AFGE National President J. David Cox spoke Wednesday, Oct. 24 at a panel discussion addressing federal employees. Cox launched a passionate and sincere defense of federal employees, spelling out their contributions to our country and offering a message of compromise as the nation works to right itself amid rising deficits and a challenging economy. CoxRead… Read more »
First, the came for the statisticians, and I said nothing because I was not a statistician One of the things I noticed was an increasing amount of attacks on Nate Silver’s 538 blog and his methodology. Some range from concern trolling from Politico to downright name calling by the man behind Unskewed polls. What NateRead… Read more »
Presidential Management Fellows Applications Must Be Completed By Nov. 19 The Resume Place offers tips for writing the Presidential Management Fellows application for the PMF Class of 2013. The resume is critical as part of this application. Read important application details.
Click to view slideshow.AFGE’s Hispanic Coalition (HISCO) held its fourth annual conference earlier this month in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This year’s conference was themed “Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future” and featured a tribute to the original group of pioneers who established the AFGE Latino advocacy group. Conference attendees participated in a “political fiesta” toRead… Read more »
Sometimes in life, it’s hard to know how you’re doing. The measurement may not be clear, people may not give you any feedback, and the goal itself may be fuzzy. However, in supervision there is one way to keep really good track of how you’re doing in the eyes of those you supervise. I learnedRead… Read more »
This blog is the Part II of a two part series on the award-winning government website, AustinTexas.gov. Visit the first installment to get a full picture of how the city’s website has been so successful. Chris Florance, the Web Content Manager for the City of Austin, Texas, spoke on the DorobekINSIDER about the newly designedRead… Read more »
I‘m seeking comments on my updated and expanded white paper “A Framework for Transparency Program Planning and Assessment.” It’s located here: http://www.ddmcd.com/outline.html My focus is primarily on understanding how improved transparency and openness can impact the individuals and groups targeted by government programs. I know that much attention on program transparency in recent years hasRead… Read more »
Apologies for the lack of posting lately on here. The reason for this quietness can be seen in this set on Flickr. Anyway, my friends at Clinked – who make a rather good online collaboration and project management platform – have produced an interesting infographic on the state of online collaboration. I’ve pasted it inRead… Read more »
We have developed a new application for visualising data in 3D called Datascape that can be used by to spot patterns, trends, links and behaviours between disparate data sets. Data can be imported from almost any source including spreadsheets and databases or even taken from live feeds – with complete flexibility about how you map,Read… Read more »
The results of a Data Visualisation and Visual Analytics Survey have been released by Daden Limited (Daden). Daden created this survey as part of the development of their new ground-breaking data visualisation tool, Datascape. The aim was to understand what applications analysts were already using, what they did and didn’t like about them and whatRead… Read more »