Extended – Call For Sessions
Only Cher Can Turn Back Time But APDU Can Give You More Time Share Your Work With Us! The Call For Session Proposals Deadline Has Been Extended Full Information Save the Date New Deadline:…
APDU President’s Letter to Membership
On behalf of the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Board of Directors and staff, I want to wish you a happy new year! I am looking forward to 2022, which will be my second…
2021 APDU Candidate Statements
Candidate for Secretary: Beth Jarosz, Senior Research Associate, Population Reference Bureau Bio At PRB I work on a wide range of U.S. demographic topics, with a focus on subnational analysis. Prior to joining PRB, I…
APDU Meet and Greet Recording: NCES Commissioner and Networking Event
October 21, 2021 3:30 – 5:00 PM 1550 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA Virtual Attendance Available AGENDA 3:30 – 3:45 pm: NCES Commissioner Peggy G. Carr 3:45 – 4:00 pm: Question and Answer 4:00 –…
APDU Board Member: September Jobs Report – Increased Worker Dissatisfaction
The tables have turned for workers in a post-pandemic recovery based on crunching the latest jobs and labor data in Public Insight Insight for Work. In the spring of 2020, millions of workers were laid off…
Register Now: Meet and Greet: NCES Commissioner
APDU Meet and Greet: NCES Commissioner and Networking Event Peggy G. Carr Commissioner National Center for Education Statistics October 21, 2021 3:30 – 5:00 PM ET 1550 Wilson Blvd. 2nd floor Arlington, VA Virtual…
Federal Agency Leaders Provide Insights at the APDU Annual Conference
The 2021 APDU Annual Conference closed with a panel of federal statistical agency leaders including Dr. Ron Jarmin, Acting Director and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Census Bureau; Dr. William Beach, Commissioner at U.S.…
Data Visualization Fundamentals in Tableau
Virtual Training Live Instruction Dates: October 19, 22, 26, 29 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET Agenda PDF Registration Form (Online registration at bottom of page) This virtual, 12-hour course introduces economic development researchers and…
What I wish I knew when I started: What is the federal statistical system?
APDU Board Member Beth Jarosz provides a great overview of the Federal Statistical System in this blog post. She discusses how the agencies are interrelated and how many ways there are for data users to…
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…
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…
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…