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Announcing the Commerce Data Usability Project
The Commerce Data Usability Service is launching the Commerce Data Usability Project (CDUP), a community-driven public-private partnership to help data scientists, programmers and other users to access open knowledge from the CDS? open data. Bringing together contributing partners from the private sector, academia and government, CDUP will offer tutorials to illustrate how to use high value datasets from a variety of perspectives.
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The U.S. Government is Making it Possible to Dump DUNS
Federal contracting policy requires the use of a specific proprietary data standard to keep track of entities receiving federal funds. Fortunately, the General Services Administration, the Defense Department and NASA have recently proposed to amend federal contracting policy to eliminate the requirement to use DUNS, which would make data on government spending more transparent and usable by the government and the public alike.
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USDA Announces Open Data Challenge Winners
The Department of Agriculture on Jan. 27 announced the winners of its USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge to use USDA open data to build online tools that could help strengthen the country?s food resiliency in the face of a changing climate. The challenge launched in July 2015 as part of the White House?s Climate Data Initiative. Working with more than 100 years of crop and climate data provided by the USDA through Microsoft Azure?s cloud environment, participants were asked to come up with new applications that farmers, ranchers, agriculture businesses, scientists and producers could use to improve food production.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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EEOC Proposes Addition of Pay Data to Annual Reports
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) made public a proposed revision to the Employer Information Report (EEO-1) to include collecting pay data from employers, including federal contractors, with more than 100 employees. This new data will assist the agency in identifying possible pay discrimination and assist employers in promoting equal pay in their workplaces.
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CBO Launches New Budget and Economic Data Page
The CBO has announced the launch of a new Budget and Economic Data page on its website. The new page, which can be accessed from our home page, features links to Excel spreadsheets containing budget and economic projections regularly released in CBO?s Budget and Economic Outlook and Updates and in the associated supplemental material. The new page also features projections released in CBO?s annual Long-Term Budget Outlook report.
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Visualization of the Week
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SF Now Using the ?Space/Time Engine? to Track Commutes
Urban Engines, the transportation planning startup founded by former Google engineers and funded by Google Ventures, announced it has struck a deal with San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit, as well as a number of for-profit entities like Toyota ITC, Softbank, and NEC. The company’s proprietary technology is a mapping product that allows cities and companies to track commuters, vehicles, and packages through both space and time. Urban Engines generates its movement data from the proliferation of sensors in dense urban centers, such as mobile phones, radio frequency identification, beacons, and other transducers.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & 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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Census Bureau
- Current Population Survey (CPS) Voting and Registration Supplement (April 1, 2016)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Revision of the Employer Information Report (April 1, 2016)
National Center for Education Statistics
- 2016-17 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study Field Test Data Collection (April 4, 2016)
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2016 Annual Business Meeting & State of the Association
February 16, 2016
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