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OLYMPIA — More than 400,000 health care professionals would be required to provide information on race, ethnicity, gender, and spoken languages under a bill that passed the House and now is under consideration by the Senate. “This is something that we need to do to align our racial and...

Agencies can participate in the Digital Analytics Program (DAP) by implementing the DAP script block. It’s a simple line of of code that enables you to take advantage DAP:. You can use this line to enhance the Web analytics solution with additional query string parameters. The query string parameters pass data that enable features within the code. They can also help configure settings in the code. It allows you to leverage more features in DAP or extract more data out of DAP. In the example above, we have the query string parameters “agency” and “subagency” that pass data into DAP for reporting purposes.

When it comes to working with data, sometimes getting started is the most challenging part. As a fellow GIS learner, educator, and data-curious individual, I find that having a common foundation for approaching complex topics is important. The Learn essential demographic data skills tutorial series is designed to provide you...

More than 400,000 health care professionals would be required to provide information on race, ethnicity, gender and spoken languages under a bill that passed the House and is under consideration by the Senate. “This is something that we need to do to align our racial and ethnic makeup, and also...

State Human Resources (HR) facilitates the data stewardship of the central Human Resource Management System (HRMS) to monitor and enhance workforce data integrity. The goal is to ensure HRMS data is complete, accurate, and consistent for reporting and analysis purposes. Data definition resources. Affirmative Action and Demographic Data Guide (12/15/20):...

Although it’s been around for a while, an investigator with the Better Business Bureau reminds you can take a look at what scams are being reported in your neighborhood or anywhere else in North America just by going to their website. The agency has a tool called Scam Tracker, which maps out the various reports of scammers in near-real-time.

Although it’s been around for a while, an investigator with the Better Business Bureau reminds you can take a look at what scams are being reported in your neighborhood or anywhere else in North America just by going to their website. The agency has a tool called Scam Tracker, which maps out the various reports of scammers in near-real-time. BBB Investigator Don O’Brien says one of the riskiest scams being reported is the “employment scam,” with the average loss in 2022 coming in at about $1,500.

For the roughly 3,000 jails nationwide, the data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics is outdated and spotty. “There’s limited information that they release on the people who are in jail via demographics,” said Tracy Velázquez, senior manager of Safety & Justice research at Pew Charitable Trusts. “For example, there’s no information on admissions by race or ethnicity at all.”

OLYMPIA — More than 400,000 health care professionals in Washington would be required to provide information on their race, ethnicity, gender, and spoken languages under a bill that passed the House and is now being considered by the Senate. “This is something that we need to do to align...

Data is the power force behind every successful company and business strategy, quality data points to the best leads and guides to top sales. Without enriched data, teams need to spend more time researching and analyzing data rather than using it to score successful leads. The ideal solution to this problem is data enrichment, which is an approach to improve lead quality and create an applicable database.

More than 400,000 health care professionals would be required to provide information on race, ethnicity, gender and spoken languages under a bill that passed the House and now is under consideration by the Senate. “This is something that we need to do to align our racial and ethnic makeup, and...

Cerebral has admitted that it gave advertising and social media juggernauts like Facebook, Google, and TikTok access to the private health data of more than 3.1 million patients in the US, including assessments of their mental state. The telehealth startup revealed the security lapse in a filing with the federal...

Decisions about who to interview for a job, who to provide medical care to, or who to grant a loan were once made by humans, but ever more frequently are made by machine learning (ML) algorithms, with eight in 10 firms planning to invest in some form of ML in 2023 according to New Vantage. The number one focus of these investments? Driving business growth with data.

The Wichita-Sedgwick County Metropolitan Area Planning Department is looking to create an innovative and dynamic team of hardworking, committed individuals with a passion for carrying out community goals. The Planning Department is pleased to announce an opportunity for the position of Advanced Plans Division, Senior Planner – Demography and Data Analyst. This position may be filled as a Senior Planner or Associate Planner (based on qualifications).

An occupational hazard of working as a demographer is to think about death a little too much. To balance things out, demographers think about life a lot too. For today’s column, we will play two simple number games. One game will help you appreciate how big and magnificently far-reaching your life is, while the other will make you question your life choices.

Pakistan launched its first-ever digital population and housing census on Wednesday in an effort to securely gather demographic data on every individual ahead of this year’s parliamentary elections, officials said. The digital count will provide data for policy decisions, which now are based on the 2017 census that counted...

Three years after promising transparency regarding the 32,000 DNA profiles the NYPD stores, police brass still haven’t released demographic information on the database’s contents — a lapse civil liberties advocates say makes it difficult for minorities to trust police. The promise came at a February 2020 City Council hearing that saw elected officials raising concerns the database contained ...

Data brokers are capitalizing off the sale of Americans’ mental health data, a new report from Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy found. "The research is critical as more depressed and anxious individuals utilize personal devices and software-based health-tracking applications... often unknowingly putting their sensitive mental health data at risk," the study found. "This report finds that the industry appears to lack a set of best practices for handling individuals’ mental health data, particularly in the areas of privacy and buyer vetting."