could you respond to the question that i raised earlier about the fact that this is 2011 data, 2012 data will presumably come out whenever -- you know, next year, and to just respond to the concern that that data is from before the change of law took effect that places restrictions on the ability to give us the health surcharge when we're not spending the money on health care, etc.. >> i'm matthew cohen. i'm glad to be before the supervisors, for one thing, this is the information we had, and when we saw this information, we found that even though we knew more information was going to come out subsequent to that, this is really indicative of a process which we felt was not something that you can merely look away from even with the amendment that was passed, and for one thing, i am kind of concerned that even though money is supposed to be set aside for workers and if you're using the hra's, if the private employers and a considerable amount of them employ their own accounts, this discourages employees from coming in and basically you're telling their employers what you need the medical e

then in order to sort of get a sense of the data, because there is a lot. what we did was we made pie charts for each of the groups that are groups that we're either targeting or asked about for comparison reasons. so if you look at the next chart, this chart represents 100% of the african-american students who are current 11th graders in our school system and then it shows how many are in each of the five categories. so the way to read this is that we have 323 african-american students who are current juniors. 84 of them are on-track with 110 credits plus have met their a-g markers. 153 of them have the credits, but are missing the marker. 45 are off-track with the credits. they are below 30 credits or more, or 30 credits. and then you have 24 who are moderately off-track and then 17 of our current juniors who are african-americans who are severely off-track. the next chart represents our latino students, who are current 11th graders for the class of 2014. we have 821. you see the 265 or 32% of them are on-track meeting the benchmarks. another 364 or 44% of

the u.s. government opened up weather data. and not only did it have profound effect on public safety when there are storms coming and agriculture and some of the others, it just provides and helped the quality of life in a profound way, the global positioning system and... almost every night created, 100,000 in economic value. incredible opportunities for doing this in job creation and safety and quality of life and really improving the lives of americans. so it did develop the strategies of 30-plus page document to the agencies of government that they have to work up the data and they have to make this stuff available in the way that we collect it, and use it and public information should remain public and we are going to drive that forward. >> there are a lot of things in the strategy around and the use of mobile government and how we summarize the... and think about the 21st century government in that way. and the policy that launched a couple of weeks ago and so much more is being formed that i think will be very transforma

>> at this point, i think the resources are such that we are going to look at the data provided to us, to the extent that the data provided to us shows non-compliance, we are going to force those employers to come into compliance. i think it may be unlikely or unrealistic to expect we have the resources to affirmatively audit employers and what they're reporting to us or dig into their financial books to find out whether that information was accurately reported to us. >> and i think that's the problem and i think i think the olse is committed to doing everything they can with the limited resources, but the challenge here, right, is that you're talking about businesses that for a number of years have been charging consumers a surcharge that supposedly was going to go to health care and we know for instance that the numbers as much as 80% was never spent on health care and in terms of our enforcement strategy, the strategy p0 relying on those very business thaz were charge consumers and not spending it on health care, then trusting the information they give us because there's no way we

the grade. we're still working on that data. i did present a final supplemental report to dcyf but i didn't bring the report today. but we do have that information as well. the regular basic credit recovery program that niva was probably speaking on from coleman was actually at philip burton the same year we did the program at balboa. in fact, some of those students also participated in our program as well. i know we've heard a lot about the issues that are plaguing our community. i just wanted to talk a little about some of the solutions as we move forward. one of the main things is really exposure, exposure, exposure. students really want to know how does my learning today relate to my future success. you heard a lot from our community in terms of school to career opportunities, development projects and dollars that are coming into communities because of that. there needs to be a possible option, a viable option where our students understand that the things around them will also provide them opportunities for goals. and, so, th

in the way they can do good data that comes in other sections of the paper.nd so if we can move the quality of data that comes out about public affairs, about something like the weather page, sports page of the financial page, we will have done something really special and then it will be automatic people care because they have information that they can act on. >> you know, the broader question of why people should care, is, i think it goes back to our foundation as a representative democracy. and back and then franklin today, the tool of choice was the printing press. and today those tools are google and youtube and blogs and all these other things. we talk about transparency and we talk about making information available, and i've been doing this for more than two decades at this point. i can tell you i've worked for almost a dozen different members in various capacities. and every members instant reaction to, should we make a particular piece of information available is to say no. why would we put that out there, because they could create a communications

should the voter be concerned the campaigns are getting more and more data, and using this data? >> guest: we've always had a loss of an expectation of privacy in politics than we have in other areas. long before the internet can along we were conditioned even if we've done a frustrating from somebody that knew your name and party registration and maybe they were telling you what my colleagues called you last week and talked to you about the abortion. i'm calling to remind you you talk to my colleague about abortion and we sent a van to your house tuesday morning to drive you to the polls was called for in emeline that nobody found it i don't think that invasive, fundamentally with the campaigns are doing with a lot more data and a lot more method is not a lot beyond that. your record as a voter is public whether or not you are registered in your party registration from campion's collect that information, and one thing that i've written about this year is that based on the internet because the campaigns are afraid of the backlash of getting lumped in with the more aggressive thing

they want the iphone and ipads and things to help them get the data on what they're doing. we don't have a difficult time selling to the new officers. >> you have a generation that's going to help with that. thank you for being here with us and thank you for joining us for this edition of equal time

often talk about algorithmic trading what about algorithmic campaigning oh yeah we'll talk about the data mining modeling and scientific techniques being used to win votes and get voters to polls in this election and just like in finance we'll talk about the challenges brought on by complexity plus the e.u. wins the nobel peace prize. we'll talk about it in loose change and respond to some of your viewer feedback let's get to today's capital account. last night was the veep debate in the us and if you pay attention to the message the commentary the fact checking the alternative analysis in criticism or even the horse race coverage there may still be much more that you are missing about what goes on behind the curtains deep within the campaign war rooms we often make mention of how dark pools and algorithmic trading have changed the dynamic of market making and financial markets it seems similarly what you could call algorithmic campaigning has changed the dynamics of what it means to campaign and elect a president in the u.s. just like the markets they're not of the same scale there is bi

census and where people lived and taking the data from the list and putting it on a map and that kind of thing. now politicians are much more efficient in terms of drawing maps and so on the one hand, it in powers politicians and on the other hand, people can actually draw their own maps. there's a technology democratizing of this tree certain extent. many countries in the world have the registration modernization that means that the government register's people we and you don't have to turn in a paper form and it's not on the individual and because it is automatic more people registered and more people in the boating said it can be a good of increasing access or it can be bad in terms of manipulating rules. >> do you trust the electronic voting machines? >> i think there are certain safeguards we need to have in terms of electronic voting machines. we need audits and backup systems which more monitoring. the best analogy is las vegas. they have electronic machines in terms of the gaming machines and there are people who are on the inside who manipulate some of the machines,

a look at what the data is telling us about the housing recovery. that's next. the housing bubble, lax underwriting, those toxic mortgages. it was really the collapse in real estate got us into this mess of a recession. but some numbers out just this week reveal some good news on the housing front. the data come from realtor.com, and we have andrea geller from coldwell banker is here to go through the numbers. can you actually call this a recovery? > > it's definitely a recovery. we are seeing just all across the countryn good things happening in the markets. > > so you measure this by what? inventory, housing prices, what else? > > absorption of distressed properties and more qualified buyers out there ready to move forward. > > so with a reduction in inventory, obviously people have been buying, because there was a glut of available homes for a long time. > > there are a lot of buyers out there that have bought, and there are still a lot out there that are looking to find themselves a perfect new home. > > how about regionally, if you broke down the country in

the data may turn out to be less positive. everything leads me to think that the drug will get approved. i am trying to put numbers on things. vertex, a catalyst on thursday, it will present its final two data on the north american cystic fibrosis. once we get final results, that will allow the company to put the worries about the misinterpretation of the interim data behind it, and based on what we've seen so far, the data next week will be pretty darn good. i want to get ahead of the conference, but only if you can stomach the risk. bottom line? the lesson from serepta? it pays to invest in biotechs who are developing orphan drugs. just remember, if you buy vertex ahead of the conference, you are speculating, and maybe steepen the money calls out several months. if you are risk averse, you can't afford to wait. this drug won't hit the market, if ever, for over a year, if you don't feel like playing the converse, then we have ages to wait for a pullback and then and only then buy the vertex. >>> let's go to greg in michigan. h

predates the change in the law is relevant and why we didn't wait another year to get current data to do that, supervisor compos? >> thank you, mr. chairman and i appreciate the perspective that has been outlined by my colleague, i will respectfully disagree, i think the data is relevant for a number of reasons but one of the reasons is that the amendment didn't do anything to address the issue of the restrictions that employers can actually place on the use of these accounts. nothing is going to change on that issue because of the amendment, so what we have here are two reports that separately and independently confirm the very point that was made when this amendment was passed, that you're not doing anything to prevent the undue placement of restrictions that go counter to public policy by these employers, so that is not going to change whether you look at it in two years, three years, the second point is on the issue of the surcharges which is the other big point, the mechanism that was created basically says you're not supposed to spend money that you collect for health care, y

the locations of google's data centers, containing highly sensitive information about all of us. for the first and only time, google is giving us a look inside. >> reporter: with all the security, you'd think this splays housing something extremely valuable. it is. your private information. this google data center in north carolina is one of 12 facilities spread throughout the world. when you enter a search, the request gets routed here, the networking room, then it's directed to the server floor. critical data spends time here where they can be accessed by robots. >> it's amazing how all of this works. >> reporter: google has taken a hid hit in recent years because the data centers consume huge amounts of electricity. the company has been making strides. >> we saved over a billion dollars in the history of google through the efficiency measures. >> reporter: and today, google launched a website complete with a tour of the data centers. >> it comes from their feeling that they can't keep this to themselves. >> reporter: and the fact that google owned the data centers was the worst

doesn't seem so with the latest jobs data. a lot of fuzzy math. we will get into that investigation. melissa: what's head to the floor of the stock exchange with lauren simonetti standing by. stocks really losing ground. >> we have down there as across the board moving lower rather than moving hire at the stock exchange. dow industrials are down five days in a row and the nasdaq writing its longest losing streak since november of last year. banks reporting record profits with the banking sector and financials are down and one of the worst performing sectors. let's look at those record profits. wells fargo, profits rose, revenue missed expectation, shares are down. this year there of 20%. there has been a great year but wells fargo is the largest mortgage lender and i am having trouble making money because interest rates are so low. j. p. morgan -- jpmorgan a similar story. mortgage lending increased by 36%. jamie dimon thinks the housing market has turned the corner and even a comment like that don't have many homebuilders showing green arrows. mel

and looking at the data and what are the causes for the data? what are we doing? what are we doing to intervene? and we heard about some of the student strategies that we have done and the summer school and some of the summer school studis that have been successful. but i think what we were really talking about is about african americans in san francisco in general. and we talked a lot about migration, about african american families here and we talked about the lack of achievement for african american students. and how difficult it is also for african american families to be able to move here and have the xhirn go to our schools and be successful. and we actually it was a very long hearing, i think commissioners maufas and mendoza know that we rarely get that kind of testimony at these meet meetings and yet we had an hour long of testimony about this from the human rights commission on, you know, a lot of different groups, very concerned about the migration of african american families in san francisco. >> thank you, commissioner fewer and to ta

maybe we have enough data but we're not collecting the right useful data. everyone agrees that hiring for technology needs to be improved. technology is a highly dynamic and ever changing field. no one can predict the five years of technology or what talent will be required. of your cell phone. the administrator requires a staffing plan. doesn't exist. there maybe hurdles to overcome but hiring as permanent exempt is better than the traditional civil service for technology. it reduces time to hire. it raises proakt of attracting top talent. it means hiring mistakes can be corrected easily. it's done elsewhere in the city. lawyers and our attorney departments do have at will status for the same reasons as we find with technology. isn't it worth the effort to match talent with what is needed? culture is a mighty force. it provides comfort in it's traditions. it's a safe haven u because it's tried and accepted. it's reinforced because it's troublesome to change but culture all blinds to the other ways of doing things evening if the other ways hint of doing bett

working on these programs that are kind of the rock stars now so let's get into some of these tactics the data mining and the analytics that are being used what are some of the most important or prevalent techniques that they're being deployed in short so the big question in the campaign is how you sort through the electorate which voters do you talk to which voters do not talk to and how do you engage them who are you trying to persuade and who you're trying to mobilize and the big breakthrough after two thousand was a campaigns are able to link the relatively small amount of information on every voter that was in your voter registration record so your name your address your age your gender and your party registration with all the information that the private sector and started to collect in it in private data warehouses to reuse initially developed credit scores credit ratings and became used for the direct mail marketers and charities are now prospecting for donors and soon they would have. hundreds if not thousands of variables in every individual in the country and hundreds or thousands o

what are the data points? you take a look at nike's futures orders and they are looking better than their guidance everywhere except china was down an unbelievable 6% versds forecast being up 1.7% and the aside from today's data that came out the pmi number was still showing traction in the economy, everything coming out of china is weak. what is the impetus that you believe that number will look better other than just because? >> first of all, there are some data that are not necessarily the most headlined figures that are pointing in the right direction. if you look at developers land purchases which of course is pointing towards future property construction, that came up substantially in august. it was up 66% year-over-year. new housing starts have begun to improve up 14% year-over-year, and of course properties sold by the developers has also come up year-over-year. there is a figure for planned investment activity and the total numerical value of investments planned for august also rose to 33% year-over-ye

, the data that's changing. >> big data, most often described as more data. we view that as great. >> but you have the products to keep up with that. >> you've seen us make several acquisitions where we've integrated social media capabilities into our applications. what's important for us is to allow our customers to be able to take advantage of what are very atomic levels of datdata. for example, a customer we have that's got a brand that releases a product, we can integrate social media data to tell them how people are reacting to that brand, how people are getting realtime feeds about what's happening with their product, with an event that they're describing. and we can integrate that social data, if you will, big data, into our core applications. this is a tremendous opportunity for our customers and for us. >> and do you feel you've got the right product line to capture that? you know, some of these smaller upstarts, and there are a lot, you know, they're trying to make the case to your clients, a ge, for example, they're saying, look, yes, oracle can han

that is the data, those are the facts. republicans don't like those facts, so they are either undermining the recovery as mitt romney did today when he said this. >> romney: the reason it has come down this year is primarily due to the fact more and more people have just stopped looking for work. but if the same share of people were participating in the work force today as when the president got elected our unemployment would be around 11%. >> jennifer: so they are either undermining the recovery or there must be a conspiracy. with the day that that fails to support their policies the right has resorted to conspiracy, and who better to show how far the so-called party of business has fallen than jack welsh, romney support and former ceo of general electric a titan of capitalism. today he traded in his green eye shades for a tin hat and tweeted this . . . >> jennifer: and then just in case you rubbed your guys in disbelief -- he didn't really just say that bureau of labor statistics is cooking the books for president obama

the globe. >> very good morning to you. plenty of data to get to this morning, including the business climate index falling in october. we hit 100 in october. the reuters consensus forecast was for 101.5. the climate continuing to fall. the current conditions index, 107.3 versus the consensus forecast of 109.8. so both those measures weaker than expected. expectations index 93.2 versus the forecast for 93.7. euro just falling now to a session low of 129.47 after that disappoi disappointing survey. no revision to the september indices. and just to recap, a short while ago, we also had the composite pmis as well. 46.2, slightly weaker than the reuters poll of 46.4. the business expectations index 47.8. it was 49.4 in september. that's the lowest since february 2009. the october manufacturing pmi 45.3. again, weaker than the reuters poll of 46.5. so the pmi and apple index 44.8 as well, and that's down from 49.7. so eurozone business in october continues suffering the biggest recession. joining us is chris williamson, global chief economist,

the bureau of labor statistics did to the deliberately fiddle with the data. their models may be wrong, it may be revised but if you go down that road, jack, no one will ever believe the government statistics ever again and i don't want that to happen. it's not about obama, it's about the process. >> let's hope that's totally correct, larry, but i'll tell you, we're not growing at 5% and maybe it's a total coincidence that this number dropped to a tenth, the low when the president took office. but, larry, i'm not here for that. let's have a discussion and let's get analysts on both sides talking about these numbers, how they're assembled, what they mean so that we don't have an election, the most important election in my lifetime -- >> i appreciate it. >> -- driven by a number. >> it's an anemic recovery, the worst in history. i know you have other things to do. i appreciate you coming on, jack, you know how much i respect you. i hate like hell to argue with you. >> it's okay. >> on this one we'll do it again. i said team obama has not cooked the books. let's h

the polls. we were wondering why was this data turning around. bill clinton gave a great speech at the convention and everyone loved what clinton said. it now turns out there was some underlying economic trends that was feeding that that we didn't really know about, but that makes sense now. and i think if that's the case heading into the critical month of october and obviously in november where we're going to have one more jobs report, i think that really does benefit the president. because that's been the underlying issue of this entire campaign. it's been the issue that mitt romney's campaigned on from the get-go. >> at the convention i think he framed obama the case for obama and particularly the case for obama on the economy more clearly than anyone else has on the campaign. >> no president, no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. when president barack obama took office, the economy was in free fall, it had just shrunk. we were losing 750,000 jobs a mo

with single dkg itd growth would take 20 years we don't have 20 years so what is really clear from the data is the investment in the superintendent zone, with the school improvement grant, the infusion of money is relating in double digit growth which is what we have to see to bring up the under performing sub group so again to reiterate the superintendent's thought for the evening. we have a very important opportunity in november to increase the funding because without funding of public education we are never going to be see the gains we need to see with this these sub groups. >> commissioner norton and wynns. >> so i had a couple of questions and i want to echo all everything that has been said before about people doing the work out in the schools and the progress we're making it it's wonderful. i was curious where you know superintendent in your remarks you said "it's doable to close the gap because some of the schools are making such tremendous progress and we called them out and called specifically some of the schools" and commissioner murase makes a great point about funding but when