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<p>For the first time, USDA’s Rural Housing Service is publicly releasing data across every program area in which the agency provides loans, guarantees, and grants—multifamily housing, single-family housing, and community facilities. This set of data will bring stakeholders and the public unprecedented insights into rural housing program delivery, impacts, challenges, and opportunities across the country. It will be updated regularly, so check back frequently for the latest release.</p>
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<p><em>(Sep 2, 2015)</em> The Administration is expanding its Climate Data Initiative (CDI) and Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) to include a new “Arctic” theme. The Arctic theme will encompass more than 250 Arctic-related datasets (32 of which are being made available for the first time), and more than 40 maps, tools, and other resources designed to support climate-resilience efforts in Alaska and the Arctic, including seven “Taking Action” case studies in key areas of climate-change risks and vulnerability for Alaska and the Arctic. The Administration also recently expanded the CRT to include a new “Tribal Nations” theme, comprised of more than 40 resources—with more to be added in the future—to assist Tribal nations in climate-change planning, adaptation, and mitigation. Resources include a comprehensive Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit, and a set of guidelines for considering traditional knowledge in climate change initiatives. These datasets and resources are now cataloged on, respectively,climate.data.gov and toolkit.climate.gov, making them easier for innovators, decision makers, and interested members of the public to find and use. In addition, the Administration is engaging the private sector around the CDI and CRT to help accelerate the development and deployment of products, tools, and applications powered by open Arctic data to help Alaskan and other northern communities better understand their vulnerability to, and prepare for, the impacts of climate change.</p>
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<p class="p1"><b>WASHINGTON, July 27, 2015</b> – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is partnering with Microsoft to launch the “Innovation Challenge,” a competition to develop software applications that help farmers, agriculture businesses, and consumers explore how climate change will affect their food systems.</p>
<p class="p1">The Innovation Challenge was formally launched on July 27<span class="s1"><sup>th</sup></span> at a conference of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in San Francisco. Challenge participants have 3 months to create their applications, with a top prize of $25,000 going to the most creative application that best exploits USDA data sets that are now being hosted on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.</p>
<p class="p1">Entrants are invited to develop and publish new applications and tools that can help users analyze multiple sources of information, including key USDA data sets. In addition, Microsoft is granting cloud computing awards to aid university researchers and students that are looking to take part in the challenge. Challenge winners will be announced in December 2015.</p>
<p class="p1">Full details of the challenge can be found at <a href="x-webdoc://979AC4A7-D7E8-4D6B-9B6D-65A5FEE005CD/%3Ehttp://usdaapps.challengepost.com%3C" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span class="s2">>http://usdaapps.challengepost.com<</span></a>.</p>
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<p>This monthly report provides national trade data including imports, exports, and balance of payments for goods and services. Statistics are also reported on a year-to-date basis. Data are continuously compiled and processed. Documents are collected as shipments arrive and depart, and are processed on a flow basis.</p>
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<p>Provides Seattle Fire Department 911 dispatches updated every 5 minutes. Available in an easy to explore, interactive format.</p>
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<p><em>(Sep 2, 2015)</em> The Administration is expanding its Climate Data Initiative (CDI) and Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) to include a new “Arctic” theme. The Arctic theme will encompass more than 250 Arctic-related datasets (32 of which are being made available for the first time), and more than 40 maps, tools, and other resources designed to support climate-resilience efforts in Alaska and the Arctic, including seven “Taking Action” case studies in key areas of climate-change risks and vulnerability for Alaska and the Arctic. The Administration also recently expanded the CRT to include a new “Tribal Nations” theme, comprised of more than 40 resources—with more to be added in the future—to assist Tribal nations in climate-change planning, adaptation, and mitigation. Resources include a comprehensive Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit, and a set of guidelines for considering traditional knowledge in climate change initiatives. These datasets and resources are now cataloged on, respectively,climate.data.gov and toolkit.climate.gov, making them easier for innovators, decision makers, and interested members of the public to find and use. In addition, the Administration is engaging the private sector around the CDI and CRT to help accelerate the development and deployment of products, tools, and applications powered by open Arctic data to help Alaskan and other northern communities better understand their vulnerability to, and prepare for, the impacts of climate change.</p>
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<p class="p1"><b>WASHINGTON, July 27, 2015</b> – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is partnering with Microsoft to launch the “Innovation Challenge,” a competition to develop software applications that help farmers, agriculture businesses, and consumers explore how climate change will affect their food systems.</p>
<p class="p1">The Innovation Challenge was formally launched on July 27<span class="s1"><sup>th</sup></span> at a conference of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in San Francisco. Challenge participants have 3 months to create their applications, with a top prize of $25,000 going to the most creative application that best exploits USDA data sets that are now being hosted on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.</p>
<p class="p1">Entrants are invited to develop and publish new applications and tools that can help users analyze multiple sources of information, including key USDA data sets. In addition, Microsoft is granting cloud computing awards to aid university researchers and students that are looking to take part in the challenge. Challenge winners will be announced in December 2015.</p>
<p class="p1">Full details of the challenge can be found at <a href="x-webdoc://979AC4A7-D7E8-4D6B-9B6D-65A5FEE005CD/%3Ehttp://usdaapps.challengepost.com%3C" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span class="s2">>http://usdaapps.challengepost.com<</span></a>.</p>
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<p><em>(Sep 2, 2015)</em> The Administration is expanding its Climate Data Initiative (CDI) and Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) to include a new “Arctic” theme. The Arctic theme will encompass more than 250 Arctic-related datasets (32 of which are being made available for the first time), and more than 40 maps, tools, and other resources designed to support climate-resilience efforts in Alaska and the Arctic, including seven “Taking Action” case studies in key areas of climate-change risks and vulnerability for Alaska and the Arctic. The Administration also recently expanded the CRT to include a new “Tribal Nations” theme, comprised of more than 40 resources—with more to be added in the future—to assist Tribal nations in climate-change planning, adaptation, and mitigation. Resources include a comprehensive Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit, and a set of guidelines for considering traditional knowledge in climate change initiatives. These datasets and resources are now cataloged on, respectively,climate.data.gov and toolkit.climate.gov, making them easier for innovators, decision makers, and interested members of the public to find and use. In addition, the Administration is engaging the private sector around the CDI and CRT to help accelerate the development and deployment of products, tools, and applications powered by open Arctic data to help Alaskan and other northern communities better understand their vulnerability to, and prepare for, the impacts of climate change.</p>
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<p class="p1"><b>WASHINGTON, July 27, 2015</b> – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is partnering with Microsoft to launch the “Innovation Challenge,” a competition to develop software applications that help farmers, agriculture businesses, and consumers explore how climate change will affect their food systems.</p>
<p class="p1">The Innovation Challenge was formally launched on July 27<span class="s1"><sup>th</sup></span> at a conference of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in San Francisco. Challenge participants have 3 months to create their applications, with a top prize of $25,000 going to the most creative application that best exploits USDA data sets that are now being hosted on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.</p>
<p class="p1">Entrants are invited to develop and publish new applications and tools that can help users analyze multiple sources of information, including key USDA data sets. In addition, Microsoft is granting cloud computing awards to aid university researchers and students that are looking to take part in the challenge. Challenge winners will be announced in December 2015.</p>
<p class="p1">Full details of the challenge can be found at <a href="x-webdoc://979AC4A7-D7E8-4D6B-9B6D-65A5FEE005CD/%3Ehttp://usdaapps.challengepost.com%3C" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span class="s2">>http://usdaapps.challengepost.com<</span></a>.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/consumer-complaint-database" class="local-link">Consumer Complaint Database</a> contains data from the complaints received by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (<abbr>CFPB</abbr>) on financial products and services, including bank accounts, credit cards, credit reporting, debt collection, money transfers, mortgages, student loans, and other types of consumer credit. The database contains over 100,000 anonymized complaints and is refreshed daily. Data available about each complaint includes the name of the provider, type of complaint, date, zip code, and other information. The <abbr title="Consumer Financial Protection Bureau">CFPB</abbr> does not verify the accuracy of all facts alleged in the complaints, but takes steps to confirm a commercial relationship between the consumer and the identified company exists.</p>
<p class="description"><strong>Data in Action: Combatting Fraud</strong></p>
<p class="description">One company uses big-data analytics to find grey charges on users’ credit cards and debit cards by drawing upon billing dispute data from the web, banks, and the <abbr title="Consumer Financial Protection Bureau">CFPB</abbr>’s open consumer complaint database.</p>
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<p><strong>Data in Action</strong>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.recallsplus.com/" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">SAP Recalls Plus</a> allows consumers to create watch lists or specific product alerts around government created product safety recall lists.</p>
<p><a href="http://wemakeitsafer.com/" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">We Make it Safer</a> uses government recall history to let users compare products they own to products on safety recall lists.</p>
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<p>Salary information for all active, permanent employees of Montgomery County, Maryland, as of January 15, 2013. This data will be updated annually. This is presented as an interactive, easy-to-explore dataset.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/consumer-complaint-database" class="local-link">Consumer Complaint Database</a> contains data from the complaints received by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (<abbr>CFPB</abbr>) on financial products and services, including bank accounts, credit cards, credit reporting, debt collection, money transfers, mortgages, student loans, and other types of consumer credit. The database contains over 100,000 anonymized complaints and is refreshed daily. Data available about each complaint includes the name of the provider, type of complaint, date, zip code, and other information. The <abbr title="Consumer Financial Protection Bureau">CFPB</abbr> does not verify the accuracy of all facts alleged in the complaints, but takes steps to confirm a commercial relationship between the consumer and the identified company exists.</p>
<p class="description"><strong>Data in Action: Combatting Fraud</strong></p>
<p class="description">One company uses big-data analytics to find grey charges on users’ credit cards and debit cards by drawing upon billing dispute data from the web, banks, and the <abbr title="Consumer Financial Protection Bureau">CFPB</abbr>’s open consumer complaint database.</p>
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<p>The Third Annual Safety Datapalooza is being held today from 9 AM to 1 PM ET at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The event will be livestreamed at <a href="http://livestream.com/uspto/SafetyDatapalooza" target="_blank" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">http://livestream.com/uspto/SafetyDatapalooza</a>.</p>
<p>From 10:50 – 11:30 AM ET, the Innovation for Disaster Response and Recovery Initiative will be featured during a panel moderated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Panelists from the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Geological Survey, and the Data.gov team will discuss recent technology and innovation milestones, #opendata efforts, and opportunities for public engagement.</p>
<p>This year’s Safety Datapalooza will provide an overview of ongoing programs as well as new commitments. Senior government representatives will join innovators from private, nonprofit, and academic organizations, sharing examples of projects that have used freely available government data to build products, services, and apps that advance public safety in creative and powerful ways.</p>
<p>The event will include new safety data resources in the areas of transportation, food, occupational, and consumer product safety, as well as tools to improve disaster preparedness and emergency response.</p>
<p>Follow @SafetyDataGov on Twitter and #SafetyData #DisasterTech for the latest information about the event and ongoing efforts.</p>
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<p>Strengthening our Nation’s resilience to disasters is a shared responsibility, with all community members contributing their unique skills and perspectives. Whether you’re a data steward who can <a href="http://www.data.gov/disasters/call-action-open-data/" class="local-link">unlock information and foster a culture of open data</a>, an innovator who can help <a href="http://www.data.gov/disasters/innovator-challenge/" class="local-link">address disaster preparedness challenges</a>, or a volunteer ready to <a href="http://www.data.gov/disasters/get-involved/" class="local-link">join the “Innovation for Disasters” movement</a>, we are excited for you to visit the new <a href="http://disasters.data.gov" class="local-link">disasters.data.gov</a> site, launching today.</p>
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<p class="p1"><b>WASHINGTON, July 27, 2015</b> – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is partnering with Microsoft to launch the “Innovation Challenge,” a competition to develop software applications that help farmers, agriculture businesses, and consumers explore how climate change will affect their food systems.</p>
<p class="p1">The Innovation Challenge was formally launched on July 27<span class="s1"><sup>th</sup></span> at a conference of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in San Francisco. Challenge participants have 3 months to create their applications, with a top prize of $25,000 going to the most creative application that best exploits USDA data sets that are now being hosted on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.</p>
<p class="p1">Entrants are invited to develop and publish new applications and tools that can help users analyze multiple sources of information, including key USDA data sets. In addition, Microsoft is granting cloud computing awards to aid university researchers and students that are looking to take part in the challenge. Challenge winners will be announced in December 2015.</p>
<p class="p1">Full details of the challenge can be found at <a href="x-webdoc://979AC4A7-D7E8-4D6B-9B6D-65A5FEE005CD/%3Ehttp://usdaapps.challengepost.com%3C" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span class="s2">>http://usdaapps.challengepost.com<</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a class="local-link external ext-link" href="http://enviroatlas.epa.gov/enviroatlas/" target="_blank" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-133512" title="Access to nature has implications for health and well-being; map shows access to parks for Durham, NC" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/bsp-ocsit-prod-east-appdata/datagov/wordpress/2014/01/enviro_atlas_home_tn.png" alt="" width="265" height="150" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; font-size: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a class="local-link external ext-link" href="http://www.mrlc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-133532" title="NLCD 2006 conterminous United States land cover" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/bsp-ocsit-prod-east-appdata/datagov/wordpress/2014/01/us_map_home_tn.png" alt="" width="265" height="150" /></a></p>
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<p>Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (<abbr>IPED</abbr>s) includes information from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs. Datasets include year-over-year enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty and staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid.</p>
<p>Examples of this data in action are:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.alltuition.com/" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">Alltuition</a> makes college more affordable by matching prospective students with the grants, scholarships, and loans they qualify for based on their demographic data.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.simpletuition.com/" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">Simple Tuition</a> uses higher education data to match students with the most affordable college loans and repayment options.</p>
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<p>Open Badges is an innovative infrastructure that allows colleges and industry organizations to award micro-credentials (badges) to students who demonstrate proficiency in specific competencies. A student may earn a particular competency badge by demonstrating prior experience, or by participating in courses or informal learning experiences. Because the technology behind the badges is open, a learner can collect badges from any number of different organizations and showcase them in one single place.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To a federal statistical agency like the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there’s nothing more satisfying than providing needed information that can facilitate more informed analysis and policy decisions on a national and regional level. EIA recently launched a new </span><a href="http://www.eia.gov/beta/realtime_grid" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. Electric System Operating Data tool</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which provides hourly electricity operating data, including actual and forecast demand, net generation, and the power flowing between electric systems. The tool features nearly real-time demand data, plus analysis and visualizations of hourly, daily, and weekly electricity supply and demand on a national and regional level for all of the 66 electric system </span><a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=27152" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span style="font-weight: 400;">balancing authorities</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that make up the U.S. electric grid.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The information is collected directly from each interconnected electric system </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">on the EIA-930 survey, the first hourly data collection conducted by a federal statistical agency. Although electric system balancing authorities covering most of the United States have released voluminous public, nearly real-time information on </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">grid operations since the late 1990s, EIA’s U.S. Electric System Operating Data tool expands the availability of data to the entire contiguous 48 states, and makes it available in a consistent format from a single source.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Among other applications, the data can be used to provide timely information on electric system recovery after power interruptions and to help evaluate the effects of renewable energy, smart grid, and demand-response programs on power system </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">operations. The tool allows you to visualize and analyze:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Total U.S. and regional electricity demand on an hourly basis</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The hourly flow of electricity between electric systems</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The wide variety in electric systems’ daily demand shapes and the seasonality of daily demand patterns</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The extent to which electric systems rely on internal and external sources of supply to meet their demand</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Potential stress on electric systems when actual demand significantly exceeds forecasted demand</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Total hourly flows of electricity with Canada and Mexico</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To learn more, watch the U.S. Electric System Operating data tool </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3EY3gPZyCk&feature=youtu.be" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span style="font-weight: 400;">promotional video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, along with a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2OD0gKF-sIX0OleecIN9sDxNZg9tLBhp" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span style="font-weight: 400;">set of four video tutorials</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And have fun exploring!</span></p>
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<p><em>(Sep 2, 2015)</em> The Administration is expanding its Climate Data Initiative (CDI) and Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) to include a new “Arctic” theme. The Arctic theme will encompass more than 250 Arctic-related datasets (32 of which are being made available for the first time), and more than 40 maps, tools, and other resources designed to support climate-resilience efforts in Alaska and the Arctic, including seven “Taking Action” case studies in key areas of climate-change risks and vulnerability for Alaska and the Arctic. The Administration also recently expanded the CRT to include a new “Tribal Nations” theme, comprised of more than 40 resources—with more to be added in the future—to assist Tribal nations in climate-change planning, adaptation, and mitigation. Resources include a comprehensive Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit, and a set of guidelines for considering traditional knowledge in climate change initiatives. These datasets and resources are now cataloged on, respectively,climate.data.gov and toolkit.climate.gov, making them easier for innovators, decision makers, and interested members of the public to find and use. In addition, the Administration is engaging the private sector around the CDI and CRT to help accelerate the development and deployment of products, tools, and applications powered by open Arctic data to help Alaskan and other northern communities better understand their vulnerability to, and prepare for, the impacts of climate change.</p>
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<p class="p1"><b>WASHINGTON, July 27, 2015</b> – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is partnering with Microsoft to launch the “Innovation Challenge,” a competition to develop software applications that help farmers, agriculture businesses, and consumers explore how climate change will affect their food systems.</p>
<p class="p1">The Innovation Challenge was formally launched on July 27<span class="s1"><sup>th</sup></span> at a conference of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in San Francisco. Challenge participants have 3 months to create their applications, with a top prize of $25,000 going to the most creative application that best exploits USDA data sets that are now being hosted on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.</p>
<p class="p1">Entrants are invited to develop and publish new applications and tools that can help users analyze multiple sources of information, including key USDA data sets. In addition, Microsoft is granting cloud computing awards to aid university researchers and students that are looking to take part in the challenge. Challenge winners will be announced in December 2015.</p>
<p class="p1">Full details of the challenge can be found at <a href="x-webdoc://979AC4A7-D7E8-4D6B-9B6D-65A5FEE005CD/%3Ehttp://usdaapps.challengepost.com%3C" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';"><span class="s2">>http://usdaapps.challengepost.com<</span></a>.</p>
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<p>Open data is helping bring capital to Main Street businesses. For example, one fast-growing lender is combining data from a wide range of government sources to make working capital loans to small businesses. Using open data on industry-level economic trends, the company is able to build finer-tuned predictive models. Another data analytics startup is working with banks to unlock insights about businesses from new government sources. Critical data about businesses are buried in unexpected places. For example, it is possible to estimate the number of employees a given company has based on existing, <a href="https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/ebsa-form-5500-annual-return-report-filing-enforcement-data" target="_blank" class="local-link">publicly available data</a> about participants its retirement plan.</p>
<p>Check out our extensive <a href="https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?groups=finance3432#topic=finance_navigation" class="local-link">data</a>, including the <a href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/producer-price-index" target="_blank" class="local-link">BLS Producer Price Index</a>, <a href="http://www.census.gov/mtis/" target="_blank" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">Census data on manufacturing and trade inventories and sales</a>, <a href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/monthly-retail-trade-survey" target="_blank" class="local-link">monthly</a> and <a href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/annual-retail-trade-survey" target="_blank" class="local-link">annual retail trade survey data</a>, the <a href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/north-american-industry-classification-system-naics" target="_blank" class="local-link">NAICS business data classification system</a> to start innovating to bring capital to America’s small businesses today!</p>
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<p>The Department of Education’s <a href="http://studentaid.ed.gov/" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">Office of Federal Student Aid</a> delivers aid to students, including through federal loan, grant, and work-study programs. There is extensive data available related to these programs, including information about over 6,000 individual colleges and postsecondary institutions. For example, there is data available on <a href="http://ifap.ed.gov/DefaultManagement/finalcdrg.html" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">cohort federal student loan default rates</a> by school, lender, state, and institution type.</p>
<p>Got to the <a href="http://studentaid.ed.gov/data-center" class="external ext-link" rel="external" onclick="this.target='_blank';">Federal Student Aid Data Center</a>.</p>
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<p class="p1">The Innovation Challenge was formally launched on July 27<span class="s1"><sup>th</sup></span> at a conference of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in San Francisco. Challenge participants have 3 months to create their applications, with a top prize of $25,000 going to the most creative application that best exploits USDA data sets that are now being hosted on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.</p>
<p class="p1">Entrants are invited to develop and publish new applications and tools that can help users analyze multiple sources of information, including key USDA data sets. In addition, Microsoft is granting cloud computing awards to aid university researchers and students that are looking to take part in the challenge. Challenge winners will be announced in December 2015.</p>
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<p>AirAtlas is a series of web maps that show estimated air quality statistics for atmospheric deposition, ozone, and visibility in the contiguous U.S. The maps also show National Park Service (NPS) units and monitoring locations for each of those air pollutant categories. Specific estimates of each statistic are available for every NPS unit in the contiguous U.S.</p>
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<p>The USGS Earthquake Hazards program has everything you ever wanted to know about earthquakes and more — from maps to tips to trivia to data in a multitude of formats, serving everyone from your neighbor to your neighborhood scientist. The USGS locates about 50 earthquakes each day and 20,000 a year, and 75 million Americans in 39 states live in places that are at risk of earthquakes. Where do you live?</p>
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