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The Annie E. Casey Foundation has released Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children, which unveils the Race for Results index, showing the nation has much ground to cover to ensure that all children are positioned to thrive. APDU is an outreach partner for this report.
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 Join APDU on Facebook
A few weeks ago, APDU launched its Facebook page. Each day, we share data visualizations on any number of topics, sourced from public data. Please like the page and let us know what you think of the day’s data highlight.
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All for one? Agencies must partner on data
When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, there was no clear chain of command, no communication between federal agencies and state and local responders. Things were different for Sandy.
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CT launches state open data platform
On Monday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration launched Data.ct.gov, Connecticut’s new open data portal that allows widespread amounts of raw government data to be collected, placed on the internet, and shared with the public.
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US energy boom fuels population growth in rural counties
APDU member Population Reference Bureau uses Census data and looks at energy-rich counties in the Midwest and Appalachia that are rebounding from long-term population decline or slow growth compared with the rest of the United States.
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How educators use data: A four step process
From the Data Quality Campaign, a discussion of TERC Using Data’s four-phase process used by educators to analyze data as part of an ongoing collaborative process that investigates student learning.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Visualization of the Week
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Susceptibility map of the San Francisco Bay Area
Roughly one quarter of the San Francisco Bay region may be exposed to liquefaction with the shaking that has been forecast. The area mapped in the Very High, High, and Moderate categories makes up about 25% of the 9-county region. Some of the most hazardous areas are beneath our urban core!
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
MEDIA
NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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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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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey – Insurance Component
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- HUD Multifamily Rental Project Closing Documents Renewal of Currently Approved Collection
Department of Labor
- Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
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