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September 15-17, 2016
Arlington, VA
EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS AUGUST 13!
Picture this: You just finished a data-intensive report and it has no tables or narrative. That has about as much chance of moving forward as a driverless car, right? Well, it?s a new day, and people want compelling stories delivered in interesting ways. Long reports are being replaced with infographics that use images, pictures, charts, and graphs to share information quickly and efficiently.
In two days, you can learn key concepts about data visualization, and take home a few easy tips using readily available software?Excel and Tableau. Join us* and become a data viz expert!
*Member rates available to APDU Members
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The APDU Annual Conference in Alexandria, VA includes an exciting session on data journalism featuring a Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times reporter, the Chief Economics Writer from Nate Silver?s FiveThirtyEight.com, and a data journalism expert from Pew Charitable Trusts. APDU Board Member Elizabeth Nash of PolicyMap writes in this blog post about how publicly available data informs the highest reaches of journalism.
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APDU?s August 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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Big Data and analytics are driving advancements that touch nearly every part of our lives. From improving disaster relief efforts following a storm, to enhancing patient response to specific medications to criminal justice reform and real-time traffic reporting, Big Data is saving lives, reducing costs and improving productivity across the private and the public sector. Yet when our elected officials draft policy they lack access to advanced data and analytics that would help them understand the economic implications of proposed legislation.
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U.S. government statisticians have found evidence that efforts to adjust the country’s measure of economic growth for seasonal fluctuations have not been fully successful. The Bureau of Economic Analysis, the government agency that constructs gross domestic product data, said that a component-by-component investigation found evidence in quarterly GDP data over different time spans.
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The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking met in public for the first time recently to begin its comprehensive examination of data inventory and infrastructure, database security, and statistical protocols related to federal policymaking.
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RFP: Linked Data for Evidence-Based Policy Making
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, is pleased to announce the Request for Proposals (RFP) Using Linked Data to Advance Evidence-Based Policy Making: Helping Projects Utilize the U.S. Census Bureau Linkage Infrastructure. This initiative aims to conduct high-impact research projects of policies and interventions by demonstrating innovative strategies for linking across programs and levels of government to advance evidence-based policymaking. The project is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. Proposal submissions are due 11:59 p.m. Central Time on September 20, 2016. Applicants will be notified of selection decisions by November 2016.
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As the national agency of record for arts-related research, the National Endowment for the Arts not only produces research reports, resources, and events but provides funding through its Research: Art Works program. This program supports projects that investigate the value and impact of the arts on individuals and communities using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches. Application guidelines for the next round of funding are available on the NEA website. The deadline is October 11, 2016.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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The U.S. Census Bureau released its first ever Advance Economic Indicators Report that combines the release of advance statistics on international trade in goods with new advance estimates for retail and wholesale inventories. This summary level report contains select aggregate levels for retail and wholesale trade inventories.
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The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has updated Circular A-130, ?Managing Information as a Strategic Resource,? a document which describes how federal agencies are required to manage data. This is the first update to Circular A-130 since 2000, and includes a number of provisions to modernize government information management, mainly real-time monitoring, risk management, and accountability. Circular A-130 also adopts many of the open data policies implemented by the federal government since the last revision, particular President Obama?s 2013 executive order making open and machine readable the default for government data.
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To break the cycle of incarceration, the Administration is launching the Data-Driven Justice Initiative (DDJ) with a bipartisan coalition of 67 city, county, and state governments who have committed to using data-driven strategies to divert low-level offenders with mental illness out of the criminal justice system and change approaches to pre-trial incarceration, so that low-risk offenders no longer stay in jail simply because they cannot afford a bond.These innovative strategies, which have measurably reduced jail populations in several communities, help stabilize individuals and families, better serve communities, and often save money in the process.
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Visualization of the Week
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Sometimes, trash can be an anthropologist?s goldmine. Unearthing garbage can illuminate the patterns of daily life. And a new interactive map by the electricity company SaveOn Energy charts America?s ballooning trash habits over the course of the past century. Using EPA data, the map reveals a lot about how much we throw away, and where.
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Notable Data Publications
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