Keynote: Extending from Open to Usable: A Commerce Data Conundrum
summary
Department of Commerce holds roughly a third of federal open datasets and those datasets carry specific pitfalls: five major errata issued for ACS in 2016, VIIRS nighttime lights released as a 2.7 GB daily raster where zeros mean either no light or cloud cover, and SIPP users routinely fail to weight panels so estimates break. A machine-readable approach is proposed and a Data Usability Project ships tutorials with live code; many data still arrive as bulk ZIP/Excel while some services (RIMS, foreign trade) use subscription APIs.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Commerce background
- 3:10Open data challenge
- 5:17Inherited data pitfalls
- 8:28Data misuse examples
- 12:01Data misunderstanding story
- 14:30Domain knowledge need
- 15:13Communication gap in data
- 16:34Audience input invited
- 18:06Efforts for data usability
- 20:19Feedback loop building
- 22:21Alternative data formats
- 24:26Closing & Q&A
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