Frontiers

How do we collect all this data? A performative account of International Large-Scale Assessment data collection in times of systemic diversity

International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) serve to monitor and benchmark educational achievements, providing accurate, ...
Microsoft

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Background: There is a longstanding association between provider-specific procedure volumes and outcomes. “To inform patients and caregivers about clinicians’ experience,” the Centers for Medicare and ...
Reuters

India strengthens privacy law with new data collection rules

BENGALURU, Nov 14 (Reuters) - India put new privacy rules into force on Friday that will make Meta, Google, OpenAI and other companies minimize collection of personal data and give people more control ...
CNN

Dept. of Labor launches investigation into data collection process at BLS

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...
GitHub

Data-Provenance-Initiative/Data-Provenance-Collection

The Data Provenance Initiative is a multi-disciplinary volunteer effort to improve transparency, documentation, and responsible use of training datasets for AI. Through a large scale audit of 44 data ...
The New York Times

Cuts to Data Collection May Erode Reliability of Economic Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
MassDevice

Endogenex data supports type 2 diabetes procedure

Endogenex today reported positive findings from studies of its endoscopic procedure aimed at transforming diabetes care. Minneapolis-based Endogenex shared findings in poster presentations at the ...
Federal Register

Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request on Procedures for Determination Letters and Other Rulings

This site displays a prototype of a “Web 2.0” version of the daily Federal Register. It is not an official legal edition of the Federal Register, and does not replace the official print version or the ...
Reuters

US Labor Department reducing CPI collection sample amid hiring freeze

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Labor Department's economic statistics arm said on Wednesday it was reducing the Consumer Price Index collection sample in areas across the country due to ...
The New York Times

U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data

The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system. By Ben Casselman The Bureau of ...