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APDU Guest Blog Post
Sharon Boivin, Chair of the Interagency Committee on Expanded Measures of Enrollment and Attainment at the National Center for Education Statistics, wrote an excellent blog post titled ??New Federal Statistical Data on Non-Degree Credentials,?? which details the efforts of the Interagency Working Group on Expanded Measures of Enrollment and Attainment (GEMEnA) in improving federal data collection on education, training, and credentials for work.
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Empowerment Through Quality Public Reporting
The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has produced a series on public reporting that provides recommendations for everyone with a stake in education so that they are able to find trustworthy, easy-to-understand education data in order to make informed decisions for improved student achievement.
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5 Q??s for Census Statistics Expert Ben Klemens
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Ben Klemens, a mathematical statistician and principal researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau. Klemens gave an in-depth look at his work producing better data and models to aid the bureau and those who use its data.
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CIC Database November 2014 Update
The County Intelligence Connection has released their latest update, including data products, county profiles, and an extraction tool.
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The Case for Better Public Reporting
The Data Quality Campaign released Empowering Parents and Communities through Public Reporting, a primer that provides important context for why public reporting about student opportunity and achievement matters. The brief highlights both the value that reporting adds and the shortcomings of many current efforts.
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Making FOIA Work Needs More than a DATA Act Model
A recent article in Federal Computer Week started off with the questions, “Could FOIA Work on a DATA Act Model?” The short answer to that question is no. The more complete version of the answer is no, but it would help the FOIA system work better for the public.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Nonprofit Recreates Discontinued Federal Data Report
The nonprofit National Priorities Project has launched State Smart, a data and visualization resource that allows users to track how federal funding moves through states. The site, which brings together a variety of data sources, was created in an attempt to recreate the Census Bureau??s discontinued Consolidated Federal Funds Report.
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Visualization of the Week
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Mapping the Internet??s Sleep Cycle
Researchers from the University of Southern California??s Viterbi School of Engineering have mapped daily cycles of Internet use for nearly one billion IP addresses across the globe. The data, which is distinctly skewed toward U.S. and European activity, nevertheless shows what countries have the most dramatic differences between daytime and night-time connectivity.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NON-PROFIT & FOUNDATIONS
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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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Bureau of Labor Statistics
- National Compensation Survey (NCS) (January 5, 2015)
Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Quarterly Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States??Transactions of U.S. Affiliate with Foreign Parent (BE-605) (January 5, 2015)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Current Population Survey: Basic Labor Force (December 3, 2014)
- Consumer Expenditure Surveys: Quarterly Interview and Diary (December, 3 2014)
- Annual Refiling Survey (November 3, 2014)
Census Bureau
- Annual Retail Trade Survey (December 4, 2014)
- The American Community Survey Content Review Results (December 30, 2014)
- Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions (December 30, 2014)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) (December 5, 2014)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- 2015 Rental Housing Finance Survey (December 5, 2014)
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