Education Dept. Builds Show and Tell Space for Developers

Nextgov: The Education Department is creating a virtual space where developers can share anything they've made using federal data. The department set up an extension of its official GitHub account to house resources for developers and to showcase any products the agency is coding, including the College Scorecard. (That online tool is designed to help students organize their college search by program, location, size, affiliation and other attributes.) Education has been working with federal digital consultancy 18F, based within the General Services Administration, last year on an open data program that established its initial presence on GitHub. » Get the best federal technology news and ideas delivered right to your inbox.

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