NSF Releases Science & Engineering State Data Profile Web-Based Tool
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics of the National Science Foundation released a web-based data tool for Science and Engineering State Profiles. The tool contains the latest data available and allows users to generate science and engineering profiles that summarize state-specific data on personnel and finances. The State Profiles data tool can display a single state’s profile or a profile containing up to 10 states. Check out the web-tool here.
Research Trends Issue 30: Special Issue on Big Data
The Office of Science & Technology Policy has released Research Trends Issue 30: Special Issue on Big Data. This issue looks at the topic of Big Data from different perspectives: grants, funding and science policy; data and computational infrastructure; arts and humanities, and bibliometrics. Prominent researchers from different institutions and disciplines were invited to write about the use of Big Data and analytics in their work, providing examples of tools, platforms, and models of decision making processes.
White House Hosts Energy Datapalooza
More than 150 of America’s entrepreneurs, software developers, energy experts, and policy makers came together at the White House for Energy Datapalooza. The gathering was a chance to celebrate new products, services, and apps that are advancing a secure, clean energy future; all built with freely available data from the government and other sources.
The event included demonstrations of mobile apps and web-based services that are available to families and businesses, as well as previews of future inventions. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu honored the winners of the Department of Energy’s inaugural Apps for Energy challenge, whose inventions include innovative applications such as: Leafully, which uses creative comparisons to help consumers understand how their actions impact the world and their wallet; Melon Power, which helps building owners easily calculate their Energy Star score; and VELOBill, which makes it easy to visualize energy usage data, compare it to peers, and make a plan to save energy.
As part of a Center for Economic Studies research program, the Census Bureau is releasing detailed sub-state tabulations by demographic characteristics of OPM-covered employment and earnings, as Quarterly Workforce Indicators for OPM (QWI-OPM). The new Quarterly Workforce Indicators for OPM (QWI-OPM) are released to a wider audience to obtain feedback prior to a full release. Only data for a select number of states are available. More complete information on this data release is available at the Census Bureau’s LEHD program website. The data are in the same format as regular QWI, and can be downloaded here in state-specific folders. Information on compression and data formats are available here.
Virginia Releases Results from Post-Completion Wages of Graduates Study
Through the development of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System, guided by language in Virginia’s Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011, and required by the passage of HB 639 of 2012, SCHEV is now able to report wage and enrollment outcomes on a subset of graduates, at all levels of award, by institution. Users will be able to explore a variety of data about how much graduates earn 18 months following completion of a degree or certificate. In some cases there are also data on earnings at five years following completion. Learn more here.
Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Hospital Care Survey (December 7, 2012)
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Stocks Reports (November 9, 2012)
List Sampling Frame Surveys (December 3, 2012)
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At the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), we believe everyone has the power to make a difference in how their community and country thrive. We are a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to advance the nation’s civic life. Through our events, research, and reports, NCoC expands our nation’s contemporary understanding of what it means to be a citizen.
This webinar will share information on our civic health research, and specifically will share the findings and products that result from this year’s first-ever Civic Data Challenge. The Civic Data Challenge turns the raw data of “civic health” into beautiful, useful applications and visualizations, enabling communities to be better understood and made to thrive. Challenge participants were provided civic health data, as well as data on health, safety, education, and the economy. They have created interactive and visual products to showcase their findings. The presentation will be hosted by Kristi Tate, Director of Community Strategies for NCoC, and will include a presentation from one of the winning teams on their entry: Will DeKrey, a nonprofit consultant from Washington, DC, and Sean McDonald, a data visualization specialist from Los Angeles created WhyGDP? The presentation provides a detailed look at whether GDP, or civic health, is a better measure of community well-being. See presentation here.
**PLEASE NOTE: This presentation uses emerging web technologies. It will function in Chrome and Safari browsers.
Non-APDU Events
Local Employment Dynamics Webinar: Introducing New Quarterly Workforce Indicators by Firm Age and Size
Erika McEntarfer, Lead Economist for the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Economic Research Group for the Center for Economic Studies of the U.S. Census Bureau, will highlight new and upcoming LED data enhancements. The new data on firm age and size are now available, with the integration of self-employment data and job-to-job flows still to come. Ms. McEntarfer will al
