Questions tagged [government]
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Texas Land System Grid data
I am working on R&D for Texas Grid data.Currently, I download https://tnris.org/data-catalog/entry/usgs-quad-grid/ data.But I don't know which is the actual Grid data for Texas.For example, ...
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Where can I find a data set on the federal student loan debt since at least 1965?
As the title says, I'm not sure where I can find the data set I'm looking for. I'm trying to explore the relationships between inflation rate, total student enrollment, and total amount of student ...
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Political candidate's stances on specific issues?
I believe that a large percentage of the US population are politically unaware and tend to vote on the candidate whom they 'like' the most. It would be great if public can have easy access to view ...
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City boundary for Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Where can I find data for the boundary of Fort Lauderdale, Florida? I'd like to load the data into carto.com to create a map.
I looked on their gis website, but I couldn't find an outline of the city ...
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Seeking Underground Infrastructure Data for Brisbane (Australia)
I am in Brisbane, Australia and am looking for GIS data relating to underground services (such as buried water mains, power lines, gas lines, etc).
Where might I find some of this information?
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Unique identifiers of US companies as a means of tracking change
I'm a brand new business analyst for a company that currently maintains its second-hand customer list (given by medical distributors, consisting mostly of hospitals, doctor's offices and smaller ...
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How to import a SAS layout or Data Dictionary
Being totally new to SAS, I don't know how to import this layout/dictionary file into SAS® Studio:
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Where can I find data about governmental subsidies of fossil fuels in the EU?
Fossil fuel subsidies in the EU are set to phase out by 2020.
Where can I find data about subsidies of both fossil fuel energy production and consumption at either the EU or European govermenental ...
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US agencies forms data set
Is there an API or a dataset of all US administrative forms?
I tried many searches without great success
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Business Name to NAICS Code Mapping
I am looking for a way to map business name + address to NAICS code. Found few government sites like follows:
http://www.thinkkentucky.com/kyedc/kpdf/All_Facilities_Alpha.pdf
http://www.rcgov.us/...
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How to link a new dataset to an existing dataset?
I have to construct a dataset of hospitals.
For each hospital, I will indicate the the town/region in which it is located.
I already have dataset of towns/regions of the concerned geographic area.
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Public School Teacher Dataset
I'm looking for a dataset with information about public (and private, if possible) school teachers in the United States, including names, schools, and possibly any other identifying information such ...
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where can I find city contracts?
Where can I find full copies of city government contracts? I prefer file types that allow for searching. The city of Chicago provided access at one point but I can no longer find the actual files.
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Do US banks have reporting requirements for public money they hold?
Do US banks or depository institutions have reporting requirements on public money they hold? If so, how could I find which banks hold the money for a particular local government?
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Where Can I Find Library Utilization Data?
I am interested in data on the utilization of US libraries. Ideally I would like listings of libraries with locations, a complete listing of their available catalog of books, and a history of which ...
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Is there any data on actual average USPS delivery times
I'm looking for data on the average delivery times between points for the US Postal Service. I've found maps on their site with scheduled delivery times but I'm wondering if anyone has data on actual ...
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US Radiation measurements
Is there a service that provides gamma energy data from RadNet in machine readable format such as JSON or CSV?
The current RadNet UI is restricted to html and charts. Excel report itself is limited ...
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How to register in each state (U.S.)
I'm looking for a place that systematically keeps track of the ways voters in each state can register, such as whether they can register online or by mail, links, voter qualifications, etc.
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Match Excel Spread Sheet of Addresses to State Legislator
I work at a non-profit called the Georgia Justice Project.
In February, we are hosting an event called Justice Day where people from across the state will gather at the capitol to lobby with their ...
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Dataset of US local, state, federal contact phone numbers?
I'm looking to create an app that facilitates U.S. Americans to contact local, state, or federal representative based on home address. I can use the already public shape-files to figure out the ...
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List of all world cities with populations over 100,000
I'm making use of the UN demographic yearbook which has a table listing most of the world's cities with populations over 100,000 (along with their populations). However, some major places are missing, ...
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Individual precinct voting data for Pennsylvania
I'm currently trying to find voting results by precinct for for Pennsylvania. I know several states such as South Carolina have published voting data from the 2016 General Election. This data can be ...
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Is there a data set for all vehicle accidents in USA?
Looking for raw data of road traffic accidents, with impact location, make, model, model year, airbag deployment (Y/N)
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How to get the road traffic data of India? [duplicate]
I need the traffic data for India location/area wise to perform some analysis.
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What format is NASAs JPL Data Dictionary written in?
The Jet Propulsion Lab Data Dictionary which describes planetary data is written in some obsure format, and I'd like to know if there is an easy way to parse it.
https://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/...
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Where can I find machine readable transcribed text of the 2016 Presidential speeches and debates?
I'm looking for a machine-readable repository of transcribed Presidential debates and speeches from the 2016 general election. Structured data with a common format is desirable, as well as updates for ...
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How does the NAICS system worK?
Is it something like the Dewey Decimal System for libraries?
My understanding is that NAICS, like Dewey, has first digits for broad categories, then second digits for subcategories, third digits for ...
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Quebec Provincial Crown Lands
I'm attempting to gather and identify limits of Crown Land in the province of Quebec, Canada.
I'm coming at this from a GIS background and am trying to create a database that resembles the information ...
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is there an open API for healthcare's medicaid / CHIP eligibility?
I'd like to make a healthcare website that would help customers find their healthcare plans easily.
How can I check if the user is eligible for medicaid, or CHIP or medicare? I know how to get the ...
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dataset on emergency response
Is there any open dataset on emergency response from the government agencies? Such as 911 or fire emergency.
Ideally, the columns would be emergency type, response time, geographic information of the ...
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Expamples of municipal decisions register published as open data
can anybody give me any examples of municipal decisions register (eg. planned road closures, approval of private use of public spaces, sanctions issued to citizens for not obeying municipal ...
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Is there an open standard for the CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Finance Report)?
I would like to push my local government to provide the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) as an open data source. I was wondering if we could go one step further by providing it in a ...
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Need Resource suggestions about Indicators and Signs in Governmental Open data
I am studying for my master’s degree in the Interaction Design domain. For my upcoming Capstone project, can someone please direct me to good resources that talk about governmental open data at the ...
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Government procurement bids
The US federal government publishes contracts on USASpending.gov and RFPs on FBO.gov.
Contracts contain extensive description of the vendor. But I haven't find the similarly detailed data on RFP ...
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Implications of "For official use only"
Certain US government websites (fpds.gov, sam.gov, among others) have a footer saying something along the lines
This is a U.S. General Services Administration Federal Government
computer system ...
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Nation Builder Voter Database Leak
Does anyone know if the data leaked from Nation Builder (http://www.databreaches.net/191-million-voters-personal-info-exposed-by-misconfigured-database/) this past December is available anywhere? I ...
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Texas Parcel Data
Currently, I download any parcel data that I need from the specific county appraisal district for the area that I am working on, or the regional council of governments. The issue is that we spend a ...
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US Senate/Congress Contact Info API
Is there an API to get the email addresses or other contact info of US senators and representatives by postal code? Or, is there some way of getting the email addresses of all US senators and ...
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Historical flight path data
Im looking for open data on historical US flight paths. I know the FAA has a real-time data stream that gives the flight, latitude, longitude, and altitude of planes. I want this data for the past 10 ...
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Class Action Lawsuit data
Is there a government database of class action lawsuit settlements with open claims?
If not, where do sites like Top class actions get their info?
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Find a List of Private Companies That Use Canadian Government Open Data?
How can I find a list of Canadian private companies that use Canadian government open data?
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Federal, state, and county prisons & jails
Looking for a list of all city, state, and federal related prisons & jails in the united states.
Looking for the list to include the name of facility, type, and address.
Can anyone point me ...
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What you look for in a codebook
I'm putting together a few codebooks/data dictionaries for our transparency portal. In doing so I have been reviewing some examples to get an idea of what civic hackers look for in such a document.
My ...
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BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey at MSA level
I'm trying to get annual data on purchases of televisions at the MSA or city level.
I looked at BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey, but it looks like the MSA-level data is aggregated into coarse ...
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Government standards, guidelines, and practices for collecting data
By standards, guidelines, and practices for collecting data I mean the rules that facilitate:
Practical value: Collecting data with a specific goal in mind
Data integrity: Minimizing omissions and ...
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Inconsistent UCC usage in Consumer Expenditure Survey
This question perhaps does not belong here. If you do know where it belongs, please let me know and I will delete the question.
Data:
Consumer Expenditure Survey from the BLS (PUMD)
Files used:
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Is there a Glossary of Terms for the Federal Elections Commission API?
Maybe I missed it on the FEC API site (https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/) but does anyone know if there's a glossary which defines all of the elements in the models? For example, if you scroll down ...
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Text of US Presidents' inaugural addresses
I'm trying to reproduce some text analyses of Presidential inaugural addresses, such as was done by this New York Times interactive display, and I'm looking for a good source for the texts.
I've ...
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National Flood Insurance Data
I'm looking for any data on the National Flood Insurance Program. I've already found a bit but I'm curious if I'm missing anything. Here's what I have:
FEMA Flood Risk Rate Maps- https://catalog.data....
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Subnational data on corruption
Any sub-national data on corruption (any form)? Interested in any nation, but primary interest in Central and South America.
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