Data roundup (week of January 31, 2014)

This week I'm catching up on things that happened while I was away...

The sequester cuts will result in less data from BEA, including important statistics like county-level information by industry on the number of people employed and average wage.

The U.S. Census Bureau released 2012 population estimates, 2008-2012 ACS data, ACS PUMS, and launched the new Census Explorer.

KidsData.org revamped their website (webinar on the new KidsData.org interface scheduled for Tuesday, February 25, 2014).

Data roundup (week of January 24, 2014)

The week's top data analysis links...


NEW AND NOTEWORTHY DATA

New population estimates from the Census Bureau show a slow rebound in state-to-state migration flows.


IN OTHER NEWS...

The popular press has a bias toward reporting on bad medical research. New analysis by researchers at Brigham and Women's hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, and the National Institutes of Health find that:

Newspapers were more likely to cover observational studies and less likely to cover RCTs than high impact journals. Additionally, when the media does cover observational studies, they select articles of inferior quality.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...

I had been on maternity leave for several weeks, and missed fun things like the release of 5-year ACS data while I was doing other fun things like bonding with my bouncing baby boy. But my family's "vital event" also gives me renewed focus on providing good data for sound public policy decision-making. (If that focus has shifted more toward vaccination rates than transportation mode shares, you'll know why...)