Lorenz Noe

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Open data, statistics, international development.

Maignan sweeping that Williams chance and sending it forward for an attack was great stuff. Hope he's not hurt #Euro2024

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Hurricane forecasts have clearly improved over the last few decades. But deaths and damages lately aren't declining -- yet another sign that knowing what's coming doesn't mean we're prepared for it. My story today: www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate change adds new challenge to wild history of hurricane forecastswww.eenews.net Scientists, pilots and even a Jesuit priest have tried over decades to understand some of the most ferocious storms on Earth.

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We no longer need to model for when cell prices drop far enough to decarbonize road transport. That day is here

China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shiftswww.bloomberg.com We no longer need to model for when cell prices drop far enough to decarbonize road transport. That day is here.

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Two thrilling penalty shootouts today. Amazing summer for soccer #Euro2024 #copaamerica

This #thread is to collect and attempt to summarize World Bank Group work relevant to development data via their blogs.

Newest World Bank income classifications are out. Low income countries account for 9% of world population, Lower middle income 38%, upper middle income 35%, and high income 18% blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/... data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP...

World Bank country classifications by income level for 2024-2025blogs.worldbank.org Explore the updated World Bank country income classifications for 2024-2025, highlighting GNI per capita shifts and global economic trends. Discover which countries moved between income categories and...

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Biden in NC today: "I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to ... [but] I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job ... I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down you get back up!"

"When you get knocked down you get back up!"www.youtube.com YouTube video by C-SPAN

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moon needs clocks www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/s...

Why scientists say we need to send clocks to the moon — soon | CNNwww.cnn.com There’s an ongoing international effort to keep time accurately on the moon. It’s not as easy as it may sound.

"How data gaps could put US territories like Guam and Puerto Rico at greater risk for climate change" by @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/indigenous/h...

How data gaps could put US territories like Guam and Puerto Rico at greater risk for climate changegrist.org "If folks are serious about environmental justice, they need to be serious about addressing equity issues in U.S territories."

Great blog series from World Bank on AI for data, data for AI. Very level-headed evaluation of what AI can be useful for in data operations. blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...

Beyond keywords: AI-driven approaches to improve data discoverabilityblogs.worldbank.org Artificial intelligence (AI), primarily large language models (LLMs), can enhance data systems to ensure relevant and timely data are discoverable. In this blog post, we explore how simple AI applicat...

Great @bolts.bsky.social spotlight on the unnecessary and undemocratic difficulty in how voting data is published by American states. Curious as well what happened to Virginia's data between 2016 (when NYT got it) and 2020 boltsmag.org/election-dat...

Official development assistance (#ODA) rose by 1.8% in 2023 to an all-time high of $223.7 billion. Increases in ODA for Ukraine, Least-Developed Countries, and Humanitarian Aid www.oecd.org/newsroom/int...

International aid rises in 2023 with increased support to Ukraine and humanitarian needs - OECDwww.oecd.org

On the occasion of this NYT piece on Anguilla's cash boon from .ai domain registrations, I am porting over a thread from the other place. Tdlr: top level domain registrations mean a lot of money for small and mostly poor countries. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/b...

The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguillawww.nytimes.com The small Caribbean territory brought in $32 million last year, more than 10 percent of its G.D.P., from companies registering web addresses that end in .ai.

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