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An Important Improvement in the Consumer Price Index
The state-of-the-art processes implemented by BLS provide key new flexibilities and efficiencies in calculating and measuring price changes in the economy. It?s important to note the methodology underlying production of the CPI has not changed and the new system is not designed to produce a higher or lower estimate of price change, but it improves efficiency, saves money, and provides an opportunity for more research and faster innovations in the future.
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Toronto to Use Big Data to Help Reduce Traffic Congestion
Toronto is creating a ?big data? traffic team as the city tries to manage congestion better by learning what is actually happening on its streets. The move illustrates just how much of the city?s efforts related to congestion ? which polls show is a top resident concern ? have been based on instinct rather than evidence.
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The Promise of Data Innovation in Europe
Data-driven innovation has the potential to be a major part of the European effort to grow the economy. In addition, data is at the heart of many initiatives that will have a substantial positive impact on the welfare of individuals and communities, such as to improve healthcare and education.
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Bloomberg: New Initiative to Help Cities Use Data
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable arm of former New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is announcing soon that it is spending $42 million to create the What Works Cities Initiative, which is aimed at helping 100 mid-size cities make better use of data and evidence in their policymaking.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Detroit Drives Toward Open Data
To encourage civic engagement and increase transparency, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan signed the GO DATA executive order aimed at creating ?a more open, collaborative and accountable relationship between the city government and the people it serves.? The city?s new open data portal is the first sign of the shift in city policy to make data and information available to the public.
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Free-of-Charge National Address Database in France
La Poste said the Base Adresse Nationale (BAN) provides geographic coordinates for each of the 25m addresses in France. Businesses, local authorities and citizens can use the service to download address files free-of-charge, if they agree to help improve the database and keep it up-to-date.
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Library to Tackle Boston’s Data
A new team of librarians will take the mountains of data that the city of Boston releases to the public and make it usable and understandable for everyone, thanks to a nearly half-a-million-dollar grant.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing Drought in the U.S.
The New York Times has created a series of visualizations that illustrate the growing drought in the United States. The visualizations include a time-lapse map of the United States that show drought severity and location since November 2014, and a chart that tracks the rise and falls of dryness levels in the United States since 1895. The latter, which relies on averages from the Palmer Drought Index, shows that the country is experiencing one of the longest periods of increasing drought since record-keeping began.
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Notable Data Publications
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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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Census Bureau
- Current Population Survey (CPS) School Enrollment Supplement (June 22, 2015)
- Management and Organizational Practices Survey (June 22, 2015)
U.S. Geological Survey
- Did You Feel It? Earthquake Questionnaire (May 18, 2015)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
- Field Crops Production (June 15, 2015)
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