Conference Keynote Speaker Announced
The 2024 APDU conference keynote speaker will be Terry Ao Minnis, Vice President of census and voting programs for Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
July 23-24, 2024
Georgetown University Capitol Campus
500 First St NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Register today at the conference website. Space is filling fast!
Upcoming Webinars and Events
But If You Try Sometimes, You Might Find You Get What You Need
JoiJoin us for a webinar on May 22 from 3-4 p.m. EST where Andrew Reamer, of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy and the Industry Studies Association, will discuss ways to engage in federal decision-making.
The U.S. government offers hundreds of open opportunities for members of the public to suggest changes in and improvements to public data collection, analysis, and dissemination. As the public is largely unaware of these opportunities. Andrew Reamer lists many of them in his weekly Industrial Policy Update prepared for members of the Industry Studies Association and a few thousand others. In this APDU webinar, Prof. Reamer will provide an overview of, and approaches to answering, five types of input opportunities on public data:
- Information collection submissions to OMB
- Requests for comments on draft plans, reports, and rules
- Requests for information to aid future decision-making
- Federal advisory committee meetings
- Written outside witness testimony to congressional appropriation committees
Register here to join the conversation.
New and Notable
- Justice Outcomes Explorer
- Births: Provisional Data for 2023
- Census Bureau will test Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the American Community Survey
What we’re reading this month
- Democratizing Data: Discovering Data Use and Value for Research and Policy (Harvard Data Science Review)
- Race/Ethnicity Categories in Federal Surveys Are Changing: Implications for Data Users (PRB)
- 2030 Census Strategy (5 Documents) (Census Bureau)
- The Jobs Numbers Aren’t Adding Up. Immigration Helps Explain Why. (WSJ, paywall)
Advocacy
APDU recently signed on to:
- Support for Institute of Education Sciences’ Accelerate, Transform, and Scale (ATS) Initiative
- Support for increasing the FY 2025 allocation for the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee
- Support for the FY25 Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) budget request
- Friends of BLS Fiscal Year 2025 Recommendation for the Bureau of Labor Statistics
In Case You Missed It
Recordings are now available for our recent webinars:
- Local Data for Local Action
- State Courts and Using Data for Good
- Our Census: Looking Back to 2020 and Forward to 2030
- Do No Harm Guide: Collecting, Analyzing, and Reporting Gender and Sexual Orientation Data
Job Opportunities
Visit us on LinkedIn for recent job postings.
Calls for Comment
Visit us on LinkedIn for the most current calls for comment on federal data sources.
We want to showcase your work
Do you have a new product, data visualization, data story, or other achievement you’d like to share? Let us know at info@apdu.org and your work might be featured in next month’s newsletter.