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Features

Brian Moyer Named New BEA Director
Brian Moyer was named Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, bringing more than 20 years of experience in economic statistics to the post. His new status as Director takes effect Sept. 21. Dr. Moyer is currently BEA’s Deputy Director and has served as Acting Director since May 2 when the agency’s previous chief retired. He joined BEA, which is part of the U.S. Commerce Department, in 1993 and held several key positions including Associate Director for Industry Accounts.

News

Bill to Improve Clinical Data Registries Introduced
Congressman Pete Olson (R-TX) introduced H.R. 5214, a bill which would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue recommendations to promote the use of clinical data registries.

Introducing the Statistics in Schools Program
Statistics in Schools supports statistics education by providing grade-appropriate classroom activities in math and history, and many resources ? such as maps, news articles, videos, infographics, and games ? for K-12 teachers to use. Staff from all areas of the Census Bureau worked together to create these activities, which are available online at no charge.

Chicago School of Data
There is a Chicago School of Data emerging?one that places data at the service of the people. Smart Chicago is gathering as much information they can about as many practitioners they can find, so that they can amplify the great things local practitioners do. This article gives a great overview of the work completed so far by Smart Chicago on this project.

New & Updated Data Sources

Census, NCHS Meet Ahead of Release of Insurance Data
On September 16, the Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) will release the first federal statistics on health insurance coverage during the period after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The agencies held a technical meeting on August 18 to go over what will be released later this month and provide background on the methods used in the respective household surveys.

Visualization of the Week

Visualizing Terrorist Activity Since 1970
Portland, OR-based data visualization company Periscopic has created ?A World of Terror,? an interactive visualization of the 25 most prolific global terrorist groups and their activity since 1970. The visualization covers groups as disparate as the Irish Republican Army and Boko Haram and shows the number of incidents for each group, along with the numbers killed and wounded, for each year the group was active. The data, which comes from the Global Terrorism Database, reveals that terrorist groups have been active in 73 countries on five continents, with France the most commonly targeted country.

Notable Data Publications

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Labor Statistics – Repeat Use in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System
Census Bureau – Public Assistance Receipt: 2000 to 2012
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – 1999?2011 Cancer Incidence and Mortality Data
Department of Agriculture – Household Food Security in the United States in 2013
National Center for Education Statistics – Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results From the 2012-13 Teacher Follow-up Survey

NON-PROFIT & FOUNDATIONS

Demographic Research – The Residential Segregation of Detailed Hispanic and Asian Groups in the United States: 1980-2010
Pew Research – As Growth Stalls, Unauthorized Immigrant Population Becomes More Settled

MEDIA

Governing – Where Employees Are Working Longer Hours

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Calls for Comment

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):

Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection

CFPB Generic Information Collection Plan for Studies of Consumers Using Controlled Trials in Field and Economic Laboratory Settings (October 09, 2014)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program (November 11, 2014)

Department of Education

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011) Spring Third-Grade National Collection, Fourth-Grade Recruitment, and Fifth-Grade Tracking (October 10, 2014)

Food and Drug Administration