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Feature   Data Visualizations Requested for 2016 Data Viz Awards The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is pleased to announce our inaugural Data Viz Awards with an open ?Call for Visualizations,? soliciting creative and… 

Features   TO CENSUS USERS: Your Response Needed Immediately The Census Project has learned of two budget amendments being introduced in the US Senate that seriously threaten 2020 Census planning, as well as the future… 

Features   House Bill Includes Funding Boosts for NIJ, BJS & Census On May 24, the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year (FY) 2017 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Bill. This… 

Features   Reducing Respondent Contact Burden in ACS The U.S. Census Bureau?s American Community Survey (ACS) uses a multimode data collection approach that attempts to contact selected households by mail, telephone calls and personal visits.… 

Features   What’s Wrong with Open-Data Sites/How Do We Fix Them? Vast amounts of useful information can be found on government Web sites, but it’s often impossible to make sense of it. The design of… 

Features     Register now for the DATA Act Summit 50% off for APDU Members! May 26th |  Hilton Washington  |  Washington, D.C. The DATA Act of 2014 requires the federal government to transform all… 

Features   Senate Bill Seeks Small Census Bureau Increase for FY2017 On April 21, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year (FY) 2017 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Bill. This bill… 

Features   Congress is Stepping Up to Protect Open Data By all accounts, the open data policy implemented by the Obama administration in May 2013 has been a tremendous success. However, despite open data?s obvious… 

Features Join Us at the APDU 2016 Annual Conference!   At the 2016 APDU Annual Conference, you have a unique opportunity to directly influence how federal statistics are gathered, produced, and shared.  Learn from experts. … 

Features   BLS Issues Call for Presenters Have you used the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) in your work?  More specifically, have you used the public-use microdata files from the CE in research you have conducted? …