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New Data Tools Connect American Workers to Education and Job Opportunities

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Olivia Goodreau stands with her live demo table for the app she invented, Tick Tracker, at The Opportunity Project Demo, 3/1/19. Tick Tracker uses CDC and other federal data to provide heat maps of nearby ticks to prevent lyme disease.
After she was infected with Lyme disease at age 6, Olivia was hospitalized for months, and suffered blackouts and the inability to walk for long stretches of her young life. She had a dream of creating tools that would help other kids in her position. At 14, she is the inventor of Tick Tracker, a global app that uses federal data to help people identify ticks around them, and the founder of the...
Investing in communities and workers
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White House Releases First-Quarter Milestones on Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset

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Today marks the release of the first-quarter milestones for Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset , a new and exciting Cross-Agency Priority Goal of the President’s Management Agenda . I am excited to co-lead this effort with my colleagues, Pradeep Belur, Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff at the Small Business Administration, Suzette Kent, Federal Chief Information Officer, Nancy Potok,...
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White House Hosts Roundtable on Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset

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Today, I attended an expert roundtable on Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset , co-hosted by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Center for Open Data Enterprise . Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset is a new and exciting Cross-Agency Priority Goal of the President’s Management Agenda (PMA), and I am thrilled to co-lead this effort with my colleagues, Pradeep Belur, Chief of Staff...
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Data and reports

The Commerce Department collects, stores, and analyzes a wealth of information, including data on the Nation’s economy , population , and environment . These data go to the core of the Department’s mission. As America’s Data Agency, the Department of Commerce is using its data to spur innovation inside and outside the Federal Government and promote greater prosperity across the country.” -...
America's Data Agency
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Bureau APIs

Find and access featured data or web services from the department's agencies and mission areas.
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Delivering Data Innovation – A Partnership Model That’s Working

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We are reminded almost daily of the importance of Commerce’s data for our nation’s people, businesses, and economy. NOAA’s satellite and weather data are helping individual Americans and businesses plan future activity. Survey data disseminated by the U.S. Census Bureau are empowering businesses and communities to make evidence-based decisions. BEA’s economic indicators , which include the GDP,...
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Making Statistics Accessible, Anywhere, Anytime

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The U.S. Census Bureau is proud to announce a new collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and their mobile application, FRED – making it easier for data users to access our statistics anytime and on any device. Web applications, which present information in visually appealing and interactive ways, are a great way to serve the needs of many customers. Web and mobile apps not only...
Economic indicators
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Data tutorials

Please note that due to the retirement of the Commerce Data Service, these data tutorials are no longer actively maintained and are presented as-is for public use. Over time, the links and code in the tutorials may break or become outdated. When possible, broken links have been updated to an archive.org snapshot. With tens of thousands of datasets ranging from satellite imagery to material...
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Commerce Data Academy

This page is an archive of content and course materials from the Commerce Data Academy, which was organized by the Commerce Data Service under the Economics and Statistics Administration. With the closure of the Commerce Data Service, the Academy does not have any planned future courses at this time. However, most of the course materials and recordings are available for viewing below. The goal of...
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The Opportunity Project Demo Day: Open Innovation in Action

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Guest blog post by Drew Zachary and Mara Abrams, U.S. Census Bureau On November 29th, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Karen Dunn Kelley and Acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin kicked off The Opportunity Project Demo Day , an event that brought together over 200 innovators from the tech industry, government, non-profits and universities to launch 12 new digital tools built with public...
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