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APDU Annual Business Meeting & State of the Association
In a time of change in the federal statistical system and the federal government generally, APDU has been keeping you informed and prepared. Our Weekly Updates, annual conference, webinars, and even a new training course have kept us busy during 2016. Want to know what?s in store for 2017?
APDU is excited to announce our Annual Business Meeting on December 6, 2016, at 3 pm EST. The meeting will be convened by webinar and open to all APDU members. The APDU Board of Directors will report on the state of the association, present this year’s accomplishments and goals for the coming year, and answer your questions.
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Job Board November 2016
APDU?s November 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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Commerce Data Advisory Council October Meeting
Leaders from the nation’s technology and data industries came together on Oct. 29-30 for the third meeting of the Commerce Data Advisory Council (CDAC) in Boulder, Colorado. This meeting focused on three main themes: 1) organizing and disseminating troves of environmental data; 2) developing the expertise within government to maximize the value of all the data collected by federal agencies; and 3) ensuring data and other cyber assets are protected from external threats.
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How Economic Data Is Kept Politics-Free
Suspicions about even the routine, day-in and day-out economic statistics produced by the federal government, voiced by a scattershot of skeptics in previous years, have turned into a steady roar this campaign season.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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BEA Unveiling Data Tool for Faster Access to Econ Stats
In a show of collaboration between the United States and Europe, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is unveiling a new data tool that aims to make it easier to access, compare and visualize economic data between the two regions. BEA and the Commerce Data Service, which are both part of the U.S. Commerce Department, have teamed up with Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Union, to build this new open-source data tool.
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Socrata Announces Public Tool Using Commerce Datasets
To bring data-driven insights to new audiences, the Census Bureau issued a challenge to the private sector to help build new tools that make their data more actionable. In response, they?re announcing another free, open and public tool built by Socrata that makes a valuable data set from the U.S. Census Bureau more accessible? Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE). The SAHIE program annually produces timely estimates for all counties and states, with detailed demographic and income data as well. SAHIE rely heavily on American Community Survey estimates and related administrative records data.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing the Languages of New York City
Web developer Jill Hubley has created a data visualization mapping the most common languages in New York City, broken down by census tract. Users can select individual languages to see where they are the most common, as well as filter out English and Spanish?the most common languages?to see the widely varied demographic makeup of the city?s population. The visualization uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau?s 2014 American Community Survey
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
PRIVATE SECTOR
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
- Local Update of Census Addresses Operation (December 7, 2016)
- State and Local Government Finance Collections (January 3, 2017)
Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Public Libraries Survey FY 2016-FY 2018 (December 5, 2016)
National Center for Health Statistics
- The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (December 7, 2016)
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