Features   Thanks to Our Sponsors and Exhibitors!   Introducing a new feature this year, the APDU conference will include an exhibitors? hall. We?d like to thank our sponsors for supporting APDU and sharing their… 

Features   BEA Raises New Data Source The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released prototype estimates of personal consumption expenditures (PCE) for states for 1997-2012. These new estimates provide insight into household spending patterns across… 

Features     White House Signs WIOA, Releases Action Training Plan President Obama signed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) into law on July 22nd, after overwhelming approval in the House and Senate. On… 

Features   APDU Announces Second Keynote Speaker   Mark Doms, Undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Economics & Statistics Administration will be the keynote speaker on September 17th at the APDU 2014 Annual Conference. He… 

Features Appropriations Bills Stalled Indefinitely The Senate was preparing to debate the fiscal year (FY) 2015 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations bill (the bill that funds the National Science Foundation, Census Bureau,… 

Features Data Science and Statistics Is Data Science a disruptive anomaly to traditional statisticians? Or, are they one and the same thing with Data Science simply an extension of traditional statistics? There are a number… 

Breaking News Amendment Filed Endangering 2020 Census APDU has just learned that Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has filed an amendment to the FY2015 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill (H.R. 4660), being considered now in…