How US cities are making themselves green
Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side – citizens of certain cities have the luxury of having lots of green space per person....
Public Sector & Government
U.S. election pollsters: watch Florida for key indicators!
ESOMAR’s “The Pollsters’ Survival Kit for Election Night… And the Days After” webinar Monday, October 12 illustrates how divided America is weeks before the 2020 Presidential election. Based on an Economist/YouGov poll of 1,363 likely...
Fighting words: Language and messaging in the Democratic presidential primary
As a big-tent party, Democrats are accustomed to internal disagreement. According to the New York Times, one of the current debates is a fight about “fighting.”...
UK polls get it right
The snap election held in the UK on 12 December 2019 was an important test for the country’s opinion pollsters. They had widely been regarded as having got it ‘wrong’ in the two previous elections...
San Francisco bans use of facial recognition
Legislators in San Francisco yesterday voted to approve a ban on the use of Facial Recognition (FR) technology by city agencies, including the police department and the city’s transport authority....
Google’s newly launched AI ethics panel has already been shut down
Last week Friday, 5 April, just two and a half weeks after its launch, Google shut down its global advisory council (ATEAC) which was designed to oversee ethical issues related to artificial intelligence....