APDU Board Member: Building Up by Breaking Down
If the mantra in real estate is “location, location, location,” the mantra for public data users is—or should be: “disaggregation, disaggregation, disaggregation.” Why does disaggregation matter?
What I wish I knew when I started: What is the federal statistical system?
APDU Board Member Beth Jarosz provides a great overview of the Federal Statistical System in this blog post. She discusses how the agencies are interrelated and how many ways there are for data users to…
APDU Board Member: Learn about new data sources at the APDU Annual Conference
If you ask a data user to name public data sources, she might name the decennial census, American Community Survey, National Vital Statistics System, or Current Population Survey. Each of those sources provides robust, timely,…