APDU Past President Warren Brown writes the how the APDU Conference session “Public Concerns About Privacy in the Use of Administrative Records” will answer your questions about how administrative data can both reduce respondent burden and protect privacy.
This session and several others will inform attendees at the conference on how administrative data can reduce respondent burden, protect privacy, and open up new possibilities for data linkages and analysis.
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Better information could help close the opportunity gap in higher education.
Cities Turn to ‘Citizen Scientists’ Governments have more data than they have the manpower to handle. Some recruit volunteers to help analyze it all, but they’re far from being experts in data.
The U.S. Census Bureau?s International Data Base update provides revisions for 16 countries and areas. Revised estimates and projections are available for American Samoa, Angola, Botswana, Burma, Guam, Iran, Jordan, Liberia, Mali, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Tunisia, United States, U.S. Virgin Islands and Zimbabwe.
An open data portal has been launched by eHealth Ireland. The portal aims to bring together some 300 different open data sources into one place, making it easier to find data from across the Irish Health Sector.
At the crossroads of data design and data art, ?Data Shapes? is an experimental project that introduces a realtime way to visualize the global flow of public data (referring to both free and open data). Rather than the data itself, the goal of this project is to shape the continuous flow of massive amounts of data that overwhelm us daily (public data deluge), and for which there is no available broad picture. In other words, the project tried to give an aesthetic form to massive streams of data that cannot be conventionally assessed either manually or intellectually.
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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 Economic Analysis
Quarterly Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States?Transactions of U.S. Affiliate with Foreign Parent (October 20, 2017)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
Agricultural Prices (September 22, 2017)
National Center for Health Statistics
National Health Interview Survey (October 20, 2017)
August 24, 2017
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