#data usa

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Data USA makes government data easier to explore

Government data is, shall we say, not the easiest to use and look at, which is why there are so many ongoing efforts to make it more accessible to both practitioners and the average citizen. There's no doubt that the data is useful. The Sunlight Foundation does fine work with various projects, Census Reporter provides data at a glance, and efforts like IPUMS make certain large datasets easier to subset and grab. [keep reading]

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Experience the power of visual data

Data USA builds visual narratives using public data

The US government offers nearly 200,000 data sets for public use, but most are out of reach and difficult to understand. That’s changing with Data USA, a platform that transforms public data into visual data and insights. A collaboration among Deloitte, MIT Media Lab’s Macro Connections Group, and Datawheel, Data USA combines publicly accessible US government data from a variety of statistical agencies and brings it to life in more than 1.8 million visualizations.

http://datausa.io/