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APDU Blog Post – Data Visualization at APDU Conference
New APDU staff member Jennie Allison has contributed a post to the APDU blog about the excellent presentations on data visualization at this year?s APDU conference. She recounts presenters? unique perspectives on the importance of effectively communicating data, and gives readers a chance to view presenters? own data visualization products.
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Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs
The National Science Foundation is exploring the establishment of a national network of “Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs.” These Hubs will help to continue and scale up the kinds of activities and partnerships established by National Big Data R&D Initiative over the past 3 years, as well as stimulate, track, and help sustain new regional and grassroots partnerships around Big Data.
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Open Government Groups Confront Obama
A coalition of 25 transparency groups and open government advocates sent a letter to President Obama urging him to either ?withdraw? or ?provide guidance to agencies? on a 2009 White House Counsel memorandum that instructs all federal agencies to consult with White House attorneys on documents of interest to the Administration before releasing them.
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Wage Data Done Right
Measuring the job-market returns of college credentials is complex work, according to researchers who gathered for a meeting on higher education data. That makes it challenging, or even risky, for policy makers to use those metrics to hold colleges accountable.
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Investigation of IPEDS Distance Education Data
Based on an investigation of the recently released distance education data for IPEDS, the primary national education database maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), WCET has found significant confusion over basic definitions of terms, manual gathering of data outside of the computer systems designed to collect data, and, due to confusion over which students to include in IPEDS data, the systematic non-reporting of large numbers of degree-seeking students.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing Online Code Collaboration
Git Live visualizes real-time global activity on online code collaboration platform GitHub. The visualization shows a variety of different GitHub actions, including instances when users ?star? (i.e. favorite) one another?s work, propose changes to a piece of code, comment with an issue or suggestion associated with a codebase, or create a new project based on existing code.
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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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Department of Commerce – Current Population Survey (CPS)
- Basic Demographic Items (December 1, 2014)
Department of Education
- High School Reform Study (October 30, 2014)
Corporation for National and Community Service
- Senior Corps Longitudinal Study (December 1, 2014)
Fiscal Service
- Public Input on the Establishment of Financial Data Standards (Data Exchange) (November 24, 2014)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
- Organic Certifiers Survey (November 24, 2014)
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