Measure what is important: instead of giving importance to what is measured
The awards highlight storytelling with data, focusing on projects with measurable public benefit, such as AI-driven fraud detection, marine-debris initiatives, and geospatial grant allocation tools.
Last week’s APS Data Awards proved data isn't just spreadsheets, it's storytelling. From disease graphs to cinema stats, the best communicators make numbers stick. Thanks Australian Bureau of Statistics and congrats to the finalists.
“Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l’Armée française dans la campagne de Russie en 1812-1813”, is a graphical depiction of the losses of French Army during Napoleon’s ruinous invasion of Russia of 1812-13, (cf. War and Peace by L.Tolstoy) drawn in 1869 by Charles Joseph Minard, a former French alien civil engineer
Combatting fraud through private and public sector data sharing with Australian Financial Crimes Exchange (AFCX) – Australian Taxation Office - TJF - Winner
Over the past 50 years, nearly every dystopic movie and literature like 1984 portrayed a 100%-surveilled society where the people at the top control everything using AI and such. And here we are, actively making that future an inevitable reality now. Great job society.
“The US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey”. The Varieties of Democracy Institute: “Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever…”
Exposed: How Debt Became the Tool the Wealthy Use to Drain Workers’ Income Egberto
4,000 Meatpackers Strike in Colorado at Brazilian-Owned JBS Mike Elk
Americans Should Have a Right to Full-Time Work New York Times Note the re-write of the headline.
WSJ: Red and Blue States Are Growing Further Apart on Income Tax
Richard Rubin & Jeanne Whalen (WSJ): Red and Blue States Are Growing Further Apart on Income Tax
GOP-led states are looking to entice new residents with lower taxes, while Democratic-led states seek higher taxes on top earners to shore up budgets and social services
Washington State Legislature Approves Millionaire’s Tax
Tax Notes: Washington Legislature Approves Millionaire’s Tax
Washington lawmakers have approved a new income tax on millionaires, securing a key legislative victory for progressive tax reformers
Tax Notes: Washington Legislature Approves Millionaire’s Tax
Washington lawmakers have approved a new income tax on millionaires, securing a key legislative victory for progressive tax reformers
DOJ clears way for government to hire technologists still connected to private sector employers
NextGov/FCW – “The Justice Department issued an opinion last week authorizing the Trump administration’s plan to allow employees from tech companies to work for the federal government while remaining employed by their companies and keeping their not-yet-vested company stocks.
NextGov/FCW – “The Justice Department issued an opinion last week authorizing the Trump administration’s plan to allow employees from tech companies to work for the federal government while remaining employed by their companies and keeping their not-yet-vested company stocks.
The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet
Follow-up to $21.7 Billion Blunder: New PSI Report Reveals Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Squandered by DOGE –
See Also 404 Media[no paywall] – “The DOGE deposition videos a judge ordered removed from YouTube on Friday after they had gone massively viral have since been backed up across the internet, including as a torrent and to the Internet Archive. The videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements that despite their aggressive cuts they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit…The news shows the difficulty in trying to remove material from the internet, especially that which has a high public interest and has already been viewed likely millions of times. It’s also an example of the “Streisand Effect,” a phenomenon where trying to suppress information often results in the information spreading further.
DOGE deposition videos in Depositions for MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit About the NEH,” the title of the pageon the Internet Archive reads. The page says the files were uploaded on Saturday. On the Data Hoarder subreddit, multiple users said they had downloaded a torrent of the videos. Once a torrent of files has been shared, it becomes much harder to fully delete off of the internet because its distribution has been decentralized. 404 Media verified that the torrent did contain the DOGE deposition videos…”
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 14, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weisshighlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Scammers Stole Their Retirement Savings. Then the Tax Bill Arrived; Meta’s AI Deepfake Detection System Fails the Test; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response releases cybersecurity module; Tech giants break silence on Anthropic; and Pentagon Reportedly Used Microsoft Workaround to Test OpenAI Models, Despite Ban.