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BLS Requests Nominations for Advisory Committee
The BLS is soliciting new members for its Data Users Advisory Committee (DUAC). The DUAC provides advice to the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the points of view of data users from various sectors of the U.S. economy, including the labor, business, research, academic, and government communities, on matters related to the analysis, dissemination, and use of the Bureau’s statistics, on its published reports, and on gaps between or the need for new Bureau statistics.
Nominations for the DUAC membership should be postmarked by March 3, 2017.
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Why is Federal Government Data Disappearing?
The White House recently deleted all of the data on its open data portal, which served as a public clearinghouse for data on everything from federal budgets to climate change initiatives. This is a red flag, since for eight years, the Obama White House championed the practice of making government data freely available to the public in order to promote transparency and accountability, to serve as a resource for researchers, and to allow innovators to create new tools and services that spur economic activity and solve social problems.
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ESA Announces New Open Access Policy for Images & Data
The European Space Agency announced an Open Access policy for images and data under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. ESA has made various moves toward making data and images more open in the past, but this announcement is a major milestone for the organization?s commitment to openness.
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5 Q?s for Katya Serova, Co-Founder of Habidatum
The Center for Data Innovation spoke to Katya Serova, vice president and co-founder of Habidatum, an international data analysis firm that builds tools to visualize city data in three dimensions. Serova discussed the complexity of modern cities, how we can better plan for unexpected anomalies, and why people need a new ?language? to understand big data.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Pew Research Center?s Data Labs
Pew Research Center?s Data Labs uses computational methods to complement and expand on the Center?s existing research agenda. The team collects text, network and behavioral datasets; uses innovative computational techniques and empirical strategies for analysis; and generates original research. Data Labs also explores the limitations of these data and methods and works toward establishing standards for use and analysis.
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Visualization of the Week
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Mapping the Popularity of Oscar Nominees
Design firm Polygraph and Google News Lab have created a series of data visualizations mapping where Oscar-nominated films are most popular in the United States. The maps show color-coded hotspots of a movie?s popularity compared to the national average, as indicated by the number of YouTube trailer views a movie received during its opening week. The maps show that many movies fall into one of three regional trends of popularity: East Coast, which includes ?La La Land? and ?Moonlight?; bi-coastal, which includes ?Jackie? and ?Manchester by the Sea?; and Midwest, which includes ?Hell or High Water? and ?Hacksaw Ridge.?
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Notable Data Publications
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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 Labor Statistics
- Report on Occupational Employment and Wages (March 27, 2017)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- 2017 American Housing Survey (March 30, 2017)
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