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Census Bureau Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Summary
The Census Bureau reports that their ?FY 2016 budget request of $1.5 billion supports the Department of Commerce?s Trade and Investment, Innovation, Environment, and Data goals.? Included in the report is discretionary funding, cost comparisons, fiscal and operational changes to the budget, and a note on the proposed Census restructuring.
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Building Evidence with Administrative Data
This chapter from Fiscal Year 2016 Analytical Perspectives of the U.S. Government focuses on the Obama Administration?s efforts to make better use of administrative data both on the federal and state levels.
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One Year Later USDA in the Brave New World of Open Data
It has been one year since USDA embarked on its push to make its data available. While USDA continues to collect and make available USDA datasets to the public, they also are engaging stakeholders so that they can use that feedback to improve future data submissions. One year later, USDA has published over 800 data sets on usda.gov/data and data.gov.
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It’s Time to Open Materials Science Data
The Federal government has been working with agencies across government to finalize plans to increase public access to the results of Federally funded research, including both scientific publications and research data, across the broad range of scientific disciplines ? including materials science.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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FEC Provides Committee Spending Data
The Federal Election Commission has made a single, downloadable file available that includes records of expenditures made by PACs, parties and candidate committees.
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Smithsonian Launches Effort for National Art Database
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is leading a group of 14 institutions from around the country in an effort to build a shared, and searchable, online database that could spur research and scholarship about American art.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks Worldwide
The Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, a group devoted to providing independent and evidence-based analysis of health issues for policymakers, has created an interactive map that plots data on outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, whooping cough, and polio. The Global Health Program populated the map with data pulled from reports by news organizations, governments, and the global health community dating back to 2008.
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Notable Data Publications
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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
- BLS/State Labor Market Information (March 9, 2015)
- Cognitive and Psychological Research (March 9, 2015)
Census Bureau
- Annual Survey of Business Owners (April 13, 2015)
- Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions (March 8, 2015)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- 2015 American Housing Survey (March 9, 2015)
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