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New Advance Quarterly Services Report Available
The U.S. Census Bureau released the first-ever Advance Quarterly Services Report. This new report will provide estimates of revenue for select aggregate service industries up to three weeks ahead of the current Quarterly Services Report. U.S. businesses, policymakers and other data users rely on our statistics to make data-driven decisions.
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Solving the Problem of Bad Hate Crime Data
On January 17, 2017, journalism nonprofit ProPublica launched an initiative called Documenting Hate to crowdsource reliable data about hate crimes so that journalists?and the public?could be more informed about the prevalence of these crimes. On the surface, Documenting Hate should be heartening?civic technologists are employing data to better understand and tackle a serious social problem?however its existence raises a very pressing concern: why isn?t there already an authoritative source for this data?
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New Database Platform
The eScience Institute, in partnership with UW-IT, has just released an enterprise version of SQLShare, a database-as-a-service platform designed to facilitate data sharing and collaborative analysis. This new version provides a more robust user interface and faster file uploads while supporting larger-scale datasets.
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Open Military Data Platform
In providing the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country, the U.S. Department of Defense generates vast troves of data. Sharing this data can reveal opportunities for cost savings, answer questions and solve problems.
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Visualization of the Week
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Mountains Out of Molehills
What are the world?s biggest fears? How much have they been amplified by the media? Is fear increasing?
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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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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS
- Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database (March 23, 2017)
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
- Request for Information Regarding Use of Alternative Data and Modeling Techniques in the Credit Process (May 19, 2017)
Bureau of Justice Statistics
- 2016 Survey of Sexual Victimization (March 23, 2017)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Occupational Requirements Survey (March 23, 2017)
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