Re: SemStats 2014 Call for Challenge

Hi Sarven,

The US Census Bureau has piles of data available via an API.

http://www.census.gov/developers/

You need a key.  I do not see anything in the terms of service about citizenship
http://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html

I think the "key" motivation is to avoid DOS attacks.  The US Census Bureau is known for it's uncharacteristic moments of lucidity with respect to Government Work.

Economic Data release in the US has always been a sensitive subject.  The problems arose about a decade before the European Union, oops, I meant the Congress of Vienna ;-)
The story is here: http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/conmono2.pdf
This document also explains in detail exactly what they mean by "Statistical Safeguards" for non-disclosure of confidential business information.

--Gannon


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On Tue, 8/5/14, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:

 Subject: SemStats 2014 Call for Challenge
 To: "Linking Open Data" <public-lod@w3.org>, "SW-forum" <semantic-web@w3.org>
 Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 2:48 AM
 
 SemStats 2014 Call for Challenge
 ================================
 
 Second International Workshop on Semantic Statistics
 (SemStats 2014)
 Workshop website: http://semstats.org/
 Event hashtags: #SemStats #ISWC2014
 
 in conjunction with
 
 ISWC 2014
 The 13th International Semantic Web Conference
 Riva del Garda - Trentino, Italy, October 19-23, 2014
 http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org/
 
 Summary
 -------
 The SemStats Challenge is back with more action! It is
 organized in the 
 context of the SemStats 2014 workshop. Participants are
 invited to apply 
 statistical techniques and semantic web technologies within
 one of two 
 possible tracks, namely the Census Data Track and Open
 Track. Following 
 up on the success of last year's Challenge, this year, the
 Census Data 
 Track will have data from France, Italy, and Ireland. We
 would also like 
 to introduce the new Open Track, where any type of
 statistical data of 
 your choice may be used in the challenge.
 
 The challenge will consist in the realization of mashups or
 
 visualizations, but also on comparisons, analytics,
 alignment and 
 enrichment of the data and concepts involved in statistical
 data (see 
 below for the data made available and additional
 requirements).
 
 The deadline for participants to submit their short papers
 and 
 application is Sun 7th September, 2014, 23:59pm Hawai Time.
 
 It is strongly suggested to all challenge participants to
 send contact 
 informations to semstats2014@easychair.org
 in order to be kept informed 
 in case of any changes in the data provided. For any
 questions on the 
 challenge, please contact semstats2014@easychair.org.
 
 Census Data Track
 -----------------
 We would like to point you to plenty of raw data. The
 conversion process 
 will be considered as part of the challenge.
 
 * Istat (Italian National Institute of Statistics) offers
 Census 1991, 
 2001, 2011 data and metadata: 
 http://www.istat.it/it/archivio/104317#variabili_censuarie
 (See 
 "Variabili censuarie / Censimento della popolazione e delle
 
 abitazioni"), which gives the population count by age range
 and sex at a 
 very detailed geographic level.
 
 * INSEE (National Institute of Statistics and Economic
 Studies) can 
 provide different things:
 
      1. Detailed results for Census
 2011: 
 http://insee.fr/fr/themes/detail.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=fd-RP2011&page=fichiers_detail/RP2011/telechargement.htm
 
 giving results on individuals only at the region level but
 with a great 
 number of other variables (see 
 http://insee.fr/fr/ppp/bases-de-donnees/fichiers_detail/RP2011/doc/contenu_RP2011_INDREG.pdf)
 
      2. Detailed results for Census
 2010: 
 http://insee.fr/fr/themes/detail.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=fd-RP2010&page=fichiers_detail/RP2010/telechargement.htm
 
 with, for example, results on individuals at a smaller
 geographic level
 
      3. Key figures for Census 2011 on
 different themes at the 
 municipality level: 
 http://insee.fr/fr/bases-de-donnees/default.asp?page=recensement/resultats/2011/donnees-detaillees-recensement-2011.htm
 
 * ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) offers Census 2011
 data at 
 http://stat.abs.gov.au/ . Data that is in particularly
 of interest to 
 this challenge can be found by navigating to: Social
 Statistics &gt; 
 2011 Census of Population and Housing &gt; Time Series
 Profiles (Local 
 Government Areas) &gt; T03 Age by Sex (LGA)
 
 * CSO (Central Statistics Office) Ireland's Census 2011 data
 and 
 metadata available as Linked Data: http://data.cso.ie/.
 
 * You are welcome to use any other Census data whether it is
 Linked Data 
 based or not
 
 Open Track
 ----------
 There is one essential requirement for the Open Track:
 papers must 
 describe a publicly available application. We would love to
 see everyone 
 play and learn from what you have created. You are welcome
 to use any 
 statistical data whether it is already in Linked Data shape
 or not! 
 While you are at it, why not combine it with data from other
 domains?
 
 Here are some statistical linked data spaces:
 
 * http://270a.info/
 * http://eurostat.linked-statistics.org/
 * http://data.cso.ie/
 * http://linked-statistics.gr/
 * http://linkedspending.aksw.org/
 * http://cedar-project.nl/
 * http://datahub.io/ - Whatever is here ;)
 

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