The “Department of Government Efficiency” keeps a “Wall of Receipts” to signal transparency…
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Wall of receipts is wall of inconsistent records
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Instead of lying with data, just delete it altogether
Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies…
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$38b of government money that funded Musk companies
Elon Musk has been critical of government spending, as he and DOGE fire…
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Frozen government money pipe
Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data…
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USDA sued for removing climate data
Farming and environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing…
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Government revenue and spending diagram
In case you’re wondering about government spending and budgets, USAFacts has a Sankey…
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$8 billion was actually $8 million in DOGE mistake
The DOGE site has a “wall of receipts” that claims $55 billion in…
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Charting data that might disappear soon
The administration continues its takedown of data that it doesn’t agree with. To…
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150-year-olds probably not receiving Social Security benefits
The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database…
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Open letter from former Census Bureau director
Robert Santos, who resigned last month, wrote a heartfelt open letter to Census…
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DOGE wants access to IRS taxpayer data
For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report:
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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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Access previous versions of government websites with GovWayback
You can use the Internet Archive to access historical versions, but GovWayback makes…
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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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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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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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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…