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COSSA Joins Partners in Advocating for BTS, AHRQ
Twelve organizations have written a letter in support of provisions that enhance the budget autonomy of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) in the Future Transportation Research and Innovation for Prosperity Act (H.R. 2886), introduced by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Ranking Member on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s Research and Technology Subcommittee.
COSSA also joined the Friends of AHRQ on letters objecting to the elimination of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the House’s FY 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill and the Senate’s proposed cuts to the agency in its version of the bill (see COSSA’s statement).
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How BLS Deals With Uncertainty
A BLS Commissioner?s Corner blog post discussed the sources of uncertainty in their measures and how they minimize the sources of uncertainty.
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Bad Data Is at All Levels of Government
After an expansive phone survey, it became abundantly clear that many states lack the data they need to make good decisions. Many others have they data they think they need — only it’s wrong.
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What Is Student Data?
There are many types of data that support student learning?and they?re so much more than test scores. But individual data points don?t give the full picture needed to support the incredibly important education goals of parents, students, educators, and policymakers. See the types of data that can come together?under requirements like privacy and security?to form a full picture of student learning.
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5 Q?s for Matt Rizai, Chairman and CEO of Workiva
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Matt Rizai, chairman and CEO of Workiva, a data analytics company based in Ames, Iowa. Rizai discussed how modern data technologies and standards can improve how the private sector and government regulators operate in the financial marketplace, and how data analytics can reduce a company?s carbon footprint.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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DHS: Geospatial Data as a Service for 1st Responders
Getting information quickly into the hands of emergency officials is crucial during a disaster, so the Department of Homeland Security increasingly stores its geospatial data in the cloud and provides easy access to location-based imagery for state and local first responders. Using the imagery-hosting web service called Terra Pixel, DHS can upload, manage, store and deliver data to those first responders so they can see imagery from the past 24 hours.
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Making Election Data Even More Open
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has released an application program interface (API) to help the public make better use of campaign finance data, which the FEC publishes in bulk. The new API allows users to easily parse through FEC data as well as extract summaries and detailed financial reports to keep better tabs on who might be influencing an election.
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Visualization of the Week
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Nearly Every Job in America, Mapped in Detail
Differences among cities form economic identities that shape each city as much as their culture and geography do. And they’re starkly ? and beautifully ? visible in a new visualization, made by Harvard Ph.D. student Robert Manduca, that maps nearly every job in America, one dot per job. His project, which draws on Census data reported by employers, is modeled off Dustin Cable’s well-known racial dot map that mapped every person in the country.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
MEDIA
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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Bureau of Labor Statistics
- CPI Housing Survey (September 14, 2015)
Census Bureau
- 2020 Census Tribal Consultation Meetings (September 30, 2015)
- Redistricting Data Program (September 14, 2015)
Department of Education
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011) Spring Fifth-Grade National Data Collection (September 14, 2015)
- EDFacts Data Collection School Years 2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19 (September 8, 2015)
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