Misc
Scientists fear pending attack on federal statistics collection
Decisions Are Made on Tuesdays: The Role and Requirements for Data in the Decision-Making Process
NCHRP 8-92 Data Program Self-Assessment Guide Update, February 2014
Others talk about it, ... but the Data Section does something about the weather! - by Kate Lawson
The Sackler Colloquia: “The Science of Science Communications.” The relevance of this to those in TRB interesting in data for decision making is that these speakers offer some interesting insights into packaging information for decision makers – what we know and what it means for us. Video archive. Talks by these speakers are particularly relevant and accessible: Fischhoff, Scheufele, Lupia, Winterfeldt, Bruine de Bruin, Krosnik, Kahneman (Nobel prize winner presents Sackler lecture, which is an overview of his latest book, Thinking fast and Slow).
article in Science 31 May about surveys and social statistics in China – political sensitivity, pressures to improve data based on use.
Pisarski testimony
Pisarski response to congressional questions
DRAFT Annual Report on the State of Transportation Data (potentially to be prepared by the TRB Data Section)
Data Management & Governance Practices (PPTs for NCHRP Project 20-05; Synthesis Topic 47-05)
Neil Pedersen’s "Emphasis Areas for the New TRB Executive Director"
SUMMARY SPONSOR REPORTS FOR THE DATA SECTION MEETING January 2015