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  1. OGD: A state-by-state look at Medicare payments

    By Sarah Dorsey Apr 23, 2010 11:03 a.m.

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  2. OGD: VA nurses get second lives

    By Sarah Dorsey Apr 16, 2010 5:09 p.m.

    Recruiters have long used video games to sell military service to young people. The armed forces also use games -- er, "computer simulations" -- to train troops for battle. Now the Veterans Affairs Department plans to join the fun by sending its nurses to Second Life.

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  3. OGD: Future Medicare data looks promising

    By Sarah Dorsey Apr 12, 2010 3:28 p.m.

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services appear to be on to something with their promised new datasets. It's a leap for an agency whose previous offerings were a confusing mishmash of poorly-labeled files. If they continue to add granularity as they roll out more features, journalists could have a useful and innovative set of tools on their hands.

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  4. OGD: Commerce repackages old data and offers broken links

    By Sarah Dorsey Jan 28, 2010 2:34 p.m.

    To comply with the Open Government Directive, the Commerce Department released four high value datasets that require considerable technical sophistication on the part of users--and patience. Some of the files are so large and cumbersome they're very difficult to open and use;  others require a great deal of explanation--and you can currently only find those explanations by digging through the agency's site. Still other entries feature broken links or only contain a fraction of the information described on Data.gov. The Commerce Department says they're working on all of these problems, so hopefully we'll see an improvement in the coming days.

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  5. Investment Ratings Tank for Home Loan Banks

    By Sarah Dorsey Jun 2, 2009 3:14 p.m.

    They hold $1.3 trillion in assets and, chances are, you've never heard of them.

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