Map: Startup Firms Created Over 2 Million Jobs in 2015

Business Dynamics Statistics

The government is a great source of valuable geospatial open access data that can be used in mapping tools. This map uses Census Bureau’s Business Dynamics Statistics to visualize job creation from start up firms. 

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/business-dynamics.html?CID=CBSM

New ICPSR Studies Sept. 9, 2017

New Additions

• 36617 Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Surveys [LAMAS] 10, 1976
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36617.v1
• 36660 Eurobarometer 81.4: Europe 2020, Financial and Economic Crisis, European Citizenship, and Living Conditions, May-June 2014
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36660.v1

Updates

• 29462 Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), 2002-2006 [United States]
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR29462.v6
• 36800 Research on Pathways to Desistance [Maricopa County, AZ and Philadelphia County, PA]: Subject Measures - Scales, 2000-2010
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36800.v2

New ICPSR Studies September 2017

Updates

• 6041 National Survey of Families and Households, Wave 1: 1987-1988
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06041.v2
• 35519 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), 2012
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35519.v8
• 36566 National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART), 2011 [United States]
  http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36566.v1

Data Visualization Tool to Analyze Top Grossing Film Trends

A Timeline of Each Year’s Top-200 Grossing 

The Pudding, working with Viacom, uses a  database of several million user-submitted keywords that describe a film’s plot,  including cultural themes like civil rights, religion, space etc. for the top grossing films over the last 50 years.  The interface also marks select  historical events related to these themes, such as the first AIDS case revealed by the CDC, lowering the drinking age or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign. Select and theme and browse the films through the timeline.