To contain the fires in Los Angeles, aircraft flew back and forth to…
Nathan Yau
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Flight map shows firefighting efforts
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Federal worker resignations
According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, about 65,000 federal workers have…
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Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov
The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab is archiving Data.gov and making the…
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Partial Data Reflections
This week, I have a new tutorial for you and then we get into using data with baggage.
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Common four-digit PINs of others
About 1 in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN, based on an…
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Tracking daily federal expenditures
The Hamilton Project is tracking federal expenditures and updating daily:
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Download CDC data through Internet Archive
The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was…
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Geographic boundary data and microdata from Census Bureau is offline
As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide…
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Data bead bracelets
Data Beads, by Eszter Katona and Mihály Minkó, is a fun initiative that…
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Ridgeline Chart with Color Gradients
Ridgeline charts are nice to look at, and that is enough reason to make them. Use a gradient fill for extra sauce.
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Book chart showing Barnes & Noble opening new stores
I assumed that Barnes & Noble was on its way out, but I…
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Health and climate data purge
For The Verge, Justine Calma reports on the recent takedowns. Some groups have…
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About 8,000 U.S. government pages taken down
The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of…
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Checklist for federal data backups
In preparation for days like this, MIT Libraries has a guide for making…
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Preserving government data before it disappears completely
Groups at universities and research labs are forming to preserve data. Naseem Miller…
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Data.cdc.gov goes offline
As of this evening on January 31, 2025, the data portal for the…
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Census.gov is down
As of Friday, January 31, 2025 at 3:26pm PST, the U.S. Census Bureau…
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Mapping the American Airlines and Army helicopter collision
The Washington Post mapped the flight paths leading up to the collision over…
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Census Bureau director resigns, 2025 edition
The Census Bureau director Robert Santos announced his resignation on Thursday:
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See wind data on Mars through tele-present wind
With the art installation tele-present wind, David Bowen displays data collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover mission.