Presentations

Tuesday, July 9

8:30 am – Plenary Panel: Machine Learning, Algorithms, and Public Data

• Jeff Chen – Machine Learning and Production of Public Data

10:30 am – Breakouts

• Under-the-Radar Public Data

  • Bonnie Nichols – Participation in Arts and Leisure Activities
  • Taylor Wilson – Consumer Expenditure Surveys: New Geographic Data
  • Nicholas Schluterman, Stephanie Kapsch – Access-to-Care Research Using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Public Use File (PUF)

• Leveraging the Census Bureau’s Data Linkage Infrastructure for Evidence Building

  • Scott Boggess – Leveraging the Census Bureau’s Data Linkage Infrastructure for Evidence Building
  • Drew Anderson – Linking College Aid Applications

• Privacy, Security, Transparency, and Engagement

  • Amy O’Hara – Public Engagement and Involvement Strategies
  • Sara Collins – Foundations for Evidence Based Policymaking Act: What Does it Teach Us about Privacy and Security?

12:15 pm – Plenary Panel: Balancing Respondent Privacy and Reliability in the 2020 Census and Beyond: Implications for Data Users

• Connie Citro – Balancing Respondent Privacy and Reliability in the 2020 Census and Beyond: Implications for Data Users
• Steven Ruggles – Implications of Differential Privacy for Public Data
• Andrew Beveridge – Can Differentially Privatized Data be Used for Redistricting?
• Michael Davern – Data User Perspectives on Potential Changes to Data Products to Protect Privacy

2:15 pm – Breakouts

• Best Ways to Access the Census Data You Need

  • Sue Copella – Pennsylvania State Data Center
  • Tyson Weister – Best Ways to Access the Census Data You Need
  • David Beede – Knowledge Transfer at the Census Bureau

• Census Updates, Transportation, & Data Integration for End Users

  • Penelope Weinberger – Census Transportation Planning Products Program
  • Sharon Stern – Improvements to the CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement and Implications for Estimates of Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage
  • Adela Luque – A Blended-data Approach to Business Demographics Statistics: Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D)

• Linking Administrative and Evaluation Data to Measure Long-term Effects of Social Programs

  • Megan Millenky – Long Term Follow-Up of MDRC Studies
  • Alex Pennington – The Long-Term Outcomes Project

3:45 pm – Data Agency Leadership Session

• Brian Moyer – Innovative Data Projects: Keeping BEA’s Statistics Relevant
• James Lynn Woodworth – National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

 

Wednesday, July 10

9:00 am – Washington Briefing

• Mary Jo Hoeksema – Washington Update

10:30 am – Breakouts

• Data Visualization: Key to Making Sense of a Wide Variety of Data

  • Samuel Keathley – Kentucky Center for Statistics: Work Ready Communities
  • Mike Crow – US EPA’s Lake Comparison Tool
  • Sarah Cohen – The News Viz: Trends in visualizations in news and data journalism

• How Many Federal Dollars Do We Get? The Role of Public Data in Disbursing Federal Money

  • Andrew Reamer – The Role of the 2020 Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds
  • Derek Thomas & Gaurav Gupta-Casale – FPWA’s Federal Funds Transfer

• Bringing Data to the Table: Challenges of Building, Distributing and Using Data to Drive Decision Making in Local Communities

  • Ayoung Yoon – Community Inclusive Data Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Jack Mullan – Keeping Track Online: A Tool for Identifying Where Risks to Children and Families Concentrate in New York City
  • Bernita Smith – Georgia Healthy Cities

12:45 pm – Keynote: Federal Statistical Agency Reorganization Updates

• Erica Groshen – Why Reorganize US Official Statistics?

2:15 pm – Data Viz Awards

• Tim Kuhn – 2018 Population Estimates Dashboard for Tennessee Counties
• Xindi Hu – What Is in My Water?
• Megan Rabe – The Population 65 and Older: 2016
• Elsa Schaefer – ididio

3:00 pm – Census Plenary Session: The 2020 Census and Beyond

• Albert Fontenot, Jr., Marc Perry – 2020 Census Update