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We all know this already, but it’s nice to get some backing from…

Taking another step towards data transparency, the US government provides the IT dashboard…

While we’re on the subject of flight, ever since that plane landed in…

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) makes a lot of world…

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Undoubtedly you’ve been seeing a lot of headlines about…

Check out my guest post on The Guardian’s Data Blog on the current…

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I threw out a random thought a couple of months…

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As we’ve all read by now, Google’s chief economist Hal…

This graphic on the history and future of information has been making the…

Big news. Data.gov is now live. Government data is at your fingertips.
The…

You might not know it, but there are actually a ton of data…

Google announced today that they have made a small subset of public datasets…

Just about everywhere you go there’s something in the news about swine flu,…

I was going to let this one slide, but people kept commenting, essentially…

The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), a research group well-known for its tracking…

Facebook started as a spinoff of Hot or Not in 2003. Now Facebook…

How can we now cope with a large amount of data and still…

If there’s anything good that has come out of America’s financial crisis, it’s…

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be…

The Barack Obama administration is clearly making an effort to get information out…