Attending the Association for Public Data Users Conference

On July 25 and 26, Joe Edgerton and Lili Badri attended the Association for Public Data Users (APDU) Annual Conference in Arlington, Virginia at the Amazon Skills Center. They were invited to attend as winners of Georgetown’s Greenspace Data Challenge and had the opportunity to present their work. This year’s theme was Expanding the Universe of Public Data, and the first day was filled with informative talks related to different data-driven projects. The second day was kicked off with an open discussion from federal agency leaders at the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), followed by a panel of presentations from the Greenspace winners and Data Storytelling finalists. It was an excellent opportunity to learn about the variety of datasets available and the methods by which they can be used to solve pressing questions.

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