The MatrixFiles
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Here are a few statistics that we shared: 27% of Americans say they have not too much or no confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interest ( Pew Research ) 39% of Americans, a record-high, say they don’t trust the media at all. Many attendees expressed surprise over the trust statistics that we shared.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimated earlier this year that about 3 million veterans, or 14 percent of the total veteran population, had a service-connected disability. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 18, 2012
What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting.
Tech Soup
APRIL 25, 2014
And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% Register for TechSoup for Libraries' upcoming free webinar on May 28.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
According to a 2010 statistic, people around the world spend three billion hours a week playing video games. What if that time could be spent fighting rainforest destruction and global warming or supporting other environmental and social causes? TechSoup Taiwan recently held a Net Tuesday event. that focused on gaming for social good.
Global Giving
JANUARY 21, 2015
That was the only statistically significant result the experiment produced; waiting eight seconds slightly outperformed waiting for four, while the two different wordings were nearly a statistical toss-up. After three months and 300,000 views, the two wordings were at a statistical dead heat, so we ended the experiment.
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 26, 2014
The statistics are similar for mobile phones, except that phones are discarded even more quickly than PCs. create positive social change by routing used-yet-still-useful equipment out of the landfill and into the hands of nonprofits, libraries, and low-income families at low cost. ICRS Goes to Europe.
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