Data.gov, the federal government’s central catalog for open data sets, is the latest casualty of the ongoing government shutdown. Visitors to the site are now met ...

Data.gov heavily relies on HTML and PDF for its file formats, leaving two George Mason University researchers to ponder if the federal government’s data repository is achieving what it set out to ...

The United States federal open data portal, data.gov, launched in May, 2009, with just 47 datasets. It was not an instant hit. Today, with more 200,000 datasets, it’s a lot more popular. Still, ...

The U.S. Government collects and maintains a database of nearly 200,000 data sets - free and open for public use. You can find data relating to health, energy, climate, manufacturing and many other ...

Government reformers and advocates believe that two contemporary phenomena hold the potential to change how people engage with governments at all levels. The first is data. There is more of it than ...

They're from the government and they're here to help you. No, really. Some of the biggest collectors of data are the various governments, whether on a national, state and regional or local level.

When we talk about artificial intelligence (AI) in business and society today, what we really mean is machine learning (ML). This refers to applications that use algorithms (a set of instructions) to ...

The Philippines launches a website providing downloadable data from government agencies MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government on Thursday, January 16, launched data.gov.ph, a website that ...

The European Commission has been banging the open data drum for a while now, launching its Open Data Strategy for Europe back in 2011. Today another step along the road to liberating government data ...

In recent years there has been an explosion in the development of Open Data – evolving from a highly specialized subject into one of global relevance and influence. Open Data is an increasingly ...