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Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove
Mr. Ballmer has made public a database and a report that he and a small army of economists, professors and other professionals have been assembling as part of a stealth start-up over the last three years called USAFacts. The database is perhaps the first nonpartisan effort to create a fully integrated look at revenue and spending across federal, state and local governments.
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Advocates Warn of Crisis if Census Funding Not Increased
The decennial Census count has been a staple of American life since the early days of the republic, but at a time when public funding is being slashed and scientific data questioned, Census-watchers fear the 2020 count is heading toward a crisis. The count typically requires a massive ramp-up in spending in the three years preceding it, involving extensive testing, hiring, and publicity. However, Congress has yet to approve a funding increase requested for the 2017 fiscal year, which began in October, and experts say the White House?s proposed budget for 2018 falls far below what is needed.
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Should Antitrust Regulators Limit Data Collection?
There is an emerging debate over the competitive implications of big data. Some observers argue that companies amassing too much data might inhibit competition, so antitrust regulators should preemptively take action to cut ?big data? down to ?medium data.? Others say there is nothing new here, and existing competition law is more than capable of dealing with any problems.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing America?s Middle Class Squeeze
Since 1970, household incomes in American cities have seen a dramatic shift away from the middle toward the extremes. To see how the distribution of incomes has changed, select a city from the list and toggle between 1970 and 2015. Each city is divided up into small regions (Census tracts). The height and color of each region corresonds to its median household income, adjusted for inflation.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
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NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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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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Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 Pledge Update (May 19, 2017)
Census Bureau
- 2017-2019 Company Organization Survey (June 16, 2017)
- Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (May 17, 2017)
- Survey of Income and Program Participation 2018 Panel (June 19, 2017)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Revision of the National Center for Education Statistics Confidentiality Pledges Under Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act and Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (June 19, 2017)
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