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2020 Census Needs Major Cash Infusion
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase in funding to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans who are less likely than at any point in recent history to self-report their existence to the federal government.
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Census 2020: How It?s Supposed to Work
How does the Census work? Click through to see the recipe the Census Bureau used in the past ? and how it?s supposed to change for 2020, the first ?high tech? census.
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What Our Cyberwall Knows
Was that hacker Russian? As the government learns from constant attacks, companies want to know why it doesn’t share more of what it’s finding out.
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Is Your Bank Data Yours?
Maybe not. Inside the new lobbying fight over just who gets to see consumer financial information.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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America’s Vanishing Triplets
Politico scavenged federal databases to find some of the most obscure and surprising government data, the type of information that may be extraordinarily valuable to a small set of people, and goes unnoticed by most of us. Here are five.
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Visualization of the Week
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What Happened to Women in Computer Science Infographic
A lot of computing pioneers ? the people who programmed the first digital computers ? were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men. However, in the mid-1980s, while the number of women entering medicine, law and physical science studies began to accelerate, the number of women entering computer science began to fall dramatically. The What Happened to Women in Computer Science Infographic asks why this has happened and looks at the impact that shift has had on modern day software development.
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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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Department of Agriculture
- Annual Survey of Farmer Cooperatives (November 13, 2017)
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