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APDU Webinar:
Big Data or Statistical Data? Extracting Information About Consumer Prices in the New World
June 27, 2013
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Register
Consumers, economists, and businesses have an exponential variety of sources and data to evaluate consumer prices – food, clothing, cars, medical costs, airline tickets. Traditionally, consumer prices have been measured in a regular, consistent pattern. Yet, big data sources are transforming our understanding of pricing dynamics in the marketplace. This webinar will explore trends and patterns in data collection, analysis, timeliness, and transformation by two experts in the field. What are the benefits and cautions about new data sources, open data, and traditionally created statistical data? What are we learning from the effort to create the new data from alternative sources?
Moderator: Virginia Carlson, DSSG, APDU Board member
Host: Joan Naymark, APDU Board Member
Presenters: Roberto Rigobon, Billion Prices Project, MIT
Mike Horrigan, Associate Commissioner for Prices and Living Conditions
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Thousands of Americans Innovate for Good on the National Day of Civic Hacking
More than 11,000 people in 83 cities across America participated in 95 open data hacking events as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. This huge turnout is an unmistakable mark of the growing interest and enthusiasm of American innovators in applying their tech skills for social good. At events across the country, participants in Civic Hacking Day were set loose on open government data, building tools, apps, and solutions that can help address challenges faced by communities across America and form the basis of products and companies that contribute to our economy. Read more here.
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OnTheMap for Emergency Management 3.2.2 Released
On June 10, 2013, OnTheMap for Emergency Management 3.2.2 was released. This update includes the following enhancements: (1) updated workforce data (LODES 2011), (2) updated Census geography (TIGER 2012), (3) more detailed weather event map displays and reporting, (4) direct linking to FEMA.gov for Disaster Declaration Areas and (5) other code improvements. More details about these changes can be found in the Major Enhancements section of the OnTheMap for Emergency Management Help and Documentation. OnTheMap for Emergency Management can be accessed here.
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Health Datapalooza IV Tops Off a Huge Year in Health Data Liberation & Innovation
Health Datapalooza IV has officially wrapped and with over 1900 attendees and 80 companies, this was the biggest palooza yet. Kicked off by Secretary Sebelius for the second year in a row, this year’s event was a tremendous display of health data in action. Looking back now, it is amazing to think that four years ago this all started with 45 people in a small room at the Institute of Medicine. Over the course of those four years the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has liberated over 400 datasets, participated in a countless number of codeathons, and has seen and helped developers build hundreds of apps, services, and products using health data. Read more here.
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Asians Fastest-Growing Race or Ethnic Group in 2012
The U.S. Census Bureau announced Asians were the nation’s fastest-growing race or ethnic group in 2012. Their population rose by 530,000, or 2.9 percent, in the preceding year, to 18.9 million, according to Census Bureau annual population estimates. More than 60 percent of this growth in the Asian population came from international migration. Read more here.
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FOIA by the Numbers
In FY 2012, the federal government received and processed a record number of requests. The number of requests received increased by one percent, to 651,254. The number of requests processed in FY 2012 increased by an even greater percentage (five percent from FY 2011), and the number of requests processed exceeded those received by about two percent in FY 2012. Agencies also decreased the overall FOIA backlog by 14 percent. Read more here.
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New LODES Data Released as Downloadable Files
On June 10, 2013, Version 7 of the LODES data – including data for 2011 and new variables for Firm Age and Firm Size – were released in downloadable files. This data were previously released in OnTheMap Version 6.1.2 on May 15. The downloadable files can be accessed here. An updated technical document describing the file layouts and data content is available here. A new addition to this release is the LODES Geography Crosswalk, which will allow users to tabulate the census block-enumerated data to higher level geographies such as Place and Congressional District using the same area definitions as in OnTheMap. With the release of Version 7.0, LODES Version 6.1 has been withdrawn. For data years 2002-2010, no job counts changed between the versions – only the file structure was affected.
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Why Respondents Matter
Census Bureau statistics are widely disseminated and are available at no cost to nearly a million weekly visitors to Census.gov and through their mobile app, America’s Economy. However, the Census Bureau recognizes that their statistical programs do impose a cost on the businesses and households they survey – the time that it takes them to complete and file their forms. They do not take this reporting burden lightly. 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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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Implementation of a Youth Traffic Safety Survey (August 5, 2013)
- Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey (August 5, 2013)
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
- Annual Survey of Farmer Cooperatives (August 12, 2013)
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