Webinars are a major part of APDU’s training and professional development programming. These sessions focus on important public data programs and innovations.
APDU has been partnering with government statistical agencies to offer the Public Data University webinar series, a robust mix of introductory, intermediate, and advanced training sessions, covering a range of topics and expertise.
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Recent Webinars
2024
Newly Available Individual-Level U.S. Tax Data from 1969-1994
Data Opportunities and Challenges in a Post-Roe World
But If You Try Sometimes, You Might Find You Get What You Need
Local Data for Local Action
State Courts and Using Data for Good
Our Census: Looking Back to 2020 and Forward to 2030
2023
Data Storytelling Awards: Mapping Neighborhood Change
Data Storytelling Award Winner: A Closer Look at Confederate Memorialization in the US
Census Bureau Feedback Opportunity on Potential Removal of the Ancestry Question from the ACS
Assessing the Health of the Federal Statistical System
Enhanced Wage Records + OEWS: What We’ve Learned from Employer Responses
APDU Town Hall: ACS Data Users Conference Debrief
Census Bureau Seeks Input on Plans to Re-Envision its Data Enterprise
Using Data to Explore the Impact of Green Space on Communities
Unlocking the Power of Public Datasets: An Exploration Into the Congressional District Health Dashboard
APDU Town Hall: Future of Public Data (and APDU)
2022
Advocate on Data Concerns to the Census Bureau
Microsoft Power BI®: Creating an Interactive Text and Data Visualization Tool for a 21st Century Workforce
2021
APDU Lunch and Learn: 2020 Population – What Do We Know Now?
301
2021 APDU Data Viz Award Presentations
2020
301
Special Topics & Emerging Issues in Public Data: Advanced Techniques to Increase Data Availability & Maintain Privacy
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: BLS Unemployment Data
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: CDC Mortality Data
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: New Coronavirus Household Pulse Survey from the Census Bureau
201
New Microdata Access Tool for ACS and CPS
2019
301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: How Will New Census Bureau Privacy Measures Change 2020 Decennial Census Data
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Introducing the Census Bureau’s Business Formation Statistics
301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: How BLS is Using Machine Learning to Improve Data Accuracy
301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: How Privacy-Preserving Technologies Can Influence Data and Policy
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: The Department of the Treasury’s Data Lab
2018
301
USDA Research Relocation and Reorganization: Perspectives from Former USDA Chief Scientists and Administrators
301
Reorganizing Federal Data Agencies
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Annual Business Survey (ABS)
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): Introduction and Update
301
Special Topics & Emerging Issues in Public Data: Improving Data Discoverability & Interoperability with DDI Metadata
301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: 2020 Census Mapping Tools
2017
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Data Linkage & Uses of Administrative Records at the U.S. Census Bureau
APDU Annual Business Meeting
301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: Unlocking Open Data’s Network Effect
301
Improving Administrative Data Quality for Research and Analysis
301
Measuring 100 Million Healthier Lives (301 Series)
301
Improving Census Bureau Data Dissemination
Promoting Evidence-Based Policymaking by Sharing State Administrative Data
301
Testing Messages to Support the Decennial Census and American Community Survey
2016
201
*Date Changed* Introducing J2J Explorer! An Innovative Data Tool on Statistics on Worker Reallocation in the United States
301
Addressing Under-Reporting of Young Children in Federal Statistical Programs
301
A Closer Look at New Federal Survey Items on Certifications and Licenses
301
The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking: The Commission and How You Can Get Involved
301
Evidence-Based Strategies for Creating an Open Data Impact
201
Overview of the Current Population Survey
201
Overview of the Current Employment Statistics Survey
101
Roles of SSA’s Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics
301
The 2020 Census: A New Design for the 21st Century
301
Scaling the Mountain: Creating a Government-Wide Web Analytics Program, and Then Taking it Public
Supporting the Census & ACS: A Toolkit for Coalition-Building
201
The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS): Survey Design, Data Access, and Its Utility in Assessing the Impact of the Changes
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Understanding & Using Data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: Household Surveys in Crisis
301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: Introducing the Commerce Data Service
2015
301
The Livability Index: Great Neighborhoods for All Ages
301
Production, Uses and Access to State and Local Population Projections
301
CTPP: A Special Tabulation of US Census ACS data, and the Program Built Around It
301
Statistics for the World of Open Data
201
Promoting Small Businesses: Introducing Census Business Builder
201
Understanding the CTE Statistics Program
101
Measuring America on the Move: Free and Accessible Data on Travel Patterns
301
The DATA Act: Delivering New Resources for Research – If All Goes Well
101
Introduction to Data Sets: The National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: Insights into HUD USER
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Accessing American Community Survey Statistics
201
Accessing Regional Data: Bureau of Economic Analysis
301
Federal Spending in the States
2014
101
Introduction to Data Sets: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: National Center for Health Statistics
201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Census Applications
201
Measuring America: Your Guide to Accessing the Data Tools
2014 Annual Business Meeting and State of the Association
301
The Path to the 2020 Census Design Decision
101
Introduction to Data Sets: Census Bureau Demographic and Decennial Programs
301
What The New DATA Act Means for Data Users
101
Introduction to Data Sets: Bureau of Justice Statistics Demographic Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Demographic Statistics
301
Understanding Online Job Ads Data (301 Series)
101
Introduction to Data Sets: USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) Economic Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Demographic Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: Bureau of Transportation Statistics Demographic Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: Statistics of Income IRS Economic Statistics
101
Introduction to Data Sets: Census Bureau Economic Statistics
NEW DATE: 2013 APDU Business Meeting
2013
Approaching the True Cost of Living: The Location Affordability Portal
Bringing the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey into the 21st Century
American Community Survey: What Stakeholders Really Think and How We Can Improve
Public Policy Opportunities and Challenges for Public Data
Government Data and Confidentiality: Compatible Companions With the Help of Statistical Disclosure Control
Have State and Local Governments Recovered from the Great Recession?
Big Data or Statistical Data? Extracting Information about Consumer Prices in the New World
Federal Government Spending: Less Transparency in a World of Open Data
Law as data: Coding legal text using Public Health Law Research’s LawAtlas
ACS Workshop, National Academy report
What’s New with American FactFinder: A Census Demonstration of New and Enhanced Features
The Private Sector and the ACS
2012
Data Dissemination Group Presentations: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Data Dissemination Group Presentations: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Civic Data Challenge: Turning Raw Data into Community Tools
Data Dissemination Group Presentations: U.S. Census Bureau
A Half Century of Special District Growth
The 1940 Census in the Context of the Great Depression and New Deal
Analyzing BLS Business Employment Dynamics Data
Pensions: The National Debate, Here’s the Data
2011
National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Taxes: More Than Just Income & Sales
Delivering What Users Want: The History of U.S. Census Small Area Data
Statistics of Governments: A General Overview
Challenges and Improvements for the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey
User Perspectives on ACS 5-year Data
Disability Statistics From Surveys and Administrative Records
Accessing Business Data Available in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Research Data Center Network
Using the 2005-2009 American Community Survey 5-year Data to Study Small Areas and Change Over Time
2010
The Changing Landscape of Data for Health Services Research and Policy
Collaborative, Online Mapping: The New ArcGIS.com
User Needs for Calculating Standard Errors in the ACS
Exploring ‘Web 2.0’ Public Data Applications: MoveSmart.org
Targeting the Hard To Count: A Tool for Improving Census Coverage
The 2007 Economic Census: A Portrait of the Nation’s Economy
2009
GDP by Metropolitan Area, Accelerated Release of Data for 2008
The American Community Survey: Tracking How We Change with Multi-Year Estimates
An Overview of the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), the Nation’s Largest Household Travel Survey
The 2010 Census: Preparations for a Complete Count
Special Free-to-all APDU Webinars
November 02, 2016 3:00 pm EDT
This APDU Public Data University Webinar will focus on federal surveys that now include new items on certifications and licenses. Over a 7-year period, the Interagency Working Group on Expanded Measures of Enrollment and Attainment (GEMEnA) developed and validated survey items on the prevalence and key characteristics of these non-degree credentials.
March 02, 2016 3:00 pm EST
The 2020 Census and American Community Survey (ACS) face significant challenges in Congress, and data users outside of the nation's capital often ask if there's anything they can do to support these seminal Census Bureau programs. In fact, state and local voices have a great deal of credibility and influence with members of Congress and can play a key role in educating lawmakers about the importance of census and ACS data and the benefits to communities "back home."
The Census Project, a diverse coalition of census and ACS stakeholders spanning virtually every economic and social sector, has produced a Toolkit to help state and local organizations build coalitions in support of an accurate census and comprehensive, reliable ACS. The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is partnering with The Census Project to unveil and explain the toolkit through this webinar.
Presenters:
- Census Project Overview
Phil Sparks, Co-Director, The Census Project
- Presentation: "Supporting the Census and ACS: A Toolkit for Coalition-Building"
Joan Naymark, Executive Director, MACS (Minnesotans for the American Community Survey)
Presentations and recordings of all webinars are available to APDU members in the APDU Members Area.
