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Welcome to NEDRA's Industry News blog, where we feature news articles and other items of interest to the research community, curated by the NEDRA News Editor-In-Chief. We hope these selections will be of interest to you - and encourage you to share your thoughts and comments here!

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  • Hospital Caring for an Heiress Pressed Her to Give Lavishly

    Thu, May 30, 2013 1:55 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    For the last 20 years of her life, Huguette Clark, a wealthy and reclusive copper heiress, lived in a Manhattan hospital room, shades drawn, door closed. She played with dolls, watched cartoons and followed the Bush v. Gore hanging chad debacle. (She favored Gore)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/nyregion/hospital-caring-for-an-heiress-pressed-her-to-give-lavishly.html

  • It’s Official: Tech Has Replaced Banking as the New Corporate Bad Guy

    Tue, May 28, 2013 4:37 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    U.S. senators have accused Apple, the world’s most valuable company, of also being the world’s biggest tax avoider, as congressional investigators yesterday laid out how the technology giant has jumped through tax loophole after loophole in order to save some $44 billion of otherwise taxable income.

    business.time.com/2013/05/21/its-official-tech-has-replaced-banking-as-the-new-corporate-bad-guy

  • Home Prices See Double-Digit Jump

    Tue, May 28, 2013 2:50 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    With a 10.9% increase from March 2012 to this March, home prices continued their upward trajectory as measured by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. The index has been rising for some time, but the pace of the increase is now the highest since the “bubble” days of April 2006.

    http://business.time.com/2013/05/28/home-prices-see-double-digit-jump/

  • Americans most confident in five years

    Tue, May 28, 2013 2:50 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The U.S. consumer-confidence index climbed to a five-year high of 76.2 in May from a slightly revised 69.0 in April, the Conference Board said. The increase beat the forecast of economists polled by MarketWatch, who expected the index to rise to 72.3.

    www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-most-confident-in-five-years-2013-05-28

  • Flippers once again ride the housing wave

    Tue, May 28, 2013 2:49 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    In California, the number of homes sold in recent months that had been flipped undefined or bought and resold within six months undefined has reached the highest levels since late 2005, according to PropertyRadar, a real-estate data firm.

    www.marketwatch.com/story/flippers-once-again-ride-the-housing-wave-2013-05-28

  • How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

    Tue, May 28, 2013 2:49 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say.

    http://www.propublica.org/article/how-irs-nonprofit-division-got-so-dysfunctional

  • The 100 Women Who Are Redefining Power

    Sat, May 25, 2013 7:52 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    ...women that go beyond the traditional taxonomy of the power elite (political and economic might). These change-agents are actually shifting our very idea of clout and authority and, in the process, transforming the world in fresh and exhilarating ways.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2013/05/22/the-worlds-most-powerful-women-2013/

  • New twists on inferring age from first name

    Tue, May 21, 2013 1:36 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    "Until now, I’ve never had a reason to guess someone’s age — alumni data is pretty well supplied in that department. This very month, though, I have not one but two major modeling projects to work on that involve constituents with very little age data present."

    https://cooldata.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/new-twists-on-inferring-age-from-first-name/

  • Analytics: Taking the First Step

    Tue, May 21, 2013 1:35 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    ..."We all track giving, but taking and analyzing the data can help us become more strategic."

    http://www.npengage.com/analytics/analytics-taking-the-first-step/

  • Becoming the Analytics Expert (or at Least Intermediate Data Nerd)

    Tue, May 21, 2013 1:35 PM | Tara McMullen-King
    During the last presidential election, the role of analytics in decision making and prediction moved to the forefront in the minds of many as a way to gain an advantage in competitive situations.  For a data nerd like myself, this was refreshing, as the average citizen started to gain a new found respect for a set of skills that had always largely been viewed as the sausage making that decision makers weren’t necessarily interested in understanding.

    http://www.npengage.com/analytics/becoming-the-analytics-expert-least-intermediate-data-nerd/

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