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State Data Center and Census Information Center Steering Committee Meeting
March 4-6, 2014
Digital Transformation UpdateU.S. Census Bureau
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21st Century Expectation: Anywhere, Anytime Access• 24/7 access to data• Easily Found• Accessible• Timely• Relevant
Meet users’ expectations:
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Transforming Census.govGoals:
• Increase Customer Satisfaction• Improve Access to Census Statistics• Grow our Audience
Objectives: • Improve census.gov search and navigation in• Develop tools using latest technologies; making them embeddable, sharable,
downloadable, customizable. • Alignment with the Digital Government Strategy• Establishing metrics and analytics to understand users needs and
performance of digital efforts
Components of Digital Transformation • Census.gov redesign including look & feel, search, navigation, and analytics• Mobile apps and interactive web apps • Infographics and videos• Online advertising and search engine marketing
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Web Trends
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Interactive Data Tools
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• New PopClock “Embeddable” Widget – delight new users– Approx. 150 other web sites have embedded the web application– Delivering roughly 134,000 page views
• New PopClock on our site– Delivered roughly 3,047,000 page views in
the same period
• Embedded PopClock has expanded our audience by 4 percent
Results Pop Clock
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My Congressional District – Now Embedded Day of launch - July 25, 2013: • Washington Post -
"So go ahead and bookmark the tool now — or at least after you spend a good amount of time playing around with it (which is what we did).“
• Washington Post generated 6,782 visits to the app, with 1,926 table views.
• Up to 300,000+ readers of tweets from journalists
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Web Application Embeds
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Easy Stats
My Congressional District
Pop Clock
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New “Quickfacts”
• Tables
• Maps
• Charts
• Customize
• Share
• Embed
• Download
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Advanced Search
Mobile Applications
Open Government APIs provide new methods of data access and dissemination
Web Applications API enabled
Dataweb
SourceSource
Source
API Serve the Data
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Homepage The home page is the portal through which the user interacts with Census Data
New Experience on: • Design• Thematic Navigation• Easier Access to
Data Tools• Respondent space• Improved Header
and Footer
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Matches some of the most frequently searched terms and accessed statistics on census.gov.
• Business• Economy• Education• Employment• Families & Living
Arrangements• Health• Housing• Income & Poverty• International Trade• Population• Public Sector
Theme-based navigation
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Beta Site Demo
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Search Improvements
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Answers within Results
Results before Searching
• Migrated Census.gov search to Search.USA.gov to provide better results relevancy and look-ahead typing in search tool text box
• Dissemination areas performed search engine optimization across top 500 Census.gov web pages – corrected 490 broken links and 44,000 other errors affecting search optimization.
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Upcoming Search Features
Answers within Results
Filtered Type Ahead
Type Ahead/NAICS Integration
Results before Searching
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Next Steps Census.gov Estimated go live as www.census.gov –
three to four weeks after beta. Launch search feature added to
census.gov Continued content migration
– Are you in a Survey? – Our Surveys (i.e. ACS)– Developer site, Our Research – Others
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The new Census.gov interactive tools, APIs, redesigned templates, its theme-based navigation, and the
investment of the CMS gives us an opportunity to rethink how we publish information. Together these
create a new publishing model with a customer-centric and information-centric approach.
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Dwellr
• Uses mobile app user’s demographics, occupation , geographic and lifestyle preferences to determine places around the U.S. that may be appealing to them.
• Generate interest in places and ACS data for further exploration on Census.gov.
• Users can return at any time to check their saved preferences against any specified location, including their current location using the phone’s GPS.
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PoP Quiz
• Teaches the user information about the U.S. through an engaging approach.
• Each state will have five questions associated with it.
• When the user answers all the questions for a state, they will be awarded with a badge that they may share via Facebook or Twitter.
• When the user has completed all states, they will be able to complete a final challenge on the U.S.
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