Cowritten by Laurenellen McCann When federal agencies released their open government plans earlier this month the thing I was most... View Article
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In honor of Tax Day Ohio’s Jason Hart took a look at salary information for Franklin County’s administrators, specifically looking... View Article
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After working several depressing retail jobs in my teenage years, I used to think that it was a kind of... View Article
Continue readingAgency Compliance with Data Requirement Mixed
I wrote yesterday that we’d be going through agencies’ new open government plans to evaluate their compliance with the data-related... View Article
Continue readingGovernment Data Sets – Managing Expectations
US Open Government plans were released today. As part of this process, federal agencies are beginning to release data sets publicly in ways they never have before. Some substantial and thought-provoking blog posts over the last few weeks have discussed how government can do open data well.
There are significant cultural and social sticking points that have yet to be addressed in releasing data openly. A discussion with a colleague from NASA last week confirmed how far away most agencies are from the luxury of considering the innovative ideas for data set management available to them. Here's why:
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As I wrote earlier today, Sunlight is going to be particularly focused on data transparency in the new Open Government... View Article
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The Upper Big Branch Mine that suffered the most serious mining disaster since 1984 on Monday has received the most... View Article
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As Democrats move forward to pass health care reform attention has focused on a key piece of Senate rules known... View Article
Continue readingMust Read: NYT Series on Radiation Poisoning
A fascinating series on new radiation treatments for cancer patients by New York Times reporter Walt Bogdanich caught my eye for two reasons.
First, because he bases his reporting--showing that there have been hundreds of people injured, some fatally, by these new technologies, even as so many are also saved--in part by wresting accident report and other records from federal, state, and city government sources. In other words, via government data.
And second, because the week before his first story appeared, my mother underwent such treatment for a benign brain tumor, a meningioma, that was growing back nearly 15 years ...
Open Data We’re Thankful For
While this is a little late-- late's better than never for giving thanks. And this year, we've got a lot to be thankful for. Open Data in Open Government is making leaps and strides. The Vice President is talking data quality in government on the Daily Show. ABC News along with Recovery.gov's controversy have brought government data into prime time. It's been a long time since transparency like this has seen this kind of attention.
At this time of Thanksgiving here in the United States I wanted to give thanks for the new and changing government datasets that we have now. Some are truly amazing.
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