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APDU Begins Public Data University Webinar Series
Last week, APDU began its year-long Public Data University webinar series, which will examine datasets from the major statistical agencies.  The inaugural session featured a “101” examination of the Census Bureau’s economic data sets.  Webinars will look at four major areas of focus and offer a 101 and 201 session, with special topics being addressed in the 301.  The sessions are free to APDU members and are archived in the Member Area.

 

News

 

Chicago’s Data Projects: Overblown or On Target?
Chicago is often praised as a leader in civic technology, its analytics projects hailed as exemplary.  UBM’s Future Cities takes a closer look.

 

Federally Funded R&D Centers Report Declines in R&D Spending in FY 2012
The nation’s 39 federally funded research and development centers experienced a decline in funding between 2011 and 2012.

 

Brainstorming New Ways to Bolster America’s STEM Workforce
Last week, more than 60 innovators, entrepreneurs, technologists, and data geeks gathered at the White House for a “Data Jam” to brainstorm new ways of using data to strengthen the Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.

 

Privacy Board Makes a Strong Case for Transparency, Against Secret Law
The Privacy Board took an important and clearly stated stand for the public’s right to know the legal interpretations that inform domestic data collection programs by the intelligence community.

 

Profile America – Facts for Features
To commemorate Super Bowl XLVIII, the Census Bureau has compiled a collection of facts examining the demographics of the host city, as well as the cities represented by the remaining teams in the playoffs, the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.

 

New & Updated Data Sources

 

ASPE Research Brief – America’s Children in Poverty: A New Look at Who’s Poor Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure
This research brief examines child poverty in 2010 using both the official poverty measure that the Census Bureau has been using since the 1960’s and the more recent Research Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).

 

Consumer Expenditure Survey
New education classification better reflects income and spending patterns in the Consumer Expenditure Survey.

 

Visualization of the Week

State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter

While President Barack Obama was delivering the annual state of the union address, thousands of people in America were busy discussing it on Twitter – but what were they saying?

 

Notable Data Publications

Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about?  Just email us and we’ll include it here.

 

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 Labor Statistics

  • Current Population Survey – Basic Labor Force (February 27, 2014)

Department of Agriculture

  • Export Sales (Reporting Program) of U.S. Agricultural Commodities (February 28, 2014)

Department of Housing and Urban Development

  • Proposed Changes to the Survey of New Manufactured (Mobile) Home Placements Data Collection Methodology (April 28, 2014)
  • Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units (February 24, 2014)

January 30, 2014

 

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