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Commerce Selects First Ever Chief Data Scientist
With the launch of the Commerce Data Service (CDS), the U.S. Department of Commerce is taking big steps toward building a data-driven government. Commerce recently announced another major milestone in this effort, as it has hired its first-ever Chief Data Scientist, Jeffrey Chen.
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States Flunk Push for Open Data
Nearly all 50 states came up short in their efforts to open data to the public, according to a new report from a nonprofit watchdog group. In its second ?State Integrity Investigation,? the Center for Public Integrity found that 42 states have no open data laws on the books.
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UK Government Aims to Upgrade Open Data Infrastructure
The move is the latest in the long term strategy of making more government data available for re-use by public service providers and businesses, and improving its quality to support policy-making. Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock said this reflects data?s value as a mineable commodity from which value can be extracted, the infrastructure of the digital economy and a new form of property.
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Cuts to Census May Underrepresent Minorities
Cuts in U.S. Census funding threaten to produce an undercount of minorities and the poor and to reduce their share of federal aid. African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority populations are in danger of losing representation in Congress as well as their share of more than $400 billion a year in federal funds for health care, education, job training, and community development.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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FEC Launches New Campaign Finance Website
The Federal Election Commission launched a new public website built with the help of expert digital services team 18F, and aimed at improving Americans’ access to political fundraising and campaign spending data. Called betaFEC, the new website is the first step in a total redesign of the FEC’s online presence, hoping to make the agency’s vast volumes of data ? and the many complicated statutes that govern them ? more comprehensible to the public, the media and everyone in between.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing Gender Equality Around the World
The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the research arm of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has developed a series of data visualizations that illustrate gender equality and its effect on national gross domestic product (GDP) to accompany its recent report, ?How Advancing Women?s Equality Can Add $12 Trillion to Global Growth.? The visualizations show country-level breakdowns of 15 indicators of gender equality, such as labor-force participation and political representation, compare regional variations in gender equality, and graph how each region?s GDP would improve if countries achieve equal gender participation in the workforce by 2025.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & 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
- Generic Clearance for Questionnaire Pretesting Research (January 15, 2016)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017-2018 Recruitment for 2017 Operational Field Test (December 17, 2015)
- Recent Graduates Employment and Earnings Survey Standards and Survey Form (December 14, 2015)
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