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 ..."