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DADS Program Briefing

DADSII Update &

Product Demonstration Meeting

2009 SDC Annual Training Conference

October 15, 2009

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Agenda

• DADS Program Status – Jeff Sisson

• Demonstration – American FactFinder– Veronica Burton

– George Huffman

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Re-engineered American FactFinder

• American FactFinder will continue to be the main vehicle of

web-based data dissemination

– Pre-defined data products presented in tabular, map or chart form.

– System includes secure access to embargoed data and on-line

access to archived data.

• Two interrelated subsystems:

– End-User Subsystem (EUS): public web-based interface to the

DADS dissemination system for public data, embargoed data, and

archived data.

– Data Loading and Transformation (DLT) Subsystem: provides an

operational data processing environments to load, validate, review,

and deploy Census metadata and aggregate data

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American FactFinder Replacement Schedule

• Development Schedule:– Iteration 1 7/08 – 8/09 Completed

– Iteration 2 1/09 – 3/10 On schedule

– Iteration 3 5/09 – 8/10 On schedule

– Deployment 9/10 – 1/11

• The Legacy and Replacement Systems will run in parallel

through deployment.

• Currently planning 2 Major releases of the replacement system

during 2011.

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American FactFinder Release 1: January 2011

• New AFF redelivers enhanced core functionality of legacy

system

• Release 1 functionality includes:

– Improved search and navigation services

– Table Services

• Basic table manipulations (e.g. sorting and filtering)

• Transposition of rows and columns

– Mapping Services

• Thematic mapping on the fly

– Basic Embargo capability

• Legacy AFF is retired sometime after September 2011 (after

the final release of EC07)

American FactFinder Release 2: Summer/Fall 2011

• Table Services Update

– Create user defined geographic areas

– Aggregate data for user defined areas and/or data categories, or within a

radius

– Display errata and geographic change notes

– Calculate statistical significance

• Charting Services

• Archiving of older data

• Enhanced Embargo capability

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American FactFinder: Other Activities

• Tabulation of 2010 Census

• Preparation for migration and full release of Population

Estimates Data (Oct 2012)

• Preparation to release 2010 Census printed reports

• Preparation of 2010 PUMS system to create PUMs file products

• Preparation for Island Areas dissemination activities

• Develop Web Services Support

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July Aug Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

System Deployment

Legacy System

Deployments

Census 2010

ACS

Econ Census 2007

Annual Econ Surveys

PEP 2011 Releases

Qtr 3 20112010

Qtr 4 20112011

Qtr 3 2010 Qtr 4 2010 Qtr 1 2011 Qtr 2 2011

UAT Go-Live

LegacyNew

PL

States

2009

NS

2007 Flow Deployments

2009

1 yr

2009

3yr

2009

5yr

2008

NS

2008

CBP

2008

ZBP

2008

ASM

2009

P5

ACS 1YR 2010

New AFF On-Line

Future Milestones

ACS 3YR 2010

ACS 5YR 2010