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Census Bureau Seeks Tribal Leaders Input for 2020 Census
Recently, Census Bureau officials met with representatives from the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes in Minnesota to discuss issues that affect American Indian and Alaska Native communities (AIAN) ahead of the 2020 Census. This is a critical part of the Census Bureau?s overall communication and outreach efforts directed at ensuring an accurate, cost-effective population count in 2020.

News

The Emerging Field of Health Data Science in Boston
Mike Klein, a neuroscience Ph.D out of McGill University, has developed technology that can identify early warning signs of heart conditions out of an individual’s Fitbit data as part of the Insight Health Data Science Fellowship. Insight offers a Fellowship three times a year where academics learn the applied data science skills they need to work in industry.

First Big Data Pilot Zone in China Launched
China launched its first big data pilot zone in the southwestern province of Guizhou. It is the latest move since China’s State Council issued guidelines to boost big data development.

New & Updated Data Sources

New Patent Search Tool Could Aid Economic Research
A recently released Web-based patent search tool the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may help shed light on how inventions impact the economy. Called PatentsView, the site allows users to search four decades of patent data by title, name of inventor along with a range of other factors. It offers charts and graphs that illustrate search results, allows researchers to download large amounts of data for in-depth analysis, and has an API ? short for application programming interface ? for programmers who want to link PatentsView information with other data.

Coming Soon: An Open Database of Every U.S. Address
Despite what your GPS would lead you to believe, addresses are not in the public domain. The Department of Transportation is among the agencies trying to fix that.

FBI Will Collect and Publish Info About Police Shootings
Federal authorities plan to collect additional information about shootings involving law enforcement and will begin publishing a report with more details on how police use deadly force, FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday. Comey described this information as necessary for the ongoing debate over policing in the United States.

Visualization of the Week

Mapping Four Decades of Patent Data
The U.S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) has launched a data visualization tool called PatentsView that maps patent activity in the United States from 1976 to 2014. USPTO created PatentsView in collaboration with the Center for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy, a policy research organization, to allow users to explore trends in patent activity, such as how certain regions may be linked to patents related to certain technologies or who the most accomplished inventors are.

Notable Data Publications

GOVERNMENT

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • AHRQ Enhanced State Data
  • Concentrations and Persistence of Health Expenditures Over Time
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth: research highlights
• Census Bureau – Job Creation in the United States
• National Center for Education Statistics
  • Career Paths of Beginning Public School Teachers Results From the First Through Fifth Waves of the 2007-08 Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study
  • Demographic and Enrollment Characteristics of Nontraditional Undergraduates: 2011?12

MEDIA

• Governing – How Americans’ Spending Habits Have Changed Over a Decade

NON-PROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

• National Student Clearinghouse Research Center – New College Graduates Report, 2013-14

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Calls for Comment

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):

Census Bureau

• Age Search Service (December 7, 2015)
• Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement (November 4, 2015)
• Generic Clearance for Master Address File (MAF) and Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) Update Activities (December 7, 2015)

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Policy and Implementation Plan for Public Access to Scientific Publications and Digital Data from Research Funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (November 4, 2015)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• FDIC Small Business Lending Survey (December 7, 2015)

National Center for Education Statistics

• Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017-18 (MGLS: 2017) 2016 Item Validation Field Test (IVFT) Data Collection (November 2, 2015)
• Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS 2016) Main Study (November 2, 2015

October 8, 2015

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