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New Federal Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking
President Obama has signed a bipartisan bill creating a 15-member commission to figure out how to coordinate and use federal data without risking personal information privacy. The commission could help to give broader and more permanent approval to the White House’s push to use more tiered-evidence systems?like those used in the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Investing in Innovation program?to evaluate federal programs. It could also provide a context to hash out longstanding arguments over protecting data privacy which have complicated moves to update the 40-year-old Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
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Job Board April 2016
APDU?s April Job Board can now be found on the APDU website. Thank you to all who submitted job postings for this month! You can submit your job postings to info@apdu.org.
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Understanding How Populations Change
With the release of the 2015 county and metro/micro area population estimates and components of change, we can explore the question ? how did the United States population change in the last year? Demographers, researchers who study population change, begin to answer this question by looking at the components of change. There are three components of change: births, deaths, and migration. The change in the population from births and deaths is often combined and referred to as natural increase or natural change. Populations grow or shrink depending on if they gain people faster than they lose them. Looking at an area?s unique combination of natural change and migration helps us understand why its population is changing, and how quickly the change is occurring.
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Sloan Foundation Seeks Grantees Administrative Data
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is soliciting specific kinds of proposals as part of our support for ?Empirical Economic Research Enablers.? Please see the details that follow as well as our website if you share our interest in Administrative Data Research Facilities.
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Using Data on the Path to College Completion
A growing number of colleges and universities are making smarter use of data to help students ̶ and themselves ̶ chart navigable paths to graduation and pinpoint where additional help is needed. Just as the GPS in our cars and on our phones can help us plot routes, identify trouble spots, and calculate alternatives, the data dashboards that leading institutions and their partners are creating help students, advisors, and campus leaders make real-time decisions that lead to better outcomes.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Updates to USPTO?s PatientsView
The USPTO has announced several updates to their PatentsView project. First, they have updated the PatentsView database with data through December 21, 2015. As always, these data are available through the search and visualization interface, as well as the API and the bulk downloads. More importantly, the inventor disambiguation algorithm has been significantly enhanced using the output of their workshop winning team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They have also enhanced the location disambiguation to ensure we are better capturing the geography of innovation.
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Introducing Data USA
In 2014, Deloitte, Datawheel, and Cesar Hidalgo, Professor at the MIT Media Lab and Director of MacroConnections, came together to embark on an ambitious journey — to understand and visualize the critical issues facing the United States in areas like jobs, skills and education across industry and geography. And, to use this knowledge to inform decision making among executives, policymakers and citizens. Data USA puts public US Government data in users hands. Instead of searching through multiple data sources that are often incomplete and difficult to access, users can simply point to Data USA to answer questions.
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How a National Transit Map Could Solve ?Transit Deserts?
In the labyrinth of bus routes, rail lines and commuter arteries that make up a city map, identifying areas that lack sufficient services can be difficult. But a new U.S. Transportation Department initiative would help pinpoint these ?transit deserts.? Then, planners say, urban and suburban pockets with substandard train and bus service ? or those lacking any transit ? could be better connected to a city?s grid.
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AISP?s Assessment Tool Release
Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy recently announced their online assessment tool for developing Integrated Data Systems (IDS) sites. Using this tool, jurisdictions can now quickly determine where they are with regard to their IDS development, and obtain suggestions on what next steps to take in order to continue creating an IDS that can ultimately be used to generate actionable intelligence for policy-makers in their community.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing Disparities in Medicare
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created the Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD) tool, a data visualization that allows users to map a variety of health care metrics, including costs, quality, and utilization, and compare how these vary by location, demographics, and between the county, state, and national levels. Users can analyze these factors for 18 different chronic conditions, including cancers, diabetes, and asthma, to better understand how health care needs can vary dramatically between different communities. CMS built MMD with administrative claims data for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Notable Data Publications
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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 Economic Analysis
- Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (May 4, 2016)
- Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad (May 4, 2016)
- Quarterly Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad-Transactions of U.S. Reporter With Foreign Affiliate (May 4, 2016)
- Quarterly Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States-Transactions of U.S. Affiliate With Foreign Parent (May 4, 2016)
- Quarterly Survey of Ocean Freight Revenues and Foreign Expenses of U.S. Carriers (May 4, 2016)
Census Bureau
- 2017 Census of Governments (June 6, 2016)
- 2017 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (April 29, 2016)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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