APDU Weekly

Features

The Open Data Handbook
This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data ? why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.

News

A Tour of America?s Futures
To help visualize the future, the Urban Institute developed a tool as part of the ?Mapping America?s Futures? series that projects local-level population trends out to 2030.

The Data Gap
The importance of data-driven services and programs has grown significantly in recent years, especially in health care, education and financial services. But not all segments of society are benefiting from the explosion in data collection, leading to what some experts are calling a data divide.

5 Q?s for Ross Wilkinson: Australian National Data Service
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Dr. Ross Wilkinson, Executive Director of the Australian National Data Service. Dr. Wilkinson discussed how Australia is improving its research data sharing infrastructure.

Harnessing Data Power to Expand Opportunity
Produced by PolicyLink and PERE (Program for Environmental and Regional Equity), the newly created National Equity Atlas makes it possible to track, measure, and make the case for inclusive growth in America?s regions and states, and nationwide.

New & Updated Data Sources

BLS to Publish Adjusted Data for Asians & Hispanics
With the release of January 2015 data on February 6, 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will begin publishing monthly seasonally adjusted labor force data for Asians and for Hispanic adult men, adult women, and teenagers in The Employment Situation news release.

Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) – Probation
This dynamic analysis tool allows you to examine data collected by the Annual Probation Survey on adult probationers. It includes all adults, regardless of conviction status, who have been placed under the supervision of a probation agency as part of a court order.

Visualization of the Week

Pew Research Center Data Visualizations from 2014
The design staff at Pew Research looked back through their 2014 archive, and these graphics stood out as almost universal favorites. These visualizations presented a particular challenge and, for each of them, Pew staff talk about the approach they took in presenting the data.

Notable Data Publications

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Labor Statistics – Workweek of Production Employees in Manufacturing at or Above 42.0 Hours for 9 Months in 2014
National Science Foundation – Employment of Postdoctoral Researchers at Federally Funded R&D Centers Declined in 2013
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Cigarette Smoking & Lung Obstruction Among Adults Aged 40?79: United States, 2007?2012
- Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States & Dependent Areas, 2012
National Center for Education Statistics – Restricted-Use Kindergarten-First Grade Data File & Electronic Codebook

NON-PROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Demographic Research – A Multistate Model to Project Elderly Disability in Case of Limited Data
Pew Research – The Data on Women Leaders

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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):

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS