Authors: Frauke Kreuter, Ph.D., Professor, University of Maryland Joint Program in Survey Methodology and Co-director, Social Data Science Center Julia Lane. Ph.D., Professor, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service It has never…
By: Austin Clemens, Director of Economic Measurement Policy at The Washington Center for Equitable Growth Industrial policy is the hot new trend in D.C. policymaking circles, a Biden administration promise to radically transform the economy…
This year APDU was bestowed with a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation to support the travel and conference registration fees for a cohort of promising students interested in public data. These students had…
Summer activity is winding down and the routine of life awaits in the fall. However, the job market has been anything but routine even during the dog days summer. It resembles more the ups and…
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…
Katherine Wallman, Chief Statistician of the United States 1992-2017, welcomes new Chief Statistician Karin Orvis with a perspective informed by decades of service in this key position.
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?
On behalf of the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Board of Directors and staff, I want to wish you a happy new year! I am looking forward to 2022, which will be my second…
Data from the Family Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic questionnaire offer us a glimpse of how California children are faring. A majority of caregivers are concerned about their children’s mental health. Almost two-thirds of California…
The tables have turned for workers in a post-pandemic recovery based on crunching the latest jobs and labor data in Public Insight Insight for Work. In the spring of 2020, millions of workers were laid off…
APDU Board Member and former Chief Statistician of the United States issues a call to action to the data user community. Click through to learn more!
Arturo Vargas, CEO of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund and Terry Ao Minnis, Senior Director of Census and Voting Programs for Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), discussed diversity,…