October 24th, 2003 | by Derek | published in Data
The Federal Election Commission is considering breaking up some of its larger data downloads into smaller files, according to an announcement posted on its Web site:
What we want to know is what kind of breakdown would be most useful. For the individual contribution file, for example, we can imagine dividing the file by state of [...]
October 16th, 2003 | by Derek | published in Data
GuideStar, familiar to many reporters and researchers as a source of information on non-profit organizations, has been awarded a federal grant “to develop a one-step registration system that will save charities millions of dollars and permit more efficient state oversight.” This sounds like good news, even if it will take two years to complete. (Thanks [...]
October 14th, 2003 | by Derek | published in Data, FOIA
Jo Craven McGinty of Newsday reports that the paper has won a court order mandating the release of New York’s list of most dangerous stretches of road. The list is compiled by the state in order to satisfy a federal requirement and was given to Newsday in 1990, but not recently when the paper sought [...]
September 12th, 2003 | by Derek | published in Data
Gary Price mentioned The GovStat Project, a publicly-funded effort to “create an integrated model of user access to and use of US government statistical information that is rooted in realistic data models and innovative user interfaces.” Its goal is a unified “Statistical Knowledge Network” that ties together federal data no matter where it resides. Some [...]
September 5th, 2003 | by Derek | published in Data
Two data-related messages this week on NICAR-L caught my interest. The first, from IRE Data Library Director Jeff Porter, asked for links to ready-to-use government databases posted on the Web. IRE is developing a list of such datasets, which would be very helpful. The second post is about not-so-easy data: another organization wants to find [...]