|
New APDU Webinar on Data Documentation
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing survey and other social science data. Documenting research data with DDI facilitates interpretation and understanding ? both by humans and computers. Learn how DDI improves the ability of researchers and organizations to Document, Discover, and Interoperate in this APDU Webinar on March 7.
|
|
Count on Stats Launch
A public outreach initiative, enhancing awareness of the importance, reliability, and trustworthiness of government statistics.
|
|
RegTech Data Summit 2018
The inaugural RegTech Data Summit on March 7th, 2018, will connect agency leaders, Congress, regulated industries, and tech companies to define the future of this emerging policy area.
|
|
Why Do People Still Think Data Is the New Oil?
When British data scientist Clive Humby coined the popular maxim ?data is the new oil? in 2006, people interpreted it to mean data had become the most valuable commodity in the modern economy. But while it is certainly true that data has become invaluable, the oil analogy is fundamentally flawed, and thinking of it that way risks breathing life into ill-conceived ideas for limiting how businesses collect and use data?which would limit its economic benefits.
|
|
Data Privacy Day is Every Day at BLS
There are many commemorative days, weeks, and months, but Data Privacy Day on January 28 is one that we here at BLS live every day of the year. If this is the first time you?re hearing about it, Data Privacy Day is an international effort to ?create awareness about the importance of: respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust.?
|
|
Visualization of the Week
|
|
Visualizing the Second Hottest Year on Record
The New York Times has created a data visualization charting the temperatures in 3,800 cities for every day in 2017 and comparing the temperatures to the normal temperature range and historical highs and lows. The visualization uses data from weather forecasting company Accuweather and indicates that 88 percent of cities had annual mean temperatures higher than normal for 2017, making it the second hottest year on record.
|
|
Notable Data Publications
|
|
GOVERNMENT
PRIVATE SECTOR
MEDIA
NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
|
|
Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we?ll include it here.
|
|
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
- 2018 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (February 26, 2018)
Census Bureau
- School District Review Program (April 2, 2018)
- Quarterly Services Survey (March 30, 2018)
U.S. Geological Survey
- International Organization for Standardization Geospatial Metadata Editors Registry (March 2, 2018)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
- Water Use Surveys (March 1, 2018)
|
|
|
|
Not an APDU Member? Become one today! Check out our membership benefits.
|
| |
