Andrew Dunn
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This IMF database tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s. WoRLD tracks directly 9 key components of tax and non-tax revenues, which together contribute about 82 percent of government revenue globally. Some key insights include enabling users to analyse trends. Data can be downloaded in Excel or Stata format.
US election data sets
Covering 2000-2016. Recently released by Library of Congress data package on data.labs.loc.gov/packages/, with associated new resources to help researchers understand and use the data. The new data package includes enhanced documentation explaining the contents of the dataset and how it was created, as well as metadata for candidate campaign sites extracted from the United States Elections Web […]
MOnetary ValuE of health at older ages (MOVE) Simulator
Developed by the WHO Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing Unit, the MOVE simulator allows a user to estimate the value of changes in health status for an individual or a population based on data from harmonized European time use surveys (HETUS).The main idea behind this is is that time is money. Healthy people spend more […]
Civil Rights cold case portal
Recently launched by the US National Archives this site provides access to records of unsolved racially-motivated crimes during the 20th century in the USA. During the Civil Rights era, thousands of racially-motivated crimes went unsolved. In many cases, local, state and/or federal authorities examined evidence, conducted interviews, and compiled detailed investigations into these crimes and violations. […]
Surveys: displaced people
UNHCR and the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center Questionnaire Dashboard enables users to explore questionnaires hosted on the Microdata Library related to forced displacement. It is possible to filter searches by country, year, population type , and topics to locate the most appropriate survey and its datasets.
AGORA (AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive)
ETO AGORA (AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive) Maintained by the Emerging Technology Observatory (ETO (a project of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University), this website provides free access to a searchable collection of AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the United States and around the world. Updated regularly, AGORA includes […]
AI and copyright infringements
Wired AI copyright case tracker Computer magazine Wired is maintaining a visualization of all the AI cases in USA. The site offers a limited number of free articles for subscribers.
Bosses’ high pay
FTSE 100 bosses earnt more money in the first 3 days than an average worker in a year. Get the facts on how this was calculated from the High Pay Centre .The website has a useful database on CEO pay in UK.
Decolonising Filmic Experience workshops webinars archive
These took place at University of Hertfordshire in Summer 2024 and are described by the organisers as intended to be part of a continuing dialogue around the coloniality of filmic practices, institutions, industries and histories. They offer case studies; these include decolonising the BBC film archive and topics related to media studies pedagogy.
Digital Caricatures of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (1870-71)
Recently made available by the Cambridge digital library at Cambridge University Library https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/caricatures-franco-prussian-war-and-paris-commune-1870-71 an online collection of political cartoon and satirical caricatures which were distributed at the time. They come from a number of large volumes assembled by booksellers: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/caricatures/1 details of which are documented on the main website which also contains details of an […]
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