Part of Obama's pledge for greater governmental transparency in his first term was the website Data.gov, a massive repository for datasets on all manner of government statistics, including hot-button topics like healthcare and the environment. It's come a long way since launch--it now has more than 250,000 datasets, compared to 47 at launch--but it never received the popularity (read: web traffic) the administration expected. That was in large part because it was a massive repository of...
Published on May 20, 2010 01:57