APDU Weekly

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Features

Thanks to Our Sponsors and Exhibitors!

Introducing a new feature this year, the APDU conference will include an exhibitors? hall. We?d like to thank our sponsors for supporting APDU and sharing their work with us. Please take a moment and stop by their exhibits and see what they have to offer.

News

City Finances and the Promise of Data Visualization
New tools that make it easy to find and view government financial data are enabling big gains in efficiency and transparency.

Census Funding Crunch
Congress is set to fund most of the federal government in fiscal year 2015 (starting October 1) with a ?continuing resolution,? funding government activities at the same level as the current fiscal year.

State Open Data Policies and Portals
This report provides a snapshot of states? efforts to create open data policies and portals and ranks states on their progress.

2014 NCES STATS-DC Data Conference Presentations
Some presentations from the 2014 NCES STATS-DC Data Conference held on July 30?August 1, 2014 have been posted to the NCES website.

Visualization of the Week

Where Cash Buys Are Hitting the Housing Market Hardest
Here’s the good news for the housing market: The forces driving up prices in metro areas all across the nation may be easing up ever so slightly. Here’s the bad news: The middle class still can’t afford to buy homes.

Notable Data Publications

Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we?ll include it here.

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Labor Statistics – Displaced Workers Summary
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – National and State Patterns of Teen Births in the United States, 1940?2013
Census Bureau – Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S.: 2000 to 2011
Department of Agriculture – U.S. and State Farm Income and Wealth Statistics
Department of Health and Human Services – MEPS HC-152A: 2012 Prescribed Medicines File

NON-PROFIT & FOUNDATIONS

The Chronicle of Higher Education – Almanac of Higher Education 2014
U.S. Conference of Mayors – Income and Wage Gaps Across the U.S.

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 Justice Statistics