November 14, 2019 FEATURE Balancing Privacy and Accuracy: New Opportunity for Disclosure Avoidance Analysis The Census Bureau released demonstration data products designed to help the data user community better understand the disclosure avoidance system for…
November 7, 2019 FEATURE Upcoming APDU Webinars C2ER, LMI Institute, and APDU Webinar Introducing the Census Bureau’s Business Formation Statistics November 14, 2019 2:00 PM ? 3:00 PM EST More information Pricing: FREE APDU Webinar…
October 31, 2019 FEATURE Computers Have an Unlikely Origin Story: the 1890 Census The inventor of punched cards, which led to the first computers and companies like IBM, was aiming to solve a gnarly problem…
October 24, 2019 FEATURE Ron Nakao Awarded the 2019 William H. Flanigan Award for Distinguished Service as an ICPSR Official Representative Ron Nakao, Social Science Data Librarian and Economics Librarian at Stanford and APDU board…
October 17, 2019 FEATURE Researchers Question Census Bureau?s New Approach to Privacy The Census Bureau has announced that it would add statistical ?noise? to the 2020 data, essentially tinkering with its own numbers to preserve…
October 10, 2019 FEATURE Where Does the Federal Data Strategy Go from Here? Evidence Panel Members Revisit Ideas While the administration has moved ahead with other steps outlined in the Foundations on Evidence-Based Policy-making Act,…
October 3, 2019 FEATURE USDA Expects ?Significant Delays? in Economic Research Reports Mass attrition at the Economic Research Service as a result of USDA?s decision to move the agency out of Washington will lead to…
September 26, 2019 FEATURE American FactFinder Retires: Data Dissemination Transitions to Data.census.gov The U.S. Census Bureau has retired American FactFinder (AFF), its statistics and information search engine after 20 years. Users can begin accessing Census…
September 19, 2019 FEATURE The Future of Federal Statistics and Data New opportunities are opening up, thanks to recently enacted legislation and an inaugural Federal Data Strategy. The recent Federal Data Strategy and the Foundations…
September 12, 2019 FEATURE Census Bureau Offers New Clues About Plan to Collect Data John Abowd cleared up one mystery surrounding whether government data will be used to tilt electoral maps towards Republicans. Another mystery,…
September 5, 2019 FEATURE APDU Business Meeting APDU’s weekly newsletters, annual conference, webinars, and trainings have kept us busy during 2019. Want to know what?s in store for 2020? APDU is excited to announce our…
August 29, 2019 FEATURE APDU Business Meeting APDU’s weekly newsletters, annual conference, webinars, and trainings have kept us busy during 2019. Want to know what?s in store for 2020? APDU is excited to announce our…