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APDU Blog Post: #IgniteAPDU
CREC intern Greg Hirschfeld writes about the trends he found during the innovative #IgniteAPDU sessions at the 2014 Annual APDU Conference. The sessions featured keynote speaker Mark Doms, the Undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Economic and Statistics Administration who discussed the importance of data-sharing, public-private partnerships, and his vision for data usage in the future. The sessions also featured speakers from Phase2, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Pew Charitable Trusts, LawAtlas, U.S. International Trade Administration, General Dynamics, and the U.S. Census Bureau. This diverse panel gave insight into how organizations can better use, create, and visualize data.
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Customer Survey on BLS Publications
The BLS currently has a customer survey on their website, made to help improve BLS publications and web content. Please provide your comments no later than November 30th.
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Medicare Revises Nursing Home Rating System
The federal government announced substantial changes to the government?s five-star rating program for nursing homes, a widely used consumer tool that has been criticized for its reliance on self-reported, unverified data.
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Hadoop: A Government Primer
Hadoop is open-source software that data scientists can use for large-scale distributed computing. It has two main components: Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) which is used to store data across multiple computers, and MapReduce, which is used to divide labor among those computers to perform large computations quickly.
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Making Sense of Environmental Observations
Through a collaboration of DataONE and multiple partners, bird occurrence data collected by citizen scientists has been combined with land use data to allow researchers to map over 300 bird species against important environmental factors. This effort is one example of DataONE’s accomplishments, which will continue to expand through a $15 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Big Data a Big Deal for Recipients of Big Data Grants
To catalyze new biomedical Big Data research, the Obama Administration and the National Institutes of Health launched the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative in April 2013. They are pleased to announce that the NIH has awarded a total of $32 million in new grants.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New Heat Content Data from EIA
The heat content of natural gas, or the amount of energy released when a volume of gas is burned, varies according to the extent that gases with higher heat content than methane are included in delivered gas. EIA is now publishing the heat content of end-use natural gas by state in the Natural Gas Monthly.
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New Data in O*NET Websites
The 19.0 database is now incorporated within My Next Move, Mi Pr?ximo Paso, My Next Move for Veterans, and O*NET OnLine. Comprehensive data is available for 940 O*NET-SOC occupations. Specifically, the 19.0 database updated 126 O*NET-SOCs.
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Visualization of the Week
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Immigrants Aren’t Taking Jobs, They’re Making Their Own
Over the past 20 years, immigrants have accounting for a strikingly large share of American entrepreneurs. Using data from the Pew Research Center and the Fiscal Policy Institute researching small business owners, the immigration blog Migreat built a chart looking at which countries’ natives are most likely to start businesses upon moving to the US.
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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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Food and Drug Administration
- Survey of Pharmacists and Patients: Variations in the Physical Characteristics of Generic Drug Pills and Patients’ Perceptions (December 15, 2014)
Small Business Administration
- Participation of Women in Business Incubators and Accelerators (December 9, 2014)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, HHS
- Identifying Core Competencies of Peer Workers in Behavioral Health Service (November 10, 2014)
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