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Measures Needed on Costs of Cross-Border Data Limits
Even though the free flow of information across borders is crucial to nearly every sector of the digital economy, many countries have adopted protectionist data policies. Such policies are an impediment to business growth, digital communications, and online collaboration, and they reduce economic efficiency by increasing data costs, disrupting trade between nations, and creating a web of regulation that stalls efforts to conduct business across borders. Unfortunately, the negative effects of these policies often go unobserved because the government does not properly measure the data economy. However, the U.S. Department of Commerce is trying to change this. It recently published a report identifying five main challenges to accurately measuring the economic effects of cross-border data flows and offered specific steps its agencies could take to address each of them.
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January Job Board
Please remember to submit your job postings for the January 2017 Job Board to Brendan Buff.
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Public Review of XKOS
The DDI Alliance has announced the Public Review of XKOS, an RDF Vocabulary which extends the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) for the needs of statistical classifications. The comment period is open until January 31, 2017.
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Sorenson Impact Center Request for Proposal
The University of Utah?s Sorenson Impact Center is a recipient of a grant from the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Through this federal grant, the Sorenson Impact Center will help facilitate high-quality Pay for Success projects by providing full data diagnosis and technical assistance to develop the requisite data access agreements, software tools for cleaning and merging data, legal and regulatory analyses to provide guidance on data privacy questions, and thorough statistical analyses. Eligible organizations are nonprofit organizations, public or nonprofit universities, state and local governments, tribes, as well as faith-based organizations operating in the U.S. that are actively involved with a Pay for Success project.
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Scientists Fear Pending Attack on Fed Statistics Collection
Add the U.S. Census Bureau to the list of government agencies whose activities may be threatened by the election of Donald Trump and the new Congress. The bureau has traditionally maintained a fairly low profile among federal agencies. At the same time, it symbolizes many things that the president-elect and congressional Republicans say they don?t like about government?and soon will be in a position to change.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New Data Available from NCES
New state-level data on the number of days and hours in the school year, as well as school start and finish dates, are now available on the State Education Reforms website. The State Education Reforms website draws primarily on data collected by organizations other than the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
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New RIMS II Multipliers are Available
Updated multipliers from the Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II) are now available. The updated RIMS II multipliers are based on 2007 national benchmark input-output data and 2015 regional data.
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Visualization of the Week
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Beautiful Illustration of Commercial Shipping Movements
UCL Energy Institute took data showing location and speed of ships and cross-checked it with another database to get the vessel characteristics, such as engine type and hull measurements. With this information they were able to compute the CO2 emissions for each observed hour, following the approach laid out in the Third IMO Greenhouse Gas Study 2014. The resulting dataset was visualized with WebGL on top of a specially created base map.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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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
- 2017 National Survey of Children’s Health (February 27, 2017)
- 2018 End-to-End Census Test-Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing Operation (February 27, 2017)
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