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State of the Science and Engineering Data Infrastructure: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Three experts discuss the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, which provides data on science and engineering enterprise; collects essential data on STEM education; provides research and development activities, funding, and infrastructure; and supports data innovations.
ASA Empowers Journalists Through Federal Data Resources
The ASA’s Count on Stats collaborated with its partners to improve journalists’ understanding of federal statistical agency resources and how they can use federal data to enhance their news stories.
Significance Allows Statistics to Tell COVID-19 Story
Significance issued an open call for contributions, asking statisticians and data scientists “to help us explain the statistics of COVID-19.”
Awards and Deadlines for March 2016
Nominations are sought for the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award, the Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research, and the Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics.
Argentine Statistics Making Turnaround
Graciela Bevacqua was recently announced as the technical director for the Argentine National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), the agency from which she was fired in 2007 under the previous government for defending the integrity of INDEC inflation data.
Data Synchronization: Leveraging Existing Business Data to Better Measure the Economy
This month’s guest columnist, Adrienne Pilot of the Council of Economic Advisers, describes a major development for the federal statistical agencies. A carefully crafted proposal to Congress would allow the economic statistical agencies to better synchronize their business data, thereby allowing these agencies to improve their economic statistical data while still protecting confidentiality.