Data tools

In the short term, we are likely to get access to murky data sources. It behooves us to locate, document, or even create tools that can process poorly-formatted government data into better-formatted data. We can then serve a (temporary) roll in proxying end-user requests, passing the state data through our filters.

In the medium and long term, we can hopefully push these tools to the state, and have them deliver high quality data directly to users.

You can help this project by adding information here

clone this repo git clone git@github.com:Travis4nh/open-gov-data-init.git
edit the file data_tools.md to include new information
git add ; git commit -m"added a data source" ; git push origin

A list of tools that exist:

Sunlight Foundation - the org is defunct, but they did pioneering work here
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Open Government Data Initiative

An initiative to get government to proactively, not reactively, publish internal data so that citizens and non-profits can build a variety of dashboards allowing the people to understand what the government is doing.

Data tools