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NSF’s Statistical Division Seeks Director
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting applications for the position of Division Director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), NSF’s principal statistical agency housed within the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE). More information is available in the posting on USAjobs. Applications must be submitted by December 4, 2017.
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Recs to the GSA for the Action Plan for Open Government
Recently, the Center for Data Innovation submitted recommendations to the U.S. General Services Administration for the fourth U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government?the biennial commitments the United States makes to the Open Government Partnership, an initiative in which 75 national and 15 subnational governments have pledged to ?promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.?
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Fighting Housing Fraud With Data Science
The Greater London Authority is working with public sector innovation-focused charity Nesta and data science firm ASI Data Science to use data analytics to better police houses in multiple occupation (HMOs)?rental units with at least three unrelated tenants. ASI Data Science used housing data from the City of Westminster to build an algorithm that can identify an HMO with 500 percent greater accuracy than picking properties at random, which can help housing authorities investigate these cases much more productively.
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Accessing New Data Sources Through Data Collaboratives
If Statistical Offices fail to find new ways to deliver ?evidence of tomorrow?, by leveraging new data sources, this could mean that public policy may be formed without access to the full range of available and relevant intelligence ? as most business leaders have. At worst, a thinning evidence base and lack of rigorous data foundation could lead to errors and more ?fake news,? with possibly harmful public policy implications.
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Visualization of the Week
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What?s Across the Ocean From You?
In ancient times, many people used to think that the world simply ended at the horizon, perhaps after a ring of dangerous dragons or sea monsters. Today we know better ? but perhaps not that much better. The following maps, inspired by a map by Eric Odenheimer, show the cities and countries that are at the same latitude across the ocean, for anywhere in the world.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
- American Enterprise Institute
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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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Department of Education
- State Educational Agency and Local Educational Agency-School Data Collection and Reporting Under ESEA, Title I, Part A (December 26, 2017)
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