For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report:
Under pressure from…
Data Sharing
Sharing is caring.
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DOGE wants access to IRS taxpayer data
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Value of government data
While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…
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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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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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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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Military location data that anyone can buy legally
For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…
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23andMe sinking
For BBC, Zoe Kleinman reports:
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Decline in data for AI bots to scrape
The Data Provenance Initiative audited 14,000 web domains to see how sites currently…
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News organizations blocking OpenAI
Ben Welsh has a running list of the news organizations blocking OpenAI crawlers:…
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Finding a troll’s identity
A troll kept leaving comments on a woman’s TikTok videos, so she figured…
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Save recipes to your email
Yums, by Matthew Phillips, is a quick and simple way to save recipes…
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Directory of date-me docs
Instead of using dating apps, some have turned to the date-me doc, which…
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Oddly specific ad profiles
Advertising funds a big chunk of the web, but for advertisers to continue…
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NYT switches to CDC data for their Covid dashboard
After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data…
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Data warehouse at the supermarket
Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy…