Posts Tagged ‘government’

New US Government dashboard

7th July 2009 by No Comments

Check out the US Government’s new dashboard at it.usaspending.gov. Here’s an O’Reilly Radar article with more info.

US government launches data website

21st May 2009 by No Comments

Today marks the official launch of Data.Gov, a website designed to share government information (economics, healthcare, environment, etc.) with citizens.
Here’s the official announcement from the White House Blog.

USA’s new CIO suggests data.gov

7th March 2009 by No Comments

Obama just appointed Vivek Kundra to the new position of CIO of the United States.  Mr. Kundra supports opening government records and has proposed the creation of data.gov to become the repository for all government collected information.  Check out the NY Times article.

According to the government, dataming doesn’t work

7th October 2008 by No Comments

According to a recent report from the National Research Council, data mining is not a viable method of automatically identifying terrorist suspects.