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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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OGD: High value...er, never mind
By Ryan Sibley Jan 26, 2010 2:46 p.m.Data.gov has apparently changed its mind about which datasets are high value. When datasets were released on Friday, the 2007-2008 State-to-State Migration Outflow file released by the Department of Treasury was designated high value--an asterisk appeared next to its entry in the raw data catalog on data.gov. Today that asterisk is gone. This would leave treasury one high value data set short of the three required by the Open Government Directive. But dont worry, they've added another. The dataset titled, Tax Year 2007 County Income Data, has been placed in the list and given an asterisk. What isn't shared with the public in this instance is the day it was released. The entry only says January 2010, while all other datasets identify the day as well.
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Surveying the first fruits of the open government directive
By Bill Allison Jan 25, 2010 5:48 p.m.We're still surveying those high value data sets released as part of the open government directive--there are hundreds of files to sift through, which is obviously a good thing. But while we don't have a final analysis done, a few trends are becoming apparent.
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OGD: Justice
By Luke Rosiak Jan 22, 2010 8:10 p.m.Radiation Exposure Compensation Program tallies per state from the Justice Department are pretty straightforward, but still intriguing. Manhattan Project fallout--so to speak--sixty years after the fact for these Los Alamos neighbors?
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OGD: IRS migration data doesn't capture everyone
By Ryan Sibley Jan 22, 2010 7:34 p.m.The Department of Treasury's release of IRS migration data immediately made me want to see for myself what Hurricane Katrina's effect on Lousiana's population was. The data is state and county level and based on tax returns.
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OGD: EPA visualizes the Chesapeake Bay's problems
By Ryan Sibley Jan 22, 2010 6:57 p.m.The Environmental Protection agency is highlighting their Chesapeake Bay water quality database. The site has some pretty cool visualizations of water temperature and salinity changes over time. The 3-D graphics make it easy to see the drastic changes the bay has undergone in recent years.
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OGD: A quick look at data from Treasury and Education
By Ryan Sibley Jan 22, 2010 6:22 p.m.The high value dataset released by the Department of Treasury seems important, but might not be as valuable as it could be because of banking industry practices. Its also not new. The dataset in question is called the Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives and its produced by the Office of the Comptroller and Currency.
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HHS releases Electronic Animal Drug Product Listing Directory
By Bill Allison Jan 22, 2010 6:02 p.m.In 2007, Congress required the Food and Drug Administration to maintain an online database of drugs administered to animals, and get it online by June 2009. The Electronic Animal Drug Product Listing Directory does just that; this previously published data set (it's available on the FDA's site here) is one of the high value data sets released by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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OGD: Labor releases open government page
By Anupama Narayanswamy Jan 22, 2010 3:34 p.m.The Department of Labor is one of the few agencies that has its "/open" page up and running as part of the Open Government Directive. One of the datasets they have featured as a high value dataset is the "weekly reports of fatalities, catastrophes and other events." The data, compiled by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, briefly describes workplace accidents, identifies the company at which and the date when the accident occurred; the data can be downloaded as a csv file. Although this dataset is available on Labor's Web site, it doesnt seem to be uploaded on the data.gov Web site yet.
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We're tracking the open government directive
By Bill Allison Jan 22, 2010 10:02 a.m.Today, federal agencies are releasing three high-value data sets to comply with the Obama administration's open government directive (in fact, some of those datasets are already online). The Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group will be spending some quality time looking at each agency's "high value" data sets, describing what's there, what the formats are, how easy they are to download and use, and their potential newsworthiness. We'll also note whether the data is new, improved, or simply re-released.
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