{"id":24664,"date":"2016-04-14T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=24664"},"modified":"2017-04-29T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:47:00","slug":"website-seeks-to-make-government-data-easier-to-sift-through-by-steve-lohr-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/website-seeks-to-make-government-data-easier-to-sift-through-by-steve-lohr-the-new-york-times","title":{"rendered":"Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through \u2014 By Steve Lohr | The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/05data-web-master675.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cThis abundance of data can be a gold mine for discovery and insights, but finding the nuggets can be arduous, requiring special skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">A project coming out of the M.I.T. Media Lab on Monday seeks to ease that challenge and to make the value of government data available to a wider audience. The project, called <a href=\"http:\/\/datausa.io\/\">Data U<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/datausa.io\/\">S<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/datausa.io\/\">A<\/a>, bills itself as \u201cthe most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data.\u201d It is free, and its software code is open source, meaning that developers can build custom applications by adding other data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/05\/technology\/datausa-government-data.html?_r=2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis abundance of data can be a gold mine for discovery and insights, but finding the nuggets can be arduous, requiring special skills. A project coming out of the M.I.T. Media Lab on Monday seeks to ease that challenge and to make the value of government data available to a wider audience. The project, called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57062,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions\/57062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}