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Why Should You Attend the APDU Annual Conference?
The 2017 APDU Annual Conference, to be held on September 13-14, 2017 in Arlington, VA, has something for everyone.
Our breakout sessions on data integration, innovation, and communication were submitted by a talented group of APDU members and reflect the topics on the minds of our membership. The Washington Briefing will provide an update on legislative and Trump Administration issues regarding public data. Our second annual Data Viz Awards will show attendees innovative ways of presenting the results of their research. Other sessions will feature leaders from the Census Bureau, BLS, BEA, and NCHS speaking on the futures of their agencies.
APDU has many different types of members, and there are excellent reasons for each type to attend the Annual Conference.
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Data and Budgeting for an Effective Economy
Federal statistical data plays an integral role in decision-making within businesses and government. It is important that the data be obtained and reviewed with a high level of rigor to maintain its integrity, and this requires sufficient support from Congress.
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Remember to submit your job postings for the August 2017 Job Board to Brendan Buff at bbuff@crec.net.
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Q&A: ProPublica?s Lena Groeger on Data Viz
ProPublica?s Lena Groeger explores questions of typography, democracy, and visual storytelling in her ?Visual Evidence? essay series. She also speaks regularly at conferences about, for instance, the explanatory power of GIFs. That is, when she?s not contributing code, design, and data visualizations to ProPublica?s award-winning investigative stories?such as ?Insult to Injury,? which looked at disparities in worker?s compensation among states.
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The Tech Revolution Changing Poverty Measurement
The world has an ambitious goal to end extreme poverty by 2030. But, without good poverty data, it is impossible to know whether we are making progress, or whether programs and policies are reaching those who are the most in need. Once a paper-and-pencil exercise, technology is beginning to revolutionize the field of household data collection, and the World Bank is tapping into this potential to produce more and better poverty data.
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The 7 Best Data Visualization Tools in 2017
Here?s a run-down of some of the best, most popular or most innovative data visualization tools available today. These are all paid-for (although they all offer free trials or personal-use licenses).
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The Chartmaker Directory
The Chartmaker Directory is an attempt to gather and organise a useful catalogue of references that will offer people a good sense of what charts can be made using which tools and, where necessary, how.
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Call for Papers: Advancement for Low-Wage Workers
Economic Development Quarterly (EDQ) is seeking research manuscripts for a special issue highlighting economic development and workforce policies that increase earnings and advance the careers of workers in low-wage services sectors. EDQ is the premiere applied academic journal publishing research on domestic U.S. development issues. Its mission is to promote research supporting the formulation of evidence-based economic development and workforce development policy, programs, and practice in the United States. EDQ and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research are seeking high quality research that would advance our understanding of the factors that impact the current and future earning potential of individuals in low-wage services jobs positions.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Income Inequality Contextualized
Understand income inequality on PolicyMap with the Gini Index from the American Community Survey (ACS), and identify locations of mixed-income neighborhoods or areas with social outcome disparities.
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Visualization of the Week
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25 Visualizations Spin The Same Data Into Different Tales
Data rarely speaks for itself. Not cogently, anyway. That’s what tables, graphs, and diagrams are for. The right visualization can focus a jumbled heap of facts and figures into something concise, captivating, informative, persuasive, or misleading. The challenge is choosing how best to showcase the data you’re interested in?and your options are surprisingly numerous, as designer Nathan Yau demonstrates in a recent series of 25 visualizations. Every graphic is based on the same data set?life expectancy figures, by country, from the World Health Organization?but each tells a slightly different story.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
HIGHER EDUCATION
NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we?ll include it here.
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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