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This update is an APDU member benefit distributed weekly. If you are interested in learning more about APDU membership, please contact Brendan Buff or Spencer Abrams.
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Why Join APDU?
Since 1977, the Association of Public Data Users has been advocating for public data and educating our dedicated membership about its value. We have a weekly newsletter, the popular Public Data University webinar series, continually growing Annual Conference, and diverse network of members. APDU is also introducing a monthly Job Board as a member benefit. Follow the link to learn more about how APDU can benefit your organization!
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Introducing the APDU Job Board
APDU is happy to announce a new member benefit: the Job Board! Members are invited to submit job postings at their organization. Updated monthly, the Job Board will also include a collection of Federal, nonprofit, and private public data-related positions (research, projections, etc.). Submit your job postings here.
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Congressmen Release Bill to Increase Transparency
U.S. Congressmen Dave Brat (R-Va.) and Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) introduced H.R. 4006, the Statutes at Large Modernization Act, which would put the United States Statutes at Large online in a digital and searchable format. Leading groups working to improve government transparency have endorsed this bill including the Sunlight Foundation, R Street Institute, Demand Progress, Liberty Coalition, Data Transparency Coalition, OpentheBooks.com, and Niskanen Center.
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5 Q?s for Jonathan Marks, Cofounder of Quorum
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Jonathan Marks, cofounder of Quorum, an online legislative platform based in Washington, DC. Marks discussed how the Quorum platform automatically pulls information from a variety of nontraditional data sources to develop new political insights and explained some of the challenges of analyzing legislative data that can differ substantially from state to state.
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EU Fosters Open Data Economy With Pan-European Portal
The portal centralises public information from 34 countries in a bid to stimulate growth. The portal is part of a three year, ?7.5m EU open data project, which will also see programs to support countries in managing open data, as well as fostering the re-use of open data.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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BEA Releases Consumer Spending in All States for 2014
New statistics detailing consumer spending by state were released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. It marks the first time that BEA is producing these statistics on a regular basis. The statistics provide insights into household spending patterns across states from 2014 back to 1997.
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Treasury Unveils USASpending.gov Upgrade
Eight years ago, as a result of the Federal Funding and Accountability Act, the United States launched a website that would forever change U.S. government transparency efforts. In 2007, USASpending.gov commenced to provide information on federal contract and grant awards. For the first time, anyone could access a user friendly website and search for award information on federal contracts, purchase cards, grants, and loans. Recently, the Department of the Treasury unveiled an upgraded version here.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing How Terrorism has Changed Over Time
Trevor Martin, a graduate student at Stanford University, has created a series of data visualizations illustrating trends in the type, frequency, and severity of terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2014. Martin?s visualizations pull data on 141,070 terrorist attacks compiled by the Global Terrorism Database, an open-source database of terrorist events managed by Stanford University?s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. The visualizations reveal interesting insights into terrorist attacks, such as how more terrorist attacks have occurred on April 15?tax day in the United States?than any other day, and that attacks have become deadlier over time.
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Notable Data Publications
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EDUCATION
GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & 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 Consumer Financial Protection
- Financial Well-Being National Survey (January 25, 2016)
Census Bureau
- 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health (January 29, 2016)
- Special Census Program (December 18, 2015)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Workplace Health In America (January 26, 2016)
Department of Education
- EDFacts Data Collection School Years 2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19(December 31, 2015)
National Institutes of Health
- The Agricultural Health Study: A Prospective Cohort Study of Cancer and Other Disease Among Men and Women in Agriculture (NIEHS) (December 25, 2015)
U.S. Geological Survey
- National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) (January 22, 2016)
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