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Upcoming PDU Webinars
APDU has four Public Data University webinars over the next five weeks! Upcoming webinars include a 201 session on Census data tools that will be followed by 101 sessions on the National Center for Health Statistics, the Social Security Administration, and the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. The Census and NCHS webinars are available for registration now; come join your fellow APDU members in this informative series!
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An Outdoorsy Plea for Open Federal Campsite Data
Data covering federal camping sites is only a small part of an enormous contract the Forest Service is putting together for management of its Recreation.gov website. But that data is top of mind for Hipcamp, a campground search engine that pulls information about sites from publicly available data.
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Balancing Data Transparency with Burden & Redundancy
This is a guest blog by Dr. David Pennington, president of AASA, the school superintendent?s association, and a district superintendent in Oklahoma. AASA has collaborated with the team at the Data Quality Campaign for over seven years, partnering on white papers and in roundtable discussions, and looking to advance the broader conversation about the role of data in education.
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Creating Opportunity for Families: A Two-Gen Approach
Nearly half of the nation?s families with young children struggle to make ends meet. A new KIDS COUNT policy report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation makes the case for creating opportunity for families by addressing the needs of parents and their children simultaneously.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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O*NET Web Services Updated
New features have been added to O*NET Web Services. Developers can now incorporate the variety of crosswalks included within O*NET OnLine. Additional industry and military title information found within My Next Move and My Next Move for Veterans is also offered. Finally, the recent improvements to the Work Context reporting within O*NET Online are available. Sign up or learn more at O*NET Web Services.
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Visualization of the Week
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Places in America Where College Football Means the Most
College sports, and particularly football, occupy a role at the center of daily life in the South that is hard to imagine for many people who grew up in New York or Boston. The New York Times? Upshot published a map showing the proportion of the population in various places who are fans of any college football team. They asked Facebook to compile that information, and the results offer a portrait of America?s college-football obsession ? or lack thereof.
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Notable Data Publications
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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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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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Administration for Children and Families
- Proposed Healthy Marriage & Responsible Fatherhood Performance Measures & Additional Data Collection (Part of the Fatherhood & Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-site (FaMLE Cross-site) Project) (January 1, 2015)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Labor Market Information (LMI) Cooperative Agreement (January 12, 2015)
Census Bureau
- Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions (January 12, 2015)
Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation
- Inventory of State Police Accident Reports (PAR) and Serious Injury Reporting (January 12, 2015)
Office of the Secretary, Health & Human Services
- Tissue and Organ Donor epidemiology Study (TODES) (December 8, 2014)
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Public Data University Webinar (201):
Ways to Find Census Statistics
November 19, 2014
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
More information
Pricing:
APDU & C2ER Members, LMI Institute Member States & Affiliate Members: FREE
Non-Members: $50
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