Publications by Francis Smart
What it means to be a US Veteran Today
Six easy graphs that tell a big story:1. You represent a much small portion of the American people than veterans in the 1980s.2. You currently have the highest risk of being classified as poor for any time period since 1980. Since 2005, the rate of poverty among veterans has nearly doubled. That makes you still better off than the general populat...
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The Unreported War On America’s Poor
The Democratic firebrand Bernie Sander’s keeps harping on this point about income inequality in the United States, yet I have to wonder, how bad is it really and do we care?First off, there is a legitimate reason to ask, if we should care. After all, throughout history, nations have gotten more wealthy with some people getting a bit more of the...
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The Unreported War On America’s Poor
The Democratic firebrand Bernie Sander’s keeps harping on this point about income inequality in the United States, yet I have to wonder, how bad is it really and do we care?First off, there is a legitimate reason to ask, if we should care. After all, throughout history, nations have gotten more wealthy with some people getting a bit more of the...
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Cause of Death: Melanin | Evaluating Death-by-Police Data
Widespread attention towards the death of black men by police has sparked protests and public outrage in many a city. Recently, the Federal Government has launched an investigation into the conduct of the entire Chicago police department. However, by protests and videos popping up all over the country, the apparent problems of police abuse do not...
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Cause of Death: Melanin | Evaluating Death by Police Data
Widespread attention towards the death of black men by police has sparked protests and public outrage in many a city. Recently, the Federal Government has launched an investigation into the conduct of the entire Chicago police department. However, by protests and videos popping up all over the country, the apparent problems of police abuse do not...
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Turkopticon: Defender of Amazon’s Anonymous Workforce
Labor crowdsourcing is the system by which large crowds or workers contribute to a project allowing for complex and tedious tasks to be rapidly and efficiently completed. The largest labor crowdsourcing platform in the world, Amazon Mechancial TURK (Mturk) is estimate to have revenue in the order of 10 and 150 million dollars annually. Despite th...
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Turkopticon: Defender of Amazon’s Anonymous Workforce
Labor crowdsourcing is the system by which large crowds or workers contribute to a project allowing for complex and tedious tasks to be rapidly and efficiently completed. The largest labor crowdsourcing platform in the world, Amazon Mechancial TURK (Mturk) is estimate to have revenue in the order of 10 and 150 million dollars annually. Despite th...
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Who are Turkopticon’s Top Contributors?
In my most recent post “Turkopticon: Defender of Amazon’s Anonymous Workforce” I introduced Turkopticon, the social art project designed to provide basic tools for Amazon’s massive Mechanical TURK workforce to share information about employers (requesters).Turkopticon, has a been a runaway success with nearly 285 thousands reviews submitt...
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Who are Turkopticon’s Top Contributors?
In my most recent post “Turkopticon: Defender of Amazon’s Anonymous Workforce” I introduced Turkopticon, the social art project designed to provide basic tools for Amazon’s massive Mechanical TURK workforce to share information about employers (requesters).Turkopticon, has a been a runaway success with nearly 285 thousands reviews submitt...
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Obama 2008 received 3x more media coverage than Sanders 2016
Many supporters of presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders have claimed that there is a media blackout in which Bernie Sanders has been for whatever reason blocked from communicating his campaign message. Combined with a dramatically cut democratic debate scheme (from 18 in 2008 with Obama to 4 in 2016 with Sanders) scheduled on days of the week leas...
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