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BEA releases new personal income statistics
Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released comprehensive statistics on regional differences in incomes for 50 states and 381 metro areas. For the first time, Americans looking to move or take a job anywhere in the country can compare inflation-adjusted incomes across states and metropolitan areas to better understand how their personal income may be affected by a job change or move.
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Census to drop questions from surveys?
Pew Research Center looks at four areas of questions that may be dropped or changed from the American Community Survey: plumbing, commuting, income and disability. Meanwhile, Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post’s WonkBlog uses ACS data to map out the 1.6 million Americans who don’t have indoor plumbing.
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Everything you need to know about income equality
Matt Yglesias at VOX looks at why some economists say the increase in inequality has been overstated. His conclusion? Some look at tax return data from the IRS while others rely on the Current Population Survey data from Census.
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American middle class no longer world’s richest
An eye-catching headline, but to the data scientist, the more intersting aspect of this story is the data source: LIS, a group that maintains the Luxembourg Income Study Database. Staff members at LIS — based in Luxembourg and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York — gather data on household income from around the world and harmonize the statistics, so that numbers from different countries can be compared. Government agencies typically conduct the underlying income surveys.
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“Miscellaneous error”
In its seventh annual report on government data breaches, Verizon found that the top reason for security failures amounted to “oops”. Using its own data along with data gathered more from 50 organizations worldwide, Verizon found nine patterns that together describe 92% of the confirmed data breaches collected in 2013.
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Big data and organization design
Digital data is everywhere, and its ubiquity is causing profound changes in our personal lives and in the functions of government, business, and academia.
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NSF launches online portal for BRAIN
On the first anniversary of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) announcement, the National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a new online portal that allows visitors to find NSF brain-related information in one place.
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NTIA releases broadband case studies
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released the first three of 15 PCC and broadband adoption case studies. The release coincides with an important hearing on libraries and broadband, sponsored by the federal Institute for Museum and Library Services.
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Visualization of the Week
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NON-PROFIT & FOUNDATIONS
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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 Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS
- Proposed Project: Clinician Choice Experiment
- Program to Evaluate Federal Efforts to Mitigate and Prevent Healthcare Associated Infections
Census Bureau
- Annual Company Organization Survey (COS) to update and maintain a central business register
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Prospective Evaluation of Evidence-Based Community Wellness and Prevention Programs
Department of Education
- Measures and Methods for the National Reporting System for Adult Education
- Annual Student Activities Report
- National Evaluation of the Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Program
- Use of APIs in Higher Education Data and Student Aid Processes
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Prospective Evaluation of Evidence-Based Community Wellness and Prevention Programs
Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS
- Healthy Start Evaluation and Quality Assurance
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