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Accelerating data processing for IRCC with Amazon EC2 instances

AWS Public Sector Blog

Within two days, IRCC’s in-house developed scripts were adjusted and optimized to work on a fleet of 200 Amazon EC2 instances. If you are planning to build a solution to process data effectively and faster than ever, contact your AWS account team, or contact the AWS Public Sector team directly. Specifically, all machines were r5a.8xlarge

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

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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. In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013).