government

Facial recognition app linked with government data

Data Sharing / 404 Media, facial recognition, government, ice, privacy

For 404 Media, Joseph Cox describes an app, Mobile Fortify, that ICE officers…
Down with measurements

Statistics / government, takedown, Washington Post

For WaPo Opinion, Catherine Rampell describes this year’s string of resource reductions for…
Tracking federal layoffs

Infographics / CNN, government, layoffs

For the ongoing federal layoffs and reversals, a tracker from CNN:
CNN is…
IRS building a system to share private data with ICE

Data Sharing / government, IRS, privacy, ProPublica

For ProPublica, William Turton, Christopher Bing, and Avi Asher-Schapiro report on a blueprint…
Nominee to lead NOAA prioritizes hiring people

News / government, Government Executive, Neil Jacobs, NOAA

Eric Katz reporting for Government Executive:
Staffing at the National Weather Service will…
DOGE goes for farmers’ financial and personal data

Data Sharing / DOGE, farmer, government, NPR, privacy

For NPR, Jenna McLaughlin breaks down DOGE access to sensitive USDA data and…
Map of alerts from the National Weather Service

Maps / alert, flood, government, National Weather Service

We are seeing in real-time why the National Weather Service, a part of…
Harvard’s $2.6b of grants canceled by the government

Statistical Visualization / funding, government, Harvard, Upshot

For NYT’s the Upshot, Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia, and Ethan Singer accounted for…
Republican bill’s effects on household income, by income group

Statistical Visualization / bill, government, taxes, Upshot

The bill proposed by the current administration affects incomes of the poor and…
Reduced sampling for Consumer Price Index estimates

Data Sharing / budget, Bureau of Labor Statistics, government

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a reduction in data collection to put…
Pay more taxes and receive less

Statistical Visualization / bill, Congressional Budget Office, G. Elliott Morris, government, scale, taxes

The Congressional Budget Office published a report estimating effects on household income if…
Farmers sued the USDA over deleted data — and it worked

Data Sources / climate, government, New York Times, USDA

In February, farmers sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing data related…
NOAA database for extreme weather disasters cancelled

Data Sources / climate, government, NOAA, takedown

The NOAA database, dubbed Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters, tracked events that exceeded…
Air quality monitoring suspended at national parks

Statistics / air quality, government, monitor, Washington Post

It’s a temporary suspension, for now. For the Washington Post, Maxine Joselow reports:…
Lawsuits against executive orders

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, executive order, government, lawsuit

For Bloomberg, Zoe Tillman and Christopher Cannon break down the lawsuits against the…
Universities that received federal funding for research

Maps / funding, government, research, university

Big universities more often make the news, but the freeze in federal funding…
Charts for Trump’s first 100 days

Statistical Visualization / economy, government

News outlets tend to highlight the first 100 days of a new administration,…
Maps of where federal employees work

Maps / employment, government, New York Times

When you think about people who work for the U.S. federal government, you…
Halt of data collection that measures American society

Data Sharing / government, ProPublica, takedown, transparency

As data provides ways to more accurately estimate how things are going, the…
List of NOAA datasets to be discontinued

Data Sources / government, NOAA, takedown

If you use NOAA data, now seems like a good time to download…

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