There is a reasonable amount of information about visualization available on the web. There are still huge gaps though, especially when it comes to bridging the gap between academic research and the rest of the world, though. Here are two ideas: one simple, one rather involved.
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The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program in the Bureau of Labor Statistics is conducting a self-review to improve its products and services. The program asks for those familiar with the data to participate in a brief survey as an opportunity to express any concerns and suggestions that you might have about QCEW data, or Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data, which are generated from QCEW.
Survey deadline is Friday, September 2, 2016.
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The Census City SDK project just won a 2016 API World Award for best innovations in harnessing data in ways that have a meaningful impact on our nation and our lives. This is the second major award for City SDK after it received the FedScoop 50 ?Innovator of the Year? award last December.
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Many researchers are aggravated by the format of data on government websites. Sometimes it?s presented in PDF style, which makes it near impossible to manipulate and assess. In other cases, it only permits individual queries, as in Alabama?s open checkbook.
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The National Consumer Law Center sent a letter to Education Secretary John King asking the Department of Education to track the relationship between student loan debt and racial inequality. The letter follows efforts by the group to obtain the release of data on how federal debt collection practices are affecting minority student borrowers in particular.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New statistics detailing the activities of U.S. affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) are now available from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The statistics, which include the first information for 2014 and updated data for 2013, offer details on the finances and operations of U.S. affiliates of foreign MNEs, including their employment and compensation, sales, value added, capital expenditures, trade in goods, and expenditures for research and development. With the release of statistics for 2014, BEA is reinstating several state-level data items that were available prior to 2008.
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Visualization of the Week
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The Colorado Center on Law and Policy, a nonprofit advocacy group, has created the Human Services Gap Map, a series of maps and charts comparing on a county level the differences between the number of people enrolled in federal- and state-sponsored social services and the number of people eligible. The Human Services Gap Map compares enrollment and eligibility rates for five programs: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program, Colorado Works, Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and ranks Colorado?s 64 counties based on the size of these service gaps. Users can examine the gap for each type of service in every country, see how much of allocated government service funding counties actually spend, and compare each county?s return on investment for spending on social services.
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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 Labor Statistics
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) (October 18, 2016)
- Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (September 21, 2016)
National Center for Education Statistics
- 2012/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study: (BPS:12/17) (October 24, 2016)
- EDFacts Data Collection School Years 2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19 (October 24, 2016)
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