [Published ABN Digital - Video - Feb 18 2013]
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The New York Times' Nate Silver to Deliver Ripo... [Published PR Newswire: Entertainment & Media - May 02 2013]
MD Ranger Fourth Annual Physician Contract Benc... [Published Business Wire - May 01 2013]
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer References Chitika ... [Published Business Wire - Apr 30 2013]
Lithium CEO Rob Tarkoff Outlines Blueprint for ... [Published Business Wire - Apr 24 2013]
FreeStructure Predicts Why So Many Keynotes Fai... [Published Business Wire Technology News - Apr 04 2013]
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