government

About 8,000 U.S. government pages taken down

Data Sharing / government, New York Times, takedown

The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of…
Checklist for federal data backups

Data Sharing / backup, government, MIT

In preparation for days like this, MIT Libraries has a guide for making…
Preserving government data before it disappears completely

Data Sharing / government, preservation

Groups at universities and research labs are forming to preserve data. Naseem Miller…
Census.gov is down

News / Census Bureau, government

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

Infographics / funding, government, Upshot

A spreadsheet of 2,600 grant and loan programs circulated to federal agencies, alongside…
Imagining a multiparty system in the US

Infographics / government, multiparty, New York Times, politics

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

Statistics / American Statistical Association, funding, government

It continues to grow more difficult for federal statistical agencies to accurately measure…
Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve

Statistical Visualization / age, government, Washington Post

The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages…
Billion dollar natural disasters

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, budget, disaster, government

For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area…
Border enforcement data collection

Data Sharing / government, privacy, Washington Post

Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…
Oldest U.S. government

Statistical Visualization / age, government, Insider

Annie Fu, Walt Hickey, and Shayanne Gal, for Insider, show the disproportionately aging…
Analytics for U.S. government websites

Statistical Visualization / analytics, government

With the announcement of free Covid-19 tests through the United States Postal Service,…
Congressmen who enslaved people

Statistical Visualization / government, slavery, Washington Post

Using old Census records and documents, Julie Zauzmer Weil, Adrian Blanco and Leo…
All the provisions in the Build Back Better bill

Statistical Visualization / government, spending, Upshot

For NYT’s The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui outlined all of the…
Spending bill in a treemap box

Statistical Visualization / government, spending, Upshot

Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano for NYT’s The Upshot broke down a Democrat…
Comparison of Biden infrastructure plan and updated bipartisan plan

Statistical Visualization / government, infrastructure, New York Times

Aatish Bhatia and Quoctrung Bui for NYT’s The Upshot made the comparison using…
Passing restrictive voting bills

Infographics / bills, government, voting

Bloomberg used a Sankey diagram to show the path of over a thousand…
Money-in-politics nonprofits merge their datasets

Data Sources / government, money, OpenSecrets, politics

Center for Responsive Politics and National Institute on Money in Politics are merging…
Population Growth and Seats Gained

Data Underload / apportionment, census, government, representation

The Census Bureau released state population counts for 2020. Here’s how each state gained and lost population and seats.
States that gained and lost seats with 2020 count

Maps / census, government, representation

The Census Bureau announced their state population totals, so we can see who…

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