The 2017 APDU Data Viz Awards winners have been selected by the APDU nominating committee. The Association of Public Data Users is pleased to announce an outstanding group of public data visualizations from 2017. This year?s visualizations include infographics, maps, and graphical interfaces using programs such as ArcGIS and Tableau.
APDU Vice President: A (Data) Visualized World The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) continues to recognize those who demonstrate the impact data visualizations can have on our discourse. For the second year, APDU is proud to recognize the country?s top data visualizations that leverage our nation?s wealth of publicly-available data to convey a compelling point or story.
The 2017 Annual APDU Conference will also host a panel on ?Innovations in Data Visualization?, featuring best practices and applications, and examples of how experts have used visualizations to improve their programs, solve critical issues, and powerfully convey meaningful information. We hope you will join us in Arlington, VA, September 13th and 14th, for our ongoing discussion of Communicating Data in an otherwise noisy world.
Thank you for your submissions for the Job Board. Members are invited to submit job postings at their organization; the Board also includes a collection of public data-related positions (research, projections, etc.) from a variety of Federal, nonprofit, and private sources. You can submit your job postings to info@apdu.org.
Not only does the Census Bureau need an adequate budget; in the wake of the director’s departure, it also urgently needs a strong leader to guide the process. There?s no time to waste. The Trump administration should immediately nominate a new director, and Senate Democrats need to allow for the nominee?s quick confirmation.
The Sunlight Foundation would like your input for the Survey of Federal Data Usage by City Governments. Please consider taking seven minutes to share how your department or city works with federal data to inform the creation of a comprehensive and unprecedented view of federal data use across city governments.
The Department of Education has yet to provide institutions this year with lists of graduates from gainful-employment programs — a preliminary step for calculating debt-to-earnings ratios that measure whether career training programs saddle students with debt they can’t repay.
The U.S. Census Bureau updated the Census Flows Mapper to include 2011-2015 American Community Survey data. Census Flows Mapper is a web mapping application that allows users to view and save county-to-county migration flows in the United States. The updated tables cover migration flows between counties by selected characteristics including sex, age, race and Hispanic origin.
Nonprofit Explorer Update: Full Text of 1.9 Million Records ProPublica updated the Nonprofit Explorer news application, adding raw data from more than 1.9 million electronically filed Form 990 documents dating back to 2010. This new trove includes the full text of more than 132,000 forms for which there was no complete data.
Visualization of the Week
How Far You Can Drive in an Hour From Major Cities It’s Friday afternoon on a perfect summer day, and you’re ready to escape the city. Just how fast could you get out? If you picked up your keys and hit the road, here’s where you could end up.
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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):
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Annual Parole Survey, Annual Probation Survey, and Annual Probation Survey (September 13, 2017)
