New Commerce program helps people use all that open data

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-02-03

Summary:

"With agencies like the National Weather Service, the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis under its umbrella, the Commerce Department generates a lot of data, most of which it wants to push out to the public. But numbers in a vacuum aren’t very useful. Jeff Chen — the department’s first chief data scientist — wants to make sure the public gets the most out of government data and so started the Data Usability Project ..."

Link:

http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/it/2016/02/01/commerce-data-usability/79639540/

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oa.new oa.comment oa.psi oa.government oa.usa oa.data

Date tagged:

02/03/2016, 12:31

Date published:

02/03/2016, 07:31