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Cybersyn Government Essentials can serve as your central source of government statistics and reference data. 💥 We are excited to share that we just expanded this product to include text-based US government contracts. Click the link to get started searching for high value government contracts awarded to specific businesses, identifying federal agencies with the greatest contractor spend, and finding government contracts for ESG-related opportunities. https://lnkd.in/dAhg29cR

What is broadband and how can you find free, reliable data to support broadband development in your community? In this video, we answer these questions, demonstrate finding and using Federal Communications Commission and U.S. Census Bureau American Community Service data in the SparkMap Map Room, and discuss pros and cons of each data set. Check it out!

Overflow Data built a simple interactive chart that lets you view access to 25/3 ("high speed") internet by income, race, employment etc. No surprise, but there's a very clear correlation between income and access. https://lnkd.in/emf-s6fx

From the Government Documents Roundtable of ALA [GODORT of American Library Association]: Not only does data.gov have government data sets, but you can also find sets on Open ICPSR. Some particularly cool information about "Sprouting Cities: How Rural America Industrialized" that used US census data from 1880-1940 to study urbanization. See the data here: https://lnkd.in/gwkprGNB Citation: Eckert, Fabian, Juneau, John, and Peters, Michael. Data and Code for “Sprouting Cities: How Rural America Industrialized.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-05-01. https://lnkd.in/g2YvEQtD

Image Text: The fundamental premises of data justice are that data should: (1) make visible community-driven needs, challenges, and strengths, (2) be representative of community; and (3) treat data in ways that promote community self-determination. Information for this graphic was found at - Research & Data Justice — Coalition of Communities of Color. (n.d.-b). Coalition of Communities of Color. https://lnkd.in/gCve7ZbW #UntilJusticeDataPartners #UJDP #SocialJustice #DataJustice #ReseasearchJustice

Discover how OIG presents robust data to enhance your access to information and promote City government accountability and transparency. Find data dashboards showing statistics and trends on City employees, City finances, public safety operations, and more on the OIG Information Portal. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gaSnvEV6

I'm once again honored to be a contributor to the President's Budget and the associated analytical perspectives chapters. Highlights include support for public access and secure access to data! "The Budget includes funding at multiple agencies for the infrastructure and capacity to provide free, immediate, and equitable public access to federally-funded research results, while developing mechanisms to incentivize and reward open, reproducible, and secure research practices, in ways that benefit individuals, industry, and innovators everywhere." https://lnkd.in/eqzcgkty "Today, the Federal statistical system collects and transforms data into useful, objective information and makes it readily and equitably available to stakeholders, while protecting the responses of individual data providers." https://lnkd.in/eTsMMt8r

If you're working on #digitalequity in the US, you may have come across Vernonburg Group's Digital Equity Map. It's a free tool that helps you visualize all publicly available US broadband availability and adoption data. It can help you understand where the gaps are and who is impacted so you can shape policies and plans with greater rigor. We recently updated it with more granular data (down to census tract) and added a demo video. We hope you check it out and find it useful! #digitaldivide #datavisualization

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact is for anyone who uses — or wants to use — data to understand and affect change in our communities. https://lnkd.in/gDpPSvVH

Use our #DataViz to explore characteristics of the U.S. #population 65 years and over. Select from characteristics like veteran status or disability to look at how your state compares to the rest of the nation. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eiGFCDBc #DataVisualization