2021 APDU Data Viz Award Winners
APDU is pleased to announce the winners of this years Data Viz Awards. APDU gives annual awards to creative and meaningful graphic designs that use publicly available data (for example, data from the Census Bureau…
APDU President’s Letter Inviting Members to the Annual Conference
Dear colleagues, The 2021 Association of Public Data Users Annual Conference, “Public Data: Making Sense of the New Normal,” is only a few weeks away! Hopefully, you are making plans to attend, July 26-29. While…
May 12 Workshop Notes: Discussion and Concerns
On May 12, the Association of Public Data Users and the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University held a town hall session on Solving Data “Differences” – Assessing the Use Cases.
2021 APDU Data Viz Awards: Call for Visualizations
The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is pleased to announce the 2021 Data Viz Awards. We are once again soliciting creative and meaningful graphic designs that use publicly-available data (for example, data from the…
APDU Workshop Series: Making the Best of the 2020 Census
Significant changes at the Census Bureau including new privacy measures have the potential to make local data less accurate. These changes can be hard to parse for those not closely following Census Bureau activities. APDU…
2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals
APDU is welcoming proposals on “making sense of the new normal” using public data. With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy public data is vital to open and…
2020 APDU Candidate Statements
Candidate for President: Mary Jo Hoeksema Since January 2004, Mary Jo Hoeksema has been the Director of Government Affairs for the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers. In addition to representing PAA and…
Fundamentals of Data Science and Visualization
A picture is worth a thousand words. Use data to state your case using easy-to-understand data visualization tools. Give your audience the freedom to adapt your data in new ways in interactive dashboards that answer…
Looking Back on the 2020 APDU Annual Conference
With the 2020 APDU Annual Conference in the rearview mirror, now is a good time to reflect on the week and look ahead to what’s next.
Intermediate Data Visualization Techniques in Tableau
A picture is worth a thousand words. Use data to state your case using easy-to-understand data visualization tools. Give your audience the freedom to adapt your data in new ways in interactive dashboards that answer…
APDU Member Blog Post: It’s not too late to rebuild data-user trust in Census 2020 data products
The Census Bureau is rethinking the way it will produce the data published from the Census 2020. APDU member Jan Vink gives his views on how the Census Bureau can reassure data users about the…
APDU Launches 2020 Annual Conference
APDU is opening registration for the 2020 Annual Conference, set to be held at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, VA on July 29-30, 2020. Trending issues in the world of data – issues of…