Collecting data from all sorts of odd places and analyzing it much faster than was possible even a couple of years ago has become one of the hottest areas of the technology industry.
HUD and DOT Launch Location Affordability Portal The U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation have unveiled the Location Affordability Portal (LAP), a cost calculation tool that allows users to estimate housing and transportation costs for neighborhoods across the country.
NCHS Releases Interactive Health, U.S. 2012 Website The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released its interactive website for Health, United States 2012: In Brief, developed in collaboration with the National Library of Medicine. The website allows users to take the data from the Health, U.S. report and create customized charts and tables.
Partners Join CREW in Support of the DATA Act More than twenty groups, joined the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in support of the DATA Act’s efforts to make more government spending information open and public. The letter says the proposed bill “will improve the transparency of our government to its citizens and modernize our government’s ability to manage itself.”
Census Bureau Mobile App Adds Rental Vacancy Rates The U.S. Census Bureau has added the rental vacancy rate to America’s Economy, the Census Bureau’s widely downloaded mobile app that provides constantly updated statistics on the U.S. economy.
NSF Advances National Efforts Enabling Data-driven Discovery National Science Foundation (NSF) officials spotlighted the development and implementation of novel, multi-stakeholder partnerships that promise progress in big data discovery, education and innovation at a White House-sponsored event, Data to Knowledge to Action, in Washington, D.C.
Visualization of the Week
With almost 300,000 establishments and 11 million employees, manufacturing plays a major role in the nation’s economy. A new U.S. Census Bureau infographic, “Manufacturing in America,” focuses on the scope of manufacturing, its importance as a major employer and its concentrations throughout the country. Click the image above for full vizualization.
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Calls for Comment
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):
Bureau of Labor Statistics
American Time Use Survey (December 13, 2013)
American Time Use Survey; Eating and Health Supplement (December 13, 2013)
Department of Agriculture
Survey on Rural Community Wealth and Health Care Provision (December 13, 2013)
USDA Food Connect Website (December 9, 2013)
Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice
National Crime Victimization Survey; Self-Report Data on Rape and Sexual Assault (December 6, 2013)
Office of the Secretary, Department of Labor
Annual Refiling Survey (December 9, 2013)
Worker Classification Survey (December 9, 2013)
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The goal of the Location Affordability Portal is to provide the public with reliable, user-friendly data and resources on combined housing and transportation costs to help users make more informe
