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Following a year-long process to develop an online room reservation tool for the College, the Undergraduate Council officially launched “UC Rooms” this week, a Web site that allows student groups and individuals to book common spaces on campus...
According Student Life Committee Chair Senan Ebrahim ’12, the tool attracted over 400 hits the day of its release on Tuesday and received positive feedback from student groups, including the Chinese Student Association, the Harvard Opportunes, and the Harvard Black Student Association...
...college savings plan is designed to be a tax-deferred investment tool for higher education. The beauty and simplicity of the plan is that the government has a very limited ability to obstruct or intervene when it comes to who can donate to or benefit from the plan. Money for school and basic expenses are met using a simplified investment vehicle not perishable to the vagaries of market forces and unscrupulous human behavior...
...Though Bloomberg is betting that fantasy nerds gearing up for their drafts, and wasting time at work, over the next few weeks will drive business, the company is also offering an advanced product to the Major League Baseball clubs. For example, the pro tool provides detailed pitching data to the teams. If Derek Jeter wanted to know the speed and location of every ball that Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett threw to him on a 2-2 count with a man on first base, Bloomberg says it could provide this information in about 10 seconds. Bloomberg is also offering around...
...Bloomberg tool worth the $31.95 for consumers? So far, the product is drawing impressive reviews. "Bloomberg is very good at visualizing data," says Maury Brown, president of The Biz of Baseball, a site dedicated to covering the baseball industry, and a fantasy player. "It definitely has that wow factor." The site is fairly intuitive, even for a rookie, and the news ticker that scrolls across the top is candy for baseball junkies. Hard-core stat heads, however, might be disappointed that the product does not allow you to export data into, say, an Excel spreadsheet for further saucing...