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Development by Davis: “$25,000 prize: "Why Open Education Matters" video competition” plus 2 more

$25,000 prize: "Why Open Education Matters" video competition
Adding users to AD Group from a CSV
Big data, algorithms, and Moneyball medicine - Part I

$25,000 prize: "Why Open Education Matters" video competition

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundations are offering up to $25,000 in cash prizes to "the best short videos that explain the use and promise of free, high-quality open educational resources and describe the benefits and opportunities these materials create for teachers, students and schools".

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Adding users to AD Group from a CSV

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 05:25 AM PDT

Hello all,
Could someone please show me where i'm going wrong here? I'm very
green when it comes to powershell so expect the worst.

$CSV = $args[0]
$GROUP = $args[1]
if (! $CSV) {
Write-Host "Please format this command as 'AddUsersToGroup <csv file>
<AD group>'"
Write-Host "CSV file must have the header 'UserName' with AD usernames

Big data, algorithms, and Moneyball medicine - Part I

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 08:00 AM PDT

I finally got around to watching Moneyball this week. Great film. Roger Ebert points out that the film "isn't so much about sports as about the war between intuition and statistics." (I'll let you guess who wins if you haven't seen the movie). The main character was neither Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) nor Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) so much as a set of algorithms the Billy and Peter characters implemented to build a winning baseball team at low cost. I'll go out on a limb and declare it the greatest statistics movie ever. (It's a short list of great statistics movies.)

And it's timely.