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New Health Care Statistics Released
New statistics tracking the changes in the prices to treat different diseases are now available in a new report on the Bureau of Economic Analysis? Health Care Satellite Account. The statistics ? the first of their kind ? provide information about the changes in prices to treat different diseases ? illustrating trends in prices over time.
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County Supervisors OK Creation of Open-Data Website
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took a large step Tuesday toward joining the growing “open data” movement of making government statistics readily available to anyone with a computer and Internet connection. Supervisors authorized creation of a website to be a “one-stop shop” for information on budgets, crime statistics, welfare and the like that could be used and redistributed without any legal, social or technological limitations.
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Observatory of Economic Complexity
The Observatory of Economic Complexity is a tool that allows users to quickly compose a visual narrative about countries and the products they exchange. It was Alexander Simoes’ Master Thesis in Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
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Call for Papers: Big Data and Public Policy
The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) invites the submission of manuscripts for a special symposium on ?Big Data and Public Policy.? Initial submissions for this symposium will be accepted until May 15, 2015.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2009-2013 ACS 5-Year PUMS
PUMS files are a set of anonymized untabulated records that data users can access to create custom tables that are not available through pretabulated (or summary) ACS data products. To read more about how the PUMS files are created, browse code lists, or look up subjects, you can visit the PUMS Documentation Page. To access PUMS data, please visit American FactFinder, the FTP site, or DataFerrett.
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Visualization of the Week
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Interactive: How Americans Get to Work
With estimates from the United States Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey, it is possible gain a little bit of an idea of what it’s like across the country. The map included shows county-level data on how people get to work.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NON-PROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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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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Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Quarterly Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States?Transactions of U.S. Affiliate with Foreign Parent (February 24, 2015)
Census Bureau
- 2016-2018 American Community Survey Methods Panel Testing (March 23, 2015)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Occupational Research Agenda (March 24, 2015)
- 2015 National Survey of Children’s Health Pretest (March 23, 2015)
Department of Education
- High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 Second Follow-up Field Test and Main Study Panel Maintenance 2015 (February 23, 2015)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households (March 23, 2015)
U.S. Geological Survey
- Nonferrous Metals Surveys (March 30, 2015)
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