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New APDU Webinar on Census Mapping Tools
With the 2020 Census fast approaching, both the Census Bureau and outside stakeholders are working to ensure that the Census is fair and accurate. In turn, both groups are developing mapping tools to identify areas that are difficult to count. Register today for this February 7 webinar!
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APDU Signs Letter of Support
APDU signed a statement of support for Andreas Georgiou and his colleagues. The statement was released recently with the names of 40 organizations and 651 individuals.
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5 Q?s for Jelena Vasić of KRIK
The Center for Data Innovation spoke to Jelena Vasić, a journalist and project manager at the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK), a non-profit organization in Belgrade that recently won the Data Journalism Award for Open Data. Vasić discussed how data journalism can expose corruption and organized crime and how it can fight fake news.
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Tracking Thailand?s Economy with Big Data
The Bank of Thailand is developing an employment index built on data from online job-search platforms, and it has conducted analysis about household debt and the export industry revealing a much less positive outlook on Thailand?s economy than official data sources would suggest.
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Measuring the Performance of Australian Cities
Australia?s Digital Transformation Agency has launched a new tool called the National Cities Performance Framework that uses data from Australia?s 2016 Census to create a dashboard benchmarking economic and social performance indicators in different Australian cities.
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ERS JOB VACANCY: Assistant Outreach Editor (Agricultural Economist)
Highly motivated economists with strong writing and editing skills, and a desire to work in a dynamic environment, are sought for an Editor position in the Resource and Rural Economics Division Offices of the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Trump Appoints James Woodworth as NCES Commissioner
James Woodworth of the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute has been appointed to lead the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) at the U.S. Department of Education. Mr. Woodworth has also worked as Distinguished Doctoral Fellow at the Arkansas Department of Education Reform and as a public-school teacher.
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Visualization of the Week
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This Might be the Best Map of the 2016 Election
Anybody trying to illustrate how Americans voted in the 2016 election ? or any presidential election, for that matter ? are confronted with the problem that while the Electoral College votes by state, very few people live in very big swaths of land in the rural parts of the country. The map often ends up looking very red, even if America is actually almost evenly divided between red and blue. The webcomic XKCD ? the brainchild of Randall Munroe, known for an irreverent but mathematical bent ? has cracked this riddle better than maybe anyone before, accurately representing how different parts of the country voted as well as how many people actually live there.
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Notable Data Publications
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NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we?ll include it here.
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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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Census Bureau
- American Community Survey Methods Panel Tests, 2018 Data Slide Test (February 7, 2018)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Consumer Expenditure Surveys: Quarterly Interview and Diary (January 17, 2018)
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