2022 APDU/CIC Virtual Symposium See Who We Have Stepping up to the Podium at the Symposium 12 days left to register! Racial Equity Tools and Hubs Diane Lavery Senior Product Engineer, Esri Owen Mattison Public Affairs Specialist, Tableau George “Chip” Walker Co-Chair Emergency Preparedness and Response Team – Special Assistant Economic Programs Directorate, U.S. […]
Continue Reading2022 APDU/CIC Virtual Symposium View Agenda Celebrate Diversity – Learn The APDU/CIC Virtual Symposium has three powerful sessions on the agenda representing equity through data: Data to Understand Racial Disparities and Impacts Leveraging Data Resources and Dashboards to Drive Equity Policy Democratizing Data for Equitable and Resilient Communities The Census Bureau carefully words questions […]
Continue Reading2022 APDU/CIC Virtual Symposium Featuring APDU/CIC Symposium sessions discussing how to be resourceful with public data: Census Data Products Roundtable Making Use of “Unusual” Data Sources It is now 2022 – two years after the Decennial Census. What is going on with census products, including the Demographic and Housing Characteristics Data, American Community Survey, […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 3, 2022 FEATURES Call For Proposals Open A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for All APDU is welcoming proposals for the Data Symposium 2022, A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for All, (May 3 – 4, 2022). With economic, […]
On behalf of the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Board of Directors and staff, I want to wish you a happy new year! I am looking forward to 2022, which will be my second and final term as APDU President.
Continue ReadingCall For Session Proposals Now Open Full Information Save the Date APDU is welcoming proposals for the Data Symposium 2022, A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for All, (May 3 – 4, 2022). With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy […]
Continue ReadingBeginner R Training: Data Science for Community, Workforce, and Economic Development Research February 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM ET Training Begins in 28 Days! Full Details & Registration Are you sick and tired of manually manipulating data in Excel? Are you eager to level up your data science […]
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APDU Board Member and former Chief Statistician of the United States issues a call to action to the data user community. Click through to learn more!
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The Census Bureau’s solution to protecting privacy is a new DAS based on a methodology referred to as Differential Privacy (DP). The Census commissioned the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to host a 2-day Workshop on 2020 Census Data Products: Data Needs and Privacy Considerations, held in Washington, DC, on December 11-12, 2019. This post provides an overview of the findings.
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The House has passed appropriations bills to the Senate for FY2020, and there are important developments for statistical agencies. The Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) each received modest to substantial increases in their budgets.
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