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The APDU Weekly Update is a member benefit that has been made available to nonmembers for this week?s edition. Join APDU today! APDU members also have the opportunity to participate in webinars, an annual conference, and trainings, and your membership will support advocacy for your valued public data programs.
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APDU Annual Business Meeting Recap
APDU held its annual business meeting on December 6, with an overview of the past year?s accomplishments, board of directors election results, financials, and a look to the future. Notably, APDU has a new president, former Vice President Cliff Cook of City of Cambridge, MA; a new Vice President, former 2016 Conference Chair Kevin McAvey of Manatt Health; a new At-large Director, Mary Jo Hoeksema of Population Association of America/Association of Population Centers; and Elizabeth Nash of PolicyMap will begin a second term as an At-large Director. Follow the link to learn more about APDU?s accomplishments for the year!
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CEP Open Hearing in Chicago
The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP) will hold a public hearing on January 5, 2017 in Chicago, IL. The public hearing will provide an opportunity for any interested stakeholder to present their views on issues relevant to the Commission?s charge established in P.L. 114-140. This is the second of three such hearings. A final hearing is planned for the West Coast region in February 2017.
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Please submit job postings for the December Job Board to Brendan Buff!
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5 Q?s for Brett Hurt and Matt Laessig of data.world
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Brett Hurt and Matt Laessig, co-founders of the data science collaboration platform data.world. Hurt and Laessig discussed the need for a platform for open data that can accomplish what GitHub did for the open source movement, as well as the value of corporate data philanthropy.
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Five Data Preparation and Analytics Predictions for 2017
Believe it or not, 2017 is fast approaching. And while 2016 was a breakthrough year in the self-service data preparation and analytics world, 2017 will bring just as many ? if not more ? innovations that continue to transform how data scientists, data analysts, and business users harness insights to deliver business value and improve operational processes. Here are five data prep and analytics predictions to watch for in 2017.
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Book Review: Jon Schwabish, Better Presentations
Instead of suffering through more bad presentations, Jon Schwabish decided to teach people how to make them better with his book, Better Presentations. And it?s badly needed. Jon covers both constructing the presentation (structure and slides) and delivering it.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New Federal Earnings Data
Earnings data the U.S. Department of Education released Thursday show that graduates of certificate programs at public institutions earned nearly $9,000 more than graduates of those programs at for-profit colleges. The department will use the new numbers to enforce its gainful employment rule, which was finalized in 2014 and seeks to measure whether a sufficient number of graduates of vocational programs can repay their federal loans.
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Census Releases Documentation Supporting ACS 5-Year
We are pleased to announce the first release of documentation in support of the 2011-2015 ACS 5-year estimates. The data will be released on December 8, 2016. This documentation offers ACS data users the opportunity to prepare for next week’s release. The ACS 5-year estimates are the most relied-on source for detailed, up-to-date demographic, social, economic, and housing statistics covering every community in the nation. New and updated information related to this release is available now on the 2015 Data Release page.
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Visualization of the Week
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Fully Interactive DC Historical Building Map
The application, HistoryQuest DC, is an interactive GIS map that provides historical data on approximately 127,000 extant buildings in Washington, DC. The map offers several operational layers of information for the user including historic data on individual buildings, links to documentation on properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places, information on historic residential subdivisions, and the identification and boundaries of the L?Enfant Plan, and the city?s Squares, and Wards. The featured layer in the map?the Historical Data on DC Buildings?provides information from a variety of sources on original dates of construction, architects, owners and builders of the city?s historic buildings.
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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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Bureau of Justice Statistics
- 2016-2018 Survey of Sexual Victimization (February 6, 2017)
- Revision of a Currently Approved Collection: 2014-2016 Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems (January 5, 2017)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Confidentiality Pledge (February 6, 2017)
- Revision of Confidentiality Pledges Under the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (December 1, 2016)
Census Bureau
- 2017 Census Test (January 1, 2017)
National Center for Education Statistics
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