While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…
government
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Value of government data
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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…
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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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Census.gov is down
As of Friday, January 31, 2025 at 3:26pm PST, the U.S. Census Bureau…
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Federal programs under review
A spreadsheet of 2,600 grant and loan programs circulated to federal agencies, alongside…
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Imagining a multiparty system in the US
In the United States, a two-party system means that candidates, who are supposed…
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Federal data at risk
It continues to grow more difficult for federal statistical agencies to accurately measure…
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Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve
The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages…
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Billion dollar natural disasters
For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area…
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Border enforcement data collection
Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…
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Oldest U.S. government
Annie Fu, Walt Hickey, and Shayanne Gal, for Insider, show the disproportionately aging…
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Analytics for U.S. government websites
With the announcement of free Covid-19 tests through the United States Postal Service,…