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Using "Big" Data to Drive Innovation
Michael Brown of ComScore, Marty Colburn of FINRA, Russ Travers of the National Counter Terrorism Center and Kenneth Ritchhart from the US ...
Boris Johnson v Ken Livingstone: why it was closer than expected
Neither they nor I thought Ken had the numbers – he was getting good enough swings in some of the 14 counting areas, but not enough in most of them. I confess I never thought that – and not just because I was with the best number-crunchers and London politics experts in the business, YouGov’s Peter Kellner and the LSE’s Tony Travers. But it fell by less in the Labour areas than in the Tory ones. And there were indeed swings towards Boris in four of the 14. Labour had fewer supporters, but was better at getting those it had to the polls. As you can read in my piece for today’s paper, the Tories really did fear that they had lost at one point during the mayoral count on Friday. Compared with 2008, turnout was down everywhere.Surnames Superfluous as London Vote Pits Boris Against Ken
It suggests showmanship is. a more important skill for a London mayoral candidate than. development, he has little day-to-day power over any of them. The Ken versus Boris battle, which has flung accusations of. lying and hypocrisy in both directions, has starved other, more. May 3 London mayoral election don’t bother with surnames. conventional candidates of publicity. Boris Johnson, the Conservative incumbent, and Ken Livingstone, his. The two leading candidates in the. while the mayor sets the. strategic direction for police, transportation and economic. Each has a way with words and an eye for self publicity. reflects the nature of the job. The resemblance doesn’t end there. with the rock-star affectation whereby first names suffice. Labour predecessor and challenger, are famous enough to get away.Opinion: Ken Travers on fines for daylight saving referendum ...
The Barnett Government must come clean on what they knew and when they knew about the problems with fines issued to people who did not vote in the 2009 daylight savings referendum, Shadow Electoral Affairs Minister Ken Travers said today. Mr Travers said the fines were found to be invalid after one non-voter took his case to court, yet the Barnett Government had continued to penalise 20,000 people for failing to vote. Mr Travers said it would be extraordinary if Electoral Affairs Minister Norman Moore had no knowledge of this situation. “The Barnett Government must immediately refund all fines that were found to be invalid,” he said. “Mr Barnett leads a weak team and Ministers continually demonstrate they are simply not up to the task of Government....
