After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all but dead, but apparently there’s a new site in the works. The original version of Data.gov was…
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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 the possible end of Data.gov and what it means for open government data. Let me know what…
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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 I suggested that it was just a sign of changing technologies. I thought that Data.gov and similar…
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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 of transparency, and the Internet rejoiced. After the launch, excitement kind of fizzled with the actual Data.gov…
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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 today. The site isn’t loading for me right now though. I guess they weren’t prepared for traffic.…
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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. The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the…
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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 at least tried to, you know the pain that is oddly formatted files, search that doesn’t work,…
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Government data shutdown
When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run sites, you see this. “Due to the lapse in government funding, census.gov sites, services, and all online…
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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 to talk about something serious. In a move I believe is best for everyone (but mostly me),…
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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 branch of the Census Bureau, in 2012. The branch has produced the Statistical Abstract of the United…
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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, and a couple of weeks ago, they released a whole bunch of it with the launch of…
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Federal CTO on government and data
Tim O’Reilly and Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer sit down for a chat on the US government’s goals on open data and information accessibility. Disregard the infomercial feel to…
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Open data doesn’t empower communities
internet.artizans reflects on the usefulness of open data: I’m inspired by the idea that nuggets of opened data could seed guerilla public services, plugging gaps left by government, but i…
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Where Americans are moving
Jon Bruner of Forbes reports that more than 10 million Americans moved from one county to the other in 2008, based on data from the IRS. The above interactive map…
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Visualizing data: ask a question first
There is no way to think up an original and extraordinary design—it can only come as a result of pursuing a given task. In the same way running down a…
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Review: indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy
It’s finally here. Indiemapper brings easy and flexible thematic mapping online. I’ve been looking forward to this app ever since I got a glimpse of what was to come over…
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Explorations of real-world traffic
We don't often get to see how cars, trains, airplanes, etc move in physical space, because, well, we're usually in them.
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Edward Tufte on his White House appointment
Edward Tufte was officially appointed to a White House advisory role a few weeks ago. Tufte, along with other experts like Ben Shneiderman, have been providing input for the last…
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