March 11, 2021 FEATURES SURVEY REQUEST: Proposal to Redefine MSA from 50,000 to 100,000 Residents The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requests public comment on the recommendations it has received from the Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Standards Review Committee for changes to OMB’s metropolitan and micropolitan statistical area standards. The proposed changes will […]
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.
March 4, 2021 FEATURES 2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals: Public Data: Making Sense of the New Normal APDU is welcoming proposals on ?making sense of the new normal? using public data. With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy public data is vital to open and honest policy […]
There are many debates in the world of public data. Privacy vs. accuracy. Survey data vs. administrative data. CSV vs. XLS. But if you really want to see data nerds fight, ask them whether they say “data is” or “data are”. Is the word “data” singular or plural?
Continue ReadingFebruary 25, 2021 FEATURES 2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals: Public Data: Making Sense of the New Normal APDU is welcoming proposals on ?making sense of the new normal? using public data. With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy public data is vital to open and honest policy […]
February 18, 2021 FEATURES 2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals Public Data Making Sense of the New Normal APDU is welcoming proposals on ?making sense of the new normal? using public data. With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy public data is vital to open and honest policy […]
APDU is welcoming proposals on “making sense of the new normal” using public data. 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. EXTENDED Deadline: March 26, 2021
Continue ReadingFebruary 11, 2021 FEATURES Updates on the 2020 Census Quality Indicators In October 2020, the American Statistical Association released the 2020 Census Quality Indicators, a report written by a task force of census experts with a plan to shed light on the quality, accuracy, and coverage of the 2020 Census counts. The report proposed various measures […]
February 4, 2021 FEATURES Fine-Tuning the Disclosure Avoidance System to Ensure Accuracy While much of the Census Bureau?s efforts are focused on production of the first of the 2020 Census data products – the data used to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives – work continues on the first set of 2020 Census […]
Dear APDU members, Happy New Year and thank you for either renewing or joining the Association of Public Data Users (APDU). I am honored to serve as the 2021 APDU President, and I look forward to working with you this year. I am sure many of you are happy to turn the page on 2020 and […]
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