Google Correlate is like Google Trends in reverse. With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a series of its frequency (over time, or in each US state). With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back queries whose frequency follows a similar pattern.
Today marks an important milestone for the Open State Project: the addition of New York to our list of experimental states brings our total number of supported states to 25 (plus Washington DC). This marks the halfway point on our journey to bring clean, consistent, machine readable legislative information to all 50 states.
This image gallery accompanies our story 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis. Click through to that story for the full review.
Features of 22 free data visualization and analysis tools: You can sort this chart by clicking on any column header once to sort in ascending order and a second time to sort by descending (browser JavaScript required).
What is open government data? What is it good for? Find out more by watching the #opendata film.
Save the Data!
Some of the most important technology programs that keep Washington accountable are in danger of being eliminated. Data.gov, USASpending.gov, the IT Dashboard and other federal data transparency and government accountability programs are facing a massive budget cut, despite only being a tiny fraction of the national budget. Help save the data and make sure that Congress doesn’t leave the American people in the dark.
The electronic format used to defeat electronic release of records. The PDF format is too often used by government officials, especially state and local, as an “electronic” release of records. They will jump through hoops to turn something as simple as an Excel table into a PDF. The PDF is not a data format.
I get it. Anything the Democrats want, Republicans oppose. If Democrats make concessions toward Republicans, Republicans reject the concessions and make new demands.
But this is absurd.
The Electronic Government Fund has been one of the most effective expenditures of the last few decades. Not only has it helped identify projects that need to be cut, but in the process it has produced impressive open source software that makes American businesses more competitive.
Yet partisan "deficit hawks" are scheming to eliminate it, cutting the budget from a paltry $34 million to $2 million, barely enough to keep the lights on, starting now.
European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year - about everything from how our tax money is spent to the quality of the air we breathe.
We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and others to people to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting for European citizens, built using open data.
