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April 15, 2021 FEATURES President Biden Announces His Intent to Nominate Robert Santos for Director of the U.S. Census On April 13, 2021, President Joe Biden Announced His Intent to Nominate Robert Santos for Director…
2021 APDU Data Viz Awards: Call for Visualizations
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 Census Bureau or Bureau of Labor Statistics) to convey a compelling point or story.
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April 8, 2021 FEATURES Lawsuits Over Execution of 2020 Census Near Conclusions ?Two legal challenges to the Trump administration?s execution of the 2020 census neared conclusions this week in the face of changes brought by…
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April 1, 2021 FEATURES Senate Holds Hearing on 2020 Census On March 23, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Committee held a hearing, ?The 2020 Census and Current Activities of the U.S. Census…
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March 25, 2021 FEATURES Lawmakers Push Back on Move to Revoke Metro Status for 144 Cities A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are pushing back against recommendations by the federal government that would revoke the metropolitan…
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March 18, 2021 FEATURES 2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals: Public Data: Making Sense of the New Normal APDU is welcoming proposals on ?making sense of the new normal? using public data. With economic, public…
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March 11, 2021 FEATURES SURVEY REQUEST: Proposal to Redefine MSA from 50,000 to 100,000 Residents The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requests public comment on the recommendations it has received from the Metropolitan and…
APDU Workshop Series: Making the Best of the 2020 Census
Significant changes at the Census Bureau including new privacy measures have the potential to make local data less accurate. These changes can be hard to parse for those not closely following Census Bureau activities.
APDU is holding this series of town hall events and trainings to educate state and local government data users about what these changes mean for the quality of the data that state and local governments rely on, and how to validate whether the data you’re getting from the decennial census is fit for use.
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March 4, 2021 FEATURES 2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals: Public Data: Making Sense of the New Normal APDU is welcoming proposals on ?making sense of the new normal? using public data. With economic, public…
Data Is vs. Data Are: Settling the Debate
There are many debates in the world of public data. Privacy vs. accuracy. Survey data vs. administrative data. CSV vs. XLS. But if you really want to see data nerds fight, ask them whether they say “data is” or “data are”. Is the word “data” singular or plural?
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February 25, 2021 FEATURES 2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals: Public Data: Making Sense of the New Normal APDU is welcoming proposals on ?making sense of the new normal? using public data. With economic, public…
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February 18, 2021 FEATURES 2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals Public Data Making Sense of the New Normal APDU is welcoming proposals on ?making sense of the new normal? using public data. With economic, public…