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U.S. Census Director Resigns Over Funding of 2020 Count
The director of the U.S. Census Bureau is resigning, leaving the agency leaderless at a time when it faces a crisis over funding for the 2020 decennial count of the U.S. population and beyond. John H. Thompson, who has served as director since 2013 and worked for the bureau for 27 years before that, will leave June 30, the Commerce Department announced. No successor for Thompson was announced.
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Testimony on Data to House Appropriations Subcommittee
The Center for Data Innovation has submitted written testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch regarding ways to improve the accessibility of legislative data. The Center recommends that Congress begin publishing legislative data via application programming interface (API) in addition to publishing this data in bulk format. As the Library of Congress already transmits legislative data internally via API, Congress should publish this data with a public-facing API as well. Given the success of the Congressional Bulk Data Task Force which led Congress?s earlier efforts to make machine-readable data from the legislative branch available for download, Congress should direct the task force to investigate and implement these changes to existing legislative information systems.
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Spending Transparency, Smarter Government
Soon, American taxpayers will for the first time get a comprehensive look at how the federal government spends their tax dollars — roughly $4 trillion per year. Nearly three years ago, on May 9, 2014, former President Barack Obama signed the DATA Act into law, authorizing the most powerful government transparency mandate since Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act in 1966.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Introducing the 4th Global Open Data Index
Open Knowledge International has released the Introducing the 4th edition of the Global Open Data Index (GODI), a global assessment of open government data publication. GODI compares national government in 94 places across the 15 key datasets that have been assessed by our community as the most useful for solving social challenges.
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Visualization of the Week
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America?s Growing News Deserts
As local newspapers have closed across the country, more and more communities are left with no daily local news outlet at all. Here are the number of audited daily papers per county, according to research from Ohio University and the Alliance for Audited Media. Because this chart tracks only daily newspapers audited by AAM that meet a minimum penetration level in their markets, some papers may be excluded.
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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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Department of Agriculture
- Agricultural Surveys Program (June 8, 2017)
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
- Nonprofit Research Activities Survey (July 3, 2017)
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APDU Job Board Postings
Remember to submit your job postings for the May 2017 Job Board to Brendan Buff.
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