The Hamilton Project is tracking federal expenditures and updating daily: This data interactive shows actual daily and weekly processed outlays to key programs and departments, as well as to states ...
The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was taken down last Friday. For now, it seems data.cdc.gov is up in a modified form, but just in case, the Internet Archive h ...
As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide legal boundaries at various geographic levels, are currently unavailable on the Census website. The site is there, b ...
Data Beads, by Eszter Katona and Mihály Minkó, is a fun initiative that encourages people to make and wear bracelets based on data: This is a grassroots initiative that's all about brining da ...
I assumed that Barnes & Noble was on its way out, but I guess not. Danielle Alberti and Lindsey Bailey for Axios have this charming chart showing 57 new locations in 2024 and 60 planned for th ...
For The Verge, Justine Calma reports on the recent takedowns. Some groups have been preparing for this: The End of Term Web Archive project has saved content on federal government websites during e ...
The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of pages taken down so far since Friday. Ethan Singer reporting: On Friday, The Times downloaded the list of the most visited ...
In preparation for days like this, MIT Libraries has a guide for making usable backups: The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of informatio ...
Groups at universities and research labs are forming to preserve data. Naseem Miller reports: The ad hoc group that organized Friday's data marathon at Chan School calls itself "The Preserving Publ ...