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New Job-to-Job Flows Explorer Application
The Census Bureau released Job-to-Job Flows Explorer, a new web-based analysis tool that allows users to analyze worker reallocation in the United States. This interactive visualization allows users to create tables, maps and charts to compare, aggregate and analyze flows by worker and firm characteristics.
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5 Q?s for Sarah Telford, Chief of Data Services at UNOCHA
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Sarah Telford, Chief of Data Services at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Telford discussed the value of OCHA?s open data platform to the humanitarian sector and the obstacles humanitarian organizations face when it comes to sharing data.
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Uber Starts Sharing Its Traffic Data With Cities
Uber provides over 1 million rides per day in more than 450 cities around the world, constantly collecting data en route to the destination. Traffic patterns can be filtered by day of the week, time and whether there is an event happening in close proximity. This treasure trove of data is now being offered to city planners and infrastructure policymakers, and will eventually be available to the public.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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BEA?s API Expands Access to Trade Data
More good news for developers and other ?power users? of BEA data: The most detailed data on U.S. international trade in services published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis are now accessible through our application programming interface, or API. This includes detailed annual statistics on U.S. trade in services by type of service for 90 countries and areas, including new estimates of trade related to information and communications technology. Previously, only the more aggregated trade in services statistics released as part of the U.S. international transactions accounts were available through BEA?s API.
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Visualization of the Week
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Map of the World’s Countries Rearranged by Population
What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on?
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Notable Data Publications
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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
- 2018 End-to-End Census Test?Address Canvassing Operation (February 9, 2017)
National Center for Health Statistics
- The National Center for Health Statistics Youth Outreach Program (March 7, 2017)
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