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    {"title" :"Moving from Open Data to Open Knowledge: Announcing the Commerce Data Usability Project","summary" : "Opening up government to better serve the American people has been a key priority of this Administration from day one. On his first full day in office, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, ushering in a new era of open and accountable government. Since then, the Administration has continued to take","date" : "2016-01-29T11:32:00-04:00","date_modified" : "2024-04-02T09:45:13-04:00","authors" : {"jeffrey-chen" : "Jeffrey Chen","tyrone-grandison" : "Tyrone Grandison","kristen-honey" : "Kristen Honey, PhD"},"topics" : {
        
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Since then, the Administration has continued to take unprecedented steps to make government more efficient and effective, including launching \u003ca href=\"http://www.data.gov/\"\u003eData.gov\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/20/fact-sheet-open-government-partnership\"\u003eestablishing\u003c/a\u003e the international Open Government Partnership, and signing an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-\"\u003eExecutive Order on Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information\u003c/a\u003e. And under the Administration’s direction, Federal agencies are developing and implementing their own open-government efforts.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), for instance, is an example of a Federal agency leading the charge on using open data to create real-world value. In just the past year, for instance, DOC established the \u003ca href=\"http://www.esa.doc.gov/content/commerce-data-advisory-council-cdac\"\u003eCommerce Data Advisory Council\u003c/a\u003e, a group of up to 20 expert members helping to optimize the beneficial use of the full range of data that the DOC distributes, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2015/11/announcing-commerce-data-service\"\u003eCommerce Data Service\u003c/a\u003e, a within-government start-up team forming partnerships with the twelve bureaus that make up the DOC to deliver products and services to help government agencies.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in 2016, the DOC is committed to building on this momentum with new and expanded efforts to transform open \u003cstrong\u003edata\u003c/strong\u003e into \u003cstrong\u003eknowledge\u003c/strong\u003e into \u003cstrong\u003eaction\u003c/strong\u003e. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/01/600-x-183-Data-Knowledge-Action-icons.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Data Knowledge Action icons.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDOC has been in the business of open data for a long time. DOC’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) alone collects and disseminates huge amounts of data that fuel the global weather economy—and this information represents just a fraction of the tens of thousands of datasets that DOC collects and manages, on topics ranging from satellite imagery to material standards to demographic surveys.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, far too many DOC datasets are either hard to find, difficult to use, and/or not yet publicly available on Data.gov, the home of U.S. government’s open data. This challenge is not exclusive to DOC; and indeed, under \u003ca href=\"https://project-open-data.cio.gov/\"\u003eProject Open Data\u003c/a\u003e, Federal agencies are working hard on various efforts to make tax-payer funded data more easily discoverable.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/01/600-x-289-Commerce-Data-Usability-Project-fig2.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Screen capture of the Commerce Data Usability Project. homepage.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of these efforts is DOC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.commerce.gov/datausability/\"\u003eCommerce Data Usability Project (CDUP)\u003c/a\u003e. To unlock the power of data, just making data open isn’t enough. It’s critical to make data easier to find and use—to provide information and tools that make data accessible and actionable for all users. That’s why DOC formed a public-private partnership to create CDUP, a collection of online data tutorials that provide students, developers, and entrepreneurs with the necessary context and code for them to start quickly extracting value from various datasets. Tutorials exist on topics such as:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNOAA’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdi/\"\u003eSevere Weather Data Inventory (SWDI)\u003c/a\u003e, demonstrating how to use hail data to save life and property. The \u003ca href=\"https://commercedataservice.github.io/tutorial_noaa_hail/\"\u003etutorial\u003c/a\u003e helps users see that hail events often occur in the summer (late night to early morning), and in midwestern and southern states.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://nvd.nist.gov/home.cfm\"\u003eSecurity vulnerability data\u003c/a\u003e from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The \u003ca href=\"http://commercedataservice.github.io/tutorial_nist_nvd/\"\u003etutorial\u003c/a\u003e helps users see that spikes and dips in security incidents consistently occur in the same set of weeks each year.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ncc.nesdis.noaa.gov/VIIRS/\"\u003eVisible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)\u003c/a\u003e data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The \u003ca href=\"http://commercedataservice.github.io/tutorial_viirs_part1/\"\u003etutorial\u003c/a\u003e helps users understand how to use satellite imagery to estimate populations.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/\"\u003eAmerican Community Survey (ACS)\u003c/a\u003e data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The \u003ca href=\"http://commercedataservice.github.io/tutorial_acs_rank/\"\u003etutorial\u003c/a\u003e helps users understand how nonprofits can identify communities that they want to serve based on demographic traits.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the coming months, CDUP will continue to expand with a rich, diverse set of additional tutorials. DOC also welcomes additional data tutorials from contributors who want to demonstrate how to take advantage of the powerful applications of data managed by DOC.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can help make CDUP better by:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoining in! Read the \u003ca href=\"https://www.commerce.gov/datausability/docs/CDUP%20Guidelines.pdf\"\u003eUsability Project Guidelines\u003c/a\u003e [PDF] and \u003ca href=\"mailto:datausability@doc.gov?subject=%5BCDUP%5D%20Idea\"\u003esubmit your CDUP tutorial idea\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClicking \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/CommerceDataService/DataUsability_Website/issues\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e to provide feedback on the CDUP website.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:datausability@doc.gov?subject=%5BCDUP%5D:%20How%20I%20am%20using%20CDUP%20tutorials\"\u003eTelling us\u003c/a\u003e how you are using these tutorials and what improvements we could make.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank you for your contributions!\u003cem\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/01/29/moving-open-data-open-knowledge-announcing-commerce-data-usability-project\"\u003eWhite House blog\u003c/a\u003e by Jeffrey Chen, Chief Data Scientist at the Department of Commerce; Tyrone Grandison, Deputy Chief Data Officer at the Department of Commerce; Kristen Honey, Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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