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President?s Budget Backs BEA Efforts
Several initiatives contained in President Barack Obama?s recently unveiled budget for fiscal year 2017 would enable BEA to produce economic data that are even more valuable to decision makers in the private and public sectors. Under one initiative, BEA would develop a ?Regional Economic Dashboard? and deliver new statistics detailing the economic performance of each of the nation?s more than 3,000 counties and how industries in those counties are faring.
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Court Decision to Determine Fate of Health Care Data
The rising cost of health care has long been an issue in the United States, but recent media scrutiny of the Affordable Care Act has highlighted the need for states to do more to address health-care costs. One step that states have taken is passing legislation to create a database that aggregates all health-care claims so that the state government can better understand the distribution and costs of health-care services and make evidence-based decisions about health-care policy. However, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court has called into question the viability of these databases.
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L.A.’s Library of Open Data Sparks Better Government
The city has created a path for other municipalities to make it easier than ever for agencies to share information with the public and each other. City employees can go online and see whether the road they want to repave is already scheduled to be torn up soon for some other reason, like replacing a sewer pipe.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New Features on Congressional Districts in Census Data
For the first time, the Census Bureau?s County Business Patterns statistics are available by congressional district and to highlight them, they are being made available through a new update of the popular interactive web app, My Congressional District. Now ? in addition to demographic, socioeconomic and housing data ? users can access business data at the congressional district level all in one place.
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Analytics.usa.gov: Now with Agency-Specific Dashboards
The Economics and Statistics Administration has added agency-specific dashboards to analytics.usa.gov. Users will now see a dropdown from the main analytics.usa.gov page that allows you to view the same dashboard, but filtered for websites that are administered by one of 10 specific agencies. These dashboard pages allow for greater insight into how the public interacts with specific agency websites as a complement to the aggregated view available atanalytics.usa.gov.
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Visualization of the Week
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Map of Tornado Hot Spots Made in Excel
This geometric data visualization shows the occurrence of tornadoes across the U.S. since 1950. It?s straightforward, good-looking and… made in Excel. Created by John Nelson, the map looks like it could have been made something rather more design-focused. But given each of the cells is just a simple square, Excel can, it seems, do the job just fine.
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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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Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Manufactured Housing Survey (March 25, 2016)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 2016-2019 (April 18, 2016)
U.S. Geological Survey
- USGS Water Use Data and Research Program (March 24, 2016)
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