Category archive for ‘Public Data’ 
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Transforming Data for Tableau (part 2)
In this second part of the blog post, I am going to discuss how I added data about electricity generation in the U.S.A. to the output data file discussed in part one of this blog post. As before, I will transform the data using the Datamartist software so that Tableau's powerful visualization software can be [...]
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Preparing Data for Tableau (part 1)
This is a two part blog post about sharing data information using Tableau Public 5.2 visualization software which is a fantastic way to share data visualizations over the web. It's easy to use, free, and allows users to share information by creating great interactive visualizations. The first challenge of creating great visualizations is getting the [...]
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Good Data is a force for good.
The United Nations has declared that today is the first world statistics day, "celebrating the many contributions and achievements of official statistics". It's the kind of holiday that those of us in the data wrangling profession can really get behind. Data about people in general, and their well being, their needs and challenges is a [...]
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Data.gov Hey, where’s the RAW data?
I've been poking around data.gov to find a fun datset to play with in Datamartist, and I have to report that its a frustrating experience. I'm finding often that a number of the files are not really raw data at all. They are reports, rendered as files. So when you look into the file, you'll [...]
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Federal IT dashboard what does $75 Billion in IT spending buy
The US government is a pretty big organisation, doing a lot of important stuff. Its spending on Information Technology is north of $75 Billion says Vivek Kundra the federal CIO. Like IT projects everywhere, big projects are subject to big failures. As Mr. Kundra says; Over the past several years, we have witnessed numerous public [...]
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Data.gov: Looking at the US governments data
The Obama administration has taken another step in making government data available online in launching the Data.gov website. Whats on the site right now, and what can we do with it? The website has two catalogs of information available- the "raw data catalog", and the "tools" catalog. At the time of posting this, there are [...]
