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Information Technology
Source: Computerworld
Quick Study: Flash
“Flash is a popular multimedia Web authoring program that uses vector and raster graphics, a scripting language and bidrectional streaming of video and audio to create animated presentations, also called Flash movies. In practice, the term Flash refers to the authoring program, the Flash Player virtual machine or browser plug-in, or the application files.”
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Elections–Canada
Source: Michael Fagan, Puzzlepieces.com
Canadian Election Analysis: Urban vs Rural
Election results scraped from the CBC and Elections Canada.
Data available in Excel spreadsheet.
See Also: Election Night Results Database (39th General Election, via Elections Canada)
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Poverty–Databases
Source: World Resources Institute
EarthTrends Poverty Resource
“This resource explores the dimensions of human well-being through a combination of maps, datasets, resources, and short articles on the linkages between poverty and the environment. It is part of the EarthTrends environmental information collection at the World Resources Institute.”
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Drug Information–United States
Source: National Library of Medicine
DailyMed
“DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts.”
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Environment–United Kingdom–Maps
Source: Kable’s Government Computing
New, Online map for coastal defence
“The UK is to get an online coastal atlas with constantly updated marine data, the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency led two year project to create the online atlas, which is hosted by a web based interactive mapping site known as Magic (multi-agency geographic information for the countryside). The Magic service uses geographical information systems (GIS) to bring countryside data together in one place.”
See Also: Direct to Magic

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