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Data Visualizations Requested for 2016 Data Viz Awards
The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is pleased to announce our inaugural Data Viz Awards with an open ?Call for Visualizations,? soliciting creative and meaningful visuals that use publicly-available data (e.g. Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics) to convey a compelling point. Visuals may have appeared in a published research paper or article, in a formal and public presentation, as a stand-alone infographic, as a website feature, and/or as another official product.
Submissions must have been published between June 2015 and May 2016. Winners will be invited to present at the Association of Public Data Users? 2016 Annual Conference. Winners in the ?Researchers & Students? category will also receive a free APDU membership for 2017.
All submissions should be sent to Brendan Buff by Monday, August 1st.
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The 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book finds today’s youth ? Generation Z ? are healthier and completing high school on time despite mounting economic inequality and increasingly unaffordable college tuition. Aided by smart policies and investments in prevention, a record number of teens are making positive choices. This year, the annual report focuses on key trends in child well-being in the post-recession years and offers recommendations for how policymakers can ensure all children are prepared for the future, based on the country?s shared values of opportunity, responsibility and security.
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Your City Needs a Local Data Intermediary Now
Good local data is possible because of local intermediaries, groups that bridge the gap between data and local stakeholders: nonprofits, government agencies, foundations and residents. These groups access data that are often confidential and indecipherable to the public and make them accessible and useful. And with the support of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP), groups around the country are championing community development at the local level.
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LA Smart City Dataset Available at High-Speed
The city of Los Angeles is opening up the data floodgates by giving researchers unprecedented high-speed access to its smart city data, a move that could spark a raft of new data-driven discoveries. City leaders announced it will link its databases and computers to a 100 Gbps system called California Research and Education Network (CalREN). The deal will allow member institutes, researchers, educators and students free access to one of the biggest storehouses of smart city data ever amassed.
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How Community Colleges Use Job-Market Data
As sites of work-force development, community colleges must be responsive to the demands of the rapidly changing job market. Now, many community-college systems are turning to job-market data that are more up to date and more precise than ever before.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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IRS Opens up Nonprofit Form 990 Data
The IRS has begun publishing electronic nonprofit tax returns online in a machine-readable format on Amazon Web Services. After a federal court ordered the IRS to disclose Form 990s as open data in 2015, the agency subsequently announced that it would begin working to release all of the data from electronically filed nonprofit tax returns available in a machine-readable format online by early 2016.
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New Software to Support Program Evaluation in Education
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has launched a new tool that can make it easier and more cost-effective for states and school districts to evaluate the impact of their programs. RCT-YESTM is free, user-friendly software that assists those with a basic understanding of statistics and research design in analyzing data and reporting results from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and other types of evaluation designs.
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College Selection Tool With Wage Data
A new web tool will provide information about the expected return on investment for degrees and certificates earned at public institutions in Colorado. The Colorado version of the site, dubbed Launch My Career, went live on Thursday. It’s a project led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, College Measures, Gallup Inc. and USA Funds. More state-specific tools are on the way, the groups said, including planned versions for Minnesota, Tennessee and Texas. USA Funds is spending $3.5 million on the project and related work.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing the Danger of Rising Sea Levels to NYC
Data visualization firm Landscape Metrics has created Advancing Waters, an interactive data visualization mapping the physical damages of rising sea levels in New York City. Advancing Waters uses open data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other federal and municipal sources to illustrate how sea level rise would impact education, transportation, and waste treatment facilities, as well as the total affected population. Users can adjust the potential sea level rise on a sliding scale from zero to five feet to visualize its impact, as well as observe the impact on a specific borough.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
HIGHER EDUCATION
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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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS
- Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database (July 21, 2016)
- Measurement for Performance Improvement in Physician Practices (July 21, 2016)
Census Bureau
- 2017 Economic Census?Commodity Flow Survey (July 15, 2016)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Health Risks from Using Private Wells for Drinking Water (July 21, 2016)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2019) Pilot Test Recruitment (July 21, 2016)
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