Check out the US Government’s new dashboard at it.usaspending.gov. Here’s an O’Reilly Radar article with more info.
May 21
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.
Mar 07
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.
Oct 07
According to a recent report from the National Research Council, data mining is not a viable method of automatically identifying terrorist suspects.

