June 12: This week in data legislation
A look at data-related legislative and public policy issues for the week of June 10, 2014.
APDU Weekly
Features Thompson discusses continuing struggles of ACS Census Bureau Director John Thompson delivered the morning keynote on the final day of last week?s C2ER Annual Conference and discussed the implications of changing the American Community…
Thompson discusses ACS: mandatory vs. voluntary
John Thompson, Census Bureau Director discussed the American Community Survey at the 54th Annual Conference of the Council for Community and Economic Research’s (C2ER).
Data legislation: Census, cybersecurity, and state-level privacy
A look at data legislation in the news, for the week of May 22.
APDU Weekly
Features Agenda, hotel, vendor details released for APDU 2014 The 2014 APDU Annual Conference takes place in Arlington VA, September 16-17. A draft agenda of the two-meeting is now online, along with hotel…
Data takes center stage in Washington DC
It’s been a busy week in data-related issues in Washington DC. Here’s a look at legislation, budgets, and reports.
APDU Weekly
Features APDU website gets a new face This week, a new, redesigned APDU.org launched. The new site features a sleeker, more modern layout, a mobile-friendly structure, and some new features. One such feature…
Association of Public Data Users 2014 Annual Conference
The preliminary agenda for the 2014 APDU Annual Conference features two days of keynotes, general sessions, breakouts, and networking, along with a few new features.
Georgetown U. researchers discuss online jobs ads data
Last week, Jeff Strohl and Tamara Jayasundera from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University presented findings from their just-released report on online jobs ads data, as part of the Public Data…
APDU joins Friends of BLS, expresses concerns about recent budget actions
APDU joined a group of concerned national organizations, representing the newly formed Friends of BLS, to meet with Justin Gibbons and Stephen Steigleder, staffers for the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Subcommittee on April 25 to express our…
APDU Weekly
Features BEA releases new personal income statistics Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released comprehensive statistics on regional differences in incomes for 50 states and 381 metro areas. For the first time, Americans looking…
Susan Aud discusses CTE stats at NCES
Susan Aud from NCES discusses the new Career/Technical Education (CTE) Statistics system on a Public Data University APDU webinar.