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Seeing Through Walls for Greater Independence!

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There were too many awesome talks to do them justice, but you are welcome to sample the session titles here. It’s the brainchild of Donna and Ben Rosen, a New York power couple with connections to science, technology, politics, the arts and more. The talk that especially blew my mind was by MIT professor Dina Katabi.

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Guatemalan National Police Archive Goes Online

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HRDAG designed a process to randomly sample the Archive and the archivists began using Benetech’s Martus software to organize and secure information generated from the samples.

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Benetech’s Daniel Guzmán Publishes Account of Landmark Guatemalan Human Rights Case

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Guzmán’s article, entitled Speaking Stats to Justice: Expert Testimony in a Guatemalan Human Rights Trial Based on Statistical Sampling , appears in the most recent issue of CHANCE, a quarterly journal published by the American Statistical Association. His family never stopped looking for him.

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Verdict in Guatemala Disappearance Case!

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HRP director Dr. Patrick Ball developed a plan to collect a multi-stage random sample of the documents and secure the sample data with Benetech's Martus information management tool for careful examination.

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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

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Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated.

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Fish Tale Has DNA Hook

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A few days earlier, I read an article where DNA-sampling of freshwater ponds can reveal the presence/absence of the invasive American bullfrogs even when normal monitoring techniques fail - this technique can even detect "ghosts" - species that have been but are no longer present!

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Happy Bicentennial, Louis Braille

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It helps blind people all over the world, as this recent sample of Hindi Braille demonstrates. The National Federation of the Blind is organizing events around the country to celebrate his birthday and the invention of Braille. We're very proud at Bookshare.org about our support of Braille.

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