Events include various webinars, workshops and conferences to engage communities with our work in the form of methods and usage tools. These events also give insights into how to form your own questions using these tools to effectively use data for research to further contribute to informed policy making.
The FCSM conference (https://fcsm2023.org/) included a session on Democratizing Data: A Search and Discovery Platform for Public Data Assets organized by Spiro Stefanou from the Economic Research Service. Nancy Potok from the Democratizing Data Initiative chaired the discussion with Vipin Arora from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, with contributions from Spiro Stefanou, as well as Hubert Hamer (National Agricultural Statistics Service), Josh DeLaRosa (national Center for Education Statistics), and Emilda Rivers (National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics).
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Julia Lane and Nancy Potok gave the opening and closing statements at the recent Make Data Count Summit that took place on September 12-13, 2023. Slides from the talks can be accessed here: https://zenodo.org/records/8370593. Make Data Count is an initiative that promotes open data metrics to enable the evaluation and reward of research data reuse and impact.
Julia Lane gave a keynote talk at the Workshop to Discuss the NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF) that took place on September 11, 2023.
Presentation: The NIST Research Data Framework and Data Democratization (PDF)
12:00 pm-1:00 pm EST | Virtual
An online USDA/ ERS & NASS Democratizing Data Joint Info Session.
Update: This webinar took place on March 28, 2023. Watch the video and access slides on the event page.
