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  1. Recovery.gov: Completely Tracking One-Fifth of the Recovery Act

    By Lisa Chiu Feb 15, 2010 11:27 a.m.

    In his State of the Union Address late last month, President Barack Obama declared - to great applause - that there were two million Americans working now who would otherwise be unemployed if not for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus.

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  2. Great data available, but only if you pay up

    By Lisa Chiu Feb 12, 2010 6:04 p.m.

    One of the little-publicized gems on Data.gov comes to us from the Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service.

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  3. OGD: Defense releases what it already releases

    By Lisa Chiu Jan 26, 2010 5:17 p.m.

    To comply with the Open Government Directive, the Defense Department designated three high-value datasets last week, among them a listing of those requesting more transparency from the Pentagon. DoD released details on the 4,000 Freedom of Information requests it has received as well as datasets with information on service members gender and race, U.S. state, and marriage statistics.

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  4. OGD: Homeland Security (but really just FEMA)

    By Lisa Chiu Jan 22, 2010 6:31 p.m.

    Of the 27 offices within the Department of Homeland Security, DHS chose to release three high-value datasets from only one of them -- the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The new datasets are:

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