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  1. The Data Mine Launched by The Center for Public Integrity and Sunlight Foundation

    By Jim Morris Feb 12, 2010 11:56 a.m.

    President Obama's Open Government Initiative urges federal agencies to make high-value data publicly available at www.data.gov. But agencies too often are reluctant to release information, or choose to release it in a hard-to-use format. Today, the Center for Public Integrity, in partnership with the Sunlight Foundation, launches The Data Mine, an online series that will highlight inaccessible or poorly presented information from the federal government. From the CIA to the CDC, well be looking at data that needs to be public, with regular posts on the Center's and Sunlight's websites. Well describe each data set, as well as officials plans for putting it online or not.

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