http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/08/19/mobile-messaging-and-social-media-2015/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=3537213a03-8_19_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-3537213a03-399726609

The other side to the story…

http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-ceo-says-company-is-not-a-soulless-dystopian-workplace/

VERY long, but quite interesting. If you make it far enough, see the discussion of the Anytime Feedback tool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

No matter where you sit on this… Given that this is descriptive data about a call, are they just looking for patterns or are they building a profile pattern? There’s not enough computing power to parse actual conversations in bulk.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order

"Data is…" or "Data are…"?

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1816

Dr Nicula’s summer Community Participation students!

https://www.odu.edu/about/odu-publications/insideodu/2015/08/06/kudos1

A somewhat amusing cartoon for the current election cycle…

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/08/02/common-mistakes-in-polling-and-poll-results/

http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/07/14/climate-change-seen-as-top-global-threat/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=4866d8ba86-July_15_2015_weekly_newsletter7_15_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-4866d8ba86-399726609

"In advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December, many publics around the world name global climate change as a top threat, according to a new Pew Research Center survey measuring perceptions of international challenges. This is particularly true in Latin America and Africa, where majorities in most countries say they are very concerned about this issue. But as the Islamic militant group ISIS maintains its hold in Iraq and Syria and intensifies its grisly public executions, Europeans and Middle Easterners most frequently cite ISIS as their main concern among international issues."

http://www.cnet.com/news/the-meaning-of-life-according-to-google-chatbot-ai/#ftag=CADf028e5a

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/researchers-complain-about-changes-in-amazon-tool-used-for-surveys/57031