APDU 2025 by the numbers…
2025 was a challenging year for public data, but the deep engagement of the data user community has been a silver lining. As threats to public data grew, so did data user engagement. We witnessed…
2025 Data Integrity Summit Report
Quick Summary of the Report The federal statistical system has been struggling with budget constraints for several years. In the first six months of 2025 threats to the integrity of the system increased substantially, including…
APDU Statement on Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner
The moment many of us in the public data community have feared has come to pass: the President has fired the head of a federal statistical agency because the data are politically inconvenient. Today President…
APDU Statement on Education Research and Data
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, over 1,000 staff from the Department of Education were laid off. This includes almost all staff from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which housed the National Center for Education…
APDU Signs COPAFS Letter on Preserving Public Data
APDU joined co-signing organizations to ask Congress to restore and protect federally-funded data on agency websites and portals. Over 230 organizations and 2,600 individuals signed onto the letter. On February 11, it was transmitted to Senate…
APDU Statement on Public Data
As many of you are aware, on January 31, 2025, the administration began removing crucial data from public, federal government websites, including the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System–information that is used to address critical issues…
2025 Election Results
Election Results Congratulations to all of our new and returning Board members. We wish you all happy holidays, and we look forward to working together in the new year.
Proof-of-Concept 2020 Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File B
The U.S. Census Bureau released a proof-of-concept data product and documentation for the 2020 Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File B (DDHC-B). The DDHC-B will provide data on housing tenure and household type for just over 1,500 detailed racial…
Remembrance of Katherine Wallman
Katherine Wallman, the former chief statistician of the United States, passed away on January 17, 2024. She was a prominent figure in the data user community, such as serving as a member of the APDU…
APDU Bi-Weekly – December 14, 2023
December 14, 2023 FEATURE Last Bi-Weekly Newsletter of 2023 This marks the APDU’s final bi-weekly newsletter of 2023. We would like to thank all our readers who continue to engage with and find value…
APDU Bi-Weekly – November 30, 2023
November 30, 2023 FEATURE Data Storytelling Workshop – LAST CHANCE December 5, 7, 12, and 14, 2023 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET Final week to register Interested in the upcoming Data Storytelling Workshop,…
APDU Bi-Weekly – November 9, 2023
November 9, 2023 FEATURE Storytelling with Data: How Organizations Can Use Data to Communicate Impact This Bi-Weekly features a blog post from APDU board member Aaron Bean’s organization, Asemio, that highlights how data can…