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The Line-up – CIC/APDU Virtual Symposium

  2022 APDU/CIC Virtual Symposium See Who We Have Stepping up to the Podium at the Symposium 12 days left to register! Racial Equity Tools and Hubs Diane Lavery Senior Product Engineer, Esri Owen Mattison… 

APDU Weekly – February 3, 2022

  February 3, 2022 FEATURES Call For Proposals Open A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for All APDU is welcoming proposals for the Data Symposium 2022, A Future… 

APDU President’s Letter to Membership

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 and final term as APDU President.  

Call For Session Proposals Now Open

  Call For Session Proposals Now Open Full Information Save the Date APDU is welcoming proposals for the Data Symposium 2022, A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for… 

Beginner R Training: Starts in 28 Days

  Beginner R Training: Data Science for Community, Workforce, and Economic Development Research February 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM ET  Training Begins in 28 Days! Full Details & Registration… 

APDU Member Post: Assessing the Use of Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census: Summary of What We Learned from the CNSTAT Workshop

The Census Bureau’s solution to protecting privacy is a new DAS based on a methodology referred to as Differential Privacy (DP). The Census commissioned the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to host a 2-day Workshop on 2020 Census Data Products: Data Needs and Privacy Considerations, held in Washington, DC, on December 11-12, 2019. This post provides an overview of the findings.

FY20 Budget Moves from House to Senate

The House has passed appropriations bills to the Senate for FY2020, and there are important developments for statistical agencies. The Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) each received modest to substantial increases in their budgets.

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, accurate public data on important topics like population, housing, and employment. Yet the “big name” public data sources merely hint at the breadth and depth of data available, which includes information on consumer expenditures, healthcare access and utilization, and participation in the arts.