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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

Zarr is tightly integrated with other Python libraries in the open-source Pangeo technology stack for analyzing scientific data, such as Dask for coordinating distributed, parallel compute jobs and xarray as a an interface for working with labeled, N-dimensional array data. Zarr group containing one Zarr array.

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response, starting in 1995, the accounting authorities began to require that these contracts be put on a servicer’s balance sheet as an asset (called the MSR asset) equal to the estimated market value of the profit flows over the life of the underlying mortgage portfolio. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons.

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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. And from there, I went on and was able to serve in some full time capacity to include recreation facility manager and program coordinator. So one of the programs that we developed was a digital media account. Chris: Yeah.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g., Consequently, the authors maintain that state and federal policymakers must provide institutions with the resources necessary to design effective discharging planning, and furthermore hold them to account should they fail to do so.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator.

Advocacy 101
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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).

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Using Data to Prevent the Loss of Home Equity in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of all at-risk homes (for data reasons, Staten Island is not included in our analysis). Table 1) Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of all At-Risk and Higher Risk properties identified in our analysis. Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of At-Risk and Higher Risk properties.