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Amendment Filed Endangering 2020 Census
APDU has just learned that Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has filed an amendment to the FY2015 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill (H.R. 4660), being considered now in the U.S. Senate, that would prohibit the Census Bureau from spending funds on the 2020 Census unless it includes questions regarding U.S. citizenship and immigration status. For more detailed information, go to the Census Project Blog here.
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Julia Lane: Keynote Speaker for APDU Conference
Julia Lane, Senior Managing Economist and Institute Fellow at the American Institutes for Research , has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at APDU?s Annual Conference. Her topic will be Innovations in Public Data. Lane, the recent winner of the Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics, will discuss the best uses of technology to maximize the utility of data access while minimizing information risk.
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FY15 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
On June 5, the full Senate Appropriations Committee marked up and reported out the fiscal year (FY) 2015 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Bill. The bill now heads to the Senate floor and could possibly be on the Senate floor as soon as June 16. The Senate version of the bill totals $51.2 billion, which complies with the spending caps set in the bipartisan budget agreement brokered in late 2013 and is nearly $400 million less than the bill?s FY 2014 allocation.
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MA Leads U.S. in Progress Toward ?New Economy,?
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has released 2014 State New Economy Index. The Index uses 25 indicators broken up into five key areas that best capture what is new about the New Economy.
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Distrust your Data
Data journalism is not a new thing, the latest sites and techniques are simply new names for the age-old service of finding the story.
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Senators Secure DATA Commitment from OMB Nominee
At a Senate confirmation hearing last week, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) committed to implementing the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act).
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Modernizing BEA?s International Economic Accounts
The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s new presentations reflect a comprehensive restructuring of the international accounts that enhances the quality and usefulness of the accounts for customers and bring the accounts into closer alignment with international guidelines.
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More Economic Statistics Added to BEA?s API
The API now provides direct access to the gross domestic product (GDP) underlying detail tables. Those tables contain a wealth of statistics, including how much consumers spend on hundreds of items like furnishings, food and flowers and how much revenue the government takes in and spends.
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Big Data Made Simple
Here is a list of 50 selected papers in Data Mining and Machine Learning. They can downloaded for detailed reading and research.
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Visualization of the Week
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Employment-to-Population Ratios
Unemployment rates, the most familiar and famous of labor market indicators, are nearing pre-recession lows. But the shares of adults with jobs ? or employment rates ? look much less healthy.
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Notable Data Publications
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