Guest

Katherine Wallman, former Chief Statistician of the United States

Hosts:

Corinna Turbes, Policy Manager, The Data CoalitionDean Ritz, Member of the Data Coalition Board of Directors, and Senior Director of Digital Reporting Strategy  at Workiva

Resources: 

Ensuring the Quality of Information Upon Which Public Policy is Based: OIRA’s Statistical and Science Policy Function by Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician U. S. Office of Management and Budget

Series Sponsors:

 Workiva Inc. (NYSE: WK) simplifies complex work for thousands of organizations worldwide. Customers trust Workiva’s open, intelligent and intuitive platform to connect data, documents and teams. The results: more efficiency, greater transparency and less risk. Learn more at workiva.com.

The Data Coalition is America’s premier voice on data policy. As a membership-based trade association, the Data Coalition advocates for responsible policies to make government data high-quality, accessible, and useable. Our work unites the data communities that focus on data science, management, evaluation, statistics, and technology, including individuals in companies, nonprofit organizations, and academia. 

In the course of our work, the Data Coalition advocates for appropriate data standards and access mechanisms, promotes the need for sufficient resources for data quality and evaluation activities, educates government leaders and stakeholders about the potential benefits of better data policy, and convenes the data community to support solutions that drive needed transformation in our approaches to using data.  

The Data Coalition is registered as a nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code.