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Professor Withdraws from Consideration for Top Census Job
Thomas Brunell, a Texas professor with no government experience who testified on behalf of Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts, has withdrawn from consideration for the top operational job at the U.S. Census Bureau, according to two people familiar with his plans.
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APDU Data Viz Training Two Weeks Away
The APDU training ?Telling Your Story Through Data Visualization? is coming up in less than two weeks from February 27-March 1. The training is nearly at full capacity, so register today to secure your spot!
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Data Facility Enables Cross-State Data Sharing
In order to make data sharing easier for state and local agencies, WDQC wants to share a new option for cross-agency data sharing, the Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF). Julia Lane, the system?s creator, has detailed it in this post.
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America Has to Change How Score Kept on Education, Jobs
Angst over the performance of our education system and economy remains significant, despite improvement in many indicators. Yet many of us can’t quite put our finger on why. Maybe America needs to change how it keeps score on these critical aspects of our nation. Perhaps we also need to rethink success and reconsider how we go about achieving it.
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CTPP Status Report
The “Status Report” is a newsletter developed by the CTPP Planning Group, friends and anyone else wishing to write about the Census Transportation Planning Products, its use or any other census data for transportation planning issues. Its purpose is to inform the transportation planning community on matters relating to the developments of the CTPP and other census data issues of relevance to their needs.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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ICPSR is Host of New U.S. Census Bureau Data Repository
A new U.S. Census Bureau Data Repository has been launched to preserve and disseminate survey instruments, specifications, data dictionaries, codebooks, and other materials provided by the Census Bureau. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the host of this repository, has also listed additional Census-related data collections from its larger holdings.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing Olympians Getting Faster
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of data visualizations illustrating how Olympic athletes get consistently faster, on average, from each Winter Olympics to the next. The visualizations compare the average speeds for male and female speed skating, alpine skiing, and biathlon athletes for every winter Olympic games that featured the sport, and highlight reasons for the improvements, such as the use of new equipment and more specialized training.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
HIGHER EDUCATION
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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Census Bureau
- Annual Survey of School System Finances (April 10, 2018)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Survey of Postgraduate Outcomes for the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program (Survey) (March 16, 2018)
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