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Get privacy-safe customer insights with Google Analytics June 10, 2021
At this year’s Google Marketing Livestream, we shared the latest updates coming to the new Google Analytics, the next generation of Analytics designed for the future of measurement.Get privacy-safe customer insights using machine learningWith new privacy-safe solutions, Google is helping advertisers preserve marketing measurement while respecting user consent choices. This includes using machine learning to […]
Respect user consent choices with Google Tag Manager May 27, 2021
More people than ever before are purchasing goods and services online, bringing new opportunities for businesses to reach a growing base of customers. At the same time, restrictions around cookies and identifiers are changing the ways businesses understand the customer journey. We’ve heard from businesses that they need new, easy-to-use solutions to keep pace with […]
Future-proof your measurement with privacy-safe solutions May 13, 2021
Getting the most out of your marketing investments requires a clear understanding of what actions people take after interacting with your ads. In today’s evolving privacy landscape, growing your business calls for new approaches to measurement that preserve advertising performance and also put the user first. Now’s the time to adopt new privacy-safe techniques to ensure […]
Conversion modeling through Consent Mode in Google Ads April 15, 2021
Last year, we introduced Consent Mode, a beta feature to help advertisers operating in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom take a privacy-first approach to digital marketing. When a user doesn’t consent to ads cookies or analytics cookies, Consent Mode automatically adjusts the relevant Google tags’ behavior to not read or write cookies […]
A nonprofit finds volunteers with the new Google Analytics March 24, 2021
In the United States, almost half of our food supply is wasted. That’s enough to feed everyone who experiences food insecurity four times over. “In a lot of ways hunger is not a supply problem, it’s a distribution problem,” says Leah Lizarondo, cofounder and CEO of 412 Food Rescue, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit organization seeking to […]
Access Google Surveys and Google Analytics 4 data in Data Studio October 27, 2020
Today, Data Studio users can access over 300 data sets in just a couple clicks. From Google Ads to BigQuery to your CRM data, you can spend more time finding and sharing insights and less time configuring data sources. With two brand new data connectors you can access even more data through Data Studio to […]
Introducing the new Google Analytics October 14, 2020
Millions of businesses, large and small, rely on Google Analytics to understand customer preferences and create better experiences for them. With more commerce moving online and businesses under increased pressure to make every marketing dollar count, insights from digital analytics tools are even more critical.But with major shifts in consumer behavior and privacy-driven changes to […]
Measure conversions while respecting user consent choices September 3, 2020
With so many people around the world turning to online shopping this year, advertisers need to measure how effective their digital campaigns are at driving online sales. What’s more, data-protection authorities in Europe may now require many businesses to obtain consent from users on their digital properties for activities related to advertising and/or analytics—impacting advertisers’ […]
Improve performance and security with Server-Side Tagging August 13, 2020
To measure the effectiveness of digital campaigns and understand the customer journey, businesses often work with a variety of technology partners. Doing so typically requires businesses to add JavaScript code written by these partners, also known as third-party tags, directly to their websites. But when too many tags load on a site, it can negatively […]
Take control of how data is used in Google Analytics July 31, 2020
Rising consumer expectations and changing industry regulations have set higher standards for user privacy and data protection. This has led many businesses to revisit how they are managing data in their Google Analytics accounts. To help, Analytics provides businesses with a variety of features to control how their data is used. Here is an updated […]

BEA EconNews

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, November 2021 January 6, 2022
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services trade deficit was $80.2 billion in November, up $13.0 billion from $67.2 billion in October, revised. November exports were $224.2 billion, $0.4 billion more than October exports. November imports were $304.4 billion, $13.4 billion more than October […]
U.S. International Investment Position, 3rd Quarter 2021 December 30, 2021
The U.S. net international investment position (IIP), the difference between U.S. residents' foreign financial assets and liabilities, was -$16.07 trillion at the end of the third quarter of 2021, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Assets totaled $34.45 trillion, and liabilities were $50.53 trillion. At the end of […]
Gross Domestic Product by State, 3rd Quarter 2021 December 23, 2021
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 37 states and the District of Columbia in the third quarter of 2021, as real GDP for the nation increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent. The percent change in real GDP in the third quarter ranged from 6.0 percent in Hawaii to -3.3 percent in New […]
Personal Income and Outlays, November 2021 December 23, 2021
Personal income increased $90.4 billion, or 0.4 percent at a monthly rate, while consumer spending increased $104.7 billion, or 0.6 percent, in November. The increase in personal income primarily reflected increases in compensation of employees and government social benefits. The personal saving rate (that is, personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income) was […]
Gross Domestic Product, (Third Estimate), GDP by Industry, and Corporate Profits (Revised), 3rd Quarter 2021 December 22, 2021
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increasedat an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the third quarter of 2021, following an increase of 6.7 percent in the second quarter. The increase was revised up 0.2 percentage point from the "second" estimate released in November. The deceleration in real GDP in the third quarter was led by […]
U.S. International Transactions, 3rd Quarter 2021 December 21, 2021
The U.S. current-account deficit widened by $16.5 billion, or 8.3 percent, to $214.8 billion in the third quarter of 2021, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The revised second-quarter deficit was $198.3 billion. The third-quarter deficit was 3.7 percent of current-dollar gross domestic product, up from 3.5 percent in […]
Personal Income by State, 3rd Quarter 2021 December 17, 2021
State personal income increased 2.6 percent at an annual rate in the third quarter of 2021 after decreasing 20.2 percent in the second quarter. The percent change in personal income across all states ranged from 6.7 percent in the Kentucky to -4.3 percent in North Dakota. Full Text
Real Personal Consumption Expenditures and Personal Income by State, 2020 December 14, 2021
Today, the U.S Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released official statistics of real state personal consumption expenditures (PCE) for the first time. Real PCE decreased 3.8 percent in 2020 for the nation. Across states, the percent change ranged from 2.2 percent in Utah to -7.0 percent in Hawaii, Maryland, and New York; the percent change […]
Gross Domestic Product by County and Metropolitan Area, 2020 December 8, 2021
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 864 counties, decreased in 2,234 counties, and was unchanged in 14 counties in 2020. The percent change in real GDP ranged from 91.0 percent in Foard County, TX, to -29.0 percent in Skagway Municipality, AK. GDP estimates were impacted by the response to the spread of COVID-19, as […]
Gross Domestic Product for Guam, 2020 December 1, 2021
Real gross domestic product (GDP) for Guam decreased 11.9 percent in 2020 after increasing 2.5 percent in 2019, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The decrease in real GDP reflected decreases in exports of goods and services and personal consumption expenditures. These decreases were partly offset by increases in […]

ScienceDaily

First clinical-grade transplant of gene-edited pig kidneys into brain-dead human January 20, 2022
Researchers have announced the first peer-reviewed research outlining the successful transplant of genetically modified, clinical-grade pig kidneys into a brain-dead human individual, replacing the recipient's native kidneys. These positive results demonstrate how xenotransplantation could address the worldwide organ shortage crisis.
Hubble finds a black hole igniting star formation in a dwarf galaxy January 20, 2022
Often portrayed as destructive monsters that hold light captive, black holes take on a less villainous role in the latest research from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. A black hole at the heart of the dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 is creating stars rather than gobbling them up. The black hole is apparently contributing to the firestorm […]
Scientists find previously unknown jumping behavior in insects January 19, 2022
A team of researchers has discovered a jumping behavior that is entirely new to insect larvae, and there is evidence that it is occurring in a range of species -- we just haven't noticed it before.
Scientists achieve key elements for fault-tolerant quantum computation in silicon spin qubits January 19, 2022
Researchers have achieved a key milestone toward the development of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. They were able to demonstrate a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.5 percent -- higher than the 99 percent considered to be the threshold for building fault-tolerant computers -- using electron spin qubits in silicon, which are promising for large-scale quantum computers […]
Quantum computing in silicon hits 99 percent accuracy January 19, 2022
Researchers have proven that near error-free quantum computing is possible, paving the way to build silicon-based quantum devices compatible with current semiconductor manufacturing technology.

arXiv AI

A System for Image Understanding using Sensemaking and Narrative. (arXiv:2201.09880v1 [cs.AI])
Sensemaking and narrative are two inherently interconnected concepts about how people understand the world around them. Sensemaking is the process by which people structure and interconnect the information they encounter in the world with the knowledge and inferences they have made in the past. Narratives are important constructs that people use sensemaking to create; ones […]
MonarchNet: Differentiating Monarch Butterflies from Butterflies Species with Similar Phenotypes. (arXiv:2201.10526v1 [cs.CV])
In recent years, the monarch butterfly's iconic migration patterns have come under threat from a number of factors, from climate change to pesticide use. To track trends in their populations, scientists as well as citizen scientists must identify individuals accurately. This is uniquely key for the study of monarch butterflies because there exist other species […]
Training a Resilient Q-Network against Observational Interference. (arXiv:2102.09677v3 [cs.LG] UPDATED)
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated impressive performance in various gaming simulators and real-world applications. In practice, however, a DRL agent may receive faulty observation by abrupt interferences such as black-out, frozen-screen, and adversarial perturbation. How to design a resilient DRL algorithm against these rare but mission-critical and safety-crucial scenarios is an essential yet challenging […]
Discovering and Interpreting Biased Concepts in Online Communities. (arXiv:2010.14448v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)
Language carries implicit human biases, functioning both as a reflection and a perpetuation of stereotypes that people carry with them. Recently, ML-based NLP methods such as word embeddings have been shown to learn such language biases with striking accuracy. This capability of word embeddings has been successfully exploited as a tool to quantify and study […]
Finding Influential Instances for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction. (arXiv:2009.09841v2 [cs.LG] UPDATED)
Distant supervision (DS) is a strong way to expand the datasets for enhancing relation extraction (RE) models but often suffers from high label noise. Current works based on attention, reinforcement learning, or GAN are black-box models so they neither provide meaningful interpretation of sample selection in DS nor stability on different domains. On the contrary, […]
Optimal estimation of Gaussian DAG models. (arXiv:2201.10548v1 [math.ST])
We study the optimal sample complexity of learning a Gaussian directed acyclic graph (DAG) from observational data. Our main result establishes the minimax optimal sample complexity for learning the structure of a linear Gaussian DAG model with equal variances to be $n\asymp q\log(d/q)$, where $q$ is the maximum number of parents and $d$ is the […]
Online Active Learning with Dynamic Marginal Gain Thresholding. (arXiv:2201.10547v1 [cs.LG])
The blessing of ubiquitous data also comes with a curse: the communication, storage, and labeling of massive, mostly redundant datasets. In our work, we seek to solve the problem at its source, collecting only valuable data and throwing out the rest, via active learning. We propose an online algorithm which, given any stream of data, […]
A deep mixture density network for outlier-corrected interpolation of crowd-sourced weather data. (arXiv:2201.10544v1 [stat.ML])
As the costs of sensors and associated IT infrastructure decreases - as exemplified by the Internet of Things - increasing volumes of observational data are becoming available for use by environmental scientists. However, as the number of available observation sites increases, so too does the opportunity for data quality issues to emerge, particularly given that […]
Interpretability in Convolutional Neural Networks for Building Damage Classification in Satellite Imagery. (arXiv:2201.10523v1 [cs.CV])
Natural disasters ravage the world's cities, valleys, and shores on a regular basis. Deploying precise and efficient computational mechanisms for assessing infrastructure damage is essential to channel resources and minimize the loss of life. Using a dataset that includes labeled pre- and post- disaster satellite imagery, we take a machine learning-based remote sensing approach and […]
Ruddit: Norms of Offensiveness for English Reddit Comments. (arXiv:2106.05664v3 [cs.CL] UPDATED)
On social media platforms, hateful and offensive language negatively impact the mental well-being of users and the participation of people from diverse backgrounds. Automatic methods to detect offensive language have largely relied on datasets with categorical labels. However, comments can vary in their degree of offensiveness. We create the first dataset of English language Reddit […]

Contemporary mathematics

Mexican Mathematicians in the World: Trends and Recent Contributions November 22, 2021
Fernando Galaz-García, Cecilia González-Tokman and Juan Carlos Pardo Millán, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2021, CONM, volume 775, approx. 334 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-6536-0 (print), 978-1-4704-6728-9 (online). Articles in this volume are based on presentations given at the IV Meeting of Mexican Mathematicians Abroad (IV Reunión de Matemáticos...
Stochastic Processes and Functional Analysis: New Perspectives November 18, 2021
Randall J. Swift, Alan Krinik, Jennifer M. Switkes and Jason H. Park, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2021, CONM, volume 774, approx. 284 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-5982-6 (print), 978-1-4704-6716-6 (online). This volume contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Celebrating M. M. Rao's Many Mathematical Contributions as he Turns 90 Years Old,...
Commutative Algebra: 150 Years with Roger and Sylvia Wiegand October 7, 2021
Nicholas R. Baeth, Thiago H. Freitas, Graham J. Leuschke and Victor H. Jorge Pérez, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2021, CONM, volume 773, approx. 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-5601-6 (print), 978-1-4704-6515-5 (online). This volume contains the combined Proceedings of the Second International Meeting on Commutative Algebra and Related Areas (SIMCARA) held from July...
Topology, Geometry, and Dynamics: V. A. Rokhlin-Memorial August 31, 2021
Anatoly M. Vershik, Victor M. Buchstaber and Andrey V. Malyutin, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2021, CONM, volume 772, approx. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-5664-1 (print), 978-1-4704-6451-6 (online). Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (8/23/1919–12/03/1984) was one of the leading Russian mathematicians of the second part of the twentieth century. His...
Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories and Related Topics July 7, 2021
Nicolás Andruskiewitsch, Gongxiang Liu, Susan Montgomery and Yinhuo Zhang, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2021, CONM, volume 771, approx. 370 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-5624-5 (print), 978-1-4704-6427-1 (online). Articles in this volume are based on talks given at the International Workshop on Hopf Algebras and Tensor Categories, held from September 9–13,...

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FSF News

Waag founder Marleen Stikker to keynote LibrePlanet 2022 January 25, 2022
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, January 25, 2022 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Marleen Stikker as its opening keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2022. The annual technology and social justice conference will be held virtually on March 19 and 20, 2022, with the theme "Living Liberation."
FSF expands process for associate members to nominate new members of the board January 18, 2022
FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members December 16, 2021
Activists around the world protest Disney+'s unethical streaming platform for International Day Against DRM December 10, 2021
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