government

In case you’re wondering about government spending and budgets, USAFacts has a Sankey…

The DOGE site has a “wall of receipts” that claims $55 billion in…

The administration continues its takedown of data that it doesn’t agree with. To…

The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database…

Robert Santos, who resigned last month, wrote a heartfelt open letter to Census…

For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report:
Under pressure from…

While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…

You can use the Internet Archive to access historical versions, but GovWayback makes…

According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, about 65,000 federal workers have…

This week, I have a new tutorial for you and then we get into using data with baggage.

The Hamilton Project is tracking federal expenditures and updating daily:
This data interactive…

The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was…

As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide…

For The Verge, Justine Calma reports on the recent takedowns. Some groups have…

The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of…

In preparation for days like this, MIT Libraries has a guide for making…

Groups at universities and research labs are forming to preserve data. Naseem Miller…

As of Friday, January 31, 2025 at 3:26pm PST, the U.S. Census Bureau…

A spreadsheet of 2,600 grant and loan programs circulated to federal agencies, alongside…

In the United States, a two-party system means that candidates, who are supposed…