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Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is a national network that links users, producers, and disseminators of government statistical data. Members share a vital concern about the collection, dissemination, preservation, and interpretation of public data.
AI has been making headlines—some hopeful and some horrifying—in recent months.
Join us for a clear-eyed discussion with Nathan Sanders, co-author of "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship."
Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us for a clear-eyed discussion with Nathan Sanders, co-author of "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship."
Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 23, 2026 at 5:54 PM
AI has been making headlines—some hopeful and some horrifying—in recent months.
Join us for a clear-eyed discussion with Nathan Sanders, co-author of "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship."
Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us for a clear-eyed discussion with Nathan Sanders, co-author of "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship."
Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
2025 was a challenging year for public data, but the deep engagement of the data user community has been a silver lining.
As we reflect on the past year at APDU, we think a few data points paint a clear picture of the work we’ve done.
And we look forward to continuing our work together in 2026.
As we reflect on the past year at APDU, we think a few data points paint a clear picture of the work we’ve done.
And we look forward to continuing our work together in 2026.
December 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
2025 was a challenging year for public data, but the deep engagement of the data user community has been a silver lining.
As we reflect on the past year at APDU, we think a few data points paint a clear picture of the work we’ve done.
And we look forward to continuing our work together in 2026.
As we reflect on the past year at APDU, we think a few data points paint a clear picture of the work we’ve done.
And we look forward to continuing our work together in 2026.
The collection of data that fuels everything from advanced research to everyday decision making is, by many measures, underappreciated and insufficiently rewarded.
Experts Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams have some practical ideas for what to do
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Experts Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams have some practical ideas for what to do
apdu.org?p=5814137
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The collection of data that fuels everything from advanced research to everyday decision making is, by many measures, underappreciated and insufficiently rewarded.
Experts Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams have some practical ideas for what to do
apdu.org?p=5814137
Experts Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams have some practical ideas for what to do
apdu.org?p=5814137
Read the latest in our new blog series
Driving While Looking Through a Shattered Rearview Mirror
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Driving While Looking Through a Shattered Rearview Mirror
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November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Read the latest in our new blog series
Driving While Looking Through a Shattered Rearview Mirror
apdu.org?p=5814077
Driving While Looking Through a Shattered Rearview Mirror
apdu.org?p=5814077
Not surprising, but the USDA fall data users' meeting has been cancelled...
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Not surprising, but the USDA fall data users' meeting has been cancelled...
❗❗❗ You may have heard that USDA ended a long-running data collection on food insecurity and called it "redundant." Our friends @kcww.bsky.social and Isabel Pastoor at @ipums.bsky.social fact-checked that claim.
Read what they found:
blog.popdata.org/food-securit...
Read what they found:
blog.popdata.org/food-securit...
October 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
❗❗❗ You may have heard that USDA ended a long-running data collection on food insecurity and called it "redundant." Our friends @kcww.bsky.social and Isabel Pastoor at @ipums.bsky.social fact-checked that claim.
Read what they found:
blog.popdata.org/food-securit...
Read what they found:
blog.popdata.org/food-securit...
🚨 USDA canceled the Food Security Supplement (FSS), the gold standard for measuring food insecurity.
Join our Rapid Response Data Briefing to learn:
🔵 What’s in the FSS
🔵 Why it matters for hunger & nutrition policy
🔵 What’s at risk
🔵 How to take action
Register now: tinyurl.com/FSS-webinar
Join our Rapid Response Data Briefing to learn:
🔵 What’s in the FSS
🔵 Why it matters for hunger & nutrition policy
🔵 What’s at risk
🔵 How to take action
Register now: tinyurl.com/FSS-webinar
October 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 USDA canceled the Food Security Supplement (FSS), the gold standard for measuring food insecurity.
Join our Rapid Response Data Briefing to learn:
🔵 What’s in the FSS
🔵 Why it matters for hunger & nutrition policy
🔵 What’s at risk
🔵 How to take action
Register now: tinyurl.com/FSS-webinar
Join our Rapid Response Data Briefing to learn:
🔵 What’s in the FSS
🔵 Why it matters for hunger & nutrition policy
🔵 What’s at risk
🔵 How to take action
Register now: tinyurl.com/FSS-webinar
Federal data websites appear to be (mostly) working, but there will be no updates nor questions answered until the shutdown ends.
[Image: screenshot of warning notice on CDC WONDER]
[Image: screenshot of warning notice on CDC WONDER]
October 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Federal data websites appear to be (mostly) working, but there will be no updates nor questions answered until the shutdown ends.
[Image: screenshot of warning notice on CDC WONDER]
[Image: screenshot of warning notice on CDC WONDER]
📣 Changes are coming to the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD)
🌐 HIFLD Open was discontinued, & DHS is collecting use cases for HIFLD Secure. The collection (500+ geospatial datasets) supports community preparedness, emergency response/recovery, and more.
Learn more at link in 🧵
🌐 HIFLD Open was discontinued, & DHS is collecting use cases for HIFLD Secure. The collection (500+ geospatial datasets) supports community preparedness, emergency response/recovery, and more.
Learn more at link in 🧵
September 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📣 Changes are coming to the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD)
🌐 HIFLD Open was discontinued, & DHS is collecting use cases for HIFLD Secure. The collection (500+ geospatial datasets) supports community preparedness, emergency response/recovery, and more.
Learn more at link in 🧵
🌐 HIFLD Open was discontinued, & DHS is collecting use cases for HIFLD Secure. The collection (500+ geospatial datasets) supports community preparedness, emergency response/recovery, and more.
Learn more at link in 🧵
Whether you're navigating missing data, advancing access in your community, or simply a frequent user of public data, you won't want to miss this conversation hosted by our friends at MySidewalk.
State of Data Access II
September 25, 2025
Register now (link in 🧵)
State of Data Access II
September 25, 2025
Register now (link in 🧵)
September 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Whether you're navigating missing data, advancing access in your community, or simply a frequent user of public data, you won't want to miss this conversation hosted by our friends at MySidewalk.
State of Data Access II
September 25, 2025
Register now (link in 🧵)
State of Data Access II
September 25, 2025
Register now (link in 🧵)
DYK there are changes proposed for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey?
Join panelists @mmather.bsky.social, Norma Coe, @denicewross.bsky.social, & Meghan Maury to learn
🔵 What's in MCBS?
🔵 Why is MCBS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Register
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join panelists @mmather.bsky.social, Norma Coe, @denicewross.bsky.social, & Meghan Maury to learn
🔵 What's in MCBS?
🔵 Why is MCBS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Register
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
DYK there are changes proposed for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey?
Join panelists @mmather.bsky.social, Norma Coe, @denicewross.bsky.social, & Meghan Maury to learn
🔵 What's in MCBS?
🔵 Why is MCBS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Register
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join panelists @mmather.bsky.social, Norma Coe, @denicewross.bsky.social, & Meghan Maury to learn
🔵 What's in MCBS?
🔵 Why is MCBS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Register
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
DYK there are changes proposed for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey? Join panelists @mmather.bsky.social, Norma Coe, @denicewross.bsky.social, & Meghan Maury to learn:
🔵 What's in MCBS?
🔵 Why is MCBS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Register
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🔵 What's in MCBS?
🔵 Why is MCBS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Register
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
DYK there are changes proposed for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey? Join panelists @mmather.bsky.social, Norma Coe, @denicewross.bsky.social, & Meghan Maury to learn:
🔵 What's in MCBS?
🔵 Why is MCBS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Register
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🔵 What's in MCBS?
🔵 Why is MCBS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Register
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"The moment many of us in the public data community have feared has come to pass: the President has fired the head of a federal statistical agency because the data are politically inconvenient."
Read our newsletter for the full statement
Read our newsletter for the full statement
August 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"The moment many of us in the public data community have feared has come to pass: the President has fired the head of a federal statistical agency because the data are politically inconvenient."
Read our newsletter for the full statement
Read our newsletter for the full statement
Looks like we have a new Chief Statistician of the US...
July 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Looks like we have a new Chief Statistician of the US...
DYK?
CDC Revised and Deleted 26 SOGI Data Elements from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
You can read @mel-klein.bsky.social's latest roundup for @dataindex.us at the link in 🧵
CDC Revised and Deleted 26 SOGI Data Elements from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
You can read @mel-klein.bsky.social's latest roundup for @dataindex.us at the link in 🧵
July 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
DYK?
CDC Revised and Deleted 26 SOGI Data Elements from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
You can read @mel-klein.bsky.social's latest roundup for @dataindex.us at the link in 🧵
CDC Revised and Deleted 26 SOGI Data Elements from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
You can read @mel-klein.bsky.social's latest roundup for @dataindex.us at the link in 🧵
Did you know that the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is up for renewal?
APDU, @dataindex.us, and @prbdata.bsky.social are hosting a rapid response briefing to share:
🔵 What's in the survey?
🔵 Why is ATUS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Registration info in 🧵
APDU, @dataindex.us, and @prbdata.bsky.social are hosting a rapid response briefing to share:
🔵 What's in the survey?
🔵 Why is ATUS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Registration info in 🧵
July 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Did you know that the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is up for renewal?
APDU, @dataindex.us, and @prbdata.bsky.social are hosting a rapid response briefing to share:
🔵 What's in the survey?
🔵 Why is ATUS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Registration info in 🧵
APDU, @dataindex.us, and @prbdata.bsky.social are hosting a rapid response briefing to share:
🔵 What's in the survey?
🔵 Why is ATUS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Registration info in 🧵
If you or your organization would be interested in supporting APDU's ongoing work to protect public data, please consider becoming a sponsor:
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June 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If you or your organization would be interested in supporting APDU's ongoing work to protect public data, please consider becoming a sponsor:
apdu.org/wp-content/u...
apdu.org/wp-content/u...
If you or your organization would be interested in supporting APDU's ongoing work to protect public data, please consider becoming a sponsor:
apdu.org/wp-content/u...
apdu.org/wp-content/u...
June 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If you or your organization would be interested in supporting APDU's ongoing work to protect public data, please consider becoming a sponsor:
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Are you a defender of public data? ✅
Join us on July 22 to connect with colleagues, learn the latest, and strategize for the future of public data.
Register now:
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Join us on July 22 to connect with colleagues, learn the latest, and strategize for the future of public data.
Register now:
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June 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Are you a defender of public data? ✅
Join us on July 22 to connect with colleagues, learn the latest, and strategize for the future of public data.
Register now:
apdu.org?product=unco...
Join us on July 22 to connect with colleagues, learn the latest, and strategize for the future of public data.
Register now:
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Do you care about public data?
Join us on July 22 to connect with colleagues, learn the latest, and strategize for the future.
(Link to more details and registration in comments.)
#data #datascience #statistics #econsky #demography #socialscience
Join us on July 22 to connect with colleagues, learn the latest, and strategize for the future.
(Link to more details and registration in comments.)
#data #datascience #statistics #econsky #demography #socialscience
June 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Do you care about public data?
Join us on July 22 to connect with colleagues, learn the latest, and strategize for the future.
(Link to more details and registration in comments.)
#data #datascience #statistics #econsky #demography #socialscience
Join us on July 22 to connect with colleagues, learn the latest, and strategize for the future.
(Link to more details and registration in comments.)
#data #datascience #statistics #econsky #demography #socialscience
So here's where DOGE is this week
May 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
So here's where DOGE is this week
WEBINAR: The State of Data Access (May 15)
Join national leaders and local experts for a conversation about how we can protect vital information—and strengthen our future—through data resilience.
Hosted by mySidewalk
Details: hubs.la/Q03kzbmm0
Join national leaders and local experts for a conversation about how we can protect vital information—and strengthen our future—through data resilience.
Hosted by mySidewalk
Details: hubs.la/Q03kzbmm0
May 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
WEBINAR: The State of Data Access (May 15)
Join national leaders and local experts for a conversation about how we can protect vital information—and strengthen our future—through data resilience.
Hosted by mySidewalk
Details: hubs.la/Q03kzbmm0
Join national leaders and local experts for a conversation about how we can protect vital information—and strengthen our future—through data resilience.
Hosted by mySidewalk
Details: hubs.la/Q03kzbmm0
URGENT: On Monday 4/21 of the National Assessment Governing Board is meeting and there's an opportunity for public comment. *Written* comments MUST be received 5pm ET TODAY. For verbal comments (Zoom), you MUST register in advance.
Links in 🧵
Links in 🧵
April 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
URGENT: On Monday 4/21 of the National Assessment Governing Board is meeting and there's an opportunity for public comment. *Written* comments MUST be received 5pm ET TODAY. For verbal comments (Zoom), you MUST register in advance.
Links in 🧵
Links in 🧵
***APDU Statement on Education Research and Data***
"Running the nation’s education system without IES will be like flying without air traffic control."
Read our full statement at the link 🔗 in 🧵
"Running the nation’s education system without IES will be like flying without air traffic control."
Read our full statement at the link 🔗 in 🧵
March 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
***APDU Statement on Education Research and Data***
"Running the nation’s education system without IES will be like flying without air traffic control."
Read our full statement at the link 🔗 in 🧵
"Running the nation’s education system without IES will be like flying without air traffic control."
Read our full statement at the link 🔗 in 🧵