Why Attend the Conference? Learn About New Datasets
Why attend APDU’s annual conference? You can learn more about publicly available datasets like the two described in this article.
2021 APDU Data Viz Award Winners
APDU is pleased to announce the winners of this years Data Viz Awards. APDU gives annual awards to creative and meaningful graphic designs that use publicly available data (for example, data from the Census Bureau or Bureau of Labor Statistics) to convey a compelling point or story.
2021 Annual Conference
APDU is happy to announce the 2021 APDU Annual conference in a virtual format on July 26-29, 2021. With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy public data is vital to open and honest policy debates. Attend this year’s conference to learn how public data is helping make sense of the new normal.
2021 APDU Data Viz Awards: Call for Visualizations
The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is pleased to announce the 2021 Data Viz Awards. We are once again soliciting creative and meaningful graphic designs that use publicly-available data (for example, data from the Census Bureau or Bureau of Labor Statistics) to convey a compelling point or story.
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APDU Workshop Series: Making the Best of the 2020 Census
Significant changes at the Census Bureau including new privacy measures have the potential to make local data less accurate. These changes can be hard to parse for those not closely following Census Bureau activities.
APDU is holding this series of town hall events and trainings to educate state and local government data users about what these changes mean for the quality of the data that state and local governments rely on, and how to validate whether the data you’re getting from the decennial census is fit for use.
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2021 APDU Data Viz Award Winners
July 26, 2021APDU is pleased to announce the winners of this years Data Viz Awards. APDU gives annual awards to creative and meaningful graphic designs that use publicly available data (for example, data from the Census Bureau or Bureau of Labor Statistics) to convey a compelling point or story.
Why Attend the Conference? Learn About New Datasets
July 21, 2021Why attend APDU’s annual conference? You can learn more about publicly available datasets like the two described in this article.
What I wish I knew when I started: What is the federal statistical system?
June 30, 2021APDU Board Member Beth Jarosz provides a great overview of the Federal Statistical System in this blog post. She discusses how the agencies are interrelated and how many ways there are for data users to keep up on—and sometimes influence—the changes in the data systems we rely on.