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This is a complementary version of the APDU Update usually only available to members of APDU.
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The 2016 APDU Annual Conference boasts an assortment of exhibitors that span the range of the federal data system and its? users. Read on to learn more about this year?s exhibitors and the benefits of becoming a conference sponsor.
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This connective platform could help researchers solve problems more quickly by putting data sets all in one place. Data.World is a social network geared toward helping data scientists connect and nerd out over collections of data.
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The 2016 Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Pay for Success (PFS) Administrative Data Pilot Grant Competition will provide up to $4.5 million in grants to eligible nonprofit organizations, including public or non-profit universities, faith-based organizations, and state and local governments (and other political subdivisions) for activities related to administrative data in order to develop high quality PFS projects. The goal of the Administrative Data Pilot competition is to support current PFS projects? access to high-quality, less expensive data for evaluation purposes so they can improve the outcomes of their interventions.
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Everyone complains about not getting reliable data on student success, but no one does anything about it. Until now.
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Over the last few years we have seen growing recognition of the potential of ?civic tech,? or the use of technology that ?empowers citizens to make government more accessible, efficient and effective (definition provided in ?Engines of Change?)?. One commentator recently described ?civic tech as the next big thing.? At the same time, we are yet to witness a true tech-enabled transformation of how government works and how citizens engage with institutions and with each other to solve societal problems. In many ways, civic tech still operates under the radar screen and often lacks broad acceptance. So how do we accelerate and expand the civic tech sector? How can we build a civic tech field that can last and stand the test of time?
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New & Updated Data Sources
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis updates GDP figures and their major components every summer, sweeping in more comprehensive data that weren?t available for earlier estimates. The 2016 annual update, coming July 29, also will feature some of BEA?s efforts to continuously improve its measurement of the U.S. economy. Summer updates to national income and product accounts incorporate data from annual Census Bureau surveys of businesses and state and local governments; federal budget data; corporate tax return tabulations; farm income statistics; and other sources.
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Visualization of the Week
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Twitter has created a data visualization comparing every goal scored in the 2016 UEFA European Championship, called Euro 2016, and the resulting spike of tweets using the hashtag #EURO2016 to identify the most exciting moments of the tournament. Each point representing a goal is color coded based on how it affected the score of the game, such as whether or not it made a team take the lead or even the score, and users can sort the visualization by team and stage of the tournament. The most exciting goal of Euro 2016 based on Twitter?s data was Northern Ireland?s Niall McGinn?s goal guaranteeing his team?s victory against Ukraine on June 16.
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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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Census Bureau
- Request for Nominations of Members To Serve on the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (August 15, 2016)
- Annual Capital Expenditures Survey(September 19, 2016)
- 2017 Puerto Rico Census Test (September 19, 2016)
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