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  Data.gov revamp

  After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…
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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  This is an update to the guide I wrote in 2009, which as it turns out, is now mostly outdated.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,…

• Federal CTO on government and data

  Tim O’Reilly and Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer sit down for a…

• Open data doesn’t empower communities

  internet.artizans reflects on the usefulness of open data:
  I’m inspired by the idea…
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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…