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The Mercatus Center solves unstructured data challenges using generative AI from AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Seeking to make access to economic policy documents easier, Mercatus created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) solution. Organizing unstructured data using generative AI from AWS Before policymakers can write a new regulation, they need to understand what other policies and documentation exist that relate to the same topic.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

When these systems are stable, well-documented, and still actively developed, there is no reason to read the word ‘legacy’ as a pejorative.” 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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Mike McCormick: COVID-19 and Preparing for a New School Year

Policy Chats

In this episode, Val Verde Unified School District Superintendent Mike McCormick talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the challenges school districts face as the academic school year begins and distanced learning continues. Learn more about the series and other episodes via [link]

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COVID-19: Preparing for a New School Year (with Mike McCormick)

Policy Chats

In this episode, Val Verde Unified School District Superintendent Mike McCormick talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the challenges school districts face as the academic school year begins and distanced learning continues. Learn more about the series and other episodes via [link]

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COVID-19: Preparing for a New School Year (with Mike McCormick)

Policy Chats

In this episode, Val Verde Unified School District Superintendent Mike McCormick talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the challenges school districts face as the academic school year begins and distanced learning continues. Learn more about the series and other episodes via [link].

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What's Next for Evidence-Based Policy Making?

Barrett & Greene

By Elizabeth Linos, Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director, , The People Lab. ​ ​ The crises of the past few years have brought with them a rallying cry for more evidence in government; a call to “follow the science” and “lead with data.”

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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA LibLearnX 2023

Librarian.net

All documents for this meeting can be found here. link] Attendee report: 2653 attendees at LLX, 1711 are reg members (i.e. not vendors, corporate members, free attendees) Friday January 27 ALA Bylaws Convention, Special Council Session 1-5pm This meeting was specifically set up in order to finalize work on revising the ALA Bylaws.

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