Features   Congress is Stepping Up to Protect Open Data By all accounts, the open data policy implemented by the Obama administration in May 2013 has been a tremendous success. However, despite open data?s obvious… 

Features Join Us at the APDU 2016 Annual Conference!   At the 2016 APDU Annual Conference, you have a unique opportunity to directly influence how federal statistics are gathered, produced, and shared.  Learn from experts. … 

Features   BLS Issues Call for Presenters Have you used the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) in your work?  More specifically, have you used the public-use microdata files from the CE in research you have conducted? … 

Features   New Federal Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking President Obama has signed a bipartisan bill creating a 15-member commission to figure out how to coordinate and use federal data without risking personal information privacy. The… 

Features   USPTO Puts Data in the Hands of Innovators The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been in the business of ?open data? since the very beginning of the agency?s history, when President… 

Features   SCOTUS Ruling: A Blow to Data-Driven Health-Care Policy The Supreme Court?s recent decision in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company delivered a blow against states? efforts to develop data-driven health-care policy. The Court… 

Features   How to Tell a Compelling Story with Data The way a message is communicated is almost as important as the message itself. Our world is moving towards a more data-oriented approach to decision… 

Features   National Health Interview Survey Questions May Be Cut The National Center for Health Statistics announced a plan to dramatically overhaul the NHIS and is requesting comments on these changes. This includes a short…