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Senate to publish bulk data in XML
Big News! Senate Joins House In Publishing Legislative Information In Modern Formats, by Daniel Schuman. Congressional Data Coalition (December 18, 2014). There’s big news from today’s Legislative Branch Bulk Data Task Force meeting. The United States Senate announced it would begin publishing text and summary information for Senate legislation, going back to the 113th Congress, […]
GPO Is Now The Government Publishing Office
Press Release from GPO GPO Is Now The Government Publishing Office FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2014 No. 14-27 GPO IS NOW THE GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE WASHINGTON – An agency whose mission has been producing, publishing, and recording our Nation’s history has made some history of its own. Section 1301 of H.R. 83, the legislation […]
The Official Senate CIA Torture Report
Update GPO has released an official version of the “THE SENATE CIA REPORT” as Senate Report 113-228. The digital version is available on GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys): http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-113srpt288/pdf/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf The print version is available for purchase at GPO’s retail and online bookstore for $29. http://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-071-01571-0 This is a single-volume, 712 page version. It contains: Letter […]
Visiting Assistant Professor Uses Public Data to Transform How New Yorkers See Their City
Ben Wellington uses his popular I Quant NY blog to dig into public New York city data posted by city agencies. He digs deep into the the data to post about the city’s filthiest fast-food chains, mapped out how half of Manhattan is within four blocks of a Starbucks and determined which neighborhoods boast the […]
Portland Newspaper Uses Census Data for Searchable Map
The Oregonian has collected some high-level data points for census tracts in the Portland metro area and used them to create an interactive searchable map of Portland. Census tracts boundaries are drawn to create areas with a population generally between 1,200 and 8,000, with a target of 4,000. Who lives in your Portland neighborhood? New […]
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