Questions tagged [government]
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Funding data for US Department of Education CSV format
I am looking for data about the funding from the Department of Education, Energy and Defense. The data I want is the fund/award number, the PI, Co-PI (if any) and the award amount along with the year ...
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Where is the block assignment file linking 2010 Census data with 113th congressional districts?
The block assignment files from the US Census are very nice. Unfortunately, they appear to tell you which census blocks make up each district in the 112th congress. This makes some sense, since this ...
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College Scorecard full data base
The Obama administration recently release College Scorecard Data with detailed information on college cost and earning after graduation.
Does anybody know if the full data set is available for ...
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Reporting Poorly Secured Non-Public Use Federally Funded Data
I work for a non-profit and recently I applied for access to non-publicly available data. My concern is that this data is not very well protected, as it potentially contains personally identifiable ...
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Dataset of Business Schools in the US
Is is there a dataset of all the business schools in the US, with total undergrad enrollment in the Business School, Dean (and Associate Dean's) name and email address, and if there is an online ...
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What offices/divisions of U.S. federal agencies and bureaus can do site inspections at private companies?
Hoping that someone somewhere collated this stuff already - is there any single dataset that lists all federal offices that can do compliance on-site inspections of any kind? The Federal Register is ...
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List of German local politicians
I am looking for a dataset/list of all mayors of German municipalities. In particular I am interested in smaller municipalities (<10'000 inhabitants).
I care most about the following data
Age
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Trying to extrapolate patient costs by physician from public Medicare pricing data
I am working on a web application that maps healthcare expenses by providers in a geographic area. Our prototype was previously using mocked data, and I am now trying to replace it with real data from ...
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Freshness of Unemployment Data
Since unemployment data is based off of surveys, I assume the announced data reflects some period in the past.
I cannot find information on the "currency metric" of unemployment data.
Does anyone ...
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Open data version of the Foreign Assistance Program Inventory?
http://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1868/ForeignAssistanceProgramInventory2013.pdf
You wouldn’t know where I can find an open data version of the pdf (above)? With descriptions of “...
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What's a good file format for presidencies of countries? [closed]
I want to build a file with all the data of the different presidents of a country. Is there a defined JSON format to represent this data?
For example:
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name: "President A",
Assumed: '01-01-...
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What product is the Australian government Meteor made using?
METeOR is Australia’s repository for national metadata standards for health, housing and community services statistics and information. - http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/
If I want to build a open data ...
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where in the uk may i find a register or map of properties and their energy use
I am looking for a register of the energy use of buildings in the uk with granularity down to individual building. Is this publicly available? I recall that this information is collected when ...
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Is the web performance of U.S. government websites open data?
What open data is available about the number of visitors, type of browsers, etc. of U.S. Federal websites? Is there both historical and real-time web analytics data available to the public?
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Are there good examples of open read-write APIs in Federal government?
Most of the APIs publicly available from U.S. federal agencies are read-only APIs of Open Data -- are there example of read-write APIs?
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H-1 (Work visa) data by year by state
I am doing a research paper about how immigration impacts GDP, and I would like to know where can I find data about H-1 (Work visa):
Who is coming to the US because of work, and which state does he/...
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successful open data advocacy website
I'm part of a local advocacy group working on getting local government to open up more data and adopt open data policies. We're also trying to raise awareness about the role open data plays in our ...
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FTC list of telemarketer phone numbers that have received complaints
Is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) list of telemarketer phone numbers that have received complaints available? Supposedly Nomorobo has access to it, but I believe that is as a result of having won ...
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Historical OFAC SDN lists
I am looking for historical versions of the OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list (more details about the list can be found here).
The OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) regularly ...
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Construction project data
I'm working on a project where I'd like to compare rates of construction job postings with known construction projects in an area.
Is there a database of known construction projects in any given ...
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Where can i find the surface area and the number of premises for all UK districts?
I am looking for the surface area, and the number of premises for each UK district. The districts should be listed with their ONS codes.
Rationale: I am trying to process and aggregate Ofcom data for ...
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DOL Wage and Hour data: Counting backwages under Fair Labor Standards Act
I have a question about the Wage and Hour Compliance Action Data of the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour division:
http://prd-enforce-xfr-02.dol.gov/data_catalog/WHD/whd_whisard_20141105.csv.zip
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Which Governments publish their Ledgers and Accounts?
I am interested in collecting financial data of Governments to analyse the Revenue and Expenditure against their Budgets. Ex:- OpenReporting.com, OpenGov.com.. I have tried to find publicly available ...
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Is there any open data for Emergency Room waiting time?
I am a software engineering student who is thinking to build a Dashboard for ER waiting times. Potentially it could tell your whether a longer trip could still save you time. There's currently no way ...
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Coordinates of all embassies and consulates
I am an editor at Wikivoyage (world travel guide), and for each city we list all embassies and consulates available in that city. Our problem is that this information quickly becomes out-of-date.
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Return on investment in international development projects
The World Bank has ratings for its development projects. The dataset is comprehensive, but crucial details, like return on investment, are missing.
What are other sources of data on projects in ...
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Educational attainment in the private and public sector
Where can I find the data on public employees' educational attainment, such as years of schooling or fraction of employees holding particular degrees? Preferably, compared to educational attainment in ...
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Is it okay to download all datasets from a government open data portal?
I'm thinking of making a copy of all my country's open data portal datasets. I will be rate limiting my downloads. Is that okay or is it bad manners to get a full data dump? I am asking of the ethical/...
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Data set of US Congress in-session or recess
I've seen other questions/answers here in regard to the U.S. Congress for information like what bills a particular congress person voted on, sponsored, or speeches and such. However, I am looking to ...
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Information about congresspeople
Is there a database that contains the following about when congresspeople?
When they were elected, state/district, age, gender, race, professional background, and would really like to have committee ...
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Opening up Federal Trade Commission data on Safe Harbor
I would like to know how I can get access to the underlying database powering the site safeharbor
This lists all the private companies who have agreed to comply with the Safe Harbor protocol for EU ...
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Irrigating with recycled water: Permissible levels of Na Cl EC SAR BOD etc per water analysis of the water source
Am looking for databases describing minimum standards for recycled water for irrigation?
In terms of permissible levels of Na Cl EC SAR BOD etc per water analysis of the water source.
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BEA - how to get employment data by industry?
Looking into the BEA (US Bureau of Economic Analysis) API - there is ton of data available, but I can't figure out how to get labor data by sector per county. Anyone has experience with it?
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Querying OSHA Data Returning Unexpected Results
I'm running the ruby sample provided by DOL to access DOLs OSHA API. The relevant ruby code is:
request.call_api 'Compliance/OSHA/full',
:select => 'activity_nr,estab_name,...
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Errors with running Ruby Government Data SDK Sample
I'm trying to the run the ruby version of the program to consume GOV data sources located at : http://usdepartmentoflabor.github.io/Ruby-Sample-App/ .
I get two errors. The first has to do with an ...
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how does add123.com get their data?
add123.com (d/b/a AutoDataDirect, Inc) lets you look up vehicle registration information with a license plate number. That information is protected under the Federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act, ...
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U.S. federal government data fetchable via SPARQL?
I am interested in U.S. federal government information (e.g., agencies/sub-agencies, programs, etc) that I can fetch via the Semantic Web/SPARQL. I am able to get this information via Dbpedia. The ...
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How many Veterans have been or are currently in Congress
I am trying to track down how many veterans have been and are currently in Congress
The closest thing I have found is this PDF but it only gives me the 113 congresses I would like to find something a ...
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IRS Codes in machine readable format
Are there any sources of machine readable IRS codes (e.g. state, country etc.)?
For example, on the 1099-B instructions, the 1f code on this form. However I would like avoid having to scrape the pdf ...
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Where can I find column definitions for ed.gov data?
Thanks to Is there an open database of elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States? I found http://www.ed.gov/developers where I downloaded a list of schools ( School District / Local ...
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Colors of political parties
I am working on a project which visualizes html tables automatically.
If the table includes parties, it would be great to have the color for this party. Does anyone know some page,api or something ...
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Docket Information call returns "Not Acceptable" error in windows form app
Our app worked fine with Version 1 and Version 2 of the Regulations.gov API, but I can't get it to work with version 3. I am using a new API key, and pasting the complete URL in the browser brings ...
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USGS Various API Calls
I am building a website that must gather information from the USGS' various APIs but seem to have a hard time.
I'm trying to obtain the Soil Type using the Vs30 API. Here is the link for the ...
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Model documents for presubmission meeting with FDA about mhealth pilot trial and risk assessment
I am planning a trial with diabetic patients to use our digital tablet-based Android app for helping to track/manage glucose, nutrition, medications, and fitness-related activities. It has been ...
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Search for False advertising/drug name associated with patient complaint of false advertising
I'm looking for a way to search the OpenFDA databse for a patients claim of false advertising. I would then like to return the results of the search ion which the Drugs are noted with that claim.
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How to get total count of adverse effects events by manufacturer in openFDA?
I get error when attempting to use count=patient.drug.openfda.manufacturer_name.exact without including the filter by field like in search=patient.drug.openfda.pharm_class_epc:"nonsteroidal+anti-...
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Now I have an API key, how do I access OpenFDA?
The link I am told to use, https://api.fda.gov, redirects me to http://api.data.gov, which does NOT have an FDA option!
In any case, that site has no place to enter the API key I got on the OpenFDA ...
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Fatality Analysis Reporting System
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a database of fatal crashes called Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS One can download each years data going ...
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Accurately Using Census Tract Data and Total Population
I am trying to gather the total population of Pittsburgh and overlay it onto a Google Map. I took the Census Tract .shp files from the U.S. Gazetteer Files for 2010 and put them in a fusion table and ...
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IRS Statistics of Income, machine-readable
Does anyone know of anyone else who has compiled a machine-readable set of the IRS's SOI Tax Stats - Historical Table 2, i.e., these?
The .xls files available from the IRS are crosstabbed and ...
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