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APDU Webinar: data.census.gov
Be sure to register for next week?s (February 22) webinar to provide input to the Census Bureau on their efforts to improve their data dissemination. This includes their efforts with data.census.gov, which among other things, will replace American Fact Finder.
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The Economic Growth That Experts Can?t Count
President Trump?s vow to raise the annual growth rate to 4 percent has been dismissed as outlandish by economists. But what if the economy has already been growing at that rate ? but no one realized it? This isn?t a matter of rigged statistics, political spinning or fanciful alternate realities, but one of measurement.
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5 Q?s for Franck Carassus, Co-Founder of OpenDataSoft
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Franck Carassus, co-founder of OpenDataSoft, an open data publishing firm headquartered in Paris. Carassus discussed the role of open data in the public and private sectors and what he sees as the ?second wave? of open data.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New Advance Quarterly Services Report
On February 17th, the U.S. Census Bureau will release, for the first time, the Advance Quarterly Services Report for the 2016 fourth quarter. This new quarterly report will make these timely, high-level estimates on key services statistics available approximately 20 days in advance of the Quarterly Services Report, enabling decision makers to improve their measurements of the U.S. economy.
For more information on the Advance Quarterly Services Report, please click here. For information on other advance economic indicators reports, click here.
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Manufacturing and International Trade Report
On February 27th, the 2015 Manufacturing and International Trade Report (MITR) will be released. The MITR from the U.S. Census Bureau provides a comprehensive comparison between detailed manufacturing product class data and associated import and export data. The data are published on a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) basis from the 2015 Annual Survey of Manufactures, presented with official U.S. export and import merchandise trade statistics.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing the Tallest Building in Each State
The United States has some of the world?s tallest skyscrapers, but their distribution is extremely uneven. This infographic comes from Highrises.com, and it covers the tallest building in each state. New York City alone has 6,229 highrises ? more than the next nine cities combined, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Honolulu, San Francisco, Houston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Miami, and Dallas.
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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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Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (May 31, 2017)
- Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad (May 31, 2017)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Youth Tobacco Survey 2017 Computer Based Pilot (March 10, 2017)
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