New Commerce program helps people use all that open data

Federal Times: With agencies like the National Weather Service, the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis under its umbrella, the Commerce Department generates a lot of data, most of which it wants to push out to the public. But numbers in a vacuum aren’t very useful.

Jeff Chen — the department’s first chief data scientist — wants to make sure the public gets the most out of government data and so started the Data Usability Project.

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