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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In another Medium post from 2019 , Graham MacDonald, Urban CIO, wrote, “Researchers should always choose the right programming language for the right job. They have also observed that university programs that focus on public policy and statistics often teach R programming, so using R helps new graduates get up to speed quickly.

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Vaccine Policy in a Post-COVID World

Policy Chats

In this episode, Associate Professor Katie Attwell talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about vaccine hesitancy, mandates, and public health policy. A/Prof Attwell is a global expert in vaccine hesitancy and vaccination policies for childhood and COVID-19 vaccines.

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How federal agencies can use IPAs to bolster evidence capacity and help implement the Evidence Act: An interview with Dayanand Manoli, Professor, Georgetown University – Episode #178

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (Evidence Act) was enacted in early 2019 and has led a wide range of federal agencies to take new steps in building and using evidence, including developing learning agendas. To learn more, we are joined by Dr. Dayanand Manoli.

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Katie Attwell: Vaccine Policy in a Post-COVID World

Policy Chats

In this episode, Associate Professor Katie Attwell talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about vaccine hesitancy, mandates, and public health policy. A/Prof Attwell is a global expert in vaccine hesitancy and vaccination policies for childhood and COVID-19 vaccines.

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Building trust in government: A data-driven imperative

Partnership for Public Service

While these numbers highlight challenges, they also present an opportunity for the government to reset its relationship with the public through improved federal data practices Implementing robust data collection, management and dissemination practices can serve as a step toward greater accountability and transparency.

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Using ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine on Amazon EMR to predict rideshare demand

AWS Public Sector Blog

It can also let you efficiently manage rideshare service operations, enhance revenue, inform appropriate public policy, and guide investment decisions. This is a Python implementation of MGWR. GeoAnalytics Engine on Amazon EMR can make the analysis feasible and aid in spatial prediction strategies. cast(IntegerType())).withColumn("Trip_Miles",

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

Marc Holzer (editor) and Andrew Ballard (editor) Public Productivity and Performance Handbook , 3rd Edition, 2021, plus Roadmaps for Performance Donald Moynihan, The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform , Georgetown University Press, 2008. Brian Elms with J.B.