After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…
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Data.gov revamp
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Thoughts on end of Data.gov
In a guest post for the guardian.co.uk Datablog, I thought out loud about…
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Data.gov and other transparency sites to be shut down due to budget cuts
Last week, there were rumblings over the end of the Statistical Abstract, and…
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Data.gov.uk versus Data.gov – Which wins?
Back in May last year, the US government launched Data.gov as a statement…
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Data.gov.uk Gearing Up For Launch, er, Does Launch
Update: I had scheduled this post for next week, but apparently, Data.gov.uk launched…
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Data.gov is Live – Get Your Data While it’s Hot
Big news. Data.gov is now live. Government data is at your fingertips.
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Where ICUs are near capacity
The New York Times mapped the seven-day average of ICU bed occupancy rates:…
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Google Dataset Search Impressions, the Challenges of Looking for Data, and Other Places to Find Data
Google released Dataset Search to the world last week. Here are my first impressions.
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Resources to Find the Data You Need, 2016 Edition
This is an update to the guide I wrote in 2009, which as it turns out, is now mostly outdated. So, 2016. Here we go.
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Detailed data release for U.S. college debt, graduation rate, and test scores
With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.
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How to Make Dot Density Maps in R
Choropleth maps are useful to show values for areas on a map, but they can be limited. In contrast, dot density maps are sometimes better for showing distributions within regions.
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How to Make Government Data Sites Better
Accessing government data from the source is frustrating. If you’ve done it, or…
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Government data shutdown
When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run…
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In land of YouTube dislikes, Justin Bieber rules
Happy Friday, everyone. If you’ll allow me, I’d like to take a moment…
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The end of the Statistical Abstract of the United States?
There are rumblings, mostly among librarians, over the end of the Statistical Compendia…
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Lots of health data released via Health Indicators Warehouse
The government has been making a big push for more open health-related data,…
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Federal CTO on government and data
Tim O’Reilly and Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer sit down for a…
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Open data doesn’t empower communities
internet.artizans reflects on the usefulness of open data:
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Where Americans are moving
Jon Bruner of Forbes reports that more than 10 million Americans moved from…
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Visualizing data: ask a question first
There is no way to think up an original and extraordinary design—it can…