APDU Weekly
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…
APDU Weekly
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…
APDU Weekly
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…
2021 APDU Conference Call for Proposals
APDU is welcoming proposals on “making sense of the new normal” using public data. With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy public data is vital to open and…
APDU Weekly
February 11, 2021 FEATURES Updates on the 2020 Census Quality Indicators In October 2020, the American Statistical Association released the 2020 Census Quality Indicators, a report written by a task force of census experts with a…
APDU Weekly
February 4, 2021 FEATURES Fine-Tuning the Disclosure Avoidance System to Ensure Accuracy While much of the Census Bureau?s efforts are focused on production of the first of the 2020 Census data products – the data…
2021 APDU President’s Message
Dear APDU members, Happy New Year and thank you for either renewing or joining the Association of Public Data Users (APDU). I am honored to serve as the 2021 APDU President, and I look forward to…
APDU Weekly
January 28, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Aims to Deliver State Population Totals by April 30 Census Bureau officials said that the agency hopes to deliver state population totals to the commerce secretary by April 30,…
APDU Weekly
January 21, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham Announces Retirement Dr. Dillingham wrote a message to the Bureau staff and expressed his heartfelt appreciation for their extraordinary accomplishments, especially those related to the successful…
APDU Weekly
January 14, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Stops Work On Trump’s Request For Unauthorized Immigrant Count The U.S. Census Bureau has halted all work on President Trump’s directive to produce a state-by-state count of unauthorized immigrants…
APDU Weekly
January 7, 2021 FEATURES Attorney Says Census Count to Determine Congressional Seats Won’t Be Done Until February An attorney in President Trump?s administration said that the census count to determine how many congressional seats each…