Webinars

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.

Upcoming Webinars

Mar
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State Courts and Using Data for Good

Recent Webinars

2024

Our Census: Looking Back to 2020 and Forward to 2030

3:00 pm EST
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Recording Available
2023

Data Storytelling Awards: Mapping Neighborhood Change

1:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2023

Data Storytelling Award Winner: A Closer Look at Confederate Memorialization in the US

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2023

Census Bureau Feedback Opportunity on Potential Removal of the Ancestry Question from the ACS

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
2023

Assessing the Health of the Federal Statistical System

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2023

Enhanced Wage Records + OEWS: What We’ve Learned from Employer Responses

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
2023

APDU Town Hall: ACS Data Users Conference Debrief

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
2023

Census Bureau Seeks Input on Plans to Re-Envision its Data Enterprise

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2023

Using Data to Explore the Impact of Green Space on Communities

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2023

Unlocking the Power of Public Datasets: An Exploration Into the Congressional District Health Dashboard

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2023

APDU Town Hall: Future of Public Data (and APDU)

3:00 pm EST
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2022

Advocate on Data Concerns to the Census Bureau

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2022

Microsoft Power BI®: Creating an Interactive Text and Data Visualization Tool for a 21st Century Workforce

Online
Webinar
2021

APDU Lunch and Learn: 2020 Population – What Do We Know Now?

12:00 pm EST
Webinar
2021

301
2021 APDU Data Viz Award Presentations

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2020

301
Special Topics & Emerging Issues in Public Data: Advanced Techniques to Increase Data Availability & Maintain Privacy

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2020

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: BLS Unemployment Data

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2020

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: CDC Mortality Data

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2020

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: New Coronavirus Household Pulse Survey from the Census Bureau

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2020

201
New Microdata Access Tool for ACS and CPS

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2019

301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: How Will New Census Bureau Privacy Measures Change 2020 Decennial Census Data

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2019

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Introducing the Census Bureau’s Business Formation Statistics

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2019

301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: How BLS is Using Machine Learning to Improve Data Accuracy

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2019

301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: How Privacy-Preserving Technologies Can Influence Data and Policy

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2019

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: The Department of the Treasury’s Data Lab

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2018

301
USDA Research Relocation and Reorganization: Perspectives from Former USDA Chief Scientists and Administrators

11:00 am EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2018

301
Reorganizing Federal Data Agencies

1:30 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2018

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Annual Business Survey (ABS)

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2018

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): Introduction and Update

3:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2018

301
Special Topics & Emerging Issues in Public Data: Improving Data Discoverability & Interoperability with DDI Metadata

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2018

301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: 2020 Census Mapping Tools

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2017

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Data Linkage & Uses of Administrative Records at the U.S. Census Bureau

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2017

APDU Annual Business Meeting

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
2017

301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: Unlocking Open Data’s Network Effect

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2017

301
Improving Administrative Data Quality for Research and Analysis

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2017

301
Measuring 100 Million Healthier Lives (301 Series)

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2017

301
Improving Census Bureau Data Dissemination

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2017

Promoting Evidence-Based Policymaking by Sharing State Administrative Data

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2017

301
Testing Messages to Support the Decennial Census and American Community Survey

4:00 pm EST
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Recording Available
2016

201
*Date Changed* Introducing J2J Explorer! An Innovative Data Tool on Statistics on Worker Reallocation in the United States

1:30 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

301
Addressing Under-Reporting of Young Children in Federal Statistical Programs

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

301
A Closer Look at New Federal Survey Items on Certifications and Licenses

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

301
The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking: The Commission and How You Can Get Involved

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

301
Evidence-Based Strategies for Creating an Open Data Impact

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

201
Overview of the Current Population Survey

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

201
Overview of the Current Employment Statistics Survey

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

101
Roles of SSA’s Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

301
The 2020 Census: A New Design for the 21st Century

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

301
Scaling the Mountain: Creating a Government-Wide Web Analytics Program, and Then Taking it Public

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

Supporting the Census & ACS: A Toolkit for Coalition-Building

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

201
The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS): Survey Design, Data Access, and Its Utility in Assessing the Impact of the Changes

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Understanding & Using Data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: Household Surveys in Crisis

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2016

301
Special Topics and Emerging Issues in Public Data: Introducing the Commerce Data Service

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

301
The Livability Index: Great Neighborhoods for All Ages

3:30 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

301
Production, Uses and Access to State and Local Population Projections

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

301
CTPP: A Special Tabulation of US Census ACS data, and the Program Built Around It

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

301
Statistics for the World of Open Data

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

201
Promoting Small Businesses: Introducing Census Business Builder

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

201
Understanding the CTE Statistics Program

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

101
Measuring America on the Move: Free and Accessible Data on Travel Patterns

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

301
The DATA Act: Delivering New Resources for Research – If All Goes Well

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

101
Introduction to Data Sets: The National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

101
Introduction to Data Sets: Insights into HUD USER

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Accessing American Community Survey Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

201
Accessing Regional Data: Bureau of Economic Analysis

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2015

301
Federal Spending in the States

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: National Center for Health Statistics

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

201
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Census Applications

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

201
Measuring America: Your Guide to Accessing the Data Tools

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

2014 Annual Business Meeting and State of the Association

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
2014

301
The Path to the 2020 Census Design Decision

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: Census Bureau Demographic and Decennial Programs

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

301
What The New DATA Act Means for Data Users

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: Bureau of Justice Statistics Demographic Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Demographic Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

301
Understanding Online Job Ads Data (301 Series)

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) Economic Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Demographic Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: Bureau of Transportation Statistics Demographic Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Statistics

3:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Statistics

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: Statistics of Income IRS Economic Statistics

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

101
Introduction to Data Sets: Census Bureau Economic Statistics

3:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2014

NEW DATE: 2013 APDU Business Meeting

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
2013

Approaching the True Cost of Living: The Location Affordability Portal

1:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

Bringing the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey into the 21st Century

1:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

American Community Survey: What Stakeholders Really Think and How We Can Improve

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

Public Policy Opportunities and Challenges for Public Data

1:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

Government Data and Confidentiality: Compatible Companions With the Help of Statistical Disclosure Control

1:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

Have State and Local Governments Recovered from the Great Recession?

1:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

Big Data or Statistical Data? Extracting Information about Consumer Prices in the New World

1:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

Federal Government Spending: Less Transparency in a World of Open Data

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

Law as data: Coding legal text using Public Health Law Research’s LawAtlas

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

ACS Workshop, National Academy report

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

What’s New with American FactFinder: A Census Demonstration of New and Enhanced Features

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2013

The Private Sector and the ACS

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2012

Data Dissemination Group Presentations: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2012

Data Dissemination Group Presentations: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2012

Civic Data Challenge: Turning Raw Data into Community Tools

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2012

Data Dissemination Group Presentations: U.S. Census Bureau

2:00 pm EDT
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Recording Available
2012

A Half Century of Special District Growth

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2012

The 1940 Census in the Context of the Great Depression and New Deal

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2012

Analyzing BLS Business Employment Dynamics Data

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2012

Pensions: The National Debate, Here’s the Data

2:00 pm EST
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Recording Available
2011

Data on Housing Topics

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

Taxes: More Than Just Income & Sales

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

Delivering What Users Want: The History of U.S. Census Small Area Data

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

Statistics of Governments: A General Overview

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

Challenges and Improvements for the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

User Perspectives on ACS 5-year Data

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

Disability Statistics From Surveys and Administrative Records

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

Accessing Business Data Available in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Research Data Center Network

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2011

Using the 2005-2009 American Community Survey 5-year Data to Study Small Areas and Change Over Time

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2010

The Changing Landscape of Data for Health Services Research and Policy

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2010

Collaborative, Online Mapping: The New ArcGIS.com

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2010

User Needs for Calculating Standard Errors in the ACS

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2010

Exploring ‘Web 2.0’ Public Data Applications: MoveSmart.org

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2010

Targeting the Hard To Count: A Tool for Improving Census Coverage

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2010

The 2007 Economic Census: A Portrait of the Nation’s Economy

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2009

GDP by Metropolitan Area, Accelerated Release of Data for 2008

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2009

The American Community Survey: Tracking How We Change with Multi-Year Estimates

2:00 pm EST
Webinar
Recording Available
2009

An Overview of the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), the Nation’s Largest Household Travel Survey

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available
2009

The 2010 Census: Preparations for a Complete Count

2:00 pm EDT
Webinar
Recording Available

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.