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APDU Board Election
APDU is very pleased to announce the slate of candidates we have recruited for your consideration in the election for two At-Large Board member positions, Vice President, and President. Please take a moment to review each of the candidate’s statements and vote. Members have until December 15, 2014 to cast a vote.
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CMS Names First Chief Data Officer
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has named Niall Brennan as essentially its first Big Data czar. Brennan will head the new Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics at the CMS as its first chief data officer, ?tasked with overseeing improvements in data collection and dissemination as the agency strives to be more transparent,? according to a CMS announcement Wednesday.
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A Fight to Keep Question on College Degrees in ACS
A proposal to drop a question about college education from a large annual government survey would make it a lot harder for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to track trends in the U.S. scientific workforce. Social scientists hope to persuade the Obama administration to reject the idea, which stems in part from criticism of the survey by some members of Congress.
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Climate Data & Information for Resilient Development
President Obama announced a set of new initiatives aimed at strengthening global resilience to climate change, including a Public-Private Partnership on Climate Data and Information for Resilient Development. This partnership?s mission is to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in developing countries by harnessing, creating, and providing timely climate data, information, tools, and services. To follow on this Presidential announcement, USAID has released a Request for Information that solicits input from any interested parties on how best to achieve these goals.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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BLS Regional Information Offices? Homepages? Makeover
The BLS has improved navigation to help you browse faster and more efficiently. The pages feature new maps and tabs to help you find information for the regions, states, areas, and subjects that interest you. The pages also have enhanced archives to make it easier to search for older news releases, CPI summaries, and notices.
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Visualization of the Week
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A Different View of American Employment
Fifteen states had jobless rates below 5% in October, another sign that the job market continues to recover. Many of those states, though, are small ? or, rather, they aren’t populous. Their collective labor force is smaller than California’s. And not all states are recovering at the same rate, as explained by these (unorthodox) maps, called “cartograms.” The states are sized by their civilian labor force populations, not actual shape, allowing a density-equalized view of the country. So state boundaries are skewed based on their relative density and number of workers.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NON-PROFITS & 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, Health & Human Services
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (December 26, 2014)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Indian Child Welfare Quarterly & Annual Report(December 19, 2014)
Department of Commerce
- 2015 National Content Test (February 02, 2015)
Department of Education
- Charter School Facilities National Questionnaire (December 26, 2014)
Department of Energy
- Davis-Bacon Semi-annual Labor Compliance Report (January 02, 2015)
Department of Housing & Urban Development
- Standardized Form for Collecting Information Regarding Race and Ethnic Data (February 01, 2015)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, Department of Agriculture
- Milk and Milk Products Surveys (January 26, 2015)
Wage & Hour Division, Department of Labor
- Davis-Bacon Certified Payroll (December 22, 2014)
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