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Federal Government Spending: Less Transparency in a World of Open Data
May 1, 2013
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
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Becky Sweger joins us from the National Priorities Project, a national non-profit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to making complex federal budget information transparent and accessible. She’ll give us an “in-the-weeds” look at the realities of using open government data, especially for organizations who are used to getting data prepared and packaged by government agencies. She’ll focus on her experience using the Consolidated Federal Funds report (packaged data) which was replaced by USASpending.gov (open data).
This webinar will review the trade-offs involved when switching from designed data prepared by the Census Bureau to “open” spending or administrative data.
Introduction: Joan Naymark, APDU
Moderator: Virginia Carlson, APDU
Presenter: Becky Sweger, Director of Data & Technology, National Priorities Project
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APDU Adds Twitter to Its Homepage
Do you follow APDU on Twitter? If not you can now see all the latest tweets on the APDU homepage! Check it out here.
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Tapping into Big Data in Government
Cheaper storage and more powerful analytic tools are making big data an increasingly viable concept for the public sector. Some police departments, for example, already mine high-volume, high-variety, high-velocity data sources to support predictive policing. Public officials also hope to deploy big data in public health, education, corrections, infrastructure management, citizen engagement and many other arenas. Read more here.
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Census Population Clock Can Now be Shared, Downloaded and Embedded
The U.S. Census Bureau released an updated version of the population clock, one of the most widely visited features on the census.gov website. The enhanced clock provides the public with a quick and interactive overview of the population in the United States and the world, and now it also can be shared, downloaded and embedded on other websites. Learn more here.
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Can Data-Driven Education Close the Achievement Gap?
In public education, closing poverty- and race-based achievement gaps has become the holy grail. Organizations such as KIPP and Uncommon Schools have developed networks of successful schools, but the question always has been whether such successes could be scaled across an entire urban school district. Maybe that’s the wrong question; perhaps asking any one model to work at scale is unrealistic. But if John Danner, the head of Rocketship Education, has his way, we may get a chance to find out if his model could work for hundreds or even thousands of schools. Read more here.
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Notable Data Publications
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Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we’ll include it here.
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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):
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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC
- Clearance of ATSDR Exposure Investigations (May 8, 2013)
Federal Communications Commission
- Local Telephone Competition and Broadband Reporting (June 10, 2013)
Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS
- National Practitioner Data Bank (May 8, 2013)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Private School Universe Survey 2013-16 (May 9, 2013)
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
- Early Career Doctorates Survey (May 9, 2013)
- Microbusiness, Innovation, Science & Technology Survey (May 9, 2013)
- Survey of Earned Doctorates (May 9, 2013)
National Institutes of Health
- The Clinical Trials Reporting Program Database (May 9, 2013)
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, Department of Justice
- COPS Survey on Police Consolidation and Shared Services (May 6, 2013)
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Census Bureau Meeting:
Scientific Advisory Committee
April 18, 2013
1:00 PM – 5:30 PM
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