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SOFA is a statistics, analysis, and reporting program with an emphasis on ease of use, learning as you go, and beautiful output. SOFA can connect directly to your database and lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share or put in a spreadsheet. SOFA will help you learn as you go, whether you are a student, business analyst, or researcher.
SDAPS is a collection of scripts that enables you to create questionnaires that can be scanned and automatically analyzed. The questionnaires can easily be created using OpenOffice.org or LaTeX, which gives a lot of flexibility. SDAPS creates a machine-readable questionnaire from the document. It also contains the required tools to analyze the data and create a final report with all the results that can be printed.
allmon is a generic system for collecting and storing various runtime metrics collections used for system performance, health, quality, and availability monitoring purposes. The system also provides a set of data-mining algorithms useful for further performance analysis. Allmon is designed to harvest different metrics values coming from many areas of monitoring infrastructure. The collected data are based on quantitative and qualitative performance and availability analysis. Allmon collaborates with other analytical tools for OLAP multidimensional analysis and data mining processing. The tool can be used for production as well as for development (profiling) and QA (load testing) purposes.
JoomlaWatch allows you to watch your Web site visitors and bots in real-time from the administration menu, particularly their IP addresses, countries they come from, geographical location on a map, which pages they are viewing, and their browser and operating system. It creates daily and all-time stats from this information plus unique, pageload, and total hits statistics. Furthermore, you can block harmful IP addresses, see blocked attempts stats, evaluate the trend charts, and create goals based on many parameters. In the frontend, it can show the top countries, user, and visit information for certain periods of time.
DEDiscover is a workflow-based differential equation modeling software tool for scientists, statisticians, and modelers. Whether you need to do quick simulation, develop sophisticated models, or teach mathematical concepts, DEDiscover combines a powerful computation engine with a user-friendly interface to give you a tool that's better, faster, and easier-to-use.
superseriousstats is a small and efficient program for creating a Web page with statistics from various types of IRC logs. It keeps track of its parse history and only processes new activity before storing any accumulated data in a SQLite or MySQL database. It is suitable for high volume IRC channels and large log archives, and is relatively easy to integrate with IRC services (e.g. bots) that interact with the database and provide last seen information and many other statistics directly in your channel.


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Call it what you like, the ICO e-privacy law, the cookie directive, or to give it its proper name, Directive 2002/58/EC, but on the 26th May 2011, the law regarding how online business can use cookies for storing information on users' devices changed.
What does that mean for you? It means ensuring you're compliant with the new law and avoiding a potential fine of up to £500,000.
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Has online advertising rebounded from the recession? If not, things are definitely picking up. According to the Internet Advertising Bureau and comScore, digital advertising is performing better than last year. What's more? Display advertising is starting strong. The sector hit record revenues in the first quarter of 2010.
Which leaves a question: Have display advertising's woes been unfairly tied to the recession?
It's certainly fashionable in some circles to slam the often ignored banner ad unit. But as corporate sectors begin to get their sea legs back, advertisers are putting money back into display. Perhaps more surprisingly, they're pouring dollars into the often ridiculed display inventory on Facebook's social network.
According to the Interactive
Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, internet
advertising revenues in the U.S. hit $5.9 billion for the first quarter
of 2010. That's a 7.5% increase over the first quarter of 2009.
David Silverman, PricewaterhourCoopers' Assurance partner, says:
"We are seeing continued signs of an improved economy and interactive advertising market," said "The media industry —like the economy as a whole—saw tremendous challenges this past year, and uncertainty about the recovery remains. However, entering 2010 with such strong Q1 revenues is a sign of the health and vitality of online media, and of marketers' continuing investment in interactive as a cornerstone of their advertising campaigns."
In fact, many large brand advertisers increased their digital spend as they pulled back from traditional media last year. That combined with the still fledgling nature of digital advertising content means that it was shielded from some of the more brutal effects of the recession. A digital bounce back was expected to be easier as well.
But many brands do not consider display ads to be effective brand builders. If that's the case, they're certainly not showing it.
The display market bounceback has been steep this quarter, where 1.1 trillion display ads were served, according to comScore. That's a 15% increase from a year ago. It's also a new record.
Total U.S. display ad spend reached an estimated $2.7 billion in the first quarter, with the average cost per thousand impressions (CPM) equal to $2.48.
According to Jeff Hackett, comScore's senior vice president:
"Following a severe ad recession that began in late 2008 and continued through the first three quarters of 2009, we've been seeing a strong resurgence in the online display ad market. The first quarter of 2010 posted strong volume in online display ads, coinciding with increasing expenditure from advertisers and higher CPMs for publishers. This pickup in activity should bode well for the online advertising industry as we move forward in 2010."
Also, the ongoing battle between AT&T and Verizon served the web well. AT&T was the largest display ad buyer, with 26.3 million ads served (that's 2.4% of the market). Verizon purhcased 21.9 million ads (2.0%), followed by Scottrade (1.5%), Experian (1.4%), and Sprint Nextel (0.9%).
Facebook also overtook Yahoo as the most popular display ad provider, with 176 billion display ad impressions (16.2% market share). Yahoo came in second with 132 billion impressions (12.1%), followed by Microsoft with 60 billion impressions (5.5%) and Fox Interactive Media with 53 billion impressions (4.9%).
Like every ad sector, display advertising has felt the repercussions of ad budget tightening over the past two years. Now that it looks like advertisers are putting money into display as soon as they have more money to play with, it will be interesting to see where they put their money as they get more of it as well. This could be a very good year for display advertising.
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Netflixa s Reed Hastings has a big idea: Kill elected school boards
There seems to be no end to the expertise that America's billionaires possess and are happy to share with the rest of us about public education.
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One more piece of Graya s education record: OSSE
One area that may get more attention in the coming months is the Office of the State Superintendent of Education - the city agency responsible for monitoring special-education compliance, administering standardized tests and funneling federal grants to schools.
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SAT imperfect, but serves a purpose
They're revising the SAT again, and you know what that means. More weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Amy Chua, the "Tiger Mother" who launched a thousand panic attacks among ambitious but lenient parents, is back with an almost-great book about why some groups achieve spectacular success in America while others languish.
Unions on edge as Ariz. weighs education expansion
Lawmakers in Arizona are poised to expand a controversial education program that lets parents divert state funds to virtually any school option they wish -- a move teacher groups and unions say would decimate the public education system.
Feds cana t smoke pot, even where ita s legal
You can smoke marijuana in some states, unless you're a fed: The Justice Department is turning a blind eye to pot, but the federal government still prohibits its workforce from using the drug, even though 20 states and Washington, D.C. allow the use of medical marijuana and Colorado and Washington state allow it for recreational use, according to a ... (more)
Indiana pre-school voucher pilot program gettinga
Gov. Mike Pence visited pre-school classes at Shepherd Community Center, 4107 E. Washington Street, in February to persuade the legislature to pass a pre-school voucher program for low-income children.
Study: Later school starts improve student grades
A new study says that high schools switching to later start times have seen an improvement in student grades and overall student health.
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All of the reforms pushed onto public school districts in recent years fail to take into account that in many parts of the United States, going to school just isn't very important.
News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT
The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Mike Bell of Riceville was approved in the Senate Education Committee 7-2 on Wednesday.
A confluence of coincidences at D.C.'s St. Peter School
A friend who I had not spoken to in over a decade contacted me to say that she sends a couple of her children to the St. Peter School and thought that I would enjoy paying a visit.
Pitt, Duquesne Law schools rise in U.S. News rankings
Both the University of Pittsburgh Law School and Duquesne University School of Law moved up significantly in the annual ranking by U.S. News and World Report, released Tuesday.
Celebrate diversity at Culture Fest
The Shan E Punjab dancers will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 14 at the ACT in Maple Ridge as part of Culture Fest.
Mike Rawlings: Breaking Dallas' educational doom loop
This is the fourth of a series of essays by panelists who participated in a community conversation Feb. 4 sponsored by The Dallas Morning News.
Why the Common Core flunks on civic education
Do the Common Core State Standards in English/Language Arts promote authentic civic learning? This article in The Atlantic magazine says yes.
U.S. News Ranks Johns Hopkins #1 for Education Grad Program
In its latest rankings of graduate programs, U.S. News and World Report gave Johns Hopkins University top honors for its education program.
Parents, teacher, administrators at war over tests
As education reform takes hold across the country, we find ourselves traveling through another dimension - one not only of hysterics but also of childish behavior.
Randolf Arguelles: The New SAT Will Widen the Education Gap
The College Board's March 5 announcement that the SAT college-admissions exam will undergo a significant overhaul in 2016 has generated no shortage of commentary, some of it praising the changes as a "democratization" of the test.
Obesity Linked To Lower Grades Among Teen Girls
Childhood obesity has made it to the forefront of public health issues, both in the United Kingdom and in the United States.